Moscow’s military goal isn’t so much to capture land as to exhaust Ukraine’s forces, until Kyiv is forced to capitulate. Putin is likely to reduce his aims and accept a deal that Ukraine and the West can live with only if he believes Ukraine won’t buckle on the battlefield, while his internal political risks from continuing the war are rising.

Russia launched its largest air attack of the war on Ukraine overnight, setting the main government building on fire in central Kyiv and killing at least four people, including an infant, Ukrainian o...

Russia fired its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine early on Sunday, killing at least two people and setting the seat of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv ablaze.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as “vile,” saying that “such killings now, when real diplomacy could have started a long time ago, are a deliberate crime and a prolongatio...