It's 7 a.m., an opportunity to look back on the events of the last few hours:
– At least eleven people, including five children, were killed in a Russian attack in and around the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine yesterday. According to the governor of the Donetsk region, the strike damaged six houses in Pokrovsk and one in Rivne, where a family of six lived. According to emergency services, there could be six people, including two children, under the rubble of two affected buildings.
– Elsewhere in Ukraine, one 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. in the east, according to the respective state authorities.
– In the Russian-occupied territories, Ukrainian bombings killed two people and injured several in an attack on Makiivka and Gorlivka in the east. Russia also claimed to have fired four Ukrainian missiles into Crimea.
– Authorities in the Russian city of Belgorod have canceled the nightly celebration of Orthodox Christmas after already extending the school holidays until January 19 and recommending that residents evacuate. Unprecedented measures for a major city in Russia, dealing a blow to the ambitions of the Kremlin, which has always given the impression that the conflict does not directly affect the daily lives 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 staged a symbolic protest on Saturday at the foot of the Kremlin walls by laying flowers on the flame of the unknown Soldiers.