Russia's attacks picked up ahead of New Year's as multiple blasts rocked Kyiv and other areas of Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others.
Some Ukrainians defied the danger, however, to return to the country to reunite with families for the holidays.Ukrainian officials claimed Russia was now deliberately targeting civilians, seeking to create a climate of fear to see out the year grimly and usher in a bloody 2023.
The deadly blast in the Ukrainian capital occurred among the multi-story residential buildings of the Solomianskyi district. One person wounded in the attacks is in a critical condition, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. He said two schools were damaged, including a kindergarten. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy published a video address shortly after Russia launched the New Year’s Eve cruise missiles over Ukraine saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “hiding behind the military, behind missiles, behind the walls of his residences and palaces.” Addressing the Russians, he added that “no one in the world will forgive you for this. Ukraine will not forgive.”
In Zaporizhzhia region, as a result of a missile attack, two houses were destroyed, and around eight damaged. Four people were also wounded, among them a pregnant woman and a 14-year-old girl, said regional Gov. Oleksandr Starukh.rumbles on with no end in sight, for some families the new year is nevertheless a chance to reunite, however briefly, after months apart.
Back in February, fathers, husbands and sons had to stay behind as their wives, mothers and daughters boarded trains with small children seeking safety outside the country. Scenes of tearful goodbyes seared television screens andBut on the last day of the year marked by the brutal war, many returned to the capital to spend New Year’s Eve with their loved ones, despite the ongoing Russian attacks., no big celebrations are expected and a curfew will be in place as the clock rings in the new year.
“He was like, ‘Please come! Please come! Please come!’” she recalled. “I decided that scared is one part, but being with beloved ones on the holidays is the most important part. So, I overcome my fear and here I am now.”
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