From the blog of Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets:
Tough post from military correspondent Roman Saponkov;
“In general, I am sincerely surprised how our leadership can get dirty out of the blue.
See. The Ukrainians has not been able to achieve any progress since November. The front is stable, the country is habitually buzzing for the New Year holidays. What can happen that causes panic? Here's how?
Elementary - let's declare a Christmas truce. Yes, at a time when society expects victories from the army. The truce is right now at the box office. How? Let's now hand over some city for some Ramadan.
Or maybe this is a cunning plan? Like, we want peace, but Ukrainians refused?
Only for whom? For the collective West, which drives the equipment that kills our guys in echelons? Or for its population, which once again goes to Google about the signs of age-related changes in the brain?"
Boris Rozhin writes on his TG channel:
The United States and Germany actually openly laughed at Putin's proposal for a "Christmas truce." Biden openly interpreted it as a sign of Putin's weakness.
And this is the military commander Vladlen Tatarsky that this is not what is expected from the president of a warring country.
I will quote Vladlen:
"We all know that our president
(Putin)
is not Jesus Christ, but a sane person. After all, in order to declare a truce now, a real truce, you just need to be an idiot.”