explosions in Kyiv, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, there is one dead, more than two injured
On December 31, a few hours before the New Year, Russia again launched strikes against Ukraine. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny facebook, More than 20 cruise missiles with Tu-95MS strategic bombers from the Caspian Sea and ground-based missile systems. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down 12 missiles: 6 – within Kyiv, 5 – in Zhytomyr and 1 – in Khmelnytsky, Zaluzhny wrote.
Head of the Nikolaev Regional Military Administration Vitaly Kim reported about “arrivals” and fires as a result of a missile attack on the city: 4 rescue teams left for the fire site. He also reported that six people are injuredone of them is seriously, three are hospitalized.
In the Kyiv city administration allocated on the work of air defense in Ukraine and the region.
Mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko confirmed explosions in the telegram channel in Kyiv. According to Reuters, about 10 sound explosions were recorded in Kyiv. The consequences of the shelling in Ukraine were posted on his telegram channel by the representative of the Office of the President Kyrylo Tymoshenko:
“One of the explosions was heard between residential buildings in the Solomensky district of the capital. All services took place on the spot. Also, explosions occurred in the Pechersky and Goloseevsky regions. There is destruction,” Klitschko later said:
According to him, at least one person died as a result of shelling in the Solomensky district of Kyiv. Also in Kyiv 11 people were injured, including journalists from Japan.
Ukrainian media reportthat as a result of a Russian missile attack on the afternoon of December 31, 2022, the Ukraina Palace in the center of the Ukrainian capital and a hotel nearby were also damaged.
“Usually, on this date, there are parents with children on the eve of the New Year. Today, by a miracle, there were no children. Glass flew from the strikes of Russian missiles,” commented on the blow in the office of the President of Ukraine.
In Zaporozhye, as a result of shelling on December 31, residential buildings were damaged, allocated in the office of the President of Ukraine. In total, four people were injured in the region, one of them is a 14-year-old teenage girl.
The head of the Khmelnytsky OVA, Serhiy Gamaly, said that there are approximately 20 missiles in the airspace of Ukraine and that as a result of the shelling, “at least 4 approaching faces were injured.” About this he wrote in the telegram channel.
About the work of air defense systems, the power of the Kharkiv, Kherson, and Vinnitsa economies is also consumed. Head of the Zhytomyr Regional Administration Vitaliy Bunechko reportedthat Russian missiles were fixed over the region. “Missiles over the Zhytomyr region! We are not filming the work of air defense!” he wrote.
The previous massive missile attack on Ukraine was on December 29: 16 missiles were fired at Kyiv alone, all of them shot down by air defense. However, fragments of rockets fell on a private sector in the suburbs of Kyiv, damaging several houses and injuring five people.
On December 30, Russia attacked Ukraine with kamikaze drones, most were also shot down.