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#washingtonpost.com. × Attack on Iran shows Russia losing clout but perhaps reaping war dividends. Some in the Kremlin believe a prolonged U.S. war could work in Russia’s favor by boosting oil prices and diverting key weapons from Ukraine.

#washingtonpost.com. × Europe’s aid for Ukraine hits setback on war’s fourth anniversary. Hungary’s veto over European funding could constrain Ukraine’s ability to fund its army and weaken its hand in U.S. talks with Russia over the war.

#washingtonpost.com. × As invasion enters fifth year, the children of Ukraine learn to fight back. More than 385,000 Ukrainian teenagers are enrolled in a defense course, expecting war, or threats, to go on for years. In Russia, children are learning the same skills.

#washingtonpost.com. × Ukraine protests renewed Paralympics participation by Russia, Belarus. The decision allowing Russia and Belarus to rejoin competition drew outrage in Ukraine and Europe following the disqualification last week of a Ukrainian skeleton athlete.

#washingtonpost.com. × Talks break in Geneva with no end to Russia’s war or hard-line demands. After two hours of talks in Geneva on Wednesday, the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, said negotiations had been “difficult but businesslike.”

#washingtonpost.com. × U.S. and Iran resume nuclear talks amid heavy military buildup. Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner head the U.S. team and are responsible for Russia-Ukraine talks nearby, meaning they may be shuttling quickly between venues.

#washingtonpost.com. × In Geneva, Ukraine talks face impasse as Russia holds firm on demands. High casualties and economic trouble signal time is no longer on Russia’s side, but Moscow isn’t backing off political and territorial demands to weaken Ukraine.

#washingtonpost.com. × Ukraine detains ex-energy minister as high-level corruption case widens. German Galushchenko’s arrest is connected to a $100 million corruption probe that has ensnared senior officials and shaken President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office.

#washingtonpost.com. × Ukrainian athlete’s ban from Olympic skeleton event over helmet images is upheld. Vladyslav Heraskevych was removed from the men’s skeleton event for refusing to remove a helmet with portraits of Ukrainian athletes who’ve died in the war with Russia.

#washingtonpost.com. × Zelensky says U.S. is readying huge economic deals with Russia. The Ukrainian president said he had intelligence indicating that the U.S. and Russia were readying $12 trillion in economic agreements some involving Ukrainian interests.

#washingtonpost.com. × Top Russian general shot in Moscow as talks stall on Ukraine ceasefire. Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, the deputy head of the GRU, Russia’s main foreign military intelligence agency, was targeted at his home in Moscow, officials said.

#washingtonpost.com. × U.S., Russia to resume high-level military talks. A U.S. official called the deal a by-product of ongoing efforts to end the Ukraine war. It came as a key nuclear treaty between Washington and Moscow expired.

#washingtonpost.com. × Russia delivers worst attack this year to Ukraine’s power sector. The president said he persuaded Russia’s Vladimir Putin to stop striking Ukraine’s energy grid during a frigid period, but missiles fell on Kyiv hours later.

#washingtonpost.com. × Olympic ceasefire calls lay bare the scale of global conflict. The U.N. and IOC are asking for a pause in wars, an ancient Olympic tradition, amid the Winter Games. Athletes from countries beset by violence are set to compete.

#washingtonpost.com. × Kenyan job seekers were lured to Russia, then sent to die in Ukraine. The Post spoke to four Kenyans who fought in Ukraine and relatives of nine other recruits, as a secret pipeline funnels young Africans to Russia’s military.

#washingtonpost.com. × Russia strikes Ukrainian energy sector after Trump push for pause. A Russian attack on coal mining facilities in Ukraine Sunday killed at least 12 miners, according to DTEK, the country’s largest private energy company.

#washingtonpost.com. × Russia reveals Ukraine energy ceasefire pushed by Trump is already nearly over. Trump asked Putin to hold off hitting power facilities in Kyiv and other towns but the Kremlin says the pause on strikes expires on Sunday.

#washingtonpost.com. × Russia’s top diplomat rejects key part of deal to end war with Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismisses security guarantees demanded by Ukraine for any deal, once again saying the current regime in Kyiv should end.

#washingtonpost.com. × Ukraine sees ‘progress’ in latest talks with Russia despite ongoing attacks. Ukraine’s foreign minister described the Russian officials involved in the new rounds of talks, which resume Sunday in the United Arab Emirates, as much more serious than before.

#washingtonpost.com. × Inside the shadow war between Russia and Ukraine that exploits teens. Vika, 18, needed a job. Then an offer came for $2,500 to make a simple delivery that seemed too good to be true. It was a Russian sabotage operation.

#washingtonpost.com. × U.S. pushes new Ukraine peace plan as Trump’s Army secretary visits Kyiv. The administration is renewing efforts to end the war, pitching a revised ceasefire proposal and giving a top military official an unusual diplomatic assignment.

#washingtonpost.com. × Poland scrambles jets as Russian strike kills at least 25 in Ukraine. Poland said that it would close the Russian consulate in Gdansk after a rail line in eastern Poland was damaged in an explosion. Romania said a drone violated its airspace.

#washingtonpost.com. × Rail explosion in Poland was ‘sabotage,’ prime minister says. The line links Warsaw to Lublin and continues onward to Ukraine, and has been used to deliver aid to that country.

#washingtonpost.com. × Corruption probe close to Zelensky stokes E.U. unease over Ukraine aid. A scandal, involving kickbacks at Ukraine’s state nuclear power company, has revived concerns about European money being siphoned off by graft instead of helping fight Russia.

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