Russia fired a barrage of missiles and drones at Ukraine in a large-scale attack Tuesday that left three people dead, including a 4-year-old child – just one day after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned against strikes over the Christmas period.

The onslaught, which saw more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles fired, struck homes and wiped out power in 13 Ukrainian regions – causing widespread power outages in already frigid temperatures, officials said.

Zelensky decried the latest attack on families preparing to celebrate Christmas, saying it was proof Russian dictator Vladimir Putin wasn’t serious about bringing an end to the nearly four-year-old war.

“A strike before Christmas, when people want to be with their families, at home, in safety. A strike, in fact, in the midst of negotiations that are being conducted to end this war. Putin cannot accept the fact that we must stop killing,” Zelensky wrote on X.

The Ukrainian leader added the strikes meant “the world is not putting enough pressure on Russia” and that “now is the time to respond.”

Ukrainian emergency services said the child who died was killed in Ukraine’s northwestern Zhytomyr region.

A separate drone attack killed a woman in the Kyiv region, while another civilian died in the western Khmelnytskyi region, according to officials.

At least five were reported wounded in the Kyiv strikes, the Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s air force said its air defenses managed to stop 587 drones and 34 missiles.

The strike – the ninth large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine’s energy system this year alone — left scores of people without power early Tuesday, Ukraine’s energy ministry said.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s largest private energy supplier, DTEK, said the attack targeted thermal power stations in what it noted was the seventh major strike on its facilities since October.

Authorities in the western regions of Rivne, Ternopil and Lviv, as well as the northern Sumy region, also reported damage to energy infrastructure or power outages in the wake of the strikes.

Russia, for its part, admitted to attacking Ukrainian energy and military facilities and captured two villages along the front line.

Kyiv, which often disputes Russian reports of territorial gains, didn’t immediately comment.

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian overnight drone attack sparked a fire at an industrial facility in Russia’s southern Stavropol region, officials there said.

The latest attacks come after President Trump has for months pressed for a peace agreement.

Negotiations, though, have been stonewalled by different demands from Moscow and Kyiv.

With Post wires