Kyiv, Jan. 13 -- At least four people were killed after Russia launched a massive overnight aerial assault on Ukraine, deploying nearly 300 attack drones along with 18 ballistic missiles and seven cruise missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday.

In a statement posted on X, Zelenskyy said most of the drones used in the attack were Shahed-type unmanned aerial vehicles and that Russia once again targeted Ukraine's energy-generation facilities and substations, causing extensive damage to residential and civilian infrastructure across multiple regions.

According to the Ukrainian President, the Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Donetsk regions came under attack, and Russian strikes on a p...