The Cabinet Office announces that eight British towns will become cities as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.Syrian state media says that Israeli airstrikes have killed three soldiers close to Damascus.Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during the Syrian civil war.Arab–Israeli conflict, Syrian civil war.
Authorities say that twelve people were killed in the offensive and that over 60 houses were destroyed. Ukraine says that it has repelled a Russian advance on the cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in Luhansk Oblast.Russia says that its forces have seized the Azovstal steel plant after the last remaining Ukrainian troops surrender.Ukraine's chief military command orders all remaining troops in the Azovstal steel plant to stop defending Mariupol.
