Drones have only slightly damaged several buildings in the Russian capital. The Ukrainian government has denied the authorship attributed to it by the Kremlin.

One person has been killed in a new Russian bombing of Kiev. South Africa's opposition calls for Putin to be arrested if he visits country for BRICS summit. Belarus conducts exercises with Russian Iskander-M nuclear-capable missile system.. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accuses West of "supporting genocide in Ukraine" by backing Ukrainian President Volmyr Zelensky's peace plan.