NO END IN SIGHT: It seems certain that 2023 will be a critical year for the war in Ukraine as the ravages of Vladimir Putin’s illegal and ill-conceived invasion exact a terrible toll on both sides. It seems equally likely the war will not end this year, with both sides committed to demands for the other’s total capitulation.

In his speech to Congress on Dec. 21, President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Ukraine would “hold its lines and never surrender,” calling the war a battle “not only for the territory” but a “struggle will define in what world our children and grandchildren will live.”