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[Korrespondent] 22:52 In Kiev, rescuers discovered the body of another person killed as a result of yesterday's missile strike - the number of victims increased to 17, said the head of the KGVA Sergei Popko. The search operation continues, January 1 is the Day of Mourning in Kyiv.
22:44 Zelensky, in an evening video message, promised Russia “fair responsibility - both political and very practical” for every drone and missile. He also emphasized that Ukraine is preparing to produce more weapons next year and is already working with partners “on solutions that every Ukrainian soldier, our entire people, our state needs, and these decisions will be strong.” In addition, the president thanked “all partners for the new operational work to strengthen our air defense.”
22:13 The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations stated that the number of deaths in Belgorod has increased to 18 people, 111 residents were injured.
22:10 In Kharkov, 20 people were wounded as a result of evening shelling , including two teenagers aged 16 and 14, the prosecutor’s office reported. A hotel, apartment buildings, a kindergarten, administrative buildings, shops, restaurants, shopping pavilions and cars were damaged. Among the wounded is the security adviser to a team of journalists of a German media, a British citizen.
21:16 In Kharkov, the Kharkiv Palace hotel was damaged as a result of shelling, said the head of the regional prosecutor’s office, Alexander Filchakov. Among the wounded are a child and a foreign journalist. The Russians hit the city with S-300 missiles from the Belgorod region. Mayor Igor Terekhov said that a total of 16 people were injured.
21:09 In Avdiivka, one person was killed as a result of Russian shelling, the prosecutor’s office reported. Another person died in the village. Progress of the Pokrovsky district. In Selidovo, the number of victims increased to six.
20:28 The Russian army fired at Selidovo, Pokrovsky district, Donetsk region - one person was killed, four were wounded, 38 private residential buildings were damaged, the State Emergency Service reported.
20:25 The Russians carried out more than six strikes on the center of Kharkov, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Civil infrastructure was damaged: medical institutions, apartment buildings, shops, transport. According to the city mayor Igor Terekhov, 14 victims are currently known.
19:06 Russia has requested a meeting of the UN Security Council for today in connection with the shelling of Belgorod, which Russian Foreign Ministry Speaker Maria Zakharova called a “terrorist attack.” At the same time, Moscow demanded the participation of the permanent representative of the Czech Republic in the meeting, “so that he would explain himself in connection with the supply of weapons to Kyiv.” Zakharova also stated that behind the shelling of Belgorod “is Britain, which, in coordination with the United States, is inciting the Kiev regime to terrorist actions.”
18:24 The Russians fired from a multiple launch rocket system from the territory of the Russian Federation at the central part of the city of Semyonovka, Novgorod-Seversky district, Chernihiv region, one person was killed, the prosecutor's office reported. More than 30 private houses and other civilian objects were damaged.
18:15 In Odessa, the number of victims of yesterday's Russian missile attack has increased to five - one of the wounded died in the hospital, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OBA. Another 27 people were injured, including two children.
18:08 Zelensky said that he held a final meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Headquarters: “We summed up the military results of the year. We analyzed the results of combat operations and our decisions. What we did right and what we could have done better. Taking into account these conclusions, forecasts and our capabilities, we determined strategy for the use of the Defense Forces for the coming year. This year, Ukraine did not retreat in any direction on earth, regained its sea and made the skies safer. We continue to work as one team."
17:22 The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation stated that in Belgorod, according to updated information, 14 people were killed, including two children, another 108 people were injured, including 15 children. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly “attempted an indiscriminate combined strike” on the city - they used two Vilkha missiles “in prohibited cluster ammunition,” as well as “Czech-made Vampire missiles.”
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, air defense systems allegedly intercepted the Vilkha missiles and most of the Vampire MLRS rockets, and several rockets and cluster parts from the downed Vilkha missiles hit Belgorod. The department also stated that the Russian Armed Forces supposedly work “only on military targets and the infrastructure directly associated with them, and we will continue to do so.”
17:13 In the afternoon, the Russian army attacked Zaporozhye with one missile, preliminary - Iskander-M. Air defense forces neutralized the missile, the remains fell in an open area in the vicinity of the city, said the head of the Air Defense Forces, Yuri Malashko. In addition, the Russians fired at a residential area in Stepnogorsk with MLRS, killing one person.
17:00 The Russian army shelled Antonovka, Kherson region, one person was killed, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
16:26 The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation stated that in Belgorod, due to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ten people were killed, including one child, another 45 people were injured, including four children. Ukrainskaya Pravda reports, citing sources in the special services, that the Defense Forces worked on Russian military facilities in the Belgorod region, but due to the unprofessional actions of the Russian air defense, debris fell in the city center.
14:37 As a result of yesterday's missile attack, 120 people were injured and 39 were killed, Zelensky said. Almost 120 cities and villages and hundreds of civilian objects were damaged.
12:53 The attack on Kiev on December 29 set a record for the number of casualties among civilians in the capital, said Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko. To date, 16 bodies of the dead have already been recovered from the rubble of a warehouse in the Shevchenko district. Rescuers continue to work and will clear the rubble until tomorrow.
11:06 In Zaporozhye, the number of victims of yesterday's missile attack has increased to nine people, said the head of the OBA Yuriy Malashko.
11:02 The death toll as a result of yesterday's attack on Kiev has increased to 13 - the bodies of four more people were pulled out from under the rubble of a warehouse in the Shevchenko district, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said. 32 people were injured, 17 of them are in hospitals at medical institutions.
The Dnipro-M company, which sells power tools and equipment, reported that yesterday's fire destroyed its facility in the Podolsk region - in particular, goods and a service center for repairing products.
10:37 In 2024, the world should prepare for a number of military conflicts. This could also be a Russian tactic - inciting military conflicts to scatter the attention and help of Ukraine's partners. About where instability will be in 2024, see the material Year of Wars .
10:06 At night, the Russians attacked with ten Shahed-type UAVs from the Crimean Cape Chauda. Five drones were shot down by air defense within the Nikolaev, Kherson and Khmelnytsky regions. The main blow is the front-line zone of the Kherson region, the Air Force command reported.
09:01 At night, the Russians attacked Kherson with Shahed drones, hitting an administrative building, which was almost completely destroyed as a result of the strike. Windows in neighboring houses were broken by the blast wave, but no people were injured, said Alexander Prokudin, head of the OVA. Over the past 24 hours, five people were injured in the region as a result of Russian shelling.
08:55 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of December 30:
- personnel - about 358,270 (+750) people,
- tanks - 5969 (+16),
- armored combat vehicles - 11,053 (+20),
- artillery systems - 8434 (+17),
- MLRS - 939 (+1),
- air defense systems - 621 (+1),
- aircraft - 329 (+0),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 6554 (+15),
- cruise missiles - 1708 (+88),
- ships/boats - 23 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 11,244 (+29),
- special equipment - 1260 (+6).
07:23 Over the past 24 hours, 56 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled eight enemy attacks in the areas of Stepnoy, Avdeevka and 21 attacks near Severny, Pervomaisky and Nevelsky of the Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, nine attacks were repulsed in the Maryinka and Novomikhailovka areas of the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian forces repelled seven enemy attacks near Sinkovka, Kharkov region; on Bakhmutskoye - two attacks in the Bogdanovka and Andreevka districts of the Donetsk region; on Zaporozhye - two attacks west and north-west of Verbovoy, Zaporozhye region; and on Kherson the enemy carried out more than ten unsuccessful assault operations.
06:12 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that air defense systems were allegedly destroyed in the air and intercepted 32 “Ukrainian drones” over the Bryansk, Oryol, Kursk and Moscow regions.