The US national security adviser denied placing restrictions on targeting Moscow's strategically important Crimea. US President Joe Biden said at a press conference at the end of his participation in the G16 summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima that he had agreed to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16 jets.
Russia and Ukraine gave conflicting accounts of the situation in Bachmut on Sunday, with Kiev saying it still controlled a small part of the besieged eastern city, while Moscow congratulated the Wagner Special Military Group and Russian forces for "liberating" the city.