Critical infrastructure continues to be targeted in latest strikes on Kyiv and western Ukraine
A new airstrike targeted Kyiv at dawn on Monday, after a New Year's Day marked by dozens of Russian strikes that left at least four people dead and 50 injured in the capital and elsewhere in the country.
The attack continued to target critical infrastructure, with Moscow claiming to it was aiming for unmanned aircraft manufacturing facilities.
Kyiv's military issued a warning about the latest attacks just after 01:00 (00:00 CET) on Monday. Russia has been attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure for months, with millions of people losing power throughout Ukraine's sub-zero winter temperatures.
Following the New Year's Eve attacks, one major in the Ukrainian army stated, "The Russian occupiers have fired 16 times with multiple rocket launchers, in particular at the children's hospital in Kherson", a southern city regularly bombarded since it was reclaimed by Ukrainian soldiers in November.
The Russians "are losing. Drones, missiles and everything else will not help them. Because we are together", said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"And they won't take a single year away from Ukraine, they won't take away our independence. We won't give them anything. We respond to every Russian strike... on all our cities and communities," he added.
Russia said that from Saturday to Sunday "a long-range precision airborne attack against Ukrainian defense industry facilities involved in the manufacture of attack drones used to carry out terrorist attacks against Russia".
Moscow often describes Ukrainian military operations on Russian territory or against Russian infrastructure in Ukraine as "terrorist acts".
The Russian army has also declared that it will continue its offensive in the Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine, where most of the
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