Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he stopped Russian President Vladimir Putin from making a “harsh decision” against Yevgeniy Prigozhin, suggesting that Putin planned to kill the Wagner mercenary group chief for leading a rebellion, The Washington Post reported. Lukashenko’s version of events could not be verified.

In Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, the death toll from a Russian missile strike that devastated a popular pizza restaurant has risen to ten, with at least 61 wounded, Ukraine’s national police said. The dead include three children, they said.