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60 Minutes found the U.S. is financing more than weapons in Ukraine. The government is buying seeds for farmers, paying the salaries of 57,000 first responders and subsidizing small businesses.

STORY: Ukraine's special forces claimed on Monday, they had killed the commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, during an attack last week on the fleet’s headquarters in the Crimean port of Sevastopol. The Russian Defence Ministry did not immediately confirm or deny to Reuters, whether Admiral Viktor Sokolov had been killed in the attack. A video obtained by Reuters shows Friday's attack. The Ukrainian military said it was targeting a meeting of the Russian Navy's leadership in Crimea, which Russia seized and annexed in 2014. On the Telegram messaging app, Ukraine’s special forces said: "After the strike on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, 34 officers died, including the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Another 105 occupiers were wounded. The headquarters building cannot be restored.” Satellite images from Friday showed smoke billowing from the building in Sevastopol's city centre. It was not immediately clear how Ukraine’s forces counted the dead and wounded in the attack. Both sides have at times inflated claims of enemy losses since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Russian-installed Crimean officials confirmed the Ukrainian attack on Friday, saying at least one missile struck the fleet headquarters. Kyiv has stepped up attacks in the Black Sea and Crimea, as Ukrainian forces press on with a nearly four-month-old counteroffensive to take back Russian-occupied territory.

Ukrainian forces are making small but strategic gains on the battlefield, and launched a major missile attack on a Russian base in Crimea.

On assignment for this week's "60 Minutes," CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams went to Ukraine to see how American tax dollars are being spent -- and to find out if the weapons and money already provided have gone where they were supposed to go. Previewing her story, she talked about the corruption crackdown that's happened over the past year in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden gave Volodymyr Zelenskyy a red-carpet arrival on the White House South lawn as the President of Ukraine continues to shore up support in Washington. The Biden administration announced $325 million in assistance while an additional $24 billion in aid is still hanging in the balance. (Sept 21)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is delivering an upbeat message to U.S. lawmakers in a whirlwind visit to Washington. But Zelenskyy was facing Republicans who are now questioning the flow of American dollars that for 19 months has helped keep his troops in the fight against Russian forces.

President Biden welcomed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House after both leaders spoke earlier in the week at the U.N. General Assembly.