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.

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.