Russia Is Showing Signs of Weakness in Ukraine. So It Hits Harder.

Although drone strikes and shelling remain constant, Russian combat performance is waning,” Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London, wrote in an analysis for Foreign Affairs this week... Mr. Watling said Ukraine’s battlefield gains had turned the tide in the war. “In Kyiv, there is a growing optimism that Ukraine can fight Russia to a cease-fire,” he wrote.