Ukraine said on Monday it had experienced a “record” attack of 90 drones fired by Russia on New Year's Eve, particularly targeting Lviv and Odessa. At least one person was killed in this attack. Follow the latest information on the conflict.
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A “record” drone attack on New Year’s Eve
Ukraine said on Monday that it faced a “record” attack of 90 drones fired by Russia on New Year's Eve, particularly targeting Lviv and Odessa, killing at least one person. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, 87 of 90 Shahed explosive drones fired by Russian forces from four directions were destroyed in flight. “The enemy deployed a record number of attack drones,” she noted.
Attacks with four S-300 surface-to-air missiles in the Kharkiv region and three Kh-31 and one Kh-59 anti-radar missiles against the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions were also reported. In the Lviv region, the strikes destroyed a university and a museum whose history is linked to two Ukrainian nationalists and Nazi collaborators, according to the town's mayor, Andriï Sadovy. One person was killed and eight injured in this nighttime attack in the Odessa region. A child was injured in Khmelnytsky. A woman was also killed in a Russian shelling in the Kherson region on Monday, said the head of the regional administration Oleksandr Prokudin in Telegram.
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DAY OF MOURNING IN Kyiv
Kiev is marking a day of mourning on Monday for the victims of what the city administration described as a “massive” rocket attack that killed 39 people across Ukraine on Friday, including 19 in the capital alone. In response to that Moscow-ordered offensive, Ukrainian troops bombed Belgorod on Saturday, killing 24 people and wounding 108 others, according to the region's governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov. An attack considered the deadliest for civilians in Russia since the conflict began in February 2022.
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New Year's Eve under Russian bombs
On the night from Sunday to Monday there were new Russian attacks in Donetsk and Odessa, in which at least five people were killed. Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-appointed head of the Donetsk administration, had previously reported “massive bombings” in several districts of Donetsk, in which seven people were injured. In western Ukraine, the governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozytskyi, said anti-aircraft systems had shot down drones coming from Russia early in the morning.
Ukraine: Deadly attacks in Odessa and DonetskSource: TF1 Info
07:07
Vladimir Putin assures that Russia will “never” give in
In his New Year's greetings, Russian President Vladimir Putin assured that his country would “never give in.” After a very martial speech last year, he announced on Sunday that 2024 would be the year of the “family”. Without specifically mentioning Ukraine, he praised the soldiers fighting at the front as “heroes” and assured them of the “support of the entire nation.”
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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY PROMISES TO “MANAGE” RUSSIAN FORCES.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed in his New Year's address to “destroy” Russian forces that invaded Ukraine, after a year marked by the failure of his army's summer counteroffensive and the almost complete freeze of the front in the east of the country. Kiev 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 “wreak havoc” on Russian armed forces. Source: TF1 Info
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WELCOME
Hello everyone. Happy New Year if you join us. Welcome to TF1info to follow the latest news surrounding the war in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022 after the Russian invasion.
Moscow said on Sunday it had attacked “military” targets in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. On the contrary, local authorities assured that these were civilian buildings, in retaliation for the unprecedented attack that killed 24 people in Belgorod, Russia, the day before.
Russia assured on Saturday that it would not allow the rocket and rocket attack on the city, some thirty kilometers from the Ukrainian border, to go “unpunished”. Moscow claims that Kiev is responsible, but Ukraine has so far remained silent.
Those bombings killed 24 people and injured 108 others, according to a new report from the region's governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov. He later said that another Ukrainian bombing had killed an elderly man and injured a woman in the village of Krasnoye, which almost borders Ukraine.
If Kiev regularly carries out attacks on Russian territory, particularly with drones, the attack in Belgorod is the deadliest for civilians in Russia since the conflict began in February 2022.
The editorial team of TF1info