After two months of the so-called Russian tortoise tanks appearing in Ukraine, the defending army managed to seize one of these machines from the aggressor for the first time as a trophy.

In recent days, the Ukrainian Army has staged a new cross-border push into the Belgorod region, according to Ukrainian officials, analysts of open-source intelligence and Russian military bloggers.

To travel north of Kyiv in Ukraine is to enter a graveyard of the Russian Army. When I was there in 2023, the battlefield had been largely cleaned up, and the villages were coming back to life.