According to Ukraine's air force, the country's air defense should have shot down a total of 45 drones during New Year's Eve.
13 of them are said to have been shot down on New Year's Eve, and the rest after midnight.
On one of the drones was written "Happy New Year" in Russian, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Drone productions the target according to Russia
Russia states that the attacks were aimed at the country's drone production facilities, The Guardian reports, and that with these, Ukraine's ability to carry out "terrorist attacks" against Russia has been reduced.
Ukraine has not yet commented on the Russian claims, but in a post on Twitter President Volodymyr Zelensky's adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, writes that the attack speaks for "another change in warfare", that Russia no longer has any military targets and that they are "trying to kill as many civilians as possible”.
In Kyiv, at least one person is said to have been killed.
Also in Kherson and Zaporizhzhya, two civilian deaths have been reported.
In total, around 50 people are said to have been injured during New Year's Eve.
Zelenskyi: Will not forgive
In a statement early on New Year's Eve, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote: “Several waves of robot attacks on New Year's Eve.
Robots against humans... No one in the world will forgive you for this.
Ukraine will not forgive”.
In a speech, the president also underlined that the Ukrainians will continue to fight until the war is won.
- We fight and continue to fight.
We fight as a team – the whole country, all our regions.
I admire you all.
I want to thank every invincible region of Ukraine.
"Disgusting habit of our neighbor"
First lady Olena Zelenska also expressed her outrage after the New Year's Eve attacks on the capital.
In a post on Twitter, she writes: "Destroying other people's lives is a disgusting habit of our neighbors.
But we will persevere and become even stronger - despite everything".