Russia launched 400 drones, 40 missiles to hit Ukraine’s energy sector, Zelensky says

By Reuters 7 February 2026, 10:41 am

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The Ukrainian air defence fires at Russian drones above Kyiv during night mass drone and missile strikes on Ukraine amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, September 10, 2025. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

KYIV — Russia launched more than 400 drones and about 40 missiles earlier today to attack Ukraine’s energy sector, targeting the power grid, generation facilities and distribution substations, President Volodymyr Zelensky says.

“Every day, Russia could choose real diplomacy, but it chooses new strikes,” Zelensky writes on X. “It is crucial that everyone who supports the trilateral negotiations respond to this. Moscow must be deprived of the ability to use the cold as leverage against Ukraine.”