New York Times World News Putin’s Forces Are Barely Inching Along on the Battlefield By: Paul Sonne · Cassandra Vinograd and Milana Mazaeva 10 May 2026 at 10:59 The Russian military has yet to solve a fundamental problem: how to make big advances in eastern Ukraine when drones are everywhere.
New York Times World News Russia Has Lost More Than 350,000 Soldiers, New Estimate Finds By: Paul Sonne 9 May 2026 at 11:53 The number raises the prospect that about half a million soldiers in total have died on the Russian and Ukrainian sides.