Ukraine has been wracked by shocking destruction and deadly violence since Russia invaded in February. Estimates of the death toll range from a confirmed minimum of 27,577 people, including 6,374 civilians, to more than 150,000. The slaughter can only get more horrific as long as all sides, including the U.S. and its NATO allies, remain committed to war.
In the first weeks of the war, the U.S. and NATO countries sent weapons to Ukraine to try to prevent Russia from quickly defeating Ukraine's armed forces and conducting a U.S.-style "regime change" in Kyiv. But since that goal was achieved, the only goals that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his Western allies have publicly proclaimed are to recover all of pre-2014 Ukraine and decisively defeat and weaken Russia.
