As Kyiv's allies deny Putin house attack, Russia slams 'hypocritical' west over Kherson 'massacre'

Russia condemns what it says was a Ukrainian New Year’s Eve drone strike on civilians celebrating in the occupied Kherson village of Khorly, claiming 24 dead and over 50 wounded at a café and hotel, while Ambassador Gennady Gatilov blasts Western “silence” as complicity in the “bloody crimes of neo‑Nazis” and demands UN human rights chief Volker Türk publicly denounce the attack; Kyiv has not confirmed the strike and instead highlights Russia’s own holiday bombardments of Ukrainian cities.