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- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Bakhmut
- Heavy street fighting takes place between Russian and Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast. The city's deputy mayor Oleksandr Marchenko says "not a single building" has remained untouched by fighting, and that the city is "almost destroyed". (BBC News)
- In a rare high-level visit to the Donbas, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is filmed inspecting troops near Bakhmut. (The Guardian)
- Battle of Bakhmut
- Kivu conflict
- Burundi deploys 100 troops to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to help the country fight insurgencies by militias, including M23. (AFP via The East African)
Disasters and accidents
- Six people are killed and several others are injured after a fire and subsequent explosion in an oxygen plant in Sitakunda, Bangladesh. (Reuters)
- Twenty-one people are injured when a bus crashes in Corps, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. (AP)
- A Norfolk Southern train derails in Clark County, Ohio and residents are advised to shelter in place. The derailment comes just over one month following the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials in East Palestine, Ohio, however, no hazardous materials are known to be involved in the Clark County derailment. ((WDTN)
Law and crime
- Terrorism in the Philippines
- Six people, including Negros Oriental governor Roel Degamo, are killed by unknown gunmen in his home in Pamplona, Philippines. (AFP via The Bangkok Post)
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