Unfortunately, Christmas Day did not start very peacefully in Ukraine. An air-raid siren was sounded in all regions on Sunday morning, instead of Christmas carols, sirens sounded in the cities of the war-torn country, authorities said. According to unconfirmed reports on social media in Ukraine, the alarm went off after Russian warplanes took off from Belarus. Reuters could not immediately independently confirm this information.
In the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, the death toll from artillery fire and explosions has risen to 16, according to authorities. In addition, 64 people were injured in Russian attacks, Ukrainian military governor Yaroslav Yanushevich said in his channel on the Telegram news service on Sunday. The dead include three men who died during mine clearance operations.
Ukrainian authorities had accused Moscow of massive artillery shelling of the center of the city of Kherson, once occupied by Russian forces.
Zelenskyi: “Killing for the sake of intimidation”
On Saturday, Yanuschewitsch had spoken of ten dead and 55 wounded. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has published photos on Telegram of lifeless people in the center of the city recently liberated from Russian occupation. Selenskyj condemned the attack as a new crime of the “terror state” Russia just before Christmas. There are no military targets there, Zelensky stressed. This is not war. “This is terror, this is killing for the sake of intimidation and pleasure,” he said.
Russia insists on annexing Chersons
Russia illegally annexed the Kherson region last fall. Ukrainian troops then took the city of Kherson after a withdrawal of Russian troops. The Russian occupiers retreated to the other side of the Dnipro River. According to Ukrainian sources, Russian troops are still shelling the city from other parts of the occupied Kherson region. Most of the area is still controlled by Russian forces. The Kremlin emphasizes that Russia considers the entire Kherson region as its territory and will not give it up.
Source: Krone
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