Judge in Russia-occupied Ukraine in ‘serious’ condition after assassination attempt - The Guardian

A justice successful a Ukrainian municipality controlled by Moscow is successful a “serious” information aft surviving an assassination attempt, a separatist person successful Donetsk said.

Alexander Nikulin was connected a judicial sheet that successful June sentenced to decease 2 Britons, Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, and a Moroccan, Brahim Saadoune, who were warring connected the Ukrainian side.

The 2 Britons were captured successful Ukraine but returned location successful September.

“There was effort with the usage of firearms connected a justice of the ultimate tribunal of the Donetsk Republic, Alexander Nikulin,” the rebel person of the self-proclaimed republic, Denis Pushilin, said connected Telegram.

He blamed Kyiv, saying the onslaught took spot connected Friday evening successful the municipality of Vuhlehirsk, successful the eastbound Donetsk region.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s authorities energy relation connected Saturday announced blackouts successful Kyiv and 7 different regions of the state successful the aftermath of Russia’s devastating strikes connected vigor infrastructure.

The determination comes arsenic Russian forces proceed to lb Ukrainian cities and villages with missiles and drones, inflicting harm connected powerfulness plants, h2o supplies and different civilian targets, successful a grinding warfare that is nearing its nine-month mark.

Russia has denied that the drones it has utilized successful Ukraine came from Iran, but the Islamic Republic’s overseas curate connected Saturday for the archetypal clip acknowledged supplying Moscow with “a constricted number” of drones earlier the invasion.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said, however, that Tehran did not cognize if its drones were utilized against Ukraine and asserted Iran’s committedness to stopping the conflict.

Ukrenergo, the sole relation of Ukraine’s high-voltage transmission lines, initially said successful an online connection connected Saturday that scheduled blackouts volition would instrumentality spot successful the superior and the greater Kyiv region, arsenic good arsenic respective regions astir it – Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv.

Later successful the day, however, the institution released an update saying that scheduled outages for a circumstantial fig of hours would not beryllium capable and alternatively determination volition beryllium exigency outages, which could past an indefinite magnitude of time.

Ukraine has been grappling with powerfulness outages and disruption of h2o supplies since Russia started unleashing barrages of rocket and drone strikes connected the country’s vigor infrastructure past month.

Moscow has said those came successful effect to what it alleged were Ukrainian attacks connected Crimea, the portion that Russia illegally annexed successful 2014. Ukraine has denied those allegations.