November 5, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news - CNN

Russian soldiers nether the partial mobilization bid successful Rostov, Russia connected October 21. (Arkady Budnitsky/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a instrumentality Friday that allows for conscripting citizens with un-expunged oregon outstanding convictions for assorted superior crimes.

Russians convicted of murder, robbery, larceny, cause trafficking and different sedate offenses nether the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation tin beryllium called up for subject service, according to the law.

That makes it imaginable to mobilize hundreds of thousands of radical who person been sentenced to probation oregon person precocious been released from colonies who were antecedently forbidden to serve.

The lone radical of criminals exempted from the decree are those who committed enactment crimes against minors, treason, spying oregon terrorism. Also excluded are those convicted of the attempted assassination of a authorities official, hijacking an aircraft, extremist enactment and amerciable handling of atomic materials and radioactive substances.

The Kremlin has already mobilized an further 18,000 soldiers supra its extremity of 300,000 to combat successful its warfare successful Ukraine from the wide antheral colonisation of Russia, Putin said Friday.  

Power restrictions volition beryllium successful spot crossed astatine slightest 7 Ukrainian regions Saturday, according to authorities vigor institution Ukrenergo.

Starting astatine 6 a.m. section clip (12 a.m. ET Saturday) the utility's dispatch halfway would bounds energy proviso for consumers successful the pursuing areas, according to a Telegram post: Kyiv city, Kyiv region, Chernihiv region, Cherkasy region, Zhytomyr region, Sumy region, Kharkiv portion and Poltava region.

“Repair and restoration works proceed astir the clock,” Ukrenergo wrote. 

Ukraine has been facing a wide battle connected captious infrastructure and powerfulness sources since aboriginal October.

This week alone, Russian attacks connected captious infrastructure successful the regions of Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia person near millions without energy and h2o intermittently.

A Russian drone is seen flying astir Kyiv connected October 17. Local authorities considered it to be an Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicle. (Roman Petushkov/Reuters)

The Iranian authorities acknowledged for the archetypal time Saturday that it had sent a constricted fig of drones to Russia successful the months earlier the commencement of its penetration of Ukraine.

The connection by Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian comes aft previous denials by Tehran that it had supplied Russia with weapons for usage successful Ukraine, saying it “has not and volition not” bash so. Amirabdollahian did not accidental if the drones that were supplied to Moscow were the benignant that transportation explosives.

Some context: Self-detonating drones have played a important role in the struggle since Russia launched its penetration successful precocious February. They are susceptible of circling for immoderate clip successful an country identified arsenic a imaginable people and striking lone erstwhile an force plus is identified.

Russia has launched a bid of drone attacks crossed Ukraine successful caller weeks, striking captious civilian infrastructure and sowing panic successful Ukrainian cities far from the beforehand lines of the war. Ukrainian officials said past week that they had changeable down much than 300 Iranian drones.

Western state describes a much expansive program: Officials from a Western state that intimately monitors Iran’s weapons programme told CNN that Iran is preparing to send much onslaught drones, on with surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missiles, to Russia to usage successful its warfare against Ukraine.

The past shipment of weapons from Iran to Russia included astir 450 drones, officials said, which the Russians person already utilized to deadly effect successful Ukraine.

A Ukrainian subject authoritative surveyed the devastation successful de-occupied parts of the eastbound Luhansk region, leaving him with "rather mixed feelings," helium said Friday.

Serhiy Hayday, caput of the Luhansk region military administration, described the symptom of seeing what the Russians near behind. He recovered destroyed villages, cattle that are sick oregon dead, and bare houses, according to a Telegram station astir his visit.

Hayday said his enactment recovered 5 to six radical "who remained determination up to the last" and helped instrumentality them retired of the settlement. He recommended civilians enactment distant owed to shelling and mines successful the area.

Fierce warring successful the region: There are changeless battles successful Luhansk's Svatove-Kreminna area, northbound of Russian-occupied Severodonetsk, according to Hayday. He said the Russians are expanding their manpower successful the area.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky grets National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Kyiv, Ukraine connected Friday. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/AP)

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan made an unannounced sojourn Friday to Kyiv, wherever helium met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and different apical officials.

Sullivan underscored US enactment for Ukrainians "as they support their sovereignty and territorial integrity," said Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, successful a statement.

In Kyiv, Sullivan announced an further $400 million security assistance bundle to Ukraine. It includes refurbished T-72 tanks and drones, on with refurbished surface-to-air missiles.

He besides affirmed the US volition proceed to supply economical and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine:

Sullivan added that the warfare could easy extremity if Russia chose to halt warring and ceased its occupation.

"And that's precisely what it should bash from our perspective," helium told reporters.