"Russia Fired 84 Missiles, 14 Dead, Says Ukraine; "Massive Strike," Says Putin: 10 Points"

 "Russia Fired 84 Missiles, 14 Dead, Says Ukraine; "Massive Strike," Says Putin: 10 Points"

New Delhi: Mass retaliatory Russian strikes across Ukraine today killed 14 people and injured dozens more. Ukraine's capital Kyiv was hit by multiple Russian strikes today - the first since late June.

Here's your 10-point cheatsheet to this big story

• According to Ukraine's Prime Minster Denys Shmygal, 11 "important infrastructure facilities" had been damaged across eight regions and Kyiv. "It is necessary to be prepared for temporary power, water and communication cuts," he said on social media.
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• Ukraine's military said Russia sent off 84 journey rockets at them, two days after an enormous blast harmed an extension interfacing Russia to Crimea in an assault Moscow accused on Kyiv.
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• Ukraine's Unfamiliar Priest Dmytro Kuleba said the series of strikes showed Russian President Vladimir Putin was "frantic due to combat zone routs" after late gains by Ukrainian powers.
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• Russia's previous President Dmitry Medvedev cautioned the retaliatory mass strikes were just the "main episode". "The main episode has been played. There will be others," Mr Medvedev, presently appointee top of Russia's Security Gathering, said via online entertainment.
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• Ukraine affirmed Moscow utilized Iranian-made drones sent from adjoining Belarus as a component of the different lethal strikes. "The foe utilized Iranian Shahed-136 UAVs [unmanned elevated vehicles] in strikes sent off from Belarus" and the Crimean landmass, the Ukraine military said in a proclamation on Facebook, adding nine robots were "obliterated".
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• Mr Putin said the strikes took out Ukraine's energy foundation. "Earlier today, on the guidance of the guard service and as per an arrangement from the general staff, an enormous hit was completed with high-accuracy, long-range weapons...on energy, military order and correspondences offices in Ukraine," Mr Putin said during a gathering with his Security Committee.
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• French President Emmanuel Macron said the Russian strikes across Ukraine and against regular people flagged a "significant change" in the direct of the conflict. The "conscious strikes by Russia over the entire of Ukraine's domain and against regular people, it's a significant change in the idea of this conflict," Mr Macron told correspondents during an outing to the Mayenne locale of France.
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• In one more related acceleration, Belarusian pioneer Alexander Lukashenko, a partner of Mr Putin, said Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine were preparing Belarusian "extremists" for fear assaults, in the wake of declaring plans to send joint soldiers with Moscow.
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• The three nations, of which Lithuania and Poland are European Association and NATO (North Atlantic Settlement Association) individuals, share a line with Belarus.
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• The EU accepts Russia's rocket assaults on regular citizens in Ukraine "adds up to an atrocity," a representative for the coalition's international strategy boss Josep Borrell said today. "Unpredictably focusing on individuals in a fearful, horrifying hail of rockets on regular citizen targets is without a doubt a further heightening," the representative, Peter Stano, said.