Russia overnight launched an unprecedented 728 Shahed drones as well as decoy drones, accompanied also by 13 cruise and ballistic missiles, Ukraine's air force announced Wednesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described that the northwestern city of Lutsk, near the borders with Poland and Belarus, suffered the most intense attacks and damage, and ten other regions were also targeted.

Lutsk hosts military airfields frequently used by Ukrainian cargo planes and fighter jets, and has long been a region crucial to military logistics and a hub for foreign military.

Zelensky said that the Kremlin was "making a point" with this fresh attack, especially as it comes so closely on the heels of the Pentagon U-turn concerning weapons shipments to Kiev.

"This is a telling attack — and it comes precisely at a time when so many efforts have been made to achieve peace, to establish a ceasefire, and yet only Russia continues to rebuff them all," he wrote on X.

"Our partners know how to apply pressure in a way that will force Russia to think about ending the war, not launching new strikes," Zelensky added, and called for more Western anti-Moscow sanctions, particularly targeting its energy sector.

Russia's Defense Ministry meanwhile later confirmed it launched "long-range" and "precision" strikes on Ukraine overnight Tuesday, seeking to take out military airfield infrastructure. The statement claimed that "all designated targets were destroyed."

The bar on these massive drone swarm attacks keeps getting set higher, as earlier this month Russia sent a record over 500 UAVs. Never before has a single night's assault reached this level of over 700 drones and missiles.

The Ukrainian president's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, pointed out on social media, "It is quite telling that Russia carried out this attack just as the United States publicly announced that it would supply us with weapons."