A visit to the wounded

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook hands with a wounded soldier during a visit to a Kyiv hospital (above). As the war—which began with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24—entered its second month, Russian forces remained bogged down outside major cities and were concentrating on shelling military and civilian targets. The Russian navy shelled the port city of Mariupol. U.S. intelligence sources told the Associated Press that Russia has lost 10 percent of its combat capacity in terms of troops and war materiel and that Ukrainian forces have launched counteroffensives in parts of the country. But Ukraine still faces a military much larger than its own. Zelenskyy described negotiations with Russia as “step by step, but they are going forward.” In an address to Japan’s parliament, he said thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed, including 121 children. “Our people cannot even adequately bury their murdered relatives, friends, and neighbors,” he said. “They have to be buried right in the yards of destroyed buildings, next to the roads.”