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A |     Kyiv, Oct 10 (UNI) Ukraine cities came under Russian missile attack on Monday as the war entered 229th day, the country's military chief said 75 missiles have so far been fired in the sudden wave of attacks.

General Valerii Zaluzhnyi tweeted that 41 of those were neutralised by air defences.

The BBC report said the information could not be verified, but reporters on the ground witnessed and heard several strikes in Kyiv on Monday morning, with reports of many further explosions from other cities around the country.

Monday morning's rare blasts in the capital here followed further strikes overnight in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia and in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

"A multi-storey residential building was destroyed again. There are victims," posted Zaporizhzhia regional governor Oleksandr Starukh on the Telegram messaging app at around 3 am local time.

Emergency services attended the scene, he added. Zaporizhzhia has been hit repeatedly in recent weeks, with dozens of people killed, the BBc added.

It also followed a "night of massive attacks" in Dnipropetrovsk, according to an update from the region's own governor Valentyn Reznichenko, who accuses Russia of shelling multiple regions.

The Russian air attacks on Kyiv are not over and people must remain under cover, the head of the capital's regional military administration said.

In a message to residents on Telegram, Oleksiy Kuleba reassured them air defence systems were working, but emphasised "that the air alert is still ongoing".

He also called on people not to photograph or film landing sites of missiles or damaged infrastructure in the capital. "People's lives depend on it," he added.

The BBC quoted Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky, as saying that "deliberate attacks" on the centre of Kyiv, as well as strikes on Zaporizhzhia in the south and Dnipro in central Ukraine are more proof of the "Kremlin's terrorist inadequacy".

Images and videos on social media showed smoke rising above buildings in several parts of Kyiv.

The first missile attacks on Ukrainian capital after many months on Monday appeared to be much more central than Russian strikes on the city earlier in the war, the BBC said.

Over 10 civilians have been killed and 24 wounded as a result of missile strikes on Kyiv, an aide to the Ukrainian interior minister has said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said: "They are trying to wipe us off the face of the Earth." Strikes across Ukraine this morning show that Russia is "trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the Earth," Zelensky said in his Telegram post. He highlighted blasts in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro, saying "the air alarm does not subside throughout Ukraine."

"Unfortunately, there are dead and wounded," Zelensky added, before urging his compatriots to stay in shelters.

Russia has not yet commented on this morning's strikes.

Several cars caught fire after the attack in Kyiv and over 15 vehicles were damaged, Rostyslav Smyrnov said in a Facebook post. He added that 30 emergency service workers and six response units attended the scene in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyy district.

Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said missiles have hit "critical infrastructure" in the city. "The capital is under attack from Russian terrorists!" Klitschko added in his Telegram post.

Parts of the city of Lviv in western Ukraine are without electricity following strikes on key infrastructure, the city's mayor said.

Posting on Twitter, Andriy Sadovyi said explosions had occurred at "a critical infrastructure facility" and that the operation of the city's thermal power plants had been "temporarily suspended".

"Hot water is not provided at the moment," he said. "Standby power generators at several pumping stations were started to restore water supply to the city. Part of the city without electricity."

He also said a third of the city's traffic lights were not working and that, once alerts had been lifted, traffic controllers would be in place at the busiest intersections.

Russian missile strikes in Kharkiv have hit an energy infrastructure site, causing outages to the electricity and water supply in some areas of the city, Kharkiv mayor, Ihor Terekhov, has said.

Three flights of missiles were seen over Kharkiv and "specialists and utility workers are doing everything they can to restore normal life in Kharkiv", Terekhov wrote on Telegram.

Regional head of Kharkiv, Oleg Sinegubov, also confirmed the strikes, posting on Telegram: "The enemy is striking Kharkiv. There are explosions in the city."

For the last couple of hours, there has been constant strike warnings and the sound of explosions around the city, the BBC report added.

The wave of attacks comes two days after the only bridge linking Russia with occupied Crimea was damaged in a blast and Russia's President Putin has been scheduled to chair a meeting of his security council on Monday to discuss the explosion on the Crimean bridge.

UNI ING。    China and India’s oil, coal and gas purchases pumped some $24 billion in revenue into Russia’s coffers between March and May, nearly doubling the $13 billion the Asian giants spent during the same period in 2021, China Customs and India Trade Ministry data has shown.,The People’s Republic accounted for over 78 percent of the revenue - $18.9 billion. India, for its part, bought $5.1 billion in Russian energy – quintupling purchases it made a year ago by taking advantage of discounts on crude made as Moscow maneuvered to shift supplies away from the European and US markets.,Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Finland-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), predicted that the Asian giants aren’t likely to stop their Russian energy binge anytime soon amid rising energy prices, and the West’s politicized decision to ban Russian crude oil and coal, and to limit gas imports.,EXCLUSIVE: New Delhi Does Not Support Attempts to Isolate Russia, Says Russian Ambassador to IndiaYesterday, 10:29 GMT,CREA figures indicate that China overtook Germany in the first 100 days after the escalation of the Ukraine crisis in February, but that the European market still accounted for a majority of top ten importer nations during this period.,China was the biggest importer of Russian energy in the first 100 days after the invasion, according to @CREACleanAir, and India's rise this year has been dramatic. Still, Europe as a bloc has made up the bulk of Russia's energy sales https://t.co/O7rTG4iI0p pic.twitter.com/rVuXsPv1nU— Dan Murtaugh (@danmurtaugh) July 6, 2022,Combined with Russian discounts, the possibility of ruble-yuan payments (and a similar ruble-rupee scheme currently being finalized), the BRICS nations have enjoyed a dramatic ramping up of the type of ‘win-win’ cooperation consistently talked about by Chinese officials, with Moscow ‘winning’ new markets, and Beijing and Delhi a cheap and dependable source of energy.,Iran Asks to Join BRICS27 June, 17:19 GMT,Sanctions Rebound,The United States banned the import of most (but not all) Russian energy in March, with the European Union following suit in the months to follow by banning Russian coal and fertilizers (which is an energy-intensive sector), promising to “phase out” Russian oil, and searching for alternatives to Russian natural gas.,While these measures were meant to “punish” Russia for its military operation in Ukraine, their impact so far has been to send already high energy prices and inflation soaring, and sparking fears of a steep recession.,Germany, the European industrial giant accounting for more than a quarter of the EU’s GDP, has been hit hard by the self-inflicted dual calamities of inflation and spiking energy costs. On Sunday, German Trade Union Confederation chairwoman Yasmin Fahimi warned that “entire branches” of the country’s industry, including aluminum, glass and the chemical sectors, are at risk of “collapsing permanently” thanks to the gas shortages. Germany depended on Russia for 40 percent of its gas and a quarter of its oil before the escalation of the Ukraine crisis.,No Plan C: Europe Facing Trouble as Norway's Oil, Gas Production DecliningYesterday, 15:27 GMT,Even the US, where Russian crude oil accounted for just one percent of total consumption in 2021, has been affected by the Biden administration’s energy ban, with gasoline prices setting records and sending shockwaves of price hikes reverberating on all other sectors of the economy dependent on road transport.,US and EU officials have reacted with general indifference to ordinary citizens’ economic distress, with President Biden blaming Russia and calling inflation and the gas price jump “Putin’s price hike,” while in Brussels, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has recommended that people simply ‘turn down the thermostat a couple degrees’ to compensate for lost Russian energy. On Monday, EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy Josep Borrell admitted that the transition away from Russian gas and oil is creating “serious difficulties” for members’ economies, but stressed that “this is the price which we must pay to defend our democracies and international law.”。

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