President Volodymyr Zelensky

Ukraine: Russia captures village near key town of Bakhmut

The village lies northeast of Bakhmut, a wine-making and salt-mining city that used to have a population of 70,000 people and is now an epicenter of fighting

Explained: The US-made HIMARS rocket launchers that Ukraine has used to kill over 100 Russian troops

Kyiv successfully deployed the US-manufactured HIMARS weapons system to attack the city of Makiivka, killing 400 soldiers, one of the deadliest attacks on Moscow troops in the war. While Russia has made a surprise admission of the attack, it contests the figures, saying 63 of its men had died

Explained: Can Ukraine afford to pay for the ongoing war?

The struggle for Ukraine is finding loans or donations to cover a massive budget deficit for next year — and do it without using central bank bailouts that risk wrecking Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia