Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy warns more strikes possible after Ukraine says 100 Russian missiles launched across country

China’s foreign minister Wang Yi has praised Russia’s “rational” and “responsible” attitude to nuclear war during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov at the G20 summit.

Wang was quoted as saying by state news agency Xinhua as saying:

China noticed that Russia has recently reaffirmed the established position that ‘a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,’ which shows Russia’s rational and responsible attitude.

The Chinese minister also said Beijing was pleased to see Moscow signal its willingness to engage in talks over Ukraine and agree to resume the Black Sea grain initiative, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement.

China is “willing to work with Russia to push forward their high-level exchanges and communication in various fields, deepen bilateral practical cooperation and facilitate personnel exchanges”, Wang was quoted as saying.

Ukrainian authorities have said the latest wave of Russian missile strikes was targeted at the country’s infrastructure facilities.

The energy situation across Ukraine has been left “critical” as a result of the strikes, according to the deputy head of the presidential administration, Kyrylo Tymoshenko.

Kyiv’s city state administration has said that the power blackouts mean that the country’s air raid sirens do not work, the FT’s Christopher Miller says.

The UK foreign secretary James Cleverly has said Russia’s latest missile attacks on Ukraine demonstrate President Vladimir Putin’s “weakness”.

Ukraine is currently experiencing “major internet disruption”, with live metrics showing that national connectivity is at 67% of previous levels, according to the internet monitoring group Netblocks.

Most regions of the country have been affected by a countrywide power outage amid intense Russian missile attacks targeting critical infrastructure, the group said.

Kyiv authorities said four missiles were intercepted by air defences but those that passed through hit two multi-storey residential buildings in the Pechersk district.

Footage released by Ukraine showed the aftermath of the strike. The area is a few miles north of the presidential palace.

Germany has completed construction of its first floating terminal to receive liquefied natural gas (LNG) which its economy minister said would be vital to securing energy supplies to the country over the winter months.

Robert Habeck described the first of five planned floating terminals at the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven as being “a central building block for the security of our energy supplies this coming winter” as Germany races to find alternatives to Russian pipeline gas which it had relied on for years until supplies were halted in conjunction with the invasion of Ukraine.

The government is working on introducing a total of five swimming LNG terminals to German ports, each with a capacity of at least five billion m3 per year. The terminal at Wilhelmshaven, and another at Brunsbüttel, are due to be operational at the turn of the year.

Germany used to receive nearly a third of its natural gas supplies via pipeline from Russia, before Moscow started reducing the flow following its invasion of Ukraine, in an apparent reaction to sanctions placed on it, and turned off supplies completely in late August.

My colleague Isobel Koshiw in Kyiv writes that authorities are asking residents to stay in shelters after another explosion was reported in the Ukrainian capital.

Here are some of the latest images from Kyiv following a wave of Russian missile attacks across the country.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned Ukrainians they could face more Russian missile strikes today, but said the country would survive.

In a video shared on Telegram, Zelenskiy said 85 missiles were launched against Ukraine on Tuesday and a further 20 were expected to hit the country.

He warned residents to stay in shelters, adding:

I know that the (missile) strikes turned off energy in many places … We are working, we will restore everything, we will survive.

The US “strongly condemns” the latest wave of Russian missile attacks against Ukraine, the White House has said.

In a statement, it said today’s attacks “will serve to only deepen the concerns among the G-20 about the destabilising impact of Putin’s war”.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said:

The United States and our allies and partners will continue to provide Ukraine with what it needs to defend itself, including air defense systems. We will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes.

It’s 6pm in Kyiv and Moscow. Here’s where we stand:

• Russia has launched waves of missile strikes across Ukraine even as G20 leaders – including its foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov – met in Bali. Ukraine’s authorities said it was another planned attack aimed at the country’s energy infrastructure facilities.

• Ukraine’s public broadcaster reported that the strikes have targeted Kyiv, Kyiv region, Kharkiv city as well as Poltava, Mykolaiv, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskiy, Lviv, Cherkassy, Odesa, and Chernihiv regions. The strikes follow Russia’s retreat from Kherson and the west bank of the Dnipro River last week.

• Russia fired “around 100 missiles” at cities across Ukraine, according to Yurii Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force command.

• At least one person has died after three residential buildings in the capital, Kyiv, were hit, according to the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko. He said the buildings were in Kyiv’s Pechersk district, a residential area just north of the presidential administration. Klitschko said medics and rescue workers were on their way to the scenes. Widespread power outages are reported across the country as a result of the attack.

• The head of Ukraine’s presidential administration, Andriy Yermak, said the attack was a response to president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s address to the G20 on Tuesday. Zelenskiy called on the leaders to support Ukraine to end it on its terms – the primary being that Russian troops leave all of Ukraine, including the areas it occupied in 2014. Zelenskiy is calling for an international conference to “cement key element of the postwar security architecture” and prevent a recurrence of “Russian aggression”.

• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said that Zelenskiy’s statement that there will be no “Minsk-3” deal to end the fighting in Ukraine confirms that Kyiv is not interested in holding peace talks with Moscow.

• In Bali, Lavrov told the media that “all the problems are on the Ukrainian side, which categorically refuses any negotiations and puts forward conditions that are obviously unrealistic and inadequate in this situation”.

• Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskiy, responded to Lavrov’s remarks by blaming the continuation of the war on the Russian minister’s “public manipulation and unwillingness to stop murdering”.

• Lavrov also told reporters at the G20 summit in Bali on Tuesday that the United Nations had told him of written US and EU promises to remove obstacles to the export of Russian grain and fertilisers to world markets. Lavrov said he had received undertakings on this from the UN secretary general, António Guterres.

• The UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday that both Russia and Ukraine have tortured prisoners of war during the nearly-nine-month conflict, citing examples including the use of electric shocks and forced nudity.

• Matilda Bogner, head of the monitoring mission, told a Geneva press briefing that the “vast majority” of Ukrainian prisoners they interviewed held by Russian forces reported torture and ill-treatment. She gave examples of dog attacks, electric shocks with Tasers and military phones and sexual violence. On the Ukrainian side, Bogner reported “credible allegations” of summary executions of Russian prisoners among other abuses.

• Germany will establish a maintenance hub in Slovakia to service and repair weapons it has delivered to Ukraine, German defence minister Christine Lambrecht said.

• Russian president Vladimir Putin has awarded the occupied cities of Melitopol and Mariupol the titles of “cities of military glory”. Both lie in areas of Ukraine that the Russian Federation has claimed to have annexed.

• Russian’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, has criticised Ireland for, she claims, moving away from its traditional military neutrality, in moves being “cheered on by its British neighbour”.

• The head of football’s world governing body, Fifa, issued a plea on Tuesday for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine for the duration of the World Cup. Gianni Infantino called for all sides to use the tournament as a “positive trigger” to work towards a resolution.

Another explosion has been heard in Kyiv in the last few minutes.

A spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force said Russia fired around 100 missiles in a countrywide strike.

The official said the strikes were aimed at critical infrastructure facilities, but residential buildings were also hit.

The Dutch foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra, who is in Kyiv today, said the latest series of Russian missile attacks across Ukraine were a “great motivator to stand shoulder to shoulder” with Kyiv.

Speaking from an air raid shelter, Hoekstra said the shelling showed Russia was prepared to use “criminal means” in its war with Ukraine. He added:

There can only be one answer to that: that is continue, continue to support Ukraine, continue to send weapons, continue to humanitarian aid. As the Netherlands, we will do that, together with other countries.

The Kyiv Independent’s Illia Ponomarenko has posted some pictures of a Kyiv subway station as air raid sirens are heard across the capital.

The energy situation in Ukraine is “critical” following a wave of attacks that damaged energy infrastructure, the deputy head of the president’s office said.

The national grid operator, Ukrenergo, said the worst damage was in northern and central regions and that emergency power outages for “all categories of consumers” had been introduced in those areas. It also announced special emergency outages in Kyiv.

A statement from Ukrenergo on Telegram said:

The (Russians) are again trying to turn off the lights in the country. Energy infrastructure facilities have been damaged during a new large-scale missile attack. The attack is still ongoing, we cannot yet determine the full extent of the damage, there is “incoming” to our infrastructure in all regions of the country, but the most difficult situation is in the northern and central regions. In this regard, emergency shutdowns of all categories of consumers have been introduced there in full. In the city of Kyiv, special emergency shutdown schedules have been introduced. Please stay in the shelter and thank you for your understanding. Please share this information with those who do not use social media!