Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided not to hold his annual year-end press conference, with the Kremlin's war in Ukraine stretching into its 10th month.
"As for the annual news conference, yes, there won't be one before the New Year, but we expect that the president will still find an opportunity to talk to [reporters], as he does regularly, including during his foreign visits,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, per state media.That breaks a decadelong tradition of Putin addressing the press, usually for hours at a time, which built on the “Direct Line with Vladimir Putin” format that Kremlin officials launched in 2001.
“But the Ukrainian Armed Forces don't think about stopping,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said Sunday. “When the soil becomes more solid, I am convinced that we will continue our counterattacks, the campaign to liberate our territories.” Ukrainian forces are expected to attempt at some point to recover Zaporizhzhia, a region home to a massive Russian-occupied nuclear power plant. A counteroffensive to retake Zaporizhzhia might cut the Russian lines in half, isolating the Russian forces in Crimea from their positions in Donetsk and Luhansk, which are known collectively as the Donbas.
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