"The situation has never looked as favorable as it does now. There is very little movement on the battlefield. Sometimes it is a few kilometers in one direction, sometimes in the other, but always at an enormous cost to the Russian armed forces.

Iryna Moskaeva and her children jumped out of their beds and started running after an explosion rocked their Kyiv apartment early on Thursday, in a major Russian attack that killed 18 people across the Ukrainian capital.

Ukraine is engaged in a campaign in Crimea to take out Russian air defenses, sever vital supply lines, and cripple the peninsula's energy grid and fuel reserves.

Loud explosions shook the Ukrainian capital for hours during the night, with many people sheltering at subway stations.

Russia has lost about 1,409,630 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on July 5. The number includes 1,290 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Foreign fighters told Business Insider that new contracts and higher pay could fix manpower issues if soldiers stick around long enough.