A large-scale Russian missile and drone attack targeting Ukraine’s energy system on Christmas Day has been condemned as “inhumane” by president Volodymyr Zelensky.Half a million people were left without heating in Kharkiv in temperatures just a few degrees above freezing,

Ukraine's air force says it detected 184 missiles and drones, causing damage to energy infrastructure across the country.

Russia attacked Ukraine's energy system and some cities in an "inhuman" Christmas Day assault, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

A massive Russian missile and drone barrage on Ukraine's energy infrastructure on Christmas morning was "inhumane," Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said.

In the forests near Kharkiv, Askold Krushelnycky speaks to soldiers spending Christmas fighting a hi-tech battle against Vladimir Putin’s forces

Kharkiv modernist poet and prose writer Oleksii Bezpaltsev, 34, was killed in action. Source: PEN Ukraine, a Ukrainian non-governmental organisation established to protect freedom of speech and authors' rights,

The prime minister described the Christmas Day bombardment of Ukraine as "bloody and brutal". In Kyiv, residents sheltered in metro stations as missiles rained down.

Moscow again struck Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, part of an effort to wear down the country. “In the trenches, there are no holidays,” one man said.

A Ukrainian brigade said it required no infantry to destroy Russian positions in an operation in the Kharkiv region.

Russia has launched a Christmas Day attack on Ukraine’s energy system and cities in its eastern region. A barrage of cruise and ballistic missiles hit Kharkiv on Wednesday morning, Ukraine’s energy minister and local officials said. Ukrainian air ...

KYIV: Russia attacked Ukraine’s energy system and some cities with cruise and ballistic missiles plus drones on Wednesday in an “inhuman” Christmas Day assault, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said.