Russia, Ukraine and Christmas
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he discussed "substantive details" of a Ukraine-Russia peace deal with President Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Christmas.
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.
Zelensky has said that he is open to creating a demilitarised zone in Ukraine’s east as a proposed peace deal edges forward
Moscow has launched far more drones and missiles than in previous years, leaving energy supplies at a tipping point.
UKRAINE delivered a brutal double blow to Vladimir Putin on Christmas Day, reports say. Kyiv is said to have smashed a key Russian oil refinery with British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles as
Aiden Aslin, a British volunteer who joined Ukraine’s marines, was captured and tortured by Putin’s forces in 2022 and is now back fighting the Kremlin. He tells his story to the ‘World of Trouble’ podcast with world affairs editor Sam Kiley in eastern Ukraine.