GET INVOLVED IN OTHER PEOPLE’S STUPID WARS, WIN STUPID PRIZES: Senior North Korean General Wounded in Recent Ukrainian Strike, Western Officials Say. “Russia President Vladimir Putin enlisted the support of North Korean troops because Russian forces have been stretched thin as they seek to grind forward in eastern Ukraine while pushing back on the Ukrainian forces in Kursk, according to military analysts.”

Then again, Mark Galeotti’s estimation seems apt: “First, Russia is losing. It is using its soldiers like human ammunition, burning through its economic reserves and mortgaging its future to Beijing. Second, Ukraine is losing faster than Russia. Ukraine’s forces are beleaguered along a too-long front and increasingly reliant on what looks like press-ganging for recruits. The country’s energy infrastructure is 80 percent damaged or destroyed.”