According to Kiev, Russia fired at Ukraine with a record number of 90 combat drones on New Year's Eve. Across the country, 87 of them could have been repelled, Ukrainian Air Force chief Mykola Oleshchuk said on Telegram this morning. That's almost twice as many unmanned missiles as on New Year's Eve a year ago, when a total of 45 were shot down.
One dead in Odessa
In the southern Black Sea region of Odessa, at least one person was killed and three others were injured in an attack on a residential area, according to military governor Oleh Kiper. It is also said that there was damage to the port. A museum is said to have been destroyed in Lviv, western Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the Russian army also attacked the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia, in the south, and Kharkiv, in the east, with missiles.
It is already the second New Year that all of Ukraine has experienced war after Russia attacked the neighboring country on February 24, 2022. A few days ago, Ukrainians suffered the heaviest bombings since the beginning of the war, which, according to Official data, at least 27 people were killed in the capital Kiev alone.