Wagner Group suffers losses in Bakhmut, role threatened.

The head of Russia's Wagner private military company claimed the capture of the east Ukraine town of Bakhmut "in a legal sense", saying his units had taken the main city administration building. Meanwhile, Russia's Foreign Ministry said the US was behind the pressure that Ukrainian authorities have been exerting on the Russian-aligned wing of the Orthodox Church in Kyiv. Additionally, a "massive attack" of Russian missiles killed six people on Sunday in residential areas of Kostyantynivka, near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine.