Fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces has continued at a “routine level” into the Orthodox Christmas period despite Vladimir Putin’s promise of 36-hour ceasefire, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.
In its daily intelligence update, the MoD said that in the fiercely contested area around Kremina town in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province, fighting was focused in heavily forested terrain to the town’s west, where “combat has devolved to dismounted infantry fighting, often at short range”.
