Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Blasts heard in Kyiv, around Ukraine in early hours of New Year's Day

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that his only wish for all Ukrainians for 2023 was victory and resolved to stay the course while the country fights for it. "I want to wish all of us one thing - victory. And that's the main thing. One wish for all Ukrainians," Zelenskyy, dressed in his trademark khaki outfit, said in a video message a few minutes before midnight.

The attacks came minutes after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy New Year message of wishes of victory for his country in the war that is in its 11th month, with no end in sight.

Numerous blasts were heard in Kyiv and in other places around Ukraine and air raid sirens wailed across the country in the first couple hours after midnight on New Year's Day. As the sirens wailed, some people in Kyiv shouted from their balconies, "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes!" Reuters witnesses reported. Fragments from a missile destroyed by Ukrainian air defence systems damaged a car in the capital's centre, but preliminarily there were no wounded or casualties, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

Russia carried out its second major round of missile attacks on Ukraine in three days, Ukrainian officials said, with explosions reported throughout the country on New Year's Eve.

People in the centre of Moscow prepared late on Saturday to mark a somewhat muted New Year's Eve without the usual fireworks and celebrations on Red Square, with many saying they wanted peace in 2023.