Ukraine’s air force said on Sunday it shot down 45 Iranian-made drones launched by Russia on New Year’s Eve, the day after a day marked by bombings in kyiv.
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“During the night of December 31, 2022 to January 1, 2023, Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with Iranian-made Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drones”, said the Ukrainian Air Force. According to her, 13 of these drones were shot down before midnight and 32 after midnight. The Ukrainian army did not say whether other drones had hit their targets.
‘Happy New Year’ written on a drone
kyiv Police Chief Andrii Nebitov posted a photograph on Facebook showing what appears to be the remains of a drone with the words ” Good year “ in Russian.
” This is all you need to know about the terrorist state and its army »he wrote.
Journalists heard explosions ring out over kyiv less than an hour after the transition to the year 2023, after a day on Saturday already marked by bombardments which left at least one dead and dozens injured.
Pro-Russian separatist authorities in eastern Ukraine, for their part, reported the death of a civilian in Ukrainian shelling on Sunday in Yassynouvata in the Donetsk region. According to them, the Ukrainian army also struck Donetsk and the neighboring town of Makiivka just after midnight, injuring at least 15 people.
