A new air attack on Kyiv after New Year's strikes
63 Russian soldiers were killed in a strike in eastern Ukraine
A Ukrainian tank drives in the village of Torsk in the Donetsk region.
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At least 63 Russian soldiers were killed in a strike launched by Ukraine on the city of Makivka in eastern Ukraine, according to what the Russian Defense Ministry announced yesterday, while the Ukrainian authorities indicated a much higher death toll, while a new air attack targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, at dawn yesterday, which necessitated the declaration of a state of alert. Before it was lifted a few hours later, after dozens of Russian strikes before and immediately after New Year’s Day, which left at least five dead and dozens wounded.
A spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that "four missiles" hit a "temporary deployment center" of the Russian army in the city of Makevka, east of Donetsk, which is controlled by Russian forces, without specifying the date of the strike.
Russian and Ukrainian media reported an attack on Makievka on the night of Saturday-Sunday.
Yesterday, the Russian authorities announced a Ukrainian attack carried out by a drone on an energy facility in the Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine, and confirmed that it had shot down a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone, which was heading this time to the major city of Voronezh.
The governor of the region, Alexander Bogomaz, said, "An electrical facility was damaged by this strike, and there is a village that is deprived of electricity."
On Sunday, the Ukrainian authorities announced a death toll of four and 50 wounded in Russian strikes launched before and immediately after New Year's Day, targeting Kyiv and seven other regions.
For its part, Moscow confirmed that it had targeted drone manufacturing facilities.
On the other hand, a new air attack targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, at dawn yesterday, while the head of the military administration in Kyiv, Sergey Popko, addressed the residents via Telegram, saying, “Stay in the shelters!”
He added, "The air defenses are operational, and the balconies and windows of a skyscraper were damaged" in the northeast of the city.
The alert was raised after about three hours.
For his part, the official of the regional military administration, Oleksiy Kuleba, said, "The Russians launched several squadrons of Iranian-made Shahed drones," explaining that the strikes were targeting "essential infrastructure."
And the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, announced that a 19-year-old was injured by shards of glass.
Ukrainian air defenses confirmed that they shot down 47 Russian drones and missiles.
And the private Ukrainian electricity company, Dtec, announced that the attack caused "damage" to the facilities that supply Kyiv with electricity, which led to a power outage.
The national electricity company, Okrinergo, confirmed the power outage, noting that the situation was “completely under control.”
In the center of Kyiv, a missile pierced the facade of a hotel on New Year's Eve.
Local police chief Andrei Nepetov posted a photo on Facebook showing what appeared to be the remains of a march with "Happy New Year" written on it in Russian.
The Ukrainian Air Force also announced the downing of 45 “witness” drones on Saturday night.
Later on Sunday evening, the Ukrainian Army General Staff announced that “the enemy carried out 35 air strikes, especially using the Shahed 136 drone,” confirming the destruction of all the drones launched by Russia.
And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commented, on Sunday evening, that the Russians “are losing.
Drones, missiles, and everything else will not help them, because we are together.
"They will not take our independence away from us," he added.
We will not give them anything.
We will respond to every Russian strike on all of our cities and residents.”
The pro-Russian separatist authorities in eastern Ukraine reported Ukrainian bombings before and after New Year's Eve, which left at least 15 dead and 15 injured.
On the other hand, the Russian army announced the continuation of its attack on the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, where most of the battles are currently concentrated.
In this regard, the Ukrainian General Staff said on Sunday evening that “the enemy continued to attempt to launch attacks in the Bakhmut region,” the city that the Russians have been trying to control for more than six months, and where the two camps are suffering heavy losses.
The young priest, Mark Kupchinenko, who goes daily to the front, told AFP that the soldiers involved in this battle are subjected to "incredible exhaustion," both morally and physically.
He added that in the endless war of attrition, some see themselves as "a piece of meat, fit only for death."
He pointed out that there is only a few shifts, "they are constantly in combat under tremendous pressure and are subject to orders that they sometimes do not understand."
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