Kyiv (Ukraine) (HRWN) – Russia’s New Year assault on Ukraine left three people dead and wounded another 50 as Moscow on Sunday claimed to have thwarted Kyiv’s “terror attacks” on the homeland.
The Ukrainian capital and other cities came under fire from missiles and Iranian-made drones.
The Ukrainian air force said Sunday 45 Iranian-made drones had been destroyed overnight.
Thirteen were shot down at the end of 2022 and another 32 after midnight, the air force said.
Andriy Nebitov, the head of the Kyiv police, posted on Facebook a picture of wreckage of a downed drone that featured the words “Happy New Year” in Russian.
“That is everything you need to know about the terror state and its army,” he wrote.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office, said two people died in Kyiv and the southern region of Kherson and 50 more, including children, were injured as a result of the Russian strikes.