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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: December 31st, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Korrespondent] 22:17 The head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim announced the attack of drones. According to him, at least two groups of UAVs took off in the direction of Pologov, Dnipro, Melitopol, Nikolaev. Air defense is working, one UAV has already been destroyed. In a number of areas air raid alert.  21:04 The number of wounded as a result of today's rocket attack on the Nikolaev area has increased to seven, the head of OVA Vitaly Kim reported. 19:00 The Russians have tightened the administrative and police regime for the period of the New Year holidays in certain settlements of the occupied territory. So, from December 31 to January 6, the city of Genichesk, Kherson region, was closed to the exit, and residents of the surrounding villages were also banned from leaving, the General Staff said in an evening summary. In order to equip the system of engineering barriers in the territories of Donetsk, Lugansk and Kherson regions, the occupiers attract civilians from Russia. 18:22 In Khmelnitsky, as a result of a Russian missile attack, eight people were hospitalized, two of them in serious condition, Mayor Alexander Simchishin said. According to him, there is a hit in a military facility, equipment, gas stations and residential buildings are damaged. 18:17 Zelensky said that he congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu on taking office as Prime Minister of Israel: "We discussed bilateral cooperation between our states, including in the field of security, and interaction on international platforms. We touched on the implementation of the Ukrainian peace formula." 18:14 In the village of Prydneprovskoye near Kherson, as a result of Russian artillery shelling, two children aged 13 and 12 were seriously wounded, the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said. 18:12 The Russians today attacked Ukraine from Tu-95MS strategic aviation missile carriers from the Caspian Sea and Iskander-M ground-based operational-tactical complexes, the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. According to preliminary data, there were about 20 missile launches in total, several of them did not reach Ukraine and fell on the territory of the Russian Federation (the information is being specified). The air defense forces destroyed 12 cruise missiles in the Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytsky regions. In addition, an enemy UAV Orlan-10 was shot down in the Kyiv region, which carried out aerial reconnaissance during a missile attack and tried to identify the positions of Ukrainian air defense. 18:08 As of the end of 2022, the Ukrainian Defense Forces have liberated 40% of the territories occupied by Russia after February 24, Oleksiy Gromov, deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, told Ukrinform. According to him, only during the autumn, during the offensive operation in the Kharkov region, 12 thousand square meters were liberated. km, about 500 settlements, and during the offensive operation in the Kherson direction - about 6 thousand square meters. km, more than 200 settlements. 17:54 Zelensky in a video message commented on today's Russian missile attack: "This is not the end of the year, no matter how the terrorists would like it. This is the result of the fate of Russia itself. A terrorist state will not be forgiven. And those who give orders for such attacks, and those "Those who commit them will not receive pardon. To put it mildly. Several waves of missile attacks on New Year's Day. Rockets against the people. It is against the people. The monsters did it, and the monsters will lose. We all know that. Terrorists cannot change that." 17:46 Serious damage to the energy system of Ukraine was avoided today, Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said. Power engineers are working non-stop to restore power supply. 17:23 Kuleba said that this time Russia's massive missile strike was deliberately aimed at residential areas, not at energy infrastructure: "War criminal Putin" celebrates "the New Year by killing people. Russia should be deprived of a seat on the UN Security Council, which She has always borrowed illegally." 17:14 According to the clarified data of the KSVA, seven missiles and an enemy UAV were destroyed on approach to Kiev. It is known about one dead, 21 people were injured. 16:49 Another exchange of prisoners took place: 140 Ukrainians are returning home , Yermak said. Among them are the wounded, as well as the defenders of Mariupol, Zmeiny Island, TRO volunteers from Slavutich, as well as the military from the Bakhmut direction. In total, these are 82 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 15 from the Troop, 22 from the NSU, 11 from the Navy and ten from the State Border Guard Service. Among them are 132 men and eight women, 22 officers and 118 sergeants and soldiers. 16:30 In the Zaporozhye region, as a result of an enemy strike, four people were injured, including a 14-year-old child. Two private houses were destroyed, eight were damaged, the President's Office reported. 16:28 As a result of the Russian attack on civilian facilities in the capital, one person died, 20 were injured , Klitschko said. The buildings of two schools in the Solomensky district of the capital received various degrees of damage, one in Pechersky, as well as one kindergarten in the Solomensky district. 14 victims were hospitalized, six doctors provided assistance on the spot. The life support system of the capital is operating normally, 30% of consumers are now without electricity due to emergency shutdowns. 16:22 Air defense forces shot down 12 out of more than 20 cruise missiles today , Zaluzny said. According to preliminary information, the enemy launched more than 20 air-launched cruise missiles using Tu-95ms strategic bombers from the Caspian Sea and land-based missile systems. 12 cruise missiles were destroyed: six in the Kyiv region, five in the Zhytomyr region and one in the Khmelnytsky region. 16:18 As a result of a rocket attack on Kiev, one person died and 16 were injured, the data were specified in the KGVA. The air raid ended. 16:09 In Khmelnitsky, as a result of rocket fire, seven people were injured , three of them are in serious condition, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gamaly. Part of the city remained de-energized. 15:51 According to preliminary information, as a result of a rocket attack on the capital, one person died and 13 were injured, the KGVA reported. Seven air targets were destroyed in the Kyiv area. An outbuilding and a car were damaged in the Goloseevsky district. In the Solomensky district, a private residential building and a hotel were damaged. In the Pechersky district, the destruction of the hotel, minor damage to nearby buildings. There is also destruction in the Dnieper region. The air raid continues. 15:35 The number of victims of the Russian attack on Kiev has grown to 11 people, Klitschko said. 15:26 During the attack on Kiev, a journalist from Japan was wounded, he was hospitalized. The number of victims has risen to eight, Klitschko said. 15:21 The network publishes a photo of the consequences of a missile attack on the center of Kiev: 15:17 As a result of today's shelling of the Khmelnytsky region, at least four civilians were injured, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gamaly. 15:11 In the Nikolaev area as a result of rocket attack of six wounded, three of them are hospitalized, the head of OVA Vitaly Kim reported. 14:58 As a result of two explosions in the Solomensky district of Kyiv, one person died, seven were injured. One of the wounded is in critical condition, Klitschko said. According to preliminary information from the KSVA, a private house was damaged as a result of a rocket attack in the Solomensky district, and a hotel was hit in the Pechersky district, near the metro station Palace of Ukraine. There is also destruction in the Goloseevsky district. 14:20 In Khmelnitsky, two people were injured as a result of rocket attacks, the President's Office reported. 13:27 Due to the threat of shelling, power supply restrictions are in effect in Kiev and Zhitomir, as well as in Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov, Kirovograd, Nikolaev, Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions. All over the country air raid alert. 12:23 The head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim announced missile launches. An air alert has been declared in the region. 11:17 In Kupyansk and the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region, as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, one person was killed, one was wounded, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. 10:57 At night, the Russians launched a missile attack on one of the military towns in the Chernihiv region. According to preliminary information, it was an Iskander ballistic missile, the trajectory of which is almost impossible to track with the available air defense systems. As a result of the attack, there were no deaths, said the head of the UVA, Vyacheslav Chaus. According to him, in recent days, the intensity of shelling has increased. The enemy fires artillery, mortars and multiple launch rocket systems. In Semyonovka, one person was killed as a result of shelling. 10:18 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that almost 2,000 military personnel in the Moscow missile defense system will be on duty at combat posts on New Year's Eve. 09:41 The liberation of Kremennaya will open two directions for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and will allow them to strike at the Russians attacking Bakhmut, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, one direction is to Starobilsk, the logistics center of the Luhansk region. From Starobelsk, fire control can be maintained on all roads. The second direction is Rubizhnoye-Severodonetsk, this will help to break up the group that is storming Bakhmut. 09:16 British intelligence does not exclude that Russia is preparing another missile attack on the territory of Ukraine in the coming days to try to undermine the morale of Ukrainians during the holiday period. 09:05 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that the Russians are increasingly forced to use drones to attack Ukrainian critical infrastructure, as they are running out of precision-guided missiles. Also, Russian forces may have stockpiled more drones after a three-week break in their use, or Russia has received or is expecting to receive a new batch of drones from Iran. 09:03 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, three civilians were killed - two in Bakhmut and one in Dibrov. Three more people were injured in the region, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said. 08:50 Total international financial assistance to Ukraine in 2022 amounted to $31.2 billion, of which $14.04 billion are free grant funds, $17.16 billion are cheap loans, according to the government. The largest donors were: the US - 12 billion, the EU - 7.9 billion, the IMF - 2.7 billion, Canada - 1.9 billion and Germany - 1.6 billion. The average amount of assistance received was $ 3 billion per month. In addition, the Ukrainian budget was financed from internal resources: the National Bank "printed" 400 billion hryvnias in a year, military bonds brought in 250.7 billion hryvnias. 08:42 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy as of the morning of December 31.
08:34 The enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Limansky and Bakhmutsky directions and is trying to improve the tactical situation in the Kupyansky and Avdeevsky, the General Staff said in the morning report . Over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces repulsed the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka, Nevskoe, Chervonopopovka and Belogorovka in the Luhansk region and Soledar, Belogorovka, Bakhmutskoe, Podgorodnoe, Bakhmut, Kleschievka, New York, Krasnogorovka, Kamenka, Avdeevka and Marinka in the Donetsk region. According to the General Staff, lists of persons subject to conscription for mobilization in January 2023 have been formed in the military commissariats of Crimea. 00:35 Russian oligarchs lost 95 billion dollars after the February invasion, writes The Guardian. Every day of sanctions for the war in Ukraine cost them $330 million. Roman Abramovich suffered the most: his fortune decreased by 57%, to $7.8 billion. 00:13 Russia has stopped using Iskanders against Ukraine because it cannot produce them, Reznikov said in an interview with LB: “We calculated how much they fired at us, how much they had and how much they had left. there are about 11-13% of the Iskanders left. According to their classical Soviet standards, they should keep a reserve of 25-30%. They have already climbed into it. They committed a crime in terms of their responsibility. The same for Caliber." Posted by: badanov 2023-01-01 |
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