Vladimir Putin disregarded spending an Orthodox Church Christmas service with folks and as a substitute spent it on my own.

throughout the gilded Kremlin cathedral the place tsars as soon as confessed their sins, the Russian president used to be the sole worshipper.

Russia’s RIA news agency said it used to be the primary time in twenty years Putin celebrated Christmas in Moscow in place of at the area’s outskirts.

State tv broadcast two clips of Putin within the Cathedral of the Annunciation as clergymen conducted the nighttime carrier known as the Divine Liturgy.

A dour Putin crossed himself a couple of occasions and prayed in stark distinction to his joyful Christmas message.

‘This bright, loved holiday evokes other people to excellent deeds and aspirations, serves to verify in society such enduring religious values and ethical pointers as mercy, compassion, goodness and justice,’ he mentioned.

The president used to be the only worshipper on the Annunciation Cathedral within the Kremlin (Picture EPA)

Putin had announced an apparent cease-hearth over the Orthodox Christmas period (Credit: EPA)

Each January 6 and seven, million of Orthodox Christians rejoice Christmas – a few weeks after their western counterparts have tucked into turkeys.

In an obvious truce brushed aside through Kyiv as posturing, the cease-fire lasted from midday Friday to nighttime Saturday.

Zelensky shrugged off Putin’s cease-fire (Image: EPA)

The Kremlin said: ‘Given That a large choice of citizens practising Orthodoxy is living within the spaces of hostilities, we call at the Ukrainian aspect to announce a cease-hearth and give them an opportunity to wait services and products on Christmas Eve and the day of Christ’s delivery.’

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of ‘using Christmas as a canopy’ in his daily video address on X.

Addressing the Russian people, Putin said Moscow ‘despatched all of your folks to be slaughtered’.

‘Everybody in the global knows how the Kremlin uses lulls in the warfare to continue the war with new force,’ he brought.

Russia has many times rejected a couple of cease-fire pleas from Ukraine intended to allow for humanitarian evacuations and recoup assist.