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Russia has been extensively condemned after bombarding cities throughout Ukraine, together with launching missile strikes on the centre of Kyiv for the primary time.
The US stated the "brutal" assaults had hit non-military targets, together with a college and youngsters's playground, and promised additional navy help.
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres stated he was "deeply shocked".
Vladimir Putin stated the assaults have been retaliation for Saturday's explosion on a key bridge linking Russia to Crimea.
Ukraine says 83 missiles have been launched, of which greater than 43 have been shot down.
In a defiant video, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that "Ukraine can’t be intimidated. It may well solely be extra united."
The lethal barrage included strikes on the cities of Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, and have been a number of the worst Ukraine has seen for months.
Not less than 14 individuals have been killed and scores extra have been injured, officers stated.
A number of areas have been left with out electrical energy and water after missiles hit power infrastructure.
Residents within the capital Kyiv stated Russia gave the impression to be focusing on civilian areas which have been busy with Monday morning commuters, together with a youngsters's playground, a college and the favored Taras Shevchenko park.
Mr Guterres described the strikes as "one other unacceptable escalation of the conflict" for which civilians have been paying the best worth.
The EU stated a conflict crime had been dedicated, whereas European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen stated Russia stood for "terror and brutality".
US President Joe Biden was one in every of many international leaders to talk with President Zelensky, and he "pledged to proceed offering Ukraine with the help wanted to defend itself, together with superior air defence programs", the White Home stated.
Mr Biden stated the assaults demonstrated "the utter brutality" of Putin's "unlawful conflict".
After the cellphone name, President Zelensky vowed to strengthen Ukraine's armed forces and "make the battlefield much more painful for the enemy".
China and India, which haven’t condemned the conflict, known as for a de-escalation.
Talking on the UN Basic Meeting in New York, Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine's Ambassador to the physique, stated his household had been in a residential space in Ukraine when it was attacked by the newest Russian missiles and so they have been unable to go to a bomb shelter.
He stated Russia had already killed a few of his kinfolk, calling it "a terrorist state" that have to be deterred within the strongest potential methods to stop additional atrocities. He added that Moscow's delegation to the UN left "a path of blood" each time it entered the Basic Meeting corridor.
The Basic Meeting is holding an emergency assembly following Russia's newest assaults. Though the session was convened due to the Kremlin's annexation of 4 partly-occupied Ukrainian areas following sham referendums, it has been overshadowed by Monday's assaults.
Russian missiles started hitting targets throughout Ukraine across the morning rush hour on Monday, in essentially the most widespread bombardment of the conflict.
Ihor Zhovkva, deputy head of President Zelensky's workplace, stated they have been designed to sow panic.
The strikes have been extra intense than had beforehand been seen, he informed the BBC, and in some methods resembled the early days of the conflict.
He added that this had not come as a shock, and was an indication of issues to return throughout the "very troublesome" winter forward.
Mr Putin warned he was able to authorise extra "extreme" assaults, whereas deputy head of the Russian Safety Council Dmitry Medvedev stated that "the primary episode has been performed. There shall be others".
Ukraine has not confirmed it was behind that strike. Mr Zhovkva stated he didn’t fully consider that the Russian assaults have been a retaliation, as Kyiv has been hit earlier than.
In the meantime, Belarus chief Alexander Lukashenko – an in depth ally of Mr Putin – has agreed to deploy his forces to hyperlink up with Russian troopers at Belarus' border with Ukraine in response to what he stated was a menace to his nation from Kyiv.
"We have to determine what else must be accomplished to strengthen the safety of our state, given the quickly altering surroundings," he stated based on feedback carried within the state-run Belta information company.
Mr Lukashenko, who held a one-on-one assembly with President Putin in St Petersburg, stated he had been knowledgeable by unofficial channels of a "Crimean Bridge 2" being deliberate in opposition to Belarus, a reference to Saturday's explosion on a key bridge linking Russia with Crimea.
With out offering any proof, he stated: "Ukraine is not only considering, however planning strikes on the territory of Belarus," including that Kyiv was being "pushed by their patrons to unleash a conflict in opposition to Belarus" and Russia on the identical time.
"We noticed it, we knew it, we created battalion tactical teams, we practiced the defence of the southern border, which we’re doing now," he stated.
Mr Lukashenko has change into more and more reliant on Russia for financial, political and navy help in recent times, and Russian forces used Belarus as a base when it started its invasion of Ukraine in February.
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