Russia strikes regions across Ukraine, targeting energy networks; Black Sea grain deal extended


Holly Ellyatt
Amanda Macias

This has been CNBC’s live blog covering updates on the war in Ukraine. [Follow the latest updates here.]

More Russian shelling hit Ukraine on Thursday morning as missile attacks were reported in the Kyiv region, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro.

The region surrounding Kyiv was coming under fire, the head of the regional military administration Oleksiy Kuleba warned Thursday, as he noted that “since the very morning, the enemy has been massively attacking Ukraine.”

In other news, a rift seems to have appeared between Ukraine and its NATO allies over a missile strike that hit Poland on Tuesday after Kyiv rejected preliminary findings, presented by NATO on Wednesday, that suggested Ukraine’s forces were behind a missile hit on a Polish village that killed two people.NATO chief says Poland blast likely caused by Ukrainian missile, adds it wasn't Ukraine's faultWATCH NOWVIDEO01:06NATO chief says Poland blast likely caused by Ukrainian missile, adds it wasn’t Ukraine’s fault

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had “no doubt” that his country was not to blame for a missile strike and again requested that Ukraine be a part of a joint U.S.-Polish investigation into the incident.

In other news, the United Nations said on Thursday that the Black Sea grain deal — which has facilitated the export of millions of tons of agricultural exports from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports helping to alleviate a global food crisis — has been extended……..More Here

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