Putin responds only to pressure, to the toughest arguments of brute force - Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in an interview with BILD "We have a choice: either we have a defeated Russian army outside Ukraine or a defeated Russian army on the border with Poland. Then… pic.twitter.com/cXVXOIqNm0

#Russian Armed Forces is trying to break through the defensive line of the #AFU. The occupiers want to take the strategic initiative, says Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi pic.twitter.com/HQnNuJUXM7

NEW: Russia will likely make significant tactical gains in the coming weeks as Ukraine waits for US security assistance to arrive at the front but Russian forces remain unlikely to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/CVHUhLQOay

“Putin has prepared for this. But the scale of recent Russian losses for limited gains, and the embarrassment of not being able to stop Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory, means that he still lacks an obvious route to victory,” writes ⁦@LawDavF⁩ on.ft.com/4dfXL5u