Hours before the latest strikes, Zelensky had warned that Moscow was preparing a second “massive strike” on Kyiv following its attacks on Thursday that killed 30 people.

After the barrage of drone and missile strikes on Thursday night, tens of thousands of residents evacuated to metro stations around the city as alarms blared in the early hours of Friday morning.

Ukraine accused Moscow of deliberately attacking civilian areas in that attack, which left at least 30 people dead. Russia said it had targeted military and energy bases in retaliation for recent Ukrainian strikes on power stations and energy facilities in Russian territory.

Ukraine has kept up its drone attacks on critical Russian energy facilities, with power being cut off temporarily in the city of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea.

In addition to the Ukrainian strikes on Crimea, the Baltic oil terminals of Vyssotsk and Ust-Luga, located north and west of St Petersburg, were also targeted again.

Kyiv has been escalating its strikes on targets in the peninsula in an attempt to pressure the Kremlin into peace talks.

So far, it has opted to increase its deadly attacks on the Ukrainian capital instead.

Several reports suggest Zelensky will be meeting US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Nato summit, which begins in Ankara in Turkey on Tuesday.

In his post on X on Monday, Zelensky said it was “critically important” that the US and Ukraine’s European partners come to the summit “with strong decisions in support of our air defense, and thus the protection of ordinary people’s lives”.

“The United States and Europe have enough power to stop this terror,” he said.

President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen said Ukraine’s “urgent” need for more air defence would be discussed at the summit.

Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and currently controls approximately one-fifth of Ukrainian territory.