Ukraine war: Power cuts across the country and in Moldova as missiles hit - BBC

Critical infrastructure in Kyiv was also targeted, and the city's officials said three people died in the attack.

Moscow has recently increased strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, leaving half of the country's power grid in need of repair.

Ukraine's national power grid operator has said the damage sustained by power generating facilities in recent weeks has been "colossal" and warned that Ukrainians could face long power outages over the winter months.

Shortly before the fresh reports from Kyiv and Lviv, officials said southern Ukraine had come under renewed assault.

He said the attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure has caused a "massive blackout" across Moldova.

Moldova also experienced widespread power cuts as a result of strikes on Ukraine on 15 November, Mr Spinu said.

Sergiu Tofilat, a local energy policy analyst, told Moldova's TV8 channel that the country's energy supplies relied on a power line that passed through Transnistria, a breakaway Russian-controlled territory in Moldova bordering Ukraine, before reaching the capital Chisinau.

"When there are bombings in Ukraine, this line is automatically disconnected and we are left without electricity," he was quoted as saying.

"Russia's war in Ukraine kills people, destroys residential blocks and energy infrastructure with missiles..." she wrote on Facebook.

Newborn baby killed in attack on Ukraine hospital.