Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today that Russia had not received any proposals for a truce in Ukraine over the Christmas holidays, Reuters reported. 

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Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

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"We have not received such proposals from anyone. The topic is not on the agenda," Peskov said in response to a journalist's question whether a "Christmas truce" was offered to Moscow.

After a series of surprise counteroffensives that allowed Kyiv to retake about half of the territory captured by Moscow in the early days of the war, neither side has made much progress in the past month, Reuters said.

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Military analysts say there may be a lull in hostilities in the winter, although fierce fighting in eastern Donetsk region continues as Russian forces attempt to capture the town of Bakhmut.

Yesterday, the Kremlin spokesman commented that peace with Kyiv is impossible until Zelensky accepts the "reality" of the battlefield and, above all, Russian control over the four Ukrainian regions annexed in September after holding "referendums" that Kyiv, the West and most member states of the United Nations condemned as coercive and illegal.

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