‘Strategic objectives not achieved’: Has Ukraine’s counteroffensive failed?

A commander of an artillery unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr, 45, writes the names of soldiers killed in action on a howitzer shell from a position near a front line in Donetsk [File: Alina Smutko/Reuters]

Kyiv, Ukraine – Referring to the Soviet puzzle video game, Alla says her husband kills Russian soldiers as though he is playing “human Tetris”.

“A drone hangs in the sky, and he watches [them] crawl across the forest,” she told Al Jazeera. “And he kills them. And then they crawl again.”