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Several Ukrainian cities including Kyiv were targeted by Russian strikes shortly before and just after the New Year, killing 4 people and injuring 50 others, according to Kyiv.
According to Moscow, only drone manufacturing facilities were targeted.
The Ukrainian president assured that his country “will not forgive” Russia.
2023 will be the year of "victory", he says.
In his vows, Putin felt that "moral and historical correctness" is on Russia's side.
Macron promised, in his vows, to help the Ukrainians “without fail”, “until victory.
06:19
New strikes in kyiv
A new air attack targeted kyiv very early on Monday.
The capital's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, reports explosions in the Desnyanskyi district in the northeast of the city, adding that a 19-year-old man was injured by shards of glass and taken to the hospital.
06:18
Zelensky: Russians 'are losing'
The Russians “are losing.
Drones, missiles and everything else won't help them.
Because we are together,” reacted President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday evening.
“And they won't take a single year away from Ukraine, they won't take away our independence.
We won't give them anything.
We respond to every Russian strike (…) on all our cities and communities,” he said.
06:17
All Iranian-made explosive drones fired by Russians 'have been destroyed', kyiv says
During the day on Sunday, "the enemy carried out 35 air strikes, using in particular the
Shahed-136
drone ", and all the missiles fired by Russia were destroyed, the army staff announced on Sunday evening. Ukrainian.
"The Russian occupiers", he added, also "fired 16 times with multiple rocket launchers, in particular at the children's hospital in Kherson", a southern city regularly bombarded since it was taken over in the fall by Ukrainian soldiers.
06:15
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