If you're wondering how your investment in Ukraine is going, Wall Street Journal reports for Ukraine and Russia.

A deadly summer lies ahead, with little help of big gains. As Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters a third summer,

the 700-mile front line is the sight of a bloody chess match, with each side moving pieces around in search of an

advantage without conceding ground elsewhere. The war is settling in for a brutal season during which thousands will likely die on both sides,

but neither appears poised to muster a decisive breakthrough. If you study what Russia has done in their former

states in these wars. You know, this has been said from the very beginning and it's

still just as true.

Nobody doubted that Ukraine would put up a spirited defense.

The Ukraine is made up of people most of whom there are Russian sympathizers there there are

But the Ukrainian people are a very proud people.

They are a historically independent people.

The war with Russia sets off deep psychological hatred for Moscow and some of the things that have been visited upon them.

That being said, I read military reports from the very beginning that said what I already believe to be true

and this has never changed.

Simply put, Russia has more men than Ukraine does and this is a war of attrition

You're seeing these reports American media doesn't like to report them But you're seeing reports coming out of the Ukraine

where they're grabbing men off the street. They throw them into a carrier and they're

never seen again. They're not criminal. They're conscripts. They're just

grabbing men, giving them a uniform, and sending them into war.

And you see that the gut-wrenching, heart-winding cries of their

ending cries of their girlfriend, wife, mother, sister,

as they're yanked away and they struggle

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