Blackouts in 585 Ukrainian towns and villages - official

As the result of Russian attacks over the past 24 hours, 585 towns and villages across Ukraine are now without power, Ukraine’s Deputy Interior Minister Yevhen Yenin says.

Speaking live to Ukrainian TV, he says the Russians "terrorised not only the capital [Kyiv] but whole regions of Ukraine".

Yenin says the confirmed death toll of a Russian strike on an energy-generating facility in Ukraine's north-eastern Sumy region has risen to four. The local authorities earlier reported three victims (see our earlier post).

A similar attack was carried out in the south-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, he says. There were no casualties.

“Russia is hunting for all energy-related facilities,” the deputy interior minister warns. “They want to cause chaos in the energy industry.”