• 8:30 a.m.: Six million Ukrainian households affected by power cuts

More than six million households in Ukraine were affected by power cuts in Ukraine on Friday, two days after massive Russian strikes against the country, according to Volodymyr Zelensky.

"Tonight, cuts continue in most regions and in kyiv," added the head of state in his daily address. 

kyiv - with some 600,000 homes without electricity in the evening - and its region, as well as the provinces of Odessa (south), Lviv, Vinnytsia (west) and Dnipropetrovsk (center-east), are the most affected by the cuts, he added, calling on Ukrainians to save electricity in areas where power has been restored. 

"We have to endure this winter - a winter everyone will remember," he posted on Facebook.

He had visited earlier in the day Vyshgorod, a city north of kyiv where the strikes left six dead and dozens injured on Wednesday.

Engineers continued to repair the damage across the country. 

In the capital, "a third of kyiv's homes already have heating, specialists are continuing to restore it. Half of the users are still without electricity," said its mayor, Vitali Klitschko.

"During the day, the energy companies plan to connect electricity for all users alternately," he said, at a time when temperatures were around zero degrees and rain was part of the game. .

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  • 8 a.m.: Fifteen dead in a Russian bombardment in Kherson

Fifteen civilians were killed Friday by a Russian bombardment on Kherson, in the south of Ukraine, two weeks after the forced withdrawal of Russian troops from this strategic city. 

"15 residents of the town were killed and 35 injured, including a child," Galyna Lugova, an official with the town's military administration, said on social media.

She said several "private homes and high-rise buildings" were damaged. 

"The Russian invaders opened fire on a residential area using multiple rocket launchers. A large building caught fire," Yaroslav Yanushevich, governor of the Kherson region, said earlier today. .

"Due to constant Russian bombardment, we are evacuating patients from hospitals in Kherson."

The Russian withdrawal from Kherson, which Moscow hoped to make its base in occupied southern Ukraine, has reshuffled the cards in this nine-month war.

The city is strategically located to connect the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia since 2014, and the Ukrainian port of Odessa to the west.

With AFP

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