Russia-Ukraine struggle newest: Putin targets Kyiv’s energy grid forward of winter as six cities attacked in a single day

A large Russian assault on Ukraine hit six cities, damaging residential areas, industrial zones and vitality infrastructure.

The place have the strikes hit?

Within the southern metropolis of Kherson a strike on a residential constructing killed two individuals and injuted 5 stated regional governor Oleksand Prokudin.

Seven individuals had been injured in Kyiv, together with a nine-year-old woman, after the strike targered residential and business buildings, mayor Vitalii Klitschko stated.

A minimum of six strikes hit the Slobidskyi district of Kharkiv, damaging civilian infrastructure and hospitalising two, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov stated.

Seven had been injured and at the least one individual was rescued from beneath rubble in Cherkasy in central Ukraine, based on Ihor Klymenko the minister of inner affairs of Ukraine.

Missiles hit an industrial zone within the area of Lviv, damaging buildings and beginning a hearth, however there have been no experiences of casualties, Mr Klymenko added.

Regional governor Vitalii Koval reported strikes within the metropolis of Rivne within the northwest area of the identical title, however no additional particulars have been reported.

Russian missile strikes broken vitality infrastructure in central and western Ukraine on Thursday, Ukrainian nationwide grid operator Ukrenergo stated.

The assaults triggered electrical energy shutdowns in 5 areas – Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Rivne, and Kharkiv, it stated on the Telegram messaging app.

Poland stated it is going to now not present Ukraine with weapons for its counteroffensive in opposition to Russia amid rising pressure between Warsaw and Kyiv over grain exports.

On Wednesday, Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki stated his nation would now not be transferring “any weapons” to Ukraine and would as a substitute spend money on arming Poland with essentially the most “fashionable weapons”.

However Mr Morawiecki claimed the choice wasn’t associated to a brief ban on Ukrainian grain, which Poland imposed in a bid to guard the curiosity of Polish farmers this week, however “warned” Ukraine it could impose “further” merchandise to the ban.

Ukraine’s SBU safety service and navy struck the Saky air base in Russian-occupied Crimea in a single day, inflicting “severe injury”, a Ukrainian intelligence supply claimed on Thursday.

The Russian navy, in the meantime, stated it had destroyed 19 Ukrainian drones over Crimea and the Black Sea, and gave no particulars on casualties or injury.

“Strikes by the Safety Service and the Navy hit the goal and triggered severe injury to the occupiers’ gear,” the supply claimed, describing an operation that the supply stated used first drones after which Neptune cruise missiles.

The supply added that at the least 12 fight plane and man-portable air-defense system had been positioned on the base in western Crimea and that the bottom was additionally used as a coaching base for drone operators.

Listed here are some pictures from Kyiv, Ukraine, which present injury inflicted by Russian airstrikes this morning.

Ukraine’s armoured autos seem to have damaged by way of Russia’s fundamental line of defense on the southern entrance.

Footage suggests Marder and Stryker autos have pushed by way of the Surovikin Line west of Verbove in Zaporizhzhia.

Greater than 300 of Vladimir Putin’s troopers have been killed and wounded in a span of 24 hours in Zaporizhzhia’s oblast, Ukraine’s armed forces stated in a battlefield replace on Wednesday.

Ukrainian commander normal Oleksandr Tarnavskyi stated the Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions 18 instances with 830 assaults, one rocket and 23 air strikes up to now day. In retaliation, the artillery models beneath him launched 1,232 hearth missions through the day.

Ukraine has fired at the least 19 “deadly” drones over the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula, and three extra over different bordering areas of Russia, the Russian defence ministry stated on Thursday.

The Russian anti-aircraft models intercepted and destroyed over a dozen drones within the area, the ministry stated on its Telegram channel.

“Within the night time from 20 to 21 September, an try by the Kyiv regime to commit a terrorist assault with deadly drones on websites within the Russian Federation was intercepted,” the ministry stated.

United States President Joe Biden is trying ahead to assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the White Home in Washington on Thursday and getting a “battlefield perspective” on Ukraine’s counter-offensive, says White Home spokesperson John Kirby.

Kirby informed reporters that the White Home had inspired Zelensky to satisfy with US lawmakers to debate his ongoing navy wants.

He stated the opportunity of offering Ukraine with Military Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles remained “on the desk,” however no choice had but been made.

That is the Ukrainian president’s second go to to the US since Russia’s invasion and it comes at a time Congress is mulling Mr Biden’s request to help Ukraine with as a lot as $24bn (£19bn) in navy and humanitarian assist.

Extra on what to anticipate from the assembly right here: