The Germans called it “Machtpolitik,” power politics, and it was that system the Western powers had fought to defeat. As President Harry S. Truman put it in 1945, “We must make certain that no nation will ever again be able to begin a war. We must substitute for the jungle of international anarchy a rule of law based on justice.”

Rescuers were still working through the rubble on Friday, uncovering more bodies after a Russian attack hit apartment buildings in western Ukraine earlier this week, killing at least 31 people including several children,

Top European and Ukrainian envoys have met in Geneva ahead of talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about President Donald Trump's proposal to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.

As residents of the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil face bombardment by night, and wreckage by day, they share their anger at an American peace proposal that many say favors Russia above Ukraine