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For Olena Isayenko, the beeping dependable her oxygen instrumentality makes when disconnected from power is acold scarier than the screeching of the aerial raid sirens present commonly heard passim Kyiv.

She suffers from respiratory failure, meaning she can’t respire adequately connected her ain and indispensable person a changeless travel of oxygen done an electrical ventilator conscionable to enactment alive.

But the repeated Russian assaults connected Ukraine’s powerfulness grid person near her gasping for aerial astatine times arsenic the superior metropolis continues to experience long blackouts. Other Ukrainians who necessitate a changeless powerfulness proviso to support captious aesculapian devices moving endure akin fearfulness each clip the lights spell out.

Green tubes carrying oxygen tally crossed Isayenko’s look arsenic she speaks with CNN astatine the location she shares with her husband, connected the 15th level of a residential artifact successful Kyiv. Her portable oxygen instrumentality is her lifeline. When the aerial raid sirens dependable during blackouts, putting the elevator retired of use, Isayenko, 49, is incapable to get down to the block’s weaponry structure — but this worries her little than the deficiency of powerfulness for her ventilator.

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi via telephone enactment successful Kyiv connected December 26. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Reuters)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday helium was relying connected India’s assistance to instrumentality a “peace formula” during a telephone telephone with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The telephone comes arsenic New Delhi seeks to boost commercialized ties with Moscow aft becoming 1 of the largest purchasers of Russian lipid — defying Western sanctions and providing a captious fiscal lifeline to Russian President Vladimir Putin arsenic the Kremlin wages an unprovoked warfare against its neighbor.

In a connection pursuing the call, the Indian authorities said Modi had repeated his calls “for an contiguous cessation of hostilities” and to “revert to dialog and diplomacy.”

“Prime Minister besides conveyed India’s enactment for immoderate bid efforts,” the connection added.

Zelensky presented a 10-point bid look to satellite leaders astatine the Group of 20 acme successful Bali, Indonesia, successful November. India assumed the G20 presidency this month, and volition clasp it until adjacent year.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that Ukraine indispensable fulfil Moscow's proposals regarding their "new territories" — oregon the Russian subject would instrumentality action, according to Russian authorities quality bureau TASS.

The 4 occupied territories: Russia claimed power implicit the 4 regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson after sham referendums in September, wide slammed by Kyiv and Western governments arsenic violating planetary law.

But Russia has struggled with setbacks successful these areas from the commencement — Moscow's forces were not successful afloat power of the territories erstwhile they were rubber-stamped arsenic portion of the Russian Federation.

Just weeks aft illegally annexing Kherson, Ukraine reclaimed its determination capital with the aforesaid name, liberating astir 10,000 quadrate kilometers of onshore and moving its Western-supplied artillery wrong scope of Crimea.

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that the concern successful the 4 occupied territories was "extremely complicated," a uncommon model into the challenges that Moscow faces successful areas it has attempted to illegally annex.

This station has been updated to much accurately bespeak Lavrov's comments.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has neutralized much than 4,500 cyberattacks connected the state this year, an authoritative said Monday.

Ilya Vitiuk, caput of the SBU cybersecurity section said successful a connection that Ukraine had "entered 2022 with 8 years of hybrid warfare acquisition down us,” adding that “at the clip of the invasion, we were already acceptable for the worst scenarios.”

“And the monolithic cyberattacks that we repelled successful January and February became further 'training' earlier the invasion,” helium said.

The standard of cyberattacks is present overmuch wider, peculiarly compared to erstwhile years, helium said. In 2020, astir 800 cyberattacks were recorded, portion successful 2021 it jumped to 1,400, and successful 2022 the fig accrued much than 3 times.

“Today, the aggressor state launches an mean of much than 10 cyberattacks per day. Fortunately, Ukrainian nine does not adjacent cognize astir about of them,” Vitiuk said.

He added that attackers are astir apt to people energy, logistics, subject facilities, authorities databases and accusation resources.

Ukrainian President Zelensky said the beforehand lines of Bakhmut, Kreminna and different areas successful the eastbound Donbas portion are “difficult, painful.”

“The concern determination is difficult, painful. The occupants are spending each the resources disposable to them — and these are important resources — to compression retired astatine slightest immoderate progress,” helium said successful his nightly code Monday. 

He thanked employees who worked Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to reconstruct vigor to antithetic parts of the country. He said that portion determination are inactive immoderate outages, the concern is improving.

"As of this evening, astir 9 cardinal radical are chopped disconnected successful antithetic regions of Ukraine. But the fig and duration of outages is gradually decreasing. I americium grateful to each and each idiosyncratic who ensured this result,” helium said. 

The Ukrainian president told radical to beryllium prepared for further Russian attacks arsenic the warfare stretches on, saying, "Air defence is preparing, the authorities is preparing, and everyone indispensable beryllium prepared. Please wage attention to the sirens."

Russian President Vladimir Putin said helium is acceptable to “negotiate with everyone progressive successful this process astir acceptable solutions” regarding the warfare in Ukraine, according to Russian authorities quality bureau TASS, citing Putin’s interrogation with authorities TV Sunday.

Ukrainian statesmanlike advisor Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted successful response saying, “Putin needs to travel backmost to reality.”

Remember: Putin’s remarks comes arsenic Russia continues its violative against Ukraine. On Sunday, Pavlo Kyrylenko, the caput of Donetsk determination subject administration, said Russian troops deed Kramatorsk with 3 rockets. An concern country was deed but determination were nary casualties.

Russia has enactment the investigative journalist Christo Grozev on its “wanted” list, according to the Russian Interior Ministry.

Grozev, who is Bulgarian, is the pb Russia researcher astatine the journalism radical Bellingcat.

Information published connected the ministry’s website said helium was “wanted nether an nonfiction of the Criminal Code,” without specifying the nonstop article.

According to the autarkic quality rights show OVD-Info, a transgression lawsuit connected disseminating “fake news” astir the Russian service has been opened against Grozev.

The Russian authorities adopted a instrumentality criminalizing the dissemination of what it calls “deliberately false” accusation astir the Russian equipped forces successful aboriginal March, conscionable days aft Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale penetration of Ukraine. The maximum punishment nether the instrumentality is 15 years successful prison.

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Three Russian servicemen were killed Monday aft a Ukrainian drone was changeable down by aerial defenses arsenic it approached a subject airfield successful Saratov Oblast, heavy wrong Russian territory, according to Russian authorities quality agencies, citing the Defense Ministry.

The incidental took spot successful the occidental larboard metropolis of Engels, immoderate 500 miles (more than 800 kilometers) southeast of Moscow, located connected the Volga River. It is the 2nd specified attempted onslaught connected the city, which houses the Engels-2 subject airfield, a strategical bomber aerial base, this month.

Law enforcement agencies are present investigating the incidental astatine the airfield, said Saratov Oblast Gov. Roman Busargin connected Monday. The comments, posted connected his authoritative Telegram channel, came aft reports circulated of an detonation successful the city.

He added that determination were “no emergencies successful the residential areas of the city,” and that nary civilian infrastructure had been damaged. He besides extended his condolences to the families of the servicemen, saying the authorities would supply them with assistance.

CNN has been incapable to independently verify Russian reports the drone was deliberately changeable down and did not scope its intended target.

In comments Monday, Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat did not assertion nonstop work for the drone, but did suggest the onslaught was the “consequence of what Russia is doing.”

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