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Ukraine: new air attack on kyiv after a deadly New Year

2023-01-02T06:28:46.852Z


UPDATE ON THE SITUATION - The Ukrainian capital had already been targeted by attacks that left four dead on New Year's Eve.


Kiev attacked again after being bombarded on New Year's Eve, Russia "

losing

" for Zelensky and the fighting raging in the Donetsk region...

Le Figaro

takes stock of the latest developments in the war in Ukraine this Monday, January 2.

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kyiv again targeted by an air attack

A new air attack targeted kyiv on Monday January 2 at dawn, after a New Year's Day marked by dozens of Russian strikes which left at least four dead in the capital and elsewhere in the country.

Stay in the shelters!

Asked around 01:00 (00:00 Paris time) on Telegram Serguiï Popko, head of the military administration of the city of kyiv.

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This administration then indicated that “

20 aerial targets were shot down

”.

"

The air defense is working... Fragments of balconies and windows of a skyscraper were damaged in the Desnyanskyi district

", in the northeast of the capital, Sergei Popko continued.

The alert was lifted about three hours later.

Passers-by look at a crater next to an educational building in kyiv, January 1, 2023, which was damaged by a missile strike the day before.

GENYA SAVILOV / AFP

"

The Russians launched

several waves of Shahed drones

," said Oelksii Kuleba, head of the Kyiv region's military administration, referring to the Iranian-made explosive drones.

They are targeting critical infrastructure

,” he added.

According to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, a 19-year-old man was injured by shards of glass in Desnyanskyi district and taken to hospital.

Russian attacks on New Year's Eve

Shortly before and after the transition to 2023, bombings on kyiv and seven other regions had already killed at least four people and injured 50, according to Ukrainian authorities.

For its part, Moscow claimed to have targeted unmanned aircraft manufacturing facilities.

In central Kiev, a missile ripped through the facade of a hotel on New Year's Eve, while local police chief Andriy Nebitov posted a photograph on Facebook showing what appeared to be the remains of a a drone with the words "

Happy New Year

" written in Russian.

The Ukrainian Air Force claimed to have shot down 45 Shahed drones overnight from Saturday to Sunday.

Glow of an explosion over kyiv during a Russian drone strike, January 1, 2023. GLEB GARANICH / REUTERS

Then, on Sunday, "

the enemy carried out 35 airstrikes, using in particular the 'Shahed-136' drone

", and all the missiles fired by Russia were destroyed, the state announced in the evening. major in the Ukrainian army.

The Russian occupiers

,” he added, also “

fired 16 times with multiple rocket launchers, particularly at the children's hospital in Kherson

,” a southern city that has been regularly bombed since it was taken over in the fall by Ukrainian soldiers.

For Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia is “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.

Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena during their New Year's address to the Ukrainian people on December 31, 2022. STR / AFP

Russia, for its part, assured that it had carried out on the night of Saturday to Sunday "

a long-range precision airborne attack against Ukrainian defense industry facilities involved in the manufacture of attack drones used to carry out terrorist attacks against Russia

”.

Moscow often describes

Ukrainian military operations on Russian territory or against Russian infrastructure in Ukraine as “

terrorist acts ”.

Fighting continues in the Donetsk region

The Russian army has also declared that it is continuing its offensive in the Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine, where most of the fighting is currently concentrated.

The staff of the Ukrainian forces stressed in this regard this Sunday evening that "

the enemy (...) continued to attempt attacks in the Bakhmout sector

", a city in this region which the Russians are seeking to seized for more than six months, at the cost of heavy losses on both sides and unimaginable destruction.

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The soldiers engaged in this battle are subjected to an "

incredible fatigue

" moral and physical.

And in this endless war of attrition, some end up seeing themselves "

like meat, just fit to be sent to death

", explained on the spot to AFP Mark Kouptchenenko, a young Ukrainian military chaplain who will all days at the front.

There are no or very few rotations, "

they are constantly in combat

", under enormous pressure, subject to orders that sometimes they no longer understand, he further said.

Source: lefigaro

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