Ukraine had rejected the Russian president's call for a temporary ceasefire over the Orthodox Christmas period.
Pavlo Kyrylenko
He said that another seven people had been injured and there were an unknown number of injured in the Donetsk cities of Mariupol and Volnovasthat a 66-year-old man and a 61-year-old woman had been killed and 13 other local residents were injured as a result of"Russia's 'Christmas shelling' in Bakhmut."
However, there are numerous reports that hostilities continued anyway with Russian forces accused of striking a fire station in southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, leaving several dead and injured.
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