A major night raid hit the country, but almost all drones were shot down and there were no casualties. However, on Thursday, new attacks in the Donetsk region and the south left five civilians dead. According to Russia, 160,000 Ukrainians died in the counteroffensive
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Three people were killed and five injured on Thursday Russian attacks who targeted mining companies in the city Toretskin eastern Ukraine, announced Interior Minister Igor Klymenko.
“The Russians bombed the Toretsk mines Donetsk regionThree civilians were killed and five others were injured,” the minister said in Telegram.
The bombings were also targeted Nikopolin southern Ukraine, where two women were killed and a man was injured.
Last night, Ukraine announced that it had suffered a new, large-scale night attack on 12 Ukrainian regions 35 Shahed Drones Iranian made. 34 of them were shot down. In addition to Kiev, the shots also hit the cities of Poltava and Mykolaiv. No casualties were reported.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has received the last tranche of 1.5 billion euros of the 18 billion euro package from the European Union (EU), he said Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
In a post on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, Shmyhal said he also received 950 million dollars from Japan. “Ukraine received $950 million from Japan under the World Bank project. These funds will be used for priority reconstruction and social support needs.” The minister said in particular: “For the reconstruction of infrastructure in the occupied and affected areas and for the restoration of houses. Thank you to the Prime Minister and the people of Japan for their continued support.”
The Ukrainian state counteroffensive
Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian drone over Russia's Bryansk region on the border with Belarus and Ukraine on Thursday.
Locally, Ukraine has begun building new fortifications to contain Russian attacks along the line of contact.
The Chief of General Staff of the Russian Army, Valery Gerasimov, spoke of small advances by the enemy on the southern front towards Zaporizhzhia, but they were not enough to break through the Russian defense lines.
From what Gerasimov reported, they would be 160,000 Ukrainians died while Counteroffensive. “In the six months of the counteroffensive, the enemy's losses amounted to about 160,000 people, more than 3,000 armored fighting vehicles, including 766 tanks, as well as 121 aircraft and 23 helicopters,” he said.
Moscow is strengthening its relations with its partners
Russia has now established global defense cooperation with Russia North Korea and continues its path of “strategic partnership” with India and China, Gerasimov said in a year-end briefing on Thursday.
“The path to developing a global strategic partnership with China and India continues. Active and comprehensive cooperation with North Korea has been established,” Gerasimov said.