Hundreds of thousands of people in southern Ukraine do not have "normal access to drinking water" because of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday, as floodwaters from the surging Dnipro River inundated pipes that supply households.
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Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday that their troops had made advances near the city of Bakhmut, while Russian officials claimed that they had thwarted Ukrainian attacks elsewhere in eastern Ukraine. There has been no major change on the war’s front line despite a recent uptick in fighting.
President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus pardoned Sofia Sapega, a Russian woman who was arrested with her boyfriend, Roman Protasevich, an exiled blogger and antigovernment activist, after the dramatic forced landing of a flight in Minsk in 2021.