The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, rejected out of hand a Russian call for a truce over Russian Orthodox Christmas starting at noon on Friday and ending at midnight on Saturday.
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He said it was a trick to halt the progress of Ukraine’s forces in the eastern Donbas region and bring in more reinforcements.

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