Kupyansk and Avdeevka came under shelling from the Russian side. Residential apartment buildings and a gas pipeline were damaged. There are no casualties.

The central media of Ukraine, referring to Western sources, reports about the growing strategic partnership of Yerevan with Moscow. It is noted that Armenia serves as one of the main channels for Russia to bypass Western sanctions. This includes the purchase of equipment for the Russian military industry. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

Russia has carried out dozens of air strikes with missiles and drones on Ukraine. There are dead.

The Novorossiysk Seaside District Court sentenced the former soldier, native of Dagestan Askhabal Alibekov (known in the network as «Wild Paratrooper») to one year and two months of the colony on the case of «discrediting» of the Russian army.

Russia launched missile attacks on the Donetsk and Odessa regions, killing 3 people. Shahed drones attacked Krivoy Rog.

An explosion occurred in Russian-occupied Ukrainian Melitopol in the Zaporozhye region. A police officer was injured.

Russian aviation launched a missile strike on Odessa, drones attacked Kyiv, Zhitomir and other regions, there were deaths.

The Russian authorities replace the concepts, calling wars different terms. «The war in Ukraine is called a "special military operation", - said Alexander Cherkasov, member of the CDI «Memorial». - The first war in Chechnya was described by the federal authorities as "the operation to disarm illegal gangs and restore constitutional order", and the second as a "counter-terrorism operation". The war with Georgia in 2008 is a "peace enforcement operation"».

The head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Refat Chubarov shared a video of Crimean Tatar soldiers fighting in Bakhmut - the hottest point of the war in Ukraine.