electricity restored in Lviv, new Russian strikes near the border

Cover image: A generator in front of a store in Lviv (Ukraine), December 29, 2022. YURIY DYACHYSHYN / AFP

• Ukraine denounces Russian bombings “massive” in several cities of the country, including the capital, kyiv. According to the Ukrainian authorities, fifty-four of the sixty-nine Russian missiles fired “were slaughtered”. Earlier in the day, the Ukrainian presidency announced that around 120 missiles had targeted the country.
• These bombings have killed three people and injured six others, including a child, in different regions of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Interior Minister announced on Thursday evening. A salvo of rockets launched at Kharkiv then killed two people and injured one, according to the governor of the region. Also, at midday, 40% of kyiv residents were without electricity, as well as 90% of those in Lviv. The regions of Kharkiv, Odessa, Mykolaiv and Kherson were also affected.
• The Belarus claimed on Thursday to have shot down a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile near the village of Gorbakha, in the region of Brest (South-West), bordering Ukraine. This is the first incident of this type reported by Minsk since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine. kyiv says not to rule out “deliberate provocation” from Russia. The Ukrainian ambassador to Belarus has been summoned.
• According to a briefing by the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of UkraineOleksi Khromov, Ukrainian forces advanced 2.5 kilometers towards Kreminna, in Luhansk Oblast during the week.

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