Territorial gains from last year to present by Team Ukraine and Team Russia are about the same, according to War Mapper.
The big war news over the weekend was the latest missile attack on Saturday.
Ukraine’s monopoly energy provider DTEK informs:
On June 3, electricity consumption will be restricted throughout Ukraine from 00:00 to 24:00
The limits allocated to our city will be enough for 80% of the needs. Therefore, stabilization outage schedules will be in effect throughout the day.
We ask you to reduce the use of electricity to reduce the number and duration of blackouts. We thank everyone who heeds our advice.
Light will definitely conquer the darkness! Believe in power engineers! - DTEK
So, rolling blackouts.
Meanwhile, our nine fronts are still holding, kind of.
The “deep frustration from many sides” we wrote about on Day 828 continues to ring out on the pages of The Washington Post, which over the weekend examined another glowing example: shitty basic training for new Ukrainian recruits1.
I finally got around to reading above article. There is no attribution for any of the weird, nasty sounding quotes, so we’ll chalk them up to more BOGSAT2.
Z meets with Uncle Joe and Emmanuel later this week for the 80th anniversary of D-Day celebration. Then G-7, then the Peace Summit at the Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland. As of this writing, he was in Manilla pressing the flesh with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Basic training in Ukraine is barely covering the basics, commanders say. Ukrainian commanders in the field say they are bracing for most of the new troops under a new conscription law to arrive with poor training (The Washington Post,June 2, 2024)
BOGSAT - bunch of guys sitting around a table.