Russian troops launched 367 drone and missile strikes in Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kief, in Ukrainian cities, the largest air strike of the war to date, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens of people, officials said.
Local officials there said the deceased included three children in the northern part of Zhytomyr.
Since President Donald Trump took office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for the U.S. public situation against Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin.
"The silence of the United States, the silence of the rest of the world will only encourage Putin," he wrote in the telegram.
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Overnight, Russia launched the largest air attack on Ukraine since the beginning of the war. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
“Every terrorist strike by Russia is enough to achieve new sanctions on Russia.”
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said 12 people were killed and 60 were injured. Regional authorities and rescue workers respectively gave deaths, setting the death toll at 13.
"This is a comprehensive, ruthless strike against civilians. The enemy once again demonstrates that its target is fear and death," he wrote in the telegram.
The attack was due to the third and final day of Ukraine and Russia preparing to conduct prisoner swaps, with the two sides exchanging a total of 1,000 people.
Ukrainian Keith Kellogg's special U.S. envoy said on Sunday that the attack was a "obvious violation" of the 1977 Geneva peace agreement, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
It is reported that about 347 drones and missiles have been used in the attack. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
Ukraine and its European allies are trying to push Moscow to sign a 30-day ceasefire as the first step toward negotiations to end the three-year war.
Their efforts were hit earlier this week when Trump refused to impose further sanctions on Moscow as he disagreed with an immediate pause in the fight as Kiev wanted.
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched 298 drones and 69 missiles overnight, although it said it was able to shoot down 266 drones and 45 missiles.
The damage expanded to a series of regional centers, including Kharkif, Ukraine's second largest city, as well as Mykolaiv in the south and Ternopil in the west.
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In Kiev, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city's military administration, said 11 people were injured in a drone strike. Officials said the capital was not dead, although four people died in the area around the city.
This is the second major air strike in two days. Russia has been launching dozens of drones and ballistic missiles in Kiev at night on Friday night.
In northeastern Ukraine, Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said earlier Sunday that drones hit three urban areas and injured three people. Blasting broken windows in high-rise apartment building.
Strikes were reportedly conducted in Kyiv, Kharkif and other cities. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
The governor of the region said a 77-year-old man was killed in the southern city of Mykolaiv and injured five people. He published a photo of a residential apartment block with a large hole in the explosion and rubble scattered on the ground.
In the western part of Khmelnytskyi, hundreds of kilometers from the front line of the battle, four people were killed and five others were injured, the governor said.
"No pressure, everything will change, and Russia and its allies will only build strength for murders in Western countries," Ukrainian Presidential Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak wrote in a telegram.
“As long as Moscow has the ability to produce weapons, Moscow will fight.”
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The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that its air defense departments intercepted or destroyed 95 Ukrainian drones within four hours. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 12 Ukrainian drones were intercepted on their way to the capital.