The head of the Russian Orthodox Church called Thursday for a 36-hour Christmas cease-fire in Ukraine at the end of this week. His appeal looked unlikely to bring any breakthrough in halting the war that began nearly 11 months ago with Moscow’s invasion.
But that professed readiness came with the usual preconditions: that “Kyiv authorities fulfill the well-known and repeatedly stated demands and recognize new territorial realities,” the Kremlin said, referring to Moscow’s insistence that Ukraine recognize Crimea as part of Russia and acknowledge other illegal territorial gains.
Elsewhere, the head of NATO said he detected no change in Moscow’s stance on Ukraine, insisting that the Kremlin “wants a Europe where they can control a neighboring country.” Ukraine’s Western allies have renewed a vow to keep supporting Kyiv for as long as it takes to defeat Russia. The fighting in Ukraine has increasingly become a war of attrition in recent weeks, as winter sets in.
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