on the main events of this minute in our orthodox news release, vladimir putin congratulated merry christmas, noted the contribution of the russian orthodox church and other christian denominations in preserving historical memory, educating young people and strengthening the institution of the family. the president underlined the quote. the christmas holiday inspires people to good deeds and serves to affirm the enduring spiritual values ​​of the holiday. vladimir putin welcomed the annunciation cathedral in the kremlin. for centuries, this temple was the home church of russian grand dukes and tsars.

resumed. orthodox churches throughout the country on christmas night were crowded with about 30 thousand churches met parishioners, despite the frost, the churches were filled with many believers who came to worship strong. but in ukraine on christmas, zelensky tried to further split the believers, suspended the citizenship of thirteen orthodox priests and, in addition, allowed the schismatics to hold a service in the main church of the kiev-pechersk lavra, and so that they would not be thrown out of there, they drove several thousand militants, and attempts to destroy the canonical borisov orthodox church. in front of the entrance to the kiev-pechersk lavra, instead

of parishioners, people in camouflage, the police and the national guard of ukraine, forceful support for raskolnikov trying to take away the orthodox shrine, and you, under the arches of the main cathedral church of the dormition lavra, neo-nazis in military uniforms of believers there. they simply didn’t let everyone in, who came to the christmas service, they carefully checked the documents of the event, 3,000 law enforcement officers are involved in unprecedented security measures, they are on duty the perimeter and inside the temple complex, but citizens can get inside only after checking the metal with a detector without food and drink and with the provision of a document, uh, providing the priests of the canonical church confirming your identity, access to the kiev-pechersk lavra was closed back on january 1 by the zelensky regime to strengthen the split in violation of the constitution of ukraine, the authorities of this country intend to ban cano.

patriarch of moscow and all russia kirill called on the orthodox church in the lavra itself to pray for believers and priests who are expelled from the kyiv-pechersk lavra. we believe that all these diabolical temptations will recede and someday after some time has passed. many will be ironic. or maybe just remembering with a smile these miserable attempts to destroy the canonical orthodox church in ukraine, we will pray for our brothers and sisters on ukrainian soil. let us pray for our country, our russian power, for the authorities, for the armies. we will pray for our relatives and friends tv channels controlled by the zelensky service raskolnikov lavrik where from time immemorial housed the canonical orthodox church of ukraine called the quote a historical event. in fact. this raider seizure marks the roc picture that we saw in the pechersk lavra where, obviously, people are

specially brought there, people who have no idea about orthodox worship. it was just visible from these video frames. they don't get baptized when people get baptized, and well, they generally act like it's their first time. everything was there. this makes an extremely difficult impression, holy patriarch. called yesterday this is a diabolical temptation to actually seize, and the main shrines, and the ukrainian ministry of culture on ukrainian orthodoxy. he is trying to take the temples of the lavra. under the pretext of the expiration of their lease. however, at the same time, he violates the laws and the decree of his own government, according to which the lease of property during the period of martial law is automatically extended in the canonical church. they emphasized that if the ministry of culture of ukraine does not agree with these norms, then it can go to court, and until then the use of the temples of the lavra by representatives, ops, the current regime remains legitimate, realizing the illegality of its own actions, most of all it fears that the indignant believers will simply throw raskolnikov out of the lavra,

so about three thousand militants borisenko and dmitry visnemukhin were sent to protect them. the loss of the kiev formations is a quote huge and incomprehensible , vadym prystaiko, the ambassador of ukraine to britain, said that they are losing people right and left and the west has a unique chance to crack down on russia because kiev is again ready to sacrifice its people territories and the development of the country, honestly recognized the same so convenient for nato power in the world. just not. meanwhile, the ukrainian volunteers reported that the commander-in-chief of the all-unionized because of heavy losses, forbade sending fighters to the rear for treatment, claims that an epidemic of tuberculosis has begun in the ranks of the ukrainian army and at least four brigades, i quote, are rotting alive in the trenches. one of the senior commanders and soong question the volunteers. when the fighters were sent to the doctors, he said, why would we

return anyway. kyiv does not comply with the cease-fire regime christmas fire strikes peaceful cities in some areas, the zelensky formation tried to break through, but was rebuffed. they suffered losses and retreated, dmitry horn knows how things are at the front. ukrainian nationalists continue shelling of peaceful cities and towns in donbass zaporizhia and kherson region zelensky ordered not to observe the ceasefire to the kiev regime need more blood and fight from all types of weapons in the solidary avdiivka and arena directions, the enemy used artillery on units 51 times russian troops fired more than 60 large-caliber shells into the elderly quarters of the city of donetsk, and the settlement of makeevka of the donetsk people of the republic was hit by american rockets from the khaimov multiple launch rocket system, zaporozhye region. the armed forces of ukraine opened artillery fire 31 times in

kherson. in the krivoy rog direction, the enemy fired 17 artillery shellings with return fire from russian troops on all positions of the armed forces from which the shelling was suppressed on the russian army ceasefire, the fire will be observed until midnight on january 7th. but this does not mean that the ukrainian nationalists will be allowed to break through the defenses of all the attacks of the armed forces, repulsed losses. more than 120 militants , destroyed. the tank had several armored vehicles and howitzers, and the soldiers from the front line informed the kiev militants for several hours, as if they had broken the chain. so they wanted to disrupt christmas, but it didn't work out. the russian army and vera bokova have been going on since ancient times, so the participants in the special military operation also celebrate christmas with a liturgy on the territory of one of units of the western military district were held by a military priest, father vasily, it is very good that hostilities are being stopped so as not to shed blood. on such a

holy day, so that people can pray, we want to bring some kind of family warmth here, when a person is torn away from his family, so that he feels the joy of christmas. meetings with relatives and friends also increase the morale. districts. your close one merry christmas and new year holidays in the special military operation zone , soldiers of the first front-line creative brigade congratulate their colleagues. there is a place at the front and a solemn moment, the distinguished tankers and artillerymen of the central military district were awarded the order of courage, the medal for courage of zhukov and other awards, the battery was tasked to prevent opponents from breaking through the bed defenses, three units of

infantry fighting vehicles and more than 50 manpower of the enemy were destroyed. hello release, the settlement is volzhanka in the kharkiv region, one tank was destroyed three combat vehicles photo of the enemy. by decision of the command, the first royal rank of junior lieutenant was awarded, meanwhile , a special steam -powered excursion train set off from moscow to golutvin . the ministry of defense and the railway arranged a trip to kolomna for relatives and participants in a special military operation . dmitry lead the economy of ukraine is in decline, the infrastructure is collapsing the whole country is completely dependent on the will of the west, primarily on the united states about this said former secretary of state condoleezza rice and draws the paradoxical conclusion that both peace talks and fighting should not be tolerated . in ukraine should continue, and

the destructive role of the west anton dudling. the west, an escalated escalation to the father of hostilities, ukraine will for the first time receive from the united states 18 powerful self-propelled howitzers paladin 155 mm caliber 50 bradley infantry fighting vehicles with a 25 mm cannon, heavy machine guns and missile launchers, and a number of others. armored vehicles are not hidden in washington. all this for the offensive. vsuzor bradley infantry fighting vehicles are very important in the so-called general claim maneuver. i remind you that the pentagon recently announced the training of ukrainian military personnel outside the country. they are taught how to just make a general claim maneuver. us secretary of defense lloyd austin promised the allies they would convince the need to increase military assistance to kiev forced to accept the sixth aid package indicates the republic of germany has already bent after

joe biden's conversation with chancellor olf-scholtz, berlin agreed to transfer ukraine 40 infantry fighting vehicles marder, and french president immanuel macron, and here he tried to become the first to promise ukraine amx-10 armored vehicles. even the british telegraph noted that the french president crossed the red line and violated the military taboo on the supply of western-made ems-10 tanks to kiev, which france will supply to ukraine. this is a very mobile infantry fighting vehicle, a feature of the french model. this is a fairly serious gun with a caliber of 105 mm. such a powerful weapon on a light machine actually allows you to count it three new ones, like armored vehicles, that kiev will get with a real tank. for the first time, this is a signal that the west is preparing for another bloody year and does not intend to allow ukraine to sign the peace agreement, the new york times points out. the three-nation decision signals western support for a potential ukrainian offensive in the coming months, and the decision sends a

signal in moscow that we are not going to move towards peace talks. it also reflects a decrease in the fear factor of a possible escalation of the conflict kiev regime does not hide that he is fulfilling the tasks that the united states and the north atlantic alliance have set for him and is not going to pay attention to the losses of ministers zelensky does not care. how many ukrainians will die, if only the funding to continue the nato mission today without blood loss with the loss of our blood, so they need to spend their weapons, kiev also demands the supply of heavy western tanks, american abrams or german leopards. we absolutely agree that ukraine needs tanks, but we must take into account the difficulties with repairs, as we know the abrams tank not only consumes a very large amount of fuel, but is also very expensive to maintain, nevertheless, 10 european countries to transfer their leopard 2 germany tanks to ukraine, it is enough to give my consent to this , i want to say that the supply of the marder bmp is

the first step and the leopard -2. it may well be next, poland is ready to give away its 200 old leopards. the wall street journal writes, warsaw is waiting when the new armored vehicles ordered from the usa and south korea arrive, they announced their readiness to send tanks to ukraine and finland helsinki plans to do this at the same time as other western partners. anton daikin to conduct. despite the shelling of the ukrainian military in the new regions , believers still celebrate christmas. temples go. and the situation margarita semenyuk one of the main orthodox holidays, christmas is celebrated in all the temples of kherson in the front-line cities of the left bank. on this day, parishioners pray for peace and justice in the world. we want good, so that there are no arrows in these, because people are all in such tension that god forbid feast of the nativity of christ festive services traditionally began early in the morning in the hall in an orthodox church decorated on the eve of christmas special attention was paid to

the crib at the altar in the temples they install the holy crib. this is a model of the bethlehem cave in which jesus christ was born as a gift to the baby. the magi brought gold incense, and traditionally confession and communion are quietly held among the parishioners, both local residents and russian military candles. i will try to pray for health and respect for my relatives and friends with my mother. well, everything else is so everything fine? everything is good with us, not everything. everything is fine. there will be a house soon. victory will be ours. the acting governor of the kherson region also visited the festive service. vladimir salda helps us a lot . now the whole russian federation because everyone is riveted in our region by a new subject. i want on this day such a holy day just to wish everyone from the same calmness the same confidence that we all had during the referendum, because the referendum showed, oh what do we think on the occasion of christmas, the

first deputy head of the presidential administration of the russian federation sergei kiriyenko visited the church of st. george the victorious in the kherson region . uh, put here by the designer. before the new year , marat, who was appointed prime minister of the russian federation, came specially to visit, he has already attracted a design organization that is now engaged in such a master plan here, it’s just really very important. well know how to do for centuries, the russian government is not only rebuilding cities after shelling ready to build. the new militants who abandoned the regime of silence continue to destroy the civilian infrastructure of the cities on the left bank during the silence, the territory of the kindergarten was hit by militants. fortunately, there were no casualties, people managed to hide in the residential buildings of margarita semenyu sergei truskov together, kherson region. vladimir zelensky imposed sanctions against 119 people, most of

whom are russian citizens. many artists among them igor butman larisa dolina mikhail shufutinsky filipp kirkorov rapper basta valeriy kipelov anita tsoi lolita milyavskaya and besides, director nikita mikhalkov and russian ceo dmitry kiselev were blacklisted in kiev today, the us authorities are dissatisfied with the fact that anti-russian sanctions are causing great harm to itself the american economy and according to the report, the bloomers want to hold an explanatory conversation with financial structures; they will call for softening relations ; officials believe that banks are showing excessive caution is denied to customers. even in cases where it harms the united states, but by the way, the bankers themselves. they say that they do not risk once again contacting the restriction authorities. they are so vague that it is easier for them to block transactions than to find out the boundaries of what is permitted. this means that in the states, only from the fifteenth attempt, they were able to elect the speaker of the house of representatives of

congress, he became the leader of the republican majority. kevin mccarthy, the vote went on for a week, which actually paralyzed the work of the lower house of parliament and the congressmen did not could take the oath for the last time so long to choose the speakers 160 years ago on the map had to make big concessions. bloomberg reports that he promised to cut the us military budget by $ 75 billion will pay less attention to ukraine and more to internal us problems the british military accused prince harry of betrayal for revealing 25 murders he committed while serving in afghanistan, the times notes harry behaved extremely. naively, deciding to lay out the whole truth about himself in an autobiographical book called spare former assistant. chief of the defense staff. major general jonathan shaw told the daily mail that soldiers don't just talk about killing people and harry broke

the unwritten rule of suspecting brands were inspired by the greed of sources dividers. the count, in turn, declared scandals for harry and his wife previously undermined the health of his grandmother elizabeth ii in france, thousands of supporters of yellow vests took to the action against high prices and macron policies, they believe that the president is destroying the small and medium business about what is happening in paris anastasia popova on the french streets of deja vu , paris, decorated for christmas, is again painted in bright colors, the movement of yellow vests expects to return 4 years after its appearance with eko zholdovich. today people are so tired that it is already impossible to keep anyone. we are on the cusp of a huge uprising everyone feels it everyone knows it only takes a tiny match to light the fuse, february light should go up 15%. more. although already now the bills are getting

so high that many cannot to pay them off even in installments in a difficult situation turned out to be a small medium-sized business, the problem concerns not only bakers and restaurateurs, saving energy does not give any result in the absence of financial assistance. this is a direct path to closure. many of the raises were huge and they couldn't handle it 2-3 years ago, small businesses were told that the macron would like them to go broke, to be bought by big corporations, to his rich friends. they bought everything for a penny, but don’t spin as you want, the authorities are trying to patch holes that appear in one or another sector of the economy, but the french budget cannot withstand the load. national debt is growing rapidly, while government representatives. olivier veran tries to remain optimistic and calms the french without concern. taxes the french have gone down work, paid better, the middle class has been appreciated, the minimum wage has risen more than inflation over the past 2 years. social

rights have been raised unemployment is declining. although if you talk to people who take to the streets the situation, the opposite french police were clearly preparing for the fact that discontent would spill out into riots throughout the entire journey of the cortege, they were accompanied by dense ranks and law enforcement officers and indeed a lot, but this time everything passed. quietly, however, the yellow vests are not going to stop, moreover, there are more than enough reasons vernadsky to lead paris france two trains collided in the subway one person died, several dozen were injured due to a power failure. the train suddenly stopped in the middle of the tunnel and he was hit by another train at high speed. some passengers were thrown out of the cars in the subway, there was a panic. ceiling collapses in hotel in northern turkey , injuring 10 people it all happened during the premiere of the

documentary in the hall there were more than 200 people on the spot rescuers and doctors are working. and the greek authorities decided to completely fence themselves off from turkey on the border, they will build a fence another 140 km long. the first section is ready. now he is going to build 35 km of the central part, he will spend 100 million euros on this, so athens wants to stop over the past year, 250,000 people tried to hear legal migration to get to europe through greece, almost one and a half thousand illegal carriers were arrested. well, now about how christmas is celebrated in china in harbin in the church of the intercession. the first christmas service after 3 years of covid bans, and the mood of the believers is our own correspondent alexander balitsky. the only church in the world where the christmas

service is both in russian and in chinese and in general, the only orthodox church where the rector is chinese among the russian rabintsy every father knows him. i am a lishanda, that is, father alexander in the world. it’s just that the flow of the flow is the time of the minnow faith, namely, this is the true faith for the parishioners, among whom there are many chinese, many of whom are true russian roots. this festive service has become even more special, because it is held for the first time in 3 years, they wanted to attend, but it was always closed due to the pandemic today. here is the first year. we were lucky that it was open and we came here to experience the temple. i don’t understand everything yet, but my wife told me a little about orthodox christmas. i think that, probably i’ll also baptize later interest in russian china begins for many with harbin, the city founded by russians where the visiting card of st. sophia’s cathedral is there, however, now it’s not a temple

museum, but a selfie against the background of what everyone should have consider here their russian history , harbin is successfully used attractively millions of tourists from other chinese provinces, why go to russia if you can find your own little piece of russia here? the famous katyusha on the main pedestrian street dzhuryan-dodziya, which is called the harbin arbat here, shops lure tourists, offering matryoshkas and sausages. let it be on etiquette, as the name is not quite in russian, but the main thing is that the country has not opened in cyrillic, which lasts for the chinese who are shackled on foreign trips after the pandemic. it's like flying to conventional st. petersburg. i came from guangdong specifically to look at the snow. we never have it. and there are also old russian buildings with a great history, as if i visited russia every year i come here with friends, because only here you can see the real winter. it's cold, sure, but it's winter. she it should be like in russia at the crossroads of the line for bread in harbit,

when they didn’t even call it in chinese menbaum, but in the russian manner leba and hot, muffin, in addition to the number of our customers every day, at least 2,000 people in restaurants, waitress nuggets they offer the main, as they are sure here, russian dish, borscht is delicious. delicious brew speak russian chef. i studied in moscow. of course, he heard that vertinsky chaliapin once dined in this restaurant, photographs of famous guests of the hotel, that here they hang in the lobby, but for many chinese tourists, the surnames no longer speak of anything and are distant, but at the same time so close here russia is a kind of matryoshka, but the main thing is the best friend, which in harbin diligently emphasizes alexander balsky nikolai petrov in everything lead. from harbin, china , the european union is threatened by a new stamp of coronavirus, which received the unofficial name of the kraken, this was reported by the european center for disease prevention and control in the

states, this kraken has already supplanted the rest of the pants, the number of cases is doubling every 9 days, european doctors believe that now the authorities need to think about how to deal with the punisher. there, little-studied hospitals may not be able to cope with the influx of patients in russia karaken, until this is revealed, the rospotrebnadzor reported . thanks to the all-russian charitable action tree of wishes , the most cherished dreams of children come true. whose did evgenia cherchkina recognize this time? ma, tell me what you made a wish on the christmas tree. swimming is great, well, we agreed with this conversation , the new year's miracle ball begins with the desire of the girl to hit the minister of economic development of the country. and now masha, as she already wished to get acquainted with a dolphin. hold on to your fins. brave. masha swims with a dolphin on

her own, admits it is not at all scary and the meeting will be remembered for a long time the girl sees her favorite animal for the first time. it was so close. great. i want children's smiles for me, a happy look and faith in the impossible , this is the goal of the wish tree action. seven-year-old gleb from taganrog dreamed of stroking a penguin and a miracle happened together with the head of nature, a boy on an excursion to the moscow zoo. what will keep the fish for? i liked these very cool every wish letters that children send to the christmas tree, especially before the new year. guys guess the most cherished. adam from izhevsk dreamed of meeting with the idols of the kazan basketball dream team. it came true unexpectedly. better school today.

not just shaking hands with an athlete. together with them, adam was trained by the deputy prime minister of the country, marat usnulin. yes, i took at will from the tree of desire, i was extremely surprised, what exactly did your desire for a meeting with basketball team. they have si. the fact is that i myself come from kazan. i know the history of development. this is a basketball club, attended his matches and the fact that the same was such a coincidence that i have been working for 12 years in moscow at the federal level to me. it was the desire to fulfill your visit to meet with the basketball club this year that he immediately took off the christmas tree two balls the second with a message from gorlovka five-year-old nikita asked for a vaccine robot for the first time children from the new russian regions take part in our gorlovka popular group read about what is such a site. here is the russian christmas tree of wishes for children happy new year. well, we

wrote all our desires there and really expected that santa claus would come to us, a miracle happened in 5 years. thanks to the campaign, the dreams of more than sixty thousand children came true. seryozha from the kirov region. a miracle this year was presented by an impromptu boy who wanted to know how elevators are assembled and got to the most modern russian plant in st. petersburg, this is how many kilograms there are special sensors in the cabin? here they are, how elevators are made, how they are maintained and modernized at the factory for a boy, a full-fledged excursion where you can not only watch and listen, but also participate in the process of testing machines. i want to wish all your dreams to seryozha of your parents. all the guys, they were fulfilled. the most important thing is that they do not run out of dreams. it must always be this. e is very correct. this brings

us back to childhood. and even adults, but it is always useful to think. something that i would like to achieve, see, see, fulfill the dream of a child. can every child's wish lists published on the official website, the action will last until february 28 evgenia chichikina leaf. your holiness, thank you for this annual opportunity to communicate with you on the eve of the bright holiday of the nativity of christ . thank you for the opportunity to meet with you, and through your questions. still so feel the interest and the media . and this interest, probably, reflects to a large extent the interests of our public in the life of the church, and therefore

always with great attention and will not hide with human pleasure with you meet. thanks your holiness. it will soon be a year since we live in the conditions of a military conflict, and i know, and everyone knows that the russian church. all this time he has been praying tirelessly for peace. but fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky once said, i will quote, to be sure, a long peace hardens people, a long peace produces apathy, the immutability of thoughts once. social preponderance dulls the senses during a long peace, always in the end passes over to gross wealth. now, does this mean, in your opinion, that wars between states are inevitable since the world is dostoevsky so negatively affects the moral state of society. it seems to be from the writers' diary, if i'm not mistaken, and it seems to me that these are not words.