According to mayor Klitschko, 30 per cent of Kyiv’s residents were left without electricity due to emergency power cuts after the strikes on Saturday.
Mykolaiv mayor Oleksandr Sienkievych had said earlier that a fire broke out in one of the city’s districts and several residential buildings sustained damage as a result of the strikes.In the west, at least seven people were wounded in the Khmelnytskyi region, governor Sergiy Gamaliy said, adding that part of the city of Khmelnytskyi was left without power.“War criminal Putin ‘celebrates’ New Year by killing people,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Twitter.
Footage released by Russian state TV showed Mr Putin raising a glass of champagne with soldiers dressed in military uniform, some with awards pinned to their chest. “Today we are fighting for this, protecting our people in our own historical territories, in the new constituent entities of the Russian Federation,” he added, referring to four Ukrainian regions that Russia claimed to have annexed.