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A resident walks on Sunday in a flooded street after the Kakhovka Dam burst and unleashed floodwaters, in Kherson, Ukraine. Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Here's a look ahead and a roundup of key developments from the past week. What to watch Ukraine's counteroffensive to recapture territory from Russian forces is being closely watched. NATO's kicking off a two-week military exercise called Russia is celebrating Russia Day, with President Vladimir Putin saying at a " The White House had to reschedule a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House and other planned meetings because President Biden had a root canal. Rafael Mariano Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is Officials from Turkey and Sweden are due for talks this week on the Swedish bid to join NATO. NATO member states' defense chiefs will meet in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. A meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission is scheduled for Thursday. What happened last week Ukraine launched its much-awaited counteroffensive, hitting different points of Russia's defensive lines with newly NATO-supplied weaponry and Ukraine's Kakhovka Dam burst, flooding areas with homes and farms and leading to major potential environmental and food problems. Russia and Ukraine blame each other for the dam's destruction, while Ukraine's leader called for an international investigation. Seismic Another American was detained in Russia. A court in Moscow accused Michael Tra...