"Russian Missile Strike Kills 8 in Kramatorsk, White House Condemns Attack"

Eight people have died and 56 others injured in a bombing at a pizza restaurant in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed to have intervened to protect Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, from a planned assassination by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Lukashenko offered the Wagner Group an abandoned military base in Belarus and welcomed their battlefield experience. Meanwhile, Ukraine has retaken 50 square miles from Russian forces in the south, but the counteroffensive is slower than desired due to extensive minefields. Lithuania's president arrived in Kyiv to discuss Ukraine's relations with NATO and the EU, and a UN report documented hundreds of arbitrary detentions by Russia in occupied Ukraine.