Russian troops shelled Kherson with a Grad launcher. At least five civilians were killed.

Vladimir Putin, in his message to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, accused the West: “It was they who started the war. And we used force and are using it to stop it!”
Yevgeny Prigozhin said that the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense is seeking to destroy the Wagner PMC and equated this to treason. According to him, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov prohibited helping PMCs with transport, ammunition and even sapper shovels.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case against a military doctor who refused to participate in hostilities in Ukraine.

US President Joe Biden arrived in Kyiv. The Pentagon announced the allocation of another $460 million to help Ukraine.

During the years of the second Russian-Chechen armed conflict, thousands and thousands of people were kidnapped and disappeared into obscurity. If for some of them relatives have guesses and suspicions that they were taken away on some, albeit often dubious, basis, then why were others kidnapped? This remains a mystery to this day. Death squads are behind many of these crimes.

Heavy fighting for Bakhmut continues. Russian media report the advance of the Wagner PMC north of Bakhmut in the village of Paraskovievka. Ukrainian sources claim that southwest of Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces managed to push back Russian troops in the area of ​​the village of Ivanovskoye.

Wagner PMC mercenaries complain about the lack of ammunition near Bakhmut.

The Russian army fired at an ambulance station in the city of Berislav, Kherson region.