Today, U.S. officials told PBS NewsHour they are making progress toward a document designed

to end the nearly four-year grinding war.

But today in Ukraine, the war raged on.

Today in Ukraine, civilians pay the price of war.

Terrified residents of Zaporizia watch their homes burn.

They grab prize possessions and feel peace is impossibly far.

Asked about U.S. diplomacy.

I don't know what to think.

Looking at what's happened, this doesn't feel much like a peace plan.

Do you believe in peace?

No. If I let myself believe that, then peace will come at a very high cost, the cost of our lives.

The first draft of the U.S. peace plan required Ukraine to reduce the size of its military by almost a third,

abandoned ambitions to join NATO

and give up and demilitarized territory in Donetsk that Russia has failed to seize despite

11 years of war.

Recently, Russia's called the fall of Donetsk inevitable, a position endorsed last night

by President Trump.

If you look, it's just moving in one direction.

So eventually that's land that over the next couple of months might be gotten by Russia

anywhere.

Today, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky called that assessment unacceptable.

Russians are peddling the narrative around the world that Ukraine allegedly cannot defend itself.

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