Ukraine said in February a Russian drone had struck the protective shelter housing the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986. A fire at the site was quickly extinguished, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the time. Russia denied targeting the site.

Twenty-eight people at Camp Mystic — 25 campers, the camp's owner and two counselors — died in the July 4 floods when the Guadalupe River breached its banks.