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Ukrainian forces staged their heaviest shelling attack in years in the country’s Russian-controlled east on Thursday, Moscow-installed officials said, as both sides ruled out a Christmas truce in the nearly 10-month-old war.

Workers remove debris of a residential building heavily damaged in recent shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Horlivka in the Donetsk region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander ErmochenkoWorkers remove debris of a residential building heavily damaged in recent shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Horlivka in the Donetsk region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, December 13, 2022.

“The Kremlin… is seeking to turn the conflict into a prolonged armed confrontation,” a senior Ukrainian officer, Brigadier General Oleksiy Gromov, told a news briefing on Thursday. He also dismissed the possibility of a truce over the festive period. One person was killed and four injured near Bakhmut, he said, adding: “It is dangerous to stay in the Donetsk region! Evacuate in time!”

The Kremlin said the United States was getting “deeper and deeper into the conflict in the post-Soviet republic”, and that US Patriot systems would be legitimate targets, something that Russia’s foreign ministry said on Thursday applied to all weapons supplied to Ukraine by the West.

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