We start with the Guardian newspaper, and analysis by Dan Sabbagh in Kyiv entitled "Ukraine and Russia Compete for Who Will Be the Last Standing Army".

Three and a half months into the Ukraine war and what was once fighting across the country, the writer says, the fighting seems to have become centered in Severodonetsk, which has been raging for weeks.

The writer says that, according to the estimates of well-informed Ukrainian sources, Russia now has 120 battalions inside Ukraine, and that half of this total force is concentrated in the eastern Donbass region.

This illustrates the level of focus that Russia needs to make progress, as it bombarded the area with a mix of air strikes, artillery, mortars, and even rocket-propelled grenades. He says that all these military and combat efforts are for the sake of one city. Although this city is on the front line, it is not of strategic importance from a military point of view.