Ukraine and 30 Member States of the United Nations have requested that an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) be convened to address Russia’s recent missile and drone attack.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, who unleashed a full-scale war in Europe, has not changed his objective in Ukraine, so he must be stopped because this poses a threat to the security of all of Europe and raises the risk of the United States being pulled into the war.
Ukraine's defense forces on Friday repelled 29 attacks by the Russian army in the Kupiansk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Marinka, and Zaporizhzhia sectors, as well as nine enemy assaults on the left bank of the Dnipro River.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited a forward command and observation post of the 110th Mechanized Brigade named after Corporal General Marko Bezruchko in Avdiivka and presented awards to Ukrainian soldiers.
The death toll from a Russian missile attack on Kyiv has increased to nine, whereas eight people injured in the strike have been rescued from the rubble of a warehouse in the city's Shevchenkivskyi district.
Ukraine's Ambassador to Austria Vasyl Khymynets called for strong military and financial assistance to Ukraine and the cessation of any business with terrorist Russia after the nighttime Russian air attack on Ukrainian cities.
A number of European politicians, as well as Martin Wijnen, the commander-in-chief of the Dutch army, have called on their governments to prepare for the prospect of repelling Russian aggression.
On December 29, Russia attacked Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Cherkasy, Myrhorod, Starokostiantyniv, and other Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones.