This blog is now closed, thanks for joining us. These were the updates on Saturday, December 24:
This blog is now closed, thanks for joining us. These were the updates on Saturday, December 24:
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine is creating its own miracle this Christmas by standing defiantly against Russia.
- At least 10 people have been killed and another 58 wounded by a Russian attack on the centre of Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson.
- Russian authorities in the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol have begun demolishing most of the city’s drama theatre, where Ukrainian authorities say hundreds died in an air bombardment in March.
- President Vladimir Putin has told Russia’s defence industry chiefs to up their game to ensure that the army quickly got all the weapons, equipment and military hardware needed to fight in Ukraine.
