Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv residents line up for water, mayor says strike cuts power to 270,000 households | Ukraine

Russian officials in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region said late Monday they were expanding the evacuation zone farther away from the Dnieper River.

In a Telegram post, Vladimir Saldo, the Russia-backed head of the region, said he was expanding the area covered by the civilian evacuation order by 15 kilometers (9 miles) to include There are seven other settlements.

Saudi Aramco reported a 39% year-on-year rise in third-quarter profit on Tuesday, the latest financial results mainly due to higher oil prices due to Russia’s invasion of Saudi Arabia. UkraineAgence France-Presse reported.

The announcement comes as the OPEC+ cartel of oil producers is set to implement output cuts that have drawn the ire of the United States, a move the United States said approved at a meeting last month amounted to “alliance with Russia” in the conflict.

The energy giant’s net income totaled $42.4 billion, up from $30.4 billion a year earlier, “primarily driven by higher crude oil prices and volumes,” the energy giant said in a filing with the Saudi stock exchange.

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Three days after a Russian S-300 missile hit the roof of her apartment building in the early hours of Sunday morning, Iryna Davydiuk was inexplicably drying clothes on what was left of her apartment balcony. It was a late October afternoon in the southern port city of Mykolev, but on the patio below her feet lay a large block of concrete and a lot of rubble.

Fortunately, Davydiuk, 48, avoided the nighttime effects by deciding to take refuge in the countryside with relatives over the weekend. When she returned on Monday morning, she was surprised to find extensive damage to her home. “I don’t understand why, why,” she said. “Why are they doing this? We just live our lives in peace. Why is this?”

At 1:40 am on October 23, two S-300 missiles landed on Davydiuk’s estate minutes apart. One hit her block, the other blew up a store and blew up rubble across a children’s playground. Olena Izotova, 46, said she was awakened by the first bomb, and the shockwave of the second bomb “blowed her into another room”. Miraculously, no one was killed because the strike happened at night – and many had already moved out.

Mykolaiv has been a ruthless and indiscriminate target since March after the advance of Russian invaders was stopped a few miles away. Missiles and bombs landed most of the time — officials said there were only 25 days without shelling and 148 civilians were killed, including an 11-year-old boy earlier this month:

Ukraine suffered a total blackout on Monday, cutting water to much of Kyiv after another wave of Russian missile strikes on critical infrastructure.

Ukrainian army commander-in-chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi on Telegram Russia Days after Russia accused Ukraine of drone strikes on its fleet in the Black Sea, the company fired 55 cruise missiles and dozens of other munitions at “civilian targets” across the country.

Presidential adviser Oleksi Arestovich called the bombing earlier on Tuesday “one of the largest shelling of our territory by the forces of the Russian Federation.”

But he noted on the same platform that “the damage was not as severe as it could have been” due to improved air defenses.

While the military said many of the missiles had been shot down, Prime Minister Denis Shmigal said the attack still left “hundreds” of power outages in seven regions of Ukraine.

Several explosions were heard in the capital Kyiv.

Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said on Monday that 40 percent of the city’s residents had no access to water, while 270,000 households were without electricity.

In western Kyiv, an AFP reporter saw more than 100 people with empty plastic bottles and containers waiting to get water from a park fountain.

“Russia is not fighting on the battlefield, but with civilians,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba tweeted.

In a separate statement, Kuleba said Ukraine’s damaged energy infrastructure would be repaired using equipment from 12 countries.

The Russian military confirmed that cruise missile strikes had been carried out and said they had all reached their intended targets.

In Moldova, the government said a Russian missile shot down by Ukrainian air defenses landed in the village of Naslavcha in the north of the country, but caused no damage.

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Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said on Monday that 40 percent of the city’s residents were left without water and 270,000 households were without electricity after Ukraine suffered another wave of Russian missile attacks on critical infrastructure.

In western Kyiv, an AFP reporter saw more than 100 people with empty plastic bottles and containers waiting to get water from a park fountain.

More on this later. In the meantime, here are the major recent developments:

• A barrage of Russian missiles strikes hydroelectric power plants and other critical energy and water infrastructure Ukraine. Russia said it hit military and energy infrastructure targets, but Ukraine said its military installations were not targeted.

• Most parts of Kyiv were without electricity and water. The mayor of the Ukrainian capital said 40% of residents were without water as of Monday evening and 270,000 apartments were without power.

• Despite Russia’s decision to withdraw from the Black Sea grain trade, 12 grain export ships left Ukraine, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister said. The UN also confirmed that the first of 40 planned ship inspections had been completed in Istanbul waters.

• Russian President Vladimir Putin says strikes and decision to withdraw from Black Sea food deals are in response to drone strikes on Moscow’s Crimean fleet He put the blame on Ukraine. Putin told a news conference on Monday that the Ukrainian drones used the same sea corridor as the grain ships transiting under a UN-brokered deal.

• Moscow called the movement of ships through the Black Sea security corridor “unacceptable”. In a statement, Russia’s Defense Ministry said it wanted Ukraine to “commit” not to use the Black Sea food corridor for military purposes, adding that it was “impossible to guarantee the security of any objects” in the region until then.

• The United Nations has disputed Moscow’s claims that a civilian cargo ship carrying Ukrainian grain may have been involved in a drone strike against Russia. Martin Griffiths, the head of UN aid, said there were no such vessels in the corridor of a designated “safe zone” in the Black Sea at the time of what Russia said was the attack.

• France is working to allow Ukrainian food exports by land rather than the Black Sea.

• Russia refutes allegations of its Agents hacked Liz Truss’ phone and gained access to sensitive information.

• Norway raises its army to alert level to strengthen the response to the war in Ukraine, Although Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said there was no direct threat of invasion from Russia.

• Russian military is recruiting Afghan special forces soldiers To fight in Ukraine, three former Afghan generals told The Associated Press. They said the Russians wanted to lure thousands of former elite Afghan commandos to the “Foreign Legion” with an offer of $1,500 a month and the promise of a safe haven for themselves and their families.

• Also on Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry said Moscow had completed part of the military mobilization that Putin announced in September And no further call-up notices will be issued.

• A 40% cut in Russian gas supplies is hitting Moldova’s ability to provide enough electricity to its 2.5 million people, The deputy prime minister of the small former Soviet Union said.