LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged “most strain” on Russia from the worldwide group after Moscow fired a whole lot of drones and missiles into Ukraine in a single day into Tuesday morning, in a serious assault that Zelenskyy stated targeted on the nation’s critical energy infrastructure.
Ukraine’s air drive stated Russia launched 71 missiles and 450 drones into the nation in a single day, of which 38 missiles and 412 drones had been shot down or suppressed. Twenty-seven missiles and 31 drones impacted throughout 27 places, the air drive stated.
The strike was the most important reported by the Ukrainian air drive of the 12 months up to now, and the most important general variety of munitions launched in a single night time for the reason that night time of Dec. 27.
The variety of missiles fired on Monday night time was additionally unusually excessive, and the most important complete for a single night time since April 24, in accordance with air drive knowledge analyzed by ABC Information.
Russia’s Protection Ministry stated in a put up to Telegram that its forces “carried out an enormous strike” on “Ukraine’s military-industrial complicated and power services used of their pursuits, in addition to locations of storage and meeting of long-range unmanned aerial autos.”
On this photograph offered by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency companies personnel work to extinguish a fireplace at a multi-storey house constructing following a Russian assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 3, 2026.
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Zelenskyy stated in a put up to Telegram that the areas of Sumy, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa and Vinnytsia had been attacked, with power infrastructure and residential buildings amongst these hit. A minimum of 9 individuals have up to now been confirmed injured, the president stated.
“Benefiting from the coldest days of winter to terrorize individuals is extra essential to Russia than resorting to diplomacy,” Zelenskyy stated. “This clearly demonstrates what is required from companions and what may also help. Well timed supply of missiles for air protection techniques and safety of regular life is our precedence. With out strain on Russia, there can be no finish to this struggle.”
“Proper now, Moscow is selecting terror and escalation, and that’s the reason most strain is required,” Zelenskyy added.
Ukrainian Power Minister Denys Shmyhal stated that thermal energy crops powering components of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro had been among the many targets of the strike. “The targets weren’t army. They had been solely civilian,” Shmyhal wrote on Telegram.
DTEK, Ukraine’s largest non-public power agency, stated Russian strikes inflicted “important” injury on its energy crops, in what it stated was “the ninth large assault on the corporate’s thermal energy stations since October 2025.”
Individuals take shelter in a metro station throughout a Russian assault on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 3, 2026.
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Emergency energy outages had been applied in Kyiv’s Dnieper and Darnytsia districts, DTEK stated. Power infrastructure was additionally broken in Odesa, DTEK added.
Ukraine’s state power firm Ukrenergo reported “a major variety of energy outages in Kyiv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Vinnytsia and Odesa areas,” which it attributed to the “large” in a single day assault. “There are additionally broken power services in a number of areas,” Ukrenergo wrote on Telegram.
Moscow’s newest strikes got here after the expiry of a short pause in assaults on power infrastructure agreed to by each Moscow and Kyiv following a request from U.S. President Donald Trump. Russia stated that the pause expired on Sunday.
This winter — the fourth of Russia’s full-scale invasion — has seen Moscow intensively goal Ukraine’s power infrastructure, wreaking havoc on the nationwide grid and precipitating rolling and prolonged blackouts for thousands and thousands of Ukrainians.
Monday night time noticed temperatures drop as little as -14 F in some components of Ukraine.
Ukrainian Overseas Minister Andrii Sybiha steered on X that Russian President Vladimir Putin “waited for the temperatures to drop and stockpiled drones and missiles to proceed his genocidal assaults in opposition to the Ukrainian individuals.”
Ukrainian servicemen hit a Russian missile throughout a Russian missile and drone strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 3, 2026.
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Zelenskyy later made the identical allegation in a put up to Telegram. “The Russian military took benefit of the American proposal to pause the strikes for a brief interval, to not assist diplomacy, however merely to stockpile missiles and watch for the coldest days of the 12 months,” he stated.
Russia launched its newest main strike regardless of an upcoming spherical of trilateral peace talks with U.S. and Ukrainian representatives within the United Arab Emirates, that are as a consequence of resume on Wednesday and proceed into Thursday.
“Each such strike by Russia confirms that the perspective in Moscow has not modified: they’re nonetheless relying on struggle and the destruction of Ukraine, and they don’t take diplomacy significantly,” Zelenskyy stated. “The work of our negotiating workforce can be adjusted accordingly.”
NATO Secretary-Common Mark Rutte visited Kyiv on Tuesday to satisfy with Zelenskyy and tackle the Ukrainian parliament. Rutte informed Ukrainian representatives that “essential progress has been made” in trilateral U.S.-Ukraine-Russia talks.
“However Russia continues to assault, because it did final night time,” Rutte added. “This demonstrates their lack of seriousness about peace.”
Monday night time’s assault prompted the scrambling of NATO fighter jets in Poland, which borders Ukraine to the nation’s west. Poland’s Armed Forces Operational Command Operational Command stated that no violation of the nation’s airspace was recorded.
A police officer carries part of a Russian drone that was discovered on the website of an house constructing in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 3, 2026.
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German fighter jets and Dutch anti-air protection techniques had been among the many property placed on alert, the command stated.
Russia’s Protection Ministry, in the meantime, stated its forces downed a minimum of 10 Ukrainian drones in a single day.
The Common Employees of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirmed in a put up to Telegram that it struck a number of targets on Russian-held territory in a single day into Tuesday.
Ukraine’s targets included a drone coaching and manufacturing website in occupied Zaporizhzhia, a focus of Russian forces within the western Russian border area of Belgorod and an digital warfare website in occupied Donetsk, the Common Employees stated.
ABC Information’ Nataliia Popova, Oleksiy Pshemyskyi, Patrick Reevell and Ellie Kaufman contributed to this report.
