On Friday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced his decision to replace the commander of the country’s air forces, Lt Gen Mykola Oleshchuk. Lt Gen Anatolii Kryvonozhko has been appointed interim commander and, while Zelensky did not provide any explanation for the change, he stressed his responsibility to “take care of all our warriors”.

Olena Semykina, the owner of a village shop in east Ukraine, voted for President Volodymyr Zelensky five and a half years ago, hoping the fresh-faced political newcomer would end the fighting unleashed by Russian proxy forces in 2014.

By diverting forces from Donbas to attack Russia’s Kursk region, Zelensky hopes that Biden will let Ukraine strike deep into Russia with US weapons.

The soldier said one purpose of the invasion of Kursk was to demoralize Russian civilians

Ukraine is marooned in Russia’s Kursk region’s archipelago of attrition while Russia breaks through the Donbass impasse and into open operational space towards the Dnieper River

The big gamble Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy took when he ordered the Kursk incursion on August 4 is starting to unravel.

Strategically important Pokrovsk resistance has been weakened by demands of Kursk incursion, say critics

Professor Cohen’s thoughts on the early years of the Russia, Ukraine conflict.

A retiring foreign editor, to nervous laughter from his colleagues, joked that “The Economist never met a war it didn’t like.”

Earlier this month, Ukrainian forces crossed their northern border and entered Russian territory. The Ukrainians quickly took village after village as the Russian troops stationed in this Kursk region were sparse, often conscripted, and in some cases even unarmed.