Summary
That’s all for our live coverage of the war in Ukraine for today. In case you missed anything, here’s a quick rundown of all the latest developments.
US general and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Mark Milley has said Ukraine’s counteroffensive will be very difficult and achieving gains will take a long time. “This is going to take six, eight, 10 weeks. It’s going to be very long, and it’s going to be very, very bloody. And no one should have any illusions about any of that,” he said.
Vladimir Putin’s admission that the Wagner Group was funded by the Russian state could make it easier to try him for war crimes, experts in international law has said.
A 51-year-old man has been killed by shelling in Mala Tokmachka, a village near the frontline in the southeastern region of Zaporizhia, local officials said.
President Zelenskiy has said that a “serious threat” remains at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and that Russia is “technically ready” to provoke a localised explosion at the facility.
Two children have also been injured in Russian shelling of a residential area in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, according to the regional governor.
Last week’s mutiny by the Wagner Group serves as a “vivid reminder of the corrosive effect of Putin’s war on his own society and his own regime”, CIA Director William Burns has said.
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez has addressed the Ukrainian parliament after his country assumed the presidency of the European Union. He said that Ukraine would win the war against Russia and, in time, be granted access to the bloc.
Sánchez also announced that Spain had allocated €55m to support small and medium-sized businesses in Ukraine.
The number of Russian casualties since the start of the war now stands at more than 228,000, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence. The ministry also claimed Russia had lost 4,041 tanks, 7,863 armoured vehicles, and 3,519 drones.
Man killed by shelling in Zaporizhzhia
A 51-year-old man has been killed by shelling in the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia, according to the head of the local military administration.
In a post on Telegram, Yuriy Malashko said the shelling had hit the village of Mala Tokmachka, which he described as a “frontline community under merciless enemy fire”.
The village is about 25 miles east of the Dnipro River and immediately on the current border between Ukrainian- and Russian-controlled territory.
Malashko added that two people – a 40-year-old woman and a 39-year-old man – had been injured in the shelling and were receiving treatment.
He urged local to “take care and go to safe places!”
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