The Russo-Ukrainian War at a Glance: What We Know on Day 268 of the Invasion | Ukraine

Russia launched another wave of missile, drone and missile strikes across Ukraine on Thursday morning. The latest strikes mark the sixth mass attack since early October, which Ukrainian authorities say aims to destroy the country’s energy system.

The first snow of the winter fell in Kyiv as authorities said they were working to restore power nationwide After Russia earlier this week launched what Ukraine described as the heaviest bombing of civilian infrastructure of the war.

Donetsk region saw the heaviest fighting of the war so far. Russian forces have reinforced forces that withdrew from the southern city of Kherson, which Ukraine recaptured last week. The Ukrainian military said that Russian forces had shelled the nearby towns of Bakhmut and Solidar, among others.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said about 10 million people had lost power In a video address Thursday night. In some places, he said, authorities have ordered emergency power cuts.

An agreement brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July aimed at easing global food shortages was extended by four months on Thursday, Although Russia said its demands were not yet fully addressed.

The presidential administration and heads of regions confirmed the strikes on critical infrastructure in Odessa and Dnipro. Three people were reportedly injured in the Odessa region, while another was wounded 14 people were wounded in the bombing of the city of Dnipro, According to the city’s mayor, Boris Filatov.

Two people were killed in a rocket attack on Thursday night in the southeastern region of ZaporizhiaAnd the According to local officials. Three were wounded in an attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv. they added.

Investigators in the recaptured territory in the area uncovered 63 bodies bearing signs of torture after the Russian forces left. UkraineThe interior minister was quoted as saying. Russia denies its forces target civilians or commit atrocities. Mass burial sites have been found in other parts formerly occupied by Russian forces, including some civilian bodies showing signs of torture.

United kingdom said the Ministry of Defense The missile barrage that hit Ukraine on Tuesday was probably the largest number of strikes ever carried out by Russia In a day From the first week of their invasion.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken He said The United States has not yet seen anything that contradicts Poland’s initial assessment The Ukrainian air defenses are responsible for the missile accident that occurred on Tuesday. US President Joe Biden Disputed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Suspension That the rockets that fell in Poland On Tuesday they were not of Ukrainian descent, saying that was not what the evidence indicated.

The Kremlin said it could not imagine entering into “general” negotiations with Ukraine. In a call with reporters, army spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Kyiv of changing its position regarding possible Russian-Ukrainian peace talks, adding that The war will continue despite Low temperatures.

Ukrainian forces control about 1% of the territory in the eastern region of Luhansk, to me Head of the region installed by Russia. The Moscow-backed official, Leonid Pasechnik, He was quoted as saying that Ukraine took control of the village of Belogorovka and two other settlements in the area.

A member of the Russian armed forces who participated in the invasion Ukraine He asked for political asylum after his arrival in Madrid, Watchman I learned.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he believes neither Russia nor the United States plans to use nuclear weapons. Erdogan comments It came after CIA Director William Burns and Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, met this week in Ankara in what was the first known high-level contact between the United States and Russia since the war. The war began in February.

A Dutch court has found three men guilty of killing all 298 people on board MH17. that was It was shot down by a Russian surface-to-air missile When it was flying over eastern Ukraine in 2014.