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More than a million households are without electricity in Ukraine after a barrage of Russian attacks overnight that hit energy and industrial infrastructure, officials said.
Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said five regions were hit and at least five people were injured, and that work was underway to put out the fires and restore supplies.
While Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have been common throughout the war, Moscow has intensified attacks as the country heads into winter.
This comes as US President Donald Trump's foreign envoy will travel to Germany this weekend to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders for more talks on ending the war.
Steve Witkoff, who has led the White House's efforts to mediate between Ukraine and Russia, will discuss the latest version of the proposed peace agreement in Berlin.
On Saturday, Zelensky said more than 450 drones and 30 missiles were used by Russia in the nighttime strikes. Klymenko said the Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Chernihiv regions were hit.
Russia's defense ministry said it used weapons including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles in the air strikes, which are difficult to track as they can change direction in flight.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant temporarily lost all electricity overnight "due to widespread military activities affecting the power grid," but has now been reconnected.
The plant is located in Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine. It is not operational, but relies on a constant supply of electricity to cool its reactors.
In Russia, regional governor Roman Busargin said two people were killed in Saratov after a drone strike hit a residential building.
The Trump administration is pushing for a deal to end the war to be in effect by Christmas and has held several rounds of talks with Ukrainian and Russian representatives in recent weeks, though there have been few signs that major progress is imminent.
It has not yet been confirmed which European leaders will participate in the Berlin talks.
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported details of the meeting, said that UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will attend.
The Witkoff-Zelensky meeting comes after Ukraine gave the US its revised version of a 20-point peace plan, the latest version of a proposal that first emerged in late November and has sparked a flurry of diplomatic activity.
The fate of territory in eastern Ukraine remains one of the most difficult topics in the negotiations, with Kiev refusing to relinquish land it has illegally occupied, and Moscow reiterating its intention to take the entire Donbas region by force if Ukraine does not withdraw.
Zelensky has reacted with skepticism to the White House's latest proposal for resolving the territorial issue, which is for the Ukrainian military to withdraw from the region and turn it into a "special economic zone."
The Ukrainian president told reporters that under the terms proposed by the US, the Kremlin would pledge not to advance into areas vacated by Ukrainian forces, with the land between the Russian-controlled parts of Donbas and Ukraine's defensive lines transformed into a demilitarized zone.
"What will prevent [Russia] from advancing? Or from infiltrating disguised as civilians?" Zelensky said.
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