TheVoiceOfJoyce Day 301, dawns with Zelensky counteroffensive underway, forcing Putin to admit, the territories he annexed are not Russian, yet. Meanwhile, Russian troops are being given the opportunity to surrender to drones or be wiped out. A gas pipeline was destroyed connecting to Ukraine. Battles continue to rage and Zelensky, is due to land in America to visit President Biden and speak before Congress. This is the first time Zelensky has left his homeland since War started. On the home front, they’re preparing for more missiles on Kyiv. Best wishes to Zelensky and the Ukrainian people, let’s hope they get a deal to allow a withdrawal and peace.

www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/21/russia-ukraine-war-at-a-glance-what-we-know-on-day-301-of-the-invasion

A blast ripped through the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod gas exporting pipeline that leads from Russia through Ukraine. Reuters reported that three people died in the incident.

Ukraine was warned to prepare for new Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure. Prime minister Denys Shmyhal said Moscow wanted Ukraine to spend Christmas and new year in darkness.

Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, said the situation in four areas of eastern Ukraine – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson – that Moscow illegally annexed in September, was “extremely difficult”. Russia’s illegal annexation of the four territories, which together make up 15% of Ukraine, marked the largest forcible takeover of territory in Europe since the second world war and was condemned by Kyiv and its western allies as illegal. Russia has suffered acute setbacks in the areas, halting its ambitions.


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