“US Tank Bradley Killer Armored Vehicle, etc.
Additional aid of 4.7 trillion won to Ukraine”
Despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order for a “36-hour ceasefire” to the Russian military on Orthodox Christmas (7), the noise of shelling continued along the Ukrainian border.
Foreign media, including Reuters, reported on the 7th that the sound of shelling reverberated throughout the day in the Bakhmut region of Donetsk region in southeastern Ukraine. “Russian forces opened fire on dozens of positions and settlements along the front line on Saturday (7),” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on Facebook. Kirilo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, said that the day before Putin’s proposal for a ceasefire, Russian forces had launched two rocket attacks not only on Bakhmut but also on nearby Kramatorsk. The US New York Times (NYT) reported the same day that “Russian forces have by no means stopped their attempts to occupy Bahmut, even after a ceasefire was declared.”
President Putin attended a Russian Orthodox Christmas service held in a church in the Kremlin Palace that day and said, “The church supports our soldiers who participated in the special military operation in Ukraine.” Earlier, Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church said in an interview with Russian state media that the war in Ukraine was “a holy fight against the West to preserve the ‘Russian world'”.
The White House announced on the 6th a military aid plan worth 3.75 billion dollars (about 4.725 trillion won), which includes 50 Bradley armored vehicles, 500 anti-tank missiles and 250,000 rounds of ammunition. For the first time, the US Army’s main Bradley armored personnel carrier, which is supporting Ukraine, is also called a “tank killer” because it fires anti-tank missiles.
Cairo = Correspondent Seonghwi Kang yolo@donga.com
