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Russia unleashed another massive missile strike against Ukraine on Saturday, the Orthodox New Year's Day, killing and injuring civilians and causing power outages.
To face the Russian armada, kyiv has again called on its Western allies to provide it with more weapons and high-performance military equipment.
The United Kingdom will supply Ukraine with Challenger 2 tanks, the first Western-made heavy armored vehicles.
Ukraine still claims to control the city of Soledar, which Moscow claims to have taken after fierce fighting.
Turkey pleads for “localized ceasefires”.
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Energy production facilities affected
“Emergency cuts have been decided in most regions,” Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galouchchenko announced on Saturday evening.
Russian strikes hit the country's power generation facilities, including in the Kharkiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, Vinnytsia and kyiv regions.
The operator Ukrenergo, for its part, said it was working to “eliminate the consequences” of this “twelfth massive missile attack on the energy sector in Ukraine”.
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“The world must stop this evil”
“Is it possible to stop the Russian terror?
Yes it's possible.
Can we do it other than on the battlefield in Ukraine?
Unfortunately, no,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commented last night.
"The world must stop this evil," he implored.
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Survivors from the rubble
Rescuers are working in the rubble of the bombed building.
The head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, Valentyn Reznichenko, reports early Sunday morning that they have so far managed to extract 38 survivors from the debris.
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64 dead in Dnipro
The latest death toll in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine, shows at least 14 people killed, including a 15-year-old girl, and 64 injured in the bombardment of a nine-storey building on Saturday, including several apartments are no more than smoking rubble.
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