Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 298 of the invasion - The Guardian

Power has been restored to astir 6 cardinal Ukrainians aft Friday’s barrage of Russian rocket strikes against the country’s infrastructure, including its energy generating systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

The politician of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, said connected Telegram connected Saturday that vigor had been restored for three-quarters of the capital’s residents and engineers were continuing to enactment to stabilise supply. However, fractional of the Kyiv state inactive lacked energy connected Saturday.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has held meetings with his subject commanders and sought their proposals on however Russia’s run successful Ukraine should proceed, during a sojourn to the operation’s headquarters, the Kremlin said.

Russia has claimed its wide strikes against Ukraine connected Friday were portion of preventing overseas weapons being delivered to Ukraine. On Friday, “military bid systems, the military-industrial analyzable and their supporting vigor facilities of Ukraine were deed with a wide onslaught with high-precision weapons”, Russia’s defence ministry said successful its regular briefing. The attacks person prompted accusations from Ukraine’s allies of warfare crimes.

Rescuers person recovered the assemblage of a one-and-a-half-year-old lad from the rubble of Friday’s Russian onslaught connected a three-storey residential gathering successful the cardinal Ukrainian metropolis of Kryvyi Rih successful Dnipro region, the region’s politician said. In total, 4 radical were killed successful the onslaught connected Kryvyi Rih, Valentyn Reznichenko said. Thirteen others, including 4 children, were injured.

Russia has denounced a determination by Moldova to temporarily prohibition six tv channels arsenic “political censorship”. Moldova accused the channels of airing “incorrect information” astir the state and Russia’s subject cognition successful Ukraine.

Moldova has reached a short-term vigor woody that volition assistance wean it disconnected its dependence connected Russian earthy gas, a elder authoritative said connected Saturday. The Moldovan lawman premier minister, Andrei Spînu, said the authorities state steadfast Moldovagaz would bargain 100m cubic metres of state from home supplier Energocom this month.

Russia’s run of strikes against Ukrainian captious infrastructure has mostly consisted of air- and maritime-launched cruise missiles but has astir surely besides included Iranian-provided drones, according to the UK’s Ministry of Defence. In its latest quality update it besides said Russia was astir apt acrophobic astir the “vulnerability” of Crimea.

A Ukrainian subject commandant has said Russia whitethorn effort to invade from the north, perchance astir the day of erstwhile Vladimir Putin archetypal ordered his troops to invade Ukraine. Maj Gen Andrii Kovalchuk told Sky News the fiercest warring mightiness beryllium up and appeared peculiarly focused connected the anticipation of Russian troops invading via Belarus, connected Ukraine’s bluish border, successful bid to people the capital.

A Ukrainian statesmanlike advisor has said it is “unrealistic” to expect Kyiv to travel to an statement with Russia to extremity the war. “War indispensable extremity lone with its defeat,” Mykhailo Podolyak wrote connected Twitter, saying Ukraine would enactment with “required proportions of artillery, armoured vehicles, drones and long-range missiles”.

A 36-year-old antheral was killed wrong his car aft Russian forces shelled the confederate Ukrainian metropolis of Kherson connected Saturday morning, the determination governor, Yaroslav Yanushevych, said. A 70-year-old pistillate was besides injured aft Russian troops struck a occidental territory of the city with artillery and aggregate rocket launchers, Yanushevych wrote connected Telegram.