a New Year marked by bombardments in kyiv and promises of victory on both sides

Cover image: Ukrainian women celebrate New Year’s Eve in kyiv, before curfew, Saturday, December 31, 2022. Roman Hrytsyna / AP

• Russian missiles fell on two districts of kyiv about thirty minutes after midnight, announced on Telegram its mayor, Vitali Klitschko. No new injuries were reported immediately. Several Ukrainian cities including kyiv had been targeted earlier, Saturday December 31, 2022.
• During his vows, the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, promised that his country will fight until victory. “We are fighting and we will continue to fight. In favor of this word: victory”did he declare.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin, for his part, pronounced his vows alongside soldiers who fought in Ukraine and whom he had just decorated in a headquarters of the army of southern Russia. He assured that the “moral and historical correctness” was “on the side” from his country. “That is what we are fighting for today, protecting our people in our own historical territories, in the new constituent entities of Russia”he said.
• Russian shelling caused destruction and fires in Mykolaiv, in the South, where at least six people were injured, and in Khmelnytsky, in the West, where four people were injured. The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kuleba, accused Moscow of deliberately targeting residential areas.
• In this context, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, promised in his New Year’s greetings to continue to help Ukraine “without fail”, “until victory”. “We will be together to build a just and lasting peace. Count on France and count on Europe”he said again.
• Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu promised his soldiers an “inevitable” victory and reports a new exchange of prisoners, which allowed the return of 82 Russian soldiers. The Ukrainian authorities, for their part, announced that they had recovered 140 people.

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