Russia-Ukraine war latest updates – The Washington Post
A Russian Su-30 warplane crashed into a residential building in Irkutsk, Siberia, on Sunday — the second incident of its kind in less than a week. Two deaths have been reported so far.
Meanwhile, concerns are growing that Moscow will seek to destroy the dam at a major hydroelectric plant in Kherson region to delay a possible Ukrainian advance. Both Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of targeting the dam, which Russia controls.
Kremlin-backed authorities are also stepping up efforts to relocate civilians from the Russian-controlled city of Kherson to Crimea and other occupied regions, in what Ukrainian officials have called an attempt by Moscow to “depopulate” areas of Ukraine that Kyiv is poised to recapture.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
4. From our correspondents
Temporary power outages hit the regions of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kirovohrad — an expanse stretching across the country from west to east.
Ukrainian officials say Russian strikes have destroyed about 30 percent of the country’s autotransformers, which are crucial for transmitting electricity along the country’s electrical grid, Post correspondents David L. Stern, Robyn Dixon and Isabelle Khurshudyan report.
Sammy Westfall and Amy B Wang contributed to this report.
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