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Zelensky: 'Russians are scared, and rightly so’

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address on Jan. 1 that "fear has engulfed Russia."

“They are afraid. It feels. And they are rightly worried, because they will lose,” he said. "Drones, missiles, anything else will not help them. Because we are united. And they are united only with fear."

Zelensky added that "the fear that reigns in Russia contrasts with Ukraine, where our sense of unity, authenticity, and life” prevails.

Zelensky said that during the first night of the year, Ukraine down 40 Iranian-made Shahed drones sent by Russia.

Russia attacked multiple Ukrainian cities on the New Year's Eve, causing particular damage in Kyiv, where one person was killed and 20 injured, including a foreign journalist.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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