India, June 2 -- The woman in the Kharkiv basement had stopped counting Russian strikes. She had been living that way, between descents and ascents, for more than four years. What she noticed, on the first day of June, was that the schedule had not changed. Drones, then sirens, then fire in a residential garage two streets over. The war was exactly as it had been.

That same day, according to Ukraine's General Staff, Russian forces launched attacks across two districts of Kharkiv, killing and wounding civilians as garages and cars burned. The pattern had held since the May ceasefire collapsed in a cascade of mutual accusations - a brief pause that neither side honored in any sustained way. And now the deadline that the United States had ...