The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has called in a phone call with Vladimir Putin for a "unilateral" ceasefire in Ukraine and a peaceful solution to the crisis.
This is what emerged from the telephone conversation between the two leaders, reports the Turkish presidency, according to what Tass writes.
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Patriarch Kirill calls for a truce for Orthodox Christmas - World
Russian Patriarch Kirill calls for a truce for Orthodox Christmas in the war in Ukraine.
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Meanwhile, Russia is preparing for an escalation of the situation at the front in February
and at the same time moving behind the scenes to push Kiev to sign "peace agreements" on the model of those of Minsk, he told the Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne the secretary of the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksii Danilov.
"February will be decisive for them - said Danilov -. Because dates are important for them, anniversaries, etc.
They are preparing for an escalation"
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"Now a man named (Taras) Kozak (collaborator of the pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician and personal friend of Putin, Viktor Medvedchuk, ed.) has become more active - he continued -. He is organizing meetings with European representatives to force us to sign some peace agreements, or so they believe, a kind of Minsk 3. Of course we will not accept".
More than 60% of the city of Bakhmut
in south-eastern Ukraine has been destroyed in the fighting and the Russian offensive, which has been going on for six months, the head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, as reported by RBC-Ukraine.
"No matter what attempts the enemy made to enter the city, they were unable to advance. No matter how successful they were, they were pushed back to their previous positions outside the city," Kyrilenko commented, adding that the Russian forces "now they are in a flat and devastated area, which is also contributing to the huge loss of soldiers."
Kyrylenko also said two civilians died yesterday in Russian shelling of the city.
