In a late-Saturday video message to Ukrainians who were celebrating Christmas, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told them that by standing firm and not giving in to Russian aggression, they were doing their own version of a Christmas miracle.
“We persevered in the early stages of the conflict, enduring assaults, threats, nuclear blackmail, intimidation, and missile strikes. “We will persevere through this winter since we are aware of our goals he said. “It can’t be that delicious and cozy for dinner around the family table. There might be empty chairs nearby. “And it can’t be so light in our homes and streets,” he added.
But he also made the point that the Ukrainian people’s perseverance and faith make their path clear.
Reuters says that air raid sirens went off all over Kyiv and the rest of Ukraine on Sunday morning because Russian planes were taking off in Belarus.
In the southern city of Kherson on Saturday, Russian bombardment resulted in at least 10 deaths and 55 injuries.
According to Yuriy Sobolevskyi, the first deputy head of the Kherson Oblast Council, one of the missiles fell adjacent to a supermarket in the center of Kherson. The interior ministry of Ukraine said that 66 automobiles caught fire after the shelling.
In a post on Telegram on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that Russia is “killing for the sake of fear and pleasure.”
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On the president’s Telegram account, there were pictures of the strike, including burning automobiles and what appeared to be dead.
These pictures will probably be labeled as “sensitive content” on social media, Zelenskyy predicted. But this is genuine life for Ukrainians and Ukraine, not sensitive material.
In retaliation, a pro-Moscow figure claimed that Ukraine had launched the attack to place the blame on Russia.
Oleksii Reznikov, the defense minister for Ukraine, claimed in a tweet that the bombardment of Kherson’s central business district “is not just another war crime but also retaliation against its citizens who fought the occupation and demonstrated to the entire world that Kherson is Ukraine.”
Three Ukrainian workers were also killed in the Kherson area while trying to get rid of explosives left behind by Russian forces when they left.
Dmytro Kuleba, the foreign minister of Ukraine, pleaded with families in Europe, North America, and elsewhere to “spare a thought for Ukraine, which is currently fighting evil.”
According to the regional governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, two people were killed and five others were injured in the Donetsk area on Saturday.
Ten months have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine on Saturday.
Myroslava Gongadze, the Eastern Europe Bureau Chief, contributed to this article. Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and The Associated Press all contributed to the content of this article.
