Russia-Ukraine latest: Deaths, blackouts as cities are pounded

Power outages reported across the country as attacks intensify, with blackouts also reported in neighbouring Moldova.

Girl looking sad, wearing a winter jacket and hat, holds a ginger cat. Behind her is one remaining wall of a destroyed house with rubble and bricks surrounding it.
Yuliia Zaika, a 9-year-old Ukrainian girl, holds her cat Marsyk outside her half-sister's destroyed house in the village of Moshchun, near Kyiv, Ukraine, November 8, 2022 [Murad Sezer/Reuters]
By Edna Mohamed and Dalia Hatuqa
Published On 23 Nov 2022

This blog is now closed, thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the war in Ukraine on Wednesday, November 23: