Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky has warned of further Russian attacks in the few remaining days of 2022.
“We must be aware that our enemy will try to make this time dark and difficult for us,” he said in his daily video address on Sunday evening.
He said Russia had lost everything it could lose this year, adding: “But it is trying to compensate for its losses with the cunning of its propagandists, after the missile attacks on our country, on our energy sector.
“I know that darkness will not prevent us from leading the occupiers to their new defeats.
“But we must be prepared for any scenario,” he continued.
Zelensky directed sharp words at the Russian military, which killed at least 16 people and wounded another 64 with artillery attacks in Kherson in the south of the country on Saturday.
“Brutes,” he called them. “We will find every murderer.”
Russia announced in the autumn that it was annexing Kherson before Ukrainian forces retook the city as Russian troops retreated to the other side of the Dnipro River.
