I remain extremely frustrated with Kyiv about this issue. Many of us have tried to work on it to little avail. Ukraine is in desperate need of people on the front (and demographically, in general). The failure to make progress here is hard to understand.

'While Ukraine’s conventional forces have earned headlines, it is the country’s intelligence services, particularly the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR), that are quietly waging a war in the shadows against Russia around the world.' David Kirichenko writes for