Fresh wave of Russian attacks leaves most of Ukraine without power
Ukraine’s energy ministry said most electricity consumers were ‘cut off’ after the missile and drone strikes on Wednesday.
Ukraine’s energy ministry said most electricity consumers were ‘cut off’ after the missile and drone strikes on Wednesday.
It is feared that Russian forces are seeking to turn the cold and dark of the Ukrainian winter into a weapon by destroying key infrastructure.
The child’s mother and a doctor were pulled alive from the rubble after a rocket attack hit a maternity ward in the city of Vilniansk.
An energy company chief urged residents to stock up on warm clothes and blankets.
Rescue teams are searching for more victims under the rubble, Sakhalin governor Valery Limarenko wrote on Telegram.
Peter Colthup has been presented with the Dutch Liberation Medal and the Market Garden Medal by the Dutch Attaché.
Ukrenergo said outages could last for several hours with colder temperatures putting additional pressure on energy networks.
At least four people were killed and more than two dozen others wounded in drone and missile strikes around Ukraine.
Officials in the Poltava, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions urged residents to stay in bomb shelters amid the threat of missile strikes.
The Kremlin said the sanctions were being placed ‘in response to the anti-Russian course of the Irish government’.
A Ukrainian air force spokesman said Russia fired around 100 missiles. President Volodymyr Zelensky put the number at 85.
The barrage of strikes came as air raids alerts were issued across the country.
President Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainians still under occupation: ‘We don’t forget anyone.’
People awoke from a night of celebrating after the Kremlin announced its troops had withdrawn to the other side of the Dnieper from Kherson.
People across Ukraine awoke from celebrations that broke out after the Kremlin announced its troops had withdrawn to the other side of Dnieper River.