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  Knowing Russia they’d probably have gone to the kitchen to grab a knife when no one is looking.
context: For those unable to read the article due to a paywall:
  KYIV, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Ukraine spurned an offer from Russian President Vladimir Putin for a 36-hour ceasefire over Orthodox Christmas, saying there would be no truce until Russia withdraws its invading forces from occupied land.
  The Kremlin said Putin had ordered a ceasefire from midday on Friday after a call for a Christmas truce from Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
  "Taking into account the appeal of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, I instruct the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation to introduce a ceasefire regime along the entire line of contact of the parties in Ukraine from 12:00 on January 6, 2023 to 24:00 on January 7, 2023," Putin said in the order.
  "Proceeding from the fact that a large number of citizens professing Orthodoxy live in the areas of hostilities, we call on the Ukrainian side to declare a ceasefire and allow them to attend services on Christmas Eve, as well as on Christmas Day," Putin said.
  But Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhailo Podolyak tweeted back that Russia "must leave the occupied territories - only then will it have a 'temporary truce'. Keep hypocrisy to yourself."
  He said that unlike Russia, Ukraine was not attacking foreign territory or killing civilians, only destroying "members of the occupation army on its territory".
  Podolyak, had earlier rejected Kirill's for a truce as "a cynical trap and an element of propaganda". He described the Russian Orthodox Church, which has endorsed the invasion, as a "war propagandist" that had incited the "mass murder" of Ukrainians and the militarisation of Russia.
  Ukraine has previously dismissed the prospect of any Russian call for a ceasefire as an attempt by Moscow to secure some respite for its troops, which Ukraine is trying to force from territory Russia seized by force after its invasion last February.
  Russia's Orthodox Church observes Christmas on Jan. 7. Ukraine's main Orthodox Church has rejected the authority of the Moscow patriarch, and many Ukrainian believers have shifted their calendar, celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 as in the West. >
  
  Podolyak's a sharp cookie. He's got Putin and Kirill figured-out. >
  
  Patriarch Kirill, the man of the people with Mercedes limos, who is allegedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars (maybe even billions), skims money off every donation and item sold at a Russian Orthodox Church in Russia, and wears luxury watches worth more than most Russians make in a year? >
  
  Nothing surprises me anymore about Russia. It seems to be an entire society that hasn’t been able to get over the soviet experiment where people had little to no possessions of their own and where theft was a requirement to survival. 
  The soviets are long gone but the old habits of ‘I want that, so I’m going to steal that’ never died it seems. It makes sense to me when I see everyone at the top of the pillars of society stealing absurd amounts of cash. >
  
  Russia is Florida with oil money. >
  
  That... is very fair.
  There's something there that's similar, the shared belief of "reality can be whatever I want" by the powerful and vicious.
  But the scale is not comparible. >
  
  I agree with you there. >
  
  I will say this:
  I'm not sure how aware Florida is of their problem, my experience in the south is that they generally think they're right about most things, except the younger generation who sometimes compare their world to what they see online and see something is wrong. >
  
  after attacks on new year day? >
  
  The Russians wrote "Happy New Year" on a suicide drone and sent it towards Ukraine on New Years eve. And now they want a cease fire for nearly two days because of a holiday themselves? 
  This is an obvious ploy by them to be able to point their fingers at the Ukrainians who do nothing but defend themselves. They have been using these disgusting propaganda tactics for months. >
  
  Russians shelled kherson on 24th killing 12 and wounding ~50 people. Now they want truce for their christmas eve... >
  
  Putin doesn't actually want one, he just wants to use "we asked for a ceasefire for our holy lord's day of birth but these satanic demons are heartless and relentless". 
  Using it to whip up the religious orthodox in their country. Propaganda and using religion as a weapon. >
  
  FYI they don't think that Jesus was born another day. They just celebrate when the 3 wise men came and brought the presents with them. It's the same in Spain. >
  
  Wrong.
  The orthodox church uses the old Julian calendar instead of Gregorian, so their Christmas is on January 7th while the New Year is on January 14th due to a leap year error.
  These dates will change in the next leap year. >
  
  Not like Ukraine's fighting on Russian land. All they had to do was just pull back to their side of the border for the Christmas and that would have been a ceasefire. >
  
  This is a surprisingly good point. Rather than risk losing ground, they managed to spin it into an anti Ukraine talking point. 
  Kinda wish the only response had been "We won't attack targets outside of Ukraine for the holiday season" so it wouldn't have the optics of a truce refusal. >
  
  Nah man, how the fuck you gonna try to come into my house, and then call a truce while I'm trying to get your ass out?
  Fuck out of here with that. >
  
  Good analogy. The whole thing is so ridiculous. Imagine if Hitler had called for a truce after D-Day. >
  
  Whoa whoa whoa timeout guys I wasn't in my bunker yet >
  
  Don't forget all the nasty antipersonnel mines they air dropped into that humanitarian corridor!  You know, the ones that look like toys. >
  
  Straight from the damn Hunger Games. Snow dropping in bombs disguised as aid packages. 
  “Art imitates reality” and reality is damn disturbing. >
  
  As Snow said "Oh Katniss, I thought we promised to tell the truth to one another. Do you really think if I still had a functional airship I would use it to bomb children instead of escaping?" >
  
  “Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen, I thought we agreed not to lie to each other.”
  That and the scene from Catching Fire when he visits Katniss in the Victors’ Village are my favorites. >
  
  So did we ever find out the bombs were from snow or not? >
  
  President Coin sent them in hopes everyone blamed Snow. It was one of the reasons Katniss rejected Gale. >
  
  Russia doesn't get to unilaterally call the scope of this war.
  Even if he did get all artillery to stop, he'd be mobilizing and starting an offensive during that time.  Sure a lot of Russians would get drunk on Christmas, but the trains would keep moving, shells and missiles would continue to be loaded and new recruits would be brought to the front.
  For Ukraine, a target is a target in the occupied areas.  They would be foolish to let their guard down, not take out a bunker or ammo dump. >
  
  To be fair that was a revolutionary war, not an invasion. >
  
  Give him 12 days of Himars instead. Fucking cunt. >
  
  "On the first day of HIMARS, Ukraine had given me, some shrapnel in my right knee" >
  
  On the second day of HIMARS, Ukraine had given me:
  Two blown up tanks 
  And some shrapnel in my right knee >
  
  On the third day of HIMARS, Ukraine had given me:
  Three shredded up generals
  Two blown up tanks
  And some shrapnel in my right knee >
  
  On the fourth day of HIMARS, Ukraine had given me:
  Four burning barracks
  Three shredded generals
  Two blown up tanks
  And some shrapnel in my right knee >
  
  On the Fifth day of HIMARS, Ukraine had given me:
  Five crippled bombers
  Four burning barracks
  Three shredded generals
  Two blown up tanks
  And some shrapnel in my right knee >
  
  On the Sixth day of HIMARS, Ukraine had given me:
  Six grenades in trenches
  Five crippled bombers
  Four burning barracks
  Three shredded generals
  Two blown up tanks
  And some shrapnel in my right knee >
  
  On the Seventh day of HIMARS, Ukraine had given to me:
  Seven destroyed cargo trucks
  Six grenades in trenches
  Five crippled bombers
  Four burning barracks
  Three shredded generals
  Two blown up tanks
  And some shrapnel in my right knee. >
  
  On the Eight day of HIMARS, Ukraine had given to me:
  Eight downed helicopters
  Seven destroyed cargo trucks
  Six grenades in trenches
  Five crippled bombers
  Four burning barracks
  Three shredded generals
  Two blown up tanks
  And some shrapnel in my right knee. >
  
  On the Ninth day of HIMARS, Ukraine had given to me:
  Nine new sunflowers
  Eight downed helicopters
  Seven destroyed cargo trucks
  Six grenades in trenches
  Five crippled bombers
  Four burning barracks
  Three shredded generals
  Two blown up tanks
  And some shrapnel in my right knee. >
  
  If my troops were running short of supplies and ammo, I'd suggest a short "reload" truce too! >
  
  Also running short of troops. >
  
  Also if my troops were running. >
  
  Tucker Carlson:  "Why does Ukraine hate Christmas?" >
  
  Someone will have to first explain to him why they have a different Christmas. >
  
  He's a Russian puppet, I'm sure they already explained it to him. >
  
  He will start whining for the US to change dates and match up with Russia's "true, biblically accurate Christmas" on an upcoming show. >
  
  So... Sometime around late March early April? >
  
  Is there information in the Bible that clarifies when Jesus was born? >
  
  You don't get to call a truce after you started the war. Fuck that. >
  
  Actually you do, pretty easily too. Just fuck off to where you came from! >
  
  The second Putin puts a final stop in this, he's dead! And he knows it. My prediction is that this war, unfortunately, won't be over while Putin is still alive. >
  
  Depending on who takes over after Putin, the war might go on.
  Putin is not the only Russian who wants to restore former imperial glory. >
  
  It probably won't matter... What the next Russian leader wants.
  Russia will experience a real power vacume and the infighting will be too intense to continue a foreign war. >
  
  Russia can't call for a truce, because it's not a war -- it's a "special military operation"! >
  
  Got a video of that?  Would like to see it. >
  
  Thanks mate, much appreciated.  Hope the cunt drops dead soon. >
  
  I genuinely do not understand how the Russian population accept these clear double standards. >
  
  Ukraine has nothing to win if they accept. It will just give an opportunity for Russia to reorganise they army. >
  
  Exactly. Why should Ukraine allow an invading army within their borders any respite from the war when the country that army represents terror bombs civilian targets and kidnaps their children? If the Russian military wants to celebrate Christmas, they can simply go back to Russia and do so. >
  
  Looks like a tactic to replenish troops by Russia. I wouldn't accept the truce. >
  
  If you are bad all year long you get shipped to the front lines! >
  
  Ukraine: “let me get this straight, you invade our country, rape and kill us, steal, destroy… and now you want us to give you a  Christmas holiday?  ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND!?!?” >
  
  Putin invades Ukraine, murders and rapes it's citizens and then tries to dictate any sort of terms other than complete withdrawal? Fuck Putin and Russia! 🇺🇦🌻❤ >
  
  Good. They're only asking for a truce because they're losing.
  Russia can find a truce when they fuck off back to their shithole country. 
  Until then, fuck 'em. >
  
  Yea, they want the Ukranians to stop shooting at them for a little bit so they can regroup and fail again.. >
  
  It's like in Civ where a country is begging you for a truce but they're the ones that started it in the first place >
  
  I like that every call for any kind of peace, truce or negotiation from Russia we get Ukraine's response always the same. "Fucking Leave first." >
  
  "Russians are too drunk to fight today, please no fight." >
  
  All the best offensives are on Christmas.  Tet for one. >
  
  How often to winners of wars beg for cease fire? Serious question >
  
  Never…. >
  
  Is this historically accurate? >
  
  Damn right they should reject it. No gods started Putin's war, no gods should be respected to pause it either. Send as many Russian troops to their gods as possible. >
  
  Partly it’s because they don’t trust Putin. And why should they? He’s been duplicitous and lied throughout this war. >
  
  Suggesting a Christmas truce to the Jewish president of a nation you have invaded and terrorized has got to be ultimate peak of "Are You Fucking Kidding?" >
  
  He needs the truce because things are entirely out of control. He needs a reset so that he can get troops to where they need to be, equipment to where it needs to be, resupply those troops, get moral back up a bit, and generally get a handle on who is where.
  I suspect right now he and his moscow based generals are giving orders which are always one step behind; That is, they are saying things like, reinforce the troops in such and such a town; except they are then told a day later that is not possible as they already lost that town a day before. All the while some other town is about to be lost and really needs reinforcements except those troops are nearby and not being told to do anything. 
  On the Ukrainian side they just keep seeing the russians make mistakes and they keep taking full advantage of these mistakes.
  It looks like this will just be another mistake where the russians stop firing.
  I've played tennis against a pro before. The whole time I was always heading in the wrong direction and the ball was always going exactly where I really didn't want it to go. This is how russia is doing in this war. Ukraine is highly proficient at war, and russia has proven to be not even playing at an amateur level. Incompetent beginner would be a level up at this point for russia.
  This is also another sign of putler's delusional thinking; that the Ukrainians will "obey" his ceasefire. Plus, he is so out of touch that Ukraine has largely joined the west in having Christmas on Dec 25th. Just another step toward joining the EU. Did putler stop firing on that Christmas?
  They will cease firing when there are no more russians in Ukraine to shoot at. >
  
  Russia just wants Ukrainian civilians to gather together so they can kill them. 
  They did the exact same thing in every war before. >
  
  Russia is losing badly, and a ceasefire would only benefit them. It would give them a reprieve from hemorrhaging troops with time to regroup. But they know a ceasefire is a complete nonstarter, and the proposal was made in bad faith from the beginning. >
  
  We bomb you on your Christmas. You no kill us on our Christmas, it's not Christian of you. >
  
  Don’t both countries mainly celebrate orthodox Christmas on January 6th? >
  
  In the past yes, but the Ukrainian Orthodox Church now promotes the 25th. Most of them celebrate it on the 25th, whether they’re Orthodox or not (cultural Christmas)
  There has been a shift towards this ever since 2014, in a recognition that many wish to de-Russify (since they, ya know, got invaded by them…) and this is only more so since Feb 2022 of course! >
  
  "uKrAiN dOeSn'T wAnT pEaCe" comments from right wingers around the world are incoming. >
  
  Bruh, Russia already shelled Kherson after announcing the "truce". There is no ceasefire or truce happening. >
  
  5 minutes later, WaR oN ChRiStMaS!!!! >
  
  I wonder if Dee Plorable would be confused watching that Fox News announcement in January. >
  
  the only truce is RU getting the fuck out >
  
  “Can you guys stop shooting us for 2 days so that we can move and occupy more of your territory, I mean for Christmas?” >
  
  Pull your troops out of Ukraine if you want to talk truce. They want to regroup and slow down momentum. >
  
  Hey dude, I know I broke into your house and I’m trying to kill you and your family so that I can live here. But, I just realized it’s my mom’s birthday. Can you stop beating me with that hockey stick for 15-minutes so I can call her and say happy birthday?  I promise I won’t use that time to hide somewhere or reload my gun. >
  
  If he wants a truce, he can leave Ukraine. >
  
  Nothing good for Ukraine would come from Russia’s 36 hour truce.. only maybe if Ukraine were in a pinch themselves but they obviously aren’t since they didn’t accept. Good for them >
  
  Good!!! Fuck Russia! >
  
  I think that sending the remaining components of the russian navy to the bottom of the Black Sea would be a wonderful gift. >
  
  I wouldn’t agree to a truce either. Putin’s lyin ass… >
  
  Damn, I can't believe Ukraine ruined Russia's plans for a Christmas day surprise attack. >
  
  Ukrainian military personnel had been training with Americans for years prior to this recent invasion…  Americans will cross a frozen river to kill you in your sleep, on Christmas…
  Russia better skip the celebration this year and lay in the bed they’ve made for themselves. Leave or die. >
  
  Someone breaks into your home and you are pounding him senseless. So he yells "time out! 2 mins! let me pray to my deity for my success!". You continue to beat him senseless. >
  
  I wouldn't trust a Putin ceasefire either tbh. It obviously so they can reorganize and attack again. >
  
  Never forget: After the USSR dissolved, Ukraine had more nukes than Russia. The two countries signed an agreement where Ukraine will give Russia the nukes, and Russia would NEVER attack Ukraine. >
  
  Should have worked with the west to dismantle them rather than giving them back to Russia, if only a Time Machine worked and someone could go back to warn them 🥲 >
  
  Fuck you Russia. No one trusts you anymore. Go home or die >
  
  Christmas truces are for warring nations which still have a shred of respect for the other. Russia squandered that a long time ago. >
  
  Lol. Imagine if some intruder got into your house on Christmas eve. You fight the guy to protect your family and then it becomes 12AM Christmas Day. The burglar goes "hey man, lets stop hitting each other for a sec, its Christmas" then dude walks to your kitchen to grab a glass of water.