Rocket bombing instead of fireworks on New Year’s Eve in Ukraine
2023.01.01 04:21
Rocket bombing instead of fireworks on New Year’s Eve in Ukraine
Budrigannews.com – Following a barrage of missiles fired on Saturday, Russia continued intense attacks on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine early on New Year’s Day, with air raid sirens blaring throughout the night.
According to the command of Ukraine’s Air Force, they had destroyed 45 Iranian-made Shahed drones—32 on Sunday at midnight and 13 on Saturday night.
In a combative New Year’s address, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said that the war, now in its 11th month, will continue. This was in contrast to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s messages of gratitude and unity.
Some people shouted “Glory to Ukraine! ” from their balconies in Kyiv as the sirens blared for more than four hours. Heroes are heroes! Witnesses for Reuters reported.
Across the nation, curfews that ran from 7 p.m. to midnight persisted, making it impossible to celebrate the beginning of 2023 in public places.
Parts from obliterated rockets caused negligible harm in the capital’s middle, and for starters reports showed there were no injured or losses, Kyiv City hall leader Vitali Klitschko said via virtual entertainment.
In a report released on Sunday, the top command of Ukraine stated that Russia had carried out 31 missile and 12 air strikes throughout the country in the previous 24 hours.
Bridget Brink, the American Ambassador to Ukraine, wrote on Twitter: Ukraine was attacked in the early hours of the new year by Russia in a cold and cowardly manner. However, Putin still does not appear to comprehend that Ukrainians are iron.”
The chief of Kyiv’s police, Andrii Nebytov, allegedly shared a photo on his Telegram messaging app of a drone with the handwritten Russian phrase “Happy New Year” written on it.
Nebytov stated, “These wreckage are not at the front, where fierce battles are taking place, but here, on a sports grounds, where children play.”
At least one person was killed and a dozen were injured in Kyiv on Saturday in attacks. They came after Russia’s numerous bombardments of Ukraine’s energy and water infrastructure in recent months.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that the most recent attacks had destroyed infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in the southeast and south, Sumy in the country’s northeast, Khmelnytskyi in the west, and Sumy in the northeast.
Early on Sunday, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentyn Reznichenko, said, “Let the day be quiet.” He was responding to reports that heavy shelling had occurred overnight in several communities in the region, wounding one person.
Independently, Vyacheslav Gladkov, legislative leader of the southern Russian area of Belgorod lining Ukraine, said that short-term shelling of the edges of Shebekino town had harmed houses however there were no setbacks.
Multiple Ukrainian attacks on Moscow-controlled areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions were also reported by Russian media, with at least nine wounded, according to local officials.
A local doctor was cited by the Russian state news agency RIA as saying that a hospital in Donetsk was attacked on Saturday, resulting in the deaths of six people.
Kyiv didn’t respond right away because it almost never publicly claims responsibility for attacks on Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine or inside Russia.
The reports from Russian media could not be independently verified by Reuters.
Putin sent off his attack of Ukraine on Feb. 24, considering it a “unique activity” to “denazify” and disarm Ukraine, which he said was a danger to Russia. Putin’s invasion, according to Kyiv and its Western allies, was merely an imperialist land grab.
In an effort to defend the lands that Moscow declared it had annexed in September and which make up the larger industrial Donbas region of Ukraine, Russian forces have been engaged in intense fighting for months in the east and south of Ukraine.
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