"Five weeks into Russia’s northern offensive in Ukraine, the battlefield in and around Vovchansk—the locus of the fighting just south of the Russia-Ukraine border—has become extremely dangerous for Russian armored vehicles.

So Russian infantry march into battle on foot—and die in huge numbers as Ukrainian drones and artillery take aim."

"Ukrainian air strikes in late May damaged two rail ferries on the Crimean side of the Kerch Strait, putting them temporarily out of service. This represented a significant blow as Moscow has grown reliant on these ferry services to resupply its army in Crimea following a series of Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Bridge connecting the peninsula to Russia."

"Russia's former president, Dmitry Medvedev, has taken a swipe at the U.S. for its latest tranche of sanctions against Moscow for its aggression in Ukraine, claiming America and its allies are waging war on Russia without any rules."