LONDON — Russia in a single day attacked targets throughout Ukraine with 241 drones and 5 missiles, placing vitality infrastructure and killing two civilians, in response to Ukraine’s air power and authorities officers.
About 175 of the drones and 4 of the missiles have been shot down, jammed or in any other case destroyed, the air power mentioned. Sixty-five drones hit targets in 14 areas, the air power mentioned.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned the targets have been “peaceable Ukrainian cities and communities.” Such assaults are taking place “nearly daily and each night time,” he mentioned.
PHOTO: This handout image taken and launched by Ukrainian State Emergency Service on Dec. 7, 2025 reveals firefighters working to extinguish a hearth following a Russian within the Poltava area, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
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“The first targets of those strikes are infrastructure that retains on a regular basis life going,” Zelenskyy mentioned on social media on Sunday.
No less than two civilians — one in Donetsk and one in Novhorod-Siverskyi within the Chernihiv area — have been killed within the Russian assaults, Ukrainian officers mentioned. The key goal of the assaults, nonetheless, was the economic metropolis of Kremenchuk, the place some vitality infrastructure was focused.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin speaks throughout joint press statements with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi after their assembly on the Hyderabad Home in New Delhi on Dec. 5, 2025.
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“Restore work started instantly after the assault and proceed constantly,” Volodymyr Kohut, the performing governor of the Poltava area, mentioned in Ukrainian in a message posted to the Telegram messaging app.
As a result of assaults on the area, the scenario with electrical energy provide stays “difficult,” and the soundness of warmth and water provide is affected, he mentioned.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, gestures whereas talking as he takes half in a joint press convention with the Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in Dublin, Eire, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025.
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Town of Fastiv within the Kyiv area additionally got here below drone assault for the second time in a day.
Zelenskyy mentioned on social media on Sunday that, this week alone, Russia launched over 1,600 assault drones and round 1,200 guided aerial bombs, with the first targets of them being infrastructure that retains on a regular basis life going.
This handout image taken and launched by Ukrainian State Emergency Service on Dec. 7, 2025 reveals firefighters working to extinguish a hearth following a Russian drone and missile assaults to industrial and vitality infrastructures within the Poltava area, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
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Zelenskyy additionally sought to reiterate Ukraine’s want for extra air defence system and missiles.
“The precedence is obvious: extra air protection techniques and missiles, and extra assist for our defenders,” the president mentioned. “Each settlement should be applied sooner. I thank everybody who’s working to assist Ukraine.”
ABC Information’ Fidel Pavlenko, Natalya Kushnir and Nataliia Popova contributed to this report.
