In Ukraine, Ukrainian armed forces are making good gains and Russian forces are falling back to secondary defensive lines. To put the lie to Russian claims that they did not blow up the dam on the Dnieper River, they have blown up a second dam deep in occupied territory. It appears that the strategy of the Ukrainian Army is to cut the occupied territory in half. The Russian army command and the leaders of the two mercenary forces are threatening each other.
The Wagner mercenaries captured a Russian army colonel, tortured and humiliated him for his troops not providing enough support for the mercenaries. The Russian high command has done nothing except mused out loud about incorporating the mercenaries into the regular army. Fat chance of that. Putin has not been seen or heard of in over a week