Russia-Ukraine updates: 1.5 million people in Odesa without power

This blog is now closed. Thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war for Saturday, December 10.

This blog is now closed. Thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war for Saturday, December 10.

• More than 1.5 million people in Ukraine’s Odesa region are without power after Russian drone strikes on the electricity generating system, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
• Oleksandra Matviichuk, from the Ukrainian Centre for Civil Liberties – one of three recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize – said Russia uses a “tactic of terror against people in the occupied territories”, referring to the war in Ukraine.
• President Zelenskyy said Russian forces have “destroyed” the eastern city of Bakhmut where the most active fighting in Ukraine is taking place.
• Ukraine’s military also reported attacks in other provinces: Kharkiv and Sumy in the northeast, Dnipropetrovsk in central Ukraine, Zaporizhia in the southeast and Kherson in the south.