In the midst of the crude war between Russia and Ukraine, which will be one year old in just over a month, Vladimir Putin he attended a mass in the Kremlin alone to celebrate Orthodox Christian Christmas. This comes hours after the Russian president offered his Ukrainian counterpart a 36-hour ceasefire to celebrate this event.
The president of the Eurasian nation attends the mass every year, but usually he does so surrounded by people in various provinces of Russia or in the suburbs of Moscow. However, the situation in which the country finds itself made it Vladimir Putin decided to witness this act in the Cathedral of the Annunciation, which is a small building in the area surrounding the Government Center.
Vladimir Putin is in the middle of a political problem due to the state of the war against its neighbors. On New Year’s Eve, 63 soldiers died in an explosion that occurred in the city of Makiivka, In addition, several legislators demanded the punishment of various high-ranking people in the army who are accused of being reckless.
According to the information that could be found, this explosion occurred because the building where the barracks was located, which was within range of the Ukrainian rockets, had stored ammunition and, when hit, it exploded. “Who came up with the idea of placing personnel in large numbers in a building where even a fool understands that even if they hit with artillery, there will be many injured or killed? Do not care”, wrote Archangel Spetznaz Z, a well-known Russian blogger specializing in the army.
The rejection of kyiv
Yes ok the russian president offered the Ukrainians a ceasefire to celebrate Orthodox Christmas, the government of the European nation decided not to accept the offer because, according to Volodymyr Zelensky, this is an attempt by its neighbors to stop the advance of his troops on the eastern front.
For his part, the foreign minister used as an example the bombing of Kherson on December 24 and the New Year attacks as evidence that the Russian government does not hold back during religious events. In addition, it was possible to know that from the United States they analyze that putin “try to get more oxygen.”
