Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin ‘exacting vengeance’ for his military failures with latest strikes, says UK defence secretary | Ukraine

It has just gone 7pm in Kyiv – here’s where thing stand.

• A wave of Russian missiles struck hydroelectric plants and other critical energy and water infrastructure across Ukraine with explosions reported near the capital, and in at least 10 other regions this morning.

• Russia says its troops struck military and energy infrastructure targets in “high precision strikes”, however Ukraine says its military facilities were not targeted, and it had shot down 44 out of 50 enemy rockets.

• A Ukrainian energy company says it is running out of equipment to repair the damaged infrastructure. DTEK was able to buy some spare parts to fix the power lines but needs millions of dollars more to restore the network, its executive director said.

• Putin is “exacting vengeance” for military failures through fresh strikes on Ukraine and the withdrawal from the Black Sea export deal, the UK’s foreign secretary says. James Cleverly urged Russia to reconsider participating in the grain deal, adding it would be unconscionable for people to suffer because of Putin’s setbacks on the battlefield.

• France is working to allow Ukraine to export food supplies via land routes rather than by the Black Sea. After Russia withdrew from the crucial grain export deal over the weekend, France’s agriculture ministry said it was looking at transportation through Poland or Romania instead.

• Meanwhile Turkey says it will continue its efforts to support the deal in an effort to “serve humanity”. The UN confirmed the first of 40 planned ship inspections had been completed in Istanbul waters on Monday, with a team of only UN and Turkish members, rather than the previous four-member teams including Russians and Ukrainians.

• Russia dismisses reports that its agents hacked Liz Truss’s phone, and managed to gain access to sensitive information. When asked about the report, the Kremlin said there was little in British media that could be taken seriously:

• Russia accuses Ukraine of undermining the Black Sea grain export deal following a drone attack on its fleet in Crimea. It argued the contract was now “hardly feasible” because the security of the shipment was unable to be guaranteed.

• Norway put its military on a higher level of alert to sharpen its response to the war in Ukraine. The country will tighten its security from tomorrow weeks after it deployed its troops to guard offshore platforms and onshore facilities following the Nord Stream pipeline leak.

• Russia announces its partial mobilisation, which had been used to send reinforcements into Ukraine, has ended. On 21 September, Putin announced a partial mobilisation – the first since the second world war – was a direct response to the dangers posed by the west.

Russian president Vladimir Putin is “exacting vengeance” for his military failures through fresh strikes on Ukraine and the withdrawal from the Black Sea export deal, the UK’s foreign secretary has said.

James Cleverly has urged Russia to reconsider participating in the grain deal, adding it would be unconscionable for people to suffer because of Putin’s setbacks on the battlefield.

None of Russia’s recent attacks serve any military purpose, he added, describing Putin’s only aim as “spreading terror” across Ukraine.

“Putin will never break the spirit of the Ukrainian people,” the minister said.

A barrage of Russian missile strikes has left large parts of Kyiv without water and electricity, after the rockets targeted critical civilian infrastructure earlier on Monday.

Footage released by Ukraine’s armed forces also showed its air defences intercepting Russian missiles with the country’s air command stating it shot down 44 out of 50 rockets fired by Russia.

The wave of strikes came after a sea drone attack on the Admiral Makarov, a flagship Russian Black Sea vessel, according to an examination of video footage.

Russia’s defence ministry has announced that the country’s partial mobilisation, which had been used to send reinforcements into Ukraine as part of what Russia terms a “special military operation”, has ended.

In a statement on behalf of the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, the ministry said:

All activities related to conscription for military service by the military commissariats, together with the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, of citizens in the reserve have been stopped.

Preparation and delivery of subpoenas are stopped.

Alert stations and headquarters, collection points for citizens of military commissariats, as well as buildings and structures allocated by decisions of the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, used for partial mobilisation measures, are subject to release for functioning or use for their previous purpose.

Also, according to the instructions, all personnel of the military commissariats involved in ensuring partial mobilisation are ordered to return from 31 October of this year. to carry out their duties as usual.

In the future, the work of the military commissariats for recruiting the armed forces of the Russian Federation will be organised only by accepting volunteers and candidates for military service under the contract.

On 21 September, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, announced a partial mobilisation in Russia as a significant escalation that placed the country’s people and economy on a wartime footing. In a highly anticipated televised address, Putin said Russia’s first mobilisation since the second world war was a direct response to the dangers posed by the west, which “wants to destroy our country”.

Shortly after Putin’s announcement, Shoigu said 300,000 Russians would be called up as part of the mobilisation, which would apply to “those with previous military experience”.