At least 10 people were killed and 58 others injured Saturday in a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Kherson on Christmas Eve. 74 Russian strikes were carried out in the region, 66 cars burned down in the residential area of ​​the city as a result of the bombing. Volodymyr Zelenskyi condemned the “terrorist attack”. In a message on Saturday, Zelensky said Ukrainians will create their own Christmas miracle, but showed they remain steadfast despite Russian attacks.

08:34The story about the war in Ukraine continues on HotNews.ro. I opened a new LIVE-TEXT article here.

08:10 Russia is ready to restore gas supplies to Europe through the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline.

The Yamal-Europe gas pipeline has not been operational since December 2021, as Poland refused to purchase gas from Russia in favor of using gas stored in Germany. In May, Warsaw terminated the agreement with Russia, having previously rejected Moscow’s request to pay in rubles. Gazprom responded by halting supplies and saying it would no longer be able to export gas through Poland after Moscow imposed sanctions on the company that owns the Polish section of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline.

“This year, we managed to significantly increase LNG supplies to Europe,” said the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, who predicts that Russia will deliver 21 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe in 2022.

07:50VIDEO In Russia, explosions at the Engels Air Base, where strategic bombers are stored / previously the Ukrainians hit it with drones

Synthesis of the day:

• Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has said, accusing Kyiv and its Western allies of “refusing” to negotiate.
• Wagner’s boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, wants to nationalize the oligarchs’ resources in order to sponsor Russia’s military actions.
• Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said Vladimir Putin “needs to come back to reality” after the Russian leader said Moscow was ready for talks. “It is obvious” that Russia “does not want negotiations, but is trying to avoid responsibility,” Podolyak wrote on Twitter. .
• From February 24 to December 25, Russia lost 102,050 military personnel in Ukraine, Ukraine reported.
• Ukrainians donated blood on Sunday after Russian shelling killed 16 people and injured dozens more in Kherson.
• On Christmas Day, Russian troops bombed more than 65 settlements in Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on December 25.
• The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in his Christmas message on Sunday evening that darkness will not prevent Ukrainians from defeating the invaders, but when “Ukrainians are together, (…) we cannot be defeated.”

The most important information about the war in Ukraine – 305th day

23:08Moscow is using the weekend to broadcast anti-European propaganda through an ad aired by the Russia Today (RT) channel, which claims that Europeans have had plenty in 2021 and celebrated in the dark in 2022. , and in 2023 they will be forced to eat their pets, BFMTV reports, News.ro reports.

22:49The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in his Christmas message on Sunday evening that darkness will not prevent Ukrainians from defeating the invaders, but when “Ukrainians are together, (…) we cannot be defeated.”

22:26On Christmas Day, Russian troops bombed more than 65 settlements in Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported on December 25, Kyiv Independent reports.

Russian troops shelled Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region more than 10 times during the day and bombed a total of 25 settlements in the region.

21:47Russia intends to deliver 24 Su-35 fighter jets “very soon” to Iran, whose air force does not have high-quality military aircraft, reports the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS, citing sources in Western intelligence services. Kyiv Independent.

21:40Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the NSDC, called on Ukrainians to stop calling Russians “Orcs” or other fantastic names, and to remember what “Russia and the Russians” really are, Ukrainian Pravda reports.

21:25The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published on Twitter photos of people donating blood in Kherson after yesterday’s terrorist attacks, which killed at least 16 people and injured dozens.

20:33Western accusations that Russia is using Iranian drones in Ukraine will prove the “effectiveness” of the devices, a senior Iranian military official said Sunday, quoted by AFP, Agerpres reported.

20:21From February 24 to December 25, Russia lost 102,050 military personnel in Ukraine, Ukraine reported.

The General Staff of Ukraine reported on December 25 that Russia also lost 3,011 tanks, 6,010 armored vehicles, 1,991 artillery systems, 418 rocket salvo systems, 212 air defense systems, 283 airplanes, 267 helicopters, and 267 helicopters.

20:08 A Russian MiG-31K, capable of carrying Kinzhal missiles, caught fire on December 25 at the Machulyshchi airfield in Belarus, Ukrainian Pravda reports.

19:50On December 25, Russian troops fired three rockets at the industrial zone of the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, but so far there were no casualties, the mayor of the city, Oleksandr Honcharenko, reported, Kyiv Independent reports.

19:00Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said Vladimir Putin “needs to come back to reality” after the Russian leader said Moscow was ready for talks. “It is obvious” that Russia “does not want negotiations, but is trying to avoid responsibility,” Podolyak wrote on Twitter. .

18:41The only church in the village of Kiselyvka, Kherson region, was destroyed by Russian bombings, said Oleksiy Reznikov, Minister of Defense of Ukraine.

16:26According to a survey commissioned by DPA news, 45% of Germans oppose the delivery of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, which are considered the top of the country’s military equipment, despite a clear request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi. agency, reports Agerpres.

16:06Wagner’s boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, wants to nationalize the oligarchs’ resources in order to sponsor Russia’s military actions. The pace of Russian troop advances in the Bakhmut region of eastern Ukraine has likely slowed in recent days, the Institute for the Study of War says, although it is too early to tell whether the Russian offensive to capture the city has reached its peak.

14:49Pope Francis called for “silencing the guns” in Ukraine after a “senseless war” in his traditional Christmas message from the Vatican on Sunday, in which the sovereign pontiff again referred to “the third world war”, the international press reported. agencies

12:09 pmRussia is ready to negotiate with all parties to the conflict in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.

“I believe that we are acting in the right direction, we are protecting our national interests, the interests of our citizens, our people. And we have no other way out than to protect our citizens,” the head of the Kremlin said in an interview with the state. television, quoted by Reuters.

11:10On Sunday morning, air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv and in all regions of Ukraine

10:23 amThe speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament Vyacheslav Volodin said that the State Duma is preparing a law on the introduction of increased taxes for people who have left the country, as has been the case since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. , February 24.

08:43 A brief summary of the previous day

• At least 10 people were killed and 58 others injured in a Russian attack on the newly recaptured Ukrainian city of Kherson on Saturday, hours after Zelenskyi warned of a new wave of Russian attacks over the Christmas period. A pro-Russian official blames Ukrainian troops for the bombings, trying to blame Putin’s army.
• The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov said that the attack in Kherson is another proof that Ukraine needs to provide more defense systems.
• Workers in Russian-occupied Mariupol have begun dismantling a theater in the southern city, which came under a prolonged blockade earlier this year after an airstrike killed hundreds of people.
• Ukraine has said that, according to the latest military estimates, it has killed another 480 Russian soldiers.
• A Ukrainian official called for the destruction of Iran’s drone and missile factories because of their use by Russia in the war. Zelenskyi’s adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said that Iran “grossly undermines the imposition of international sanctions.”
• Russia has purchased 1,700 unmanned Shahed kamikaze drones from Iran, Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, told the New York Times.
• The Netherlands has committed to providing 2.5 billion euros in aid to Ukraine in 2023, with most of the funds going to military aid.
• In one day, Russian troops attacked settlements near the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine with tanks, mortars, guns and rocket artillery.
• Rock band Pink Floyd collected 600 thousand dollars for Ukraine with the song Hey Hey Rise Up.
• Ukrainians will create their own Christmas miracle by showing they remain steadfast despite Russian attacks that have left millions in the dark, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a defiant Christmas Eve address on Saturday.
• The head of a large Russian shipyard, which built submarines capable of launching missiles, died suddenly
• A Ukrainian court sentenced four Russian prisoners of war to 11 years in prison each for war crimes, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported on Saturday.