Kyiv reels as 'massive' wave of missile strikes hit Ukrainian cities; wheat prices rise as grain deal stalls - CNBC

Martin Griffiths, the U.N.'s under-secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, dismissed Russian allegations that the Black Sea Grain Initiative was being utilized by the West to springiness Ukraine a "military operational advantage."

"We are losing time, the shipping manufacture is wasting wealth and we are delaying nutrient transportation erstwhile millions are bare and can't wage their bills," Griffiths told the U.N. Security Council.

"We are encouraged by Russia's assurance that it is not pulling retired of the inaugural and it is lone temporarily suspending activities successful the implementation," helium added.

Griffiths urged each parties that are signatories of the Black Sea Grain Initiative to resoluteness outstanding issues successful bid to restart Ukrainian agriculture exports.

The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a United Nations-backed woody brokered successful July, eased Russia's naval blockade and saw the reopening of 3 cardinal Ukrainian ports. The archetypal vas near Ukraine's larboard of Odesa connected Aug. 1 carrying much than 26,000 metric tons of corn. Since then, astir 400 ships carrying a full of 9 cardinal metric tons person departed Ukraine's ports.

On Saturday, Moscow suspended its participation in the deal, which was acceptable to expire adjacent month, citing retaliation for Kyiv's "act of terrorism" against Russian warships.

— Amanda Macias

Kyiv's energy supplier DTEK, Kyivski Elektromerezhi, said powerfulness is present restored successful Kyiv pursuing Russia's rocket strikes this morning.

"We person restored powerfulness proviso to consumers and h2o inferior facilities that were near without powerfulness owed to the Russian violent onslaught connected the city's captious infrastructure facilities connected the greeting of October 31," reads a station from DTEK's authoritative Facebook page.

However, pursuing instructions from energy transmission strategy operator, Ukrenergo, exigency powerfulness proviso restrictions volition beryllium successful effect successful Kyiv, leaving immoderate without energy "in accordance with the needs of the powerfulness system," DTEK reported. Power volition beryllium afloat returned erstwhile the strategy is stabilized and connected the acquisition of Ukrenergo, according to the provider.

This morning's rocket strikes deed 18 facilities, the bulk of which were energy-related, leaving 80% of Kyiv's residents without h2o oregon power.

— Rocio Fabbro

Ukraine's Air Forces said it has changeable down astir 44 of the astir 50 recorded Russian missiles that rained down crossed Ukrainian cities this morning.

Last week, Ukrainian subject spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat said the country's aerial unit has changeable down much than 300 Iranian Shahed-136 "kamikaze" drones since Russia introduced the caller weapons connected the battlefield. Ihnat has antecedently hailed Western aerial defence systems successful countering Russian rocket strikes.

In caller weeks, Moscow has carried retired respective devastating rocket and drone strikes against what Kyiv said were civilian targets and captious infrastructure specified arsenic vigor facilities.

Iran and Russia's representatives astatine the United Nations have sharply denied reports that Tehran supplied Moscow with a fleet of drones for usage successful Ukraine. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied that it uses Iranian-made drones to people residential and different precocious civilian areas.

— Amanda Macias

The U.S. Embassy successful Kyiv said it was taking structure aft a barrage of Russian rocket strikes pounded large Ukrainian cities.

"Like millions of Ukrainians, our U.S. Embassy successful Kyiv squad is erstwhile again taking structure arsenic Russia continues its callous and barbaric rocket strikes connected the radical of Ukraine successful an effort to permission the state acold and acheronian arsenic we attack winter," U.S. Ambassador Bridget Brink wrote successful a tweet.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Russia's shelling of assorted regions successful Ukraine appeared to people civilian vigor infrastructure.

"Missiles and drones deed 10 regions, wherever 18 facilities were damaged, astir of which are energy-related," helium wrote connected Telegram. He added that 80% of Kyiv was without power.

— Amanda Macias

It's go regular since Russia invaded Ukraine: President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speak by telephone whenever the U.S. announces a caller bundle of subject assistance for Kyiv.

But a telephone telephone betwixt the 2 leaders successful June played retired otherwise from erstwhile ones, according to 4 radical acquainted with the call. Biden had hardly finished telling Zelenskyy he'd conscionable greenlighted different $1 cardinal successful U.S. subject assistance for Ukraine erstwhile Zelenskyy started listing each the further assistance helium needed and wasn't getting. Biden mislaid his temper, the radical acquainted with the telephone said.

The American radical were being rather generous, and his medication and the U.S. subject were moving hard to assistance Ukraine, helium said, raising his voice, and Zelenskyy could amusement a small much gratitude.

A spokesperson for the National Security Council declined to remark connected the story. A spokesperson for Zelenskyy didn't respond to a petition for comment. 

Read the full communicative connected NBC News.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with his Chinese counterpart astir Russia's warfare successful Ukraine, the State Department confirmed successful a statement.

Blinken spoke with People's Republic of China State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said successful a statement.

"The caput raised Russia's warfare against Ukraine and the threats it poses to planetary information and economical stability," Price said.

Washington has repeatedly warned Beijing, the world's second-largest economy, against providing fiscal assistance to Moscow to assistance Russian President Vladimir Putin blunt planetary sanctions.

— Amanda Macias

Central Asian request for pitchy substance is soaring arsenic the portion has go a cardinal aerial postulation hub, taking implicit from sanctions-hit Moscow and arsenic it handles an influx of Russians fleeing subject service.

Demand jumped aft Russia and the West closed their aerial abstraction to each other's craft aft Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine connected Feb. 24.

It was further boosted aft President Vladimir Putin declared a "partial mobilization" connected Sept. 21 and Russians fled the state successful immense numbers, with much than 200,000 leaving for Kazakhstan alone.

Industrial information seen by Reuters showed supplies of pitchy substance from Russia to Central Asia roseate successful January to September to 385,590 tonnes from 194,444 tonnes successful the aforesaid play successful 2021.

Central Asia, on with Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, has go an alternate way for Russians trying to get to Europe, successful the lack of nonstop flights from Russia to the EU. The region's airports person besides accrued Russian freight turnover and boosted servicing and fueling of Russian aircraft.

— Reuters

The enactment overseeing the export of atom from Ukraine said that determination are 21 vessels awaiting to permission the besieged country.

The Joint Coordination Center successful Istanbul, which oversees the export of cultivation products from Ukraine, said that the ships person a capableness of much than 700,000 metric tons. One vessel is chartered by the World Food Program and is carrying 30,000 metric tons of wheat destined for the Horn of Africa.

Before the war, Ukraine and Russia accounted for astir a 4th of planetary atom exports until those shipments came to a terrible halt for astir six months.

The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a United Nations-backed woody brokered successful July, eased Russia's naval blockade and saw the reopening of 3 cardinal Ukrainian ports. The archetypal vas near Ukraine's larboard of Odesa connected Aug. 1 carrying much than 26,000 metric tons of corn. Since then, astir 400 ships carrying a full of 9 cardinal metric tons person departed Ukraine's ports.

On Saturday, Moscow suspended its participation citing retaliation for Kyiv's "act of terrorism" against Russian warships.

— Amanda Macias

Norway volition enactment its subject connected a raised level of alert from Tuesday arsenic it sharpens information successful effect to the warfare successful Ukraine, the Nordic country's premier curate said, Reuters reported.

Norway is present the biggest exporter of earthy state to the European Union, accounting for astir a 4th of each EU imports aft a driblet successful Russian flows.

"This is the astir terrible information concern successful respective decades," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a quality conference.

"There are nary indications that Russia is expanding its warfare to different countries, but the accrued tensions marque america much exposed to threats, quality operations and power campaigns."

The equipped forces volition walk little clip grooming and much clip connected operational duties, and the Home Guard, a accelerated mobilization force, volition play a much progressive role, Defense Minister Bjoern Arild Gram said.

— Reuters

The United Nations has confirmed 6,430 civilian deaths and 9,865 injuries successful Ukraine since Russia invaded its ex-Soviet neighbour connected Feb. 24.

The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said the decease toll successful Ukraine is apt higher, due to the fact that equipped struggle tin hold fatality reports.

The planetary enactment said astir of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the usage of explosive weapons with a wide interaction area, including shelling from dense artillery and aggregate motorboat rocket systems, arsenic good arsenic missiles and airstrikes.

— Amanda Macias

Intense warring is taking spot successful the Kharkiv portion successful northeastern Ukraine with the country's equipped forces warring to liberate 24 settlements, and facing progressive Russian absorption successful the process.

"Our Armed Forces are actively warring for the liberation of our territories. We inactive person an mean of 24 settlements nether occupation. I accidental 'on average' due to the fact that the concern is truly changing astatine the front," Oleg Synehubov, caput of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, said during a nationwide telethon, news bureau Ukrinform reported Monday.

Synehubov said Ukraine's forces were "making each effort to wholly liberate the portion arsenic soon arsenic possible" but that Russian units were "actively resisting and were not going to leave."

"The concern is truly tense there," helium added with some sides looking to reenforce their positions.

"Defense and fortification structures are being built. Let maine punctual you that we person a 315km borderline with the Russian Federation. The Russians are besides reinforcing the positions from their territory. Indeed, operation is underway connected fortified areas, factual structures," Synehubov said.

—Holly Ellyatt

Twelve ships carrying atom person near Ukraine's ports, contempt Moscow's announcement that it would suspend its information successful the United Nations-backed Black Sea Grain Initiative.

A grounds 354,500 tons of atom were carried connected the vessels leaving Ukrainian ports arsenic portion of the Black Sea atom deal, a spokesperson for Odesa's subject medication said, according to Reuters.

In effect to Russia's determination to halt information successful the deal, the U.N., Turkey and Ukraine reached an statement connected Sunday to unblock 16 atom ships successful Turkish waters. This statement resolves the Russian-imposed inspection backlog and helps stave disconnected fears of a planetary nutrient crisis.

The UN and Turkish delegations provided 10 inspection teams to inspect 40 ️ships, Oleksandr Kubrakov, Ukraine's Minister of Infrastructure, said successful a tweet. The Russian delegation is alert of the caller inspection plan, helium added.

— Rocio Fabbro

Russian reservists deployed to combat successful Ukraine are apt to beryllium utilizing weapons that are successful a "barely usable condition" according to the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence.

Russia has deployed respective 1000 recently mobilized reservists to the frontline successful Ukraine since mid-October, the ministry noted, and "in galore cases they are poorly equipped."

"In September, Russian officers were acrophobic that immoderate precocious mobilised reservists were arriving successful Ukraine without weapons," the ministry said successful an quality update posted connected Twitter.

"Open root images suggest that those rifles which person been issued to mobilised reservists are typically AKMs, a limb archetypal introduced successful 1959. Many are apt successful hardly usable information pursuing mediocre storage."

The AKM is an battle firearm that fires 7.62mm ammunition portion Russia's regular combat units are mostly equipped with 5.45mm AK-74M oregon AK-12 rifles, the ministry noted.

"The integration of reservists with declaration soldiers and combat veterans successful Ukraine volition mean Russian logisticians volition person to propulsion 2 types of tiny arms ammunition to beforehand enactment positions, alternatively than one. This volition apt further complicate Russia's already strained logistics systems," the ministry noted.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russia said that it would beryllium risky for Ukraine to proceed exporting atom via the Black Sea now that Moscow had suspended its information successful a U.N.-brokered woody to facilitate shipments.

"In conditions when Russia is talking astir the impossibility of guaranteeing the information of shipping successful these areas, specified a woody is hardly feasible, and it takes connected a antithetic quality - overmuch much risky, unsafe and unguaranteed," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Peskov blamed the actions of the Ukrainian broadside for disrupting the deal. Russia said connected Saturday it was suspending its information aft an onslaught connected its Black Sea fleet.

Kyiv has accused Moscow of "blackmailing the satellite with hunger."

— Reuters

As galore arsenic 80% of Kyiv's residents person been near without h2o pursuing rocket strikes connected the city's vigor infrastructure, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko and the city's h2o supplier.

Klitschko said this was "due to the harm to a powerfulness facility" adjacent the metropolis by Russian rocket strikes connected Monday morning.

Utilities institution Kyivvodokanal, which supplies h2o to Kyiv, said it was moving to reconstruct h2o proviso stations arsenic soon arsenic possible.

A question of Russian rocket strikes person deed Ukraine contiguous pursuing what Moscow alleges was a Ukrainian onslaught connected its Black Sea fleet implicit the weekend.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that Russia's shelling of assorted regions successful Ukraine connected Monday greeting has damaged civilian vigor infrastructure.

A bid of rocket strikes deed large Ukrainian cities connected Monday morning, with the superior Kyiv and cities to the northeast and southbound being targeted. Much of Kyiv is without powerfulness and h2o pursuing the attacks.

Kyivvodokanal, a utilities institution supplying h2o for Kyiv, said Monday that 80% of the city's residents are presently without a h2o supply.

— Holly Ellyatt

Dnipropetrovsk successful southeastern Ukraine has travel nether onslaught from Russian missiles this greeting with the caput of the determination subject administration, Valentyn Reznichenko, saying determination person been "several hits during the greeting onslaught connected the region."

"The Russians targeted vigor infrastructure facilities successful Dnipro and Pavlohrad. Serious demolition is recorded. All services are moving connected site."

Major cities, including Kyiv, person been deed by rocket strikes Monday greeting with captious vigor infrastructure targeted again by Russian forces.

— Holly Ellyatt

A bid of rocket strikes deed large Ukrainian cities connected Monday morning, with the superior Kyiv and cities to the northeast and southbound being targeted, according to determination officials.

Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said connected Telegram that portion of the superior had been "cut off" by the strikes, which helium said had deed captious infrastructure facilities. "There is nary h2o proviso successful immoderate areas," helium said.

In his latest station helium said engineers were moving to reconstruct energy proviso aft harm to an vigor installation that powers astir 350,000 apartments successful Kyiv. Local authorities person called connected the city's residents to enactment successful weaponry shelters until the aerial raid alert ends.

An advisor to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the question of rocket strikes arsenic "massive."

Elsewhere, the Mayor of Kharkiv successful northeastern Ukraine, Igor Terekhov, said determination had been 2 "arrivals" successful the city that had deed captious infrastructure facilities successful the metropolis this morning.

Other strikes were reported successful the metropolis of Zaporizhzhia successful the southbound of Ukraine, with the Secretary of the City Council Anatolii Kurtiev posting connected Telegram that Russian forces had "attacked a captious infrastructure facility" causing powerfulness outages successful the city. "Information astir the victims and the grade of the harm is being clarified," helium said.

The question of rocket strikes comes aft Russia accused Ukraine connected Saturday of carrying retired a drone onslaught against its Black Sea Fleet disconnected the seashore of Crimea. Ukraine has not said whether it was liable for the attack. 

— Holly Ellyatt

The most-active wheat declaration connected the Chicago Board of Trade jumped 5.8% to $8.77-1/2 a bushel astir midnight London time, according to Reuters, aft earlier hitting a precocious of $8.93 a bushel. Corn and soybean prices besides rose.

The increases travel aft Russia announced Saturday that it was suspending its engagement successful the Black Sea Grain Initiative that was brokered successful July and which allowed captious cultivation products to beryllium exported from respective Ukrainian ports.

Russia announced Saturday that it was withdrawing from the woody for an indefinite play aft it accused Ukraine of a "massive" drone onslaught connected the Black Sea Fleet successful Sevastopol successful Crimea.

Ukraine has not said whether it was liable for the attack. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia's withdrawal from the inaugural was "rather predictable" and the planetary nutrient situation would worsen.

Moscow's determination was "an perfectly transparent volition of Russia to instrumentality the menace of large-scale famine to Africa and Asia," Zelenskyy said, adding that "access to nutrient has really worsened for much than 7 cardinal consumers."

The UN and Turkey, which helped Ukraine and Russia to scope the atom deal, person agreed a program with Ukraine to assistance determination 16 vessels (12 outbound and 4 inbound) that are stuck wrong the maritime corridor utilized to export grains.

The enactment overseeing atom exports, the Joint Coordination Centre, said successful a connection Sunday that "in bid to proceed fulfilling the Initiative, it was projected that the Turkish and United Nations delegations supply time 10 inspection teams aiming to inspect 40 outbound vessels. This inspection program has been accepted by the delegation of Ukraine. The Russian Federation delegation has been informed."

— Holly Ellyatt

More than 30 buildings person been destroyed successful the Donetsk portion arsenic a effect of Russian shelling, Ukraine's National Police said Monday.

Police successful the Donetsk portion said the demolition had occurred arsenic a effect of 24 attacks connected the civilian colonisation and that "there are killed and wounded."

Sixteen settlements came nether fire, including the towns of Avdiivka, Bakhmut and Lyman and different villages, with 22 residential buildings destroyed arsenic good arsenic metropolis assembly premises, inferior buildings, garages and cars, the constabulary said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described successful his nightly code however Ukrainian forces had repelled a "brutal" Russian battle successful the Donetsk region. Bakhmut and Avdiivka person seen aggravated warring successful caller weeks.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Ukrainian forces had repelled a "brutal" violative by Russian troops successful the eastbound Donetsk region.

The president said a subject portion from Chop successful occidental Ukraine had fought disconnected the violative but did not accidental wherever warring had took place. In caller weeks, however, aggravated warring has centered astir Avdiivka and the strategically-important municipality of Bakhmut.

"Today they stopped the enemy's brutal assault" Zelenskyy said successful his nightly address. "The Russian onslaught was repulsed," helium said. He besides alluded to the information that Russian soldiers had been taken captive and could beryllium utilized successful aboriginal captive exchanges.

On Saturday, Russia announced it was suspending its information successful the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a woody struck successful July to alteration cultivation shipments from Ukraine.

Zelenskyy said 218 vessels were present "effectively blocked" arsenic a effect of the illness of the inaugural and that Moscow was "putting the satellite connected the brink of a terrible nutrient crisis."

— Holly Ellyatt