monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The map filled with arrows all season — Russian ones pushing forward, Ukrainian ones pushing back — and most of them stopped short of their operational objective. 160
monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The season's defining change had nothing to do with terrain. Zelenskyy dismissed Fedorov as defence minister in mid-July, which triggered a week of protests that ended with Syrskyi losing his job as commander-in-chief. 170
monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Drapatyi inherited the post along with the front-level instability that followed, instability only partly offset by what AFU delivered operationally over the same weeks. 170
