Russia is launching counter-missile attacks on Ukraine in response to attacks inside its territory. In the last two days, 100 drones and 90 missiles have been attacked by the country's army in Ukraine. As a result, power outages occurred in several cities of Ukraine. As a result, more than 1 million people in Ukraine spend days without electricity in sub-freezing temperatures.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday highlighted Russia's current progress in the Ukraine war in a speech to a meeting of a security alliance of former Soviet states in the Kazakh capital Astana.

In a speech, Putin confirmed Russia's use of an Orionik intermediate-range ballistic missile in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last week.

At the same time, Putin said at the CSTO summit that his country had begun the serial production of nuclear-capable weapons. The Ministry of Defense is also selecting targets for strikes in Ukraine with new missiles.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on Thursday that his country's electricity infrastructure has come under attack from a massive enemy. That forced the operator of the national power grid to cut emergency power even in freezing temperatures.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of using cluster munitions. "In several areas, attacks with cluster munitions have been recorded," he said. They targeted civilian infrastructure. This is a very despicable aspect of Russian terrorist tactics. Ukraine needs more Western air defenses to defend against Russian attacks.'