Ukraine repelled Russian drone attack during power outage

Ukraine said on Friday it had repelled a Russian overnight attack with Iranian drones, a day after a spate of bombings against the country’s energy infrastructure that left millions of Ukrainians without power in the middle of winter.

“On the night of December 29-30, the enemy attacked Ukraine Iranian-made suicide drones,” the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement posted on social networks.

In total, 16 drones were launched from the southeast and north, and “all” were destroyed by Ukrainian air defense, the note says.

The attack comes hours after a wave of massive Russian shelling of Ukrainian energy infrastructure that killed three people and caused a power outage.

After a series of military setbacks in recent months, the Kremlin has reversed course and has been targeting transformers and power plants since October. Ukraine.

In Kyiv, the capital Ukraineauthorities activated an air raid alert at 02:12 (00:12 GMT), which lasted more than two hours.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that seven drones attacked Kyiv, two of them were shot down on approach to the city, and five more – over the city.

There were no casualties, but debris damaged the windows of two houses on the southwestern outskirts of Kyiv, the department added.

According to the Chairman Ukraineother drones were shot down in the Cherkasy region, south of the capital, and Dnepropetrovsk, in the center of the country.

In a message posted on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the war had been “tough” but he was “convinced” that “Russian aggression” would fail.

“They are not easy to beat”

Four people were killed and eight injured in Thursday’s attacks, according to the latest balance sheet released on Friday by the Ukrainian president.

The President added that 58 of the 70 cruise missiles launched Russia they were shot down.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that its “massive shelling” on Thursday “hit all intended targets.”

Ukraine The city continued to experience power outages on Friday, with millions of people without generators preparing to celebrate the New Year without electricity and some without water or heat.

According to the electricity company Ukrenergo, “the consequences of the damage to the operation of the network are less than the enemy expected (…), but the situation in the south and east of the country remains difficult.”

On the ground, fighting continues after ten months of conflict that began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine 24 February.

The fight is especially bloody in Bakhmut, a city in the east Ukraine which Moscow has been trying to conquer for several months now. Also in Kreminna, about 75 km to the northeast, which Ukrainian forces are trying to recapture.

“They are not easy to defeat. They are good, they are strong,” said Kulak, a 24-year-old soldier AFPwhile he was in Yampol, a city recaptured by Kyiv at the end of September and about 30 kilometers west of Kremennaya.

At least two people were killed as a result of shelling by Russian troops on Friday in the neighboring Kharkiv region, according to the Ukrainian president.

RussiaWhat was I thinking of taking? Kyiv In the first months of the invasion, he was forced to retreat, and in November he had to retreat from the north, northeast, and part of the south in front of the Ukrainian army, supported by the Western Allies.

No Happy New Year

On Friday, the Kremlin said that neither the United States, nor Germany, nor France would receive New Year’s greetings from Russian leader Vladimir Putin this year because of the sanctions imposed on Moscow.

The prospects for peace are practically non-existent.

Ukraine demands the complete withdrawal of the Russian army, and Moscow wants Kyiv to hand over at least four regions that the Kremlin has claimed as its own since late September, as well as the Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014. (According to AFP)

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