Russia launches its most intense aerial assault of the warfare

Russia in the present day launched its most intense aerial assault of the warfare, with missiles raining down on Ukrainian cities together with Kyiv.

The in a single day assaults got here days after Ukraine struck a Russian warship within the occupied Crimean port of Feodosia in a serious setback for the Russian navy.

It is seen as essentially the most intense aerial assault of the brutal and bloody warfare Putin unleashed 22 months in the past.

Russia launched about 110 missiles in a single day in addition to drones towards Ukrainian targets in one of many greatest barrages of the yr, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned in the present day.

Most of the incoming missiles and drones have been shot down however not less than seven civilians have been killed and an unknown variety of folks have been buried below rubble, Ukrainian officers mentioned. Scores have been reported injured.

Zelensky mentioned the Kremlin’s forces used all kinds of weapons, together with ballistic and cruise missiles.

One individual was killed and eight injured in Kharkiv, and 7 extra injured in Kyiv through the Russian missile assaults in the present day, officers mentioned.

A metro station constructing used as a shelter in Ukraine’s capital was broken, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko mentioned on the Telegram messenger app.

‘Explosions in Kyiv. Air defence working. Stay in shelters,’ Klitschko mentioned in a put up on Telegram. Klitschko later mentioned a warehouse was on hearth.

Video launched on social media appeared to point out an enormous explosion at a excessive rise within the capital. 

Sergiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s navy administration, mentioned particles fell in two elements of town and there was additionally a hearth in a residential condo constructing. 

Twenty two Russian strikes have been recorded in Kharkiv, damaging a hospital, residential buildings and an industrial facility, Mayor Ihor Terekhov mentioned in televised feedback. 

Drones and missiles struck not less than 5 different Ukrainian cities in the present day, together with Lviv within the west, in addition to Odesa within the south, the cities’ mayors and police mentioned.

In the southern port of Odesa, a high-rise constructing caught hearth after being struck by particles from a downed drone, town’s mayor mentioned.

‘As a results of one other enemy assault, one of many high-rise buildings was broken. The hearth was promptly extinguished,’ mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov mentioned on social media.

Ukraine’s southern command mentioned 14 assault drones had been destroyed within the south of the nation and there have been no casualties reported.

The onslaught and wanton destruction was seen as revenge for Ukraine’s Storm Shadow Boxing Day missile strike in Crimea on the Novocherkassk giant touchdown ship, during which not less than 33 are suspected to have died and dozens wounded.

Ukraine was being attacked concurrently by Russian Kinzhal, Iskander, S-300s, Kh-22 and Kh-32 missiles, with 18 strategic bombers deployed in addition to Iranian-supplied Shahed drones, in keeping with Ukrainian sources.

Some experiences mentioned Kalibr missiles have been additionally used.

‘We have by no means seen so many targets on our monitor on the identical time,’ mentioned Ukrainian air drive spokesman Yuriy Ignat.

Andriy Yermak, head of Volodymyr Zelensky’s workplace, mentioned: ‘There are lifeless individuals who have been killed by Russian missiles in the present day, which have been launched at civilian objects and residential buildings.

‘The enemy’s assault continues.’

In Kyiv, greater than a dozen big explosions have been heard.

One hit a excessive rise tower triggering an enormous explosion.

The aviation manufacturing plant Artem – which produces air-to-air guided missiles – seemed to be on hearth with black smoke rising from its web site.

‘There is a hearth on the territory of warehouses within the Podilsk district,’ mentioned the Kyiv City Military Administration.

‘According to preliminary info there are wounded folks. Information is being clarified.’

Some have been below the rubble, it was reported.

‘Emergency companies are on their technique to the scene.’

Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko mentioned: ‘There are at the moment 5 folks wounded within the capital.

‘In the Podolsk district, medical doctors handled two males on the spot.

‘One sufferer was hospitalised in Svyatoshynsky District and two in Shevchenkivskyi.

‘The explosion broken the constructing of the Lukyanovskaya metro station. The station works as a shelter.’

‘According to preliminary info, an condo constructing was hit in Lviv. There are victims. A fireplace broke out in one of many metropolis’s lyceums. Probably as a result of fall of missile particles,’ mentioned the Lviv Regional Administration.

The Yavoriv navy coaching floor close to town was hit, it was reported.

In Dnipro, the Apollo shopping center was hit and fatalities have been reported.

Mayor Borys Filatov mentioned: ‘There are lifeless and injured because of the morning assault on Dnipro.’

Video confirmed a maternity hospital that was hit.

In Kharkiv, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov mentioned eight have been wounded within the territory.

‘As of now, because of the occupiers’ strikes on Kharkiv, one individual has died, a person of about 35 years outdated.

‘Eight folks have been injured, medical doctors are offering help on the spot.’

In Odesa, particles from a kamikaze drone broken a high-rise constructing.

‘A fireplace broke out,’ said the pinnacle of Odesa Regional Administration Oleg Kiper.

Information in regards to the victims is being verified.

In Kharkiv, resident Olena Kurylo, referred to as the ‘Face of the War’ after her bloody picture was flashed around the globe in the beginning of the warfare in February 2022 – mentioned in the present day: ‘None of us has slept correctly this December in Kharkiv and the area, however this was the worst night time with greater than 23 missiles and fixed air raid alerts since 3am.

‘My daughter is in a shelter along with her boyfriend, they only about had time to choose up their cats and run there.

‘I’m hiding within the basement flooring of my home, studying messages from mates from all around the nation: Lviv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa…

‘None of them slept, time and again they grabbed their youngsters and aged, and ran.

‘I’ve been by way of so many feelings these previous two years – from hope that our [Russian] “brothers” merely cannot do that to us, to shock and tears, to anger and now hatred.

‘This can’t go on.

‘They cannot simply go on killing us earlier than the remainder of the world, like that is one thing they’ve the suitable to do.

‘They do not! They haven’t any proper!

‘Please hear us from below the missiles, from below their infinite demise drones, from below their shelling.’