Ukraine under fire.

American-led diplomacy restarts as the war rages on. And unprecedented attacks plunge Keeve into cold and darkness. Heading toward the full-scale invasion's fifth year. How long can Ukraine hold out? How long can Russia wage war? And why is President Trump failed to find a path to peace coming up on Compass Points?

Hello and welcome to Compass Points.

It is a bitter winter in Ukraine and not just because it's been minus 7 degrees.

The front line is a brutal, bloody deadlock.

Ukraine says Russia has attacked its energy grid more than 200 times just since the beginning of the year.

A new estimate says nearly 2 million have been killed or wounded in a war that President Trump

famously promised to end on day one, and where Russia maintains demands at the negotiating

table that Kiev calls impossible.

In the coming days, now that the world's largest island, Greenland is no longer in the headlines,

it is Europe's largest war in 80 years that will dominate world

leaders' discussion at a key security conference in Munich.

So here to help us understand the state of the peace talks, what's happening on the battlefield

and what Putin wants are four experts.

Michael Kaufman is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Justin Logan is the director of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute.

Angela Stent is the former National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia and a senior

fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

And Bill Taylor served as President George W. Bush and Barack Obama's ambassador to Ukraine

before returning as the

topped up diplomat in Kiev during the first Trump administration. He's now a distinguished fellow

at the Atlantic Council. Thank you very much, all of you. Welcome to Compass Points. Really appreciate it.

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