In Ukraine, no New Year’s truce on the bombing front. The Russian army continued to strike several Ukrainian cities, during the night from Sunday to Monday, but also throughout the first day of the year. Particularly targeted, Lviv, Monday morning, where places of memory of Ukrainian nationalism were destroyed, on a very special day, the birthday of Stepan Bandera.
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With our correspondent in kyiv, Stéphane Siohan
The city of Kharkiv was hit again on New Year’s Eve, a few hours after a missile destroyed the main central hotel in Ukraine’s second city. At least one person was killed overnight in Odessa, while the Ukrainian air force recorded a record number of Shahed suicide drones this Monday, in this case 90, sent by the Russians into the Ukrainian sky.
The other city that was particularly affected was Lviv, the large city in western Ukraine, where the memory of Ukrainian nationalism is particularly preserved.
However, January 1 in Ukraine is not only the New Year, but also the birthday of Stepan Bandera, the leader of the UPA, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, in the 1940s.
This Monday, Shahed drones struck the university where Bandera studied, but also the museum dedicated to Roman Shukhevich, number 2 of the UPA, also a major figure of radical Ukrainian nationalism of the time.
The image of the UPA is heavily burdened, due to its short collaboration with Nazi Germany, and especially the massacres it committed against the Polish populations of Galicia. But the mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovy, a centrist figure, denounced the cynicism of a crime against national memory.
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