Hegseth promises much more support in a sharp escalation of aid The United States is restructuring its weapons production to significantly higher volumes to provide Ukraine with much more across the entire spectrum,

Facing a battlefield stalemate in Ukraine and growing war fatigue among Russians, President Vladimir Putin appears ready to try to change the narrative around the conflict. He looks likely to sharply escalate the Russian aerial attacks on the Ukrainian capital in the hope it will shore up his sagging domestic approval ratings and persuade an increasingly pessimistic audience at home that Moscow is winning the war,

Ukraine’s early embrace of drones, and the mass-industrialization of their accuracy and power, has begun to exact a defining toll on Russia.

It is the highest on-the-record estimate of Russian military deaths to come from any government since the war in Ukraine began.