Russia launches heavy air strikes across Ukraine as G20 leaders meet

Moscow ramped up its aerial bombardments implicit Ukraine connected Tuesday arsenic a G20 gathering successful Bali moved toward a resolution condemning the Russian invasion.

Moscow has successful caller weeks targeted halfway vigor infrastructure and different utilities successful an effort to interruption Ukrainian morale earlier winter, partially successful effect to large failures connected the battlefield. The Russians’ nonaccomplishment of the confederate metropolis of Kherson is the latest decision that is present pushing Moscow to power backmost to murderous attacks connected civilian targets.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s main of unit Andriy Yermak wrote connected Twitter that Putin was unleashing missiles successful effect to a code successful which Zelenskyy had pointedly referred to the G20 arsenic G19, denying the legitimacy of Russia’s spot astatine the table.

“Russia responds to Zelenskyy’s almighty code astatine the G20 with a caller rocket attack,” helium said.

Kyiv had expected a Russian escalation successful transportation to the gathering of leaders from 20 starring economies. A typical of the Air Force Command Yuri Ignat told Ukrainian media implicit the weekend: “They emotion to transportation retired immoderate provocations connected specified days.”

Air alerts were reported passim each areas of the state but for Russian-occupied Crimea.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 3 residential buildings were struck successful the superior and fractional the radical were without power. The mayors of Lviv, Kharkiv and Rivne reported partial powerfulness outages.

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote connected Twitter that the attacks were a motion Russia was not sincerely funny successful bid talks.

“Russian missiles are sidesplitting radical and ruining infrastructure crossed Ukraine close now. This is what Russia has to accidental connected the contented of bid talks. Stop proposing Ukraine to judge Russian ultimatums! This panic tin lone beryllium stopped with the spot of our weapons & principles,” helium said.