Explosions were heard in the Shevchenkivsky district of central kyiv on Wednesday 14 December morning, according to the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitaly Klitschko. The anti-aircraft defense system shot down ten Iranian-made drones over kyiv and its surroundings, he also assures on Telegram.
Drone debris damaged two administrative buildings in the district, the capital’s military administration reported. No casualties were reported immediately. The governor of the Kyiv region, Oleksi Kouleba, calls on residents to stay sheltered. “The Danger Lingers”, he writes on the same social network, also reports BFMTV. Follow our live.
Eight journalists killed in Ukraine. The NGO Reporters Without Borders deplores in its annual report (PDF) an increase in the number of journalists killed in 2022 (57, compared to 48 in 2021), in particular due to the war in Ukraine. Eight of them died covering the conflict. “Repression has also greatly increased in Russia”notes this report, pointing out that “18 journalists” are currently imprisoned in the country.
One billion euros for Ukraine. The international conference of support for Ukraine, organized Tuesday in Paris, made it possible to garner more than a billion euros in donations to help the population to spend the winter in a country with infrastructures ravaged by the Russian attacks.
The country demands more weapons. “Given the scale of the war (…), we will have to fight all winter”declared on Tuesday the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kouleba, claiming “more air and missile defense systems and ammunition, armored vehicles, mainly tracked”. He also mentioned “a very important need” in “additional guns” 155 caliber mm.