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    Reuters A resident looks at an apartment building that was damaged in a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv. Reuters

    A resident looks at an apartment building that was damaged in a Russian drone strike on Kyiv

    Russia has intensified strikes on Ukraine overnight, with widespread attacks across the country affecting most regions.

    At least 12 people, including three children, were killed and dozens injured in Russian drone and missile strikes, regional officials and emergency services said.

    The attack was the second large-scale assault on the country in 48 hours, coming a day after the Ukrainian capital Kyiv suffered one of the heaviest assaults since the start of the Russian invasion.

    Saturday’s overnight strikes come as diplomatic efforts to end the fighting have resulted in prisoner exchanges, but Russia has not accepted calls for a ceasefire.

    Rescuers were working in more than 30 cities and villages after the “massive” strike, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement on Sunday morning.

    “Russia is dragging out this war and continues to kill every day,” he said.

    “The world may go on for a weekend, but the war continues, despite weekends and weekdays. This cannot be ignored.”

    “Without really strong pressure on the Russian leadership, this cruelty cannot be stopped,” he added, calling for fresh sanctions.

    Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and Moscow currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.

    This includes Crimea – Ukraine’s southern peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.

    Ukraine’s air force said that since 20:40 on Saturday local time (17:40 GMT), Russia had carried out strikes using 367 missiles of various types, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drones.

    The air force said it had shot down 45 cruise missiles and neutralised 266 UAVs, with most regions in Ukraine affected and hits recorded in 22 locations.

    The strikes mark an intensification from the previous night, when Ukraine’s air force said Russia attacked with 14 ballistic missiles and 250 UAV and drones, affecting six regions.

    Deaths were reported in multiple regions after Saturday’s overnight strikes.

    According to Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Ihor Klymenko, 13 regions were attacked, with more than 70 people injured, 80 residential buildings damaged, and 27 fires recorded.

    He called it a “combined, ruthless strike aimed at civilians”.

    Of the 12 people killed, three were children aged eight, 12 and 17 in the Zhytomyr region, Ukraine’s state emergencies service DSNS said.

    Klymenko said they were from the same family and their parents were in hospital.

    In the Kyiv region, four people were killed and 16 injured, including three children, DSNS said.

    Kyiv regional head Mykola Kalashnyk posted photos on social media of several houses set ablaze after the Russian strikes.

    In the capital, Kyiv, local officials reported 11 injuries, multiple fires and damage to residential buildings, including a dormitory.

    Hundreds of people were seen sheltering in underground stations of the city’s metro. It comes as the capital marks its annual Kyiv Day holiday on Sunday.

    Khmelnytskyi regional head Serhiy Tyurin said on Facebook that four people were killed and five were injured.

    “Six private houses were destroyed, and another 20 damaged,” he added.

    DSNS also said the body of an elderly man was pulled out from a five-storey residential building hit by a drone in Mykolaiv. Another five people were injured.

    In Kharkiv, regional authorities reported three injuries.

    Reuters Emergency workers extinguish fires in the debris of a private house that was destroyed in a Russian rocket strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Markhalivka, Kyiv region, Ukraine on 25 May 2025.Reuters

    Emergency workers extinguish fires in the debris of a house in the Kyiv region

    In Russia, the defence ministry said 110 Ukrainian drones were destroyed and intercepted over 12 Russian regions and the Crimea peninsula between midnight and 0700 local time.

    Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that 12 drones heading towards the capital were shot down.

    He added that emergency services crews were deployed to assess damage caused by falling drone debris.

    In the Tula region, just south of Moscow, drone wreckage crashed in the courtyard of a residential building, smashing windows in a number of apartments, local governor Dmitriy Milyaev said.

    No-one was injured, he added.

    The attacks came as Russia and Ukraine take part in prisoner swaps agreed after talks between the two sides in Turkey.

    On Friday, Ukraine and Russia each handed over 390 soldiers and civilians in the biggest prisoner exchange since Russia launched its full-scale assault in February 2022.

    On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that another 307 Ukrainian prisoners had returned home as part of an exchange deal with the Kremlin.

    The two countries have agreed to swap a total of 1,000 prisoners each, and another exchange is expected on Sunday.

    The swap follows the first face-to-face talks between the two sides in three years, which took place in Turkey.

    Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump and Putin had a two-hour phone call to discuss a US-proposed Ukraine ceasefire deal.

    Trump said he believed the call had gone “very well”, and added that Russia and Ukraine will “immediately start” negotiations toward a ceasefire and “an end to the war”.

    However, Putin has only said Russia would work with Ukraine to craft a “memorandum” on a “possible future peace”, and has not accepted a 30-day ceasefire.

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