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1h ago
07.14 BST
Summary
Hello and welcome back to the Guardian’s continuing
live coverage of the war in Ukraine. This is Adam Fulton and here’s a quick run
through the latest news to bring you up to speed as it approaches 9.15am in
Kyiv.
Russian-installed authorities have ordered all
residents of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson to leave “immediately”
ahead of an expected advance by Ukrainian troops waging a counteroffensive to
recapture it. The regional pro-Kremlin administration called on civilians to
use boat crossings over a major river to move deeper into Russian-held
territory, citing a tense situation on the front and the threat of shelling and
alleged “terror attacks” by Kyiv, Associated Press reported. On Friday,
Ukrainian forces bombarded Russian positions across the region, targeting
resupply routes.
More than a dozen Russian missiles pounded energy
facilities and other infrastructure across Ukraine on Saturday, the Ukrainian
air force said, with strikes causing blackouts in parts of different regions.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the Russian attacks had struck on a “very
wide” scale, Reuters reported. He pledged that his military would improve on an
already good record of downing missiles with help from its partners.
Russian military forces targeted energy facilities in
western Ukraine, the country’s power grid operator said on Saturday. Ukrenergo
said on Telegram that the “scale of damage is comparable or may exceed the
consequences of the attack on October 10-12”. It said repair crews were
starting to repair the facilities after the rocket attack, but that
restrictions were in place as they tried to restore the electricity supply.
Hundreds of thousands of people in central and western
Ukraine have woken up to power outages and periodic bursts of gunfire, as Ukrainian
air defence tried to shoot down drones and incoming missiles. Kira Rudik, a
member of the Ukrainian parliament, said 1.5 million people were without
electricity after Russian strikes against power stations on Saturday.
Ukraine’s prime minister said that Russia has plunged
Ukraine into a humanitarian catastrophe by attacking its energy infrastructure.
Denys Shmyhal told German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine that Russia wanted
to condemn Ukraine to “a cold winter when many people could literally freeze to
death”.
Ukrainian forces have pushed Russians out of the
Charivne and Chkalove settlements in the Kherson region, the Ukrainian forces’
general staff said on Saturday.
Iran’s foreign ministry has strongly condemned a call
by France, Germany and Britain for the UN to investigate accusations that
Russia has used “kamikaze” drones from Iran to attack Ukraine. Kyiv says Russia
has used Iranian-made Shahed-136 attack drones. If true, the allegations would
mark a breach of UN security council resolution 2231.
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