"Putin's Visit to Ukraine Highlights Heavy Losses and Doubles Controversy"

The British Defense Ministry has said that Russian forces fighting in southern Ukraine have likely suffered "heavy losses" after the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had traveled to the annexed Ukrainian territory. The ministry noted that Putin had visited the "Dnipr Group of Forces" in the annexed Kherson region, which suggests that the original force organization has evolved, probably due to heavy losses. The grouping of forces has likely been deployed to defend Russia's southwestern flank currently identified by the Dnipro river running through the Kherson region.