Read the Pentagon briefing from yesterday (transcript available), some interesting details provided, particularly on how the Ukrainian and Russian armies are behaving in the Donbas. Here’s the whole transcript. defense.gov/News/Transcrip…
Russians are falling back on their ‘doctrine’, which is to blast an area with artillery before sending in artillery. Ukrainians, however, still have mobility, and now much more long range capability, and basically the Russians can’t advance much at all because of these. 
The ability of the Ukrainians to maintain mobility right in front of the main Russian line of attack is exactly the thing that @edwardstrngr and I were talking about in this @TheAtlantic article. It’s why their ability to blunt Russian air power is so important.
https://twitter.com/theatlantic/status/1523736526412296192
Ukrainian ranged capabilities should step up notch in the coming days/weeks as more trained personnel with the new equipment reach the battle area. Nice comment that the stress now is also on training personnel on maintaining the new howitzers as Ukraine now has so many.
Also some detail (a little) on Russian soldiers refusing to follow orders. It’s anecdotal, but interestingly the stress was on officers and specifically those fighting in the Donbas. Sounds like signs of battle fatigue creeping in.
Overall summation of Russian progress in the Donbas, incremental and ‘anemic’. It can be measured in a kilometre here and a kilometre there. Basically the Ukrainians making the Russians suffer for every village.
Basically no meaningful change in well over a week, except the Ukrainians are about to get stronger.
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