Air defense forces shot down 45 Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drones on New Yearʼs Eve.
The Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that 13 drones were destroyed on December 31, 2022, and 32 more in the new year.
These 32 drones attacked Kyiv. They were all shot down. Their debris fell on a playground in the Dnipro district and on a car in the Shevchenkiv district. There are no casualties.
- On December 31, Russian troops launched a missile attack on Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, and Zaporizhzhia regions. They hit exclusively on civilian objects. The Air Defense Forces managed to shoot down 12 of more than 20 missiles. More than 20 people were injured, one person died.