{"id":650008,"date":"2025-12-23T08:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/650008\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:29:33","slug":"massive-russian-attack-across-ukraine-says-energy-firm-with-four-year-old-child-among-three-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/650008\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Massive&#8217; Russian attack across Ukraine, says energy firm, with four-year-old child among three killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zelensky had warned of Christmas attackspublished at 08:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p>08:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zelenksy sat on chair in front of a Ukrainian flag\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/112b34b0-8403-4f2f-acb8-b39a0eec719c.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Leszek Szymanski\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The latest Russian attacks come after President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s claimed it was Russia&#8217;s &#8220;nature&#8221; to &#8220;carry out massive attacks&#8221; over Christmas &#8211; occurring &#8220;especially on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ukrainian president said Russia &#8220;deliberately underscore&#8221; calls for a Christmas ceasefire from international players, such as Germany and the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a result, said Zelensky, he has been working on &#8220;defining new and logical approaches&#8221; to defending Ukraine during holidays and special dates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Christmas Day last year, Russia launched a major missile and drone attack on Ukraine&#8217;s energy infrastructure &#8211; a move Zelensky described as &#8220;a conscious choice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ukraine traditionally used the Julian calendar, also used by Russia, where Christmas falls on 7 January. But starting in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-67816987\" class=\"ssrcss-f0xzi3-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it began celebrating Christmas on 25 December.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zelensky had warned of Christmas attackspublished at 08:12 GMT 08:12 GMT Image source, Leszek Szymanski\/EPA\/Shutterstock The latest Russian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-650008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115767947714075990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}