Cover image: A soldier secures the perimeter of the Alfavito hotel, destroyed by a Russian bombardment, in downtown kyiv, December 31, 2022. Rafael Yaghobzadeh for “the world”
- A series of new Russian bombardments took place on Saturday, affecting in particular the capital kyiv, where it left one dead and around twenty injured.. According to the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, a hotel and a residential area of the capital were targeted while a Japanese journalist was among the injured. Many other regions were on air alert on New Year’s Eve.
- « Moral and historical correctness is on our side. in this conflict, said Vladimir Putin in his wishes for the year 2023. According to the Russian President, the past year has been strong“really decisive and important events” who “lay the foundations (…) for [la] true independence” from Russia, why his country is “beats today”.
- “Ukraine will not forgive” the Russian invasion and bombardments, retorted the Ukrainian president on Saturday, Volodymyr Zelensky, after the new Russian strikes on his country, a few hours before New Year. “No one will forgive you for terror. No one in the world will forgive you.”he wrote in Russian on Telegram.
- France has announced that it will grant asylum to Ukrainian nationals from four regions at the heart of the war unleashed by Russia – Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Zaporizhia. The degree of violence of this conflict justifies, “the granting of international protection” to the people concerned, said the French National Court of Asylum (CNDA) in a press release, without specifying the number for the moment.
- “A new wave of mobilization” will take place in Russia in a week, assured the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksii Reznikov video address posted Friday, December 30. “The borders will also be closed in Belarus”he added, in a speech evoking the coming weeks on the ground of the conflict.
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