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Zelensky changes date of Christmas: Putin responds with poisoned gift
After all, until last year, Ukraine followed the Orthodox calendar just like Russia, where Christmas is celebrated on Jan. 7. But Ukraine changed this tradition for the first time this year and decided to follow the Gregorian calendar like the West from now on. “It is a middle finger to Western civilization,” argues Russia expert and journalist Bruno Beeckman about the unseen horrific Russian bombing, in Het Nieuwsblad. “Anatoly Boetenko, adviser to the head of the military garrison of the Kharkiv region, told me as follows: ‘For Russia, this is not a celebration organized by the Moscow Patriarchate. So they congratulated us with fire and destruction,” told Beeckman, who is in close contact with Ukrainians.
So Christmas Day was once again the signal for Russia to launch a massive airstrike on Ukraine. A lot of cities were bombed with missiles and drones.
The governor of the Kharkiv administrative region, Oleh Synehoebov, says on Telegram that the Russian military carried out at least seven attacks. Among them, Russia launched Kalibr-type cruise missiles from the Black Sea. Several explosions were reported in the cities of Dnipro, Krementshuk, Kryvyi Rih and the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk, but other locations were also bombed. The northeastern city of Kharkiv was one of the hardest hit. The Russians fired a lot of ballistic missiles at Kharkiv. The attacks mainly caused damage to civilian infrastructure and at least four civilians were injured in the process, two of them reportedly in bad shape. A lot of energy infrastructure was also destroyed again by the Russian attacks, forcing Ukrainians to switch to emergency power supplies in several cities.
