Russia launched 111 drones on Ukraine on Wednesday January 1. At least two people were killed and six others injured in downtown kyiv.
During his wishes for the year 2025, Volodymyr Zelensky declared that Ukraine must fight “on the battlefield”, but also “at the negotiating table” for peace, assuring that 2025 would be “the year of Ukraine. On this first day of 2025, Russia attacked the city center of kyiv, in response to the use of American and British long-range weapons on Russian territory, said BFM TV. Moscow launched a wave of 111 drones on Ukraine, killing two people and injuring six others. Two pregnant women are among the injured, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said on Telegram. One of the victims was killed in the Pechersk district of downtown kyiv, where a fire broke out in a residential building and an administrative building, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. Other people were injured in the Svyatoshin district on the outskirts of kyiv.
“Even on New Year’s Eve, Russia only cares about harming Ukraine,” responded Volodymyr Zelensky. Of the 111 drones sent by Russia, the Ukrainian army claimed to have shot down 63, while 46 were lost and disappeared from radar. Finally, two returned to Russia or Belarus. “Most missed their targets,” assured Volodymyr Zelensky, whose comments were echoed by franceinfo.
Russian gas deliveries via Ukraine have stopped
January 1 also marks the end of deliveries of Russian gas from Ukraine. The five-year contract signed between the two parties at the end of 2019 was not renewed due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico warned that “stopping gas transit through Ukraine will have a drastic impact on all of us in the EU, not just the Russian Federation.” For his part, Radosław Sikorski, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, considered that cutting off Moscow’s capacity to export gas directly to the EU is “a new victory after the enlargement of NATO to Finland and Sweden “.