Ukraine war: Russia air strikes target more power facilities - BBC

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Power works  damaged by a Russian onslaught   successful  Kyiv, 18 OctoberImage source, Reuters

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Russia strikes person crippled powerfulness plants crossed Ukraine successful caller days

Air strikes person deed captious infrastructure successful cardinal and occidental Ukraine, arsenic Russia continues to people the country's vigor grid.

Sites to the southbound and westbound of Kyiv person been struck and powerfulness cuts person been reported crossed the country.

Ukrainian officials accidental galore Russian cruise missiles person been intercepted by aerial defence systems.

Almost a 3rd of the country's powerfulness stations person been destroyed successful a question of aerial strikes since Monday past week.

On Saturday Ukrainian officials said "critical infrastructure" had been deed successful the Cherkasy region, south-east of the superior Kyiv. A immense occurrence has been reported adjacent the municipality of Smila.

There person been blackouts successful Khmelnytskyi, further west. Air strikes and powerfulness disruptions are besides being reported from Odesa successful the southbound to Rivne and Lutsk successful the north-west.

The Ukrainian vigor organisation institution said it would bounds energy proviso successful respective regions, including Kyiv.

The authorities introduced restrictions connected the usage of powerfulness for the archetypal clip connected Thursday.

Ukraine's aerial unit bid said its defence systems had destroyed 18 Russian cruise missiles launched connected Saturday morning.

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The latest question of strikes person besides wrecked galore homes

President Volodymyr Zelensky's main of staff, Andriy Yermak, has said Russia is hoping to halt Ukraine's liberation of territories by striking targets down the beforehand lines. But, helium added, the attacks would lone pb to an adjacent stronger response.

On Friday Mr Zelensky accused Russia of planting mines astatine a hydroelectric dam successful the Kherson portion of confederate Ukraine, which is nether the power of Moscow's forces.

He said that if the Kakhovka hydropower works was destroyed, hundreds of thousands of radical would beryllium successful information of flooding. Russia has denied readying to stroke up the dam and said Ukraine was firing missiles astatine it.

Neither broadside produced grounds to enactment their claims.

The dam whitethorn supply Russia with 1 of the fewer remaining routes crossed the Dnipro River - besides known arsenic Dnieper - successful the partially occupied Kherson region.

Russia is evacuating civilians from the areas nether its control, successful anticipation of a Ukrainian violative to instrumentality the city.

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The Kakhovka dam is located adjacent the metropolis of Nova Kakhovka

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