Russia launches a barrage of ninety drones over Ukraine on New Year’s Eve

Russia launched a barrage of drones over several regions of Ukraine on New Year’s Eve, keeping Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems on alert until early Monday morning, in the largest attack involving this type of device since the start of the war almost two years ago. .

The Air Force of Ukraine (FAU) has emphasized that “the enemy has a record number of unmanned aerial vehicles of the type Shahid“Iranians.

In total, Russia has been launched 90 fixed-wing drones and four S-300 guided anti-aircraft missiles about Ukraine, and also three Kh-31P anti-radar missiles and one Kh-59he specified.

The missiles attacked Kharkov (east), Kherson and Zaporizhia (south), while the drones attacked Mikolayiv (south), Vinitsia (central-west), Dnipropetrovsk (center), Kherson and the Kirovohrad region (center), as well as Lviv ( west).

In his New Year’s Eve message, the Ukrainian president said: Volodymyr Zelenskyhas assured that “the enemy will feel the wrath of national arms production next year” and that the country at least one million FPV dronespilots with a distance view.

For his part, the President of Russia, Vladimir Puntinin his first public response to last Saturday’s Ukrainian attack on the border city Belgorodwhich left 25 dead and more than 100 injured, has warned about this will not go unpunished.

“It was a direct attack on the civilian population. It was definitely a terrorist attack. It cannot be described otherwise,” the Kremlin head said during a meeting with military personnel at a hospital on the outskirts of Moscow.

He has assured that the attack on Belgorod “will not go unpunished 100 percent, there is no doubt about that” and that “everything will boil over on himself”, but he has stressed that Russia is responding by hitting military targets.