I wanted to write something about the Ukraine War '26, essentially something that summarizes the events and changes of the war, and maybe how the front should be looked at. Sounds a lot, so I'll just start something and write what comes to mind.

I think the main thing is that Ukraine is way more active on all levels of warfare than before.
On the battlefield Ukraine was on the offense in three sectors. One in Dnipropetrovsk oblast that matters little. Here they had dubious claims, recapturing the same 100 sqkm of greyzone over and over. For the Russians this direction has little importance. The second in the very West of Zap, right at the Dnipro river, the region of Kamianske, Stepnogorsk and towards the city of Zap. This is important. The Russians made considerable advances here, but were threw back. Still not where they started the offensive back in late 2023 but still. And the third one is the offensive against the salient north of Lyman, the bulge west of the Zherebets river.
From what I can tell from the various yt channels I follow and twitter accounts I check on, it seems the AFU did what the Russians do with small infil teams. However there are some major differences. The RUaF have to create salients from strong points (such as Pokrovsk) with pushing the frontline back around, then capture the place. The AFU had a salient ready made for them without a fortified core, since its basically empty lands with couple of villages. So the Russian defense didn't look like how Ukrainian defense usually does.