Day: October 22, 2022
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Pro-Russian Authorities Tell Kherson Residents to Leave ‘Immediately’
Pro-Russian authorities in the Ukrainian region of Kherson, which Russia claims to have annexed, urged those remaining in the north of the province to leave “immediately” in the face of Kyiv’s advancing counteroffensive on Saturday. The recommendation to evacuate came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched 36 rockets overnight in a “massive attack”…
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Power Cuts Across Ukraine After Fresh Russian Strikes
Fresh Russian missile strikes on Saturday targeted energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s west, the country’s energy operator Ukrenergo said, with officials in several regions reporting outages. The Russian military “carried out another missile attack on energy facilities of the main networks of Ukraine’s western regions. The scale of the damage is comparable or may exceed the…