Cover image: Vladimir Putin, December 22 in the Kremlin. SERGEI GUNEYEV / AFP
- The French Minister for the Armed Forces will go to kyiv on Wednesday 28 December. Sebastien Lecornu “will in particular pay homage to the dead at the Heroes’ monument in kyiv”, the ministry said. France, which recently organized an international conference in support of Ukraine, repeats that it is ready to provide all its humanitarian and military aid.
- A Russian strike on the market in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Saturday, December 24, left at least ten dead and fifty-five wounded. ” It’s terror, it’s killing to intimidate and [prendre] some pleasure “lambasted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
- On Friday, Kherson, recaptured in early November by Ukrainian forces, had already been the target of seventy-four Russian strikes, according to regional authorities, resulting in a total of five dead and twenty-two injured, according to the regional administration.
- In the East, Russian strikes are still “regular” on Bakhmout, that the Russians have been trying to take since the summer, deplored the Ukrainian presidency. “Freedom comes at a high price. But the price of slavery is even higher”said Mr. Zelensky during his evening address.
- Without specifically mentioning the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis denounced Saturday, during the traditional Christmas mass, greed and the thirst for power, which leads some to want “devour their neighbours”.
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