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December 8, 2025

Russia Launches Massive Wave of Drone Strikes on Ukraine Over the Weekend
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Russia launched a massive wave of drone and missile strikes on Ukraine
over the weekend that officials in Kyiv are calling one of the most
devastating attacks since Russia's full-scale invasion nearly four years
ago. The strikes damaged power facilities in eight Ukrainian regions and
once again severed outside power to the Zaporizhzhia power plant - the
largest nuclear plant in Europe - forcing officials to use backup diesel
generators to prevent a nuclear disaster. This is Olena Khomik, who
witnessed a Russian strike that triggered a fire in a warehouse near her
home near Kyiv.

Olena Khomik: "We critically need to be helped with weapons, for the
world to unite, for the world to help us, to be heard, for Mr. Trump to
hear us, that he is being deceived, that he is being led into a
delusion. You can't bargain with Russia. This is not the kind of country
that will give in. If Ukraine falls, Russia will cling to something
else. Look at what's happening with Georgia's Abkhazia, what they have
turned this flourishing region into. They are doing this with Ukraine
now."

On Sunday, President Trump's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. blasted
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky over a corruption scandal and
said the Trump administration might walk away from peace talks.

His comments came as the Kremlin welcomed Trump's new national security
strategy, which seeks to reestablish "strategic stability" with Russia.
The document also claims that Europe is facing the "stark prospect of
civilizational erasure," and urges U.S. support for far-right,
anti-immigrant populists like the Alternative for Germany and Hungary's
authoritarian leader, Viktor Orbán.


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