The Ukrainian president said that Moscow used various types of drones“as well as cruise, ballistic and aeroballistic missiles,” in strikes.

In the southern city of Mykolaiv, “a drone attack killed two people and injured six others, including two children,” Zelenskyy said. Another woman was killed in the Lviv region, the The BBC reported.

NATO member Poland said it had scrambled its air force as the Russian strike targeted targets in western Ukraine. “Air defense and ground-based radar reconnaissance systems have reached the highest state of readiness,” the operational command of the Polish armed forces said. wrote on X.

The attack in Moscow came after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, urging L to end the war that has been going on for more than two years. But Zelensky complained that the conversation undermined efforts to isolate the Russian leader.

“This is the real answer of the war criminal Putin to all those who called and visited him recently,” said the Ukrainian foreign minister. said Andrii Sybiha of the attack. “We need peace through strength, not through silence.”

Zelensky, too said Saturday that Ukraine must do everything possible to end the war with Russia next year through diplomatic means.