Russia-Ukraine conflict at a glance: what we understand on day 250 of the invasion - The Guardian

  • Russia has launched a wave of cruise missiles at hydroelectric dams and other vital infrastructure throughout Ukraine on Monday morning, with explosions mentioned near the capital Kyiv and in at the least 10 other cities and regions. Ukraine's air command observed it shot down forty four out of 50 enemy rockets. Video pictures recommended that several missiles were intercepted in the skies around Kyiv, quickly after 8am local time. Air raid sirens went off nationally, with residents told to are looking for safeguard.

  • The governor of Kyiv, Oleksiy Kuleba, said "huge shelling within the vicinity" had damaged electricity and power infrastructure. He mentioned residents should professional emergency power cuts. He introduced: "there is presently one victim. we are clarifying the advice."

  • The cruise missiles had been fired from Russian Tu-ninety and T-60 plane flying north of the Caspian Sea and the Rostov vicinity. They hit targets in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv oblasts, as well as within the areas of Mikolaiv, Lviv, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad and Chernivtsi. In a press release on fb, Herman Halushchenko, Ukraine's power minister described Monday morning's attacks as "barbaric" and referred to: "electric substations, hydropower and heat era amenities had been hit through rockets.

  • Fragments from a Russian rocket, shot down by using Ukrainian air defence, landed in Naslavcea, Moldova, damaging some properties and buildings, in response to Moldova's indoors ministry.

  • Twelve grain export ships have left from Ukraine these days, regardless of Russia pulling out of the Turkey-UN brokered grain deal, according to Ukraine's minister of infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov.

  • Turkey will proceed its efforts to aid the Black Sea grain export deal regardless of Russian hesitancy, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan observed on Monday after Russia suspended its participation within the initiative at the weekend.

  • France is working towards permitting Ukraine to export meals resources by way of land routes instead of by the Black Sea through Poland or Romania, the French farming minister Marc Fesneau observed on Monday.

  • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy claimed his forces repelled a "fierce offensive" by using Russian troops within the jap Donetsk area. "nowadays they stopped the fierce offensive moves of the enemy," Zelenskiy spoke of in his Sunday night tackle. "The Russian assault became repelled." The fiercest combating in Donetsk area has been across the towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka.

  • Russia's Black Sea flagship vessel, the Admiral Makarov, become damaged and probably disabled during an audacious Ukrainian drone attack over the weekend on the Crimean port of Sevastopol, in keeping with an examination of video footage. Open-source investigators spoke of the frigate turned into certainly one of three Russian ships to had been hit on Saturday. A swarm of drones struck Russia's navy at 4.20am. Aides to Zelenskiy hinted the nation was behind the smartly-orchestrated raid, though his executive has not claimed accountability.

  • The UN secretary normal, António Guterres, referred to he become "deeply concerned" by way of Russia's suspension of the grain export deal and delayed his departure to attend the Arab League summit in Algiers for a day to try to revive it. Russia requested a meeting on Monday of the UN's security council to discuss the problem. Guterres became engaged in "excessive contacts" to get the contract returned and spoke to the european's desirable diplomat, Josep Borrell.

  • Kyiv's infrastructure ministry mentioned on Sunday that 218 vessels had been now "easily blocked" in its ports – 22 loaded and stuck at ports, ninety five loaded and departed from ports, and a hundred and one waiting for inspections.

  • Russian overseas minister, Sergei Lavrov, expressed "hope" that Joe Biden will keep in mind the 1962 Cuban missile crisis when dealing with the warfare in Ukraine. In an interview for a Russian state television documentary on Sunday, Lavrov said there were "similarities" between the ongoing battle in Ukraine and the 1962 disagreement. "i'm hoping that in today's situation, President Joe Biden may have more alternatives to consider who gives orders and how," Lavrov observed. "The difference is that in the far-off 1962, Khrushchev and Kennedy discovered the electricity to reveal accountability and knowledge, and now we don't see such readiness on the part of Washington and its satellites," he delivered.

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