A storm in the Russian part of the Black Sea damaged the loading equipment of CPC, one of the world's largest oil pipelines that transports oil from Kazakhstan to world markets.

Ukrainian forces made progress in pushing back the Russian invaders, recapturing towns north and west of the capital and in central Ukraine

After the 44-day “Second Karabakh War” in 2020 in which Azerbaijan took back control over large swathes of territory in an around Karabakh held by Armenian forces for three decades, the leaders of the two countries began to make progress in moving towards a peace accord.