Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has ordered its army to undertake a 36-hour ceasefire across the “entire” frontline of their invasion of Ukraine – to allow people to attend services on Orthodox Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Mr Putin called on Kyiv to do the same, something immediately rejected by Mikhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, who tweeted that Russia needs to leave the territory it is occupying and “only then will it have a ‘temporary truce’”.
