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President Putin reportedly told top businessmen he could consider swapping some Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine but insisted on full control of Donbass.
Putin said at an annual meeting with top military officers that Moscow will move to expand a “buffer security zone” along the border.
President Vladimir Putin said he’s willing to discuss bringing Russia’s war in Ukraine to an end, even as he ruled out changes sought by Kyiv and Europe to a US peace plan drawn up with Moscow.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged in his Christmas Eve message that many Ukrainians want to see Russian President Vladimir Putin dead. “‘May he perish,’ each of
May he perish,’ each of us may think to ourselves,” Zelensky said during his Christmas Eve message in an oblique reference to the Russian tyrant.
A court in Russia on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of President Vladimir Putin of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison.
TWO Russian police officers killed in a bomb attack in Moscow had allegedly tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war. Ilya Klimanov, 24, and Maxim Gorbunov, 25, had both reportedly fought in Vladimir
Russia fired more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a major pre-Christmas attack, killing at least three people including a child.