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Robert Fico said he and the Russian leader discussed "the possibilities of an early, peaceful end of the war" in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

They shared a video, capturing one of many instances where Russian armored vehicles, accompanied by infantry, attempted to storm Ukrainian positions early in the morning. However, all attacks were decisively repelled.

The Ukrainian military carried out a drone attack Saturday morning on the Russian metropolis of Kazan, as much as 1,000 kilometers from the border. More details have since emerged. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry,

"Whoever, and however much they try to destroy, they will face many times more destruction themselves and will regret what they are trying to do in our country," Putin said on Dec. 22.

According to the Kremlin, Kiev carried out a drone attack on buildings in the city of Kazan on Saturday December 21. Kazan is a city in central Russia, far from the front line. According to local authorities,