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todaySaturday October 22, 202215:31V. ZELENSKY ACCUSES MOSCOW OF A “MASSIVE ATTACK” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday accused Moscow of a “massive attack” with 36 rocket attacks on his country overnight from Friday to Saturday. “The aggressor continues to terrorize our country. During the night, the aggressor launched a massive attack, with 36 rocket attacks,” he counted on social networks. 15:01MORE THAN A MILLION HOMES WITHOUT POWER More than a million homes are currently without power in Ukraine, following Russian strikes on energy infrastructure in the country, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency Kyrylo Tymoshenko announced on Saturday . “To date, 672,000 subscribers have been disconnected in the Khmelnytskyi region, 188,400 in the Mikolaiv region, 102,000 in the Volyn region, 242,000 in the Cherkasy region, 174,790 in the Rivne region, 61,913 in the Kirovograd region and 10,500 in that of Odessa”, he detailed on social networks. 14:54A NUCLEAR STRIKE ON KHERSON? In an interview with Le Parisien published on Saturday, the Ukrainian ambassador to Paris, Vadym Omelchenko, expressed his fear that Russia was preparing a massive attack, faced with repeated setbacks from its army. “We cannot exclude the possibility of a nuclear strike on Kherson,” he said, also referring to the possibility of the destruction of a dam, which could flood the entire region.14:37 HELPING UKRAINE President American said in a statement from the White House that it was “looking forward” to working with the new Italian Prime Minister, the neo-fascist Giorgia Meloni, to help Ukraine. “As G7 leaders, I look forward to continuing our support for Ukraine, to holding Russia to account for its aggression, to upholding human rights,” said Joe Biden, recalling that the Italy was “a vital NATO ally”. the opening of the international forum for peace organized by the Italian Catholic community Sant’Egidio, one of the channels of the shadow diplomacy of the Vatican. According to the Elysée, he should be in line with his speech to the UN General Assembly in September, when he denounced “a return to the age of imperialism and colonies” imposed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In Rome, Emmanuel Macron will insist on multilateralism to face the “crises that run through our planet” as well as “on the importance of avoiding the creation of artificial fractures” between the North and the South, explained the French presidency.14: 14CALL FOR THE EVACUATION OF KHERSON The pro-Russian authorities called on all civilians in Kherson to leave the city “immediately”. The pro-Russian occupation administration in the region evokes on Telegram a “tense situation on the front” and “an increased danger of massive bombardments”. Evacuations to the left bank of the Dnieper River, which borders Kherson, have been underway since Wednesday. , said on Telegram the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov. The bombardments targeted “civilian infrastructure” in the town of Chebekino, said Viatcheslav Gladkov. About 15,000 people were also left without electricity. According to the governor, it will take between five and six hours to restore electricity to homes. dealing with diplomatic matters related to the war in Ukraine. On this subject, she has already distanced herself from a figure in Italian politics: Silvio Berlusconi. Herself an Atlanticist and in favor of supporting Ukraine against Russia, the 45-year-old leader was forced to react to the words of her predecessor, who claimed to have “reconnected” with Vladimir Putin and who blamed kyiv for the responsibility for war. Giorgia Meloni reaffirmed her position by assuring that Italy is “fully part and with its head held high” of Europe and NATO. Ukraine reported power cuts. In the west, electricity and water were cut off in some areas of the Volyn region, according to its governor. The town of Khmelnytsky was without power and city officials called on residents to prepare for water cuts. In the Rivne region, also in the west, Governor Vitali Koval said attacks had targeted the region’s “energy infrastructure” in the morning, damaging electricity substations. Power outages were also reported in the Odessa region (southwest) after “two missile strikes on the energy infrastructure” of the region, “said Governor Maxim Marchenko. The governor of the Kirovohrad region (center) for its part asked local businesses and residents to reduce their electricity consumption after the strikes on “important” energy infrastructures. up to 20% in some regions, as Russian strikes target energy infrastructure, challenging the country’s electricity supply.”We are grateful, both to the people who have reduced consumption at home and to the companies that do the same”, thanked the operator’s boss, Volodymyr Kudrytsky, in a written statement. nt targeted energy infrastructure in western Ukraine, announced the operator Ukrenergo, while officials reported power cuts in several regions of the country. Russian forces “carried out a new attack with missiles on energy facilities of the main networks in the western regions of Ukraine”, explained Ukrenergo on social networks, adding that “the extent of the damage is comparable or could to overcome the consequences of the attack of October 10-12.”10:01 NEW RUSSIAN STRIKES IN UKRAINE Several Ukrainian officials have confirmed that a new wave of Russian strikes hit several Ukrainian regions this Saturday morning. According to the tweet of Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, part of it was aimed at energy infrastructure. Some missiles were intercepted. 07:13 NUCLEAR WARNING Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, currently visiting Australia, has warned Russia about nuclear weapons, saying that Russian intimidation on “the use of nuclear weapons is a serious threat to peace and security of the international community and is absolutely unacceptable”. “impartial” investigation into Iranian drones supplied according to the West to Russia in its war against Ukraine. Tehran has been accused for several days by the West of supplying kamikaze drones to Russia, and the White House even affirmed Thursday that Iranian soldiers were in Crimea to help the Russians in the handling of these machines launched against energy infrastructures and cities in Ukraine. The European Union, which announced new sanctions against Iran, assured this week that it had “enough evidence”. 07:03BONJOUR Hello and welcome to this live broadcast devoted to current affairs in Ukraine. 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