Russia CONTINUES To Fight Ukraine's Energy Infrastructure Serang, President Zelensky Calls 10 Million Non-Electric Residents

Ukrainian firefighters are trying to extinguish the fire due to the Russian attack. (Wikimedia Commons/State Emergency Service of Ukraine)

JAKARTA - Russian missiles and bullets hit Ukrainian positions in several areas, with heavy fighting in Donetsk, the Ukrainian military said late Thursday.

Ukraine's energy infrastructure is being attacked continuously by Russian missiles and drones, from the northern capital Kyiv to Dnipro in central Ukraine and Odesa in the south, the military said in a statement.

Ukrainian troops in the past 24 hours have brought down two cruise missiles, five missiles launched from the air and five Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones, the military said, citing Reuters November 18.

As the first winter snow fell in Kyiv, authorities said they were working to restore electricity nationwide, after Russia earlier this week released what Ukraine said was the toughest bombing of civilian infrastructure, since the war began February.

"About 10 million people are without electricity. Authorities in several places ordered a forced emergency blackout," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video speech late Thursday.

Ukraine is usually experiencing a long and cold winter, with an average temperature of a few degrees below zero Celsius and the lowest to -20 Celsius.

"No matter what terrorists want, no matter what they try to achieve, we have to get through this winter and become stronger in the spring than we are now, even better prepared for the release of our entire region than it is now," President Zelensky said.

Separately, the UN agency said a serious humanitarian crisis overshadowed, with millions facing this winter's "continuous electric death".