Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday 30 December, wanting to strengthen military cooperation with China, during a meeting by videoconference with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, praising the resistance of Moscow and Beijing to the “pressures” Western. Follow our live.
kyiv says it repelled a drone attack. “During the night of December 29-30, the enemy attacked Ukraine with Iranian-made suicide drones”, according to a statement from the Ukrainian Air Force posted on social networks. A total of sixteen drones were fired from the southeast and north and “all” were destroyed by Ukrainian air defense, the statement said.
“Power cuts in most regions of Ukraine”. This is what President Volodymyr Zelensky lamented Thursday evening in his daily address. The situation is “particularly difficult” in the kyiv region and in the capital itself, in that of Lviv, in Transcarpathia and in Vinnytsia (west) as well as in Odessa, Kherson and its surroundings (south), he specified. “With each of these missile attacks, Russia is only sinking deeper into a stalemate.he judged. They have fewer and fewer missiles.”
Belarus claims to have shot down an anti-aircraft missile from Ukraine. In this context of bombardments and the activation of Ukrainian anti-aircraft defence, Belarus, Moscow’s closest ally, assured that it had shot down over its territory an S300 anti-aircraft defense missile from “of Ukrainian territory”. The country summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to protest and demand an investigation.