Russian drone and inorganic attacks in Russia have targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kiev and other parts of the country for the second consecutive night, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens of people, officials said earlier Sunday.

Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said the scale of the fierce attack was amazing - Russia hit Ukraine with 367 drones and missiles, making it the largest attack in a war of more than three years.

He told the Associated Press that Russia has used a total of 69 missiles and 298 drones, including the Iran-designed Shah drone.

Inat said this is “the biggest strike in terms of the number of air strike weapons on Ukrainian territory since the start of the full invasion in 2022.”

Moscow did not comment immediately.

The day was particularly dark for Keefe, as the city observed Kiev Day, a national holiday that set on the last Sunday of May to commemorate its founding in the 5th century,

"Intentional strike against ordinary cities"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian missiles and drones have hit more than 30 cities and villages in Ukraine and urged Western partners to raise sanctions on Russia.

This has been a long-term request from Ukrainian leaders, but despite warnings from the United States and Europe to Moscow, it has not been achieved in a way that prevents Russia.

Zelenskyy wrote on X that Sunday's goals include Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Chernihiv, Sumy, Odesa, Poltava, Poltava, Dnipro, Dnipro, Mykolai, Mykolai, Kharkiv.

"These are intentional strikes on ordinary cities. Ordinary residential buildings are destroyed and damaged," he said.

"This cruelty cannot be stopped without the real strong pressure on the Russian leader. Sanctions will certainly help," Zelenskyy said. "The determination now is important - the determination of the United States, the European countries and all those seeking peace."

The attack took place on the third day of a planned prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine, the only tangible result of the peace talks held in Istanbul earlier this month, and has so far failed to generate a ceasefire. The exchange of transactions is always a slight cooperation in terms of war.

Meanwhile, Russia's Ministry of Defense said that air defense aircraft shot down 110 Ukrainian drones overnight.

"The biggest Russian air strike"

The Ukrainian Air Force continued for hours to shoot down enemy drones and missiles, and the sound of explosions in Kiev and surrounding areas flourished throughout the night. Ukraine's security agency said at least four people were killed and 16 people were injured in the capital itself.

"After a sleepless night, a tough Sunday morning in Ukraine. Russia's biggest air strike lasted all night," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on X.

Fire broke out in houses and businesses caused by falling drone debris.

According to the Ministry of Emergency Services, in the Zhytomyr area west of Kiev, three children were killed at the age of 8, 12 and 17. Twelve people were injured in the attack, the department said. At least four people were killed in the Khmelnytskyi region of western Ukraine. A man was killed in the Mykolaiv area in southern Ukraine.

Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a student dormitory in the Holosiivskyi area was attacked by a drone and the walls of a building caught fire. In the Dniprovskyi district, a private house was destroyed, and in the Shevchenkivskyi district, windows in residential buildings were smashed.

The scale of Russia’s use of aviation weapons since the full-scale war in February 2022 is that the attacks in the past 48 hours have been one of the most intense strikes in Ukraine. A three-day prisoner exchange is expected later Sunday.

A village engulfed by smoke and rubble

In the village of Markhalivka outside Kiev, several houses were burned overnight, and Fedorenkos looked at their destroyed houses in tears.

"The street looks like Bakhmut, as terrifying as Mariupol," said Liubov Fedorenko, 76, comparing their villages to some of Ukraine's most damaged cities in the war. She told the Associated Press how grateful she was that her daughter did not join them on the weekend with her family.

"I tried to convince my daughter to come to us," Fedorenko said, adding that she told her daughter, "After all, you live on the eighth floor in Kiev, which is the first floor." '"

"She said, 'No, mom, I'm not here.' Thank God, she didn't come because the rockets hit the side of the kids' room."

Ivan Fedorenko, 80, said he regretted letting their two dogs enter the house after the air strike sirens went out. "They were burned to death," he said. "I wanted to bury them, but I haven't allowed it yet."

Although the transaction was lost, the war did not relax

Zelenskyy and Russia's defense ministry said the day before, every West was on Saturday, and each side released a total of 390 combatants and civilians the next day. Once completed, the swap will reach the largest prisoner exchange in more than three years of war.

"We expect more tomorrow," Zelenskyy said on Saturday's official telegraph channel. The Russian Defense Ministry also said that exchanges are expected to continue despite no details.

The night before, explosions and air defense fires were heard throughout Kiev as many seek shelter at subway stations, with Russian drones and missiles targeting the Ukrainian capital.

The ongoing POW exchanges since the beginning of the war are the latest dozens of swaps, and the largest exchanges involved by Ukrainian civilians have not stopped fighting so far.

Fight continued along the frontline of about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), where thousands of soldiers were killed and none of the nation was surrendered in a deep strike.