Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda and Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on Friday condemned the large-scale Russian airstrike on Ukraine.
Nausėda called the attack “a reminder by the terrorist Russia that there‘s no limit to its brutality and thirst for blood“.
Landsbergis, meanwhile, condemned Friday’s airstrikes on Ukraine as “yet another Russian terrorist attack”.
“I see no ‘quiet signals’ that Russia wants ‘peace’,” Landsbergis wrote on X. “I see only collapsed shopping malls, burning homes and smashed maternity hospitals, the results of yet another Russian terrorist attack.”
“We should now be sending loud signals that these crimes will not be allowed to continue,” he added.
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia fired 36 Shahed-type drones, at least 98 cruise missiles, at least 14 surface-to-air guided missiles, fine Kinzhal missiles, and five other missiles of another type on Friday.
Ukraine said 114 out of 158 air targets had been destroyed in the massive attack.
At least 20 people were killed and over a hundred others were injured in various Ukrainian cities on Friday due to the airstrikes.
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “today, Russia hit us with almost everything it has in its arsenal”.
He said civilian targets, such as maternity homes, schools, shopping centres, high-rise buildings, private homes, commercial warehouses, and car parks had been hit in the barrage.
A maternity ward, educational facilities, a shopping mall, multi-story residential buildings and private homes, a commercial storage, and a parking lot. Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and other cities.
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) December 29, 2023
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