On New Year's Eve, Russia Launched a Massive Attack on Odesa and Lviv With 90 Russian Drones

On New Year's Eve, Russian troops launched a record number of attack drones into Ukraine and attacked Ukraine with S-300, X-31P and X-59 missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Monday. In total, the Russians launched 90 Shahed drones into Ukraine that night, 87 of which were shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

As a result of the drone attack, the Roman Shukhevych Museum in Bilohorshcha was virtually destroyed and the Lviv National University of Environmental Management was severely damaged.

"On New Year's Eve 2024, the enemy used a record number of Shahed attack UAVs. The attack was carried out in waves from four directions: Cape Chauda, Balaklava - Crimea, Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk - Russia," the Ukrainian Air Force Command said in a statement.

A total of 90 Russian Shahed-136/131 drones were spotted flying over Ukraine. The Russian army also struck Kharkiv region with four S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles, three X-31P anti-radar missiles and one X-59 from the TOTs of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, the Ukrainian military added.

Air alerts were declared in most regions of Ukraine along the route of Russian drones. There was also a threat that Russia would use X-47M2 Kinzhal air-defence missiles due to the take-off of Russian MiG-31K fighters.

Air defences were in place in virtually all regions of Ukraine. The air attack was repelled by mobile firing groups of the Defence Forces, fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As a reminder, two days ago, the Russian occupation army fired about 110 missiles at many Ukrainian cities. This was Russia's most massive missile attack on Ukraine since the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022.