At least one individual was killed, and several other others had been injured after Russian strikes hit some areas in Ukraine, together with the capital Kyiv on Saturday.
“An elderly man died in Kyiv, and seven others were injured as a result of two explosions … in Solomyanskyi district,” Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko stated on social media.
He added that one individual was in an “extremely severe condition.”
Agence France-Press (AFP) journalists in Kyiv heard at the least ten explosions within the early afternoon.
Attacks had been additionally reported within the southern Mykolaiv area, the place governor Vitaliy Kim stated at the least two individuals had been wounded, “one of them badly.”
Oleksandr Sienkievych, the mayor of the area’s fundamental metropolis of the identical identify, stated a hearth broke out in one in all its districts, and several other residential buildings sustained harm because of the strikes.
Several individuals had been additionally injured, he added.
In the west, at the least 4 individuals had been wounded within the Khmelnytskyi area, governor Sergiy Gamaliy stated, urging residents to remain in shelters.
Kyiv metropolis authorities instructed residents to stay in shelters and stated that Ukrainian air defenses had been lively in Kyiv and the encompassing space.
Ukraine’s air protection shot down 12 out of 20 missiles launched by Russia on Saturday afternoon, hours earlier than New Year’s Eve celebrations, the Ukrainian military stated.
Russia “launched more than 20 cruise missiles … Our air defense destroyed 12 cruise missiles,” Ukraine’s commander-in-chief General Valeriy Zaluzhny stated on social media, including that six of them had been shot down over the capital Kyiv.
