Kyiv receives military aid from Germany, Sweden, funding from U.S. As the cold weather approaches, Russia resumed its attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, launching a massive missile strike overnight on Sept.

Two days earlier, Ukraine claimed it had recaptured strategic gas and oil drilling platforms in the Black Sea that Russia seized in 2015. Russia had used the platforms for electronic warfare

Ukraine's special forces said on Wednesday that 34 Russian personnel were killed in Friday's missile strikes on the Black Sea Fleet base.

Missiles headed toward Sevastopol were intercepted, the city’s Kremlin-installed governor said, one day after Ukrainian forces struck Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.

In the wake of escalating skirmishes in Sevastopol, disparate sources offer varied casualty counts. Kyiv implores its nationals to evacuate the embattled Crimean peninsula immediately. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk advises those fleeing to find refuge either in areas under Ukrainian governance or abroad,

Heavy weapons supplied by the west are proving pivotal in the fierce battle raging outside Bakhmut, Ukraine says

Ukraine's army has claimed it broke through Russian defense lines in the south, while also stating that senior Russian navy commanders were among those killed or wounded in a missile attack on Moscow's Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Crimea.