Ukraine

• Russia launched another wave of missiles at Ukrainian infrastructure targets - including the Zaporizhia nuclear plant, which Ukrainian officials say was cut off from the power grid as a result of the attacks and is now relying on diesel generators. It's the sixth time since the war began that Zaporihzhia has been knocked off the grid.
• Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said his forces have captured all the districts east of the river in Bakhmut, and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg predicted the rest of Bakhmut could fall to Russia in the coming days.
• Analysts think Bakhmut will be a pyrrhic victory for Russia: Russia incurred such heavy losses and used so much of its available munitions there that it may not have the human and military resources to broaden its offensive after winning Bakhmut.

• Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, the governor of Balkh province, was killed by a suicide bomber in his office in Mazar-i-Sharif. Islamic State (IS) hasn't claimed the attack yet but was probably responsible for it: IS frequently targets Taliban officials like Muzammil.

• Tropical Cyclone Freddy looks poised to strike Mozambique for a second time two weeks after the first. Freddy already set a record for the highest "accumulated cyclone energy" in the Southern Hemisphere; it's probably also the longest-lasting cyclone ever logged (though that record has yet to be confirmed).

• Twenty-one Republican state Attorneys General signed a letter calling for Mexico's drug cartels to be declared Foreign Terrorist Organizations. In reality, the designation wouldn't change anything: all the sanctions and travel bans it would bring can already be applied now without the designation.

• A group of armed men tried to steal a $32.5 million cash shipment at an airport in Santiago, Chile - but failed. Similar heists at the same airport succeeded in 2017 ($18 million) and 2020 ($15 million).