The elite 47th Mechanized Brigade, the main user of Ukraine’s American-made armored vehicles, was in bloody combat for 15 months before it finally rotated off the front line this fall—but even this belated break came to an abrupt end when Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk Oblast in western Russia drew the brigade back into action.

Akhtarsk, Russia. Read also: Ukraine captures dozens of Russian marines in Kursk Oblast — video Air defense systems were active in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Dnipro, and Kherson oblasts. One UAV was downed,