Troops outnumbered by as much as six to one on the battlefield, the main supply route cut off and swarms of drones attacking vehicles and soldiers retreating across the border back into Ukraine. That is the picture painted by a senior Ukrainian army officer as Kyiv’s forces are pushed back from their foothold in Russia’s Kursk by Vladimir Putin’s troops.

The New York Times reported that the U.S. will withdraw from a group investigating Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion.