The attacks came minutes after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s New Year message. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KYIV - Numerous blasts were heard in Kyiv and in other places around Ukraine as air raid sirens wailed across the country in the first couple of hours after midnight on New Year’s Day.
Fragments from a missile destroyed by Ukrainian air defence systems damaged a car in the capital’s centre, but preliminarily there were no wounded or casualties, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said.The attacks came minutes after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s New Year message of wishes of victory for his country in the war that is in its 11th month, with no end in sight.
There were also unofficial reports of blasts in the southern region of Kherson and the northern Zhytomyr region. Kyiv city and region officials said on the Telegram messaging app that air defence systems were working. Mr Oleksiy Kuleba, the governor of the Kyiv region, said the region was being attacked by drones. It was not immediately known whether any targets were hit.
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