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The latest developments in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. All times EDT.

2:20 a.m.: U.S. think tank the Institute for the Study of War said in its latest assessment of the Ukraine conflict that Ground fighting continued north of Kharkiv City with no significant change in control of terrain. Additionally, Russian forces attempted a limited ground assault in Kherson Oblast.

1:11 a.m.: The Associated Press reported the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Russia intends to dismantle Ukraine “and dissolve it from the world map entirely.”

Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the U.N. Security Council that the United States is seeing growing signs that Russia is laying the groundwork to attempt to annex all of the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, including by installing “illegitimate proxy officials in Russian-held areas, with the goal of holding sham referenda or decree to join Russia.”

12:02 a.m.: Russian strikes kill five people and wound seven more at a bus stop in the heavily bombed city of Mykolaiv, the regional governor Vitaliy Kim says on social media, Agence France-Presse reported.

Mykolaiv, near the Black Sea, has been shelled daily for weeks. It is the largest Ukrainian-controlled urban hub near the frontlines in the southern Kherson region, where Kyiv’s army has launched a counter-offensive to regain control of the economically and strategically important coastal territory.

In the eastern Donetsk region, the current focus of Russia’s fighting, governor Pavlo Kyrylenko says Moscow’s forces have killed eight people and wounded 19 more in attacks in recent days.

Some information in this report came from Agence France-Presse.