Ukraine is staging an unprecedented counteroffensive in the east and south, breaking through frontlines to liberate vast swathes of territory .
Vladimir Putin has inadvertently become the largest donor of weapons to Ukraine as Russian soldiers continue to abandon valuable military equipment en masse. Ukraine has been staging a stunning counteroffensive in the south and east which has seen Kharkiv liberated and troops break through front lines in the Donbas. Meanwhile, several settlements were recaptured as Ukrainian troops advanced towards the southern city of Kherson in a success that threatens to cut off Russian supply lines.
An impassioned President Zelensky vowed to take back all Ukrainian territory still occupied by Russian forces - he said he did not know when this would happen but insisted that "truth is on our side".
A hasty Russian retreat resulted in huge amounts of abandoned military equipment falling into Ukrainian hands.
In a humiliating twist, the amount of weapons left to the Ukrainians by fleeing Russian troops now exceeds the amount donated by the West.
This includes 421 Russian tanks, compared with 320 from the West; 445 infantry fighting vehicles, compared with 210 from the West; 192 armoured fighting vehicles, compared with 40 from the West; and 44 MLRS against 70 from the West.
Professor Michael Clarke, former director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), told Express.co.uk: "The numbers are a dramatic illustration of something that has been going on from the beginning of this war.
"Between 30 and 40 percent of all Russian equipment lost in the war since Feb 24th (more than 6,500 significant items at the most conservative estimate) has been 'captured or abandoned'.
"One might expect that to be the case in a force retreating, but not in a force attacking, as the Russians were until the end of July.
"That shows how poor Russian army morale and fighting skills really are - abandoning their vehicles and weapons very quickly when the fighting starts, even when they were supposed to be going forward and at speed.
"Now that the Russians are the ones retreating, even more equipment is being abandoned.
"That reflects also the way the Ukrainian army is encircling them, or trapping them against rivers, where the only option, if they don't withdraw in good order early enough, is to abandon the equipment and just get the personnel out of danger.
"More significant than the equipment itself that the Ukrainians are acquiring, is the ammunition stocks they are capturing.
"They need huge amounts of ammo, and Russian ammo is the right fit for all their standard Warsaw Pact-era equipment that still makes up the bulk of their army.
"Artillery shells, in particular, are highly valued since they are getting through multiple thousands of them every day."