Russia claims attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities, Ukraine reports striking Russian strategic targets

Russia said on Wednesday that its armed forces attacked Ukrainian energy and transport facilities, while Ukraine reported strikes against a Russian plant that manufactures components for missiles on the same day.

The Russian Defense Ministry said in its latest report that over the past 24 hours, the Russian forces conducted precision strikes against Ukrainian energy facilities, transportation infrastructure, and ammunition plants in 143 locations.

Russian air defense forces shot down six guided aerial bombs, four U.S.-made HIMARS rockets, and 154 fixed-wing drones, according to the report.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces had attacked the VNIIR-Progress plant in Cheboksary, Russia, which manufactures components for combat drones and missiles for the Russian military, with the specific damages currently being assessed.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones struck a command post of Russia's 58th Combined Arms Army in Vasylivka in the Zaporizhzhia region, targeted a Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile system in Mariupol, and attacked a Russian troop assembly point in the Pokrovsk direction, according to the Ukrainian side.

Russia claims attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities, Ukraine reports striking Russian strategic targets

The multilateral system is "under attack" amid global turmoil, President of the 80th UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock warned in her remarks on Wednesday.

In her briefing on the priorities for the resumed 80th Session of the General Assembly, the UNGA president noted that the current multilateral system does not collapse all in a sudden, but "crumbles piece by piece" in divisions, compromises, and lack of political commitment.

The president called all the UN member states to defend the UN Charter and international law and promote cross-regional cooperation.

She also urged to push forward the work of the UNGA on certain critical issues with a strong majority, rather than an absolute consensus among all member states. Such act is not a failure of multilateralism, but "an affirmation of it," she said.

The foundational principles of the institution should not be eroded by appeasement, she said, calling the member states to show courage, leadership, and responsibility at the UN's "critical make-or-break moment."

"The UN needs you. Your support, your leadership, your principle, stand, your cross-regional cooperation, if we are to preserve and modernize this institution, if we are to make it, rather than break it," she said.

UNGA President warns global multilateral system "under attack"