Deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said that "
more than seven million Ukrainian users were left without electricity
due to today's barrage of rocket attacks".
Tymoshenko said that "15 Ukrainian energy plants were damaged during the Russian attacks".
Cnn reports it.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky has warned Ukrainians they could face more Russian missile attacks today,
but he promised that the country will survive.
And that Russia "will not achieve its goals".
In a video shared on Telegram, Zelensky warned Ukrainians to stay in shelters for rocket attacks that cut off energy supplies in many places…We are working, we will restore everything, we will survive.
” Russia responds to powerful speech by Zelensky at the G20 with a new missile attack.
Does anyone seriously think that the Kremlin really wants peace?
He wants obedience.
But in the end, terrorists always lose,” Andriy Yermak
, the head of the Ukrainian president's office
, tweeted.
The spokesman of the Air Force command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuriy Ignat said today, 'the Russian invaders launched a hundred missiles against Ukraine, thus surpassing the massive missile attack of October 10, when the invaders launched 84 missiles against Ukraine'.
Ukrainska Pravda writes it.
"This is a massive missile attack-he said-Critical infrastructure is their first target. But, unfortunately, the missiles also hit residential buildings."
Russian missile attacks, as well as in Kiev, also in
the region of Chernihiv and Mykolaiv,
report the Ukrainian authorities as reported by UNIAN.
"Stay in shelters or in a safe place," announced Vyacheslav Chaus, head of Chernihiv oblast while Mykolayiv head Vitaly Kim announced a wave of Russian missile attacks in the region.
A raid hit another "multi-story" building in Kiev, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, updating the situation.
Explosions and raids were also reported in Lviv and Kharkiv, according to local authorities, urging residents to go to shelters.
There is at least one dead in Kiev,
according to
Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko on Telegram, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda.
At least half of the citizens were left without electricity due to the Russian attacks due
to emergency blackouts
, the mayor of Kiev later announced on Telegram.
The blackout "is a necessary step to balance the power system and avoid equipment breakdowns," the mayor said.
Several regions of Ukraine have experienced power outages after new Russian raids
.
In Lviv, "critical energy infrastructure" was hit, with the interruption of electricity and mobile phone signals, Governor Maksym Kozytskyi announced on Telegram.
The mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov also spoke of damage to "critical infrastructure".
"At the moment there is no information on the victims. Due to the damage to the structure, there are problems with the electricity supply. Electric transport on the ground, the subway, has been interrupted".
"The United States strongly condemns Russia's latest missile attacks against Ukraine, which appear to have hit residential buildings in Kiev and other sites across the country," US Security Advisor Jake Sullivan wrote in a statement, stressing that while " leaders meet at G20 Russia continues to threaten lives and destroy critical infrastructure for Ukraine".
"The United States and its allies will continue to supply Kiev with what it needs to defend itself, including air defense systems. We will stand by Ukraine as long as necessary," Sullivan reiterated.
Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky,
in his speech at the G20,
had said that Russia's war "must end now"
but also ruled out a
third "Minsk agreement"
, which refers to the two failed ceasefire agreements between Kiev and Moscow on the status of the eastern region of Donbas.
A point on which
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov
replied, seeing in the refusal to 'Minsk 3' the confirmation of Kiev's reluctance to negotiate.
"Russia continues to pursue its objectives in the military operation in Ukraine because Kiev refuses negotiations," he said quoted by Tass.
Even Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov
he rejected the Ukrainian proposals, calling them "unrealistic and inadequate".
The Russian foreign minister, who remained in the room while the Kiev leader spoke, however specified that Russia wants to see "concrete facts, not words" on the influence exerted by the West on Zelensky so that he agrees to negotiate, added Lavrov.
"Other countries are increasingly convinced that the conflict in Ukraine was
provoked by Washington
" - he said in his speech - As for the Ukrainian issue, both the United States and all its allies have been quite aggressive during the discussions of today, accusing Russia of, as they say, unprovoked aggression against Ukraine.
But other countries are convinced that the aggression was caused by them".
Kremlin, UN resolution on Ukraine formalizes theft
The resolution approved yesterday by the UN General Assembly, according to which Russia must compensate Ukraine for the damage caused in the invasion ordered by Putin, was criticized by the Kremlin, which he called it "the formalization of a theft", reports the Interfax agency.
"Of course - said Putin's spokesman Dmitri Peskov - the organizers of this process are trying to complete the theft of our overseas reserves, which have been blocked in an absolutely illegal way. In fact, (this is) the formalization of a theft via the United Nations platform".
EU, Ukraine has recovered 50% of the territories occupied by Russia
"Ukraine has already recovered 50% of the territories occupied by Russia since 24 February".
This was stated by the EU high representative for foreign policy, Josep Borrell, in a press conference at the end of the Defense Council which was also attended by the Ukrainian defense minister, Andriy Zahorodniuk, and the NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg.
"On the eastern and southern fronts, the equipment supplied by the EU and the US to the Ukrainian armed forces is proving to be extraordinarily useful", he added, in particular "the air defense systems", capable of "making a difference".