October 10, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news

US President Joe Biden said Russian missile strikes hitting Kyiv and other cities in Ukraine on Monday "once again demonstrate the utter brutality of Mr. Putin’s illegal war on the Ukrainian people."

"We again call on Russia to end this unprovoked aggression immediately and remove its troops from Ukraine," Biden said.

The President is expected to join a call with G7 leaders on Tuesday, where Ukrainian President Zelensky is expected to address the group.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Monday to reiterate the United States' support following the deadly Russian strikes on Ukraine.

Additionally, US ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink met with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Brink tweeted photos of the meeting.

There have been explosions in the Kryvyi Rih city, said Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the city's military administration in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

"Preliminary - kamikaze drones Shahid [Iranian-made.]" Vilkul wrote on Telegram.

There are no details yet of damage or casualties.

Russia struck multiple Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones, according to Ukrainian authorities. Catch up on everything you need to know on Monday's developments so far:

Strikes hit multiple Ukrainian regions: A total of 84 cruise missiles were fired at Ukraine Monday along with a number of attack drones, Ukrainian officials say, adding that the military destroyed 56 of the Russian weapons. Critical infrastructure facilities — mainly energy supply facilities — were hit in multiple regions and in the city of Kyiv, where more than 30 fires broke out, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service (SES) said. At least 11 people died and 64 were injured following the attacks, officials said.

Critical infrastructure was impacted in some areas: At least four regions — Lviv, Poltava, Sumy and Ternopil — had no electricity supply. Authorities requested Lviv residents who may have access to electricity to only use it for "urgent needs." Kyiv had briefly suspended its subway operations. The region of Khmelnytskyi, which lies west of Kyiv, has "no electricity supply, electric transport does not work, water supply is suspended, traffic lights do not work," according to the region's head. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Telegram post Monday that the government was "doing everything necessary to quickly restore electricity supply." Meanwhile, Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said "preliminary data shows most of the energy facilities will be reconnected today. The rest will start working tomorrow."

Putin blames Ukraine for attack on Crimean bridge: Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the Crimea bridge blast, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukrainian "special services" of the attack. He said Monday's strikes were in response to the attack, but Ukrainian intelligence says the strikes had been planned since early last week.

China and India also call for de-escalation: After the strikes, China expressed hope that the situation in Ukraine will “de-escalated soon.” India has said it is "deeply concerned" by the escalation of the conflict and said that "escalation of hostilities is in no one's interest," urging an "immediate cessation of hostilities" and return to the "path of dialogue." Other European leaders have also condemned the attack.

Escalation in the war: Monday's strikes come on the heels of other recent attacks across Ukraine. Last week, Russian forces intensified missile attacks on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia over the past week, with at least 43 civilians dead in the past week, including 14 on Saturday alone, according to Zelensky. Then the huge explosion occurred early Saturday severely damaging the only bridge connecting annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland, causing parts of the structure to collapse. At least three people were were killed, according to Russian officials.

Here's a look at where the state of control stands on Ukrainian territories along with the Crimean bridge:

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is “deeply shocked” following Russia’s missile strikes on Ukraine on Monday, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.

“This constitutes another unacceptable escalation of the war and, as always, civilians are paying the highest price,” the statement added. 

Guterres spoke Monday morning with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Dujarric said, specifying that the phone call covered the ongoing situation in Ukraine, besides the missile strikes. 

CNN’s Richard Roth contributed reporting to this post.

Following a series of Russian missile attacks across Ukraine on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the “deliberate strikes” by Moscow's forces “against civilians."

“It’s a profound change of the nature of this war,” Macron told journalists on a trip to the French region of Mayenne. His comments were confirmed to CNN by the Elysee Palace.

He added that he will be meeting with his diplomatic and military counsellors regarding the strikes upon his return to Paris.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted an image of a meeting he's holding with officials to discuss restoring communications and energy supply after the latest wave of Russian strikes, saying in a post on Telegram that the "enemy has damaged our energy infrastructure, but now we are doing everything necessary to quickly restore electricity supply."

"It is important to reduce electricity consumption from 5 to 10 pm. This will ease the load on our power grid and reduce the need for emergency outages," he said. 

"We are holding on. We are working. We are united," he continued.

At the same time, Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said that dozens of missiles had hit energy infrastructure in 11 regions and the capital city of Kyiv. "Power supply has been disrupted in almost the whole of Ukraine. Eight regions suffer water supply problems," he said.

"Preliminary data shows most of the energy facilities will be reconnected today. The rest will start working tomorrow," he said.

"Power is back in Sumy already. We are on the way in Zhytomyr and Kharkiv. Emergency schedule of turning the power off is in place in Kyiv and Kyiv region, Chernigiv, Cherkassy and Zhytomyr regions," Shmygal said. 

India has said it is "deeply concerned" by the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine following Russia's missile strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities on Monday. 

He reiterated India's position that the "escalation of hostilities is in no one's interest," urging an "immediate cessation of hostilities" and return to the "path of dialogue." 

Earlier on Monday, India’s Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar declined to say whether the country would vote to condemn Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territory in the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session on Wednesday. 

“As a matter of prudence and policy, we don’t predict our votes in advance,” Jaishankar said during a news conference with Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong in Canberra, Australia.

In September, the country's leader Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin that “today’s era is not of war,” calling on him to cease hostilities in Ukraine.   

With previous reporting from CNN’s Jake Kwon in Hong Kong 

A total of 84 cruise missiles were fired at Ukraine Monday along with a number of attack drones, Ukrainian officials say.

Critical infrastructure facilities — mainly energy supply facilities — were hit in eight regions and in the city of Kyiv, where more than 30 fires broke out, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service (SES) said.

"As a result of the terrorist attack, 11 people died and 64 were injured," it added.

There was no electricity supply in four regions: Lviv, Poltava, Sumy and Ternopil regions, the SES noted. "In the rest of the territory of Ukraine, the electricity supply was partially disrupted."

Here are the locations targeted in Monday's strikes: