Ukraine war: 'Indefinite blackouts', 'only' diplomatic solution claims, Georgia economic boom
Power cuts across Ukraine were announced on Saturday, following intense Russian strikes on the country's energy infrastructure.
Ukraine's state electricity operator, Ukrenergo, said blackouts would happen in Kyiv and seven other neighbouring regions, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv.
The move comes after Russian forces unleashed a series of crippling attacks on Ukraine, damaging power plants, water supplies and other civilian targets.
Later on Saturday, Ukrenergo said the planned outages for limited periods of time would not be enough and that emergency blackouts, which could last an indefinite amount of time, are needed.
Ukraine has been grappling with power outages and disruption of water supplies since Russia started massive barrages of missile and alleged drone strikes on the country's energy infrastructure last month.
Moscow has said they were in response to what it alleged were Ukrainian attacks on Crimea, the region that Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
Ukraine denies these allegations.
A judge in Donetsk, annexed by Russia at the end of September, was shot on Saturday, leaving him in a serious condition, according to local authorities.
The judge, Alexander Nikulin, was from the Supreme Court of the Republic of Donetsk (DNR) in southeastern Ukraine.
He presided over the panel of judges who sentenced foreign fighters who fought on the side of Ukraine, including two Britons and a Morrocan man.
“On the evening of November 4, 2022, the Interior Ministry … received a message about an assassination attempt in the city of Vougleguirsk," announced the self-styled republic's interior ministry.
"The victim was wounded by bullets", they said, adding he was "in serious condition" and "fighting for his
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