Apologies for putting this out a few days late. I was in the field talking to an Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) unit, eastern sector, looking at their ops center, training, checking out the food, and so on. Much useful conversation – the best probably with a battalion cook and an M113A3 armored personnel carrier crew. But officers got their brains picked on tactics as well. My hope is that some decent news articles will come of it. The front Stationary but not static. The numbers came in for May: Russia captured 14 square kilometers (5.4 square miles) in a month of fighting for an estimated loss of 30,000 men (numbers claimed seem to be between 25,000 and 33,000) killed and wounded. Most observers think that isn’t sustainable. The AFU front guys I talked to said that’s entirely credible from what they’ve seen in their sector.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. But really, what matters is what the people in Russia think. Many can do math and read a map. And even the moderate Russians are saying Russia “must” conquer the remainder of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions before there can be talk of ending the attacks. If you figure there are about 8,800 square kilometers (3,398 square miles) of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk left under Ukrainian control, at 14 square kilometers (5.4 square miles) a month, it would take Russia about a half-century to conquer at the price of between 18.2 and 19.2 million men killed and wounded. The Kremlin would have us believe it is ready for that sacrifice. There are those who question the realism of that plan.