KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s air drive on Monday reported that it shot down two Russian fighter jets through the night time together with two cruise missiles and 28 Shahed-type drones.
The report mentioned the assaults have been geared toward southern and central areas of Ukraine, however that no casualties have been instantly identified. It mentioned that 31 drones have been launched in all, however particulars of what the three that weren’t intercepted might have struck weren’t given.
A abstract from the Ukrainian presidential workplace mentioned that one civilian was killed and at the least 4 wounded in Russian assaults over the earlier 24 hours. The dying occurred within the city of Chornobaivka in the Kherson area, which is partly below Russian management and experiences every day combating.
Ukraine noticed Christmas on Monday, the primary time the nation has formally marked the vacation on Dec. 25 reasonably than the Jan. 7 date adopted by some Orthodox nations, together with Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed laws in July to maneuver the general public vacation’s date.
Ukraine is predominantly Orthodox Christian, however the religion is split between two church buildings, one in every of which had lengthy affiliation with the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which did not acknowledge the authority of the Russian church and had been thought to be schismatic, was granted full recognition in 2018 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Orthodoxy’s prime authority.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which was a department of the Russian church, introduced in 2022 after the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine warfare that it was breaking ties with Moscow and thought of itself autonomous. Nevertheless, its parishes proceed to comply with the identical liturgical calendar because the Russian church and can observe Christmas on Jan. 7.