00:00Pokrovsk in east Ukraine is a ghost town.
00:05Most of the 60,000 residents have left
00:08as Russia attacks. Some stay
00:11despite the danger.
00:15No gas, no heating. When we had gas we could warm up water bottles.
00:19Now there's nothing. The fighting is getting closer.
00:22Pokrovsk could follow the fate of Bakhmut and Mariupol.
00:27Russia isn't planning to end its attacks as President Putin says he has
00:31hundreds of thousands registered to fight.
00:33Last year over 300,000 of our citizens came to the military registration and
00:39enlistment offices
00:40and signed contracts to serve in the armed forces.
00:43More than 300,000. This year
00:47at the moment there are already over 430,000
00:51and this flow of volunteers is actually not stopping.
00:54Ukraine's leader is concerned how military and political support for his
00:58country
00:59could change soon. In the past year President Zelensky has modified his
01:03stance
01:04from refusing a ceasefire to suggesting he would cede territory for peace
01:09provided Ukraine is given NATO membership. When he's back in office the
01:14United States President-elect
01:16Donald Trump has promised to end the war within 24 hours
01:20and expects a deal to be made.
01:23President Zelensky, if anything, be prepared to give up, to ask.
01:27Be prepared to make a deal. That's all. Gotta be a deal.
01:31Too many people being killed.
01:34That is a war. Too many people. Gotta make a deal.
01:38And Putin has to make a deal.
01:42And Putin would have never gotten in if I was President. While the world waits for more
01:47details
01:48as to what specifically is Trump's plan for Ukraine
01:51both sides battle each other diplomatically in the United Nations.
01:55The Ukrainian leadership is past its sell-by date
01:59and doesn't want to resolve the situation. In fact it's rejected Hungary's
02:02proposal to introduce a Christmas ceasefire
02:05and an exchange of prisoners. Ukraine has a shortage of soldiers,
02:09weapons and worries that 60 percent of its energy infrastructure
02:13has been severely damaged. Speaking in mid-December
02:17Ukraine's permanent representative to the United Nations highlighted the scale
02:21of recent attacks.
02:22Friday's strike was the twelfth carried out by Russia against
02:27our energy infrastructure in 2024 alone.
02:30For these strikes Russia used about
02:331100 missiles, both cruise and ballistic ones.
02:36Meanwhile civilians in Ukraine still suffer weekly missile attacks
02:41and soldiers on both sides die in battle or are killed by bombs.
02:46Yoloahtaveth, CGTN.
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