Putin vents his wrath with 100 missiles across Ukraine, following his humiliation at the G20

Russia has launched a ‘countrywide’ bombardment of Ukraine with around 100 missiles fired today, a Ukrainian air force spokesman has said.

At least one person has been reported dead in Kyiv, while residential buildings are said to have been hit.

Air raid sirens have sounded in a number of regions across the nation, including Lviv and Kharkiv.

Energy facilities have been targeted, with emergency blackouts announced following the barrage of strikes.

President Volodymyr Zelensky put the number of missiles unleashed at 85 but warned of more to come.

Senior Ukrainian official, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, has described the situation as ‘critical’ and urged Ukrainians to cut back on their power usage and ‘hang in there’.

It follows joy among Ukrainians after the army reclaimed the southern city of Kherson – one of its biggest military successes so far of the nearly nine-month invasion.

The attacks also come hours after Mr Zelensky addressed the G20 summit, referring to the intergovernmental forum as ‘the G19 summit’ to exclude Russia.

World leaders condemned Vladimir Putin for avoiding facing them at the summit, with Rishi Sunak saying: ‘Maybe if he had, we could get on with sorting things out.’

Confronting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the prime minister said ‘countries should not invade their neighbours’.

Speaking via video link, Ukrainian leader Mr Zelensky celebrated the Kherson victory, comparing it to the Allied landings in France on D-Day in the Second World War.

He said it was ‘reminiscent of many battles in the past, which became turning points in the wars of the past’.

‘It’s like, for example, D-Day – the landing of the Allies in Normandy. It was not yet a final point in the fight against evil, but it already determined the entire further course of events. This is exactly what we are feeling now’, he said.

While the return of Kherson has offered fresh morale, officials say signs of new ‘atrocities’ in the area are emerging, while large parts of eastern and southern Ukraine remain under Russian control.

Kherson’s remaining 80,000 residents are without heat, water or electricity, and short on food and medicine with winter approaching.

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