Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a 36-hour cease-fire for Russian Orthodox Christmas. A top Ukrainian official rejected the proposal, calling it hypocritical.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country wouldn’t agree to any truce that leaves Russian troops occupying its territory. One of his advisers said Thursday on Twitter that Mr. Putin’s offer was hypocritical.
Mr. Zelensky has said a cease-fire that leaves Russian forces in Ukraine would only give Moscow a badly needed opportunity to replenish and rearm, encouraging an even wider conflict. Mr. Putin told Mr. Erdogan that Russia was open to discussing a truce if Kyiv were to accept that the Ukrainian territories that Moscow has declared its own are now Russian land, the Kremlin said in a statement. Russia last yearover portions of Ukraine, including areas where it didn’t have control.
Russian officials haven’t commented on any retreat from in or around the battle zone, which has achieved outsize significance for both sides. Mr. Zelensky, in his nightly address, thanked Ukrainian forces for inflicting “numerous losses” on the enemy in that area and driving “the occupants out of their positions on the outskirts of Bakhmut.”
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