Russia attacked Ukraine with dozens of strike drones and ballistic and cruise missiles, focusing on energy infrastructure and killing at least one person, the Ukrainian military and local officials said on Sunday.

The overnight strikes hit Kyiv and the region around the capital, the Black Sea port of Odessa and central Ukraine, they said.

The Ukrainian air force said that Russia had launched 50 missiles and 297 drones in overnight attacks and air defense units shot down or neutralized 33 missiles and 274 drones.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that the strikes also targeted the Dnipro, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Poltava and Sumy regions.

The main target of the attack was the energy sector, but residential buildings and railway were also damaged, he noted.

Russia's Defence Ministry reported that air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 86 Ukrainian drones overnight. 

Strikes over diplomacy

"Moscow continues to invest in strikes more than in diplomacy," Zelenskyy said, adding that this week alone, Russia launched more than 1,300 drones, more than 1,400 guided aerial bombs and 96 missiles against Ukraine.

"The enemy is attacking the capital with ballistic weapons," the head of Kyiv's military administration Tymur Tkachenko said on Telegram, urging people to remain in shelters.

At least one person was killed and another five were wounded in the Kyiv region, with damage reported in five districts where more than a dozen houses were damaged, regional Governor Mykola Kalashnyk said on the Telegram.

Temperatures had plunged to nearly -10C when the capital was struck, with emergency services deployed across the city.

Tkachenko said the attacks had caused a fire on the roof of a residential building.

There was no immediate comment from Russia.

The US has been trying to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, but progress has been halting, with Russia demanding Ukraine withdraw from parts of the eastern Donbass region it still controls, an idea Kyiv has rejected.

Their most recent talks, in Geneva on February 17 and 18, did not produce a breakthrough.

Heightened vigilance

The bombardment prompted heightened vigilance across Ukraine, all the way to the western border. 

Poland's Operational Command said it was scrambling jets after detecting "long‑range aviation of the Russian federation conducting strikes on the territory of Ukraine."

It also came hours after blasts in Lviv, a western city near the Polish border that rarely sees deadly attacks.

Explosions ripped through a central shopping street at around midnight, killing a policewoman and injuring 15 people after officers responded to a reported break‑in.

Moscow denies targeting civilians but says Ukraine's civil infrastructure is a legitimate target because striking it can reduce Kyiv's military capabilities. Kyiv says the aim is to harm civilians and break the country's will.