At least 100,000 Russian fighters have been killed or wounded in Ukraine in just the past five months, the White House said on Monday, the latest measure of the vast human toll of President Vladimir Putin's invasion. The figure included 20,000 Russian fighters who had been killed in action, a spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council said.
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Signs of an imminent Ukrainian counteroffensive mounted on Monday with stepped-up military strikes by both sides, Russian forces moving into defensive positions and an unexplained explosion that knocked a supply train off its tracks across the border in Russia.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy made a promise on Monday to continue supporting Ukraine's war effort, walking back previous suggestions that the new House majority might curtail U.S. aid.