The “Christmas truce” declared by Putin has been seized. According to Kyiv, Russia violated it dozens of times
The truce announced by Vladimir Putin for Christmas Eighth today at midnight. How to upload to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia violated its own exit regime more than 50 times.
“A small increase, an enemy causing offensive actions on Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Limansky, and an increase in the tactical position on Kupyansky research. In Novopavlovsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson, the invaders are on the defensive, ”the General Staff said in a statement.
Until midnight, an explosion was detected in Zaporozhye, which is under the control of Kyiv. The fact of the first strike was confirmed by Vladimir Rogov, a representative of the occupation administration of the Zaporozhye region. According to him, they were persecuted and infrastructural objects.
At the end of the “truce”, the Russian army fired on the Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions. So, as a result of the shelling of Merefa, one person was killed, Oleg Sinegubov, appointed head of the regional military administration of the Kharkov region. In addition, explosions were reported in Kherson.
On January 5, after his appointment as Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’ Kirill, Vladimir Putin instructed military military affairs from 12:00 Moscow time on January 6 until the end of the day on January 7, hostilities at the front in Ukraine ceased. He proposes that the Ukrainian side also cease fire for this time.
Official Kyiv called the Kremlin’s action a trick and declared that it would not succumb to it. Western leaders were also skeptical of Moscow’s contagion of one-sided fuel consumption.
So, American President Joe Biden called it an attempt by the Kremlin to “find some oxygen”, and the head of the EU foreign service, Josep Borrell, considered this an attempt in the near future to regroup troops, the chief that the regime of silence should be accompanied by “withdrawal of military equipment from the territory of Ukraine”.
In turn, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, said that the Russian army is watching the regime of the chief, sitting on shelling from the Ukrainian troops.
A source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleg Sinegubov, TASS, “Suspilne Kherson”
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