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A new Russian attack on kyiv involving hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles highlights the “true attitude of Putin and his entourage,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday, as he prepared to meet President Donald Trump.
The nighttime blitz in the Ukrainian capital left at least one dead and 27 injured, local authorities told The Associated Press. It came as Zelensky was scheduled to meet with Trump on Sunday in Florida, where he said he would share a 20-point peace proposal to end the conflict with Russia.
“Another Russian attack is still underway: since last night there have been almost 500 drones – a large number of ‘shaheds’ – as well as 40 missiles, including Kinzhal. The main target is kyiv – energy facilities and civilian infrastructure,” Zelensky wrote on Saturday morning on one of them.”
“Many questions have been raised in recent days: what is Russia’s response to the end-of-war proposals proposed by the United States and the world? Russian representatives engage in long talks, but in reality the Kinzhals and the ‘shaheds’ speak for themselves. This is the real attitude of Putin and his entourage,” Zelenskyy added. “They do not want to end the war and seek to take advantage of every opportunity to cause even more suffering to Ukraine and increase their pressure on other countries in the world.”
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and President Donald Trump. (Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images; Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP; Alex Brandon/AP)
Zelensky also said on Saturday that “if Russia turns even the Christmas and New Year period into a period of destroyed houses and burned apartments, ruined power plants, then this unhealthy activity can only be combatted with truly strong measures.”
“The United States has this capacity. Europe has this capacity. Many of our partners have this capacity. The key is to use it,” he said.
Trump, before his meeting with Zelensky, said he would make the final decision on a peace deal to end the conflict.
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A drone hits a building in kyiv during the Russian attack on Ukraine, Saturday December 27, 2025. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
“He has nothing until I approve him,” Trump told Politico on Friday. “Then we’ll see what he has.”
The Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday it carried out a “massive strike” overnight, using “long-range precision-guided land, air and sea weapons, including hypersonic Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles” and drones, against energy infrastructure “used by the Ukrainian armed forces,” as well as “enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.”
Rescuers work at the scene of a building damaged by a Russian attack in kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, December 27, 2025. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
The ministry said the strike was in response to Ukraine’s attacks on “civilian objects” in Russia.
Flames rise from a residential building following a Russian strike in kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, December 27, 2025. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Earlier on Saturday, the ministry said its air defenses shot down seven Ukrainian drones over Russia’s Krasnodar and Adygeya regions overnight.
Diana Stancey of Fox News Digital and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
