Russia is demanding the United Nations condemn Kyiv following an alleged drone attack that it claims killed a journalist working for a Russian outlet and injured several others.

Russia launched a New Year's Day drone strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Wednesday, killing two people, wounding at least six others and damaging buildings in two districts, authorities said.

Married couple Ihor Zyma and Olesia Sokur both worked as scientists with the Institute for Biology and Medicine at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. They were killed in a Russian drone strike on Jan.

A Russian Shahed strike drone attack on Kyiv has resulted in debris falling in the city's Holosiivskyi district. — Ukrinform.

In the strikes near Cape Tarkhankut on Crimea’s west coast on Tuesday, a Magura V5 maritime drone equipped with missiles hit a Russian Mi-8 helicopter, Ukraine’s GUR spy agency said. The GUR said it was the first time a Ukrainian naval drone had downed an air target. There was no comment from Russia.

On the afternoon of Friday, January 3, the Russian army once again attacked Ukrainian territory with strike drones. This time, air defense targeted enemy drones in the Kyiv region, according to the Telegram channel of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration.