Russia unleashes a massive attack with drones and missiles on Ukraine. At least 3 people are killed during this attack.

 KYIV, Ukraine — Early Monday morning, a massive barrage of drones and missiles struck all across Ukraine, launched from Russia. The nation was at least three people deceased, with blackout power outages countrywide.

The bombardment was under way at midnight, and it continued past daybreak in what looked to be the most extensive Russian attack on Ukraine for weeks.

According to Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, there had been attacks by Russian forces firing drones, cruise missiles, and hypersonic ballistic Kinzhal missiles into 15 Ukrainian regions early Monday morning—more than half the country.

"The energy infrastructure again came under the gun of Russian terrorists. Unfortunately, there is damage in a number of regions," Shmyhal said, adding that Ukraine's state-owned power grid operator Ukrenergo has already been forced to implement emergency power cuts to stabilize the system.

 

He called on Ukraine's allies to provide Kyiv with long-range weapons and permission to use them on targets inside Russia.

"To stop the barbaric shelling of Ukrainian cities, it is necessary to destroy the place from which the Russian missiles are launched," Shmyhal said. "We count on our allies' support and will make Russia pay.".

The air force of Ukraine has reported that numerous groups of Russian drones were heading toward eastern, northern, southern, and central regions of Ukraine. Several cruise and ballistic missiles followed afterwards.

Explosions were heard in the capital, Kyiv. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko has announced that the attack has caused interruptions to the capital's power and water supplies.

At least three people were killed — one in the western city of Lutsk, one in the central Dnipropetrovsk region and one in the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia region in the southeast, according to local officials. Thirteen others were wounded — one in the Kyiv region that surrounds the Ukrainian capital, five in Lutsk, three in the southern Mykolaiv region and four in the neighboring Odesa region.

Power blackouts and damage to civilian infrastructure and residential buildings have been reported across the country from the Sumy region in the east to the Mykolaiv and Odesa regions in the south and the Rivne region in the west.

In Sumy, the eastern province of Ukraine, bordering Russia, the regional administration stated that 194 settlements were under a full power blackout, while the light was off partially in 19 others.

Private energy firm DTEK announced a state of emergency with blackouts and took to Facebook to write: "Energy workers throughout the country work 24/7 so as to restore light in the homes of Ukrainians.

In the wake of the salvo and the power shutdowns, regional administrators all over Ukraine were directed to open "points of invincibility" — shelter-type venues where people can charge their devices and get refreshments — during energy shut-downs, Prime Minister Shmyhal said. Such points first opened their doors around Ukraine back in the fall of 2022, when Russia staged weekly barrages to the country's energy infrastructure.

In neighboring Poland, the military reported the attack had caused Polish and NATO air defenses to be activated in the eastern part of the country.

In Russia, officials said there had been a Ukrainian drone attack overnight and on Monday morning.

Four people were wounded in Russia's central region of Saratov as drones hit residential buildings in two cities. A drone hit a residential high-rise building in the city of Saratov, while another struck a residential building in the city of Engels, home to a military airfield that had previously been attacked, local officials said.

According to Russia's Defense Ministry, a total of 22 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight and in the morning over eight Russian regions, including the Saratov and Yaroslavl regions in central Russia.