500,000 — russian personnel losses since February 24, 2022. russia's imperial ambitions cost a lot. Instead of "Kyiv in 3 days", they lost half a million people. pic.twitter.com/dA8KNh2hVS

🎙 Russia's President Vladimir Putin's response to a media question: 💬 We realise that the current head of state [Zelensky] is NO LONGER legitimate. <...> PR steps are irrelevant for legal documents. Read in full 👉 t.me/MFARussia/20326 pic.twitter.com/lRNOZ3qlZA

“If Russia wins in Ukraine as a result of diminished US aid, our adversaries would learn that the US can be manipulated into abandoning its interests in a winnable fight.” Read the full testimony of Russia Fellow @nataliabugayova to the @HelsinkiComm ⬇️ www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/closing-skies-liberating-ukraine-helsinki-commission-may-16-2024 pic.twitter.com/IjlcTckadO

Here are today's control-of-terrain maps of Russia's invasion of Ukraine from @TheStudyofWar and @criticalthreats. Interactive map, updated daily: isw.pub/InteractiveUkraineWarMap Archive of time-lapse maps, updated monthly: isw.pub/UkraineTimeLapse pic.twitter.com/dpKWHsWbp4