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Zelensky Says Ukrainians Just Want Putin Dead in Christmas Eve Message

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December 25, 2025

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Russia and Ukraine traded a record barrage of killer drone strikes overnight into Christmas — as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said many of his countrymen just want to see Vladimir Putin dead.

” ‘May he perish,’ each of us may think to ourselves,” Zelensky said during his Christmas Eve message in an oblique reference to the Russian tyrant.

Russia meanwhile launched 131 drones into Ukraine overnight, with 22 of them striking 15 locations inside the country while 106 were thwarted, the Ukrainian air force said.

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