Explosions rocked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight on Oct. 22 as Russia launched a large-scale aerial attack against Ukraine.

Russia has attacked Ukraine’s power grid as part of an ongoing campaign to damage energy infrastructure before winter

Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK’s missile plan is “accelerating” in a bid to support Ukraine in its fight against Russia.Volodymyr Zelensky and the prime minister met with world leaders in the “coalition of the willing” on Friday afternoon in an effort to push for long-range missiles that can strike deep inside Russia.

Quote: "As a result of earlier Russian attacks, including the large-scale missile and drone strike on 22 October, hourly power outage schedules are being applied between 07:00 and 23:00 across twelve oblasts, with up to three disconnection phases running simultaneously.

Power has been restored to over 800,000 residents in Kyiv, a day after Russia launched major attacks on Ukraine's power grid, causing widespread blackouts.

The attack on the Bryansk facility came hours before Russian attacks left six people dead in Ukraine, officials said.

Venezuela has 5,000 Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles in “key air defense positions,” its President Nicolás Maduro claimed on Wednesday, amid growing tension over the United States’ military deployment in the Caribbean.

Russian attacks killed four people and left hundreds of thousands without power and many without water in Ukraine's Chernihiv region on Tuesday, Moscow's latest salvo in a campaign to break its neighbour's energy system ahead of winter.

Russian drone and missile strikes wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv, damaged residential buildings and caused blackouts across swaths of Ukraine early Friday, authorities said. A child also was killed in separate attacks in the southeast of the country.