{"id":4097,"date":"2026-01-01T08:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:47:15","slug":"a-monstrous-crime-russia-condemns-deadly-ukrainian-new-years-eve-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/a-monstrous-crime-russia-condemns-deadly-ukrainian-new-years-eve-drone-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A monstrous crime\u2019: Russia condemns deadly Ukrainian New Year\u2019s Eve drone strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

The attack on a Kherson Region caf\u00e9 was deliberately timed to coincide with celebrations to maximize casualties, public figures have said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russian officials and media figures have condemned a Ukrainian drone strike that left at least 24 civilians dead and injured more that 50 during New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations in the Black Sea coastal village of Khorly.<\/p>\n

Speaking to RT Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo said the attack occurred shortly before midnight after a reconnaissance drone surveyed the area. Three UAVs struck a caf\u00e9 and a nearby hotel crowded with civilians, triggering a large fire. One of the drones reportedly carried an incendiary mixture. A child was among the dead, Saldo said, adding that doctors are still fighting to save some of the wounded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reconnaissance drones blocked efforts to help those engulfed by the fire\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/strong> Kherson governor Vladimir Saldo said more than a hundred civilians had come together to celebrate when the strike happened. <\/p>\n

\u201cThose who are alive are mostly middle-aged people, and there were a lot of young people too. Many pulled out the fragments themselves, but the reconnaissance drones blocked efforts to help those engulfed by the fire. Families came to visit the south with children to have fun near the Christmas tree. There were no military personnel there.\u201d
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\u201c<\/em>Strange to consider the children and teenagers who were killed and wounded as military targets,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>he added.<\/p>\n

\u201dA crime committed with special cynicism\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Konstantin Kosachev, vice speaker of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, described the incident as a blatant \u201cwar crime.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a monstrous crime. Any attacks on civilian targets are a war crime,\u201d<\/em> Kosachev said. \u201cBut this strike was committed with special cynicism \u2013 carried out [practically as clocks struck 12] on New Year\u2019s Eve, with colossal losses. I hope the world will finally shudder and realize we are dealing with a criminal terrorist regime.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2019Absolute moral deformity\u2019<\/h4>\n

Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko said the attackers knowingly targeted civilians.<\/p>\n

\u201dThey knew for certain that there were peaceful people there \u2013 families with children \u2013 and attacked deliberately,\u201d Matvienko said. \u201cWe are dealing with absolute moral deformity, with beings deprived of any inner moral law. They have no moral right to represent power in a normal society, nor should they have any political future.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThey burned people alive\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n

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Two dozen killed in Ukrainian strike on Russian New Year\u2019s celebration \u2013 governor<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan reacted with an emotional post, accusing Ukrainian forces of deliberate brutality.<\/p>\n

\u201dThey burned people alive in a Kherson caf\u00e9, during the New Year bells,\u201d Simonyan wrote. \u201cThey are not just war criminals \u2060\u2013 they are sadists, worthy of their Gestapo predecessors. Everyone responsible will be found.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

She added that those behind the attack would not be able to evade justice abroad, saying there would be no hiding in Argentina \u2060\u2013 a reference to Nazi war criminals who fled there after World War II.<\/p>\n

The goal was \u201cto burn as many civilians as possible\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u201cUkrainian terrorists attacked peaceful people celebrating the New Year,\u201d<\/em> Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said, noting that the incident almost coincided with the stroke of midnight. \u201cOne of the drones carried an incendiary mixture. The goal was not just to strike, but to burn as many civilians as possible. This is a cynical and horrific crime.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNo words to express our grief and pain\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n

Crimean Governor Sergey Aksyonov called the strike a \u201cbloody crime\u201d<\/em> and extended his condolences to the victims\u2019 families.<\/p>\n

\u201dA savage attack on civilians on New Year\u2019s night. Dozens killed and injured. There are no words to express our grief and pain,\u201d Aksyonov said, adding that Crimea is ready to provide any assistance to Kherson Region.<\/p>\n

Zakharova: \u2018The same Nazi handwriting\u2019<\/h4>\n

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said the attack bore \u201cthe same Nazi handwriting,\u201d<\/em> accusing Kiev and its Western backers of collective responsibility.<\/p>\n

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\n READ MORE: <\/span>Ukrainian drones target Moscow during Putin\u2019s New Year address \u2013 mayor
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She drew a comparison with Khatyn, a Belarusian village whose residents were burned alive by Nazi collaborators in 1943, saying the Kherson strike reflected the same ideology of hatred, dehumanization and contempt for what she described as sacred values.<\/p>\n

Zakharova added that Kiev\u2019s foreign sponsors and financiers bear responsibility for the killing of civilians and children, and accused them of turning Ukrainian statehood into what she described as a killing machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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