christmas, because here it s representing a literal war in which hundreds of thousands of people have already been killed, and for ukrainians this is also about claiming a new identity, pitching their tent on the other side of the divide that is, again, already erupted into a horrific war that is in its 11th month. i ve been spending christmas with some ukrainians who say they don t want to celebrate, necessarily, on january 7th. some of them say they ll have two holidays for them, this is about deciding whether they re with moscow or whether they re with the west. here s our report. this orthodox christmas mass might look and sound like it s 1,000 years old, but one thing about it is very new this is the first time st. michael s monestary in kyiv is celebrating christmas mass on december 25th, the date it s celebrated in the west, as well as january 7th when most russians celebrate it. isn t going to church on
eastern and southern ukraine as the war enters its 11th month. russia with an ultimatum. kiev must end the military operation or suffer defeat on the battlefield. nate foye live in kiev with more. good morning, julie. the foreign ministers from both countries laid out what it would take for them to sit down at the negotiation table and possibly get to an end of this war. they could not be farther apart. russia demands that ukraine give up 1/5 of its land. pose no mill temporary threat to russia. ukraine maintain every russian soldier needs to leave its territory including crimea, a non-starter for russia. shelling continues in ukraine s east and south. take a look at this video from bakhmut today. ukraine s foreign minister says it is proof that russia actually has no interest in peace
that was get to president biden was from a captain there. vladimir putin is watching all of this and saying that there is no limit on russian military spending is a whirring ukraine approaches its 11th month. but he admitted problems during the recent mobilisation of reservists and said his defence minister sergei shoigu should take on board the criticism. he blaimed the west for what was happening on the battlefield. and he insisted russian forces would win. translation: it is well known that today the military potential- and capacities of almost all major nato countries are being used. nevertheless, our soldiers, sergeants and officers are fighting for russia bravely and resiliently. they are achieving their goals bit by bit and without doubt, all of these goals will be achieved on all russian territory.
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virtual president like he was a virtual candidate, but they are not the same, a candidate at a president, and now we are in the 11th month and everybody knows it. the question is, what are they going to do about it? they are in an existential dilemma because all these issues that you talk about that are pulling even lower than biden himself come about 38%-39%, and they re only three or four of them that people are really worried about, one his crime, and it is seeping into the up upscale nader novak neighborhoods and then there is the border. then there is this terrible inflation, the economy, and then there is covid. they were all stabler, they were improving when trump left office and biden really unwisely said they are terrible and i m going to change things. he didn t just leave them alone and adopt the former president s policies that were working, he rejected them, but the problem they are having now is it is not just kamala harris because they are thinking, my god, she is