Ukrainian servicemen with the Spartan Brigade practice applying tourniquets during a combined combat and mental resilience exercise in the Dnipropetrovsk region on July 14, 2025.(Photo by Roman Pilipey/AFP Photo)
A service member of Ukraine’s 429th Achilles Separate Unmanned Aerial Systems Regiment prepares an FPV drone for a mission near the front-line town of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, on June 23, 2025.(Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)
A Ukrainian soldier from the 81st Separate Slobozhanska Airmobile Brigade sits inside a Stryker armored personnel carrier during exercises near the front line in the Donetsk region on June 28, 2025.(Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)
A Ukrainian serviceman, call sign “Bronson,” of the 148th Artillery Brigade, carries a 155mm shell for an M777 howitzer at the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region on August 7, 2025.(Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)
A Russian self-propelled multiple rocket launcher fires toward Ukrainian positions in this still from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on July 17, 2025.(Photo by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)
A Ukrainian National Guard serviceman from the 3rd Spartan Brigade prepares a Penguin UAV for flight near the frontline in the Pokrovsk direction on August 6, 2025.(Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)
Servicemen of Ukraine’s 24th Mechanized Brigade fire a 122mm howitzer toward Russian positions on the outskirts of Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, on July 22, 2025.(Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk/24th Mechanized Brigade via AFP Photo)
A member of the Kyiv Territorial Anti-Aircraft Defence stands guard at a mobile position in eastern Kyiv on July 14, 2025. The unit uses Browning M2 heavy machine guns to defend against Russian Shahed drone attacks.(Photo by Maria Senovilla/EPA)
New recruits are inducted into Ukraine’s elite 144th Special Operations Center during a torchlit ceremony on June 29, 2025.(Photo by Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images)
Servicemen of Ukraine’s 115th Separate Mechanized Brigade train with an RPG-7 grenade launcher between combat missions in the Kharkiv region on August 8, 2025.(Photo by Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters)
Ukrainian territorial defence soldiers from the Donetsk Oblast fire a D-20 howitzer in the direction of Toretsk on July 24, 2025.(Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A service member of Ukraine’s 13th ‘Khartiia’ Brigade lights a cigarette at a front-line position in the Kharkiv region on July 19, 2025.(Photo by Serhii Korovainyi/Reuters)
A Ukrainian serviceman with the Spartan Brigade participates in a combat training exercise in the Dnipropetrovsk region on July 14, 2025.(Photo by Roman Pilipey/AFP Photo)
A Ukrainian soldier stands guard with a shotgun as others install anti-drone nets over a road in the Donetsk region on July 8, 2025.(Photo by Roman Pilipey/AFP Photo)
An artilleryman of the 93rd ‘Kholodnyi Yar’ Brigade scans the sky for Russian drones at a front-line position near Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, on July 5, 2025.(Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)
