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dossier – Traces of war
Live news from the Ukraine-Russia conflict
08:48
Kiev: “Russian drones against the city: injured and buildings destroyed”
At least two people have been injured in the last few hours Kyiv due to a new drone attack attributed to Russia. At night the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitschko, reported an impact that caught the upper floors of a building and started a fire. “Due to the enemy attack on the capital, there was a partial destruction of residential buildings: a high-rise building in the Solomianskyi district and a private house in Darnytskyi – the mayor of Kiev reported via Telegram – the doctors ordered the examination of a person living in a high-rise building was ins Hospitalized with injuries and another person treated at the scene. According to Kiev authorities, fragments of a downed drone landed on the skyscraper in the southwest of the city. A journalist from the DPA agency confirmed that there had been explosions in Kiev in the past few hours due to anti-aircraft operations. And air raid sirens wailed again in the capital and other Ukrainian regions
08:26
Kiev: “351,350 Russian soldiers have been killed so far”
The number of Russian soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine rises to around 351,350, including 1,080 in the last 24 hours. This was announced by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Facebook, quoted by Ukrinform, and also added a long list of enemy vehicles and weapons that would have been destroyed
01:32
Kiev building hit by drone, at least two injured
At least two people were injured in the attack on a residential building in Kiev that was hit by an explosive drone in a new Russian night raid, Ukrainian authorities report.
This is the first incident of its kind in the Ukrainian capital in months. Although Kiev is regularly the target of Russian missile and drone attacks, most of them are shot down by air defenses.
An air alarm was sounded in Kiev late in the evening. Shortly afterwards, residents in the area heard loud explosions. City Hall initially announced that air defense was operational in the city and urged residents to stay in emergency shelters. The accident occurred in the Solomiansky district in the southwest of the capital, with “flames reported on the upper floors” of the building, Mayor Vitali Klitschko added on Telegram.
“A residential building in Kiev was hit by a Shahed,” an Iranian-made drone that Moscow regularly uses for these attacks on its neighbor: this is what the head of the presidential administration Andrii Iermak said on Telegram. A man from the neighborhood was taken to hospital and another received medical treatment on site, he added, without giving further details. The city's military administration published photos on Telegram of the apartments with bay windows blown out by the explosions. According to widespread information, it was not a drone attack, but rather fragments from a downed drone, which ensured that the fire could be quickly extinguished.
In Golosiivsky District (south of the city), a fragment of a destroyed drone fell on a skyscraper without causing any fatalities.
11:54 p.m
Macron: “We can’t let Russia win”
French President Emmanuel Macron stressed that the West cannot let Russia “win” in Ukraine and that support for Kiev must continue, even if it “costs.” “Whoever knows the balance of power measures what we cannot allow and how much we cannot let Russia win,” he told French forces stationed in Jordan during a Christmas dinner. “What would tomorrow look like for us Europeans? So we will continue to help Ukrainians, which we do, even if it costs us something,” Macron said.
11:51 p.m
Kyiv, Russian drone strike
In the evening, the Russians attacked Kiev with kamikaze attack drones. In a district of the capital, rubble fell on a residential building and a fire broke out. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine