Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine on Friday in one of its biggest attacks since the start of the war, knocking out power in the second-biggest city and forcing Kyiv to implement emergency blackouts nationwide, Ukrainian officials said.
Three people were killed when an apartment block was hit in central Kryvyi Rih and another died in shelling in Kherson in the south, they said. Russian-installed officials in occupied eastern Ukraine said 12 people had died by Ukrainian shelling.
After some repairs, Ukrainian grid operator Ukrenergo lifted a state of emergency declared after the missile strikes, which it said cut energy consumption by 50%. But Ukrenergo also warned that more time would be needed to repair equipment and restore electricity than in previous bombardments. Reuters was unable to immediately verify the latest battlefield accounts, but recorded three explosions in the snow-covered capital Kyiv and smoke rising over the city.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the presidential office, said earlier on Friday that emergency power shutdowns were being introduced across the country to enable repairs. With no peace talks in sight, Ukrainian defense chiefs on Thursday predicted Russia would launch a new all-out offensive early next year that could include a second attempt to take Kyiv, which they tried and failed to capture early this year.
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