• Ukraine’s president has condemned it as a “crime against humanity.”
• Russian attacks have cut off power to millions of people across the country.
• Zelenskyy spoke to the UN Security Council via video link from Moldova.

Russian assaults on Ukrainian infrastructure have cut off power in huge swaths of the war-torn country and parts of Moldova. Ukrainian President Volodymyr

Zelenskyy called the attacks a “crime against humanity.”

When temperatures are below zero and millions of people lack energy, heating, and water, it’s a crime against humanity, Zelenskyy told the UN Security Council via video link on Wednesday.

A rocket hit a two-story building in Kyiv on Wednesday, killing at least six civilians and wounding nine, authorities said.

Multiple locations reported strikes as Moscow tries to debilitate Ukraine’s key services before winter.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the UN, stated Vladimir Putin was “weaponizing winter to inflict great pain on the Ukrainian people.”

She said Putin will “freeze the country into submission.”

Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s UN ambassador, complained that Zelenskyy’s video appearance was against council rules and rejected Ukraine and its backers in the West’s “reckless threats and ultimatums.”

Zelenskyy said Russian attacks have damaged half of Ukraine’s infrastructure before the last wave.

Ukrainian authorities say Putin hopes unheated and unlit houses in the winter would sway public opinion against fighting Russia’s advance, but they say it’s increasing Ukrainian determination.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated there were “many explosions in different districts.”

Kharkiv, Lviv, Chernihiv, and Odesa also lost power.

Anton Gerashchenko, a Ukrainian ministerial assistant, said the attacks happened after the EU called Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism.”

Moldova’s infrastructure minister remarked, “We have severe power disruptions.”

Moldova and Ukraine share Soviet-era energy systems. On November 15, 2.6 million people in the country lost power.

Moldova’s pro-Western president, Maia Sandu, stated her country “must remain in the free world.”

Most of western Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi region was also without power, the governor said. He stated that a nuclear power facility was unplugged from the Ukrainian grid.

It’s reported from Kyiv that the missiles were meant to disrupt Ukraine’s electrical grid and plunge the country into darkness. More could come.

According to the many people he’s interviewed in recent weeks, “there’s no evidence” of Russia breaking Ukrainians’ will.

The latest incident came hours after Ukrainian authorities reported a rocket attack killed a 2-day-old newborn in a maternity ward.

The baby’s mother and a doctor were retrieved alive from the rubble after the nocturnal attack in Vilniansk, near Zaporizhzhia.

Governor said the rockets were Russian.

The strike adds to the horrible toll taken on hospitals, patients, and personnel in the 10th month of the Russian invasion.

Olena Zelenska tweeted, “Horrible ache. Never forget, never forgive.”

Rockets hit Kyiv right after European Parliament recognized Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Confirmation received. pic.twitter.com/cwpI7ZJEKK

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) November 23, 2022

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