Ukraine managed to restore electricity to almost six million people in the last 24 hours after massive Russian strikes on the electricity production system, President Volodymyr Zelensky said today.
"Rehabilitation work continues without interruption after yesterday's terrorist attack," he said in a video address.
A man (36) died in his car after Russian forces shelled Kherson in southern Ukraine today, the regional governor said.
Jaroslav Janusevic said on Telegram that Russian troops hit the western district of Kherson - a port city on the Black Sea - with artillery and rocket fire.
In addition to the death, a 70-year-old woman was wounded, reports Reuters.
Ukrainian forces liberated the city from Russian occupation on November 11, but officials say Kremlin forces have continued to shell it from positions across the Dnieper River.
In a separate message today, Yanushevich said that Russian troops shelled the home of an elderly citizen in a village not far from Kherson.
The governor of another Ukrainian region said earlier today that rescuers pulled the body of a one-year-old boy from the rubble of a Russian strike on an apartment building on Friday morning.
Air raid sirens continued to be heard across Ukraine today, including the capital Kiev, officials said, a day after Russia launched a major missile attack on critical infrastructure.
"Please go to shelters," the military administration of the city of Kyiv announced on Telegram.
The Belarusian social media account "Hajun", which monitors military activities in Belarus, said several Russian warplanes were spotted flying over Belarus towards northern Ukraine.
Reuters says it could not independently verify that information.
In the photos from Reuters, see what the past night looked like in Kiev, after one of the biggest Russian attacks since the beginning of the invasion.
In a video released by the Kremlin, Putin presided over the meeting, accompanied by Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, Chief of the Military General Staff Valery Gerasimov, and Commander-in-Chief of Russian Forces in Ukraine Sergei Surovikin.
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During yesterday's Ukrainian shelling of a village in the Luhansk region, which is controlled by Russia, at least 11 people were killed, and 20 are missing, the Russian state news agency TASS reported, citing Reuters.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko announced this morning that the city's metro system is back in operation and that all residents have been reconnected to the water supply, a day after the latest wave of Russian airstrikes on critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital, the Guardian reports.
Ukrainian officials said Russia fired more than 70 missiles on Friday in one of its biggest attacks since the start of the war, triggering an emergency power outage across the country.
Klitschko also said that half of the city has heating again, while two-thirds of Kyiv has electricity.
"But the schedules of emergency shutdowns are still applied, because the electricity deficit is significant," Klitschko added.
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