New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- Blackouts stretch a battered grid as Kyiv pleads for range and Budapest courts a summit

KYIV - On day 1,332 of Russia's full-scale war, the battlefield and the diplomacy table overlapped in dissonant ways. Overnight, Russian drones and missiles again pressed Ukraine's power grid, leaving pockets of the country in the dark and emergency crews scrambling to repair substations. By afternoon, President Volodymyr Zelensky met President Donald J. Trump at the White House, pressing for long-range support while Washington pressed pause on fresh support at the White House. The meeting produced no immediate commitments on Tomahawks, only an assertion from Washington that a rapid end to fighting might be possible if both sides...