Russia unleashes massive strikes on Ukraine in the run-up to the New Year
A photo report
Smoke rising over Kyiv after the shelling, 29 December. Photo: Oleg Petrasiuk / EPA-EFE
Eighteen people were killed and 132 were injured in Russia’s overnight missile strikes on the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Dnipro.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russian army had launched 110 missiles. Most were shot down, he said, but multiple residential buildings were damaged or destroyed as a result of the massive shelling.
Ukrainian first responders on the site of a rocket attack on a factory in Kharkiv, 29 December. Photo: Yakov Lyashenko / EPA-EFEKyiv residents walk past a mangled Russian rocket, 29 December. Photo: Danylo Antoniuk / Anadolu / Getty ImagesLocals inspecting a residential building damaged by a rocket attack on a nearby shopping centre in Dnipro, 29 December. Photo: Arsen Dzodzaiev / EPA-EFEBuilding damaged by shelling in Kyiv, 29 December. Photo: Oleg Petrasiuk / EPA-EFEA man stands outside a building damaged in the Russian attack on Kyiv, 29 December. Photo: Danylo Antoniuk / Anadolu / Getty ImagesA car with a smashed windscreen and blood stains after the missile strike on the centre of Dnipro, 29 December. Photo: Arsen Dzodzaiev / Anadolu / Vida PressA building damaged in the Russian missile strike on the centre of Dnipro, 29 December. Photo: Arsen Dzodzaiev / Anadolu / Vida PressA hospital damaged in the Russian missile strike on the centre of Dnipro, 29 December. Photo: Arsen Dzodzaiev / Anadolu / Vida Press
