Ukraine war live updates: Russian drone strike kills 3 in Odesa; Zelenskyy says Polish border crisis ‘utterly unacceptable'

This is CNBC's live blog tracking developments on the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine's military reported on Friday that a Russian drone attack on the southern Ukraine port city of Odesa killed three people.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has welcomed further support packages from allied countries, including Denmark, the U.K. and New Zealand.

Zelenskyy sharply criticized the ongoing farmer protests on the Ukraine-Poland border, however, describing the situation as "utterly unacceptable."

Nearly two years on from the day Russia first launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin's confidence appears to have been bolstered by recent territorial advances.

Russian forces on Thursday claimed to have taken the small settlement of Pobeda in Ukraine's Donetsk region, following up on its most significant win in nine months last week — the capture of Ukraine's longtime stronghold of Avdiivka. CNBC could not independently verify the claim.

Saturday marks the second anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war.

When Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, the stout resistance mounted by the country's armed forces and overwhelming Western support for Kyiv — along with some obvious military overreach by Moscow — raised hopes that Ukraine's outnumbered and outgunned army could beat back the invading forces.

Fast forward two years and hopes of a Ukrainian victory look diminished and increasingly hollow, as do Western pledges to support Ukraine "for as long as it takes."

As it stands, billions of dollars in American military aid remains unapproved, with further struggles likely ahead, as war and funding fatigue grow in the run up to the U.S. presidential election — a vote that could see an administration installed that's less