Ukraine war latest: We are not starting to lose this war - Zelensky - BBC News
Ukraine's president says although there are weapons shortages, "we are living creatures, we fight".
President Zelensky revealed today that he’s considering costly proposals to mobilise a further half a million people.

It comes as commanders report ammunition shortages across the long front line.

Packages of US and EU support to Ukraine - both military and economic - are stuck, probably until at least the New Year.

Zelensky was asked by the BBC if he thought there was a danger Ukraine was losing the war, which he flatly denied.

It’s his job to strike a defiant and positive tone - to try to rally his country.

But earlier this year there were big hopes of a breakthrough with an eagerly-anticipated Ukrainian counter-offensive that, in the end, hasn’t done much to change the front lines.

Asked about a reported rift between the president and his top general, Valery Zaluzhny, Zelensky insisted the two still had a good working relationship.

On the question of how long the war might take, the president said no-one could answer that.

But Ukraine, he said, would not be let down by its partners.

And what if Donald Trump returned to the White House after next year’s US presidential election?

Zelensky said he didn’t think US policy would change. But if it did, he acknowledged, this could have a significant impact on the war.