Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Power, water outages in Kyiv, key cities after strikes on infrastructure

In addition to damage inflicted on critical infrastructure facilities, the local police chief said that two other buildings in the region were targeted. Ukrainian air defenses shot down at least 10 missiles over the capital, he added.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that Russia can no longer guarantee safe navigation for vessels carrying agricultural goods out of Ukraine, claiming that to do so would be “dangerous” and suggesting that this is the reason Moscow pulled out of the United Nations-backed grain deal over the weekend.

The agreement, brokered in July, safeguarded maritime corridors out of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and ended a months-long Russian blockade of Ukrainian grain exports. Moscow’s decision to withdraw from the deal, citing an alleged Ukrainian drone attack against its Black Sea warships, has reignited concerns about global food insecurity. Ukraine did not claim responsibility for the attack.

Thousands of newly mobilized Russian reservists are “poorly equipped,” Britain’s Defense Ministry said in its daily intelligence update Monday, adding that some reservists arrived in Ukraine last month “without weapons.”

In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” of thousands of reservists as his country faced widely scrutinized battlefield setbacks. The move was Russia’s first military mobilization since World War II.

Citing open-source images, Britain’s Defense Ministry said troops appeared to have been given weapons from 1959 that are “likely in barely usable condition following poor storage.”

Government officials in Moldova, which neighbors Ukraine to its west, reported that a Russian missile was intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses while flying through Moldovan airspace, damaging buildings as it fell over the town Naslavcea. No casualties were reported.

This is not the first time Moldova has reported Russian missiles crossing its airspace. Earlier this month, the Moldovan foreign minister summoned Moscow’s ambassador after accusing Russia of firing three cruise missiles from Black Sea warships, intended for Ukrainian targets, through Moldovan airspace.

Twelve ships containing agricultural products successfully left Ukraine’s Black Sea ports on Monday, the country’s infrastructure ministry reported, after Russia suspended its participation in a United Nations-brokered deal to secure safe passage for cargo ships traveling to and from Ukrainian ports.

“12 ships with 354.5 thousand tons of agricultural products left the Odesa, Chornomorsk, and Pivdennyi sea ports today for the needs of Africa, Asia, and Europe,” the ministry said.

Turkey and the United Nations also restarted their inspection of vessels departing Ukraine under the Black Sea grain deal on Monday, Reuters reported.

A wave of Russian missile and drone attacks damaged 18 targets in 10 Ukrainian regions Monday morning, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said in a Telegram post.

Most of the targets were energy-related, he added, suggesting a coordinated effort by Russia’s military to damage Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.

Shmyhal said the attacks cut off supplies to hundreds of settlements in seven regions, he said, with power outages continuing in the Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions. He did not name all the regions reported to be affected.

Andrii Nebytov, Kyiv’s regional police chief, said rescuers are on the scene after buildings in one of the region’s districts were hit in Monday morning’s barrage. “There are victims,” he said.

In a post on Telegram, Nebytov urged people to stay in shelters. He said Ukraine’s air defenses shot down some Russian missiles, but the threat of further strikes remains.

Here’s what officials in four Ukrainian regions are saying about strikes so far, in what appears to be a deliberate attempt by Moscow to damage the country’s critical infrastructure. Ukraine’s prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, said ten regions were hit but did not name all of them.

Bridget A. Brink, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, said she is seeking shelter from strikes against Kyiv and accused Russia of targeting civilian infrastructure.

She accused Moscow of continuing “callous and barbaric missile strikes on the people of Ukraine in an effort to leave the country cold and dark as we approach winter.”

“Another batch of Russian missiles hits Ukraine’s critical infrastructure,” Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, tweeted Monday after reports of a new wave of attacks against the country. “Instead of fighting on the battlefield, Russia fights civilians.”

Kuleba urged his followers to not “justify” the strikes by calling them a response to the weekend drone attack on Russian warships in the Crimean port of Sevastopol. Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for that attack.

Ukrainians should prepare for long-term power outages as a result of the “massive” shelling of facilities in multiple regions by Russian forces, a Ukrainian presidential adviser warned.

Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a deputy in the presidential office, added that although some missiles were shot down by Ukraine’s anti-air defenses, others hit their targets.

In the capital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said engineers are working to restore electricity after a facility that supplies power to 350,000 Kyiv apartments was struck.

In addition to strikes in the capital, Kyiv, officials from at least three other regions have reported Russian airstrikes against infrastructure targets — suggesting a coordinated wave of attacks by Moscow on Monday morning.

In Zaporizhzhia, the governor accused Russian forces of damaging a critical infrastructure facility. He said in a Telegram post that the rockets, fired from aircraft, struck around 8 a.m. No casualties have been reported so far, but officials warned that infrastructure supplies could be affected.