Ukrainians were hit by another wave of Russian missile attacks on Saturday as they prepared to celebrate the new year. A hotel appeared to be one of the targets struck. At least 28 people were wounded and one person died in the attack.
According to Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander in chief of Ukraine, 20 cruise missiles were fired from ground-based weapons. The missiles were shot down by the Ukrainian air defense. There was an unknown number in Ukraine. The total is unknown because of an "unspecified number" of the bombs that malfunctioned and crashed in Russia.
There are impact sites in the Ukrainian capital. One missile hit the Alfavito Hotel in the central Pecherskiy District and another hit a parking lot in the middle of a housing estate.
Rescue workers combed through the rubble of the collapsed Alfavito building in search of survivors. Casualties were light because the hotel was mostly empty. The National Palace of Arts was damaged in the blast.
In the western part of the city, the second missile strike site was located. All of the buildings in the housing project were damaged when the bomb hit the center courtyard. Some Ukrainian civilians had already begun patching up their battered homes when the cars in the parking lot were bombarded with shrapnel. Others were packing their bags because the damage was too severe or the trauma too great for a night in their homes.
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Ukrainian technicians were working to recover the remnants of the missile from the large crater, while volunteer groups distributed aid. The mayor said that an elderly man died in the strike.
The targets were so close to the city center that they seemed to be designed to cause physical damage just hours before the holiday. The festivities in Ukraine are likely to be limited by curfew and air raid sirens. Despite the destruction on Saturday, the barrage of 20 missiles was a fraction of the 84 that Russia launched into Ukraine in October.
The Metro system in Kyiv was originally designed to double as a shelter for the homeless. At least eight booms were heard in the center of the city. Newly supplied advanced Western systems such as the German IRIS-T and the American/Norwegian NASAMS were successful in intercepting Ukrainian air defense systems.
As a precautionary measure, the city's power was cut off. There was a sense that the situation could have been much worse. Ukrainian energy workers will do all they can to make sure that Ukrainians have electricity on New Year's Eve.
The majority of the city's districts had power back up a few hours after the strikes. The capital's life support system is functioning normally, according to a statement published on his Telegram channel by former world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko.
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