Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 326 of the invasion - The Guardian

Russia carried retired two wide rocket attacks connected Ukraine connected Saturday, devastating an flat artifact successful Dnipro and leaving at slightest 14 radical dead and 64 injured, astatine slightest a twelve of them children. Rescue efforts were ongoing successful the south-central metropolis connected Sunday. At slightest 1 idiosyncratic was besides killed successful a abstracted onslaught connected a residential country successful the adjacent metropolis of Kryvyi Rih. Ukrainian authorities said the targets were the country’s vigor infrastructure.

The UK premier curate has confirmed the state volition supply tanks to Ukraine to assistance Kyiv’s forces “push Russian troops back”. Downing Street said Rishi Sunak made the pledge during a telephone connected Saturday greeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and that Sunak offered Challenger 2 tanks and further artillery systems arsenic a motion of the UK’s “ambition to intensify our enactment to Ukraine”. Russia’s embassy successful Britain said the determination would lone “intensify” the conflict.

Emergency powerfulness outages were enacted crossed 11 regions of Ukraine aft Russian strikes connected vigor infrastructure. In a station connected Telegram, grid relation Ukrenegro said the depletion limits successful unit crossed the state were exceeded successful 11 regions, arsenic a effect of which “emergency shutdowns person been applied”.

Four explosions were heard successful cardinal Kyiv connected Saturday morning. For the archetypal clip since Russia began regular rocket and drone attacks connected the superior successful autumn, the aerial raid sirens sounded aft the attack. Until now, the sirens person sounded 10-90 minutes earlier an attack, giving residents clip to question shelter.

Air raid alerts were besides issued crossed the country, including successful the large cities of Kherson and Lviv. Alerts were besides issued for the regions of Kharkiv, Donestk, Dnipropetrovsk and astir a twelve others.

Ukraine has called connected its allies to springiness it much enactment aft its troops suffered dense losses successful warring astatine Soledar and Bakhmut successful caller months. Russia said connected Friday its forces had taken power of Soledar successful eastbound Ukraine, its archetypal assertion of triumph successful months of battlefield setbacks, portion Kyiv said fierce warring was continuing successful the town. “To triumph this war, we request much subject equipment, dense equipment,” said Andriy Yermak, the caput of Ukraine’s statesmanlike office, Agence France-Presse reported.

Moldovan authorities said debris from a rocket had been recovered successful its territory near the borderline with Ukraine. They said connected Saturday the find came “after Russia’s monolithic bombardment of Ukraine” and that it was the 3rd clip missiles from the struggle had fallen connected to Moldova’s territory.

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has accused the Japanese premier minister, Fumio Kishida, of shameful subservience to the US and suggested helium should ritually disembowel himself. His remarks connected Saturday were the latest successful a agelong enactment of shocking and provocative statements from arch-hawk Medvedev, Reuters reported. Speaking aboriginal connected Saturday, a time aft a acme with the US president, Joe Biden, Kishida made nary notation of Medvedev’s comment