Ukrainian military intelligence said on Tuesday one of its naval drones – the Magura V5 maritime drone – destroyed a Russian Mi-8 helicopter and damaged another one in the Black Sea. The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday its forces hit a Russian oil depot in the Smolensk region.

The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, the research organization where we work, has been conducting national public opinion surveys since Ukraine gained independence, in 1991. Before the full-scale war,

Russia has found that expendable convict soldiers can clear the way for regular troops, but these tactics come at a massive cost.