By Dan Peleschuk and Olena Harmash
KYIV&nbsp;(Reuters) -&nbsp;Russia&nbsp;fired&nbsp;more&nbsp;than&nbsp;20&nbsp;cruise&nbsp;missiles&nbsp;at&nbsp;targets&nbsp;in&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;on&nbsp;Saturday,&nbsp;killing&nbsp;at&nbsp;least&nbsp;one&nbsp;person&nbsp;in&nbsp;Kyiv, in&nbsp;attacks&nbsp;President&nbsp;Volodymyr&nbsp;Zelenskiy&nbsp;said&nbsp;showed&nbsp;Moscow&nbsp;was in&nbsp;league&nbsp;with the&nbsp;devil.
The second barrage of major&nbsp;Russian missile&nbsp;attacks&nbsp;in three days badly damaged a&nbsp;Kyiv&nbsp;hotel and a residential building. Energy Minister German Galushchenko on Facebook&nbsp;said&nbsp;the strikes had not caused serious damage to the national power system.
Russia&nbsp;has been attacking vital&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;infrastructure since October with barrages of missile and drones, causing sweeping power blackouts as the cold weather bites.
Zelenskiy&nbsp;speaking in a video address noted that&nbsp;Russia&nbsp;had also launched&nbsp;attacks&nbsp;at Easter and Christmas.
"They call themselves Christians ... but they are for the&nbsp;devil.&nbsp;They are for him and with him," he&nbsp;said.
At&nbsp;least&nbsp;a dozen people were injured in the&nbsp;attacks. A Japanese journalist was among the wounded and taken to a hospital,&nbsp;Kyiv&nbsp;mayor Vitali Klitschko&nbsp;said.
DTEK, the country's largest private energy company, later&nbsp;said&nbsp;it had cancelled emergency power outages in&nbsp;Kyiv&nbsp;and the surrounding region.
Zelenskiy&nbsp;in comments addressed to&nbsp;Russian speakers&nbsp;said&nbsp;President&nbsp;Vladimir Putin was destroying&nbsp;Russia's future.
"No&nbsp;one&nbsp;will forgive you for terror. No&nbsp;one&nbsp;in the world will forgive you for this.&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;will not forgive," he&nbsp;said, reiterating calls for allies to supply&nbsp;more&nbsp;anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems.
Army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi&nbsp;said&nbsp;air defences shot down 12 incoming&nbsp;cruise&nbsp;missiles, including six around the&nbsp;Kyiv&nbsp;region, five in the Zhytomyrskiy region and&nbsp;one&nbsp;in the Khmeltnytskiy region.
The&nbsp;cruise&nbsp;missiles&nbsp;had been launched from strategic bombers over the Caspian Sea hundreds of miles away and from land-based launchers, he&nbsp;said&nbsp;on Telegram.
"Russia's mass missile attack is deliberately targeting residential areas, not even our energy infrastructure," Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter after the attack.
"War criminal Putin 'celebrates' New Year by&nbsp;killing&nbsp;people," Kuleba&nbsp;said, calling for&nbsp;Russia&nbsp;to be deprived of its permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets described the attack as "Terror on New Year's Eve."
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Other cities across&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;also came under fire. In the southern region of Mykolaiv, local governor Vitaliy Kim on television&nbsp;said&nbsp;that six people had been wounded.
Kim in a separate post on Telegram&nbsp;said&nbsp;Russia&nbsp;had targeted civilians with the strikes, something&nbsp;Moscow&nbsp;has previously denied.
"According to today's tendencies, the occupiers are striking not just critical (infrastructure) ... in many cities (they are targeting) simply residential areas, hotels, garages, roads."
In the western city of Khmelnytskyi, two people were wounded in a drone&nbsp;attack, Ukrainian&nbsp;presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko&nbsp;said. He also reported a strike in the southern industrial city of Zaporizhzhia, which Tymoshenko&nbsp;said&nbsp;had damaged residential buildings.
Ukraine's defence ministry responded on Telegram by saying: "With each new missile attack on civilian infrastructure,&nbsp;more&nbsp;and&nbsp;more&nbsp;Ukrainians are convinced of the need to fight until the complete collapse of Putin's regime."
Curfews ranging from 7 p.m. to midnight remained in place across&nbsp;Ukraine, making celebrations for the start of&nbsp;2023 impossible in public spaces.
Several regional governors posted messages on social media warning residents not to break restrictions on New Year's Eve.
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(Additional reporting by Pavel Polityuk and David Ljunggren; Writing by Max Hunder and Tom Balmforth; Editing by Hugh Lawson, David Holmes and Mark Porter)

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