At least 10 million people in It was Ukraine facing Rolling blackouts for the country and power The infrastructure has been under constant bombardment due to the Russian strikes on Friday.
Country also Fierce fighting witnessed fury on in eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.
with dc Kyiv see it first Snow flashes of In the winter, authorities said they were working to restore it power nationwide after Russia earlier this week launched what Ukraine described as its heaviest bombardment of civil infrastructure of The war has been going on for nine months.
about 10 million people Without power, said President Volodymyr Zelensky in Thursday evening video address, in country with prewar population of about 44 million. said the authorities in Some areas have ordered emergency power outages.
Russia defense The ministry said on Friday that its forces have been used for a long time-range Thursday weapons to strike defense and industrial facilities, including “missile manufacturing facilities”.
Ukrainian forces in The past 24 hours Shot down two Russian cruise missiles, five air- Fired five Iranian missiles -made Watch 136 Drones, Ukraine military He said.
Reuters could not verify battlefield reports.
The United Nations warned of humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine this winter because power and lack of water. One of The three Vice-Presidents of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis, have arrived in Kyiv Friday to discuss the EU emergency financial support for Ukraine in the coming months.
Pope Francis has reiterated that the Vatican is ready to do anything possible to me help ending the conflict.
“We should all be pacifists,” he told the Italian newspaper La Stampa. You want peace, no just An armistice may only lead to rearmament. The true peace that is the fruit of dialogue. “
‘torture chamber’
investigators in Regions of Kherson region Ukraine restored in counterattack last The week revealed 63 bodies bearing signs of Torture after the Russian troops leftwithin Ukraine minister He was quoted as saying.
The Ukrainian Parliament’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, released a video of What he said was a torture chamber used by Russian forces in Kherson regionincluding small area in which he said up up to 25 people were kept at one time.
Reuters was unable to verify the allegations made use of Electric shocks to extract confessions – made by Lubinets and others in the video. Russia deliberately denies its forces attack civilians or committed atrocities.
They were mass burial sites found in Other parts were previously occupied by Russian forces, including some with Civilian bodies holding banners of to torture.
A Reuters witness heard explosions in Center of Kherson city Saw Friday morning black smoking rising From behind buildings. The police prevented off access But the commotion didn’t seem to bother hundreds of people on Central square lining up for Humanitarian aid.
The field was frenzied fighting of Queues and screens for humanitarian aid of patriotism on Thursday, where residents celebrated their liberation months ago of Russian occupation but the mood was also one of Deep uncertainty.
“We’re fine, but we’re not know what are you expecting. no thing over Until now. on it (east) bank of The river (Russian) forces are gathering. on this sideThey’re gathering. we in said Ihor, 48, an unemployed construction worker.
Vice head of Ukraine’s presidential administration said Russian forces had “looted” Kherson region before they withdraw last week.
“After a trip to … Kherson regionand one thing became clear – ours people there need Much of help. The Russians not only killed and mined them, but also They plundered all cities and villages. “There is practically nothing there,” said Kirillo Tymoshenko. on Telegram messaging app.
Russia moved some forces from Kherson to reinforce its positions in Eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Ukraine military He said that Russian forces fired artillery on the cities of Neighboring Bakhmut and Solidar in Donetsk regionamong others.
Russian fire also hit By the minority in Northeast Kharkiv region, which Ukraine regained control of in September and Nikopol A city on the opposite bank of Kakhovka reservoir of nuclear Zaporizhzhia power The statement said.
crisis
The conflict in Ukraine worsened Russian relations with The United States and other Western allies are in deep crisis.
In the first well known, face-to me-face Russian american connection since invasion of The head of the CIA in Ukraine, William Burns, delivered a cautionary note this week during the talks in The Turkish capital Ankara about the consequences for Moscow of Which use of nuclear weapons.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Russian leader Vladimir Putin in phone call Friday that the Ankara talks helped prevent “uncontrolled” escalation in field. Erdogan again Call for Diplomatic efforts to end the war.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said Moscow had not done so rule out More high-level meetings with United State on “Strategic stability”, prof term used to mean reduce risk of nuclear war.
But Ryabkov also He said there is nothing to talk about with Washington on the topic of Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that any summit between Putin and US President Joe Biden was “out of question at the moment.
Meanwhile, Ryabkov was quoted by Interfax as saying on Friday that Russia hopes to be able to make a missile prisoner switch with US to include convicted Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout, better known as “The Dealer” of the death.”
In the midst of the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II, Russia and the United States explore a prisoner The swap that would see Americans jailed including basketball star Brittney Griner is back in the United States in exchange for fit.
