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“Each of us fought, worked, waited, helped, lived and hoped this year,” Mr. Zelensky said in a 20-minute video address delivered from his presidential office. “No matter how many missiles the enemy fires, no matter how many shellings and attacks,” he vowed, “we will still rise.”

“I want to wish every Russian family all the best,” Mr. Putin said in a message that was just four minutes long, and delivered in a familiar setting for the Russian leader’s end-of-year address, with the nighttime Kremlin illuminated in the background. “We are one country, one big family.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/31/world...rikes.html