Russia

has probably lost around a third of the ground forces it deployed to Ukraine and failed to achieve substantial gains over the past month, UK military intelligence said, adding that Russia was unlikely to dramatically accelerate its rate of advance over the next 30 days.

• In other news: Russia's offensive in Ukraine is failing and its major operation in the Donbas region has stalled, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.

• A step back: Since Russia's invasion began on Feb. 24, Ukraine's military has forced Russia to abandon an advance on Kyiv, before making rapid gains in the northeast and driving them away from the country’s second biggest city of Kharkiv.