Large-scale Russian missile attack on Ukraine on Christmas Day
Christmas Day was the signal for Russia to launch another massive airstrike on Ukraine. Quite a few Ukrainian cities were bombed with missiles and drones.
The governor of the Kharkiv administrative region, Oleh Synehoebov, said on Telegram that the Russian military carried out at least seven attacks. Among them, Russia launched Kalibr-type cruise missiles from the Black Sea. Several explosions were reported in the cities of Dnipro, Krementshuk, Kryvyi Rih and the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk, but some other locations were also bombed. The northeastern city of Kharkiv was one of the hardest hit. The Russians fired a lot of ballistic missiles at Kharkiv. The attacks mainly caused damage to civilian infrastructure and at least four civilians were injured in the process, two of them reportedly in bad shape. A lot of energy infrastructure was also destroyed again by the Russian attacks, forcing Ukrainians to switch to emergency power supplies in several cities.
(FVDV for Tagtik/Source: Reuters - Kyiv Independent - NBC/Illustration picture: Photo by AHMAD BADER on Unsplash)