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The missiles have reached Kyiv, the city’s mayor said, as emergency services attended the scene.
The explosions come hours after the NATO chief warned Western allies to ramp up weapons production in the coming months to continue supporting Ukraine as Russia continues its bombing attacks.
The explosion is said to have taken place in the Desnianskiy district of kyiv in the early hours of Monday morning.
Local reports have said a 19-year-old man was taken to hospital, the mayor said on the Telegram messaging app, after debris from a drone struck a road and damaged a building.
The missiles have reached Kyiv, the city’s mayor said, as emergency services attended the scene. Pictured: A missile attack on a hotel building in Kyiv yesterday that killed one person and injured 20
Raid sirens were announced just before midnight in Kyiv and across most of eastern Ukraine, with the wail being heard two hours later.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app: ‘An explosion in Kyiv’s Desnianskiy district. All services are on site. Details later.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a Ukrainian presidential aide, said debris from the drones hit a road in the northeastern Kyiv district, damaging a building next door.
“Information about (potential) casualties is being clarified,” Tymoshenko said on Telegram.
The district, located on the left bank of the Dnipro River, is mainly a residential area and the most populous district in the capital.
Ukraine’s regional military command in the east of the country said air defense systems destroyed nine Iranian-made Shahed drones over the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions in the early hours of Monday.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said the Ukraine-Russia war is using an “enormous amount” of munitions, with signs suggesting President Vladimir Putin is looking for “the long haul.”
A Happy New Year message is written in Russian on what appears to be a part of an Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drone fired in Kyiv last night.
Stolenberg said NATO allies should help supply the Kyiv government with the weapons it needs, but they should also maintain their own stockpiles of weapons.
He told BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend: “For artillery, we need an enormous amount of ammunition, we need spare parts, we need maintenance.”
‘This is a great company. We need to increase production, and that is exactly what the NATO allies are doing.
“It is a fundamental responsibility of NATO to ensure that we have the stocks, supplies and weapons to ensure our own deterrence and defense, but also to be able to continue to support Ukraine in the long term.”
Today’s attack comes after missile attacks took place over the New Year weekend in Kyiv and the eastern city of Kherson.
Intensive missile and drone attacks made celebrations impossible in some areas.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his New Year address to the Russians during his visit to the Southern Military District headquarters in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, December 31, 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, standing next to his wife Olena Zelenska, said Ukraine would beat Russia in his New Year’s speech.
In his New Year’s speech, Putin noted that the war, now in its 11th month, will continue.
Footage released by Russian state television showed Putin raising a glass of champagne with soldiers, some with awards pinned to their chests, before telling viewers that “moral and historical rectitude is on our side.”
Putin said this year was marked by “truly crucial and fateful events” that became “the border that lays the foundation for our common future, for our true independence.”
“Today we are fighting for this, protecting our people in our own historical territories, in the new constituent entities of the Russian Federation,” he added, referring to four Ukrainian regions that Russia claimed to have annexed.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Ukrainians would fight until the war was won.
In an emotional New Year’s speech he said: ‘We fought and we will continue to fight. For the sake of the main word: ”victory,” he said in a New Year’s speech even as his country was enduring new Russian attacks.
‘I want to say to all of you: Ukrainians, you are amazing! See what we have done and what we are doing.
‘We fight as one team: the whole country, all our regions. I admire you all. I want to thank every invincible region of Ukraine.
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