Moscow-installed authorities in Ukraine’s occupied southern region of Kherson are urging local residents to evacuate to Russia.

Missile strikes killed at least three people and destroyed an apartment building in the southern city of Mykolaiv, while heavy artillery damaged more than 30 houses, a hospital, a kindergarten and other buildings in Nikopol.

The power interruption at the Zaporizhzhia power plant highlights ‘how precarious the situation is’ at Europe’s largest nuclear plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency director said.

Ukrainian officials say the diffuse strikes on power plants and civilian areas made no ‘practical military sense.’

The General Assembly gathered to consider responding to Russia’s purported absorption last month of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.

Ukrainians voice hope, and some apprehension, that next month’s legislative polls won’t undercut the staggering flow of U.S. weapons and security aid that Washington has authorized since the start of President Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion.