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Tiffany Wertheimer<\/p>\n
The sound of gunfire and blasts can be heard overnight and into the morning in Kyiv<\/p>\n
A third of residents in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv are without power after a “massive bombing” of residential areas and critical infrastructure by Russia overnight, Ukraine’s foreign minister has said.<\/p>\n
Andrii Sybiha said residents had been left without heating in freezing winter temperatures. <\/p>\n
At least one person was killed and 30 others were injured in the strikes, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said.<\/p>\n
The attacks happened hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky departed for Florida, where he will meet Donald Trump on Sunday for peace talks.<\/p>\n
Russia’s ministry of defence said it had launched a “massive retaliatory strike” on Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities.<\/p>\n
It said it used long-range, land-, air-, and sea-based precision weapons to target the facilities, which it claimed were being used “in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex”.<\/p>\n
Following the strikes, Zelensky repeated his claim that Russia does “not want to end the war and is trying to use every opportunity to inflict more pain on Ukraine”.<\/p>\n
Writing on Telegram, Zelensky said Russia directed almost 500 drones and 40 missiles towards Kyiv, targeting energy and civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Pictures show apartment buildings with gaping holes and homes on fire following the strikes.<\/p>\n
The apartment block of BBC journalist Anastasiya Gribanova was struck, leaving some homes on the higher levels of the high-rise building in flames. Gribanova, who was in the building’s elevator at the time, was unharmed.<\/p>\n
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A house in Kyiv was also hit, Ukraine’s emergency services said<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said that 68 people were evacuated from a retirement home in the eastern Darnytskyi district.<\/p>\n
“Russian representatives are having long conversations, but in reality the Daggers [missiles] and Shaheds [drones] are speaking for them,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram, saying that Vladimir Putin does not want to end the war.<\/p>\n
“This sick activity can only be responded to with really strong steps. America has this opportunity, Europe has this opportunity, many of our partners have this opportunity,” he wrote, urging allies to show strength against Russian aggression.<\/p>\n
The strikes saw Poland, which shares a 530km-long (320-miles) border with western Ukraine, ready its fighter jets, ground-based air defence systems and radar reconnaissance.<\/p>\n
The move was “aimed at securing and protecting the airspace, especially in areas adjacent to the threatened regions,” Poland’s Armed Forces said. <\/p>\n
Later on Saturday morning, it concluded that there had been no violation of the country’s airspace.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry said its air defences destroyed seven Ukrainian drones overnight.<\/p>\n
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The aftermath of the damage in Kyiv<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Zelensky, EU leaders and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen are expected to hold a phone call to discuss the road to peace.<\/p>\n
Zelensky’s new 20-point draft is a revised version of an earlier 28-point plan which was drafted by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, but widely seen as being too favourable to Russia.<\/p>\n