Today, Sunday, the Russian military operation in Ukraine continues in its 11th month, as the Russian military continues Strike Ukrainian targets and areas of concentration of Kiev forces and weapons depotswhile Kiev is trying to resist the Russian bear with material and military support from the West.
In the latest developments on the ground, pro-Russian authorities in Lugansk province have announced that at least 6 people have been killed in a Ukrainian bomb attack that hit a hospital in the province’s Pervomaisk town. And medical sources suggest that the death toll is on the rise, indicating that rescue teams are continuing their operations to clear the rubble. For his part, the correspondent of “Al-Arabiya” and “Al-Hadath” reported that 15 civilians were injured in the city of Makivka, as a result of the Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk province, and also spoke of similar Ukrainian shelling that affected several districts of the city. The city of Donetsk is the center of the district.
Before that, explosions rang out in Kiev and elsewhere across Ukraine, and sirens blasted across the country to warn of danger. Air strikes in the first two hours of the start of the new year. As sirens sounded, some people shouted from their balconies: “Glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes!”
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said shrapnel from a missile destroyed by Ukraine’s air defense systems damaged a car in the center of the capital, but there were initially no reports of injuries or loss of life. Kiev’s military administration said 23 Russian-launched “air targets” had been destroyed.
The attacks came minutes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sent a New Year’s message to his people, in which he expressed his good wishes for his country’s victory in the war, which entered the 11th month without an end in view.
Witnesses said the noise from the explosions continued afterward, and there were still no reports of damage. There were unofficial reports of explosions in the southern Kherson region and northern Zhitomir region.
The attacks followed the firing of more than 20 cruise missiles at targets across Ukraine on Saturday, in what Ukraine’s parliamentary human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets described as a “New Year’s terror”.
Kiev officials said on the Telegram messaging app that the air defense systems had been activated. Oleksiy Kuleba, governor of the Kyiv region, said the region was being attacked by drones. It was not immediately known if any targets had been hit.
On Saturday, the mayor of Kiev announced that one person had been killed and others injured following explosions in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, after intense Russian rocket attacks.
The Ukrainian presidency said a hotel in Kiev was damaged in the explosions, while circulating images show columns of smoke rising near a power plant in the Ukrainian capital.
In turn, a deputy of the Ukrainian parliament said that energy supplies to Kiev had temporarily stopped after the Russian missile attacks.
Simultaneously, the mayor of Mykolaiv in the south of the country reported explosions and warned residents of continued rocket attacks.
