Ukraine’s military says it has shot down 21 of 49 Russian missiles and drones on New Year’s Eve. The attacks were aimed at Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolajiv and Zaporizhzhya regions, according to authorities.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, stated on Sunday night that a residential building in the center of the city was hit by Russian rockets. Several people were sent to hospital.
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Two minors and a British journalist are said to be among the injured. According to the local prosecutor’s office, there are at least 26 injured.
In the night hours, a further eleven residential buildings in Kharkiv have been hit, as well as 13 residential buildings and a kindergarten, reports the Reuters news agency.
Retaliation
The attacks against Kharkiv came an hour after the military administration in Kyiv announced that the air defense in the capital region had been activated to strike down Russian drone attacks.
That same evening, the UN Security Council gathered for an emergency meeting following a call from Russia to discuss Saturday’s Ukrainian attack on the Russian city of Belgorod, in which 21 people were killed, according to the Russian authorities.
You can read a separate, extended case about Russia’s accusations in the UN Security Council here.
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The promised revenge
Russia’s Ministry of Defense promised retaliation after the attack in Belgorod.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi also warned of consequences for Russia in his evening speech on Saturday.
– For every Shahed drone, for every Russian missile, the terrorist state will be assigned an appropriate responsibility, both politically and very practically, he said.
The flight alert goes off in Belgorod, Russia
On Sunday morning Norwegian time, the flight alert went off again in the Russian border town of Belgorod and residents were asked to go to shelters, according to the governor.
Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov is urging residents to seek refuge on Sunday morning as the flight alert has gone off over the city.
It comes just one day after more than 20 people were killed in Belgorod in what Russia claims was a Ukrainian airstrike on the city. The attack is one of the deadliest on Russian soil since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine 22 months ago.
It happened the day after at least 41 civilians were killed in an 18-hour-long Russian missile and drone attack against Ukraine, which is said to have been the most extensive of its kind so far in the war.
Belgorod is about 40 kilometers north of the border with Ukraine.
2023-12-31 07:30:04
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