A representative of Ukraine's state-owned rail company said the attacks coincide with Russia's "dramatic increase" in drone production.

The president recently spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the possibility of sending the missiles to settle an ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine that started three years ago.

Russia struck Ukraine’s power grid overnight, continuing a wartime tactic of targeting energy infrastructure in the ongoing three-and-a-half year long war. Newsweek has reached out to Russia’s foreign ministry and Ukraine’s energy ministry for comment via email on Sunday.

With Russian forces gaining slowly on the battlefield, Ukraine hopes its long-range drone campaign will help persuade Vladimir Putin to change course.

Gould-Davies, a Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who has served as the U.K. ambassador to Belarus, wrote recently that foreign-policy setbacks and economic challenges have put Russia in a bind,

President Donald Trump said his administration is considering approving long-range Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine.

The Kremlin will negotiate only if missiles and drones bring the pain of war home to Russians, Ukrainian officials say.

Russia has lost around 1,121,570 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Oct. 13.