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Several cities in Ukraine were targeted by Russian strikes on Thursday.
The damage to the electricity network, already undermined, is "significant", judges the operator Ukrenergo.
Ukraine claims to have shot down 54 of the 69 Russian missiles that targeted it on Thursday.
Minsk says it shot down a Ukrainian missile over Belarus.
kyiv "does not rule out a deliberate provocation" by Russia.
Moscow will achieve its objectives by dint of "patience", assured Sergei Lavrov, the head of Russian diplomacy.
Fighting near Bakhmout is still raging.
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Three victims of Russian strikes on Thursday
Ukraine denounced “massive” Russian missile strikes on Thursday.
They left "3 dead and 6 injured, including a child", Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi said Thursday evening.
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Bakhmout still at the center of the battle
The fighting continues to rage, with a particularly bloody battle for Bakhmut, an eastern city that Russia has been trying to conquer for months, and Kreminna, which Ukrainian forces are trying to retake.
Kherson, a major southern city from which Russian forces fled on November 11, is now the target of almost daily Russian strikes.
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New attack on kyiv
Residents of Ukraine's capital Kyiv were told to head to air-raid shelters early this morning as sirens sounded across the city, a day after Russia carried out the biggest air assault since the start of the war.
Shortly after 2 a.m., the Kyiv city government issued an alert on its Telegram channel and called on residents to go to shelters.
This drone attack targeted administrative infrastructure without causing any casualties.
At the same time, five suicide drones were shot down by anti-aircraft defense in the region's airspace.