War Russia Ukraine. More Russian attacks with drones on Kiev after air alerts across the eastern region

The Russians had anticipated that they would not give a break during the holidays. So on New Year’s Eve they launched forty-five suicide drones (laden with fifty kilograms of explosives) against cities in the Ukraine. Thirty-two were headed for the capital Kiev, they arrived around midnight, they were all shot down by anti-aircraft fire and this means that they did no damage to the ground but that in the sky obscured by the curfew there were strong explosions visible from afar. Many citizens stepped out onto their balconies during the bombing and sang the national anthem of Ukraine as a sign of resistance. The police photographed the wreckage of a drone that fell on a football field and the mocking inscription left by the Russians was still visible: «Happy New Year! Boom!”. In the morning ten cruise missiles had arrived on Kiev, one had managed to evade the air defenses, had exploded in the center in front of a hotel facade, had killed a passerby and injured a Japanese journalist.

The head of military intelligence, General Kyrylo Budanov, said the Russians only have enough stockpiles of missiles for two more large-scale “attacks”, those of seventy to eighty missiles at a time.

War Russia Ukraine. More Russian attacks with drones on Kiev after air alerts across the eastern region