Russia will “intensify” its strikes in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin announced on Monday.Ukraine said on Monday that it faced, during New Year’s Eve, a “record” attack by 90 drones fired by Russia which notably targeted Lviv and Odessa and left at least one dead.Follow the latest information on the conflict.
VLADIMIR PUTIN ANNOUNCES “INTENSIFICATION” OF MILITARY STRIKES
Russia will “intensify” its strikes on military targets in Ukraine in retaliation for the unprecedented scale bombing by the Ukrainian army of the Russian town of Belgorod this weekend, Vladimir Putin announced on Monday. “We are going to intensify the strikes, no crime against civilians will go unpunished, that is a certainty,” declared the Russian president during a visit to a military hospital, specifying that these strikes will be carried out “on Ukrainian military installations.
A “RECORD” DRONE ATTACK ON NEW YEAR’S NIGHT
Ukraine said on Monday that it faced a “record” attack by 90 drones fired by Russia on New Year’s Eve, which notably targeted Lviv and Odessa, killing at least one person. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, 87 of 90 Shahed explosive drones launched by Russian forces from four directions were destroyed in flight. “The enemy used a record number of attack drones,” she noted.
It also reported strikes using four S-300 surface-to-air missiles in the Kharkiv region and three Kh-31 and one Kh-59 anti-radar missiles targeting the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions. In the Lviv region, the strikes destroyed a university and a museum whose history is linked to two Ukrainian nationalist figures and Nazi collaborators, according to the mayor of the locality, Andriï Sadovy. In the Odessa region, one person was killed and eight injured during this nighttime attack. In Khmelnytsky, a child was injured. A woman was also killed during Russian shelling in the Kherson region on Monday, head of the regional administration Oleksandr Prokudin said on Telegram.
DAY OF MOURNING IN kyiv
kyiv observes a day of mourning on Monday for the victims of the missile attack, described as “massive” by the municipality, and which left 39 dead on Friday across Ukraine, including 19 in the capital alone. In response to this offensive ordered by Moscow, Ukrainian troops bombarded Belgorod on Saturday, killing 24 people and injuring 108 others, according to the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov. An attack judged to be the deadliest for civilians in Russia since the start of the conflict in February 2022.
AN EVE UNDER RUSSIAN BOMBS
New Russian strikes took place in Donetsk and Odessa during the night from Sunday to Monday, killing at least five people. Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk administration appointed by Moscow, earlier reported “massive bombings” in several districts of Donetsk which left seven injured. In western Ukraine, the governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozytskyi, said anti-aircraft defense systems had shot down drones coming from Russia in the early morning.
Ukraine: deadly strikes in Odessa and DonetskSource : TF1 Info
VLADIMIR PUTIN ASSURES THAT RUSSIA WILL “NEVER” BACK DOWN
During his New Year’s greetings, Russian President Vladimir Putin assured that his country would “never back down”. After a very martial speech last year, he proclaimed on Sunday that the year 2024 would be that of “family”. Without explicitly mentioning Ukraine, he paid tribute to the soldiers, “heroes” who are fighting on the front line, assuring them of the “support of the entire nation”.
VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY PROMISES TO “RAVAVE” RUSSIAN FORCES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised in his New Year speech to “ravage” the Russian forces that invaded Ukraine, at the end of a year marked by the failure of his army’s summer counter-offensive and the almost total freezing of the front line in the east of the country. kyiv will have at least “a million” additional drones in its arsenal next year, he added in his speech, as well as F-16 fighter jets supplied by its Western partners.
Zelensky vows to “ravage” Russian forcesSource : TF1 Info
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Moscow said on Sunday it had struck targets “military” in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, local authorities ensuring on the contrary that they were civilian buildings, retaliation for the unprecedented attack which left 24 dead the day before in Belgorod, Russia.
On Saturday, Russia assured that it would not let “unpunished” the missile and rocket attack against this town located around thirty kilometers from the Ukrainian border. Moscow claims that kyiv is responsible, but Ukraine has so far remained silent.
These bombings killed 24 people and injured 108 others, according to a new report announced by the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov. He later said that another Ukrainian bombing had killed an elderly man and injured a woman in the village of Krasnoye, almost bordering Ukraine.
If kyiv regularly carries out attacks on Russian territory, in particular using drones, the Belgorod strike is the deadliest for civilians in Russia since the start of the conflict in February 2022.