31 December Ukrainian air defence forces shot down 12 Russian cruise missiles —- Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi.

Six missiles were shot down in Kyiv region, five more in the Zhytomyr region and one in Khmelnytsky region. 

In total, Russians launched more than 20 air-launched cruise missiles using Tu-95MS strategic bombers from the Caspian Sea and land-based missile systems.

Photo: Fadel Senna | AFP