Zelenskyy says fresh Russian attack on Ukraine shows Putin's 'true attitude' ahead of Trump meeting

A caller Russian onslaught against Kyiv involving hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles is putting the "true cognition of Putin and his interior circle" connected display, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday, arsenic helium prepared to conscionable with President Donald Trump. 

The overnight blitz successful Ukraine’s superior near astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic dormant and 27 injured, section authorities told the Associated Press. It unfolded arsenic Zelenskyy is acceptable to conscionable with Trump successful Florida connected Sunday, wherever helium said helium volition stock a 20-point bid connection to extremity the struggle with Russia. 

"Another Russian onslaught is inactive ongoing: since past night, determination person been astir 500 drones – a ample fig of ‘shaheds’ – arsenic good arsenic 40 missiles, including Kinzhals. The superior people is Kyiv – vigor facilities and civilian infrastructure," Zelenskyy wrote connected X connected Saturday morning. "Regrettably, determination person been hits, and mean residential buildings person been damaged. Rescuers are searching for a idiosyncratic trapped nether the rubble of 1 of them." 

"There person been galore questions implicit the past fewer days – truthful wherever is Russia’s effect to the proposals to extremity the warfare offered by the United States and the world? Russian representatives prosecute successful lengthy talks, but successful reality, Kinzhals and ‘shaheds’ talk for them. This is the existent cognition of Putin and his interior circle," Zelenskyy added. "They bash not privation to extremity the warfare and seek to usage each accidental to origin Ukraine adjacent greater suffering and summation their unit connected others astir the world."

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and President Donald Trump. (Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images; Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP; Alex Brandon/AP)

Zelenskyy besides said Saturday that, "If Russia turns adjacent the Christmas and New Year play into a clip of destroyed homes and burned apartments, of ruined powerfulness plants, past this sick enactment tin lone beryllium responded to with truly strong steps." 

"The United States has this capability. Europe has this capability. Many of our partners person this capability. The cardinal is to usage it," helium declared. 

Trump, up of the gathering with Zelenskyy, has said helium volition telephone the last shots connected a bid woody to extremity the conflict.

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A drone hits an flat gathering successful Kyiv during Russia's onslaught connected Ukraine connected Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

"He doesn’t person thing until I o.k. it," Trump told Politico Friday. "So we’ll spot what he’s got." 

The Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday that it carried retired a "massive strike" overnight, utilizing "long-range precision-guided weapons from land, air, and sea, including Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles" and drones, connected vigor infrastructure facilities "used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces," arsenic good arsenic "Ukrainian military-industrial analyzable enterprises." 

Rescuers enactment connected the country of a gathering damaged by a Russian onslaught successful Kyiv, Ukraine, connected Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025.  (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

The ministry said the onslaught came successful effect to Ukraine’s attacks connected "civilian objects" successful Russia.

Flames emergence from a residential gathering pursuing a Russian onslaught connected Kyiv, Ukraine, connected Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025.  (State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Earlier connected Saturday, the ministry said its aerial defenses changeable down 7 Ukrainian drones implicit the Russian regions of Krasnodar and Adygeya overnight. 

Fox News Digital’s Diana Stancey and The Associated Press contributed to this report.