Trump had drawn the analogy during an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Freidrich Merz, and said sometimes you are better off letting children fight for a while before pu

But halting progress, ever-more deadly drone attacks and unmoving negotiating positions seem to have taken their toll. On Thursday, Trump used a striking analogy to concede the warfare was nowhere near over, and that he did not, at that moment, feel it was best to intervene.

In a few early June days, underlying assumptions about Ukraine and Russia were shaken in three ways. On June 1st Ukraine launched one of the most daring raids in the modern history of warfare, releasing killer drones from trucks to scavenge on strategic bombers deep inside Russia,

Naval drones of the Magura V7 type, armed with AIM-9M surface-to-air missiles, were spotted in the Kerch Strait shortly after a Ukrainian sabotage action against the Crimean bridge.