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Zelensky says Happy New Year! Two dozen killed in targeted Ukrainian strike on Russian New Year’s celebration

photo via Bloomberg Moscow slams Western silence over New Year’s Eve massacre of civilians
Three unmanned aerial vehicles then hit the crowded venue, triggering a massive fire that burned the party goers alive, ripping through the premises. One of the drones reportedly carried an incendiary mixture.
The drone attack in the largely ethnic Russian Kherson Region has left scores of others seriously wounded, Vladimir Saldo has said..

READ MORE: GRAPHIC PHOTOS show aftermath of Ukrainian attack on Russian New Year’s party © Press service of Kherson Region
At least 24 people were killed and more than 50 injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on a café and a hotel during New Year’s Eve celebrations in the Black Sea coastal village of Khorly, the governor of Russia’s Kherson Region has said.
Graphic photos from the scene showed total destruction and the subsequent fire, with heavily burnt bodies scattered throughout the rubble.
The attack took place shortly before midnight after a reconnaissance drone surveyed the area, Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo said in a post on Telegram on Thursday.

Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo (right) has been sentenced to 15 years jail by Ukraine for treason, in absentia.
A child was among those killed, Saldo said. The medics are currently fighting for the lives of the wounded, he added.
The governor said that the attack can only be compared to the May 2014 Odessa massacre. At the time, Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who had supported the then-recent Western-backed coup in Kiev chased 42 anti-government protesters into the city’s Trade Unions House before setting the building on fire and burning all of them alive.

A view of a Vampire drone used by Ukraine’s 59th Brigade during tests
“This is what the ‘peace’ that Zelensky claims to strive for looks like,” he wrote.
Kherson Region, together with Zaporozhye Region and the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, joined Russia in the fall of 2022 as a result of local referendums.

Ukrainian drones target Moscow during Putin’s New Year address – mayor
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said earlier that at least nine Ukrainian drones targeting the Russian capital had been shot down overnight. The mayor reported the first interception at 11:55pm local time just as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s traditional New Year’s address began.
The latest drone raids follow a failed attack by 91 Ukraine drones on Putin’s residence in Novgorod Region on December 28-29, which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has condemned as an act of “state terrorism.”
The Kremlin noted that the raid was aimed not only against the Russian leader, but also “against [US] President [Donald] Trump’s efforts to facilitate a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict.”

Khorly village Attack: In a recent event on New Year’s Eve (December 31, 2025), a Ukrainian drone attack struck a cafe and a hotel in the village where people were celebrating. Local authorities reported that at least 24 people were killed and more than 50 injured.

“Khorly: a quiet, family-friendly resort known for its shallow, warm sea, sandy beaches, and therapeutic muds. The location is relatively unknown to many tourists which is why there is no big influx and contributes to a tranquil vacation…”

Five-year-old boy killed in Ukrainian drone attack – governor 1st Jan 2026
Five-year-old boy killed in Ukrainian drone attack –
The incident comes in the aftermath of a deadly attack on a cafe in Kherson Region that left two dozen dead, Vladimir Saldo has said

FILE PHOTO. © Sputnik / Yevgeny Sukhorukov
A five-year-old boy has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on his family’s car in Russia’s Kherson Region, Governor Vladimir Saldo has said…..
The boy, his mother and her parents were traveling in their car when it was hit by a kamikaze UAV outside the village of Tarasovka, Saldo relayed. The child was killed on the spot, while the adults sustained multiple shrapnel wounds, the governor stated.
“The Kiev bastards have committed yet another bloody crime,” Saldo wrote on his Telegram channel.
The incident comes less than a day after the New Year’s Eve attack on a crowded café and hotel in the Black Sea coastal village of Khorly in the south of the region. The strike caused a major fire which left at least 24 people dead and over 50 others wounded. It involved several kamikaze drones, one of which carried incendiary weaponry…..
The region has become a prime target for indiscriminate Ukrainian attacks. Kiev’s forces have been routinely targeting civilian sites with artillery and missile fire, as well as launching kamikaze drone strikes, hunting down civilian vehicles and first responders.
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