Wave of missiles, air raid sirens mark Ukraine’s start to new year | 24CA News
Russia continued intense assaults on Kyiv and different components of Ukraine early on New Year’s Day, following a barrage of missiles fired on Saturday, with air raid sirens wailing for hours in a single day.
Ukraine’s Air Force command mentioned that that they had destroyed 45 Iranian-made Shahed drones — 32 of them after midnight on Sunday and 13 late on Saturday.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in a combative New Year deal with signalled that the battle, now in its eleventh month, will proceed, a speech that contrasted with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s messages of gratitude and unity.
As sirens blared for over 4 hours in Kyiv, some individuals shouted from their balconies, “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes!” Reuters witnesses reported.
No casualties in Kyiv from newest barrage
Curfews starting from 7 p.m. to midnight remained in place throughout the nation, making celebrations for the beginning of 2023 inconceivable in public areas.
Fragments from destroyed missiles brought on minimal injury within the capital’s centre, and preliminarily reviews indicated there have been no wounded or casualties, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned on social media.
Ukraine’s prime command mentioned in a report on Sunday that Russia had launched 31 missiles with 12 airstrikes throughout the nation within the earlier 24 hours.
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink mentioned on Twitter: “Russia coldly and cowardly attacked Ukraine in the early hours of the new year. But Putin still does not seem to understand that Ukrainians are made of iron.”
Andrii Nebytov, chief of Kyiv’s police, posted a photograph on his Telegram messaging app, allegedly of a bit of drone used within the assault on the capital with a hand-written signal on it in Russian saying “Happy New Year.”
“These wreckage are not at the front, where fierce battles are taking place; they are here, on a sports grounds, where children play,” Nebytov mentioned.
‘Let the day be quiet’
Attacks on Saturday killed at the least one particular person in Kyiv and injured a dozen. They adopted many bombardments over the previous months, which Russia has mainly directed at Ukraine’s power and water infrastructure.
The latest assaults had broken infrastructure in Sumy, within the northeast of the nation, Khmelnytskyi within the west and Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in southeast and south, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces mentioned.
“Let the day be quiet,” Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk area mentioned early on Sunday, after reporting heavy shelling of a number of communities within the area in a single day, that wounded one.
Separately, Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the southern Russian area of Belgorod bordering Ukraine, mentioned that in a single day shelling of the outskirts of Shebekino city had broken homes however there have been no casualties.
Russian media additionally reported a number of Ukrainian assaults on the Moscow-controlled components of the Donetsk and Luhansk areas, with native officers saying that at the least 9 individuals had been wounded.
Russia’s RIA state news company reported, citing a neighborhood physician, that six individuals had been killed when a hospital in Donetsk was attacked on Saturday.
There was no fast response from Kyiv, which just about by no means publicly claims duty for any assaults inside Russia or on Russian-controlled territories in Ukraine.
Reuters was not capable of independently confirm the Russian media reviews.
Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, calling it a “special operation” to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine, which he mentioned was a risk to Russia. Kyiv and its Western allies say Putin’s invasion was merely an imperialist land seize.
Russian forces have been engaged for months in fierce combating within the east and south of Ukraine, making an attempt to defend the lands Moscow proclaimed it annexed in September and which make up the broader Ukrainian industrial Donbas area.
