(Reuters) - Russia unleashed a fresh volley of&nbsp;missiles on&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;overnight, killing two people, setting off huge blazes and damaging dozens of homes and other buildings in Pavlohrad, city and&nbsp;railway&nbsp;hub&nbsp;in the east.
FIGHTING
* The White House estimated that&nbsp;Russia's&nbsp;military has suffered 100,000 casualties in the last five months in fighting against&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;in the Bakhmut region, including 20,000 deaths, half from the Wagner mercenary group.
* A Ukrainian general said&nbsp;Russian&nbsp;troops had been pushed out of some parts of the battlefield city of Bakhmut but conditions there were difficult.
* Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin renewed his appeal to&nbsp;Russia's&nbsp;defence ministry to increase ammunition shipments to his fighters in Bakhmut.
* An explosion derailed a freight train in&nbsp;Russia's&nbsp;Bryansk region which borders&nbsp;Ukraine, the governor said.
DIPLOMACY
* The Vatican is involved in a peace mission to try to end the conflict between Russia and&nbsp;Ukraine, Pope Francis said.
GRAIN
* There is no progress in removing obstacles to&nbsp;Russian&nbsp;grain and fertiliser exports caused by the West's "sanction strategy", a senior&nbsp;Russian&nbsp;diplomat in Washington said on Tuesday, ahead of the expiry of a dealsafeuarding Ukrainian grain exports.
*&nbsp;Ukraine's grain exports totalled 3.62 million tonnes in April compared with 923,000 tonnes in April 2022 when all the country's Black Sea ports were blocked due to the&nbsp;Russian&nbsp;invasion.
QUOTES
* If the Wagner group is to die, it will be "not at the hands of the Ukrainian army or NATO but because of our domestic bastard-bureaucrats" - Yevgeny Prigozhin.
* "The explosion wave twisted the door. Had we stayed for five more seconds, we would have been trapped here ... My child will need psychological help, it is horrible" - Pavlohrad resident Viktoriia Suprun.
* "Russia's&nbsp;attempt at an offensive in the Donbas largely through Bakhmut has failed" - White House national security spokesperson John Kirby.
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(Compiled by Reuters editors)

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