Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 242 of the invasion - The Guardian

Russian-installed authorities person ordered each residents of the confederate Ukrainian metropolis of Kherson to permission “immediately” up of an expected beforehand by Ukrainian troops waging a counteroffensive to recapture it. The determination pro-Kremlin medication called connected civilians to usage vessel crossings implicit a large stream to determination deeper into Russian-held territory, citing a tense concern connected the beforehand and the menace of shelling and alleged “terror attacks” by Kyiv, Associated Press reported. On Friday, Ukrainian forces bombarded Russian positions crossed the region, targeting resupply routes.

More than a twelve Russian missiles pounded vigor facilities and different infrastructure crossed Ukraine connected Saturday, the Ukrainian aerial unit said, with strikes causing blackouts successful parts of antithetic regions. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the Russian attacks had struck connected a “very wide” scale, Reuters reported. He pledged that his subject would amended connected an already bully grounds of downing missiles with assistance from its partners.

Russian subject forces targeted vigor facilities successful occidental Ukraine, the country’s powerfulness grid relation said connected Saturday. Ukrenergo said connected Telegram that the “scale of harm is comparable oregon whitethorn transcend the consequences of the onslaught connected October 10-12”. It said repair crews were starting to repair the facilities aft the rocket attack, but that restrictions were successful spot arsenic they tried to reconstruct the energy supply.

Hundreds of thousands of radical successful cardinal and occidental Ukraine person woken up to powerfulness outages and periodic bursts of gunfire, arsenic Ukrainian aerial defence tried to sprout down drones and incoming missiles. Kira Rudik, a subordinate of the Ukrainian parliament, said 1.5 cardinal radical were without energy aft Russian strikes against powerfulness stations connected Saturday.

Ukraine’s premier curate said that Russia has plunged Ukraine into a humanitarian catastrophe by attacking its vigor infrastructure. Denys Shmyhal told German paper Frankfurter Allgemeine that Russia wanted to condemn Ukraine to “a acold wintertime erstwhile galore radical could virtually frost to death”.

Ukrainian forces person pushed Russians retired of the Charivne and Chkalove settlements successful the Kherson region, the Ukrainian forces’ wide unit said connected Saturday.

Iran’s overseas ministry has powerfully condemned a telephone by France, Germany and Britain for the UN to analyse accusations that Russia has utilized drones from Iran to onslaught Ukraine. Ukraine says Russia has utilized Iranian-made Shahed-136 onslaught drones. If true, the allegations would people a breach of UN information assembly solution 2231.