Foreign media: Russian drones attacked Kiev on New Year’s Eve, with “Happy New Year” written on the wreckage

Global Network reported that according to the British "Guardian" citing the Ukrainian "Kiev Post" report, the Russian army used drones to attack Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, on the evening of December 31, 2022 local time. One of the drones The words "Happy New Year" were written in Russian on the wreckage of the man-machine. The British Daily Telegraph, Reuters and other media also reported the news.

The "Daily Telegraph" stated that this slogan was handwritten with a red marker and the handwriting was relatively sloppy. The Ukrainian military stated on January 1, 2023 that it shot down a total of 45 drones that day.

Photos of the drone wreckage

The report stated that the above-mentioned picture of the drone wreckage was posted on the social platform Telegram by Kiev Police Chief Andrei Nebitov. "These pieces of debris were not found on the front lines of a raging battle, but here, on a playground, where children were playing," he said.

According to CCTV news reports, Ukrainian government sources stated that at around 0:40 local time on January 1, 2023, air defense sirens were sounded across Ukraine. According to reports, at about 1:40, strong explosions were heard on the left bank of the Dnieper River in Kiev and in the direction of Brovary on the outskirts of Kiev. In addition, according to the latest news from TASS, officials in the Donetsk region said that many places in the region were hit by heavy shelling from Ukraine, injuring more than 15 people in Makeevka. Local officials said the air defense system was in operation.

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The Russian army’s target for attacking Ukraine has changed, and Ukraine may return to the Middle Ages

In the past few days at the end of 2022, several major leaders in Ukraine Cities, including Kiev, again experienced massive power outages. Although the Russian Defense Ministry has not reported any attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities, it has hinted that such attacks will not stop. More importantly, experts have noticed some changes in the targets Russia has recently struck.

Kiev Mayor Klitschko

On the morning of December 26, 2022, Kiev issued an air warning, which showed that the entire territory of the state was in the "red zone." Shortly thereafter, local authorities began reporting explosions in several areas of Ukraine. In particular, Kiev Mayor Klitschko wrote on his social media that 40% of citizens were without power due to the attack.

According to local media reports, explosions also occurred in the Zhytomyr and Nikolaev regions, as well as in Odessa, which has no electricity or water.

Lviv’s electricity industry has been the most affected. The city's mayor, Andrei Sadovoy, said that 90% of the people have no electricity, and trams and trolleybuses cannot travel through the city. The possibility of water supply interruptions has also not been ruled out. The city is switching to diesel generators for critical infrastructure.

Please note that the Russian Ministry of Defense has not yet reported any information about these attacks. However, a postcard emerged from the department on social media that read: "Calibers" will never end.

As early as October 10, two days after the Crimean bridge explosion, Russia began to attack Ukrainian infrastructure. Russian authorities believed that the terrorist attack was carried out by Ukrainian security services. Air strikes on Ukrainian territory targeted energy, defense industries, military command and communications facilities. These attacks have been repeated regularly and systematically ever since.

At the end of November, Ukrenergo Chairman of the Board of Directors Kudlitsky admitted that all large thermal power plants and hydroelectric power plants in Ukraine had been damaged, and the Kiev authorities are currently negotiating with several European countries about the country’s power supply. Negotiate.

On this topic, experts explain that Ukraine’s inability to protect its energy facilities from attacks and the power shortage have fundamentally changed Ukraine, which indirectly shows that Ukraine’s air defense system is not functioning.

Alexey Ampilogov, an expert in the field of Russian nuclear energy, said, “Currently, there is no complete information about the situation of Ukraine’s energy system, but what is certain is that the Russian military not only destroyed Ukraine’s electrical installations, and new tactics to destroy enemy air defenses may have played a role."

Indeed, multiple media reports show that in the past few days, Russia destroyed multiple Ukrainian air defense systems at once.

According to Ampilogov, such actions will eventually lead to the fact that with the attack of the Russian army, the Ukrainian army will not be able to cope with anything at all, and Ukraine will eventually fall into the Middle Ages.

Ampirogov said, "The only thing that still prevents Ukraine from sliding irreversibly into the Stone Age is the nuclear power plant, and the Russian army did not attack it."

In addition, all major facilities in Ukraine Cities have switched to emergency shutdowns. In Kiev, for example, about 40% of customers have lost power. Severe power outages were also observed in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhye". The whole of Ukraine was once again fragmented into independent islands. This shows that there is no more margin of safety.

Russian political scientist Larissa Schesler said that the attack on Ukraine's infrastructure has seriously complicated the work of the country's industrial and defense enterprises. The attack by the Russian army has also greatly complicated the process of transporting Ukrainian weapons to the front line. /p>

Sessler said that Ukrainian propaganda tried to prove to everyone that the Russian army’s goal was to destroy Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure, but this was not the case. There is an urgent need to crack down on Ukraine’s logistics supply to slow down the work of Ukrainian military industrial enterprises.

The fact is that the entire policy of the West is aimed at destroying Ukraine. They want to deprive Ukraine of its industrial potential in order to eliminate its status as a potential competitor to European manufacturing. The bellicose rhetoric of the European Union, the United States and Zelensky has significantly aggravated the situation and worsened the situation of civilians."