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Ukraine war today: Residents struggle in -15C conditions as Russia targets energy sites

Four killed in Kharkiv as massive Russian air assault cripples Ukraine’s energy grid
  • Russia launched a second major drone and missile bombardment of Ukraine in four days, officials said Tuesday, aiming again at the power grid amid freezing temperatures in an apparent snub to US-led peace efforts.
  • Multiple oil tankers have been struck in an attack by drones while unloading crude oil at a terminal on Russia's coast – it is not yet clear who is behind the strikes.
  • Germany indicted two Ukrainians linked to an alleged Russian spy plot to detonate packages while they were being transported across Europe, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
  • Britain's envoy to the UN said Russia’s use of hypersonic ballistic missile on Ukraine last week that killed four and injured several others should be “universally condemned”.
  • Ukrainian lawmakers on Tuesday voted against naming outgoing defence minister Denys Shmyhal as energy minister after president Volodymyr Zelensky proposed him for the top job.

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