To bastardize Faulkner, in Ukraine’s capital, the past isn’t past: it is a soldier in the battles of the present and the future. A brand-new exhibit in Kyiv’s World War II museum, housed in the base of the towering Mother Ukraine statue,

The number of Russian troops pulled over to Kursk Oblast, announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky in early September, was higher — 60,000.

Russia has taken two villages in the western Kursk region, a senior commander said, as Russian forces advance against thousands of Ukrainian forces who smashed through the Russian border last month.