North Korea conducted the second successful test of its new Hwaseong-18 solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Reported Ukrainian strikes on Russian Borisoglebsk-2 electronic warfare(EW) system & Grad MLRS in Zaporizhzhia direction.

The drone was not able to record the losses closely.

Russian MoD:

Türkiye continues contacts with Russia on the issue of extending grain deal.

Russia’s UAC handed over a new batch of Su-35S fighter jets to Russian MoD.

Russian Wagner PMC seems to have started redeployment from field camps.

A long convoy without heavy equipment is moving along the M4 highway towards Moscow, accompanied by police.

There are buses with Belarusian numbers in the convoy, which may indirectly indicate the destination.

WSJ:

Russia detained several military officers, hours after Wagner mutiny.

General Sergei Surovikin was among them, and is still being held.

A box of Chinese 7.62×54mm rounds allegedly found by Ukrainian soldiers in the Russian trenches near Bakhmut produced in 1967.

Possible that these Chinese ammunition were previously delivered to Iran, from where they are now delivered from warehouses to Russia.

#BREAKING Ukrainian General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi confirms Ukraine received cluster munitions from the U.S.

“They can fundamentally change the situation at the front, but we haven’t used them yet.”

New Russian LPR Army guns:

Simonov (SKS) self-loading carbine (1949)
Degtyarev light machine gun (1945)
Sudayev (PPS) submachine gun (1943)
Shpagin (PPSh-41) submachine gun (1941)
Tokarev (SVT-40) self-loading rifle (1939)
Lend-Lease Thompson submachine gun (version 1938)
Mosin–Nagant rifle with needle bayonet (mod. 1891)

Russian strike on Slovenian-supplied Ukrainian M-55S tank with Krasnopol high-precision artillery shell in Kreminna region, Donetsk.

Biden:

Ukraine will join NATO, but not at the moment of conflict. Otherwise it would lead to the WW III.

Ukraine conflict won't drag on for years.

Russia will not be able to wage war forever, it will not have enough resources and capabilities, Putin has already lost.

Putin:

Ukraine in NATO will create a security threat for the Russian Federation and will not increase the security of Ukraine itself.

Deliveries of new weapons to Kyiv will only aggravate the situation for Ukraine, will inflame the conflict.

Ukraine has the right to ensure security, but it should not worsen the security of other countries.

Russia is not opposed to discussing security guarantees for Ukraine.

Putin:

Ukrainians themselves do not want to get into Western tanks, as they burn more than the Soviet ones.

Putin:

Russia will think about extending the grain deal, there are still a couple of days.

Nothing had been done for Russia within the framework of the grain deal - a one-sided game.

Russia will extend the grain deal only when the promises made to it are fulfilled.

Pentagon confirms the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine:

They are already there.