Moscow missiles continue to rain down on Ukrainian towns on Christmas
The war on Ukraine did not pause for Christmas despite Russian President Vladimir Putin saying he was open to negotiations, with his forces launching more than 40 rocket attacks on Christmas Day, Kyiv said on Monday.
Ukraine's military said that Moscow forces had, in the previous 24 hours, shelled dozens of towns in the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
"In the Kherson direction, the enemy continues artillery shelling of populated areas along the right bank of the Dnipro River," it said.
Russian attacks on Ukraine's power stations have left millions without electricity, and Zelenskyy said Moscow would aim to make the last days of 2022 dark and difficult.
"Russia has lost everything it could this year. ... I know darkness will not prevent us from leading the occupiers to new defeats. But we have to be ready for any scenario," he said in a Christmas Day address.
Ukraine's Eastern Orthodox faithful traditionally celebrate Christmas on 7 January, as does Russia.
However, this year some Orthodox Ukrainians decided to celebrate on 25 December, and Ukrainian officials, including Zelenskyy, issued Christmas wishes on Sunday.
Russia's defence ministry said on Sunday its forces had killed about 60 Ukrainian servicemen the previous day along the Kupiansk-Lyman line of contact and destroyed numerous pieces of Ukrainian military equipment.
The Kremlin says it will fight until all its territorial aims are achieved, while Kyiv says it will not rest until every Russian soldier is ejected from the country.
Asked if the geopolitical conflict with the West was approaching a dangerous level, Putin on Sunday said: "I don't think it's so dangerous."
Ukraine and the West say Putin has no justification for what they cast as an
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