Ukrainians cheered from balconies as their air defences blasted Russian missiles and drones out of the sky in the first hours of the New Year.
Local residents carry their belongings as they leave their home ruined in Russian rocket attack in Zaporizhzhya.“Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes!” some shouted as air raid sirens blared during the late night attack.fired by Russia on the first night of the year, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday , praising Ukrainians for showing gratitude to the troops and one another.
“Russians launched several waves of Shahed drones. Targeting critical infrastructure facilities. Air defence is at work,” he said on the Telegram messaging app. A 19-year-old man was taken to a hospital in the Desnianskiy district, Mr Klitschko said on the Telegram app. The mainly residential district on the left bank of the Dnipro River is Kyiv’s most populous.Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko also said the debris hit a road in the district, damaging a building beside it.
“It is sad that instead of meeting friends, celebrating and giving gifts to one another, people were forced to seek shelter, some were killed,” he told Reuters.“It is a huge tragedy. It is a huge tragedy that cannot ever be forgiven. That is why the New Year is sad.” Russia’s defence ministry said it had targeted production, storage and launch sites of Ukrainian drones with long-range missiles on New Year’s Eve.Russia has flattened Ukrainian cities and killed thousands of civilians since Mr Putin ordered his invasion in February, claiming Ukraine was an artificial state whose pro-Western outlook threatened Russia’s security.Ukraine has fought back with Western military support, driving Russian forces from more than half the territory they seized.
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