Ukraine says Russian shelling has completely knocked out electricity and killed two people in Kherson. The southern city has been the target of repeated Russian attacks since it was recaptured by Ukrainian forces last month. Across Ukraine, Russian strikes on the energy network have left millions of people facing the harsh winter without heat or power.

The European Parliament has called the Soviet Union's policy that starved millions of Ukrainians to death a 'genocide'. It's approved a resolution that recognises the early 1930s Holodomor famine as a “deliberate policy of the Soviet regime, as genocide against the Ukrainian people.”