Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 268 of the invasion - The Guardian

Russia unleashed different question of rocket, drone and rocket strikes crossed Ukraine connected Thursday morning. The latest strikes people the sixth wide onslaught since aboriginal October, which Ukrainian authorities accidental are aimed astatine destroying the country’s vigor system.

Winter’s archetypal snowfall fell successful Kyiv portion authorities said they were moving to reconstruct powerfulness nationwide aft Russia earlier this week unleashed what Ukraine said was the heaviest bombardment of civilian infrastructure of the war.

The Donetsk portion experienced the heaviest warring of the warfare truthful far. Russian forces were reinforced by troops pulled from Kherson metropolis successful the southbound which Ukraine recaptured past week. Russian forces fired artillery connected the towns of Bakhmut and adjacent Soledar, among others, the Ukrainian subject said.

About 10 cardinal radical were without power, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said successful a Thursday evening video address. Authorities successful immoderate places had ordered forced exigency blackouts, helium said.

A woody brokered by the UN and Turkey successful July aimed astatine easing planetary nutrient shortages was extended for 4 months connected Thursday, though Russia said its ain demands were yet to beryllium afloat addressed.

Strikes connected captious infrastructure successful Odesa and Dnipro were confirmed by the statesmanlike medication and the determination heads. Three radical were reportedly injured successful Odesa region, portion another 14 radical were injured successful the onslaught connected Dnipro city, according to its mayor, Borys Filatov.

Two radical were killed successful a rocket onslaught overnight connected the south-eastern portion of Zaporizhzhia, according to section officials. Three were wounded successful an onslaught connected the north-eastern metropolis of Kharkiv, they added.

Investigators successful recaptured territory successful the country uncovered 63 bodies bearing signs of torture aft Russian forces left, Ukraine’s interior curate was quoted arsenic saying. Russia denies its troops people civilians oregon person committed atrocities. Mass burial sites person been recovered successful different parts antecedently occupied by Russian troops, including immoderate with civilian bodies showing signs of torture.

The UK’s Ministry of Defence said the barrage of missiles that struck Ukraine connected Tuesday was astir apt the largest fig of strikes that Russia had conducted in a day since the archetypal week of its invasion.

The US caput of state Antony Blinken said the US had “seen thing truthful acold that contradicts” Poland’s preliminary assessment that Ukrainian aerial defences were to blasted for Tuesday’s rocket incident. US president Joe Biden disputed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s comment that the missiles that landed successful Poland connected Tuesday were not of Ukrainian origin, saying this is not what grounds suggested.

The Kremlin said it could not ideate engaging successful “public” negotiations with Ukraine. In a telephone with reporters, spokesperson Dmitry Peskov accused Kyiv of changing its presumption regarding imaginable Russia-Ukraine bid talks, adding that the warfare would continue careless of dropping temperatures.

Ukrainian forces power astir 1% of territory successful the eastbound portion of Luhansk, according to the Russian-installed caput of the area. The Moscow-backed administrator, Leonid Pasechnik, was cited arsenic saying that Ukraine controlled the colony of Belogorovka and 2 different settlements successful the region.

A subordinate of Russia’s equipped forces who took portion successful the penetration of Ukraine has requested governmental asylum aft landing successful Madrid, the Guardian learned.

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said helium believed neither Russia nor the US planned to usage atomic weapons. Erdoğan’s comments came aft US cardinal quality bureau (CIA) manager William Burns and Sergei Naryshkin, caput of Russia’s SVR overseas quality service, met this week successful Ankara successful what was the archetypal known high-level, face-to-face US-Russian interaction since the warfare began successful February.

A Dutch tribunal has recovered 3 men blameworthy of the execution of 298 radical connected committee formation MH17, which was changeable down by a Russian surface-to-air rocket when it was flying implicit eastbound Ukraine successful 2014.