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.

The Kremlin claims Ukrainian drones have struck 2 air bases deep inside Russia.