TheVoiceOfJoyce What cease fire. Two hours into the proposed Russian Christmas ceasefire, shelling occurred across the Donetsk region, Kherson and Bakhmut. There is no ceasefire. Then the entire country was on alert, when Belarus launched a MiG jet with Tipped nuclear missiles? New firepower can’t come fast enough to the Ukrainians. The Russian conscripts, are poor fighters, but butchers, many violent criminals, recently released from prisons to serve on the Ukrainian front. Peace will come to the Ukraine, when Russian troops are driven from their land an their skies are safe from Russian missiles.

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www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jan/06/russia-ukraine-war-live-zelenskiy-dismisses-russian-ceasefire-saying-war-will-end-when-your-soldiers-leave

Hours before a unilateral temporary ceasefire declared by Vladimir Putin came into effect, Russian forces continued to launch fresh strikes on Ukrainian cities.

Russian shells hit the city of Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Friday morning, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the office of Ukraine’s president.

Russian troops “hit the city with rockets twice”, Tymoshenko wrote in an update on social media. A residential building had been hit but there were no victims, he added.

Kramatorsk mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko warned the city was “under fire” and urged residents to stay in shelters. Some 14 homes were damaged after rockets hit the residential building, he said.

Residents described several explosions to Reuters. Oleksnadr, 36, told the news agency:

It’s bad, very bad. We need to pressure them, get them to leave, maybe more air defence systems would help. This happens often, not only on festive occasions. Every other day.

A local resident runs past a burning house hit by the Russian shelling in Kherson, Ukraine. Photograph: LIBKOS/AP

In the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, Russian forces shelled a fire department on Friday morning before the ceasefire came into effect, the regional governor said. One rescue worker was killed and four others were injured, he said.

Journalists from AFP news agency and CNN reported hearing both outgoing and incoming shelling around the frontline city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.

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