Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine would have to stay out of NATO for there to be peace,

while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he wouldn't agree to any ceasefire unless it included security guarantees for Ukraine.

During the just-ended campaign, candidate Trump said he wanted the war to end and that he could negotiate a quick resolution.

Nick Schifrin has the latest on the state of the war and what might come next as President

Trump returns.

In southern Ukraine today, an apartment reduced to rubble and a frantic search for survivors.

Children carried across what used to be their home.

A Russian strike here killed at least four.

As Russian rockets pound Ukraine's 600-mile front.

Russians are making gains, capturing partially destroyed villages, raising the Russian tricolor

flag.

I'm very concerned about the trajectory of this war.

I think it's quite clearly negative.

Michael Kaufman is a Carnegie Endowment Senior Fellow and just returned from Ukraine.

The Ukrainian military has been losing territory at an accelerated pace, particularly over

the past three months.

Each month, Russia has been taking more territory relative to the last month.

Ukraine's biggest concern is in Donetsk, where Russian forces have focused and are threatening

the key transit hub of Pokrovsk.

South of the city, Russian videos show Russian drones and bombs, hunting Ukrainian soldiers and trying

to encircle Prakowsk.

The Russians are taking tremendous losses.

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