Separately on Tuesday, Russian investigators said initial indications suggest that the crash of a military plane into a residential building near Ukraine was due to a technical malfunction. With fighting ongoing across a sprawling frontline in east and southern Ukraine, its military said that over the past 24 hours it had shot down 38 Iranian-made Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles. Senior presidential aide Mykhaylo Podolyak meanwhile called for Russia to be excluded from the upcoming G20 summit. ![]() Western officials however said it was "increasingly evident that Russia is pursuing a deliberate strategy of trying to destroy heating, electrical networks" and that Iranian drones were playing an "increasingly significant role" in the conflict. Iran has denied exporting any weapons to either side, but the United States warned it would take action against companies and nations working with Tehran's drone programme following the strikes in Kyiv. The defence ministry did however confirm strikes on energy facilities over the past 24 hours, saying it had used long-range and precision weapons. "Russian tech is being used," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, referring other questions to the defence ministry. The Kremlin said Tuesday it has no knowledge of its army using Iranian drones in Ukraine. Kremlin denies Iran drone use - Following the wave of kamikaze drone attacks against Kyiv on Monday, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba demanded EU sanctions on Iran, accusing Tehran of providing Russia with drones. Zelensky earlier said the fresh wave of nationwide strikes - which he said had damaged a residential buidling and flower market in Mykolaiv - was a Russian attempt to "terrorize and kill civilians." The mayor Vitali Klitschko said three people had been killed in Tuesday's strikes. In Kyiv, meanwhile, the DETK energy provider said its staff were "doing their best to restore electricity supply after the destruction of a critical infrastructure facility in Kyiv city." In the northeast meanwhile, Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the border with Russia was hit with eight missiles, the regional governor said. Hospitals are working on backup power," the mayor of Zhytomyr, Sergiy Sukhomlyn, said in a statement online. "Now the city is cut off from electricity and water supplies. ![]() Many towns and cities in the Zhytomyr region west of Kyiv and parts of the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine were without electricity, while power was restored to the southern city of Mykolaiv after strikes overnight. Hospitals on back-up power - He said the attack meant that there was "no space left for negotiations with (President Vladimir) Putin's regime". "Since October 10, 30 percent of Ukraine's power stations have been destroyed, causing massive blackouts across the country," the Ukrainian leader said on Twitter. Zelensky described the repeated targeting of energy infrastructure as "another kind of Russian terrorist attacks".
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