“Here on the ground, we don’t feel any real changes from all these high-level meetings and statements,” a soldier said.

Despite longing for an end to Russia’s invasion, few believe that a meeting between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin is likely to deliver a peace plan they can accept.

Surgeons have made significant strides in tending to the war’s wounded, particularly through the use of 3-D printing, creating patient-specific implants and surgical guides.

Volodymyr is a Ukrainian sniper whose face was shattered by a Russian bomb in 2023. After multiple surgeries and titanium implants, he has returned to active duty near the closest point of the front line of the war with Russia. Calling in from there, he describes his recovery to Marc Santora, an international editor for The New York Times.

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s move last week to neuter two anticorruption agencies drew the country’s first street protests since Russia’s invasion.

The assault, which killed at least 16 people in the Ukrainian capital, came soon after President Trump threatened new sanctions against Moscow if the bloodshed didn’t let up.

The attack, just hours after President Trump gave the Kremlin a new deadline to work toward ending the war, was part of a wave across the country, the authorities said.

Facing growing pressure amid nationwide protests, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine backtracked on controversial legislation that would have weakened the country’s independent anticorruption institutions. Katrin Bennhold, a senior writer, and Marc Santora, an international news editor for The New York Times, explain the events that led to the reversal.

The demonstrators were angered by government moves to dismantle anticorruption efforts and quell dissent.

Ukraine’s president ran on a promise to clean things up, but critics say his government is cracking down on anti-corruption activists, critics and agencies.