At least 14 regions are targeted as Putin suffers humiliating defeats on the battlefield and looks to retaliate for the bombing of a bridge connecting Russia to Crimea.

Ukrainian officials say a Russian rocket barrage pounded apartment buildings and other targets in the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens.

Russian authorities say a truck bomb has caused a fire and the partial collapse of a bridge linking Russia-annexed Crimea with Russia.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

The criticism marks the clearest indication yet of turmoil within Russia’s leadership over the stewardship of a war that has gone disastrously wrong for Moscow.

Ukrainian forces have retaken 154 square miles of territory, including 29 settlements, in the Kherson region since Oct. 1, Ukrainian officials reported Thursday.