The Foreign Ministry said Friday that it has approved a new humanitarian aid package for Ukraine, intended to provide clean water to areas that no longer have functioning water infrastructure as a result of more than three years of Russian bombardment.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar spoke with the Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, on Thursday and shared the details of the aid package with him, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

“It will consist of a number of water systems, each of which will be able to supply water for tens of thousands of people. The drinking systems will be installed in Ukraine’s eastern provinces, an area where infrastructure was damaged by Russian bombings and the population suffers from water shortages,” the statement read.

“This aid package joins the humanitarian assistance that Israel has provided to Ukraine since the outbreak of the war in February 2022. As part of this assistance, Israel operated ‘air and ground bridges’ to Ukraine delivering food, medicine and other essential supplies; a field hospital was established at the beginning of the war; and during the first quarter of 2025, hundreds of electricity supply units were distributed in regions affected by the bombings,” the statement added.

In 2024, Global WASH Cluster, a UNICEF-led water sanitation monitoring network, estimated that some 9.6 million people in Ukraine, or roughly a quarter of the population, are without adequate water and sanitation services.

Israel has periodically provided humanitarian aid to Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022.

It has declined, however, to send military aid — a decision that has irked Kyiv — due to Jerusalem’s need to maintain diplomatic relations with Moscow.

Waves of drone and missile attacks targeted Kyiv overnight into Friday in the largest aerial assault since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began more than three years ago, officials said, amid a renewed Russian push to capture more of its neighbor’s land.

The barrage injured at least 23 people and inflicted severe damage across multiple districts of the capital in a seven-hour onslaught. Blasts lit up the night sky and echoed across the city as air raid sirens wailed. The blue lights of emergency vehicles reflected off high-rise buildings, and debris blocked city streets.

“It was a harsh, sleepless night,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Russia has been stepping up its long-range attacks on Ukrainian cities. Less than a week ago Russia launched what was then the largest aerial assault of the war. That strategy has coincided with a concerted Russian effort to break through parts of the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line, where Ukrainian troops are under severe pressure.

Russia launched 550 drones and missiles across Ukraine during the night, the country’s air force said. The majority were Iranian-made Shahed drones, but Russia also launched 11 missiles in the attack.

Alya Shahlai, a 23-year-old Kyiv wedding photographer, said her home was destroyed in the attack.

“We were all in the [basement] shelter because it was so loud, staying home would have been suicidal,” she told The Associated Press. “We went down 10 minutes before, and then there was a loud explosion and the lights went out in the shelter, people were panicking.”

The attack on Kyiv began the same day a phone call took place between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Zelensky called the timing of the strikes a deliberate signal that Moscow has no intention of ending the war.

Trump said he would call Zelensky on Friday. US-led international peace efforts have been fruitless so far. Recent direct peace talks have led only to sporadic exchanges of prisoners of war and fallen soldiers.

When asked if he made any progress with Putin on a deal to end the fighting in Ukraine, he said: “No, I didn’t make any progress with him today at all.”

“I’m not happy about that. I’m not happy about that,” Trump said of Russia’s war in Ukraine. “I don’t think he’s looking to stop” the war, Trump said later of Putin.

According to Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, the Russian leader emphasized that Moscow will seek to achieve its goals in Ukraine and remove the “root causes” of the conflict.

“Russia will not back down from these goals,” Ushakov told reporters after the call.

Russia’s army crossed the border on February 24, 2022, in an all-out invasion that Putin sought to justify by falsely saying it was needed to protect Russian-speaking civilians in eastern Ukraine and prevent the country from joining NATO.

Zelensky has repeatedly called out Russian disinformation efforts.

The US has paused some shipments of military aid to Ukraine, including crucial air defense missiles. Ukraine’s main European backers are considering how they can help pick up the slack. Zelensky says plans are afoot to build up Ukraine’s domestic arms industry, but scaling up will take time.

Throughout the night, Associated Press journalists in Kyiv heard the constant buzzing of drones overhead and the sound of explosions and intense machine gun fire as Ukrainian forces tried to intercept the aerial assault.

“Absolutely horrible and sleepless night in Kyiv,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on social media platform X. “One of the worst so far.”

Ukraine’s Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko described “families running into metro stations, basements, underground parking garages, mass destruction in the heart of our capital.”

“What Kyiv endured last night, cannot be called anything but a deliberate act of terror,” she wrote on X.

Kyiv was the primary target of the countrywide attack. At least 14 people were hospitalized, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.

Ukrainian air defenses shot down 270 targets, including two cruise missiles. Another 208 targets were lost from radar and presumed jammed.

Russia successfully hit eight locations with nine missiles and 63 drones. Debris from intercepted drones fell across at least 33 sites.

In addition to the capital, the Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Kharkiv and Chernihiv regions also sustained damage, Zelensky said.

Emergency services reported damage in at least five of the capital’s 10 districts. In the Solomianskyi district, a five-story residential building was partially destroyed, and the roof of a seven-story building caught fire. Fires also broke out at a warehouse, a garage complex, and an auto repair facility.

In the Sviatoshynskyi district, a strike hit a 14-story residential building, sparking a fire. Several vehicles also caught fire nearby. Blazes were also reported at non-residential facilities.

In Shevchenkivskyi district, an eight-story building came under attack, with the first floor sustaining damage. Falling debris was recorded in Darnytskyi and Holosiivskyi districts.

Ukraine’s national railway operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, said drone strikes damaged rail infrastructure in Kyiv.