Ukraine could be defeated this year unless it gets the military aid it so badly needs – and quickly – write our seasoned experts on the war, Stefan Wolff and Tetyana Malyarenko. While US Republicans drag their heels over passing a bill that would enable billions of dollars in military equipment to help Ukraine defend itself, Russia is now making significant territorial gains. Meanwhile the aerial bombardment of its cities is intensifying daily.

Even Nato’s generally upbeat secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, concedes now that it is likely that Kyiv will need to negotiate and make compromises to bring the conflict to an end. But, reading between the lines, making compromises means rewarding naked aggression on Russia’s part. And this is what western leaders have been adamant all along that they can’t allow to happen. If the latest status reports from Ukraine do not focus their minds and open their coffers, this outcome will quickly become dangerously inevitable.

Also today, we look at why a deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner’s pledge to resign if she is found to have broken electoral law could be a mistake. And a new film, Sometimes I Think About Dying, brings our reviewer irresistible memories of the 1980s classic Harold and Maude while telling an original and much-needed story about women’s mental health.

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