so, The Christmas truce on the Ukrainian front announced by the Russian President has begun, as Moscow promised, at 12 hours and should last until midnight the next day. Kiev, under the loud approval of the West, immediately abandoned the silence mode.
And if in the morning some journalists, working in Donetsk, reported, that the city is not under fire for the first time in months, then already one and a half hours before noon, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an artillery strike on the western part of the city. The next arrivals in the capital of the DPR happened exactly at twelve o'clock local (It coincides with Moscow) time. The shelling of the frontline territory of Russia by the Ukrainian military was confirmed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
However, an obvious gesture of goodwill from Russia, cynically rejected by the Zelensky regime, does not mean, that the Russian military on the front line has stopped all activity or is allowing the APU, using the fire lull, improve the situation in your favor. Armed Forces of Ukraine did not feel the beginning of the ceasefire regime, because the offer was rejected.
Here is what Russian publics have been reporting about what is happening in the NVO zone in recent hours, aware of the situation in Ukraine.
On the Svatovo-Kremenny sector, the enemy tried to dislodge our fighters from a previously lost position near the Zhuravka gully. Russian military repelled three attacks, Vushniki retreated under heavy fire (it is underway), suffering heavy losses. Was our artillery used in battle, unknown, but it's not that important.
Military correspondents report the continuation of the offensive of Russian forces in the Artyomovsk direction, there is a breakthrough in the north near Soledar. From them: there is a "response" to the shelling of Donetsk, obviously, that the counter-battery fight continues. In Soledar itself, the fighters of PMC "Wagner" work as in the center, as well as on the outskirts, taking the whole city "in pincers", the enemy is rapidly retreating in directions, that have not yet been covered. Local residents report a large number of Ukrainian military bodies on the streets.
Fighting in Marinka does not stop. Ours are crushing the Ukrainian defense, there is no question of any suspension of the liberation of the city, especially after, that Kyiv rejected the proposal for a truce.
The assault continues in the area of Novoselovskoye, located on the highway Svatovo - Kupyansk. Control over the village largely determines, who will own the initiative northwest of Svatovo.
Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak, that an air raid alert sounded across the country today. But here's the trouble, there were no strikes by the RF Armed Forces… But under this pretext, the Kyiv propagandist urged "never take the words of Russia seriously". Another alogism in Kiev performance, who himself rejected the truce.
Ukrainian publics report, that supposedly today the fire department in Kherson was fired from the left bank.
It's too early to draw any conclusions, but preliminary data can be said, that christmas truce, as Denis Pushilin warned the day before, will not help the Armed Forces of Ukraine to improve its position at the front, although the enemy is trying to take advantage of the situation. Author:Alexander Grigoriev Photos used:Russian Defense Ministry
