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12/29/202329. December 2023
At least 10 dead in massive Russian airstrike
According to official information, at least ten people were killed and more than 60 injured on Friday in Russia's largest drone attack on Ukraine in months.
“We can say that it was a massive attack,” Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said.
The attacks targeted the capital Kiev, Lviv in the west, Kharkiv in the east and the southeastern port city of Odessa. Buildings were damaged in these locations and damage was reported at a maternity hospital in downtown Dnipro.
Two people were killed in Kiev and several more are believed to be stuck under the rubble of a warehouse damaged by debris, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
In Odessa, rockets hit a residential building, killing two people and wounding 15, including children, the regional governor said.
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12/29/202329. December 2023
Russian poet sentenced to seven years in prison for verses against Ukraine war
Russian poet Artyom Kamardin was sentenced to seven years in prison by Moscow's Tverskoy District Court on Thursday for reciting verses against Russia's war in Ukraine.
He was accused of making calls that undermined national security and incited hatred during an incident in which he recited his anti-war poems at a street performance in Moscow in September 2022. The gathering took place next to a monument to poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.
The court also sentenced Yegor Shtovba, who attended the event and recited Kamardin's verses, to five and a half years in prison on the same charge.
Kamardin's friends and lawyer said he was beaten and sexually assaulted by police, Russian media reported. Pro-government media later released a video in which he apologized for his actions and showed his face injured.
During the hearing, Kamardin's wife, Alexandra Popova, was escorted from the courtroom after shouting “Shame!” after the verdict. She and several others were later arrested on charges of holding an unauthorized rally outside the courthouse.
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12/29/202329. December 2023
The Ukrainian president's adviser asks for renewed international support
Ukrainian presidential adviser Andriy Yermak said on Friday that the country needed “more support” from the international community after Russia launched a series of attacks on several cities.
“We are doing everything we can to strengthen our air shield. But the world must see that we need more support and strength to stop this terror. Rockets are flying towards our cities again and civilians are being targeted,” Yermak wrote on Telegram.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, he wrote that Russia was targeting civilians in its attacks.
US President Joe Biden's administration announced on Wednesday that it would send the final weapons package to Ukraine under current congressional authorization.
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12/29/202329. December 2023
Explosions across Kyiv: officials
The Ukrainian capital Kiev was subject to a series of attacks early Friday, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said on the Telegram app.
“Explosions in Kyiv. Air defense works. Stay in shelters!” Klitschko said an online air alert system was issued shortly after 0500 GMT. He added that air defense systems had been deployed following an announced missile threat.
“More explosions in the capital. The air defense is working intensively,” he later added.
Authorities in Kiev said falling debris set a residential building and a warehouse on fire.
Authorities said nationwide air warnings had been issued as several cities came under attack.
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12/29/202329. December 2023
Russia attacks Kharkiv and Lviv
Russian forces attacked the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and also the western city of Lviv on Friday morning. The mayors of the two cities confirmed the attacks. No casualties have been reported in either city so far.
Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said on Telegram: “At least six explosions were heard in the city,” adding that it was a “massive rocket attack.”
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said there was “information about two strikes in Lviv.”
Air defense in Lviv was active when it was attacked by drones, regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi said on the messaging app Telegram.
On Thursday, Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region came under fire from Russian forces. A 66-year-old woman was killed and another person was injured. According to police, three women between the ages of 58 and 76 were also injured in an airstrike on the village of Glushkivka in the Kharkiv region.
Ukraine's elderly are struggling as the war with Russia continues
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