Eighteen people were killed and 132 were injured in Russia’s overnight missile strikes on the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Dnipro.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russian army had launched 110 missiles. Most were shot down, he said, but multiple residential buildings were damaged or destroyed as a result of the massive shelling.
Ukrainian first responders on the site of a rocket attack on a factory in Kharkiv, 29 December. Photo: Yakov Lyashenko / EPA-EFE
Kyiv residents walk past a mangled Russian rocket, 29 December. Photo: Danylo Antoniuk / Anadolu / Getty Images
Locals inspecting a residential building damaged by a rocket attack on a nearby shopping centre in Dnipro, 29 December. Photo: Arsen Dzodzaiev / EPA-EFE
Building damaged by shelling in Kyiv, 29 December. Photo: Oleg Petrasiuk / EPA-EFE
A man stands outside a building damaged in the Russian attack on Kyiv, 29 December. Photo: Danylo Antoniuk / Anadolu / Getty Images
A car with a smashed windscreen and blood stains after the missile strike on the centre of Dnipro, 29 December. Photo: Arsen Dzodzaiev / Anadolu / Vida Press
A building damaged in the Russian missile strike on the centre of Dnipro, 29 December. Photo: Arsen Dzodzaiev / Anadolu / Vida Press
A hospital damaged in the Russian missile strike on the centre of Dnipro, 29 December. Photo: Arsen Dzodzaiev / Anadolu / Vida Press
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