Some buildings remain standing in Bakhmut, and the remaining residents still mill about the streets. But like Mariupol and other contested cities, it endured a long siege and spent weeks without water and power.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway, said in the interview that ‘there is no doubt that a full-fledged war is a possibility.’

Ukraine’s nuclear company Energoatom said in a statement that Russian forces occupying the plant have placed several Grad multiple rocket launchers near one of its six nuclear reactors.

A fire broke out at an airport in Russia’s southern Kursk region after a drone hit the facility, and an industrial plant 50 miles from the Ukrainian border was also targeted by drones, which missed a fuel depot at the site.

A survey, commissioned by the Kremlin, found that 55% of respondents backed peace talks with Ukraine while 25% wanted the war to go on. The report didn’t mention the margin of error.

The Russian Embassy in Washington insisted that Russian oil ‘will continue to be in demand’ and criticized the price limit as “’eshaping the basic principles of the functioning of free markets.’