Here's What's Inside United Russia's New Year's Gift To Mobilized Soldiers In Ukraine

United Russia, the country's ruling party, has begun sending mobilized soldiers deployed in the war in Ukraine packages containing their gifts for New Year's.

The gift boxes, which bore the emblem of United Russia, each contain two packs of "FEST" Belarusian cigarettes, razors, underwear and military paraphernalia—including tourniquets used to stop bleeding wounds and a bandage bag.

The gift boxes also contained food items, including pasta, rice and oatmeal packed in black garbage bags, a video sent by the relatives of a Russian serviceman showed, as shared by the media outlet Sota on their Telegram channel.

"Let's unpack. The commander told us volunteers sent us gifts for the New Year," the soldier said in the video.

The gift boxes come as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine extends into its tenth month. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday urged Russia to end the war and withdraw its troops this Christmas.

"It would be right to start the withdrawal of Russian troops from the internationally recognized territory of Ukraine this Christmas. If Russia withdraws its troops from Ukraine, it will ensure a lasting cessation of hostilities," Zelensky said during a video conference with the heads of state of G7 nations.

The Kremlin, however, said a troop pullout is out of the question and that Kyiv should accept the "realities" of Moscow's claims on partially occupied territories—namely Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

"The Ukrainian side needs to take into account the realities that have developed during this time," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, as quoted by Reuters. "And these realities indicate that new subjects have appeared in the Russian Federation. They appeared as a result of referendums that took place in these territories. Without taking these new realities into account, no kind of progress is possible."

The gift boxes also follow several Russian regions' decision to axe their New Year's celebrations and instead have the funds redirected to the Russian military, per The Telegraph. These regions include Saint Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Kaluga, Nizhny Novgorod and Tomsk.

Since the beginning of the war, Russia has lost a total of 95,260 military personnel, according to estimates from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. As of Dec. 12, Ukrainian forces have also successfully liberated 54% of territories the Russian army seized during the conflict, the U.K. Defense Ministry reported.