Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates: Ukrainian missile strike kills 63 Russian troops

Russian military bloggers, many with hundreds of thousands of followers, said the huge destruction was a result of storing ammunition in the same building as a barracks, despite commanders knowing it was within range of Ukrainian rockets.

Without claiming the strike, Ukraine's military said the death toll from a strike in the town of Makiivka in the Moscow-controlled part of the eastern region of Donetsk was much higher.

Ukrainian missile strike kills 63 Russian troops in eastern Ukraine: Russian defence ministry

PM Modi in contact with leaders of Russia and Ukraine, Jaishankar says in Austria

Russia deployed multiple drones overnight to attack parts of Ukraine and dozens were shot down, Ukrainian officials said Monday, in a series of relentless attacks through the weekend that killed three civilians on New Year's Eve.

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India has repeatedly called on Russia and Ukraine to return to the path of diplomacy and dialogue and end their ongoing conflict. In his bilateral meeting with Russian President Putin in Uzbekistan on September 16, PM Modi said "today's era is not of war" and nudged him to end the conflict.

"We know this is not (an) easily resolvable situation. But it's important that countries who believe (in) ... negotiation, speak up clearly in that regard …," he said, adding that "we're on the side of peace and a large part of the world thinks like us."

"This (Ukraine) conflict is really a matter of very, very deep concern … Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared in September (that) we actually genuinely believe that this is no longer an era of war. You cannot settle differences and issues through violence,” Jaishankar said. "So from the very beginning, our effort has been to urge (Russia and Ukraine to) return to dialogue and diplomacy…The Prime Minister himself has spoken on numerous occasions with President (Vladimir) Putin and President (Volodymyr) Zelensky. I myself talked to my colleagues in Russia and Ukraine,” he said.

Voicing 'very deep' concern over the raging Ukraine conflict, external affairs minister S Jaishankar has said that India is on the side of peace and since the beginning of the hostilities New Delhi's effort has been to bring Moscow and Kyiv to return to dialogue and diplomacy as differences cannot be settled through violence. Jaishankar, who arrived here from Cyprus on the second leg of his two-nation tour, made the remarks on Sunday evening while addressing the members of the Indian diaspora in Austria. (PTI)

Energy infrastructure facilities in the capital were damaged and an explosion occurred in one city district, the mayor said. It wasn’t immediately clear whether that was caused by drones or other munitions. A 19-year-old man was hospitalized with wounds, Klitschko added, and emergency power outages were under way. In the outlying Kyiv region, which was also attacked with drones, a “critical infrastructure object” and residential buildings were hit, governor Oleksiy Kuleba said.

Russia deployed multiple drones overnight to attack parts of Ukraine and dozens were shot down, Ukrainian officials said Monday, in a series of relentless attacks through the weekend that killed three civilians on New Year's Eve. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that 40 exploding drones “headed for Kyiv” overnight, according to air defense forces, and all of them were destroyed. Klitschko said 22 drones were destroyed over Kyiv, three in the outlying Kyiv region and 15 over neighboring provinces. (AP)

As a result of overnight strikes on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, energy infrastructure facilities were damaged, causing power and heating outages, mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Monday. (Reuters)

In a stern New Year's speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin signalled no let-up in his assault on Ukraine, however. By 3 am (0100 GMT), Ukraine's air defence systems destroyed 20 air objects above Kyiv, its military administration said.

Ukrainian forces shot down 45 Iranian-made Shahed drones fired by Russia on the first night of the year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, praising Ukrainians for showing gratitude to the troops and one another. "Drones, missiles, everything else will not help them," he said of the Russians. "Because we stand united. They are united only by fear."

Waves of Russian drones targeted critical infrastructure in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv and surrounding areas on Monday, officials said, as Russia extended its constant bombardment into the second day of 2023. Ukrainians cheered from balconies as their air defences blasted Russian missiles and drones out of the sky in the first hours of the New Year, which Russia ushered in by attacking civilian targets across Ukraine. (Reuters)

Ukraine's regional military command in the country's east said air defence systems destroyed nine Iranian-made Shahed drones over the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions by early hours of Monday

Air raid sirens were announced just before midnight for Kyiv and most of eastern Ukraine, and were still wailing two hours later.

A 19-year-old man was taken to a hospital in Kyiv's Desnianskiy distric after drone debris hit a road there and damaged a building.