At least 24 people were killed and more than 50 others injured in a Ukrainian UAV drone strike on a cafe and hotel in in the village of Khorly, Kherson, where crowds of people, including families with children, were celebrating New Year’s Eve, the Governor of Kherson Vladimir Saldo said in a post on Telegram January 1. The attack took place shortly before midnight, after a reconnaissance drone surveyed the area, Saldo said. Immediately after the surveillance, three unmanned aerial vehicles hit the crowded venue, triggering a massive fire that burned through the premises. One of the drones carried an incendiary mixture, reported RT. January1. Once the incendiary mixture hit the crowded venue, it triggered a massive blaze.
The press-service of the governor of Russia’s Kherson Region has published gruesome images of the aftermath, which show twisted steel structures; empty stretches and ruble, where once the buildings stood; and white shrouds that appear to be covering dead bodies. Governor Saldo said the attack in Khorly could only be compared to the May 2014 Odessa massacre, when protesters with Nazi sympathies chased 42 anti-Maidan protesters into the city’s Trade Unions House, before setting the building on fire and burning all of them alive.
