Wagner and Russian Army launch fresh assault on Bakhmut.

Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, suggested in an online post that Moscow declare it had met the goals of its “special military operation” and put an end to the war in Ukraine. In the United States, the federal government charged Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman suspected of having leaked classified military intelligence, with retention and transmission of national defense information and willful retention of classified documents. Fierce battles are continuing in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Bakhmut and Maryinka, and Russia carried out multiple air and missile strikes against Ukrainian civilian and military targets. China does not intend to sell weapons to Russia, and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed support for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s proposal to end the fighting in Ukraine.