Explosions could be heard in the city, air defenses engaging
\n KYIV
\nRussia carried out its second major round of missile attacks on Ukraine in three days on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said, with explosions reported throughout the country on New Year\u2019s Eve.
\nKyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least one person had been killed and eight wounded after a series of explosions in the capital. Reuters correspondents reported hearing 10 loud blasts in the city.
\nThe mayor said one of those wounded by the blasts was a Japanese journalist who had been taken to hospital.
\nA hotel just south of Kyiv\u2019s city center was hit and a residential building in another district was damaged, according to the city administration.
\nThe governor of the surrounding Kyiv region, Oleksiy Kuleba, had warned shortly beforehand of a possible incoming missile attack, and said air defenses in the region were engaging targets.
\n\u201cThe terrorist country launched several waves of missiles. They are wishing us a happy New Year. But we will persevere,\u201d Kuleba wrote on Telegram in a separate post after explosions shook the capital.
\nOther cities across Ukraine also came under fire. In the southern region of Mykolaiv, local governor Vitaliy Kim said on television that six people had been wounded.
\nIn a separate post on Telegram, Kim said Russia had targeted civilians with the strikes, something Moscow has previously denied.
\n\u201cAccording to today\u2019s tendencies, the occupiers are striking not just critical… in many cities [they are targeting] simply residential areas, hotels, garages, roads.\u201d
\nIn the western city of Khmelnytskyi, two people were wounded in a drone attack, Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko said.
\nThe official also reported a strike in the southern industrial powerhouse city of Zaporizhzhia, which Tymoshenko said had damaged residential buildings.
\nUkraine\u2019s defense ministry responded with a defiant message posted on Telegram.
\n\u201cWith each new missile attack on civilian infrastructure, more and more Ukrainians are convinced of the need to fight until the complete collapse of Putin\u2019s regime,\u201d it wrote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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