2023-12-30 01:39:32
In a hastily convened meeting of the UN Security Council, most council members, including the United States, France and Britain, condemned large-scale Russian air strikes on Ukraine. Russian UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya said Moscow only attacked military infrastructure and that Ukrainian air defense systems were responsible for the civilian casualties.
The real problem is that Ukraine has placed its air defense systems in residential areas, Nebenzya said. “If the Ukrainian air defense systems had not been deployed, there would have been no civilian casualties at all,” he continued.
More than 30 people were killed and more than 150 injured in the attacks shortly before the New Year. The Ukrainian leadership spoke of massive “terror” against the civilian population. There were deaths in Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odessa, Lviv (Lviv) and in the capital Kiev. At least nine people were killed in the capital alone.
Meanwhile, Russian anti-aircraft units shot down 13 Ukrainian missiles over the southern Belgorod region, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Units “thwarted an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack,” the ministry said in a statement. A man was killed when a house was hit, said Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region.
Four people were being treated for injuries. Ten private houses were damaged and the water supply in the city of Belgorod was interrupted.
According to the governor of the Bryansk region in southern Russia, six Ukrainian drones were shot down there. The drones are “another foiled Ukrainian terrorist attack,” said Governor Alexander Bogomaz. There were no injuries.
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