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Ukraine war: Russia renews missile attacks

Ukrainian MP, Artem Kunayev, discusses how people are holding up under renewed shelling and destruction of infrastructure.

As Russian missile strikes on Ukraine continue, millions have been left without electricity, heating or water.

First lady Olena Zelenska has said Ukrainians are prepared to endure two or three winters of power cuts caused by Russian air attacks.

A top Ukrainian official has said Russia's attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure amount to genocide.

Ukraine's national power company, Ukrenergo, says damage to electricity installations is so great that 50% of demand cannot be met.

Power plants across the country - from the capital Kyiv to Odesa in the south and Vinnytsia in the west - have been hit.

About six million people have been left without electricity as temperatures fall below zero, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Artem Kunayev is a Ukrainian MP for the governing Servant of the People party.

"Russia wants to make people die from the cold... but we will not make this possible."

(Photo: Local workers look at debris after shelling on infrastructure in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 04 October 2022. Credit: Sergey Kozlov via EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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