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Four years on, two views of Russia鈥檚 war in Ukraine
Kurt Shillinger
A pageantry of American democracy takes place tonight when President Donald Trump delivers his annual State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. Some Democrats plan to hold an alternative event off the Hill, while others are encouraging a return to norms of decorum that have slipped in recent years.
More on that tonight. Today we start with two views of the war in Ukraine, which began on this date four years ago. Fred Weir reports from Moscow, where war-weariness creeps beneath a veneer of normalcy. Howard LaFranchi, meanwhile, sends a letter of love to Pokrovsk, a frontline city in Ukraine where residents planted roses in defiance of Russia鈥檚 invasion but that now lies mostly abandoned.
