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Sunday, January 1
Russia’s war against Ukraine
Emergency personnel gather at the scene of a missile attack on New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Russia fires missiles at Ukrainian cities on New Year’s Eve, killing at least 1, injuring 28. Russia launched a fresh barrage of missiles across Ukraine on Dec. 31, killing at least one person and wounding at least 28, on New Year’s Eve. According to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, a journalist from Japan is among the wounded.
Russian strike leaves 1,750 homes without power in Zaporizhzhia following New Year’s Eve attack. Russia launched a fresh barrage of missiles across Ukraine on Dec. 31, killing at least one person and wounding over 30, on New Year’s Eve. At least two people were injured in Zaporizhzhia.
Zelensky: World will never forgive ‘Russian terror.’ “A terrorist state will not receive forgiveness, and those who give orders for such strikes, who carry it out, will not receive forgiveness – to put it mildly,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address. At least one person was killed, and over 30 were wounded during the New Year’s Eve attack.
General Staff: Several Russian missiles fall in Russia amid New Year’s Eve strike. Ukraine’s General Staff reported that Russia had launched about 20 missiles at Ukraine on Dec. 31, but an unspecified number of them fell in Russia instead of reaching their targets. Air defense shot down 12 missiles, Ukraine’s military reported.
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32 aerial targets destroyed over Kyiv overnight on Jan. 1. The Kyiv City Military Administration reported at around 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 1 that air defenses had downed 32 aerial targets over the city.
140 Ukrainian prisoners of war freed from Russian captivity. Wounded soldiers who defended the then-besieged city of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast, as well as Zmiiny (Snake) Island, are among those who returned home.
Media: Explosions reported in Dzhankoi airport in Russian-occupied Crimea. The Dzhankoi airport is a military airbase currently operated by Russian occupying forces.
Interior Ministry: 2,200 cases of collaboration with Russia under investigation. First Deputy Interior Minister Yevhen Yenin said on television that since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, 108 sabotage and reconnaissance groups had been exposed in Ukraine.
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Russia ends the year by killing, wounding, displacing civilians.
As Ukrainians were about to gather to celebrate New Year, hoping for a better year ahead, Russia took an extra mile to deprive people of even the slightest holiday mood.
**Zelensky says 2022 the year ‘Ukraine changed the world’ in New Year’s address.
**“It was our year. The year of Ukraine. The year of Ukrainians,” President Zelensky said in his final address of 2022.
The human cost of Russia’s war
At least 1 killed, 20 wounded in Kyiv by Russia’s latest missile strike. The wounded victims are receiving medical care, the local authorities said, adding that one of them is in an “extremely difficult” condition.
Russian missile hit military object in Khmelnytskyi, injures 8. Russia’s strike hit a military object in Khmelnytskyi on Dec. 31, Governor Serhiy Hamalii reported. The strike damaged equipment as well as a gas station, eight vehicles, and 13 residential building, he said.
Updated: Russian attacks killed 5 civilians, injured 10 over the past 24 hours. Russian forces launched attacks against at least four Ukrainian regions — Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts — over the past 24 hours.
Mayor: 1 person killed in Kyiv by Russia’s mass missile strike. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that one person was killed and several were injured in the Solomianskyi district. According to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the President’s Office, a private house was damaged in the district.
Ukraine’s military says 200 Russian soldiers killed in one day in Kherson Oblast. Ukraine’s military said that on Dec. 29, about 200 soldiers were killed in Kherson Oblast, and 115 were injured in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
General Staff: Russia has lost 105,960 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24. Ukraine’s General Staff reported on Dec. 31 that Russia had also lost 3,029 tanks, 6,075 armored fighting vehicles, 4,707 vehicles and fuel tanks, 2,016 artillery systems, 423 multiple launch rocket systems, 213 air defense systems, 283 airplanes, 269 helicopters, 1,746 drones, and 16 boats.
International response
Sunak vows UK will stand with Ukraine against Putin’s brutality. “2023 will give us an opportunity to showcase the very best of Britain on the world stage, continuing to stand with our Ukrainian friends against Putin’s brutality, and defending freedom and democracy wherever we find it under threat,” U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in his New Year message.
Macron vows to support Ukraine until victory. French President Emmanuel Macron in his New Year’s address on Dec. 31 said that France will continue to help Ukraine “without fail” and “until victory itself.”
Borell: EU to continue standing by Ukraine in 2023. The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Dec. 31 that at the year’s end “(Russian President Vladmir) Putin tries once again to force Ukrainians into darkness with despicable attacks.”
US concerned about China’s ‘alignment with Russia’ amid war in Ukraine. “Beijing claims to be neutral, but its behavior makes clear it is still investing in close ties to Russia,” the U.S. State Department spokesperson told CNN, following a phone call between Russian and Chinese leaders Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
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