Ukraine will spend the last day of 2022 under missile attacks, and there is a high probability that Ukraine will also spend the first day of 2023 under missile attacks. At 12:50 noon on the 31st, the Russian army once again launched a large-scale missile attack on Ukraine (the first wave was expected to include more than 50 missiles), causing air defense sirens to sound throughout Ukraine.
The first missile entered the Sumy region in northern Ukraine. Authorities in multiple regions confirmed that explosions occurred in many cities, including the capital Kiev and Kharkiv , followed by power outages. Ukrainian authorities did not specify which infrastructure was hit.
It is currently known that the explosion occurred in Khmelnytsky , Kiev city (Solomensky, Pechersky and Golosevsky districts), Kiev region , Kharkiv region , Vinnitsa region , Odessa city, Dnepropetrovsk region , Nikolaev city, Zhitomir region, Ternopil region, Zaporozhye city.
According to Ukrainian news, officials of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine said that the power supply in Kiev and the Kiev region was urgently interrupted, the entire city of Kharkiv was blacked out, and the Nikolayev region had begun an emergency power outage. A large hotel with the EU flag flying outside Kiev was hit by a Russian missile. As a result, one person died and five were injured in the hotel where many Western military advisers lived.
According to reports, the second wave of missiles is suspected to have been launched from the Caspian Sea around 5 pm, and big explosions occurred in Zaporozhye, Nikolaev and Khmelnytsky regions.
Residents of Kharkiv and Astrakhan regions in Russia photographed the traces of a large number of cruise missiles and launched from the Caspian Sea towards Ukraine.
Ukrainian media said that a series of "strong explosions" occurred in Kiev, some of which sounded like the sound of missiles hitting ground targets, and some of which sounded like the explosion of anti-aircraft missiles.
A Russian missile hit an infrastructure in the Khmelnytsky region, causing a power outage in that part of the country. According to previous reports, explosions occurred in Khmelnytsky, Zaporozhye, and Kiev in Ukraine.
Just at night when people were celebrating and preparing to bid farewell to 2022 and welcome 2023, Internet celebrity motorcycles became crazy again. The Russian army sent a "New Year's greeting" to Ukraine. In Kramatorsk, the central part of Donetsk Oblast, the Ukrainian army's assembly area in the industrial zone was once again hit by missiles and suicide drones because there were military equipment, ammunition depots and repair shops supported by NATO.
Ukrainian media reported on January 1, 2023 that Russian Air Force Tu-95 and Tu-22 fighter jets took off from the airport in Ryazan Oblast in Russia. Reuters said that new explosions were heard in Kiev and surrounding areas, and the Ukrainian air defense system tried to shoot down air targets at night.
The Ukrainian General Staff claimed this morning (January 1, 2023) that among the 20 Russian cruise missiles on the night of the 31st, the Ukrainian air defense forces shot down 12 cruise missiles, 6 in Kiev, 5 in the Zhitomir and 1 in the Khmelnytsky region.
