#Russian Army

For a long time, Russian civil aviation and airport infrastructure tried to maintain the illusion of normalcy and insulation from the war. But the mass use of commercial flights to move troops has begun to spark resistance, while Russia’s war has now reached Russian airports themselves.

Russia’s spring offensive campaign is breaking against Ukrainian defenses. Russia’s armies are failing to show visible battlefield gains, and the problem runs even deeper: for the first time, the Kremlin has been systematically losing more troops than it can recruit.