A Rússia continua avançando, no número de mortos inuteis: situação em 2/01/2023

 · Mixed reports have followed a Ukrainian attack on the Russian-controlled city of Makiivka in the Donetsk region, which saw the destruction of a youth center being used by military personnel. The Moscow-backed regional administration said at least 15 people were injured, but Kyiv sources said the number was believed to be much higher, with some estimates in the hundreds.

· Ukraine has published the latest figures on estimated Russian losses in the conflict, claiming that some 107,440 Russian soldiers have been killed, with 283 aircraft and more than 3,000 Russian tanks destroyed. The data has not been confirmed. 

A Ukrainian soldier rests in an underground bunker in the region of Donetsk. /Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

IN DETAIL

New Year's drone strikes continue

Waves of Russian drones strikes targeting infrastructure in and around Kyiv have continued into the second day of 2023.

However, Ukraine's air force said that its air defense systems had destroyed all of Russia's 39 Iranian-made Shahed drones in what it said was a "massive attack."

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had said earlier that such tactics from Moscow would prove useless following similar attacks on New Year's Eve.

"Drones, missiles, everything else will not help them," he said. "Because we stand united. They are united only by fear."

But in his New Year speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled Moscow had no plans of cooling its assault on Ukraine.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the fresh wave of drone strikes that had knocked out some power and heating in the capital. "There are emergency power outages in the city," he said on the Telegram messaging app.

Earlier, Klitschko said one person was injured by debris from a destroyed drone that hit a road, damaging a building in a northeastern district of the capital.

On New Year's Day, Kyiv's police chief Andrii Nebytov posted a photo on the Telegram app, showing what he said was a piece of a drone used in an attack on the capital, with a handwritten message on it in Russian reading "Happy New Year."

"This wreckage is not at the front, where fierce battles are taking place, this is here, on a sports grounds, where children play," Nebytov said.

Russia says its aerial strikes are aimed at reducing Ukraine's ability to fight, while Kyiv says they have no military purpose and are intended to hurt civilians.

Ukraine has also been making use of drone strikes, according to Russian officials, with one such strike damaging a power facility in Russia's Bryansk region on the border of Ukraine. 

Moscow said last week that it shot down a Ukrainian drone close to one of its long-range bomber bases deep inside Russian territory and that three air force personnel had been killed.

Source(s): Reuters