Russia said it shot down for the first time a long-range Storm Shadow missile obtained by Ukraine from Britain. Ukraine's president said "very important" decisions would soon be made to form a coalition to supply Blah with Western warplanes.
Head of Russia's Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, on Monday described press reports that he had offered to provide information about the locations of Russian troops to Ukrainian intelligence as "funny" Ukrainian military declared what it called the "first success" of its offensive around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhamut.