Ukraine’s military says it shot down 20 out of 31 drones launched by Russia in overnight attacks. One of the drones struck a market in the Ukrainian town of Nikopol, injuring eight people. That followed a wave of Russian attacks on Christmas Day targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which left hundreds of thousands of people in Kharkiv without power or heat amid freezing winter temperatures. There were also blackouts in the capital Kyiv, where some residents spent Christmas sheltering in underground subway stations.

Nataliia Ziumchenko: “I am scared, because I have a child. Of course I want to be at home and celebrate. We had to shelter, because it’s scary to stay at home, so we came to the shelter. We want peace.”

In the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, one person was killed and 15 others injured on Wednesday when a ballistic missile fired by Russia struck their apartment building. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attacks as “inhuman.”

Meanwhile, the governor of Russia’s North Ossetia region says a woman was killed at a shopping center in the city of Vladikavkaz when falling debris from a Ukrainian drone that was shot down triggered an explosion and fire.