| In the embattled Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, residents are dodging missiles and running out of essential supplies. But they are not giving up, the city's mayor told Josh Rogin on Thursday, speaking from an undisclosed location with bombs exploding in the background. Mayor Igor Terekhov describes a growing crisis, with attacks on civilian infrastructure including schools, hospitals and City Hall as well as heating lines and electrical infrastructure. "When you are talking about war crimes, there is no doubt," he says, explaining that Russian artillery and missile attacks are also striking residential districts. The city has so far been able to keep services such as water, heat, electricity and garbage removal going, but it's not clear if authorities can sustain that for much longer. Meanwhile, Rogin explains, Russian troops are encircling Kharkiv, "slowly but surely trying to suffocate and squeeze the city like a boa constrictor." The residents of Kharkiv are running out of resources and time. Terekhov tells Rogin the city desperately needs food, medicine and humanitarian aid — and that its defenders in the Ukrainian army need advanced systems to contend with Russian weapons. "The Ukrainian army will fight to the end. They are our heroes. They are fighting with their own weapons on their own land. They will not give up," he says.  (Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images) Igor Terekhov says that Kharkiv will neither succumb nor surrender. By Josh Rogin ● Read more » | | | | The Great Medicaid Purge could come as soon as this summer. By Catherine Rampell ● Read more » | | | | The investigation looking into the Capitol insurrection started with low-level players, but now it's moving up the ladder. By Randall D. Eliason ● Read more » | | | | The president utterly failed to meet the moment. By Marc A. Thiessen ● Read more » | | | Disney has been built for a supposedly unassailable order that's now being assailed by Vladimir Putin. By Megan McArdle ● Read more » | | | | This is the theory that leads to Trump and his closest cronies. By Jennifer Rubin ● Read more » | | | | Tucker Carlson demands to see her LSAT scores, because accomplished people of color apparently can't be smart enough. By Paul Waldman ● Read more » | | | | If Manchin means what he says — which is an extremely big "if" — then this really shouldn't be that difficult a problem to solve. By Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman ● Read more » | | | |
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