Ukraine's Spring Offensive: Truce or Bloody Stalemate?

Ukrainians await their counteroffensive against Russia's brutal winter onslaught, with heavy fighting continuing in frontline towns and haunting accounts of casualties. The besieged town of Bakhmut is now a bloody street-by-street fight, with limited Russian gains as their attempted encirclement remains a bloody slog. The British Ministry of Defense reports that Russian efforts to analogize its war in Ukraine to the Second World War are beginning to fall flat, and Ukrainian drone operations continue to terrorize Russian armored vehicles in the open.