President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised the "forward movement" of his soldiers in the eastern and southern fronts of the conflict, close to the long-besieged city of Bakhmut. When NATO leaders gather next month, they will seek "to sustain and step up support for Ukraine," according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who also noted that Ukraine was making success in its counteroffensive against Russia.
While this was going on, Russian President Vladimir Putin said to a group of military bloggers that Kyiv's losses were "10 times bigger than Russia's" and that the Ukrainian counteroffensive was failing.
According to Putin, Ukraine also suffered considerable losses to its Western-provided military vehicles. Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry produced a video purportedly depicting seized Leopard tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles built in Germany and the United States, respectively.
During its counteroffensive, Ukraine "proved highly adept at masking their strategic aims with feints, disinformation, and by shuffling troops from one area to another, keeping Russian military planners guessing as to their next move," according to Alex Gatopoulos, defence editor for Al Jazeera.
A senior Russian commander named Major-General Sergei Goryachev was killed on Monday during a Ukrainian missile strike on the Zaporizhia front, according to a Ukrainian official supported by Russia.
At least 11 people were killed and 28 were injured in what Ukraine claimed was a "massive missile attack" by Russia on the city of Kryvyi Rih overnight.
According to Putin, the break at the Nova Kakhovka dam last week was the result of an alleged missile strike by Ukraine. Russia had control of the dam, and Ukraine accuses Moscow of being responsible for the catastrophe.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, announced that he will go to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station on Wednesday to evaluate the results of the dam break last week.
In a larger attempt to malign Ukraine and its Western allies, France claimed to have discovered a Russia-linked disinformation campaign that had impersonated its foreign ministry website, attacked other official websites, and taken over many French media outlets.
After it was discovered that alterations had been made to more than a dozen wire agency pieces reporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the editor-in-chief of New Zealand's main public service radio station apologised for broadcasting "pro-Kremlin garbage."
Putin asserted that Moscow has a "peace plan" for Ukraine and urged Western nations to cease providing Kiev with weaponry.
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