A Russian-appointed official managing the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine stated that four people were killed in a Ukrainian shelling of the city of Donetsk on Monday. Ukrainian officials, on the other hand, reported that Russian airstrikes on several regions of Ukraine resulted in at least one death. Denis Pushilin, the Russian-appointed governor of Donetsk, posted on Telegram that 13 others were also injured in "intense shelling" carried out by Ukrainian forces in downtown Donetsk, the administrative capital of the region.
Oleh Kiper, the governor of Odesa region, indicated on Telegram that at least one person was killed and nine others injured in a Russian drone attack on the Odesa port in southern Ukraine. Kiper added that Ukrainian air defense systems were involved in repelling the attack, but debris caused several fires in residential buildings in different parts of the city. Additionally, officials in the Lviv region of western Ukraine, adjacent to Poland, reported that a Russian airstrike early today, on the first day of the new year, damaged a university building in the town of Dublyany and a memorial in the suburbs of Lviv.
The Ukrainian Air Force noted that the Russian airstrike also targeted the Mykolaiv and Dnipro regions. It pointed out that Russia launched 90 attack drones hours before New Year's Day. The air force stated via Telegram that Ukrainian air defense had destroyed 87 of the drones. Reuters was unable to independently verify the Russian and Ukrainian reports. Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war that began with Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
