Ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict escalates with airstrikes and alleged use of white phosphorus.

Russia launched another large-scale attack on Ukraine, injuring at least five people in Kyiv and causing explosions in other regions. The Wagner mercenary group appears to have abandoned plans to withdraw from Bakhmut, intensifying shelling in the area. Evacuations have been carried out near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which has become "potentially dangerous" due to the conflict. Nine Ukrainian explosives experts were killed in a single Russian attack, and a nationalist writer was injured in a car explosion. The number of Russian soldiers killed or injured since the start of the war stands at 193,430.