Russia’s New Year’s Eve attacks on Ukraine kill three people and injure many more

Three people were killed and 50 more were injured as a result of Russia’s strike on Ukraine on January 1st, while Moscow claimed to have stopped Kyiv’s “terror attacks” on the country on Sunday.

Iranian-made drones and missiles were fired at the Ukrainian capital and other cities.

45 drones built in Iran, according to the Ukrainian air force, were destroyed over the course of one night.

According to the air force, 33 more were shot down after midnight on December 31, 2022, bringing the total to 13.

The head of the Kyiv police, Andriy Nebitov, shared a photo of a fallen drone’s wreckage with the Russian greeting “Happy New Year” on Facebook.

He wrote, “That is all you need to know about the terror state and its army.”

Two individuals died in Kyiv and the southern province of Kherson as a result of the Russian strikes, and 50 more people, including children, were injured, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy director of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration.

READ ASLO: Attacks by Russia against Kherson, Eastern Ukraine, Increase

In the western city of Khmelnytskyi, a 22-year-old lady suffered serious injuries and eventually passed away from them, according to governor Sergiy Gamaliy.

A 13-year-old boy and his 12-year-old sister were both critically injured on New Year’s Eve when Russian artillery shells struck the town of Naddniprianske outside of the southern city of Kherson, according to the Ukrainian presidency.

The Russian bombardment left the city of Kherson and the other towns without electricity on Saturday night, the presidency said.

Kherson was the last provincial capital that Moscow still controlled. In November, Russian forces pulled out of the city, but there have been attacks on the city ever since.

Pro-Russian separatist authorities said that Ukrainian shelling in the village of Yasynuvata killed a civilian.

The assaults happened as the invasion of Ukraine by President Vladimir Putin entered its eleventh month.

Standing among men and women in military uniform, Putin said during his midnight speech, “Moral and historical rightness are on our side.”

After a series of embarrassing military defeats, Russia started attacking Ukraine’s infrastructure in October, leaving millions of people without heat and electricity.

Moscow said on Sunday that its assaults over the New Year were directed at Ukraine’s pro-Western nation’s drone industry.

The Ukrainian military-industrial complex, which is involved in the development of drones, was damaged, according to the Russian defence ministry.

The government claimed in a statement that “storage facilities and launch sites” for the drones had also been destroyed.

According to the statement, “the strike’s goal was accomplished.”

“The Kyiv regime’s efforts to conduct terror strikes against Russia in the foreseeable future have been prevented,” the statement read.

Ukraine has been charged with attacking Russian military installations and infrastructure at home.

On Thursday, the Russian military destroyed a drone close to Engels, a vital aviation station for Russia hundreds of kilometres from the Ukrainian border.

On Monday, Russia said that it had shot down a drone above the Engels airfield and that three people had been killed by falling debris.

Early in December, Moscow claimed three people were killed in Ukrainian drone attacks on buildings built in the Soviet Union on one site and another in the Ryazan region.

Since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, the Engels drone raids were the deepest known strikes into Russian territory.

Kviy has a rule that prevents it from taking credit for these raids.