On the morning of December 29, Russia fired 69 missiles at Ukraine, of which the Air Defense Forces shot down 54. It is currently known that 16 missiles were destroyed over the capital, and another 21 over Odesa.
This was declared by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
"The aggressor launched air- and sea-based cruise missiles, anti-aircraft guided missiles to the S-300 air defense system at the facilities of our countryʼs energy infrastructure," the commander-in-chief noted.
- On the morning of December 29, at 6 a.m., an air alert began throughout Ukraine, which lasted 4 hours and 44 minutes. During this time, several explosions rang out in Kyiv, but as it turned out later, they were fragments of rockets.