![]() "The occupiers have decided to try to spoil the day for us," he said. In Mykolayiv, regional military administration chief Vitaliy Kim said in a social media post that Russian missile launches had been reported. ![]() Russian missile strikes were reported elsewhere, including in the Mykolayiv region and the Khmelnytskiy region in the west. Volunteers hope the New Year's tree will be a sign of hope for those who remain in the embattled city. Most of Bakhmut's prewar popular of 70,000 have fled. WATCH: Despite constant shelling by Russian forces, a festive New Year's tree was put up in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a hotly contested area in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Pictures and video posted to Twitter showed the facade of Kyiv’s Alfavito Hotel charred and destroyed. The UN confirmed the deaths of at least 6,884 civilians and the injuries of 10,947 more as of December 26.įollowing the injury to the Japanese journalist, Tokyo’s embassy in Kyiv said it was “deeply outraged by the repeated massive attack on civilians and civilian objects in Ukraine on New Year's Eve, which led to the death and injury of civilians, including a Japanese journalist." Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Moscow has denied that it has targeted civilians, despite ever-mounting evidence it has done so. The fresh attacks come just two days after Russia launched what has been described as one of its largest air assaults on Ukraine since the start of the war. “Because we will not stop fighting until we regain every inch of our land." “But…they are doomed to failure,” he added. “They think they will defeat us: If not on the battlefield, then by destroying our cities. "For the occupiers, there are no laws and customs of warfare,” he wrote. ![]() ![]() Oleksandr Pavlyuk, deputy commander of Ukrainian land forces, wrote on Telegram that civilian sites in three districts of Kyiv were damaged, including a private home and a hotel. Russian forces fired "more than 20 cruise missiles,” the commander in chief of the armed forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, said. People work at the site of a Russian missile strike in Kyiv on December 31. At least six missiles were targeted toward the capital. The Ukrainian military said its defense forces had shot down many of missiles fired on December 31 ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations, but it added that some got through, hitting civilian infrastructure. He added that 30 percent of Kyiv residents were without electricity. In a post on Telegram, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said one person had been killed and 22 wounded, including a Japanese journalist, in the latest missile and drone attack on the capital. Meanwhile, Putin - in his New Year’s address on December 31 - claimed that "moral, historical rightness" is on Russia's side, even amid growing international condemnation for his country’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. “He hides behind you and burns your country and your future.”įor the New Year, he said in a video address to fellow Ukrainians, "I want to wish all of us one thing - victory." “And what will be with all of you, citizens of Russia, does not concern him,” he added. ![]() It’s for one person to remain in power until the end of his life. It is not the war with NATO, as your propagandists lie. “All this war that you are waging - you, Russia. No one in the world will forgive you for this. "There were several waves of missile attacks on New Year's Eve. He took direct aim at Russian President Vladimir Putin as the cause of the conflict. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on social media that Ukraine will never forgive Moscow after the latest rocket and drone attacks. Multiple explosions rang out in Kyiv late on December 31 after a reported Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital and amid further Russian attacks elsewhere in Ukraine. For all of RFE/RL's coverage of the war in Ukraine, click here. RFE/RL's Live Briefinggives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensives, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians. ![]()
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