
Ukraine's President Zelensky condemns Russia's 'inhumane' Christmas Day attack | BBC News
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- 25 Dec 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia made a "conscious choice" by launching a major attack on his country's ...
President Zelenskyy has condemned Russia's large-scale missile attacks across Ukraine on Christmas Day as inhumane. He said that Russia had launched over 70 missiles and 100 drones at Ukraine's energy system in what he called a conscious choice to launch the attacks at Christmas. Ukraine's Air Force says it downed 59 of the missiles and more than half of the drones. The mayor of Kharkiv, in the northeast of the country, said at least three people were injured and that civilian infrastructure had been damaged. In In recent months, Russia has been intensifying its attacks on Ukraine's energy system and has accelerated its advance across the east of the country. From Kyiv, our correspondent, Will Vernon, has the latest developments.
Ukrainians woke on this Christmas morning to the sounds of sirens and explosions as Russia launched a huge barrage of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and drones, too, at Ukrainian cities. They were targeting the energy infrastructure. Now, Ukrainian energy providers say that their repair crews were out fixing the damage, but that hourly power outages should be expected across the country, and half a million people in the Kharkiv region in the east were left without power. Now, a little bit earlier, President Zelensky released a statement. He vowed to restore the grid, and he thanked those who protect Ukraine's skies. He said, Russian evil would not break Ukraine and would not spoil Christmas. Look, these attacks happen every day. Ukrainian cities are attacked by drones and missiles all the time. But this was a particularly large scale attack, and of course, it came on Christmas morning.