Russia launched 23 self\u002Dexploding drones over Kyiv while the city slept, but Ukrainian forces shot down 18 of them, Kyiv offficials said.
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“This is how Russians congratulated our children on the holiday,” Serhii Kruk, the head of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, wrote on Telegram, attaching photos of firefighters barely distinguished amid the flames of an infrastructure facility that got hit. “I feel really anxious,” she said. “Anxious because you never know at which moment there will be an incoming missile.”Article contentAlthough the capital appeared to be the main target of the latest Russian attack, the armed forces said other places in the country were also targeted.
Moscow has targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, including in Kyiv, since October as part of a strategy to try to leave the country without heat and light during the bitterly cold winter. It has kept up that effort despite Western sanctions and the supply of Western air defence systems to Ukrainian forces.
Some 14,000 people in Belgorod were left without power Monday as the result of Ukrainian shelling, the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on Telegram.
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