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Ukraine hails U.S. military aid as cease-fire said to falter

People wait to board a steam train, which traditionally runs for a few days during Orthodox Christmas holidays in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) Fragments of a military plane are seen near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) A cupola lies on the ground in front of the Orthodox Church which was destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Nina Gonchar, 93, sits in her house which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) A destroyed bridge across Siverskyi-Donets river in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Nina Gonchar, 93, and her son Mykola Gonchar, 58, sit inside their house which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) A cupola lies on the ground in front of the Orthodox Church which was destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) People wait to board a steam train, which traditionally runs for a few days during Orthodox Christmas holidays in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) Fragments of a military plane are seen near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) A cupola lies on the ground in front of the Orthodox Church which was destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Nina Gonchar, 93, sits in her house which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) A destroyed bridge across Siverskyi-Donets river in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Nina Gonchar, 93, and her son Mykola Gonchar, 58, sit inside their house which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) A cupola lies on the ground in front of the Orthodox Church which was destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) People wait to board a steam train, which traditionally runs for a few days during Orthodox Christmas holidays in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) Fragments of a military plane are seen near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) A cupola lies on the ground in front of the Orthodox Church which was destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Nina Gonchar, 93, sits in her house which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) A destroyed bridge across Siverskyi-Donets river in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Nina Gonchar, 93, and her son Mykola Gonchar, 58, sit inside their house which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) A cupola lies on the ground in front of the Orthodox Church which was destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) People wait to board a steam train, which traditionally runs for a few days during Orthodox Christmas holidays in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) Fragments of a military plane are seen near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) A cupola lies on the ground in front of the Orthodox Church which was destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Nina Gonchar, 93, sits in her house which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) A destroyed bridge across Siverskyi-Donets river in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Nina Gonchar, 93, and her son Mykola Gonchar, 58, sit inside their house which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) A cupola lies on the ground in front of the Orthodox Church which was destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Fragments of a military plane are seen near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) A cupola lies on the ground in front of the Orthodox Church which was destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Nina Gonchar, 93, sits in her house which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) A destroyed bridge across Siverskyi-Donets river in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Nina Gonchar, 93, and her son Mykola Gonchar, 58, sit inside their house which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) A cupola lies on the ground in front of the Orthodox Church which was destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) Fragments of a military plane are seen near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) People attend the Christmas service in the Assumption Cathedral in Lavra, the Monastery of the Caves, Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. Saturday service was conducted by Ukrainian patriarchate for the first time after Lavra had been under Russia's influence for hundreds of years and was subordinated to Russia. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) People wait to board a steam train, which traditionally runs for a few days during Orthodox Christmas holidays in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) Fragments of a military plane are seen near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) People attend the Christmas service in the Assumption Cathedral in Lavra, the Monastery of the Caves, Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. Saturday service was conducted by Ukrainian patriarchate for the first time after Lavra had been under Russia's influence for hundreds of years and was subordinated to Russia. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) People wait to board a steam train, which traditionally runs for a few days during Orthodox Christmas holidays in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) Fragments of a military plane are seen near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) People attend the Christmas service in the Cathedral in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) People attend the Christmas service in the Assumption Cathedral in Lavra, the Monastery of the Caves, Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. Saturday service was conducted by Ukrainian patriarchate for the first time after Lavra had been under Russia's influence for hundreds of years and was subordinated to Russia. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) People wait to board a steam train, which traditionally runs for a few days during Orthodox Christmas holidays in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys) A man lights a candle as other parishioners attend the Christmas service in an Orthodox church in Dometsk, Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, in accordance with the Julian calendar. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov) A destroyed bridge across Siverskyi-Donets river is seen in the village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) An Orthodox priest offers the holy communion to a woman during Christmas church service in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) An Orthodox priest blesses believers during Christmas church service in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) A firefighter passes by the dead body of a firefighter killed in the Russian shelling of the fire station in Kherson, Ukraine, on the Orthodox Christmas Eve Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/LIBKOS) A local resident runs past a burning house hit by the Russian shelling in Kherson, Ukraine, on the Orthodox Christmas Eve Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/LIBKOS) A destroyed Russian tank stands across the road of a church in the town of Sviatohirsk, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Ukrainian priests holding a service before the start of the Orthodox Chrismas in the St. Michael's Monastery of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered Moscow's armed forces to observe a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine this weekend for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy questioned the Kremlin's intentions, accusing the Kremlin of planning the fighting pause "to continue the war with renewed vigor". (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky) Serhii Kaharlytskiy, center, talks to volunteers helping him to reconstruct his house, destroyed during a Russian attack on Dec. 31, 2022, before the start of the Orthodox Christmas, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered Moscow's armed forces to observe a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine this weekend for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy questioned the Kremlin's intentions. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna) Volunteers work on the reconstruction of a house destroyed during a Russian attack on Dec. 31, 2022, before the start of the Orthodox Christmas, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered Moscow's armed forces to observe a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine this weekend for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy questioned the Kremlin's intentions. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna) Volunteers help to reconstruct a house destroyed during a Russian attack on Dec. 31, 2022, before the start of the Orthodox Christmas, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered Moscow's armed forces to observe a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine this weekend for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy questioned the Kremlin's intentions. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna) A girl lights a candle before the start of the Orthodox Christmas in the St. Michael's Monastery of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered Moscow's armed forces to observe a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine this weekend for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy questioned the Kremlin's intentions. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky) Ukrainian couple kiss each other in front of a Chrismas tree outside the St. Sophia cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered Moscow's armed forces to observe a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine this weekend for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy questioned the Kremlin's intentions, accusing the Kremlin of planning the fighting pause "to continue the war with renewed vigor". (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
Ukraine hails U.S. military aid as cease-fire said to falter