Ukrainians line up for water as Russia attacks target infrastructure
The Russian strike has left many without power and water in the Ukrainian capital. President Zelensky said he shot down most of the 55 Russian missiles.
Cody Godwin, Associated Press
Heavy fighting in Ukraine is concentrated in the east and south, but the Kyiv capital and surrounding areas in the north-central region are under another kind of attack – relying on suffering and chaos as a weapon. There is
A Russian attack that destroyed 40% of Ukraine’s power infrastructure forced Ukrainian power companies to announce rolling blackouts in six other neighboring regions, including Kyiv and Kharkov. Unscheduled emergency outages are also expected.
“We are doing everything to avoid this,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko told state media. We’re all going to die because we’re doing everything like… And how the future of the country and the future of each one of us is prepared for different situations.”
Power outages caused by Russian drones and missile attacks affected 16 provinces, forcing Kyiv officials to consider implementing large-scale evacuations. They plan to install about 1,000 heated shelters, which they say may not be enough for her three million people in the city. Average winter temperatures in Kyiv range from the late twenties to his early thirties.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the nation in his nightly video address on Sunday that about 4.5 million people had no electricity, saying: “We must get through this winter and come spring stronger than we are now.” rice field.
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The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been reconnected to the Ukrainian power grid, three days later due to fighting in the region that shut it down, forcing the use of emergency diesel generators to keep vital cooling systems running.
►Russian officials continue to evacuate the occupied southern city of Kherson and on Sunday sent phone messages warning residents to leave for the east bank in anticipation of major fighting with Ukrainian forces. is doing. Natalia Khmenyuk, a spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Southern Army, said the Russian forces were low profile but “very strong incursions”.
► The remaining 15,000 inhabitants of the eastern city of Bakmut have been living for months under constant shelling, which has intensified in recent weeks, without water and electricity, local media reported. I’m here.
Iran retracts its denials of providing drones to Russia, questioning other statements qualifying for the approval.
“We provided Russia with a limited number of drones months before the war in Ukraine,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amiravdrahian told reporters in Tehran on Saturday.
Amira Bdrahian added that Iran was unaware that Russia was attacking Ukraine with drones, saying, “It has been proven to us that Russia used Iranian drones in the war against Ukraine. If so, we would not be indifferent to this issue,” he added.
This contrasts with Iran’s militia, the Revolutionary Guard, which vaguely boasts of providing drones to major powers around the world.
Since last month, Russia has been engaged in a campaign to destroy Ukrainian power plants and other civilian targets, relying on detonation drones that cost as little as $20,000 per 50th of a cruise missile. Russia has rebranded its drones, but there is evidence that they are Iranian-made Shahed.
Both Russia and Iran, which claim to remain neutral in the war, have refused to ship unmanned aerial vehicles. The United States and its Western allies on the UN Security Council have called on Secretary-General António Guterres to investigate whether Russia used Iranian drones to attack civilians in Ukraine.
“The whole world will know that the Iranian regime is helping Russia prolong this war,” Zelensky said Sunday.
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who warned the Kremlin that the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine would have “devastating consequences” for Russia, is working with President Vladimir Putin’s aides to prevent the war from escalating. The secret talks have been escalating, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
The purpose of talks in recent months was not to negotiate a peace deal, but to maintain open lines of communication and reduce the risk of unconventional weapons being used in warfare, the paper said. .
Sullivan visited Kyiv on Friday to express America’s “unwavering and unflinching” support for Ukraine even after Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Russia may expel all military district commanders by the end of the year.
The latest person to be tossed aside is General Alexander Lapin, who appears to have been replaced as Chief of the Central Military District by Major General Alexander Rinkoff. According to the British Ministry of Defense.
The ministry said commanders of Russia’s eastern, southern and western military districts had already been replaced since the start of the invasion of Ukraine in February.
“These dismissals represent a pattern of accusations against senior commanders of the Russian military for failing to achieve Russian objectives on the battlefield,” the ministry said. ‘
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