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Following the resignation of the Prime Minister of Transnistria Aleksandr Martynov, Deputy Prime Minister Stanislav Kasap becomes acting head of government. Russian troops enter the strategic city of Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast with heavy street-to-street fighting underway. The Federal High Court in Yenagoa rules that former President Goodluck Jonathan is allowed to run in the next presidential election, stating that a 2018 amendment prohibiting vice presidents from serving more than one full-term upon succession did not apply to Jonathan.
Around 200 anti-government militants block a road in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan, which links the country to China. Some of the militants, armed with firearms and petrol bombs, later ambush a security convoy on the same road. Eight militants and one officer are killed, while 13 officers are injured and more than 70 militants are arrested. The Tajik interior ministry later say the attack was an attempt to “destabilise the social and political situation” in the region.
Ukraine’s chief military command orders all remaining troops in the Azovstal steel plant to stop defending Mariupol. Authorities say that twelve people were killed in the offensive and that over 60 houses were destroyed. Syrian state media says that Israeli airstrikes have killed three soldiers close to Damascus. Russia says that its forces have seized the Azovstal steel plant after the last remaining Ukrainian troops surrender. Ukraine says that it has repelled a Russian advance on the cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in Luhansk Oblast. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front announces it will release 4,028 Ethiopian prisoners of war as part of the Tigrayan peace process.
Aleksandr Rozenberg is sworn as new Prime Minister of Transnistria. Former Minister for Defence Peter Dutton is elected unopposed as Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and, by extension, Leader of the Opposition following former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s resignation. Former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is removed as Leader of the National Party of Australia in a leadership spill and replaced by his former Deputy and former Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia David Littleproud. As vote counting continues, the Australian Labor Party achieves a majority in the House of Representatives. An airstrike hits a tank filled with nitric acid in Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast, prompting the region’s governor to ask residents to remain inside bomb shelters due to the risk of exposure to toxic fumes.
Twenty-four people are killed and more than 60 injured in an attack by Anglophone rebels in Cameroon. A Yeti Airlines Twin Otter airplane goes missing with 22 people on board after going over high mountains in Nepal. A Cessna 182 takes off from Split, Croatia, and heads to Germany before disappearing from radar north from Rakovica. One person is killed and eleven others injured after a boat capsizes in Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado, United States; another is reported missing.
Lebanese voters head to the polls to elect a new session to Parliament. Ukraine says that its troops have pushed back Russian forces in a counter-offensive, reaching the border with Russia. Kharkiv governor Oleh Synyehubov confirms that Ukrainian forces have restored control of a border crossing with Russia in the region. Five buses and an armored personnel carrier evacuate several hundred soldiers from the Azovstal steel works following negotiations with the Russian Armed Forces. Preliminary counts show the Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies, who won in the previous election, losing seats while the Saudi-backed Lebanese Forces made gains.
