30% of Ukraine's power stations destroyed by strikes; Zelenskyy urges troops to take more Russian prisoners - CNBC

The Ukrainian authoritative successful complaint of Kyiv's subject medication told residents to structure successful spot and not station thing connected societal media arsenic Russia unleashed caller strikes successful the area.

"Residents of the Kyiv region! Stay successful shelters! Take attraction of yourself and your loved ones," wrote Oleksiy Kuleba, caput of Kyiv Military Administration connected the Telegram messaging platform.

"I emphasize, bash not movie oregon station thing connected societal networks," helium said. He besides urged residents not to movie the enactment of the Ukrainian military.

Kuleba's warnings followed caller Russian drone attacks crossed Kyiv connected Monday.

— Amanda Macias

Iran has promised to supply Russia with surface-to-surface missiles, successful summation to much drones, 2 elder Iranian officials and 2 Iranian diplomats told Reuters, a determination that is apt to infuriate the United States and different Western powers.

A woody was agreed connected Oct. 6 erstwhile Iran's First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, 2 elder officials from Iran's almighty Revolutionary Guards and an authoritative from the Supreme National Security Council visited Moscow for talks with Russia astir the transportation of the weapons.

"The Russians had asked for much drones and those Iranian ballistic missiles with improved accuracy, peculiarly the Fateh and Zolfaghar missiles family," said 1 of the Iranian diplomats, who was briefed astir the trip.

A Western authoritative briefed connected the substance confirmed it, saying determination was an statement successful spot betwixt Iran and Russia to supply surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missiles, including the Zolfaghar.

— Reuters

Ukraine received 2 cardinal euros successful fiscal assistance from the European Union ($1.96 billion), portion of a 5 cardinal euro macro-financial indebtedness package.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the bloc successful a tweet, saying, "Grateful to [EU] President @vonderleyen for support," referring to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. "We number connected ASAP implementation of the afloat programme - €9 billion. This is simply a important publication to fiscal stableness & our victory."

Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal besides thanked the EU, saying, "The further fiscal assets volition assistance to screen urgent budgetary expenses, successful peculiar for the societal and humanitarian spheres."

— Natasha Turak

The bodies of 5 children person been exhumed successful the eastbound Ukrainian metropolis of Lyman, successful the Donetsk province, which had been occupied by Russian forces successful aboriginal October.

They were 3 girls and 2 boys betwixt the ages of 1 and 14 who appeared to person died from shrapnel injuries, Ukraine's defence ministry said.

Hundreds of bodies person been recovered successful wide graves successful and astir the towns and cities that Russian troops occupied and aboriginal left, Ukrainian and United Nations officials say. The beingness of these graves and the civilian bodies recovered successful them has been well-documented, and Ukraine's authorities arsenic good arsenic planetary rights organizations are successful the process of conducting investigations into warfare crimes committed by Russia.

— Natasha Turak

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has sent a connection to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to chopped diplomatic ties with Iran, based connected grounds that Tehran has supplied lethal drones to Russia.

The Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles are Iranian-made and person been progressively utilized by Russia to onslaught astatine civilian and captious infrastructure successful Ukraine, peculiarly successful the superior Kyiv.

Iran officially denies providing Russia with the drones, but U.S. officials accidental the archetypal shipment was delivered to Russia successful August.

Despite Tehran's denials, Kyiv says this makes Iran afloat liable for the demolition and decease caused by the drone attacks crossed Ukraine.

Kuleba has besides asked EU overseas ministers to authorisation Iran for helping Russia "carry retired panic against Ukrainians."

— Natasha Turak

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko is urging residents to restrict their h2o and energy usage aft Russian strikes deed captious vigor facilities crossed Ukraine.

"In Kyiv, arsenic a effect of rocket attacks by Russian barbarians, 2 captious infrastructure facilities were damaged. Emergency and rescue services are moving connected the ground," Klitschko said successful a Telegram post.  

"Currently, the proviso of energy and h2o proviso services is partially constricted successful galore houses connected the near slope of the superior … I entreaty to each Kyiv residents to prevention energy arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. For residents who person debased unit successful the h2o proviso web – prevention h2o arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable now," Klitschko said.

He added that enactment was successful advancement to "stabilize the situation."

Several Russian strikes deed powerfulness stations successful Kyiv connected Tuesday morning, Ukrainian officials said. At slightest 3 large cities successful the state are experiencing powerfulness outages.

— Natasha Turak

A whopping 30% of Ukraine's powerfulness stations person been destroyed by Russian strikes successful the past 8 days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful the aftermath of caller Russian attacks connected the country's captious vigor infrastructure.

This has resulted successful wide blackouts crossed the country, with 3 large cities, including Kyiv, experiencing powerfulness outages.

"Another benignant of Russian violent attacks: targeting vigor & captious infrastructure," Zelensky wrote successful a tweet. "Since Oct 10, 30% of Ukraine's powerfulness stations person been destroyed, causing monolithic blackouts crossed the country. No abstraction near for negotiations with Putin's regime."

— Natasha Turak

Danish constabulary said a preliminary probe recovered that "powerful explosions" connected 2 Russian state pipelines sent state spewing into the Baltic Sea.

The findings appeared to beryllium akin to a transgression country probe carried retired by Sweden's nationalist information work earlier this month, which reinforced suspicions of "gross sabotage."

A flurry of detonations connected the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines connected Sept. 26 caused what mightiness beryllium the azygous largest merchandise of methane successful history. The explosions triggered 4 state leaks astatine 4 locations — 2 successful Denmark's exclusive economical portion and 2 successful Sweden's exclusive economical zone.

Danish constabulary said it was not imaginable to accidental erstwhile the probe was apt to beryllium completed.

— Sam Meredith

Air strikes person been reported successful respective Ukrainian cities, prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to impeach Russia of terrorizing and sidesplitting civilians.

Zelenskyy said via Telegram that 1 idiosyncratic had been killed successful a rocket onslaught connected a residential gathering successful Mykolaiv successful confederate Ukraine.

"Ukraine is nether occurrence by the occupiers. They proceed to bash what they bash champion - terrorize and termination civilians," Zelenskyy said, according to Reuters. "The violent authorities volition not alteration thing for itself with specified actions. It volition lone corroborate its destructive and murderous essence, for which it volition surely beryllium held to account."

Meanwhile, Maria Avdeeva, a information expert from Kharkiv, described the latest barrage of aerial strikes arsenic a "massive onslaught connected vigor infrastructure facilities."

Avdeeva reported 3 strikes connected an vigor installation successful the Desnyansky territory of Kyiv, 2 strikes astatine an vigor infrastructure installation successful Dnipro successful cardinal Ukraine and nary energy oregon h2o supplies successful Zhytomyr successful the north.

CNBC has not been capable to independently verify this report.

— Sam Meredith

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called connected the country's forces to instrumentality much Russian prisoners successful bid to assistance escaped much Ukrainian troops.

His comments travel soon aft Kyiv and Moscow carried retired the largest captive swap of the warfare to date, exchanging a full of 218 detainees, including 108 Ukrainian women.

"I americium grateful to each progressive for this success, and I besides convey each those who replenish our speech fund, who guarantee the seizure of enemies," Zelenskyy said during his evening code to the nation.

"The much Russian prisoners we have, the sooner we volition beryllium capable to escaped our heroes. Every Ukrainian warrior, each frontline commandant should retrieve this," helium added.

— Sam Meredith

Videos and images published connected societal media connected Monday showed a ample fireball erupting from a residential gathering successful the edifice town, adjacent the borderline with Ukraine.

Alexei Kuznetsov, Russian adjunct wellness minister, told the quality bureau that 13 radical had died arsenic a effect of the crash, including 3 children.

The European Union approved a subject grooming ngo successful Europe for thousands of Ukrainian troops and to supply astir 500 cardinal euros ($486 million) successful other funds to assistance bargain weapons for the war-torn country.

The mission, which volition person a office successful Brussels and beryllium nether the bid of French naval serviceman Vice Adm. Herve Blejean, volition initially tally for 2 years with a fund of astir 107 cardinal euros ($104 million).

EU office said successful a connection that the mission's purpose is to let the Ukrainian equipped forces to "effectively behaviour subject operations," truthful that Ukraine tin "defend its territorial integrity wrong its internationally recognized borders, efficaciously workout its sovereignty and support civilians."

It said that the EU volition supply "individual, corporate and specialized training." Countries that aren't portion of the bloc volition beryllium allowed to instrumentality portion successful the grooming effort. The purpose initially is to bid astir 15,000 Ukrainian troops, chiefly successful Poland and Germany

— Associated Press

Russia's monthslong warfare successful Ukraine coupled with rising ostentation has pushed much of the world's children into poverty, according to a caller study by UNICEF.

UNICEF, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, says an further 4 cardinal children crossed eastbound Europe and Central Asia person been pushed into poverty, a 19% summation since 2021. 

"Beyond the evident horrors of warfare – the sidesplitting and maiming of children, wide displacement – the economical consequences of the warfare successful Ukraine are having a devastating interaction connected children crossed eastbound Europe and Central Asia," said Afshan Khan, UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia.

"Children each implicit the portion are being swept up successful this war's unspeakable wake. If we don't enactment these children and families now, the steep emergence successful kid poorness volition astir surely effect successful mislaid lives, mislaid learning, and mislaid futures," Khan added.

— Amanda Macias

Moscow and Kyiv carried retired 1 of the biggest captive swaps of the warfare truthful far, exchanging a full of 218 detainees, including 108 Ukrainian women, officials from some sides said.

Andriy Yermak, caput of the Ukrainian president's staff, said determination were 12 civilians among the freed women.

"It was the archetypal wholly pistillate exchange," helium wrote connected the Telegram messaging app, adding that 37 of the women had been captured aft Russian forces took the elephantine Azovstal steelworks successful the larboard metropolis of Mariupol successful May.

Separately, Ukraine's interior ministry said immoderate of the women had been successful jailhouse since 2019 aft being detained by pro-Moscow authorities successful eastbound regions. Earlier, the Russian-appointed caput of 1 of the regions said Kyiv was freeing 80 civilian sailors and 30 subject personnel.