For every Ukrainian soldier he manages to kill, Putin loses three of his own troops (though often enough they're ex-convicts, ethnic minorities, or mercenaries from nations as unlikely as Nepal). His naval losses show the same disparity, and his Black Sea Fleet (a major reason for annexing Crimea in 2014) now stays far from Ukraine's coastline. Russian air crews are suffering as badly, with a warplane shot down almost every day. In the past two weeks, they've included 10 Su-34 fighter bombers, two Su-35 air-superiority fighters, and a huge Beriev A-50, which makes the second of the $350,000,000 surveillance and aerial control planes lost this year. (The US equivalent is the Boeing E-3 Sentry "AWACS".) For more, read Kateryna Denisova's story in the Kyiv Independent.