Russian forces on Sunday captured Lysychansk, the last city in the Luhansk region of the Donbas that was still under Ukrainian control.
Driving the news: Ukraine's Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security confirmed the news in a tweet later Sunday, noting that the armed force's General Staff had announced that "after heavy fighting" Ukraine's military forces had been forced to retreat from the city.
Colombia's outgoing President Iván Duque has announced that the country became the first in the Western Hemisphere to make 30% of its ocean territory a protected area, banning fishing and oil exploration.
Why it matters: Ocean degradation caused by overfishing, coral reef bleaching, pollution and other factors, along with rising sea levels and temperatures caused by climate change, increases the likelihood of death, flooding and a loss of food sources, scientists say.
The Palestinian Authority on Saturday gave the bullet the killed Palestinian American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to U.S. security coordinator Lt. Gen. Mike Fenzel, senior Israeli officials told Axios.
Driving the news: The Palestinian attorney general told Al Jazeera that the Palestinian Authority decided to hand over the bullet to the U.S. in order to do a ballistics test to see if it matches the guns that were used by Israeli soldiers on May 11 in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where Abu Akleh was killed.
The Israeli military said Saturday it shot down three Hezbollah drones that were headed towards the Karish gas rig in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Why it matters: U.S. energy envoy Amos Hochstein is currently mediating between Israel and Lebanon on a deal to settle the maritime border dispute between the countries.
