Last month, US President Joe Biden signed an aid package earmarking $61 billion to Ukraine. Despite pledges of quick delivery, the situation has not changed for soldiers on the front lines.
On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told a German newspaper that he is planning a counteroffensive in 2025, if Ukraine can survive 2024.
Taking control of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk region is widely thought to be a matter of time for Russian troops, who recently approached the outskirts of the town.
The Ukrainian forces used chemical weapons, presumably white phosphorus, near the city of Artemovsk in the Donetsk People s Republic, as the Russian security forces provided a video of the poisonous substance.
The Russian armed forces repelled 12 attacks by Ukrainian troops in the region of Avdeyevka, over the past 24 hours, with Kiev losing more than 280 servicepeople in the area as a result, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.