President Biden said that he thinks Putin is 'trying to find some oxygen' by proposing a truce for Orthodox Christmas after tens of thousands of casualties on the Russian side. Ukraine and Germany have also dismissed the unilateral cease-fire declaration.
, marking a significant policy shift after months of resisting Kyiv’s pleas for tanks. A French official also confirmed the same day that France would send AMX-10 RC armored fighting vehicles to Ukraine. More details are due Friday, U.S. officials said. Russia’s ambassador to the United Statesthe Biden administration of “prolonging” the conflict and inhibiting any political settlement.
Russia and Belarus are building up a regional military force with plans to hold joint drills and combat aircraft exercises, the Belarusian Defense Ministry said Thursday. “Personnel, weapons, military and special hardware of Russia’s Armed Forces continue arriving in Belarus,” the ministry said inRussia has “overtly committed” to supporting militias from the Luhansk and Donetsksaid Friday. The militias were “formally integrated into the Russian armed forces on 31 December 2022. President Putin presented the formations with their battle colors during a visit to Rostov-on-Don.
The United Nations is disbanding a fact-finding mission it had formed to investigate a deadly attack on a prison in eastern Ukraine.
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