Russia launched large-scale overnight missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's energy facilities.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the 14th (local time) that Russia used 68 missiles and 430 drones to strike energy infrastructure, schools, enterprises, and areas where civilians live in and around Kyiv and in the second-largest city, Kharkiv, as well as the Sumy, Dnipro, and Mykolaiv areas.
A Kyiv official said four people were killed in the Kyiv region and 15 others were injured in other regions in Russia's latest attack.
Zelensky said on his X that "Russia will try to use the Middle East war to cause greater destruction here in Europe and in Ukraine," and called on allied countries to ramp up production of air defense weapons.
He visited Paris the day before and said, "International attention is shifting to the Middle East, and that is not good for Ukraine," adding that sufficient air defense missiles are needed to protect Ukraine from Russia's missiles and drones.
Bloomberg reported that Ukraine also carried out drone attacks the same day on Russia's refineries and ports, causing material damage.
Russian authorities said the attack sparked a fire at the Afipsky refinery in the Krasnodar region on Russia's southern Black Sea coast, and that drone debris fell at the Port of Kavkaz near the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, sending three people to the hospital.