This is The Guardian.

Just an unprecedented volume of drones and ballistic missiles.

People are pretty stoical and resilient and angry.

Meanwhile, we've got talks happening between Russia, Ukraine and the United States.

This is a play being performed for one person in the audience,

and that person is Donald Trump.

He's put enormous pressure on the Ukrainians, none on the Russians.

And actually, it's bizarre.

My strong prediction is the war will continue this year and probably well be up.

As Ukraine approaches four years since Russia's full-scale invasion,

are the latest round of peace talks anything more than a cynical political performance?

From the Guardians today in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

I'm joined by Luke Harding, who's a Guardian foreign correspondent.

Luke, thanks so much for dialing in from Cove.

So first of all, just describe what it's like where you are.

It is freezing by the sounds of things.

Yeah, it's been an incredibly cold and long winter.

We saw temperatures in January going

as low as minus 22 degrees. It's a bit warmer. I mean, that's comparative. It's I think

minus 13 today. And there's been heavy snowfall, which has blanketed Kiev. So it's a city of

car crashes and skids. And of course, Russian attacks, what we've seen over the last couple of

months, just an unprecedented volume of drones and ballistic missiles, really very cynically

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