Video / The GuardianPresident Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia is ready for talks to end the war in Ukraine even as the country faced more attacks from Moscow — a clear sign that peace wasn’t imminent. Putin also repeated that Moscow has “no other choice” and said he believed the Kremlin was “acting in the right direction”. Sources on Ukrainian social media “previously claimed that Ukrainian forces completely pushed Russian forces out of the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut” around December 21, the report added. A day before, a deadly Russian attack on the southern city of Kherson, retaken by Ukrainian forces last month, killed and wounded scores of people. In the neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region, the city of Nikopol was shelled overnight from heavy artillery, Gov.

Source: New Zealand Herald December 26, 2022 17:23 UTC