Ukraine has been forced to introduce emergency power cuts across the country as Russia launched one of its biggest missile attacks since the start of the war
Two 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.
Russia has rained missiles on Ukrainian energy infrastructure almost weekly since early October after several battlefield defeats, but Friday's attack seemed to have caused more damage than many others and snow and ice is now widespread. "Two people were killed. At least five were wounded, including two children," Valentyn Reznichenko posted.
The head of a Russian proxy"people's militia" in Luhansk said a civilian had been killed by Ukrainian shelling in the town of Svatove, some 70km further south. Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said there had been"massive shelling"."The goal of the Russian Federation is for Ukrainians to be constantly under pressure," she wrote in a social media post, vowing that Ukraine would endure.The country has managed to restore much of its power and water supplies after previous attacks but that task becomes harder each time.
With no peace talks in sight, Ukrainian defence 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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