Sirens sound across Ukraine as Russia strikes cities again; Kyiv asks allies for air defense weapons - CNBC

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed U.S. President Joe Biden and different G-7 leaders arsenic they met virtually connected Tuesday, asking the radical to urgently supply Ukraine with much aerial defence weapons, Reuters reported.

Kyiv was wide expected to question further aerial defence weapons during the exigency gathering aft Moscow ramped-up its rocket strikes connected assorted locations crossed Ukraine connected Monday and Tuesday.

The attacks were unleashed aft an detonation past play partially destroyed Russia's prized Kerch Strait span linking the mainland and Crimea, which Moscow annexed successful 2014.

G-7 leaders are besides expected to sermon the planetary vigor situation and however to instrumentality an planetary headdress connected the Russian lipid price.

Russia dismissed the G-7 gathering with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying the temper of the G-7's exigency gathering was "obvious and predictable." "The confrontation volition continue," Peskov said.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russia has dramatically ramped up its rocket attacks connected Ukraine successful the past 48 hours, but experts accidental the state is moving retired of options — arsenic good arsenic supplies and munitions — connected the battlefield.

Air raid sirens were erstwhile again sounding retired crossed aggregate regions successful Ukraine Tuesday, with exigency services informing that much Russian strikes were highly likely. Ukrainian officials reported that vigor infrastructure successful the occidental metropolis of Lviv had been deed earlier, portion the metropolis of Zaporizhzhia successful the southbound was besides targeted this morning.

The latest strikes travel a time aft a bid of Russian attacks — launched successful effect to the bombing past play of Russia's prized Kerch Strait span to Crimea — deed assorted Ukrainian cities, including the superior Kyiv. The strikes near astatine slightest 19 radical dormant and implicit a 100 injured, the exigency services said.

Despite Moscow's caller amusement of spot successful the past time oregon so, experts accidental Russia's forces are looking progressively hopeless and ill-equipped.

Read much here: Russia unleashes its choler connected Ukraine with brutal strikes — but it has large problems connected the battlefield

— Holly Ellyatt

Parts of Ukraine are inactive struggling with powerfulness outages arsenic Russia says it is continuing to people vigor infrastructure crossed the country.

President Zelenskyy said overnight that respective 100 settlements remained without energy aft rocket attacks yesterday and that authorities had made it a precedence to reconstruct power. Officials successful Lviv, a large metropolis successful the westbound of Ukraine, reported much powerfulness outages Tuesday aft Russian missiles targeted the metropolis and wider region's vigor infrastructure.

"Missile onslaught connected a captious infrastructure installation successful Lviv. Part of the metropolis is again blacked out," Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said connected the Telegram messenger app.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kulebahas said specified attacks were "creating unbearable conditions for civilians."

Russia openly admits targeting specified facilities.

On Tuesday, the country's defence ministry issued a subject update on Telegram stating that its forces proceed to motorboat "massive" attacks "using high-precision long-range aerial and sea-based armament astatine the facilities of subject power and vigor strategy of Ukraine."

— Holly Ellyatt

A apical Russian authoritative warned of the information of "uncontrolled escalation" if the West continues to enactment Ukraine, marking the latest menace to beryllium issued by Moscow to Kyiv's planetary allies.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia "will beryllium forced to instrumentality capable countermeasures, including of an asymmetric nature," Ryabkov told Russian state-owned quality bureau RIA Novosti Tuesday, without detailing what those measures could be.

He said Moscow regretted "the ongoing large-scale assistance to Kyiv" from the West and said that portion "a nonstop clash with the United States and NATO is not successful Russia's interests" determination was a anticipation successful Moscow "that Washington and different Western capitals are alert of the information of uncontrolled escalation."

Ryabkov's comments are conscionable the latest lawsuit successful a agelong enactment of saber-rattling by officials successful Moscow, including President Putin, who has threatened to usage atomic weapons if the West continues to enactment Ukraine successful the war, oregon if Russia deems determination to beryllium an existential menace to its territory.

— Holly Ellyatt

The manager of GCHQ, 1 of Britain's apical quality agencies, volition accidental successful an code contiguous that Russia is moving retired of supplies and munitions portion their forces are exhausted arsenic Ukraine turns tide successful the conflict.

GCHQ's main Jeremy Fleming is owed to talk astatine the yearly RUSI lecture successful London connected Tuesday afternoon. While his code volition mostly absorption connected China and its interaction connected planetary security, helium volition interaction upon the warfare successful Ukraine and is expected to say:

"We cognize – and Russian commanders connected the crushed cognize – that their supplies and munitions are moving out," Fleming volition say, according to pre-released comments sent to CNBC by the intelligence, cyber and information agency.

"Russia's forces are exhausted. The usage of prisoners to reinforce, and present the mobilisation of tens of thousands of inexperienced conscripts, speaks of a hopeless situation," helium volition say, adding that the Russian colonisation is opening to recognize the world surrounding the war. 

"They're seeing conscionable however severely Putin has misjudged the situation. They're fleeing the draft, realising they tin nary longer travel. They cognize their entree to modern technologies and outer influences volition beryllium drastically restricted. And they are feeling the grade of the dreadful quality outgo of his warfare of choice."

Fleming is expected to accidental that acold from "the inevitable Russian subject triumph that their propaganda instrumentality spouted," it's becoming wide that Ukraine's bravery connected the battlefield and successful cyberspace, counteracting Russian propaganda, is "turning the tide" successful the war.

In the meantime, Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision-making is looking progressively flawed with "a precocious stakes strategy ... starring to strategical errors successful judgement."

"Their gains are being reversed.  The costs to Russia – successful radical and instrumentality are staggering," Fleming is acceptable to say.  

— Holly Ellyatt

The chances of Russian President Vladimir Putin deploying atomic weapons against Ukraine is low, and would isolate him globally arsenic a pariah, erstwhile U.S. ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor told CNBC.

"If President Putin were to usage atomic weapons against a atomic disarmed Ukraine, this would crook the satellite against him," said Taylor.

Taylor said helium believes that China and India, on with the remainder of the world, would "draw backmost successful horror" if Russia were to edifice to atomic arms.

"This would, I think, further cement President Putin arsenic a pariah. I deliberation there's nary subject crushed to bash it. There's a batch of governmental reasons that helium shouldn't bash it."

When asked if determination are immoderate traction towards bid talks, Taylor said helium does not reckon so, chiefly due to the fact that "the Russians are not astatine each interested." There are besides nary indications that Putin is excessively committed to the invasion, helium added.

— Lee Ying Shan

Several missiles person been changeable down implicit the Kyiv region, according to the politician of the portion Oleksiy Kuleba.

Warning residents to enactment successful shelters portion aerial raid alerts were ongoing, Kuleba said connected Telegram Tuesday greeting that "air defence forces changeable down a rocket successful 1 of the districts of the region."

In a further post, helium said determination had been "another downed missile."

CNBC was incapable to verify the accusation but aerial raid warnings are successful cognition crossed Ukraine this morning.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukraine's exigency services warned citizens of the likelihood of much Russian attacks connected Tuesday, with aerial raid sirens ringing retired crossed aggregate regions.

The exigency services issued a informing connected Telegram Tuesday. "Warning. During the time there's a precocious probability of rocket strikes connected the territory of Ukraine. Please stay successful shelters for your ain safety, bash not disregard aerial raid signals," the services said, according to Reuters.

The informing came arsenic the exigency services said that the decease toll from Monday's wide shelling had reached 19, with 105 present known to beryllium injured successful the strikes crossed the country.

This map shows the breadth and duration of aerial raid alerts connected Tuesday, with the superior Kyiv and different large cities including Lviv and Dnipro experiencing much warnings this morning.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukraine's exigency services said the decease toll has risen aft Russia's wide shelling crossed the state connected Monday.

The latest accusation from the services recovered that 19 radical were killed successful the strikes crossed Ukraine, and 105 were injured.

The services said connected Telegram connected Tuesday that, arsenic a effect of shelling, objects of captious and civilian infrastructure were deed successful the superior Kyiv arsenic good arsenic 12 different regions. More than 30 fires, caused by the strikes, had to beryllium extinguished by the exigency services.

The powerfulness proviso has been restored to 3,571 settlements successful the Poltava, Sumy, Ternopil, Lviv, Kyiv and Khmelnytskyi regions, though implicit 300 settlements successful those regions inactive person nary electricity.

The exigency services said it had progressive 22 powerfulness stations to supply powerfulness to health-care facilities successful the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions, arsenic good arsenic 7 powerfulness plants for captious infrastructure facilities.

"More than 1,000 radical and astir 120 units of exigency services instrumentality were progressive successful extinguishing fires and exigency rescue operations," the services said.

— Holly Ellyatt

The metropolis of Zaporizhzhia successful confederate Ukraine has been deed by much Russian strikes connected Tuesday morning, officials say.

"As a effect of the greeting rocket attack, an acquisition institution, a aesculapian instauration and residential buildings were besides damaged," Anatolii Kurtev, the caput to the Zaporizhzhia metropolis council, said connected Telegram, adding that "unfortunately, determination are casualties," without providing much details.

Oleksandr Starukh, the caput of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, said connected Telegram that "several almighty explosions" had rocked the metropolis and that Russian forces "attacked the determination halfway with missiles. The force targeted infrastructure facilities."

Information connected harm and victims was being clarified, helium said. CNBC was incapable to independently verify the information.

The metropolis was targeted connected Monday arsenic Russia conducted rocket strikes crossed Ukraine. The representation beneath shows demolition to a residential gathering pursuing a rocket attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful his nightly code Monday that Ukraine volition not beryllium intimidated by aggregate strikes crossed the state connected Monday and that it would respond connected the battlefield, vowing to marque it "more painful" for Russian forces.

"Ukraine cannot beryllium intimidated. We agreed adjacent much instead. Ukraine cannot beryllium stopped. We are convinced adjacent much that terrorists indispensable beryllium neutralized. Now the occupiers are not susceptible of opposing america connected the battlefield already, that is wherefore they edifice to this terror," helium said.

He said that urgent enactment was being done to repair and reconstruct damaged infrastructure and powerfulness supplies that had been mislaid during the strikes.

Zelenskyy said that retired of 84 Russian missiles launched against Ukraine, 43 had been changeable down connected Monday, and retired of 24 Russian drones, 13 were changeable down.

The president called connected Ukrainians to restrict their powerfulness usage betwixt definite hours to relieve unit connected the vigor system.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy volition code a virtual exigency G7 leaders gathering connected Tuesday aft Russian rocket strikes rocked Ukrainian cities.

Since Russia's late-February penetration of Ukraine, the G7 has imposed a slew of coordinated sanctions against Moscow. The radical kicked Russia retired of the G8 pursuing its amerciable annexation of Crimea successful 2014.

The G7 leaders connected Tuesday are besides expected to sermon the mounting planetary vigor situation and ways to instrumentality an planetary headdress connected the terms of Russian oil.

The exigency gathering of the G7 follows a bid of deadly rocket strikes crossed Ukraine, sidesplitting astatine slightest 14 radical and wounding 97.

— Amanda Macias

Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that helium ordered long-range rocket strikes connected a fig of locations successful Ukraine targeting military, vigor and communications facilities.

"If attacks proceed against Russia, the effect volition beryllium harsh. The responses volition beryllium of the aforesaid standard arsenic the threats to Russia," Putin said during a gathering of his nationalist information council.

"In the lawsuit of further attempts to transportation retired violent acts connected our territory, Russia's effect volition beryllium harsh."

Putin did not notation that the rocket strikes deed respective civilian areas and resulted successful galore casualties. The EU has said Russia's indiscriminate attacks connected civilians successful Ukraine represent a warfare crime.

Putin has blamed Ukraine for the detonation connected Russia's Kerch span Saturday greeting — the lone span connecting the state to Crimea, which it illegally annexed from Ukraine successful 2014 — and called it a violent attack. Kyiv has not claimed work for the blast that destroyed portion of the bridge.

— Natasha Turak

Several Ukrainian cities person been deed by what officials are describing arsenic a question of rocket attacks — arsenic acold westbound arsenic the metropolis of Lviv, mostly considered 1 of the safest parts of the country.

Kyiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv and Vinnytsia, among different cities, person each reported explosions.

"Kyiv portion and Khmelnytsky region, Lviv and Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Frankiv region, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy region, Kharkiv region, Zhytormyr region, Kirovohrad region, the south," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote connected Telegram. He described Russian President Vladimir Putin arsenic a "terrorist" targeting civilians.

At slightest 8 radical successful Kyiv person been killed and 2 twelve injured, according to the city's exigency services.

— Natasha Turak