As the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region rolls on, war conditions have appeared in Russia for the first time since the Second World War. It is a stunning experience that an estimated 180,000 people have become internally displaced.

Ukraine’s Kursk offensive has killed off any chance of ceasefire talks beginning any time soon, Russian diplomats say.

Ukrainian soldiers are overmatched in some areas and deployments in the trenches can stretch for months

More territory in Donetsk region is taken while Kyiv presses ahead with its cross-border incursion into Kursk

The Pentagon is already working through fixes to allow Ukraine to launch the weapons from its fighter planes.

What is the point of this campaign, if not just to prolong the war?

The willful killing of unarmed soldiers, especially when there is a good chance of taking them prisoners, is certainly a war crime.

Ten experts gauge the short and long term effects of Kyiv’s bold invasion on the war

Western governments are not going to act as if they are engaged in an existential fight when they are not.

By officially regarding the latest cross-border incursion as an act of terrorism instead of a military invasion, Putin signaled that he’s holding off on diverting forces from the Donbass front, which thus prevents Kiev from achieving its “primary military objective”.