"Day 480 of Russia-Ukraine War: Latest Updates"

Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected a peace plan proposed by African leaders seeking to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, stating that Ukraine and its western allies started the conflict. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces are engaged in active moves to advance the counteroffensive in the south, while Russia continues to deny Ukrainian advances and inflict heavy losses on Kyiv's forces. Two people died after a Russian missile strike on a village in the Kharkiv region, and Russia confirmed the deployment of its first tranche of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.