The Kyiv Independent reports.
Shortly after, several governors reported that Russia had launched missiles at Ukraine.
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In the video above - the sky in Astrakhan, russia, after the launch of cruise missiles in Ukraine
Explosions were reported in multiple oblasts, including Kyiv and Kharkiv oblasts, in the afternoon of December 31.
Multiple reports on social media said that the air defense was working in Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Vinnytsia, and Zhytomyr oblasts during the nationwide air raid alert.
Shortly after, the Kyiv City State Administration confirmed that the air defense was working in the city of Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast.
As The Guardian reports, people in Kyiv have reported hearing loud explosions after russia launched a series of airstrikes.
The aftermath of Russian rocket attack on Kyiv - Presidential Office. This is a hotel in the city center. pic.twitter.com/EwDfWXw7vq— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) December 31, 2022
According to information at the moment, an elderly man died in Kyiv and seven others were injured in two explosions in the Solomyanskyi district. One person is in an extremely difficult condition.
Mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko also announced that a journalist from Japan was wounded during the attack on Kyiv. Doctors hospitalize him.
Later explosions were reported in the cities of Khmelnytskyi and Zaporizhzhia amid the ongoing Russian missile attack across Ukraine on the afternoon of December 31.
Enemy shells were also hit in Mykolaiv. The number of injured in the city has increased to six people, Mykolayiv OVA reported.
Earlier on December 31, the U.K. Defense Ministry said that Russia would likely strike at Ukraine over holidays to undermine people's morale.
Russia has repeatedly been targeting Ukraine's critical infrastructure with large-scale missile attacks since early October, killing dozens of citizens and inflicting damage to the energy system. The attacks have repeatedly caused power, water, and heating cut-off across Ukraine.
As Defense Express reported, on the night into Monday, December 26, explosions rang out at the strategic military airfield in Engels previous time. It is from this military airfield that all massive Russian missile attacks on Ukraine are carried out. Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers are stationed there. According to unofficial information, Russia’s Ministry of Defense confirmed the death of three service members.
Defense Express counted on How Many Tu-95MS Aircraft Could Be Destroyed After the Second Attack on the Engels Airfield as well as wrote that Chef of Ukraine’s Intelligence Said No Missiles Delivered to russia from Iran, China.
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