Putin’s forces dispute claim of devastating coup in Ukraine on New Year’s Eve
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Thursday: Russian missiles fly over Kyiv as charges hit Ukraine
Ukraine claimed to have killed up to 400 Russians in an attack on a military base in an occupied Donetsk.
Kyivan forces fired on the city of Makiivka and other parts of the Moscow-controlled eastern region on New Year’s Eve.
Moscow-based Donetsk management said at least 25 rockets were fired at the dominance in the attack.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said as many as 400 Russians had been killed, though the Russian Defense Ministry put the figure at 63.
A source close to the Russian-backed leaders in Donetsk told Reuters that fewer than a hundred people had been killed, while state media reports indicated that only 15 other people had been injured.
Waves of Russian drone movements in Ukraine continued into the new year, with missiles in the Ukrainian capital’s infrastructure overnight and causing power cuts, officials said.
A Ukrainian drone strike broke a force facility in Russia’s Bryansk region, on the border with Ukraine, according to the regional governor.
“A Ukrainian drone strike was carried out this morning in the Klimovsky district,” Governor Alexander Bogomaz said on Telegram, adding that there were no casualties.
“All emergencies are on site. As a result of the strike, the power plant broke down and there is no electricity.
Previous Ukrainian movements on Russian territory have targeted the army’s infrastructure. Kremlin officials have accused Ukraine of attacking Russian airfields last month, but Kyiv has claimed responsibility.
The Russian Defense Ministry said 63 Russian infantrymen were killed in a Ukrainian attack in the Donetsk region, contradicting Ukrainian claims that another 400 people were killed.
So far, other accounts have emerged of a New Year’s attack on a military base in the mining town of Makiivka.
Ukraine said 400 Russians had been killed, and army bloggers also put the figure in the hundreds. About an hour ago, Reuters reported that a source close to Russia’s appointed leaders in Donetsk said fewer than a hundred people had died.
Today, Russian state news quoted the Kremlin Defense Ministry as saying: “The Kyivan regime struck with six rockets of the US-made Himars multiple-launch firing formula at the point of deployment of one of the divisions of the Russian Armed Forces in the vicinity of the settlement of Makiivka.
“Two Himars rockets were shot down through Russian air defense systems. After the defeat of 4 rockets with high-explosive warheads at the deployment point, 63 Russian servicemen were killed.
Photographers on the Donetsk flat captured scenes of life in the region where the heaviest fighting in weeks was seen.
A local resident walks down an empty street near destroyed cars in the village of Torske, Donetsk.
Ukrainian infantrymen rest near their frontline position
Ukrainian military assembles a tank in Torske
A Russian has counterclaimed that up to 400 Russians were killed in a Ukrainian attack in Donetsk.
In comments to Reuters, a source close to Russia’s appointed leaders said the New Year’s attack on a military base in the mining town of Makiivka killed dozens of recruits.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said as many as Russians were killed.
The Donetsk source, who declined to be named, told Reuters: “According to my information, there are less than a hundred dead so far. “
“What is reported is greatly exaggerated. Fifty-eight wounded were brought in during the night, which is a lot for a general day and few if we count the reports of a lot of deaths. It was a site for mobilized Russian recruits.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense shared this clip of a soldier making a lullaby for his newborn baby, resting on his guitar.
The Independent TV translated the song into the following video.
A wave of Russian airstrikes further disrupted Ukraine’s military network, but the formula is control, the Ukrainian military operator said.
Ukraine said up to 40 missiles were fired at Kyiv and its landscape overnight, but the maximum was shot down.
Ukrenergo, the grid operator, said the measures had caused power outages in Kyiv and central Ukraine, but the effects were not as severe as in recent weeks, as other people used less electricity due to warmer weather.
A man takes photos over the phone while riding an electric unicycle past a dark Christmas tree in central Kyiv last night.
Russia’s long-suffering IT sector is likely to lose more staff in the new year due to the planned law on remote work, as the government tries to bring back some of the tens of thousands of others who have left without prompting them to break ties once and for all.
With portable jobs, computer scientists figured prominently among the many Russians who fled after Moscow sent its army to Ukraine and the thousands who followed when an army call began in September.
The government estimates that 100,000 computer scientists recently work for Russian companies abroad.
Now, the law is in effect early next year that could ban remote paintings for certain professions.
Warlike lawmakers, fearing that more Russian IT professionals will end up operating in NATO countries and unwilling to share sensitive security information, have proposed banning some IT specialists from leaving Russia.
But the Digital Ministry said in December that a blanket ban could make Russian IT corporations less efficient and less competitive: “In the end, whoever can attract the most talented staff, adding those from abroad, will win. “
Western countries will have to “step up” their military for Ukraine, and be in a position to provide long-term assistance, NATO’s secretary general said, as Russia began the new year with new missile attacks on Kyiv and other cities.
“Russia has shown no sign of abandoning its general purpose of taking Ukraine,” Jens Stoltenberg said. “Ukrainian forces have had momentum for several months, but we also know that Russia has mobilized many more forces. training.
“All of this indicates that they are in a position to continue the war and potentially launch a new offensive,” Stoltenberg told BBC Radio 4. Weapons in a position to ensure our own deterrence and defense, but also to be able to continue. Ukraine in the long term.
“Now we will have to supply Ukraine, adding armyArray because this is the only way to convince Russia that it will have to sit down and negotiate with an intelligent religion and respect Ukraine as a sovereign and independent country in Europe,” Stoltenberg added. .
Air raid sirens scream for hours as war enters its month
Ukraine claimed to have killed even Russians in occupied Donetsk.
Ukraine’s administration of the Moscow-based Donetsk region said Sunday that at least 25 rockets were fired at the domain on New Year’s Eve, causing injuries in the city of Makiivka.
Russia’s Tass news firm said at least 15 other people were wounded. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said up to 400 Russians died there “as a result of ‘careless handling of heaters. ‘”
Igor Girkin, a former commander of pro-Russian troops in eastern Ukraine who has one of Russia’s most prominent Nationalist army bloggers, also said the death toll was in the hundreds. Ammunition had been stored in the building, which exploded when the barracks were attacked.
“What happened in Makiivka is horrible,” wrote Archangel Spetznaz Z, a Russian army blogger with more than 700,000 followers on Telegram.
“Who had the idea of a corps of workers striking in gigantic numbers in a building, where even an idiot understands that even if he moves with artillery, there will be many wounded or killed?”
A source close to Russia’s leadership in Donetsk told Reuters that reports of casualties were exaggerated and that the death toll gave the impression of being less than 100.
A Russian attack on a town in southern Ukraine left five other people wounded, three seriously, according to local officials.
Kherson Governor Yaroslav Yanushevych said the shells hit the town of Beryslav on the Dnipro River, about 30 miles east of the regional capital deserted by Russian forces in November.
He said they were believed to have come from a tank in Kakhovka across the river, where Russian forces are.
“Right now, we know of five injured. Three other people are in serious condition. They will be evacuated to Kherson, where doctors will provide the sick with mandatory medical assistance,” he said.
Residents hide next to a fence after hearing the sound of an army plane in the town of Kherson on Jan. 1.
Damage to room at regional children’s center after Russian missile strike in Kherson on New Year’s Eve
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