Ukraine Update…263 days into the Russian move on the Ukraine…Echo’s of WWII Rocket bombing…..

Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.

• Kyiv’s regional governor urged residents to heed air raid sirens on Wednesday and stay in shelters, as officials reported strikes in the capital. Three people were killed in a strike, which hit a two-story building, according to the city’s military administration. Among those killed was a 17-year-old girl, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, and 11 people were injured. Wednesday’s strikes caused a complete power outage in the western city of Lviv, according to Mayor Andriy Sadovyi.
• Neighboring Moldova experienced “massive blackouts” Wednesday, including in the capital, Chisinau, after Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu wrote on Twitter. More than half of the country lost power, Infrastructure Minister Andrei Spinu said on Twitter. The Moldovan government has summoned Russia’s ambassador in reaction. “Russia has left Moldova in the dark,” Moldovan President Maia Sandu wrote in a Facebook post. “We can’t trust a regime that leaves us in the dark and cold, that purposely kills people for the mere desire to keep other peoples poor and humble.”
• Millions of Ukrainians could face life-threatening conditions without power, heat or running water this winter, after attacks on energy infrastructure have battered Ukraine to the brink of a humanitarian disaster, The Washington Post reports. Sergey Kovalenko, the head of a power company supplying Kyiv, has warned that Ukrainians could face blackouts until the end of March. The head of power grid operator Ukrenergo on Tuesday described the damage as “colossal.”
• The European Parliament voted Wednesday to label Russia “a state sponsor of terrorism,” citing “the deliberate attacks and atrocities” in Ukraine. Kyiv has urged the United States to do the same, although the White House has indicated it will refrain from such a move. In a tweet, Zelensky welcomed the decision. Here’s what the designation means.
• Russian energy giant Gazprom said it would reduce natural gas supplies to Europe through a pipeline that runs through Ukraine. Gazprom accused Kyiv of withholding gas meant for Moldova; the Ukrainian gas transmission system operator denied the allegation. Gazprom said it would begin reducing gas supplies “if the transit imbalance through Ukraine for Moldovan consumers persists, on Nov. 28, from 10:00.”

• Kyiv said it launched an investigation into videos circulating online that the Kremlin said show Ukrainian forces executing Russian prisoners of war. The United Nations said it was looking into the allegation. Ukraine’s human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, said the Russian soldiers opened fire first during a staged surrender in the Luhansk region after Moscow accused Ukraine of killing Russian soldiers who had surrendered. The Post could not verify the footage.
• A Russian strike on a hospital killed a newborn in the Zaporizhzhia region, its governor, Oleksandr Starukh, said Wednesday on Telegram. Zelensky also said a missile attack on the maternity ward of Vilnyansk hospital killed an infant. The Post could not immediately verify the claim. Russian missiles have hit medical facilities during the war: Several people, including a child, were killed when an airstrike hit a maternity hospital in the southern port city of Mariupol in March.
• The eastern Donetsk region is under fierce attacks and shelling, Zelensky said in his address Tuesday night, while in the neighboring Luhansk region, “little by little we are strengthening our position and moving forward.”
• Residents in the southern city of Kherson face the threat of shelling from Russian forces across the river. The Ukrainian government has called on people there to evacuate to safer regions since Russian forces retreated from the city earlier this month….

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