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  • Despite the announced truce for the Orthodox Christmas on Friday and Saturday, fighting continued between Kyiv and Moscow in the Bakhmout region.

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The announcement of a truce ordered by Vladimir Putin on Thursday was deemed "hypocritical" by kyiv.

Indeed, as of this Friday, the day concerned by the ceasefire, the Russian bombardments again affected Ukraine.

Russian forces have twice struck the city of Kramatorsk, in the east of the country, said the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration.

“The occupiers hit the town with rockets twice.

A private residential building was hit.

According to preliminary information, there are no casualties,” Kyrylo Tymoshenko wrote on Telegram.

For its part, Moscow has accused kyiv of continuing the bombardments.

“Despite the respect of the ceasefire regime by Russian troops, […] the kyiv regime continued to bombard Russian cities and positions,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in its daily report.

According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, this truce is an “apology with the aim of at least stopping the advance of our troops in the Donbass and bringing equipment, ammunition, and bringing men closer to our positions”.

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The answer that comes to mind for all of us is skepticism in the face of so much hypocrisy.

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The head of diplomacy of the European Union (EU) Josep Borrell in turn described Friday as “hypocrisy” the ceasefire announced by Moscow, on the occasion of Orthodox Christmas, judging it “not credible”. .

"The Kremlin completely lacks credibility and this declaration of a desire for a unilateral ceasefire is not credible," he told reporters on the sidelines of a visit to Fez, Morocco. .

"The answer that comes to mind for all of us is skepticism in the face of so much hypocrisy," he said.

The number of the day

40.

Aid to Ukraine continues unabated on the Western side.

Germany will send 40 "Marder" armored vehicles to the Ukrainian army in the first quarter of 2023, a government spokesman said, the day after Berlin and Washington announced a new phase in military support in Kyiv.

"Forty vehicles will be ready in the first quarter, and can be sent to Ukraine", after an "eight-week training" provided to the Ukrainian army, said Steffen Hebestreit, during the government's regular press briefing.

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US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the day before the dispatch of infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine to support Ukrainian troops against the Russian army, but had not yet specified, nor their number or timing of these deliveries.

The trend of the day

Meanwhile, artillery duels continued in Bakhmout, the epicenter of fighting in eastern Ukraine, and shelling elsewhere in the country.

AFP journalists heard shots on the Ukrainian and Russian sides after the start of the ceasefire in this city with largely destroyed and deserted streets, but their intensity was lower than in previous days.

Pavlo Diatchenko, a Bakhmout policeman, said the truce was a Russian "provocation" that would not help civilians in the city.

"They are bombed day and night and almost every day there are people killed," he said.

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