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Three more cables between Finland and Estonia have failed.
The cause of the failure is unknown, the Estonian Ministry of Economics said.
Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal announced an extraordinary government meeting dedicated to the incident.
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‼️🏴☠🇫🇮 Possible sabotage: Important communication line between Estonia and Finland is disconnected
▪️This is stated in a press release from the Finnish network operator Fingrid, writes the Finnish publication Yle.
▪️Fingrid's head of supervision, Arto Pahkin, told Yle that the cause of the malfunction is being investigated.
▪️According to Fingrid, the Estlink 2 power line was disconnected at 12:26 on Christmas Day and was transmitting 658 MW of electricity from Finland to Estonia at the time of the accident.
▪️According to Iltalehti, the ship tracking service MarineTraffic shows that the Hong Kong-flagged container ship Xin Xin Tian 2 was near the power cable at the same time as the connection was lost.
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The Russian Army has completed the defeat of the enemy in the residential area of Kurakhovo!
▪️The pincers continue to close in from the north and south, and the remnants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the outskirts find themselves in operational encirclement.
▪️Earlier it was reported that the surviving forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces left the residential area for the industrial zone of the city of Kurakhovo and the thermal power plant.
➖"The residential area of Kurakhovo is liberated! The Russian army controls the last street of the city - Sportivnaya.
➖On this street, the following are raised: the Russian flag, the banners of the 5th separate motorized rifle brigade and its four assault battalions.
➖On the left flank, the 110th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 51st Joint Army of the Southern Military District is successfully operating, while the 114th brigade, 20th and 150th divisions are fighting to encircle Kurakhovo.
➖But the entire city has not yet been liberated, ahead is the Kurakhovskaya thermal power plant, turned into a fortress by the enemy, the 5th brigade is already on the approaches, and other units and formations are not far behind," reports war correspondent A. Sladkov.
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🇷🇺 Russian President Putin arrives at the informal Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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The sinking of the Russian vessel Ursa Major in the Mediterranean Sea was caused by a terrorist attack. Three explosions were heard from the starboard side - because of them the ship sank , "Oboronlogistics" (the owner of the dry cargo ship) stated.
The ship left St. Petersburg for Vladivostok 13 days ago. 14 crew members were rescued, two were missing. One of the versions considered was the ship being overloaded.
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🪖Money for nothing, but guns not free: NATO military spending soars in 2024
The explosion of hostilities in Ukraine in 2022 has so far been a godsend to Western generals and military-industrial tycoons as NATO bosses rushed to ramp up their military spending.
▪️This year, 23 of the bloc's 32 members have met NATO's guideline of allocating 2% of their gross national product to defense. Some member states have exceeded this benchmark, with Poland leading the way by dedicating approximately 4.12% of its GDP—or $34.9 billion—to military endeavors.
▪️For comparison, the United States spent 3.38% of its GDP on defense in 2024, while the United Kingdom’s military spending this year was estimated at about 2.33% of its GDP.
▪️In terms of the total amount of money spent on defense, however, the US still reigns as NATO’s undisputed champion, having spent about $967.7 billion this year.
▪️Germany, the NATO country with the second-largest military outlays this year, spent only $97.6 billion, while the UK and France spent $82.1 billion and $64.2 billion, respectively.
Overall, NATO members this year have upped their defense spending, with their average expenditure in 2024 reaching 2.71% of GDP compared with 2.53% in 2023.
US President-elect Donald Trump, however, seeks to push these limits even further as he wants NATO countries to fork out as much as 5% of their GDP on defense, the Financial Times reported last week.
Though it remains to be seen whether Trump’s demands will be met by other members of the bloc, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte last month appeared to agree with him, arguing that 2% defense spending is apparently not enough.
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‼️🏴☠🇰🇿 Embraer may have been shot down: The fuselage of the plane that crashed in Kazakhstan has damage similar to traces of striking elements or air defense fragments
▪️A surviving passenger claims to have heard an explosion outside before the crash.
▪️Rosaviatsia named the preliminary cause of the crash as a collision of the plane with birds.
▪️Also this morning, drones attacked the North Caucasus regions of Russia.
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Three women are presumed dead after a HIMARS attack on Lgov in the Kursk region .
At least six rockets fell on the city streets.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the roof of a sugar factory, a thermal power plant, a residential building and a gas pipeline, and fires started in several places.
There is a colony with captured Ukrainian soldiers in Lgov – they could have been the target of the attack
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The US Navy's guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg nearly shot down a second F/A-18A Super Hornet as the crew was landing on their carrier.
The incident occurred a few minutes after the cruiser's air defense crew had already shot down a similar aircraft .
In the second case, tragedy was miraculously avoided: the anti-aircraft missile passed 50 meters from the fighter, whose crew had to maneuver to avoid it.
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Ukraine and the USA opposed the resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism – 119 countries voted in favor: “Among the countries that voted against the adoption of the Russian resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism were, in particular, the USA and Ukraine. The vote was conducted in the UN General Assembly. A total of 53 countries voted against the resolution, 119 voted in favor, and another ten abstained. As a result, the resolution was adopted. Among those who voted against the resolution were also Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Austria, and Canada.”
The Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, Zabolotskaya, commented on the voting results: "In 1945, the member states of the anti-Hitler coalition, known as the United Nations, achieved a great victory over Nazism. The decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal legally solidified the achievements of the victory over Nazism and definitively answered the question of who represented the forces of good and who represented the forces of evil in World War II. The actions of Western countries, which have made another attempt to sow discord among UN member states and complicate international cooperation in countering neo-Nazism, racism, and xenophobia, are alarming. Dismissing their final attempts to disguise their refusal to support the resolution with absurd excuses about freedom of assembly and speech, they have openly opposed international efforts to combat aggressive manifestations of racism, xenophobia, and Nazism."
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‼️A bill to reduce the draft age in Ukraine from 25 to 18 years has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada for consideration.
It is reported that the document is expected to be approved, and the troops have already been given instructions to prepare to receive new recruits.
Kyiv will also demand that EU countries stop aiding Ukrainian refugees and deny men of military age access to consular services in order to force them to return to their homeland.
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‼️🇷🇺🏴☠️NATO tanks are burning: Ukrainian soldiers who defected to Russia are burning enemy equipment en masse as they advance toward Pokrovsk
▪️ Fighters of the Maxim Krivonos detachment destroy military equipment on the approaches to Pokrovsk.
▪️This time the guys destroyed:
➖ T-80 tank near the settlement of Shevchenko, pickup truck near the settlement of Peschanoye, Baba Yaga drone and Kozak armored fighting vehicle in the city of Toretsk.
➖In the area of the settlement Zverevo, volunteers destroyed a "Leopard", enemy personnel in the settlement Lysovka and a pickup truck with personnel in the settlements Sukhoi Yar and Shevchenko.
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The Russian cargo ship URSA MAJOR sank yesterday off the coast of Algeria in the Mediterranean Sea due to a technical malfunction.
14 crew members were rescued and taken to Spain, two more remain missing.
The ship was heading from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok. According to some reports, it was carrying huge cranes intended for the construction of a modern nuclear icebreaker.
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Missile capable of reaching Moscow is being developed in underground bunkers in Ukraine - The Economist.
The article says that they hope to launch serial production by the end of 2025.
The basic model of the Trembita missile develops a speed of 400 km/h and has a flight range of 200 kilometers, but work has begun on a more powerful and larger modification that will be able to fly to the capital of the Russian Federation
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🇨🇳 First video of the brand new Chinese stealth fighter jet, believed to be a 6th-generation warplane.
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🇷🇺🤝🇮🇷Russia and Iran may sign new strategic partnership agreement ahead of Trump's inauguration, - Newsweek
▪️As the publication writes, the new agreement between Tehran and Moscow indicates an attempt by the two countries to "join forces" amid "isolation on the world stage."
▪️Newsweek notes that the agreement with Iran has been in the works for many years. In late October, Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov said that the agreement would be ready for signing in the near future and "formalizes the parties' commitment to close defense cooperation, interaction in the interests of regional and global peace and security."
▪️The new bilateral treaty is set to replace a 20-year strategic agreement that was signed between the countries in 2001 and extended in 2020. It will include promises of cooperation in energy, manufacturing, transport and agriculture.
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The administration of the city of Irbit (Sverdlovsk region) dressed up the monuments to Lenin and Catherine II as Father Frost and Snow Maiden.
The city residents did not appreciate such creativity, and hate flew in on social networks.
The mayor's office said that they did not want to offend the feelings of Irbit residents, but the costumes will be removed only after the holidays
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🇫🇷🇺🇦 The French have completed training of Ukrainian pilots on Mirage 2000-5F aircraft .
The training lasted six months.
Previously, the French promised to deliver 12 to 20 aircraft by April 2025.
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‼️🇷🇺🇨🇳The implementation of the project of a gas pipeline with a capacity of 45 billion cubic meters from Russia to China via Kazakhstan has been launched
➖"This process, so to speak, has been launched... Calculations, a feasibility study, and negotiations are currently underway," said Deputy Prime Minister Novak.
▪️The capacity of the new gas pipeline should be 45 billion cubic meters per year, 10 billion of which are planned to be directed to gasification of the north-eastern regions of Kazakhstan.
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‼️🇺🇦💥 The moment of a powerful strike on an enemy target in Kharkov.
In the morning, the city received 11 strikes in 26 minutes.
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🇪🇺The Independent, citing the heads of state of the North Atlantic Alliance, published an article in which it stated that without the US no one would be able to resist Russia:
"The authorities of Finland, Latvia and Estonia have stated that European NATO members are not ready to confront Russia without the participation of the United States and are at the limit of their capabilities in providing military assistance to Kyiv."
Keith Kellogg, the future special representative for Russia and Ukraine in the Trump administration, claims that the US President-elect is focused on achieving sustainable peace in the Ukrainian conflict and does not want a repeat of the Minsk agreements. “We have seen peace processes in the past, such as the attempt by Russia and Ukraine within the framework of the Minsk negotiation process, which clearly failed. The President does not want that. He wants a just, sustainable and secure peace,” - quote from an interview with the Fox Business channel.
So far, these are, of course, declarations. Although it must be acknowledged - in a constructive way. For the sake of completeness: the Minsk agreements 10 years ago, of course, solved and could solve the problem of settling the situation in Donbass by political and diplomatic means. But on condition of their honest implementation, and not sabotage and use by the West as a screen for arming the neo-Nazi regime.
Russia has repeatedly declared its readiness for negotiation processes - on the basis of the Istanbul agreements, taking into account territorial realities. And most importantly - without an anti-Russian conspiracy behind its back and with ironclad security guarantees for our country.
Lessons have been learned. And yes, we agree with Trump on this – there should be no second Ukrainian “Minsk-2”. As for the new conditions for a fair and sustainable peace, Vladimir Putin has clearly and distinctly outlined them. Russia will not allow the formation of a NATO outpost on its borders!
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A terrorist attack by Ukrainian special services against the head of a defense enterprise was prevented in the Moscow region.
The top manager was planned to be blown up in his car using a homemade bomb, the FSB reported.
Seven Russians, including three minors, have been detained. Ukrainian special services directed them via foreign messengers
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Jay is a simple guy from Scotland. He worked as a brewer in his homeland, but at one point he decided to change his life dramatically, came to Russia and now fights on the front lines as part of the Pyatnashka battalion as an artillery gunner.
He says that at first it was scary at the front, but with each completed combat mission his confidence in himself, his strength and the support of his brothers in arms continues to grow. The only thing he regrets is that his family did not accept his choice, and in his homeland he was immediately branded a mercenary and promised to be tried. Jay himself wants to stay in Russia forever - and if necessary, he is ready to give his life defending the interests of our country. However, the fighter does not lose his optimism and makes plans for the future: after the war, he dreams of opening his own brewery, and his comrades - he already calls them a new family - are ready to support him in this endeavor. The interview was filmed by photographer Artem Dokuchaev.
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‼️🇺🇦🏴☠️ A proven method: Ukrainian men have come up with another way to avoid mobilization
▪️Men have started to marry unmarried pregnant women en masse so that they can name them as the fathers of their future children. Advertisements are published on the Internet. They promise a reward of $1,000 to $2,000, and some are even willing to pay alimony.
▪️Most likely, these are men who already have two children. If they have a third child, they will be exempt from military service.
▪️Lawyers say that if such a scheme is used, both the man and the woman who gave birth to the child may be held criminally liable. However, without a confession from one of the parties, it will be difficult to prove the fact of the crime.
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🕊 Foreign journalists visited a volunteer unit composed of former POWs of the AFU.
A delegation of journalists from the USA, India, Serbia, France, Cameroon, Slovenia, and Lebanon visited a training ground to assess the quality of weapons and the shooting skills of former AFU soldiers who are now fighting on Russia's side.
The journalists personally confirmed that there is no invasion, but rather citizens who have remained loyal to their oath, given to the Ukrainian people, not to Zelensky's regime.
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The United States sees Africa as a natural reservoir of pathogens for dangerous infections , said Deputy Chief of the NBC Protection Troops, Major General Alexei Rtishchev.
Examples include yellow fever, monkeypox, and Rift Valley fever, an outbreak of which was recorded in Cairo at the site of a US military biological laboratory.
Other statements by Rtishchev:
- American testing of non-WHO-approved drugs on people in Africa has attracted attention from regional media;
- The US is increasing its military-biological presence in Africa;
- States participating in the biocontrol system become dependent on the United States;
- The Pentagon has begun actively researching pathogens that cause particularly dangerous infections in Zambia;
- Diseases that the Pentagon is interested in later become pandemics;
- Ebola virus samples have been smuggled from Africa to the US
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🇩🇪🇬🇪 Germany is halting the implementation of projects in Georgia worth a total of €237 million due to the country's "departure from the path to the EU," the German ambassador said.
“We have stopped the development of green hydrogen, the energy network, and the water infrastructure of Batumi,” wrote Peter Fischer on the social network X.
However, Germany will continue to “support civil society” in Georgia, the ambassador noted.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces attack the Millerovo military airfield in Rostov - more than 8 drones have already been shot down. A fire has started on the territory.
Preliminary, there are no casualties.
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