• The Russian Ministry of Defense accused Ukraine of continuing its shelling.
• The ceasefire was not approved by Kiev, which has criticized it as a cunning ruse.
• Putin ordered a 36-hour unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine from Friday until Saturday.

The Russian Ministry of Defense accused Ukraine of continuing its shelling despite Vladimir Putin’s unilateral ceasefire decision.

The ceasefire was not approved by Kiev, which has criticized it as a cunning ruse.

On Friday, Putin unilaterally imposed a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine; however, Kyiv rejected the decision and labelled it “hypocrisy.”

Putin ordered a 36-hour unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine from Friday until Saturday but the move was rejected by Kyiv and dismissed as “hypocrisy.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Moscow of seeking to use the Orthodox Christmas holiday as “cover” to resupply and stop Ukrainian advances in the eastern Donbas region. And US President Joe Biden expressed skepticism on Thursday, telling reporters that he was “reluctant to respond anything Putin says.”

“Despite the fact that today, January 6, from 12:00 Moscow time, the Russian troops were observing the ceasefire regime, the Kyiv regime continued shelling settlements and positions of Russian troops,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement Friday.

“In the Krasno-Limansky direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out four mortar attacks on Russian positions. In the area of the settlement of Belogorovka, Lugansk People’s Republic, three artillery attacks,” the ministry added.

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