US to send additional assistance to Ukraine this week

The United States is to send a new package of assistance to Ukraine this week, the White House has said.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby also said Ukraine is still fighting hard for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and the battle is not over.

Ukrainians have not been repulsed from the city, he added.

Earlier, we reported that Russia's paramilitary Wagner Group claimed it had "legal" control of Bakhmut. 

Sky News has been analysing the evidence for that claim (14.49 post).