Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine early Monday, as Russia continued to bombard the country from above ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive. No casualties have been recorded so far in Monday’s attacks, according to early reports from city officials, in what was the 15th nightly air raid this month.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
Ukrainians fighting outside Bakhmut see Russian mercenaries withdrawing: Ukrainian soldiers say they are seeing signs that Russian mercenaries are pulling out of the recently captured city of Bakhmut. That could signal a shift in command, with Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s Wagner Group — which spearheaded a costly battle to occupy the city — handing over the responsibility of holding on to it to Russia’s regular military command, report Adam Taylor, Anastacia Galouchka and Heidi Levine.
“The Wagner guys have left and the [regular Russians] have come in,” said a 26-year-old commander, who asked to be identified only by his call sign, Chichen.
