In the first hours of 2026, during the New Year celebrations the Kiev regime committed yet another terrorist act against civilians in Russia’s regions.
For more than 70 residents the New Year became a tragedy: the Neo-Nazis attacked a café and a hotel in the Kherson region of Russia using UAVs.
24 people were killed (28 dead, including 2 children as of January 2), over 50 were wounded and have been hospitalised. Among those affected — six kids from the age of 6 to 17, one child was killed.
There is literally zero doubt that the attack was preplanned as the drones were directed to a place where civilians celebrated the New Year.
First photos of this heinous war crime were published by the media on-site.
Source: Russian MFA
Three Ukrainian drones hit a cafe and a hotel on the Black Sea coast in the Kherson region. The attack was carried with the help of a reconnaissance drone and took place almost at the stroke of midnight, as people were celebrating. A massive fire broke out, contributing to more deaths.
28 people were killed, more than 50 were injured.
One of the drones carried an incendiary mixture, which started the massive fire burning people alive. There’s a child among the victims.
This crime is essentially on a par with the Odessa House of Trade Unions.
Source: РИА Новости via Putinger’s Cat
⚡️ Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik:
💬 In the very first minutes of the New Year, the Kiev regime stained it with blood, leaving dozens of civilians killed and wounded in Russia’s Kherson Region.
The New Year address of the Ukrainian dictator was broadcast at the very moment when dozens of peaceful residents were dying as a result of a strike carried out on his direct orders.
A drone attack targeting a location crowded with civilians in the Kherson Region amounts to a deliberate act of terrorism, which continues the ongoing pattern of inhumane killings by Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
The massive drone strike carried out by Ukrainian militants on New Year’s night against a purely civilian site, crowded with peaceful residents, clearly demonstrates their irreconcilable hostility to any prospect of ending the bloodshed through political and diplomatic means.
The deaths of civilians and the continuing bloodshed are a price the Zelensky regime pays without hesitation to cling to power, shield its corrupt inner circle, and meet the demands of its European patrons – for whom even the prospect of ending the bloodshed in Ukraine is unacceptable.
This barbaric act must receive the harshest legal and political assessment from all countries for which the very notion of international humanitarian law is not an empty phrase. Russian diplomats will raise this issue at all key international platforms.
The killing of dozens of civilians by Ukrainian militants cannot and must not go unpunished.
As of now, 24 civilians have been killed and 50 wounded. Among the injured are six children aged 6 to 17.
#KievRegimeCrimes
Source: Russian MFA
«You won’t get away, you bastards!»
«You won’t get away, you bastards!» Poster by Dmitry Moor, first published in “Красноармеец” (“Red Army Soldier”) issue #7 in 1944.
«We accuse all those who sponsor terrorist scumbags in Ukraine! We accuse them of killing children and destroying civilians!» – Maria Zaharova
At night on Bankova Street, people were celebrating New Year’s Eve with aplomb: the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a cafe in the Kherson region, 24 people were killed and more than 50 injured, five children were hospitalised.
So, the collaborators from Western Ukraine burned people in the Belarusian village of Khatyn. They rounded up people into barns and set them on fire. And whoever tried to escape was shot. The difference is that then, more than 82 years ago, the Nazis did not hide behind the protection of children and loyalty to democracy. They simply burned people and finished them off with rifle butts, buried them alive and stabbed those who were still breathing.
Today, we see this beastly behaviour carried out by the Kiev regime. The same neo-Nazi hatred, the same dehumanisation on a geometric scale, the same mockery of the sacred.
Today, on the morning table with croissants and poached eggs, presidents and prime ministers of Western countries should receive reports on how billions of dollars and euros of their taxpayers’ money were spent, how many New Year’s gifts were bought with it to kill civilians, and how they participated in the destruction of children.
We accuse all those who sponsor terrorist scumbags in Ukraine! We accuse them of killing children and destroying civilians! We accuse them of corrupting Ukrainian statehood, which has turned into a killing machine! We accuse them!
Source: Beorn And The Shieldmaiden
‘They are not just war criminals, they are sadists worthy of their spiritual forebears — the Gestapo’
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan on Ukraine’s attack on civilians in Kherson under the New Year’s chimes
‘Every single one will be caught. Caught, eliminated, and gutted’
Source: Beorn And The Shieldmaiden
‘Banderite BASTARDS should be SLAUGHTERED like sick pigs’
— former Russian prez Medvedev stresses REVENGE is ‘IMMINENT’ for Ukraine’s Kherson civilian massacre
‘ENOUGH with the niceties’
🦇 At times like this, one really wants to take a leaf out of the American-British playbook and carpet bomb the whole of Ukraine (not to mention Washington itself, London & Co, the whole damned lot), but then one takes a deep breath, remembers that there are millions of people in Ukraine held hostage by the Nazi regime, and that one must NOT become that what one is fighting against!
Source: Beorn And The Shieldmaiden
⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement on the terrorist attack by the Kiev regime targeting civilians in the Kherson Region of the Russian Federation
In the early hours of January 1, 2026, the criminal neo-Nazi Kiev regime carried out a targeted attack using armed UAVs which took aim at a café and a hotel in Khorly, Kherson Region. Local residents were celebrating the New Year’s Eve there with their families. While the exact number of those who were killed and injured in these strikes and during the fire that they caused has yet to be established, it is already clear that several dozen civilians suffered in this attack, of whom 24 people died, including one minor.
Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal file on terrorist charges. Everyone who took part in this monstrous and bloody crime will be identified and would not be able to evade justice.
By perpetrating this barbarous atrocity, the Kiev regime has once again demonstrated its human-hating neo-Nazi nature. The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked civilians with their drones hot on the heels of Zelensky perorations, as repeated during his New Year speech, on Kiev’s commitment to peace. We have long grown accustomed to this cynical posture, which transcends all possible boundaries and demonstrates that he has totally lost his moral bearings.
The Kiev usurper decided to target helpless civilians in his impotent range, against the backdrop of the successful advancement of the Russian Armed Forces and the losses suffered by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as the failed attempt by the Ukrainian terrorists to carry out a strike against the President of the Russian Federation’s state residence in the Novgorod Region in the early hours of December 29, 2025. He is ready to kill women and children and to perpetrate crimes similar to what happened at the Trade Union House in Odessa for the sake of holding on to power and in an effort to intimidate people from the regions which have recently reunified with Russia by linking their destinies to it forever by holding referendums.
As for the attempts by the Kiev regime to target the Presidential residence in the Novgorod Region, these was a special technical review of a block from the navigation system of one of the Ukrainian drones which were downed in the Novgorod Region’s air space in the early hours of December 29, 2025. Members of the Russian special services have succeeded in extracting the file with the mission description, and these materials will be forwarded to the United States using the appropriate channels.
Every day, the Russian Defence Ministry’s air defence systems deflect drone attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against the regions of Russia, including its capital – there were about 10 attacks of this kind today.
❗️These attempts are designed to distract people in order to leave the frontline failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unnoticed. The Kiev regime has been trying, in vain, to prove its viability using terrorist attacks.
It is just as obvious that Office of the President of Ukraine on Bankovaya Street has been intentionally seeking to derail any attempts to find peaceful solutions.
This latest criminal strike against civilians in Khorly is a bloody atrocity by the Kiev clique. Western leaders who continue sponsoring the bankrupt regime with money and weapons bear full responsibility for this crime.
The Foreign Ministry firmly condemns all the terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime.
◼️ We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends on the victims and wish the injured speedy recovery.
The Foreign Ministry calls on the governments of the responsible sovereign countries and the relevant international structures to publicly express their resolute condemnation of the bloody terrorist attack by the Kiev regime in the Kherson Region.
☝️ Ignoring this tragedy would amount to only one thing – openly encouraging neo-Banderite terrorist crimes and acting as accomplices, which will be interpreted in legal terms with the corresponding legal consequences.
Source: Russian MFA
Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva, Ambassador Gennady Gatilov
🤐 While an increasing number of states condemn the Kiev regime’s terrorist attack using a barrage of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on the state residence of the President of the Russian Federation in the Novgorod Region, a stubborn silence of the UN human rights system, led by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mr. Türk, is puzzling. We regard such a behaviour as another confirmation of Mr. Türk’s political bias and unwillingness to provide a principled assessment of Kiev’s criminal actions.
❓Mr. Türk, will you still refer to the lack of information and unconfirmed evidence in this case?
❗️We await your appropriate response as well as an assessment from respective special procedures of the HRC. After all, its abscence would amount to silent cover up of yet another crime committed by the Kiev clique, which has shifted to a policy of state terrorism.
Source: Russian Mission to Geneva