The White House on Tuesday condemned Russia’s latest barrage of strikes against critical infrastructure and residential buildings far from the front lines in Ukraine, pledging global unity in the face of the Kremlin’s unrelenting aggression.
Russian airstrikes rained down on Ukraine’s power grid in regions as far west as Lviv, some 40 miles from the Polish border, prompting emergency blackouts in the capital Kyiv and elsewhere.
Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko also reported strikes against residential buildings and said authorities have found one body in an apartment building that was struck.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan praised Ukrainian resilience in the face of Russian aggression and pledged that the U.