Can Vladimir Putin appeared open to negotiations to stop the war on Ukrainebut Russian forces appear to have launched more than 40 missile attacks on Christmas Day, according to a statement from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
earlier today, three Russian military personnel killed in wreckage of downed Ukrainian drone while carrying out an attack on the Engels military base in Russia’s Saratov region, Russian news agencies reported, citing the Defense Ministry.
It was the second attack on the base in question this month. The Engels base, which is near the city of Saratov, about 730 kilometers southeast of Moscow and hundreds of kilometers from the front lines in Ukraine, was hit on December 5, and Russia had said that day that Ukrainian drones had attacked two Russian air bases.
Reuters was unable to immediately confirm the information.
The answer to Putin
An adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky said Putin needs to come back to reality and admit that the Russia she is the one who doesn’t want conversations.
“Russia alone attacked Ukraine and killed civilians”councilor Mihailo Podoliak wrote on Twitter. “Russia does not want negotiations, but tries to avoid responsibility.”
Russian attacks on Ukrainian power plants have left millions without electricity, and Zelensky said Moscow aims to make the final days of 2022 dark and difficult.
“Russia lost everything it could lose this year. … I know that the darkness will not prevent us from leading the invaders to new defeats. But we have to be ready for any scenario”the Ukrainian president said in his Christmas Day speech.
Ukraine traditionally celebrates Christmas on January 7, as does Russia.
However, this year some Orthodox Ukrainians decided to celebrate it on December 25, and Ukrainian officials, including Zelensky and the Ukrainian prime minister, sent Christmas wishes yesterday, Sunday.
The battles
The Ukrainian armed forces announced that Russian forces bombed dozens of cities in the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions in the previous 24 hours.
“In the direction of Kherson, the enemy continues to shell populated areas along the right bank of the Dnieper with artillery”they reported.
Ukrainian forces launched attacks against nearly 20 Russian targets, the same img added.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced yesterday, Sunday, that its forces killed around 60 Ukrainian soldiers the previous day along the Kupyansk-Liman contact line and destroyed Ukrainian military equipment.
Reuters was unable to immediately confirm this information.
Asked if the geopolitical conflict with the West is approaching a dangerous point, Putin said yesterday, Sunday: “I don’t think it’s that dangerous.”
Missiles in Belarus
Russian-supplied Iskander tactical missile systems capable of carrying nuclear warheads and S-400 air defense systems have been deployed in Belarus and are operational, a senior Belarusian defense ministry official said on Sunday.
“Weapons of these types are today in combat readiness and are fully ready to perform the task for which they have been developed”the official in question, Leonid Kaczynski, said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app.
It is unclear how many Iskander systems have been deployed in Belarus since Putin said in June that Moscow would equip Minsk and its air defense systems with them.
Source: News Beast
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