Russia struck cities across Ukraine with missiles and drones overnight in one of its biggest attacks of the New Year so far, killing at least four people and knocking out heat and power, exposing millions to dangerous winter cold.

Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with 242 drones and 36 missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force said Friday morning.

Russia attacked Ukraine's capital with ballistic missiles and drones on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding 27, a day before talks between Ukrainian and U.S. leaders.

An intense wave of Russian drone attacks has left hundreds of thousands of households in the Kyiv region without power, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, as temperatures fall well below freezing.

Russia's second Oreshnik IRBM attack was part of a huge missile and drone barrage, but its significance may have been mainly symbolic.

The church, a national cultural landmark confiscated during the Soviet era, remains state-owned but will now function primarily as a parish church.

Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s capital on Friday using new ballistic missile that it says flies at 10 times the speed of sound and is unstoppable by air defences. The strikes coincide with a new chill in relations between Moscow and Washington and send a clear warning to Kyiv’s NATO allies.