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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - This photograph taken on December 29, 2023 shows a damaged warehouse after being extinguished by firefighters in the centre of Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia launched drone and missile strikes across Ukraine on December 29, 2023, killing at least 12 people and wounding over 70 in one of the biggest air attacks of the war. — AFP pic
NEW YORK, Dec 30 — A senior UN official condemned Russia yesterday for its “appalling assaults” on Ukraine involving some 158 missiles and drones, which Kyiv blamed for the deaths of at least 30 people.
Schools, a maternity hospital, shopping arcades and blocks of flats were among the buildings hit in the nationwide barrage that also wounded over 160 people, said Ukrainian officials.
“Regrettably, today’s appalling assaults were only the latest in a series of escalating attacks by the Russian Federation,” said UN assistant secretary-general Mohamed Khiari at a UN Security Council meeting.
“The (UN) Secretary-General unequivocally condemns, in the strongest possible terms, today’s appalling attacks on cities and towns across Ukraine.
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“Attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure violate international humanitarian law, are unacceptable and must stop immediately.”
The attacks — which also saw a Russian missile passing through Polish airspace — triggered international condemnation and fresh promises of military support to Ukraine, which has been fighting off invading Russian troops since late February 2022.
“We have recorded a serious incident of violation of the Polish airspace by a Russian missile. The event is under investigation now by the Polish military and competent security services,” said Poland’s ambassador to the UN Krzysztof Szczerski.
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Russia’s ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya blamed the toll on the misuse of Ukraine’s air defence systems, “the use of which has led to the deaths of civilians,” he said.
Nebenzya held up a QR code linking to a video he claimed showed that residential buildings were damaged by Ukrainian air defences.
An American envoy to the Security Council said yesterday's attacks underscore Putin’s goal in the conflict: “He seeks to obliterate Ukraine and subjugate its people.”
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that “Ukraine, along with three dozen UN Member States, requested that the Ecuadorian Presidency convene” the meeting.
Kyiv’s envoy to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya said that the overnight attack “had increased the scale of pain among the people.”
He listed targets as “a maternity ward, educational facilities, a shopping mall, 45 multistory residential buildings, private houses, two churches... and a parking lot.”
“Russian air terror poses a threat not only to Ukraine but to neighbouring countries as well,” he said referring to the claim that a missile entered Polish airspace. — AFP
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