Where does RUssia expect UKRaine’s counterattack? Overview of defensive lines; The Offensive Before the Offensive: UKR Strikes Behind RU Lines; UKR reports new advances near eastern city of Bakhmut; Damaged Patriot missile system is already repaired, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

UKRaine air defense successfully fights off ‘exceptional’ RUssian missile attack on Kyiv; UKR reports gains around Bakhmut; UKR's military regains 20 square kilometers near Bakhmut; Most brutal fights near Bakhmut and Marinka; three RU electronic warfare stations and two munitions warehouses destroyed, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

‘Bakhmut Trap’: UKRainian Advances Vindicate Defense of Besieged City; UKR Troops Gird for Counteroffensive They Hope Will End War; UKR Forces Advance On Bakhmut Flanks Despite RUssia's 'fierce resistance'; UKR Hails Gains in Bakhmut, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

RUssian Forces Make Unsuccessful Attempts to Advance on Kupiansk and Marinka Fronts; UKRainian Military Achieves Success on Flanks in Bakhmut; UKR Forces Capture over 10+ Positions Near Bakhmut; UKR Air Force Downs 25 Ru Drones, 3 Missiles Overnight, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

RUssia Tried to Destroy US Patriot System in UKRaine — but Moscow’s Plan Blew Up; 4 RU Aircraft Shot Down ‘simultaneously’ Near UKR Border; UKR Makes Localized Advances Near Bakhmut; UKR Forces Not Only Defend Their Positions but Launch Offensive Operations on Bakhmut Front, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

UKRaine Regains Ground Around Bakhmut as Fighting Rages; Putin Condemns Western Support for UKR as RUssia’s Battlefield Losses Mount; RU Brigade Flees Bakhmut; Wagner Group Leader Gives RU Defenсe Minister an Ultimatum, Says RU Army is Fleeing, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

UKRaine’s Counteroffensive Choice Between the Bold and the Very Bold; UKR Soldiers in Bakhmut Withstand RUssian Phosphorus Attack; UKR Military Says All 35 Drones RU Launched Overnight Destroyed; Putin Brutally Mocked Over Lone Vintage Tank in RU’s Victory Day Parade, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

UKRaine Downs Dozens of Drones Over Kyiv in RUssian Air Assault; Some Western Officials Asked UKR Not to Liberate Crimea; Wagner Mercenary Group a ‘shadow of what it once was’; Belarusian Battalion Recaptures Trenches From RUs on Donbas 'road of life', LIVE UPDATES and MORE

RUssians Change Priority of Capturing Bakhmut to Prepare for Counteroffensive; UKRaine Uses US Patriot Defense Systems to Shoot Down RU Hypersonic Missile; Video: RU Attacks Bakhmut With Phosphorous Munitions; A Soldier’s View of the Battlefields and Trenches of Bakhmut, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

US-Made Patriot Guided Missile Systems Arrive in Ukraine; 'Complex measures' of Planned Counteroffensive 'already underway' in the East; UKR's Air Force: 10 out of 12 Iranian-Made Shahed Drones Downed Over Odesa Oblast; Patriot systems arrive from the U.S., Germany, and the Netherlands, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

Ukraine's Christmas Wish List: What is Needed to End the War Quickly; US Sending Patriots to Ukraine Under $1.85B Aid Package; Ukraine Repels Russian Attacks Near 25 Settlements; Russian Ammunition Storage Points in Kadiivka Detonate for More than 20 Hours, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

The Diary of a Scout: The First 100 Days of War; Ukraine Needs Patriot Batteries for Better Missile Defense; Raytheon Reveals US Plan To Remove Anti-Air Systems From Gulf For Ukraine; Ukraine's military repels Russian advances near 14 settlements in Donetsk, Luhansk regions, LIVE UPDATES and MORE