Zelenskyy: Russia using Iranian weapons in 'massive' attack targeting energy infrastructure

Russian forces launched hundreds of drones and missiles targeting Ukraine's vigor and powerfulness works infrastructure connected Sunday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the onslaught included astatine slightest 120 missiles and 90 drones, including Iranian-made Shahed drones. Ukrainian officials accidental it was the largest long-range onslaught from Russia successful astatine slightest 3 months.

"The enemy's people was our vigor infrastructure passim Ukraine. Unfortunately, determination is harm to objects from hits and falling debris. In Mykolaiv, arsenic a effect of a drone attack, 2 radical were killed and six others were injured, including 2 children," Zelenskyy said.

Zelenskyy added that Ukrianian forces were capable to sprout down 144 of the projectiles earlier they reached their targets.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian forces launched implicit 200 drones and missiles into Ukrainian territory this weekend. (Christoph Soeder, Pool Photo via AP)

Explosions were reported successful the Ukrianian cities of Kyiv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro and successful occidental Ukraine. Odesa, a larboard city, was reportedly near without power.

Poland's subject reacted to the onslaught by scrambling its ain airforce wrong its borders, though determination were nary reports of Russian ordnance falling connected Polish soil.

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Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukraine's vigor infrastructure arsenic temperatures get colder successful Ukraine, a strategy Mosocw has employed successful erstwhile years of the conflict.

A grooming league involving immoderate 2,000 Ukrainian conscripts and veterans takes spot successful the muddy fields of the Champagne subject campy successful eastbound France, November 14, 2024.  (REUTERS/John Irish)

The onslaught comes arsenic President-elect Donald Trump is expected to soon name a Ukrainian bid envoy to pb negotiations connected ending the warfare with Russia.

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The occupation is not expected to beryllium a salaried relation - from 2017 to 2019, Kurt Volker had served arsenic peculiar typical to Ukrainian negotiations connected a unpaid basis. 

Trump has been rolling retired appointee names of those helium wants to capable his Cabinet and counsel him connected apical issues astatine a lightning-quick pace.

President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to name a bid envoy to Ukraine and Russia. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

Trump has agelong insisted helium could negociate an extremity to the warfare with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Few details person been fixed astir however helium would bash this. 

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Some advisers are reportedly encouraging Trump to propulsion Kyiv to hold to presumption that would frost the frontlines by creating an 800-mile-long demilitarized portion and let Russia to support the onshore it has illegally seized, which amounts to astir 20% of Ukraine.

It has besides been suggested that Kyiv should hold not to prosecute NATO membership for 20 years, a stipulation that critics of this program reason kowtows to Putin.

Fox News' Morgan Phillips and the Associated Press contributed to this report