Author: Mike Eckel and Todd Prince / RFE/RL

The $60 billion aid package for Ukraine in the United States is coming at a critical moment in the war. The situation on the front has been so dire for Ukrainian forces in recent weeks that CIA Director William Burns warned that Kyiv could lose the war against Russia by the end of the year...

Wounded, exhausted, rag-tag columns of Ukrainian troops withdrew from Debal­tsev­e in February 2015, after Russia-backed separatist fighters encircled the city in the eastern Donbas region and forced the retreat. It was a stunning defeat. Ukrainians were livid, and they blamed the country’s leadership – Petro Poroshenko was president then – and the military commanders in...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens­kyy got a ride in a U.S. government jet, a red-carpet welcome at the White House and more than a dozen standing ovations from members of Congress – plus nearly $2 billion in new weapons – including a Patriot air-defense system, which Ukraine’s government hopes to use in defending its battered power...