Reports of strikes on Ukraine’s frontline after Vladimir Putin ordered a truce to observe Russian Orthodox Christmas
has said that air defences have shot down a drone in an apparent attack on the port where Russia’s Black Sea fleet is based.the Russian-backed governor of the city, made the allegation on the Telegram messaging service, alleging that the incident had taken place in the early hours of 7 January, which is Orthodox Christmas.
“Even the sacred holiday of Christmas was not a reason for these inhuman people to halt their attempts to attack our Hero City,” Razvozhaev wrote., Reuters reports. It has not previously confirmed similar alleged incidents. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and Kyiv says it is determined to recapture the Black Sea peninsula along with a swath of eastern Ukraine and other territory that Russian forces have seized since they invaded last year., had proposed a truce to coincide with Orthodox Christmas, an offer rejected by Kyiv as a cynical ruse to buy time for Russia’s forces to rest and regroup.
In its daily intelligence update, the ministry said that in the fiercely contested area around Kremina town in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province, fighting was focused in heavily forested terrain to the town’s west, where “combat has devolved to dismounted infantry fighting, often at short range”.With the coniferous woodland providing some cover from air observation even in winter, both sides are highly likely struggling to accurately adjust artillery fire.
Russian commanders will highly likely view pressure around Kremina as a threat to the right flank of their Bakhmut sector, which they see as key for enabling any future advance to occupy the remainder of Donetsk Oblast.Find out more about the UK government's response:
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