Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy warns more strikes possible after Ukraine says 100 Russian missiles launched across country

Lorenzo Tondo

Guardian reporters within the area of Mykolaiv heard a collection of explosions and reported a collection of seen rockets being launched from Odesa area.

A couple of minutes later, the top of the army administration Maksym Marchenko confirmed that Ukraine’s air defence forces in Odesa shot down eight Russian kamikaze drones and one Russian rocket.

China’s overseas minister Wang Yi has praised Russia’s “rational” and “accountable” angle to nuclear conflict throughout a gathering together with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the G20 summit.

Wang was quoted as saying by state information company Xinhua as saying:

China observed that Russia has just lately reaffirmed the established place that ‘a nuclear conflict can’t be received and must not ever be fought,’ which exhibits Russia’s rational and accountable angle.

The Chinese language minister additionally mentioned Beijing was happy to see Moscow sign its willingness to have interaction in talks over Ukraine and conform to resume the Black Sea grain initiative, in accordance with a Chinese language overseas ministry assertion.

China is “keen to work with Russia to push ahead their high-level exchanges and communication in varied fields, deepen bilateral sensible cooperation and facilitate personnel exchanges”, Wang was quoted as saying.

Kate Connolly

Germany has accomplished building of its first floating terminal to obtain liquefied pure fuel (LNG) which its economic system minister mentioned could be very important to securing power provides to the nation over the winter months.

Robert Habeck described the primary of 5 deliberate floating terminals on the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven as being “a central constructing block for the safety of our power provides this coming winter” as Germany races to search out options to Russian pipeline fuel which it had relied on for years till provides have been halted along with the invasion of Ukraine.

The federal government is engaged on introducing a complete of 5 swimming LNG terminals to German ports, every with a capability of not less than 5 billion m3 per yr. The terminal at Wilhelmshaven, and one other at Brunsbüttel, are as a consequence of be operational on the flip of the yr.

Germany used to obtain practically a 3rd of its pure fuel provides by way of pipeline from Russia, earlier than Moscow began lowering the stream following its invasion of Ukraine, in an obvious response to sanctions positioned on it, and turned off provides utterly in late August.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned Ukrainians they may face extra Russian missile strikes right this moment, however mentioned the nation would survive.

In a video shared on Telegram, Zelenskiy mentioned 85 missiles have been launched in opposition to Ukraine on Tuesday and an extra 20 have been anticipated to hit the nation.

He warned residents to remain in shelters, including:

I do know that the (missile) strikes turned off power in lots of locations … We’re working, we are going to restore all the pieces, we are going to survive.

It’s 6pm in Kyiv and Moscow. Right here’s the place we stand:

• Russia has launched waves of missile strikes throughout Ukraine at the same time as G20 leaders – together with its overseas minister, Sergei Lavrov – met in Bali. Ukraine’s authorities mentioned it was one other deliberate assault aimed on the nation’s power infrastructure services.

• Ukraine’s public broadcaster reported that the strikes have focused Kyiv, Kyiv area, Kharkiv metropolis in addition to Poltava, Mykolaiv, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskiy, Lviv, Cherkassy, Odesa, and Chernihiv areas. The strikes comply with Russia’s retreat from Kherson and the west financial institution of the Dnipro River final week.

• Russia fired “round 100 missiles” at cities throughout Ukraine, in accordance with Yurii Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian air pressure command.

• At the very least one individual has died after three residential buildings within the capital, Kyiv, have been hit, in accordance with the town’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko. He mentioned the buildings have been in Kyiv’s Pechersk district, a residential space simply north of the presidential administration. Klitschko mentioned medics and rescue staff have been on their approach to the scenes. Widespread energy outages are reported throughout the nation on account of the assault.

• The top of Ukraine’s presidential administration, Andriy Yermak, mentioned the assault was a response to president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s handle to the G20 on Tuesday. Zelenskiy referred to as on the leaders to assist Ukraine to finish it on its phrases – the first being that Russian troops depart all of Ukraine, together with the areas it occupied in 2014. Zelenskiy is looking for a world convention to “cement key component of the postwar safety structure” and stop a recurrence of “Russian aggression”.

• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has mentioned that Zelenskiy’s assertion that there will likely be no “Minsk-3” deal to finish the preventing in Ukraine confirms that Kyiv isn’t interested by holding peace talks with Moscow.

• In Bali, Lavrov instructed the media that “all the issues are on the Ukrainian aspect, which categorically refuses any negotiations and places ahead situations which might be clearly unrealistic and insufficient on this scenario”.

• Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskiy, responded to Lavrov’s remarks by blaming the continuation of the conflict on the Russian minister’s “public manipulation and unwillingness to cease murdering”.

• Lavrov additionally instructed reporters on the G20 summit in Bali on Tuesday that the United Nations had instructed him of written US and EU guarantees to take away obstacles to the export of Russian grain and fertilisers to world markets. Lavrov mentioned he had acquired undertakings on this from the UN secretary normal, António Guterres.

• The UN human rights workplace (OHCHR) mentioned on Tuesday that each Russia and Ukraine have tortured prisoners of conflict in the course of the nearly-nine-month battle, citing examples together with using electrical shocks and compelled nudity.

• Matilda Bogner, head of the monitoring mission, instructed a Geneva press briefing that the “overwhelming majority” of Ukrainian prisoners they interviewed held by Russian forces reported torture and ill-treatment. She gave examples of canine assaults, electrical shocks with Tasers and army telephones and sexual violence. On the Ukrainian aspect, Bogner reported “credible allegations” of abstract executions of Russian prisoners amongst different abuses.

• Germany will set up a upkeep hub in Slovakia to service and restore weapons it has delivered to Ukraine, German defence minister Christine Lambrecht mentioned.

• Russian president Vladimir Putin has awarded the occupied cities of Melitopol and Mariupol the titles of “cities of army glory”. Each lie in areas of Ukraine that the Russian Federation has claimed to have annexed.

• Russian’s overseas ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, has criticised Eire for, she claims, transferring away from its conventional army neutrality, in strikes being “cheered on by its British neighbour”.

• The top of soccer’s world governing physique, Fifa, issued a plea on Tuesday for a ceasefire within the conflict in Ukraine at some point of the World Cup. Gianni Infantino referred to as for all sides to make use of the match as a “constructive set off” to work in direction of a decision.

One other explosion has been heard in Kyiv in the previous few minutes.

A spokesperson for the Ukrainian air pressure mentioned Russia fired round 100 missiles in a national strike.

The official mentioned the strikes have been aimed toward important infrastructure services, however residential buildings have been additionally hit.