If Congress passes an aid bill, the Pentagon could start sending weapons to Ukraine within days; officials warn that more U.S. aid is needed or Ukraine could lose the war to Russia this year.

Russian troops are ramping up pressure on exhausted Ukrainian forces across the front line to prepare to grab more land this spring and summer.

Ukraine said it shot down a Russian strategic bomber in combat for the first time since the Kremlin’s invasion began after the aircraft launched a missile strike that left at least seven people dead in the central Dnipro region.