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00:00Residents survey what is left of their homes after a series of explosions overnight in
00:06their village, located near a local power substation in Odessa.
00:11This morning at five or half past five there was an impact. There's a huge crater outside.
00:16Everything here has been smashed to bits.
00:18It was very loud. There was an explosion followed by five other explosions. I'm not sure whether
00:25they were from cluster bomb explosions, but that's how it felt.
00:29The explosions were part of a massive Russian missile and drone attack, targeting Ukraine's
00:34energy infrastructure that's left more than a million Ukrainians without power as temperatures
00:39hover around zero.
00:42President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of a vile escalation, saying it had used cruise
00:47missiles with cluster munitions.
00:50As well as Odessa, the missiles targeted Kyiv, the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, Kirovorod
00:56in the centre and Mykolaiv in the south.
00:59Ukrainian officials said damage to infrastructure was recorded in nine regions across the country,
01:05in the eleventh major strike on the energy system since March.
01:09Speaking at a summit of a security alliance of former Soviet nations, Vladimir Putin said
01:14it was retaliation for Kyiv firing US-supplied ATAKMs on Russia.
01:20I repeat once again, these strikes on our part also took place in response to the ongoing
01:25strikes on Russian territory by American ATAKMs missiles.
01:32The Russian president has pledged a strong response to every use of the missiles. Earlier
01:37this month, Russia fired a nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missile at the city of
01:42Dnipro after Kyiv hit a military facility in a Russian border region.
01:47Joe Biden has advised lowering the Ukrainian army's draft age from 25 to 18 to plug its
01:53manpower shortages as Moscow advances at an unprecedented pace in the east.