Ukraine missile strike on Russian-held city kills 89 troops; Wagner counts costs in Bakhmut and new year on the frontline
Commenting on the attack, Lt Gen Sergei Sevryukov said in a video statement that a commission was working to investigate the circumstances of what had happened.
The Kremlin said Putin had ordered his defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, to introduce a temporary ceasefire along the entire line of contact inMany Orthodox Christians, including those living in Russia and Ukraine, celebrate Christmas on 6-7 January. Since the war began, some Ukrainians have chosen to celebrate Christmas according to the Gregorian calendar – use by most in the west – rather than the Julian calendar still used by the Russian Orthodox church.
The head of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said his fighters have sometimes spent weeks attempting to capture a single house in the contested Donbas city of Bakhmut, in the latest evidence of how far the Kremlin’s efforts there have stalled,In a grim video released over new year, Prigozhin – a key ally of Putin – was filmed visiting a, many of them convicts, who had been killed during the bitter fighting for the city, a key Russian objective since the summer.
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