A 36-hour unilateral ceasefire, announced a day earlier by Russian President Vladimir Putin, went into effect at noon (Moscow time) along the 680-mile frontline between Russian and Ukrainian forces.
“At noon today, the ceasefire regime came into force on the entire contact line,” Russian state media reported at midday on Jan. 6. “It will continue until the end of Jan. 7.”
The unilateral ceasefire is meant to coincide with Christmas, which many Orthodox Christians celebrate on Jan. 7.
On the morning of Jan. 6, Ukrainian officials reported that the city of Kramatorsk, located in the eastern Donetsk region, had come under Russian artillery fire.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the US Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Dec. 21, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
According to the city’s Kyiv-appointed mayor, the strikes damaged several buildings but did not result in any casualties….