Kremlin rejects Zelenskiy call for troop withdrawals, saying Ukraine must accept Russia’s territorial gains, as Canada reinstates Nord Stream sanctions
A street decorated with Christmas lights in Lviv, Ukraine. Russia has said a Christmas ceasefire in its war is ‘not on the agenda’.A street decorated with Christmas lights in Lviv, Ukraine. Russia has said a Christmas ceasefire in its war is ‘not on the agenda’.Moscow has said no “Christmas ceasefire” was on the cards after nearly 10 months of war in“There is no calm on the frontline,” the Ukrainian president,, said in his regular evening video address on Wednesday.
“Just given what we’re seeing in the air and on the ground in Ukraine, it’s difficult to conclude that this war will be over by year’s end,” Kirby said in response to a question about the prospects for a negotiated peace with the Russian president,. “So there is active fighting going on right now. We would expect that that will continue for some time going forward.”
“Putin has been forced to show that his intention was never to return Nord Stream 1 to full operation, and that the pipeline itself has been rendered inoperable,” Canada’s foreign minister, Mélanie Joly, and natural resources minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, said in a joint statement. The latest exchange of dozens of detainees included a US citizen, Kyiv and Washington said on Wednesday.The head of Ukraine’s presidential administration, Andriy Yermak, identified the American as Suedi Murekezi, who he said had been “helping our people” before ending up in Russian custody. The Washington Post reported Murekezi was a US air force veteran born in Uganda.
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