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Russian President Vladimir Putin called Thursday for a 36-hour cease-fire during Russian Orthodox Christmas as his troops were getting pushed back and hit by Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country wouldn’t agree to any truce that leaves Russian troops occupying its territory. One of his advisers said Thursday on Twitter that Mr. Putin’s offer was hypocritical.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged to strengthen strategic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing, highlighting their bond as their nations stand increasingly at odds with the U.S. and its allies. In introductory remarks from a videoconference between the two leaders broadcast on Russian state television Friday, Mr. Putin said the two countries aimed to expand their military ties as part of the effort to deepen their partnership, days after completing joint naval drills in the East China Sea.

Russia on Tuesday banned the sale of its oil and petroleum products to countries that impose a price cap on them in a move that threatened more uncertainty ahead for global energy markets. Moscow’s move was a response to an agreement by the U.S. and its allies to bar the shipping, financing or insuring of seaborne Russian crude unless it is sold for $60 a barrel or less—a sanction leveled in response to Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine.

Russian shelling killed at least seven people and injured 58 in the southern city of Kherson on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said, turning central streets into a grisly scene of shattered glass, burned-out cars and bloodied corpses as the war entered its 11th month. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the attack as targeting civilians, not military facilities. “This is not war according to defined rules,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. “It is terror. It is killing for the sake of intimidation and pleasure.”

A Ukrainian soldier fires at Russian positions in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The area remains a priority for Russia, despite fears of an assault on Ukraine’s north. Russian military maneuvers in Belarus are part of a Russian campaign to spread fear in Kyiv of imminent attack, but the forces in the neighboring country are insufficient for a fresh assault on the city, Ukrainian officials said. Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s visit to Belarus, his country’s closest ally, this week and the recent flurry of joint military activity there led some analysts to speculate that Russia could be planning an attack.

KYIV, Ukraine—Explosions in a Russian-occupied city in eastern Ukraine killed two people and injured a prominent Russian nationalist and a Moscow-appointed leader in what Russian officials called a Ukrainian attack directed by informants. Ukraine didn’t immediately comment on the incident at a hotel on the edge of Donetsk, which Russia captured in a covert invasion in 2014 and has held ever since.

Russian rockets slammed into the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia overnight as Moscow raced to restore transportation links to Crimea after a major explosion damaged the bridge connecting the peninsula to Russia. The damage to the 12-mile bridge, critical for moving arms, ammunition and other military supplies, has the potential to hurt Moscow’s war effort in southern Ukraine, where Russian forces are struggling to hold off a Ukrainian offensive.

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