It’s 7 a.m., an opportunity to look back on the events of the last few hours:
– At least eleven people were killed, including five children, yesterday during a Russian strike on and around the town of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine. According to the governor of the Donetsk region, the strike damaged six houses in Pokrovsk and one in Rivne, in which a family of six was staying. According to the emergency services, six people, including two children, could be under the rubble of two affected buildings.
– Elsewhere in Ukraine, an adult and two children were injured in shelling in the Kherson region in the south, one person died in Toretsk, near Bakhmut, and another was killed and two injured in Nikopol, in the south. the East, according to the respective regional authorities.
– In the territories occupied by Russia, two people were killed by Ukrainian bombings on Makiïvka and Gorlivka, in the east, during an attack which also left several injured. Russia also claimed to have shot down four Ukrainian missiles targeting Crimea.
– Authorities in the Russian city of Belgorod have canceled the nighttime celebration of Orthodox Christmas, after having already extended the school holidays until January 19 and suggested residents evacuate. Unprecedented measures for a large city in Russia, which deal a blow to the ambitions of the Kremlin, which has always strived to give the image that the conflict does not directly affect the daily life and security of Russians.
– Another thorn in the side of the authorities, women of Russians mobilized to fight in Ukraine in September 2022 on the orders of Vladimir Putin carried out a symbolic action of protest at the foot of the walls of the Kremlin on Saturday by placing flowers on the flame of the unknown soldier .