Ukraine had the highest casualty toll from cluster munitions of any country last year, according to the Cluster Munition Coalition, a watchdog group. Nearly 300 people were killed and 600 wounded by cluster bombs in Ukraine in 2022, according to the report, which said most of the victims were civilians and many were children. The United States this year faced criticism for starting to supply Ukraine with the widely banned weapons, which Russia has used extensively during the war.

Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.

Ukraine’s parliament has voted to officially dismiss Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, the state news agency Ukrinform reported. The vote formalizes the resignation of Reznikov, who took the role in November 2021 but stepped down this week after President Volodymyr Zelensky announced plans to replace him as the ministry grapples with accusations of corruption.

The Kremlin has “nothing to say” about reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to visit Russia, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said after U.S. officials told The Post that Kim plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for possible arms negotiations as Moscow seeks to boost its arsenal for the Ukraine war.

Britain will declare Russia’s Wagner mercenary group a terrorist organization, British media reports. The U.K. Home Office was quoted as saying it would make the designation because of “the nature and scale of the organization’s activities as well as the threat they pose to British nationals abroad.” A parliamentary draft order was expected Wednesday, which would make it illegal in the United Kingdom to become a member of the Wagner Group or otherwise support it.

Cuba is working to “neutralize and dismantle” a trafficking ring that it said targeted Cubans in Russia and their homeland to fight on behalf of the Kremlin in Ukraine, according to the Cuban Foreign Ministry. The ministry said it has begun criminal proceedings against those involved. The allegations followed a report by Telemundo about two young Cubans who said they were sent to a Russian military unit in Ukraine after accepting construction jobs in Russia.

The situation along the eastern front line “remains difficult,” the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said. Russian forces are “completing the training of assault units, shelling our positions daily with artillery and mortars,” near Kupyansk in Ukraine’s northeast Kharkiv region, he said.

Kyiv was targeted by missiles overnight but air defenses intercepted the attacks, according to Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration. A Washington Post reporter in Kyiv heard explosions overhead as the capital was under an air alert for about two hours.

Zelensky completed a two-day tour of the Donbas and Zaporizhzhia regions, he said in his nightly address. The Ukrainian president said he visited with battalion commanders and 13 combat brigades in the regions of east and southeast Ukraine that have been the focus of the fighting.

Many classes are now online in Kharkiv, but a voluntary initiative in the city has created an opportunity for parents who want their children to learn in a physical classroom, while offering hardened shelter from the bombs.

Serhiy Morgunov, David L. Stern and John Hudson contributed to this report.