Ukraine's ongoing battles and threats: A news roundup.

Ukrainian armed forces have advanced nearly a mile near Bakhmut in the first gains of its long-awaited counteroffensive. Reports on the ground in the past few days have described three separate offensive actions in the nation’s eastern regions. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed to sending $373 million US in new military aid and $7.5 million in humanitarian aid to help with the response to the floods that followed the collapse of a dam on the Dnieper River. Russian forces continued launching missiles and drones across the country Saturday, killing three civilians in Odesa while also hitting a military air field in Poltava.