Cover photo: Ukrainian women celebrate New Year’s Eve in Kyiv, before the curfew, Saturday, December 31, 2022. Roman Hrytsyna / AP
- About thirty minutes after midnight, Russian rockets fell on two districts of Kyiv. announced its mayor Vitali Klitschko on Telegram. No new injuries were immediately reported. Several Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, had been targeted on Saturday, December 31, 2022.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised in his vows that his country will fight to victory. “We are fighting and we will keep fighting. For that word: victory,” he said.
- For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin took his vows alongside soldiers who had fought in Ukraine and which he had just decorated in a headquarters of the army of southern Russia. He asserted that “moral and historical correctness” was “on the side” of his country. “That is what we are fighting for today, for the protection of our people in our own historical territories, in the new parts of Russia,” he said.
- Russian shelling caused destruction and fires in Mykolayiv in the south, where at least six people were injured, and in Khmelnytsky in the west, where four people were injured. The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kuleba, accused Moscow of targeting residential areas.
- In this context, French President Emmanuel Macron promised in his New Year’s greetings that he would “absolutely” continue to help Ukraine, “until victory”. “We will be together to build a just and lasting peace. Count on France and count on Europe,” he said.
- Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu promised his soldiers an “inevitable” victory and reports a new prisoner exchange that allowed the return of 82 Russian soldiers. For their part, the Ukrainian authorities announced that they had rescued 140 people.
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