This is what happens when you reject a Christmas truce. Russian forces have launched a massive missile and drone attack on Ukrainian infrastructure, striking a thermal power plant and prompting Ukrainians to take shelter in metro stations on Christmas morning. “Putin deliberately chose Christmas for an attack. What could be more inhumane?” Zelenskyy said. “They continue to fight for a blackout in Ukraine.”
It should be noted that Dec. 25 is not Christmas in Russia (where the Orthodox church uses the Julian calendar, which puts Christmas on January 7). And it was not Christmas in Kiev until last year, when the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was given authority while the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was suppressed.
Perhaps someone should remind him that Viktor Orban had proposed a Christmas truce back on Dec. 11 but that Zelenskyy had rejected it. “At the end of the Hungarian EU Presidency, we made new efforts for peace. We proposed a Christmas ceasefire and a large-scale prisoner exchange,” Orban wrote on X, adding that it was “sad” that Zelenskyy had “clearly rejected” the proposal “and ruled this out.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the strikes, stating that “This morning, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a mass strike by long-range precision weaponry and attack drones at critical power infrastructure facilities ensuring operation of Ukrainian defense industry enterprises. The goal of the strike has been achieved. All the targets have been engaged.”
