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Image source, Kyrylo Tymoshenko
One antheral was reported killed erstwhile a residential gathering came nether onslaught successful Mykolaiv
Russian forces person again targeted Ukraine's vigor facilities, with strikes connected Kyiv and different large cities.
Presidential adjutant Kyrylo Tymoshenko said determination had been 3 explosions successful Kyiv, and BBC journalists saw plumes of fume rising connected the city's near slope soon aft 09:00 (6:00 GMT).
Two facilities were earnestly damaged successful the cardinal metropolis of Dnipro and powerfulness cuts were reported successful Zhytomyr.
The latest attacks came 24 hours aft Kyiv was deed by "kamikaze" drones.
The unmanned drones, believed to beryllium Iranian-made, killed astatine slightest 8 radical successful the superior and the bluish metropolis of Sumy, and struck captious infrastructure, with powerfulness outages reported successful hundreds of towns and villages.
President Volodymyr Zelensky responded by saying that Russia's occupiers were continuing to bash "what they bash champion - terrorise and termination civilians".
It was not initially wide whether drones were progressive successful Tuesday's attacks, though Mr Tymoshenko, lawman caput of the statesmanlike office, said an S-300 anti-aircraft rocket was fired astatine a residential gathering successful the confederate metropolis of Mykolaiv overnight, sidesplitting 1 person. The city's angiosperm marketplace was besides destroyed. In different attacks aboriginal connected Tuesday:
- Shelling was reported successful the north-eastern metropolis of Kharkiv
- The strikes connected a powerfulness works successful Kyiv near 1 country connected the slope of the Dnipro stream without energy and water, reports said
- In Zhytomyr, the politician said akin outages had near hospitals moving connected backup power
- Infrastructure successful the confederate metropolis of Zaporizhzhia was besides hit, though section officials said no-one had been hurt.
Earlier, the US said it agreed with its French and UK allies that the proviso of drones by Iran violated a UN Security Council solution linked to a atomic agreement, barring the transportation of definite subject technology.
Ukraine has identified the drones utilized successful deadly attacks connected Kyiv and Sumy arsenic Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Vedant Patel of the US authorities section said the US would not hesitate to usage sanctions.
The EU said it was besides gathering grounds and was acceptable to act.
Meanwhile, successful 1 of the biggest captive swaps since Russia's warfare began successful February, 218 detainees were exchanged - including 108 Ukrainian women.
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