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After a week of intensive Russian strikes across Ukraine, including in civilian areas, Ukrainian forces continued to press counteroffensives in the southern and eastern parts of the country. But as winter approaches, Ukrainians are under new hardships, with many factories and energy facilities damaged or temporarily closed.
Russia is also facing setbacks in Ukraine and has lost more than 6,000 pieces of equipment since the beginning of the war, according to an assessment from the U.S. intelligence community.
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Friday that the “massive strikes” would subside, “at least for now, and then we’ll see,” he said at a news conference in the Kazakh capital, Astana. He also assured Russians that the mobilization of army reservists, an unpopular order that prompted tens of thousands of men to flee Russia, would finish in two weeks, the official Tass news agency reported.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
The scale of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure, visualized
Russia’s airstrikes, intended to show force, reveal another weakness: In an apparent retaliation for a strike on a bridge in Crimea over the weekend, Russian missiles rained down on several Ukrainian cities Monday, hitting civilian infrastructure. But even though targeting civilian infrastructure is potentially a war crime, pro-war Russian nationalists want more strikes.
“It has to be done constantly, not just once but for two to five weeks to totally disable all their infrastructure, all thermal power stations, all heating and power stations,” said Bogdan Bezpalko, a member of the Kremlin’s Council on Interethnic Relations. “Then, Ukraine will descend into cold and darkness.”
But the hawks, who are demanding publicly on state television and social media to know why Russia doesn’t hit more high-value targets, won’t like the answer: The Russian military appears to lack sufficient accurate missiles to sustain airstrikes at Monday’s tempo, say Western military analysts.
Amar Nadhir, Robyn Dixon and Loveday Morris contributed to this report.

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