UK to blacklist Russia's Wagner Group as terrorist organization.

The French judiciary has launched a war crime investigation into the death of AFP journalist Arman Soldin, who was killed in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. The reporter's death brings to at least 11 the number of journalists, fixers or drivers for media teams killed since Russia invaded Ukraine more than a year ago, according to advocacy groups. Meanwhile, a senior Ukrainian military official said Russian forces had dropped back from some areas near the battleground city of Bakhmut after limited counter attacks by Kyiv's forces.