The shift in strategy comes as the Kremlin sends wave after wave of infantry in “meat assaults” at the Ukrainian stronghold of Avdiivka and shoots off record numbers of kamikaze drones at Kyiv.
Recent estimates suggest that, particularly resulting from so-called “meat assaults” on the Ukrainian stronghold of Avdiivka, Russian troops are now being killed at rates comparable to World War I.
Ukraine’s state archives were under threat even before the full-scale invasion of 2022, because of a lack of funding and resources. Now Russian occupiers seem intent on destroying what’s left.