UN Secretary General António Guterres. File photoUN, Oct 10UN Secretary General António Guterres spoke on Monday with Vladimir Zelensky amid a missile attack on Ukraine, and «diplomatic contacts» were also held with the Russian Federation, UN Secretary General Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary General, said at a briefing. «He (Guterres — ed.) spoke with President Zelensky this morning and discussed the emerging situation in the country,» Dujarric said.13:12InfographicStrikes on infrastructure facilities of Ukraine Speaking about contacts with the Russian side, he noted that «diplomatic contacts took place at various levels.» Russian President Vladimir Putin at an operational meeting with members of the Security Council on Monday said that this morning a massive strike with precision-guided weapons was inflicted on objects of Ukrainian infrastructure. Putin called the state of emergency on the Crimean bridge a terrorist attack aimed at destroying civilian infrastructure. According to him, Kyiv has put itself on a par with the most odious terrorist groups, and it is simply impossible to leave the crimes of the Kyiv regime unanswered. In addition, according to the president, Ukraine committed three terrorist attacks against the Kursk nuclear power plant and tried to undermine the Turkish Stream gas pipeline. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the goal of a massive strike with precision-guided weapons against Ukraine carried out on Monday had been achieved. Ukrainian media on Monday reported explosions in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, Kharkov, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Lvov and Lvov region, Ivano-Frankivsk also fell under missile attacks , Ternopil, Khmelnitsky, Konotop, Rivne and Poltava regions. In addition, Zelensky's office reported strikes on energy facilities in Zaporozhye, Vinnytsia, Sumy, Zhytomyr.
