War. A picture tells so much. This is degradation, poverty, hopelessness, loneliness, and it looks as if it could get a lot worse for the people of Ukraine.

MOSCOW (AP) –The U.S. and Russian presidents tentatively agreed to meet in a last-ditch effort to stave off a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, even as sustained shelling cointinued Monday in a conflict in eastern Ukraine that Western powers fear could provide the spar for a broader war.