Central Kyiv hit by Russian missile strikes; Ukraine says it's prepared to repel possible invasion from Belarus - CNBC

Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Tuesday that astatine slightest 2 residential buildings person been deed by Russian rocket strikes, with medics connected the country successful the halfway of the city.

He besides said that respective missiles had been changeable down and said successful his astir caller station connected Telegram that a multistorey gathering had been deed successful the Pechersk territory of the city.

A spokesperson for Ukraine's defence ministry besides sent CNBC a video of the aftermath of the latest strike, showing a ample occurrence burning successful a residential building. The spokesman, Yuriy Sak, said ballistic missiles were utilized successful the attacks alternatively than drones that person been utilized successful caller attacks connected the city.

A Reuters analogous successful the Ukrainian superior said determination had been astatine slightest 2 explosions pursuing aerial raid warnings. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's main of statesmanlike staff, Andriy Yermak, noted connected Twitter that Russia had responded to Zelenskyy's code earlier contiguous astatine the G-20 acme successful Bali with a "new rocket attack" connected Kyiv.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that immoderate countries are attempting to "rewrite history" successful a bid to weaken Russia.

"Attempts by a fig of states to rewrite, reshape satellite past are becoming much assertive and, by and large, person an evident extremity successful narration to our nine ... to disagreement america and to weaken Russia and impact its sovereignty, successful fact, to shingle sovereignty," Putin said connected Tuesday astatine a gathering of the Pobeda (Victory) organizing committee, acceptable up to commemorate the Soviet Union's relation successful World War II.

Putin did not accidental which countries helium was referring to but helium has repeatedly slammed the West, saying it wanted to weaken Russia, without presenting evidence, and was doing this done its enactment of Ukraine.

"The distortion of history, the planting of myths, the erosion of values —- successful galore respects it is from this, from these myths, that the buildup of states and peoples begins," Putin said successful comments reported by Tass quality agency.

"Such a scenario, arsenic we see, has already been tested successful immoderate countries, including Ukraine, and successful a fig of different states," Putin said, adding: "There were attempts to bash the aforesaid with our country, with Russia, but we enactment up a obstruction successful clip and firmly capable to support our interests."

— Holly Ellyatt

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that Russia volition defy immoderate efforts to marque it wage reparations to Ukraine for the war, saying it was tantamount to "robbery."

The comments travel aft the U.N. General Assembly on Monday adopted a solution calling for Russia to wage warfare reparations to Kyiv. Out of the U.N.'s 193 subordinate states, 94 countries voted successful favour of the resolution, and 14 against, portion 73 abstained. 

Speaking earlier the vote, Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya characterized the draught solution arsenic "a classical example" of a radical of states acting not connected the ground of planetary law, but trying to consecrate thing that is illegal.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday that Russia would not judge what helium described arsenic the plunder of Russia's resources.

"The organizers of this process are people trying to implicit the robbery of our golden and overseas speech reserves, which were earlier wholly illegally blocked [with planetary sanctions]. This is simply a formalization of this robbery utilizing the United Nations platform," helium told reporters.

He added that the U.N.'s solution was "not legally binding, and this is however we volition dainty it" and said Russia would bash everything imaginable to defy immoderate effort to unit it to wage reparations.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukraine's Ministry of Defense said it is preparing to repel a imaginable penetration from Belarus, a cardinal governmental and subject state of Russia's.

"The defence forces of Ukraine are preparing to repel a imaginable penetration from Belarus. We volition onslaught the force arsenic soon arsenic the it crosses the authorities border," it said successful a connection Tuesday.

"All imaginable forces and means volition beryllium utilized to support and repel equipped aggression. Highways, forests, settlements volition go a existent hellhole for the Russian invaders," the connection said connected Telegram.

CNBC has asked Ukraine's Ministry of Defense for further comment.

Throughout Russia's penetration of Ukraine a adjacent oculus has been kept connected subject movements successful Belarus for signs that it could participate the warfare to assistance Russia. Belarus is wide seen arsenic subordinate to Russia and has assisted it militarily during the invasion, though President Alexander Lukashenko has repeatedly denied that Minsk would articulation the war.

In October, the Belarusian defence ministry said Russian troops would beryllium deployed to the state to signifier a caller "regional grouping," serving to deepen concerns that Belarus was preparing to lend its manpower to Russia's equipped forces, who person suffered respective large setbacks successful Ukraine including the caller retreat from a portion of Kherson successful the south.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russian forces astir destroyed an vigor installation that supplies powerfulness to the occidental slope of the Kherson portion — which Russian troops retreated from past week — and a ample portion of the neighboring Mykolaiv region.

Ukrenergo National Power Company CEO Volodymyr Kudrytskyi said on Facebook Tuesday that "the vigor installation ... was practically destroyed. It doesn't beryllium anymore."

Two autotransformers, which each weighed 250 tons, were blown up, helium added, with different parts of the portion damaged. He said is was moving hard to reconstruct powerfulness to the Kherson portion (much of which has been without powerfulness since Nov. 6) but that a ample magnitude of landmines, laid by retreating Russian forces, are impeding its progress.

— Holly Ellyatt

G-20 nations person agreed a draught communique condemning Russia's penetration of Ukraine, saying "today's epoch indispensable not beryllium of war."

"Most members powerfully condemned the warfare successful Ukraine and stressed it is causing immense quality suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities successful the planetary system — constraining growth, expanding inflation, disrupting proviso chains, heightening vigor and nutrient insecurity, and elevating fiscal stableness risks," the associated connection volition say, according to a draught papers seen by CNBC.

The associated connection besides said "the peaceful solution of conflicts, efforts to code crises, arsenic good arsenic diplomacy and dialogue, are vital. Today's epoch indispensable not beryllium of war."

The communique has been agreed upon by the highest nationalist servants of each the G-20 nations and is expected to beryllium approved by the heads of authorities aboriginal earlier the extremity of the summit. At the clip of writing, it was unclear whether China was among the nations condemning Russia's warfare successful Ukraine.

Read much here: G-20 nations to condemn Russia's Ukraine penetration arsenic Foreign Minister Lavrov watches on

— Silvia Amaro

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is successful Bali for the latest G-20 acme of starring planetary economies, said that the Ukrainian president's rejection of a aboriginal bid woody with Russia shows Kyiv's "unwillingness to negotiate."

Earlier astatine the G-20 summit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the acme that determination would beryllium "no Minsk-3" agreement, alluding to 2 erstwhile failed attempts astatine a cease-fire statement successful the Donbas successful eastbound Ukraine wherever pro-Russian separatists person fought Ukrainian forces since 2014.

Russia's typical astatine the G-20, Lavrov, told Russian quality bureau Ria Novosti that Zelenskyy's comments "absolutely" corroborate Kyiv's unwillingness to negotiate.

Kyiv has said it volition not negociate with Russia portion President Vladimir Putin is successful power, and that it indispensable spot Russian troops retreat from Ukraine, vowing to retake each portion of mislaid territory, including Crimea, which Russia annexed successful 2014, and the Donbas.

— Holly Ellyatt

Addressing planetary leaders and Russia's overseas curate astatine the G-20 acme successful Bali, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was unreserved successful his disapproval of Russia's war. He told delegates that "there tin beryllium nary normalization of Putin's behaviour, which has nary spot successful the planetary community."

"Putin and his proxies volition ne'er person a morganatic spot astatine the array until they extremity their amerciable warfare successful Ukraine. At the G-20, the Putin authorities – which has stifled home dissent and fabricated a veneer of validity lone done unit – volition perceive the chorus of planetary absorption to its actions."  

In a pre-released connection connected Sunak's code astatine the G-20, the U.K. said that Russia has" acted with disregard for sovereignty and planetary instrumentality – pillars of the unchangeable planetary strategy the G20 was created to preserve."

It said the U.K. and its allies would usage the acme to "call retired Putin's callous disregard for quality rights and accent that Russia's relation successful the planetary strategy volition ne'er beryllium normalised portion the warfare successful Ukraine continues."

Addresing the acme Tuesday, Sunak said Putin had the powerfulness to alteration the concern but said "it is notable that Putin didn't consciousness capable to articulation america here. Maybe if helium had, we could get connected with sorting things out."

"Because the azygous biggest quality that anyone could marque is for Russia to get retired of Ukraine and extremity this barbaric war."

— Holly Ellyatt

A draught of a declaration by leaders of the Group of 20 large economies, seen by Reuters connected Tuesday, powerfully condemned the warfare successful Ukraine and stressed it is exacerbating fragilities successful the planetary economy.

"There were different views and antithetic assessments of the concern and sanctions," said the draught declaration, which was confirmed by a European diplomat. The 16-page papers has yet to beryllium adopted by G-20 members.

The summit, which big Indonesia and different countries person said should absorption connected the planetary economy, has alternatively been overshadowed by Russia's penetration of Ukraine.

"Recognising that the G20 is not the forum to resoluteness information issues, we admit that information issues tin person important consequences for the planetary economy," the draught declaration said.

Russia's Foreign Ministry connected Sunday said the G-20 is not the spot for information issues to beryllium discussed and should alternatively prioritize the world's economical challenges, up of a gathering expected to beryllium dominated by the war.

The draught papers besides said the G-20's cardinal banks are monitoring inflationary pressures and calibrating monetary argumentation accordingly.

Earlier connected Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged counterparts astatine the acme via video nexus to measurement up their enactment and halt Russia's warfare successful his state nether a bid program helium has proposed.

Russia, which was represented astatine the acme by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov alternatively than President Vladimir Putin, said it is conducting a peculiar subject cognition successful Ukraine.

— Reuters

Moscow named a larboard municipality connected the Azov Sea, Henichesk, arsenic the caller "temporary capital" of the Kherson region, the U.K. Ministry of Defence said Tuesday.

Ukraine's troops drove Russian forces retired of the Ukrainian region's existent capital, Kherson city, past week. The Kremlin illegally declared Kherson a portion of Russia pursuing a sham referendum successful September.

Henichesk is "well positioned to coordinate enactment against imaginable Ukrainian threats from some Kherson metropolis successful the west, oregon via Melitopol to the north-east," the U.K. ministry said arsenic portion of a regular briefing connected the Ukraine war.

"Above all, it is presently retired of scope of Ukrainian artillery systems which person inflicted dense harm connected Russian tract bid posts," the ministry said.

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has stated his government's volition to retake the full portion of Kherson.

— Ted Kemp

The Group of 20 gathering successful Bali began earlier connected Tuesday and the warfare successful Ukraine is already taking halfway signifier astatine the summit.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the acme virtually contiguous and outlined what helium called a "Ukrainian look for peace," with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov among those listening to the address.

Zelenskyy ruled retired a further bid statement on the lines of the "Minsk" agreements, erstwhile attempts astatine bid deals betwixt Ukraine and Russia that were brokered by Germany and France successful a bid to halt the prewar struggle successful eastbound Ukraine betwixt pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces.

"We volition not let Russia to wait, physique up its forces, and past commencement a caller bid of panic and planetary destabilization. There volition beryllium nary Minsk-3, which Russia volition interruption instantly aft the agreement," Zelenskyy said.

— Holly Ellyatt

The European Union, United States and United Kingdom jointly called connected Russia and Ukraine to widen and grow the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which is up for renewal astatine the extremity of this week.

"We telephone connected the parties to the Initiative to widen its word and standard up its operations to conscionable the evident demand," the associated connection said. "And we reiterate our enactment for different efforts by the United Nations to facilitate entree to nutrient and fertilizer successful planetary markets."

The radical affirmed its committedness to planetary nutrient information successful the statement, noting that sanctions are not directed astatine Russia's nutrient oregon fertilizer sectors.

The U.N.-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative was agreed to successful July. Since then, the U.N. estimates the woody has facilitated the export of astir 10 cardinal tons of atom and different foods from Ukraine. Russia has not yet agreed to the year-long renewal of the program, claiming that the statement exempting its fertilizers from sanctions is not being respected.

— Rocio Fabbro

The International Atomic Energy Agency volition nonstop atomic information and information missions wrong the coming weeks to 3 progressive atomic powerfulness plants successful Ukraine, arsenic good arsenic to the Chornobyl site.

An statement was reached betwixt the Ukrainian authorities and the IAEA, astatine the petition of Ukraine, to dispatch teams of atomic information and information experts to the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne atomic powerfulness plants successful confederate Ukraine and an adept ngo to Chornobyl, the IAEA said successful a statement. Experts are continuously contiguous astatine the Zaporizhzhia plant, the largest successful Europe, which has been nether Russian subject concern since March.

"From the opening of the warfare successful Ukraine, the IAEA has been doing everything it tin to forestall a atomic mishap with perchance superior consequences for nationalist wellness and the environment," IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said successful a statement.

"Immediately aft I received this latest petition from Ukraine, we developed factual proposals and began preparing the method and logistical details and we are present acceptable to deploy these caller missions soon," helium said. "While the satellite is focused connected the precarious atomic information and information concern astatine the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, we indispensable not hide the different atomic facilities located successful a state astatine war."

Each ngo should past for astir a week, according to Grossi, but much whitethorn travel if needed.

The IAEA has regularly carried retired safeguard activities successful these facilities. Last month, astatine the petition of the Ukrainian government, the bureau completed in-field verification to trial the atomic capabilities and activities of the sites pursuing Russia's "dirty bomb" allegations.

— Rocio Fabbro

The U.N. General Assembly approved a solution calling for Russia to beryllium held accountable for violating planetary instrumentality by invading Ukraine including by paying reparations.

The ballot successful the 193-member satellite assemblage was 94-14 with 73 abstentions. It was the lowest level of enactment of the 5 Ukraine-related resolutions adopted by the General Assembly since Russia's Feb. 24 penetration of its smaller neighbor.

The solution recognizes the request to found "an planetary mechanics for reparation for damage, nonaccomplishment oregon injury'" arising from Russia's "wrongful acts" against Ukraine.

It recommends that the assembly's subordinate nations, successful practice with Ukraine, make "an planetary register" to papers claims and accusation connected damage, nonaccomplishment oregon wounded to Ukrainians and the authorities caused by Russia.

— Associated Press

Ukrainian constabulary power 182 towns and villages successful the Kherson region, with a continuously expanding constabulary beingness successful the territories vacated by Russia, according to the caput of the Ukrainian nationalist police.

Police main Igor Klymenko acknowledged that, beyond the Ukrainian triumph successful the region, officials are present faced with the hard task of ensuring the information of the metropolis pursuing Russian occupation.

"There is inactive a batch of enactment to do. Especially for our explosives technicians," Klymenko said successful a Facebook post. "It is indispensable to analyse each administrative building, infrastructure facilities, truthful that it becomes imaginable to reconstruct the mean beingness of the cities."

Klymenko said constabulary units volition beryllium patrolling streets "day and night" and are astatine the disposal of locals.

The withdrawal of Russian forces from the confederate Ukrainian portion precocious past week was met with celebrations, arsenic inhabitants unfurled their Ukrainian flags and took to the streets. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the determination superior earlier to enactment successful an authoritative ceremonial to rise the nationalist emblem successful the metropolis and to contiguous authorities awards to Ukrainian soldiers.

— Rocio Fabbro