Ukraine war: Russia could launch more heavy strikes, Zelensky warns - BBC

Russia has capable missiles to transportation retired yet much dense strikes against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, pursuing a question of Russian attacks.

Engineers are continuing enactment to reconstruct energy aft Friday's monolithic strikes utilizing 76 missiles.

The attacks person targeted civilian infrastructure, arsenic temperatures driblet beneath zero successful galore regions.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has been consulting his subject commanders astir the aboriginal of the war.

The Kremlin says Mr Putin spent the full of Friday astatine the office of Russia's subject operation.

"I would similar to perceive your suggestions connected our contiguous and medium-term actions," the Russian president said.

The defence curate and main of the wide unit were besides astatine the meeting.

Kyiv has accused Moscow of utilizing wintertime arsenic a limb by targeting indispensable facilities arsenic temperatures drop. But Russia's president earlier this period vowed to proceed to batter Ukraine's infrastructure, saying disapproval of Russia's strikes would not interfere with its "combat missions".

Parts of the Ukrainian superior remained without powerfulness and heating connected Saturday, the city's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. But h2o supplies person present been afloat restored successful the city.

Power has been restored successful the country's 2nd metropolis of Kharkiv, authorities said, aft it was near without energy for hours pursuing Friday's question of strikes that targeted vigor stations crossed the country.

Local officials said arsenic galore arsenic 9 powerfulness facilities were deed arsenic Russian forces fired 76 missiles and carried retired drone attacks.

Kharkiv's politician said the metropolis suffered "colossal" damage.

One resident, Anastaisa, told the BBC the strikes began connected Friday morning.

"In a substance of minutes, the lights started blinking," the parent of a two-month-old kid said.

"Just 10 seconds later, we were retired of power, everything conscionable went inactive and that's it."

An intensive attraction caregiver successful Kharkiv, called Vlad, told the BBC that the unit astatine his infirmary continued to enactment during the strikes connected the city, due to the fact that they were utilized to specified attacks.

Defence Ministry advisor Yuriy Sak told the BBC connected Friday that Russia's predominant attacks meant that repairing the harm to energy infrastructure was getting harder.

Elsewhere, successful the metropolis of Kryvyi Rih, 4 radical person been confirmed killed aft a residential gathering was deed -a 64-year-old woman, a 30-year-old mates and a one-year-old boy, whose assemblage was recovered overnight. Another idiosyncratic died successful Kherson, authorities said.

The alarm was raised crossed Ukraine connected Friday and Commander-in-Chief General Valeriy Zaluzhny said aerial defences had intercepted 60 of the 76 missiles fired, astir of them cruise missiles.

Kyiv metropolis officials said astir 40 missiles had been fired astatine the superior unsocial - 1 of the biggest barrages since Russia's 24 February invasion.

Thirty-seven were brought down by aerial defences, the officials added.

"It's precise stressful, but present I'm utilized to this," said 42-year-old Oksana, who lives successful the capital. "I don't privation our children to unrecorded done this, to beryllium successful basements, shelters, I don't privation this for them."

Russia's attacks besides chopped powerfulness successful the north-eastern Sumy portion that borders Russia, and besides successful the cardinal cities of Poltava and Kremenchuk.

Russia has launched much than 1,000 missiles and Iranian-made onslaught drones since the question of strikes began connected 10 October.

The UK's Ministry of Defence says determination has been an "uptick" successful Russia's run of long-range strikes against Ukraine's captious infrastructure successful caller days.

UN quality rights commissioner Volker Turk warned Thursday that much attacks connected powerfulness facilities could "lead to a further superior deterioration successful the humanitarian concern and spark much displacement".

"I'm angry," said Yelyzaveta, 21. "They [Russia] are destroying our lives. We are utilized to it now. The astir important happening is that Russia isn't here."

And Anastasia said that beingness was becoming much hard arsenic wintertime sets in.

"When it's daytime it is inactive OK, it is tolerable and I tin negociate the situation, but erstwhile it's acheronian outside, this is erstwhile my problems statesman due to the fact that I request to spot clearly, to measurement babe look and besides to be to the babe - those are stressful," she said

"And, of course, conscionable the effect that we are retired of powerfulness creates a batch of hostility and tons of stress. So we conscionable past done the nighttime and erstwhile the time breaks, it gets a spot better, but we cannot comparison it to our mean day."