The summer counteroffensive in Ukraine didn’t go very well, as most honest analysts have already admitted. But now, the small amount of progress that Ukrainian forces made appears to be reversing in some areas. Russian forces have been slowly advancing in Avdiivka, a city in the Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. However, those gains have been coming at a terrible price to the Russians as well as the Ukrainians. The Russian forces have suffered hundreds of casualties in that region and the fighting has reportedly been brutal. Ukraine hasn’t run out of drones or bombs yet and they have been using them to terrible effect on the advancing forces of the Kremlin. The Associated Press received a video shot by one of the drones showing the carnage outside of Avdiivka in a wooded area. As we say here repeatedly, bad things happen in war.

As Russian forces press forward with an attempt to capture the town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, The Associated Press obtained aerial footage that gives an indication of their staggering losses.

A Ukrainian military drone unit near Stepove, a village just north of Avdiivka, where some of the most intense battles have taken place, shot the video this month.

It’s an apocalyptic scene: In two separate clips, the bodies of about 150 soldiers — most wearing Russian uniforms — lie scattered along tree lines where they sought cover. The village itself has been reduced to rubble. Rows of trees that used to separate farm fields are burned and disfigured.

Here is the video that the press obtained. They cut out the goriest parts with the actual explosions, but it shows the operator’s view of the Russian soldiers from the drone’s camera locking onto targets and then dropping bombs. This content may be disturbing to some viewers.

This drone warfare is far from an exact science despite its increasingly common use. The Ukrainian forces that provided the footage admitted that some of the troops that were killed may have actually been Ukrainians. That’s why they call it “the fog of war.”

The success of the drone attacks doesn’t change the fact that Russia is still advancing in the east rather than being driven out, however. This is taking place while Zelensky is facing a rebellion at home over the number of people being forcibly conscripted to fight, including much older men and some with disabilities. He’s going to need them because Putin just conscripted another 130,000 troops of his own. We are well past the point where someone needs to step in and take Zelensky aside and explain that he may have to propose some peace talks that involve Russia keeping some of the territory they’ve taken. It’s unclear how open Putin would be to the idea at this point, but the current battle plan Ukraine has in place simply doesn’t seem to be working.

Meanwhile, Zelensky has problems of his own on the home front. Protests have broken out in Kyiv over corruption in his administration, saying that government money should be going toward drones and the war effort instead of local projects where money is sometimes diverted into the pockets of officials.

Hundreds of protesters angered by what they view as wasteful spending by municipal officials gathered outside Kyiv City Hall on Thursday and demanded that the money should go to Ukraine’s war against Russia instead of local projects.

The Money for the AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine) civic group, which organized the protest, was formed in September by people concerned by what they term “unnecessary” and “poorly timed” spending by the Kyiv City Council.

So this is where all of America’s money is going, at least in part. While Congress wrangles with Joe Biden over another massive pile of cash to give Zelensky, it should be informative for the public to be aware just where that money is going and what it’s being used for. It’s been known for a while now that we’re paying for a lot more than just Ukraine’s military efforts. We’re paying for their pension system, subsidies for the agricultural industry, and other unrelated expenses. Ukraine’s government has largely collapsed in terms of being self-sustaining and they are largely just a client state of America now. We can’t even pay our own debts, yet we’re expected to pay all the costs of Ukraine? How is that sustainable? Congress owes the American people a vote on this question. Nobody wants to see Putin come out victorious, but Europe needs to be shouldering a much larger share of this burden.