KYIV, Ukraine, Oct 18, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - Kyiv said Tuesday that more than 1,100 towns and villages across Ukraine had been left without power after 10 days of Russia strikes that have targeted energy facilities across the country.

"For now, 1,162 settlements in Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Lugansk, Mykolaiv, Kherson regions remain cut off from electricity," a spokesperson for Ukraine's emergency services Oleksandr Khorunzhyi said during a briefing.