Ukraine war: Kyiv rejects Putin’s ‘trivial’ Christmas truce
Putin orders a 36-hour Orthodox Christmas ceasefire, which Ukraine says is mere propaganda. …
Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, said there could be no “temporary truce” until Russian forces withdrew from all the areas they had occupied. He also called it a “propaganda gesture”, a “trivial ploy”, and an attempt by Russia to invite pressure on Ukraine from European countries by pretending it was “humanistic”.