{"id":87516,"date":"2023-12-26T07:14:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T07:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/ukraine-celebrates-christmas-on-25-december-for-first-time-as-russian-drones-launched-overnight-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T07:14:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T07:14:57","slug":"ukraine-celebrates-christmas-on-25-december-for-first-time-as-russian-drones-launched-overnight-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/ukraine-celebrates-christmas-on-25-december-for-first-time-as-russian-drones-launched-overnight-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine celebrates Christmas on 25 December for first time \u2013 as Russian drones launched overnight | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ukraine is officially marking Christmas on 25 December for the first time today – after it continued to fend off Russian drone attacks overnight.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, Ukrainians have celebrated on 7 January, in line with the Russian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n

But in July, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed legislation moving the Christmas holiday<\/strong> to 25 December.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Mr Zelenskyy addressed the nation in a video clip filmed outside St Sophia Cathedral in central Kyiv.<\/p>\n

He said: “Step by step, day by day, the darkness is losing”.<\/p>\n

“Today, this is our common goal, our common dream. And this is precisely what our common prayer is for today. For our freedom. For our victory. For our Ukraine<\/strong>,” he added.<\/p>\n

On the front line, soldiers have been gifted Christmas dinner, with religious leaders visiting in some areas to give services.<\/p>\n

Read more:
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Religious and political leaders, including the Pope<\/strong>, have called for a stop to the conflict in Ukraine as part of their Christmas messages.<\/p>\n

Overnight, the Ukrainian military said it shot down 28 of 31 Russian drones and both missiles fired over the country.<\/p>\n

They were launched over Kherson, Mykolaiv, Donetsk, Kirovohrad, and Khmelnytskyi, according to the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, five people were killed as a result of Russian fire in Kherson and one other in the eastern town of Horlivka.<\/p>\n

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Russia claims it has ‘upper hand’ on weapons<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile in Russia, deputy prime minister Denis Manturov has claimed the Kremlin has the upper hand on weapons production.<\/p>\n

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“I don’t want to boast, but I can say that we began to gain and picked up the pace of production earlier than Western countries,” he told the RIA news agency.<\/p>\n

“Another question is how long this race will last,” he added, saying that a 2025-2034 armament plan is due to be approved this year.<\/p>\n

President Vladimir Putin and his defence secretary Sergei Shoigu have already said that production of artillery, drones, tanks, and armoured vehicles is increasing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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