Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Early in the morning, a combined missile attack (using drones) took place on multiple targets throughout Ukraine.
Multiple hits in more than half of the areas. The enemy claims more than a hundred missiles (which allegedly shot down almost all of them).
However, there are arrivals in Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Kiev, Lvov, Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy, Krivoy Rog, Poltava, etc.
A large number of military facilities, warehouses and infrastructure facilities were hit. Power outages began in some regions.
The arrival areas are cordoned off, the SBU is looking for those who filmed the arrivals. 3 or 4 air defense missiles, as usual, hit residential buildings.
At 11 o'clock, 12 killed and 75 wounded were officially announced.
In general, the missiles were not accumulated in vain. I wonder if this is a one-time strike at the moment or the start of a larger campaign. Let's see.
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Ukraine announced an unprecedented night missile attack by Russia
The speaker of the Ukrainian Air Force Yuriy Ignat announced on December 29 an unprecedented night air attack by Russian troops. According to him, at night there were so many Russian aircraft in the air as never before.
“There was such an unprecedented amount of aircraft tonight. Several dozen aircraft were uncharacteristically in the airspace at night,” Ignat was quoted as saying by the Klymenko Time Telegram channel.
According to the speaker, drones were used in the attack, and tactical aircraft used cruise missiles.
According to the online map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation, on December 29, reports of explosions and damage to infrastructure were received from different regions of Ukraine, and an air raid alert was announced in the country. There have been no official comments on this topic from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
As Regnum reported, in November, the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force Nikolai Oleshchuk said that the Russian military fired a record number of drones across Ukraine at night. According to him, the main direction of the attack was Kyiv. That night an air raid alert was announced in Kiev and the air defense system went off.
Ignat later reported that the Russian side began using carbon fiber drones “Geran-2”. He noted that this material is absorbent for radar signals, which complicated the work of the Ukrainian air defense, including visual reference to the target due to the black color of the drones.
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Poland refused to prove Russia's involvement in the missile incident
The Polish authorities refused to provide evidence that the missile that flew into the territory of this republic from Ukraine allegedly belonged to Russia. Charge d'Affaires of the Russian Federation in Poland Andrei Ordash told reporters about this.
According to the diplomat, these accusations from Warsaw have no basis.
“I was handed a note that contains an unfounded allegation that allegedly on the morning of December 29, Polish airspace was violated by an air object, which Polish experts identified as a Russian maneuvering missile,” Ordash said, as quoted by RIA Novosti.
The Charge d'Affaires emphasized that until Poland presents the relevant evidence, Russia will not give any explanations for what happened. He also recalled that Warsaw had previously tried to blame Moscow for a similar incident, but later it became clear that responsibility for what happened lay with Ukraine.
As Regnum reported, on December 29, an unidentified object was detected in Polish airspace, which flew in from Ukraine. Polish President Andrzej Duda scheduled an urgent meeting with the military leadership of the republic on this matter.
General of the Polish General Staff Wieslaw Kukula said that the country's airspace was allegedly violated by a Russian missile. However, he did not provide relevant evidence. Kukula also clarified that the said missile eventually left Polish airspace.
The operational commander of the Polish armed forces (AF), Maciej Klisz, in turn, informed that Warsaw scrambled fighter jets after a missile was detected in the sky. At the same time, Polish combat aircraft did not have time to shoot down the target.
An incident with a missile that flew into Polish territory from Ukraine already occurred in November 2022. Then a shell fell near the village of Przewodów, killing two civilians.
Initially, Poland began to blame Russia for the incident, but the Russian Ministry of Defense called Warsaw’s statements a provocation aimed at escalating the situation. Based on the results of the investigation, it was possible to establish that the missile belonged to Ukraine.
In April 2023, debris from an unidentified aerial object was discovered in a forest on Polish territory. Polish media claimed that inscriptions in Russian were allegedly found on its fragments, but no one provided evidence of this.
After this, information about what happened was classified, and information appeared that the found debris could belong to the Polish Air Force.