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6 mins ago
The risk of confrontation between the US and Russia is "high", according to the Russian ambassador to the US.
By Anna Chernova
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov in a 2019 image. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Washington is waging a "proxy war" against Russia and the risk of a "clash" between the two countries is "high," according to Anatoly Antonov, Russia's ambassador to the US.
"Today, no one hides the true goals of the White House's policy towards us. On all television channels, political commentators talk about the need to intensify the US proxy war against the Russian Federation," Antonov said in a statement. interview with the Russian state media TASS published this Friday.
"Let me remind viewers that a proxy war means a proxy war, a proxy war. Actually, this is what the Americans are doing on Ukrainian soil," he added.
"We underline that the risk of a clash between the two great powers [Russia and the United States] is high."
Russia will continue to "strive so that Russian concerns about the security of our country are not ignored, but listened to with the prospect of working together to resolve them," he added.
Antonov also stated that the dialogue between Moscow and Washington is currently in an "icy" state.
"The [Russian] embassy continues to be forced to work in an atmosphere of hostility and mistrust," Antonov said.
"Because of the local ruling circles, obsessed with the idea of ​​fixing us the image of 'international pariah,' the state of the Russian-American dialogue is comparable to an ice age," he said.
Antonov also stated that the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the United States shows that neither Washington nor Kyiv "are ready for peace."
"Zelensky's visit here, the talks in Washington showed that neither the administration nor Kyiv are ready for peace," he said.
"The focus [is] on the war, on the death of privates, on continuing to tie the Ukrainian regime to the needs of the United States."
8 mins ago
Russian forces shell front lines in southern Ukraine while Ukrainians attack 'concentrations' of Russian forces
By Tim Lister
Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery from a howitzer at Russian targets in the Zaporizhia region on December 16.
(Photo: Dmytro Smoliyenko/Ukrinform/Future Publishing/Getty Images)
The Ukrainian military reports heavy shelling by Russian forces along the front lines in the Zaporizhia region, with at least a dozen settlements hit, but at the same time has reported damaging attacks on Russian bases in the depths of the occupied territory.
In Zaporizhia, Ukrainian defense forces said the towns of Huliapole and Novoandriivka were among those hit.
"The enemy focuses its main efforts on keeping the borders occupied, while shelling the positions of the Ukrainian defenders with tank weapons, rockets and cannon artillery along the entire line of contact," they said.
The police have received about 30 reports about the destruction of civilian property, it added.
But the Ukrainians have confirmed that three days ago they attacked a "concentration" of Russian troops some distance behind the front lines in the Kherson region.
The attack occurred in the Skadovsk district, near the Crimean border.
"Up to 140 Russian servicemen were injured and 8 Kamaz trucks with ammunition were destroyed," the Ukrainian army stated.
He also claimed that another attack, on December 20 in Kherson, had killed 150 Russian soldiers.
Another 50 were wounded in the attack, directed against an enemy airfield near Kakhovka.
"Up to 20 units of military equipment of various types were destroyed," he said.
Local social media claims that loud explosions also went off at a Russian base in the Zaporizhia town of Tokmak on Thursday night, but neither party has made any official comment.
A video recorded at night showed several explosions, but could not be geolocated.
In addition, work continues on extensive demining operations in previously occupied areas.
The total mined area is about 880,000 hectares, of which about two-thirds are in the Kherson region.
So far, the engineering units have inspected 1,175 kilometers of highways, 456 kilometers of railways and 660 kilometers of power lines as part of the demining operation.
"In total, some 40,000 explosive devices have been removed during these
10 mins ago
Two injured after a vehicle explosion in Melitopol, occupied by Russia
By Anna Chernova, Tim Lister
Two people were injured by a car bomb blast in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, according to a local official.
Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-appointed member of the Zaporizhia region administration, described the incident as a terrorist act.
"This is, of course, a terrorist attack, behind which are militants of the Kyiv regime," Rogov told Russian state media RIA Novosti.
The car exploded in a parking lot opposite Gorky Park in the center of Melitopol, he said.
Images and video of the incident show an explosion and a car burning on a city street.
Ivan Fedorov, the exiled mayor of Melitopol, said eyewitnesses report that the car "blew up".
Fedorov is currently not in the city.
The identities of the injured have not been confirmed, but a well-known Russian blogger from the city said they were members of the Russian Security Service.
Several Russian-appointed officials in Ukraine have been killed or injured in similar attacks in recent months.
11 minutes ago
Important progress in the "demilitarization" of Ukraine, according to the Kremlin
By Anna Chernova
"Significant progress" has been made in the "demilitarization" of Ukraine, which is one of the initial targets of the Russian invasion, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said on Friday.
"We can state that there are significant advances on the path of demilitarization," Peskov told reporters during a regular briefing.
President Vladimir Putin said during a press conference on Thursday that the Ukrainian military-industrial complex "if it has not gone completely to zero, it is fast approaching."
Commenting on the US shipment of a Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine, Putin said the Patriots are "old" systems and Russia "will always find the antidote."
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