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"Unfortunately, to our great grief, the number of those who have died in result of yesterday's strike at Belgorod has increased," said Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of the Belgorod region of which Belgorod city is the administrative centre. The Belgorod region, which adjoins northern Ukraine, has like other Russian border zones suffered shelling and drone attacks all year that authorities have blamed on Ukraine, although none have previously been on such a scale.

Russia faced strong criticism during the UN Security Council session on Dec. 29 following the largest air attack against Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war.

The United States has accused Russia of deliberately distracting the UN Security Council with the topic of Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, which took place a decade ago, while Moscow was preparing its largest-ever air attack on Ukrainian cities.

The latest reports push the total death toll of the Dec. 29 attack to 39 people: 16 in Kyiv, nine in Zaporizhzhia, six in Dnipro, four in Odesa, three in Kharkiv, one in Lviv.

Russian forces attacked Dnipropetrovsk Oblast with artillery, drones, and a cruise missile, injuring a 65-year-old woman, regional governor Serhii Lysak reported on Dec. 30.

"For every Shahed drone, for every Russian missile, there will be a fair responsibility of the terrorist state, both political and very practical," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening video address on Dec. 30.

Russian forces attacked downtown Kharkiv on Dec. 30, injuring 16 people, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported.

The death toll of Russia's Dec. 29 air attack on Ukraine has increased to 41 as another body was recovered from the rubble in Kyiv.

Western leaders condemned Russia's Dec. 29 mass attack on Ukraine that killed at least 30 people and wounded over 160 as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the world to react to Russia's "latest act of terror."

The Russians used 158 means of air attack during a large-scale missile attack on Ukraine, including missiles of various types and attack UAVs, with 27 Shahed drones and 87 cruise missiles downed. Source: Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on Telegram Quote from Zaluzhnyi: "Preliminary reports indicate that last night the enemy used 158 means of air attack against Ukraine: missiles of various types and attack UAVs.