At night, Russian troops launched a missile attack on Zaporozhye. Drones are attacking the Lviv and Dnepropetrovsk regions.

The Russians continue to shell the Donetsk, Kherson and Nikolaev regions of Ukraine.

As a result of shelling in the Donetsk region, 2 civilians were killed and 8 were injured. Kherson was shelled, 1 person was wounded.
 

Russian occupiers shelled the city of Marganets, Dnepropetrovsk region, one of the shells hit a children's playground. As a result of the shelling, there were casualties and deaths - all civilians.

A Russian Su-27 fighter intercepted and damaged an American MQ-9 Reaper drone, after which it crashed in the waters of the Black Sea.

Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Renat Chubarov called on the Crimean people to prepare shelters. According to him, this year the army of Ukraine may launch an offensive to liberate the peninsula. 

Fierce fighting is taking place in the center of Bakhmut.
An air raid alert has been declared in the Odessa region.
A bill has been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation to raise the draft age - to 21-30 years instead of 18-27 years.

Since the beginning of the war Russia and Ukraine officially confirmed the death of at least 94 residents of Chechnya. The last of them is a native of Gudermessky district, employee of OMON "Akhmat-1" Askhab Yunaev.

Russian occupiers continue to try to reach the administrative border of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. To do this, they concentrated their efforts on conducting offensive operations in 5 directions: Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Shakhtarsky.

The Russian armed forces shelled Slavyansk and Konstantinovka in the Donetsk region, as well as three settlements in the Chernigov region.