Moscow rains dozens of rockets on Kyiv and different main Ukrainian cities

Yesterday morning Russia rained dozens of missiles on the capital Kyiv and the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv, in addition to different cities in Ukraine, which introduced their air defenses had managed to shoot down all Russian missiles aimed toward Kyiv, the top mentioned introduced to the navy administration within the metropolis.

Intimately, Ukrainian authorities mentioned Russia fired dozens of rockets on the capital Kyiv, the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv and different cities yesterday morning.

Ukrainian International Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter: “Mindless barbarism are the one phrases that spring to thoughts as one watches Russia launch one other volley of missiles into peaceable Ukrainian cities earlier than the beginning of the brand new yr.”

And Ukraine’s navy mentioned it shot down 54 of the 69 missiles fired by Russia in an assault that started at 7 a.m. native time. Sirens sounded throughout the nation and in Kyiv for 5 hours, one of many longest warning intervals for the reason that starting of the battle.

“This morning the Russians fired cruise missiles from the air and sea and anti-aircraft missiles on the vitality infrastructure of our nation,” Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Basic Valery Zaluzhny wrote on Telegram yesterday.

The bombing adopted an assault by suicide “kamikaze” drones on Wednesday evening.

Authorities additionally introduced assaults in a number of elements of southern and western Ukraine.

Explosions have been reported from a number of areas, together with Poltava, Odessa, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Lviv.

Ukrainian air defenses have been activated to counter the missiles.

This follows the Kremlin’s rejection of a Ukrainian peace plan and its insistence that Kyiv should acknowledge Russia’s annexation of 4 Ukrainian areas. And the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, introduced by way of Telegram that 16 rockets had been launched over the capital.

He mentioned 40% of the capital’s residents don’t have any electrical energy because of the latest spate of Russian missile assaults.

Klitschko mentioned the water provide and heating have been working usually.

For his half, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov mentioned officers are clarifying which targets have been bombed and whether or not there have been any casualties after the Russian missiles induced a collection of explosions. And the mayor of Lviv, Andrei Sadovy, identified by way of “Telegram” that in 90% of the town in western Ukraine, electrical energy was lower off and electrical public transport stopped working.

Kyrilo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the workplace of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, introduced {that a} Russian bomb assault on Tuesday hit a maternity ward at a hospital within the southern metropolis of Kherson, leaving nobody injured.

Zelenskyy urges shifting ahead with a 10-point peace plan that features Russia’s dedication to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and to withdraw all of its forces.

Nevertheless, Russia rejected it the day earlier than yesterday, confirming that Kyiv should settle for the annexation of the 4 areas of Luhansk and Donetsk to the east, and Kherson and Zaporizhya to the south. It additionally states that Ukraine should acknowledge the lack of Crimea on the Black Sea, which Moscow annexed in 2014. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned there might be no peace plan that “doesn’t have in mind the present actuality concerning Russian land by means of the annexation of the 4 areas to Russia.” ».

The RIA information company quoted Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying that Zelenskyy’s plan to drive Russia out of jap Ukraine and Crimea with the assistance of the West and to power Moscow to pay compensation to Kyiv was an “phantasm”.

Tass additionally quoted Lavrov as saying that Russia will proceed to enhance its fight functionality and technological capabilities in Ukraine. For its half, Russian air defenses shot down an “unidentified object” close to Saratov, 500km from the Ukrainian border, three days after a drone strike attributed to Ukraine that reportedly resulted in three deaths at an airbase within the area, beginning yesterday by the area’s governor, Roman Busargin.

“An anti-aircraft system has been activated on the territory of the Engels district,” Busargin mentioned. “An unknown object has been destroyed … and there’s no risk to the protection of the inhabitants,” he added. The Engels navy base on this space was attacked by a drone on Monday, the second of December.