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After 305 days of

, President Volodimir Zelenski reviewed in his Christmas speech the entire series of hardships that the Ukrainian population is facing ten months after the Russian invasion and invoked God as "a just judge who rewards the good and punishes the evil."

Suicide drones, damage to the electrical grid, communications and internet outages, the cold along with "attacks, threats, nuclear blackmail, terror, missile attacks" will not prevent "our struggle from continuing without ceasing," Zelensky said. .

The call to "hold on" comes after the Russian attack in the center of the newly recaptured Ukrainian city of Kherson that killed at least 10 people and injured 58 others. An attack on Christmas Eve morning that kyiv condemned as a free killing for pleasure.

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Zelensky: There are no suicide drones that can put out the star of Bethlehem

The President of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenski, gave a

this Saturday in which he stressed that there are no suicide drones that can extinguish the star of Bethlehem.

"We will see their glow even underground in a bomb shelter. We will fill our hearts with warmth and light. No Kinzhal missile can harm them. They will break against our spirit of steel. And our fight will continue without ceasing," he stressed in his message broadcast on social networks, reports Efe.

The Ukrainian leader said in his speech that Ukrainians have lived through "bitter news" since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, but this Christmas they will sing Christmas carols

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"We will hear the voices and greetings of relatives, in our hearts, even if the communication service and the internet are down. And even in total darkness, we will meet, to hold each other tight.

he stated.

In his Christmas speech, Zelensky stressed that Ukraine is advancing "through the thorns towards the stars", knowing that God awaits them at the end of the road,

In his opinion, evil has no stronger weapon than the armor that God has given them and against which it crashes "like a stone wall".

"We have seen this more than once," he explained. "We endured at the beginning of the war. We suffered attacks, threats, nuclear blackmail, terror, missile attacks.

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Three emergency workers die while demining the Kherson region

Three Ukrainian emergency services workers died this Saturday when a mine exploded while demining areas of the Kherson region, the emergency service of another region, in which they were serving, reported Reuters.

"The three of them selflessly served in the emergency and rescue squad of the Special Purpose Unit of the State Department of Ukraine in the Zhytomyr region and carried out the

in the Kherson region," the service said. Zhytomyr emergency service on their Facebook page.

Russia, which invaded Ukraine 10 months ago, controls most of the Kherson region, but not all of it.

In mid-November, Ukrainian forces retook the city of Kherson, the region's administrative center, and several settlements in the region.

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