Ukraine

• An agitating Russian general seemed to threaten a major nuclear disaster at the Zaporizhzhia plant: he said his Russian garrison that controls the plant has mined it and it "there will be either Russian land or a scorched desert." Ukrainians continue to operate the plant - Ukraine says they're doing so "at gunpoint."
• Ukraine claimed explosions that killed at least one person and confused Russian officials at Russia's Saki Air Base in western Crimea, which was previously thought to be safely out of the range of any weapons in Ukraine's arsenal.
• Ukraine said the attack involved local partisan resistance forces, which is a playbook Ukraine has used for other attacks deep in Russian-held territory in Kherson. Russian officials blamed stockpiled ordnance for the explosion, but didn't entertain the idea that pro-Ukrainian or Ukrainian forces may have ignited it.
• Meanwhile, after all the trouble to secure a deal to allow Ukrainian agriculture exports to resume, a buyer in Lebanon rejected the first export shipment to leave Odessa since the war began, citing a five-month delay in its delivery. The shipper is trying to find a new buyer.

Russia

• Russia declared it would "temporarily" suspend U.S. inspections of its nuclear stockpile under the New START treaty - the only standing nuclear agreement between the U.S. and Russia - and blamed Western sanctions.

• Omar Khalid Khurasani, a senior leader of Pakistani Taliban faction Jamaat ul Ahrar, was reportedly killed in a roadside bombing in eastern Pakistan - although his death has been falsely reported twice before.

• Pres. AMLO outlined plans to expand the Mexican military's role by executive decree, since his party doesn't have the super-majority it would need to guarantee passage. AMLO would like to bring the national guard under the Defense Ministry's control so it can't be disbanded when he leaves office.
• The Biden administration said it will end the Trump-era "remain in Mexico" program (officially the Migrant Protection Protocols) in a "quick and orderly manner," after getting Supreme Court approval to scrap it. The 2019 policy forced non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their U.S. court dates.

• Iran said it had settled an import order with cryptocurrency for the first time. Iran didn't confirm which cryptocurrency or platform it used for the $10 million order, but the U.S. Treasury just sanctioned Ethereum-based Tornado Cash - so that's a good guess.

• Guinea's junta dissolved and banned the main opposition movement, the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC, en français). The FNDC was a driving force in protests against former president Alpha Conde before the army ousted him last year; now it's irked the junta by agitating for fresh protests that were due to start next week.