BBC Analysis Editor Ros Atkins explores how Americans feel about their president during a nonstop start to 2026 shaped by pivotal events at home and abroad.

On the morning of January 24, a two-month-old baby died, and a woman and a four-year-old child were injured in a traffic accident near Berestyn in the Kharkiv region.

With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 order.

In the Luhansk region, the temporarily occupied city of Alchevsk has been left without electricity due to a system overload caused by the lack of a centralized heating supply.

No breakthrough is reported at the first three-way talks but reports suggest they will resume next month.

Russia’s leadership is trying to push U.S. President Donald Trump to abandon the negotiation process with Ukraine and Europe and make concessions to Moscow’s demands put forward at the August 2025 summit in Anchorage, Alaska.

Russia has stepped up the activities of so-called “Russian Houses” in African countries, using them not only as centers for promoting Russian influence under the guise of cultural diplomacy, but also as hubs for recruiting mercenaries to fight against Ukraine.

It comes as tensions appear to have escalated between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The names of 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were on board the Il-76 aircraft that crashed in Russia’s Belgorod region on January 24, 2024, will be entered into the Book of Memory.

In Kyiv, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES), acting on government instructions, has prepared 41 mobile kitchens to provide hot meals to residents of buildings without gas supply.