or ukraine's president rodney zalinski has dismissed the proposal by the russian leader for a temporary cease fire. vladimir putin ordered $836.00, our troops starting on friday to coincide with the orthodox christmas holiday. that you crate in says there will be no truth or peace talks until all russian troops leave its territory. give to propose all darrell, but of june, ashes, those who continued the terror against our country and sent all these people of yours to be slaughtered, rejecting our proposals to stop brushing, aggression definitely do not value life and moreover, do not strive for peace. they now want to use christmas as a cover all be a briefly to stop the advances of our boys in don bus and bring equipment ammunitions and mobilized troops closer to our positions. what will that give them view? only yet another increase in their total losses. africa now and the m $23.00 rebel group is expected to withdraw from another town in east and democratic republic of congo. fighters announced last month they would be pulling out from val, man, gobble, and area they captured in octo

and don bass region is a key target for the kremlin before christmas and ukrainian president. rodney zalinski said the airy had been reduced to burnt ruins, but the basso for back much rage is on al jazeera is charles traffic reports. now from back much help people enjoy the shilling and destruction defies belief. roshan artillery has almost completely destroyed the town of bar mood, most of the 70000 people who lived to have fled. it's even rare to see ukrainian soldiers in the open, exposed showing on the streets. oh, my cousin problem was captain mac doctor, sir, when we talk about the direction of back looting. so selling your frontal, we're talking about the whole front line where they're trying to get into the city from every direction of them, from the north, from the east and the south. are the intensification, the shelling of back moot is obvious. russian forces are about a kilometer in that direction. the ukrainian military is scared now. that because wasn't forces of made such great gains around solid are in the north, they're now trying to completely in circle the city. as we walk