President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine would respond with a blow to the occupiers if Russia shelled Ukrainian cities during the holidays.

“What will Ukraine do if they hit Kyiv? Same as now. Kyiv, Chernihiv, Donbass - all this is the same. All our Ukrainians live there. In Kharkov, Zaporozhye. The answer will be the same in these cities..

They will hit us - they will receive a response, a powerful response,"

Zelensky stressed that the Ukrainian military did not and will not strike civilians in the temporarily occupied territories, in particular, in Crimea.

“As for open attacks: Ukraine does not inflict any strikes on the civilian population, which is located both on the territory of a foreign state and on the territory of Ukraine, although it is temporarily occupied,” he stressed..

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have information about the location of enemy warehouses and military facilities in the temporarily occupied territory, so "