President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and President Donald Trump, right, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 28, 2025. “We will keep living, fighting, and most importantly, living with dignity,” the Ukrainian president said last week. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By SERGEY MAIDUKOV In 2014, when Ukraine’s Donbas region began to fall to pro-Russian militants, many families packed up and fled their dangerous neighbor. Ukraine can’t leave, tethered to Russia along a…
