New year drone strike kills 24 in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Moscow says

Ukraine has not commented on attack on cafe and hotel that comes despite ‘productive’ ongoing peace talksA Ukrainian drone strike killed 24 people and injured at least 50 more as they celebrated the New Year in a Russian-occupied village in Ukraine’s Kherson region, Russian officials said, as tensions between the two nations continue to spike despite diplomats hailing productive peace talks.Three drones struck a cafe and hotel in the resort town of Khorly on the Black Sea coast, the region’s Moscow-installed leader, Vladimir Saldo, said in a statement on Telegram on Thursday. He said that one of the drones carried an incendiary mixture, sparking a blaze. Continue reading...