LIVE. Moscow wants control over private armies, but Wagner refuses – Atomic agency wants to check cooling water level Zaporizhia after dam burst | War Ukraine and Russia

Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive has begun. Attempts have already been made in several places to break through the Russian lines, and they seem to be succeeding. Meanwhile, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin says he refuses to sign the government contract that would see Moscow bring all Russian volunteer units under its command, while the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA wants to send observers to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to measure the level in the reservoir of the cooling water itself.