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Putin Wishes Ukrainians a Merry Christmas with Massive Missile Attack
On Christmas Day, we tried to call a close friend living in Kharkiv, Ukraine. As the phone began to ring, she hung up. My wife figured it might have something to do with the daily blackouts they experience. We figured she was preserving her phone’s battery. An hour later, she wrote back to explain that there was an air raid underway.
Putin gave the order to launch a massive attack on Ukraine. The Kremlin’s choice of Christmas Day to viciously attack Ukraine most likely comes down to Ukraine’s decision two years ago to begin celebrating Christmas aligned with the Gregorian calendar. Ukraine’s decision to move its church celebrations away from Moscow is a stark reminder to Putin of his failure to take over Kyiv in “three days.” It is a reminder that Ukraine is an independent nation that will never give up. It will do everything it can, and to the last man or woman, to never be a part of Russia.
Missiles and drones rained down on Kyiv, blowing up not military sites but apartment buildings with Ukrianians celebrating Christmas. It is cold in Kyiv. For many families, it got a lot colder, and in the meantime, the nation of eternal whiners, Russia, acts like nothing is amiss. They act like they…
