Russia is trying to plunge Ukrainian people into a "severe absence of electricity and desperation", a Ukrainian politician has said.
Maria Mezentseva,MP for Kharkiv, told Sky News that Russia is not aiming its attacks at military targets and those being wounded and killed are "peaceful civilians".
"We see that by targeting or attempting to target the Kyiv dam or the electricity facilities across Ukraine, Russia is trying to put us to another sort of severe absence of electricity and desperation, whereas Ukrainian citizens are trying to help each other," she said.
She echoed calls for a restriction on the use of Western-supplied long-range weapons in Russia to be lifted.
Ms Mezentseva also called for more air defences to "defend civilians and critical and social infrastructure".
