Russia launches more than 440 drones, missiles at Ukraine overnight, Zelenskyy says

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50% : There were also strikes in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions, Zelenskyy said.Ukraine's state-owned electricity transmission system operator, Ukrenergo, said the overnight attack was the second mass strike on energy infrastructure since the start of the year.The strikes hit energy facilities in eight regions of Ukraine, Ukrenergo said in a post to social media, forcing all Ukrainian-controlled nuclear power plants in the affected areas to reduce output.The United Nations' nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency, confirmed that Ukraine's nuclear power plants had reduced output again Saturday morning "after renewed military activity affected electrical substations and disconnected some power lines."In western Ukraine's Lviv region, more than 600,000 subscribers were without power on Saturday morning, according to Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv regional military administration.Firefighters work at the site of a Russian drone and missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this handout picture released on Feb. 7, 2026.State Emergency Service Of Ukrai/via ReutersPoland's Armed Forces Operational Command in Warsaw said in posts to social media that NATO warplanes were scrambled while air defense systems and radar reconnaissance were ordered to the highest level of readiness amid Russia's Friday night strikes.The response lasted for around three hours, the command said later.

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