Christmas greetings

On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, December 25, Russia launched a massive strike on Ukraine with drones Shahed and cruise missiles from Tu-95MS bombers and Calibers from the Black Sea. Due to the large-scale missile attack, Ukrenergo began to urgently turn off the lights to preserve the power system, but later electricity began to be restored. Stabilization outages were restored in several regions. A power engineer was killed during the massive attack, the DTEK company reported. He worked at one of the thermal power plants. Ukraine was attacked by more than 70 missiles, including ballistic missiles, and more than a hundred attack drones. The target was energy.

The Christmas shelling on Kryvyi Rih Entire groups of cruise missiles moved in a westerly direction. Dozens of missiles of various types attacked the eastern and central regions of Ukraine for a long time, there were reports of explosions in Dnipro, Poltava, Kremenchuk, the city of Samar (formerly Novomoskovsk), in the Kirovohrad region, in Zaporizhia, Kryvyi Rih and Svitlovodsk. Later, new groups of missiles from the south went west through the Cherkasy region and towards the Kyiv region. Some of the missiles went in the direction of Vinnytsia.

Woman rescued from rubble in Kryvyi Rih on the night of December 25. The missiles also reached Khmelnytskyi region and flew further west towards Ternopil. The Air Force warned that the missiles would attack Burshtyn in Frankivsk region, where an important CHP is located. Local publications wrote about explosions in Burshtyn. According to the Air Force, one missile flew over Moldova and headed for Chernivtsi. Later, it could have flown even further west. Another missile, according to the Air Force, headed for Ivano-Frankivsk at 7:30. The missile threat was lifted at 8:20 a.m., but the attack by the Shaheds lasted longer.

A residential building was destroyed in Kryvyi Rih on Christmas Eve, one person had been killed and many may be under the rubble.

Kherson

At night, the Russian military struck the Kherson Regional Oncology Dispensary, using two guided aerial bombs. The building suffered significant damage. There were 15 people there. Fortunately, there were no casualties, as everyone was in a shelter.

Kyiv

Russian forces attacked Kyiv this morning, using Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles from MiG-31K aircraft and Iskander/KN-23 ballistic missiles. One person was killed and nine were injured, four of them were hospitalized. After the strike (Photos from Ukrinform.ua)

Kyiv, CNN

Kyiv, Ukraine CNN — Russia launched a widespread attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure overnight, forcing the country to implement emergency power outages, Ukrainian authorities said on Friday. “The enemy continues its terror. Once again, the energy sector across Ukraine is under massive attack,” Ukrainian energy minister German Halushchenko said on his official Facebook page. The extent of the damage had yet to be clarified, he said, while urging people to remain in shelters.

Zaporizhia

In Zaporizhzhia, the death toll from yesterday's russian missile attack on the city center has increased. There are still people under the rubble. As of now, according to the head of the regional military administration, it is known about: seven dead; 22 wounded.

Zaporizhia

Russia destroys hospital in Zaporizhia, killing at least three people. The missile attack damaged a private medical clinic, a coffee shop, and surrounding buildings and cars. According to the city council, three people were killed, five were injured, and six more are being sought under the rubble. Two doctors are among the injured. This is the second deadly Russian strike on Zaporizhia in less than a week. On the evening of December 6, Russia launched missiles on Zaporizhia and Kryvyi Rih, killing 10 people in Zaporizhia and three in Kryvyi Rih. After identification, it turned out that two children were among the dead. The injured also included children aged four and 11, as well as a five-month-old girl.

Zaporizhia

The Russian army struck the territory of Shevchenkivskyi district in Zaporizhia city. The attack killed 10 people, including two children - students of the 93rd gymnasium. This was reported by the Department of Education and Science of the Zaporizhia City Council. The girls were in cars at the time of the attack. - Two innocent girls burned alive in cars at the intersection, where a russian bomb hit yesterday, - the Department of Education reported. The girls died with their relatives. It is currently known that a student of grade 9-B, Tatyana Syrovatko, died with her mother together. In the photo, Tatyana Syrovatko and her mother.

New record of the war

The Russian occupiers launched 188 drones this night. The previous "record" was set two weeks ago, when 145 enemy drones attacked Ukraine. They attacked Ukraine using 4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles and a record number of Shahed-type strike drones and unmanned aerial vehicles of unknown type. The missiles were launched from the territory of the Voronezh and Kursk regions, the drones from Orel, Bryansk, Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As of 09:00, air defense managed to shoot down 76 drones in 17 regions, including: Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Chernivtsi, Ternopil, Rivne, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Mykolaiv. Another 95 drones were lost due to the active operation of electronic warfare equipment, and five of them changed their route and headed towards Belarus. To repel this attack, aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare equipment and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine were involved. Critical infrastructure facilities were hit, as well as damage to private and apartment buildings in several regions. It is previously reported that there were no victims or injured. Information on the consequences of the attack is being clarified.

Rivne

On November 17, Russia hit a critical infrastructure facility in Rivne with missiles. The nearby buildings were also damaged as a result of the shelling. In residential buildings, windows and balconies were damaged, and in some places the doors were broken from the impact. Missile strikes were carried out on almost all regional centers of western Ukraine. The Russians will release 120 missiles and 90 drones. Ukrainian air defenses shot down 140 air targets.

Maria

 Maria was only 14 years old when she was killed by a Russian drone last month.

Maria Troyanivska came home early that evening when a Russian drone hit her bedroom.

"He flew right into her window, right into her room," her mother Victoria told the BBC. Immediately after the explosion, she and her husband Volodymyr ran out of the next room and saw that their daughter's room was on fire.

"We tried to extinguish the fire, but everything was burning very badly," she says through tears. "It was impossible to breathe, and we had to leave the apartment."

Last month, the Russian "Shahed" killed a 14-year-old girl in her own bed in her apartment in one of the districts of Kyiv.

"She died immediately and then got burned," said her mother. "We had to bury her in a closed coffin. She had no chance of survival."

Kyiv

 Consequences of a drone attack on Kyiv (photo from the archive) (DW)

A series of explosions rang out in Kyiv during an air raid alert. According to local authorities, Russian troops attacked the city with ballistic and cruise missiles. As the KMVA (Kyiv City Military Administration) clarified later, the morning combined missile-drone attack on Kyiv became the first such attack in 73 days. For it, the Russian military used air-launched cruise missiles, KN-23/KN-24/Iskander-M ballistic missiles, Shahed/Gerany/Gerbera/Parody type drones.

(DW)

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Children during of the alarm in Kyiv. (Video Yan Dobronosov)

Kryvyi Rih

 

Kryvyi Rih mourns the family that had been killed on November 11 at their home after a Russian rocket hit their apartment building.

Themissile strike took the lives of 32-year-old Olena Kulyk and her three children - two-month-old Ulyana, Demyd, who was 2 years and 9 months old, and ten-year-old Kyril. Only the father of the family - Maksym Kulyk - survived. The city was attacked with a ballistic missile, said Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the Kryvyi Rih Defense Council. According to him, it was an "Iskander-M" missile that was launched from Crimea.