Ukraine war live updates: Putin prepares the public for a long war in Ukraine; winter 'apocalypse' is a risk, Kyiv mayor warns - CNBC

Emergency powerfulness shutdowns person been implemented successful Ukraine connected Thursday arsenic the nationalist powerfulness relation struggles pursuing repeated Russian bombardment connected the country's vigor network.

"As of 11:00 a.m. connected December 8, due to the fact that of harm caused by rocket strikes to powerfulness plants and the high-voltage network, the strategy has a important shortage of electricity," grid relation Ukrenergo said connected Telegram.

Consumption limits had already been exceeded successful respective regions and exigency shutdowns were applied this morning, Ukrenergo said. Earlier this week, Russia launched a caller question of rocket attacks erstwhile again targeted astatine its vigor infrastructure, a determination designed to adhd inflict much hardship and discomfort connected Ukrainian radical arsenic freezing temperatures acceptable in.

"The concern is analyzable by upwind conditions: successful galore regions successful the westbound of the country, frost, rainfall with snowfall and beardown gusts of upwind origin icing of wires and their damage," the institution said.

Eastern Ukraine, wherever warring is astatine its astir intense, is facing the astir hard concern aft Russian forces "subjected respective districts to monolithic artillery shelling." 

"Where the concern allows, an introspection of the authorities of the powerfulness grid is carried out. After receiving support from the military, repair enactment volition begin," Ukrenego said. Emergency repair enactment continued astir the timepiece successful the regions of Kyiv and Odesa, it said.

— Holly Ellyatt

The Kremlin claimed the warfare successful Ukraine could extremity instantly if Kyiv has the governmental volition to bash so.

"Zelensky knows erstwhile each this tin end, it tin each extremity time if [Kyiv] wishes," Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday.

Ukraine has said it volition nary behaviour cease-fire operations with Russian portion Russian troops stay connected its territory and portion President Vladimir Putin is successful power.

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Russia's fleet changeable down a Ukrainian drone implicit the Black Sea, the Russian-installed politician of Sevastopol, the largest metropolis successful the annexed Crimean peninsular, said connected Thursday.

"This morning, a vessel of the Black Sea Fleet changeable down a UAV implicit the sea," Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said connected Telegram.

Reuters was incapable to instantly verify battlefield reports from either side.

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday nighttime that aggravated warring continues successful the country astir Bakhmut successful Donetsk. 

"First of all, regarding the Donetsk region, Bakhmut districts and different hottest spots. A precise fierce confrontation is ongoing there, each metre counts. I convey each our guys who destruct the force close determination – each day, each night, each hour," Zelenskyy posted connected Telegram Wednesday aft gathering with the military's leadership. On Tuesday, Zelenskyy visited troops connected the beforehand enactment successful Donetsk.

He said warring successful the neighboring Luhansk region, arsenic good arsenic the northeastern Kharkiv region, was discussed, arsenic good arsenic the acute situation Ukraine's vigor strategy faces.

"We are perpetually expanding the procreation and proviso of energy – we are adding much measurement astir each day," Zelenskyy said, though the country's equipped forces warned Thursday that "the menace of Russian rocket attacks connected Ukraine's vigor strategy and captious infrastructure remains."

The General Staff of Ukraine's equipped forces noted on Facebook that portion different regions successful Ukraine are coming nether attack, Russian forces proceed to ore their assaults connected Donetsk and Luhansk successful eastbound Ukraine.

"Over the past 24 hours, units of the defence forces person repelled attacks by Russian invaders extracurricular the settlements of Ternova, Kharkiv Region; Stelmakhivka, Ploshchanka, Chervonopopivka and Bilohorivka, Luhansk region, and Bilohorivka, Berestove, Yakovlivka, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Opytne, Kurdiumivka, Maiorsk, Marinka, and Novomykhailivka, Donetsk region," the study said.

Russia launched 7 rocket strikes and 16 airstrikes, arsenic good arsenic much than 40 attacks utilizing aggregate motorboat rocket systems, the subject update noted. CNBC was incapable to instantly verify the information.

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Kyiv's politician connected Wednesday warned of an "apocalypse" script for the Ukrainian superior this wintertime if Russian aerial strikes connected infrastructure proceed and said though determination was nary request for radical to evacuate now, they should beryllium acceptable to bash so.

"Kyiv mightiness suffer power, water, and vigor supply. The apocalypse mightiness happen, similar successful Hollywood films, erstwhile it's not imaginable to unrecorded successful homes considering the debased temperature," Mayor Vitali Klitschko told Reuters successful an interview.

"But we are warring and doing everything we tin to marque definite that this does not happen," the erstwhile satellite heavyweight boxing champion said, raising his booming dependable to thrust the constituent home.

According to Klitschko, 152 civilian residents of Kyiv person been killed and 678 buildings destroyed since the opening of Russia's penetration connected Feb. 24, but the metropolis faces caller tribulations this wintertime arsenic Russia regularly pounds Ukraine's powerfulness grid with missiles.

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The European Union projected question bans and plus freezes connected astir 200 much Russian officials and subject officers arsenic portion of a caller circular of sanctions aimed astatine ramping up unit connected Moscow implicit its warfare successful Ukraine.

The proposals were made by the EU's enforcement branch, the European Commission. They indispensable inactive beryllium debated and endorsed by the 27 subordinate countries, a process that routinely results successful the commission's suggestions getting watered down.

The targets of the latest recommended sanctions see authorities ministers, lawmakers, determination governors and governmental parties.

"This database covers cardinal figures successful Russia's brutal and deliberate rocket strikes against civilians, successful the kidnapping of Ukrainian children to Russia, and successful the theft of Ukrainian cultivation products," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said successful a statement.

With a caller raft of sanctions, the committee besides intends to people the Russian defence manufacture and much Russian banks, and to enforce export controls and restrictions connected products similar chemicals, nervus agents, electronics and IT components that could beryllium utilized by the equipped forces.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said his penetration of Ukraine could beryllium "lengthy," arsenic the brutal struggle drags into its 10th month.

As Russia struggles to clasp crushed it gained this twelvemonth successful Ukraine, Putin downplayed the request to mobilize much troops. Considering different circular of conscription "simply does not marque sense," Putin said, according to an NBC News translation of his remarks astatine a gathering of his quality rights council.

Of the 300,000 reservists called up during Putin's partial mobilization earlier this year, 150,000 are present successful Ukraine, the Russian president said.

He added that "there is nary wide withdrawal" from Russian positions successful Ukraine.

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