What's the big story? The ongoing battle for Bakhmut reached a culmination point, and PMC Wagner is no longer leading the fighting in parts of Luhansk and Donetsk.
The second story? Mr Zelenskyy goes to Washington and Mr. Shoigu gets a blank check from Mr. Putin.
Bonus Story: The former Director General of Roscosmos turned high priced mobik and Adolf Hitler enthusiast (not snark), Dmitry Rogozin, had a close encounter of the worst kind with an artillery shell as did the Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic.
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