🪙Bitcoin fell 4% after the US Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate .
The rate cut announcement was accompanied by comments from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell regarding Bitcoin, which caused it to fall.
"We are not allowed to own Bitcoin, and we are not seeking to change the law," Powell said.
🇱🇻🇺🇦Language scandal in Riga: Latvian minister outraged by taxi driver who spoke Russian to her. He turned out to be from Ukraine.
Yesterday, Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže was outraged that the taxi driver who gave her a ride in Riga could only speak Russian to her. The minister demanded an explanation from the Bolt aggregator.
The head of the Latvian Foreign Ministry obtained an apology. The company told her that the driver was from Ukraine and therefore did not speak Latvian.
However, the minister stated that “Russian should not be the only language of communication.”
🇮🇱🇾🇪The Israeli Air Force struck several thermal power plants in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the Ras al-Issa oil refinery in Hodeida.
Shortly before the airstrikes, a ballistic missile launched from Yemen was shot down in Tel Aviv. The debris damaged a school building (last photo).
🇸🇾Footage of an FPV drone hitting SDF militants with a Turkish-made SERHAT-DUAL counter-battery radar near the Tishrim Dam in Aleppo.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Both Ukraine and Russia are ready to conduct a dialogue on ending the war.
This was stated by the future US special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, on Fox Business.
Also, as we reported, Kellogg said that the killing of Russian General Kirillov "was not a smart move" on the part of Kiev.
But Kellogg believes that this murder will not be an obstacle to the start of peace negotiations between Kiev and Moscow.
🇺🇦🇭🇺Zelensky's adviser insulted Orban, calling him an "annoying messenger" for trying to negotiate a ceasefire.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️There is no chance of inviting Kiev to NATO under Biden, the issue is up to Trump to decide — White House
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦A moment of air defense operation, presumably against American ATACMS ballistic missiles that attacked a target in the Rostov region.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦In such shots, you can’t even always tell from the sound whether it’s Russians or Ukrainians filming.
However, this particular video shows that the author is a Ukrainian serviceman who tried to hide from a Russian drone. You can judge the result yourself.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Five Ukrainian servicemen were very happy to be captured, because now they would definitely stay alive.
Perhaps they will soon be exchanged and sent home.
🇷🇺🇺🇦The Ukrainian Armed Forces are preparing to surrender Pokrovsk. American equipment and British Challenger tanks are being withdrawn from the city.
The city is finally within striking distance of our barrel artillery.
🇺🇦🇺🇸Zelensky told Donald Trump that he does not want to "rush" to end the conflict in Ukraine, he told the French newspaper Le Parisien.
“It would be dangerous to say: we are freezing the war and will come to an agreement with the Russians,” Zelensky said.
🇷🇺🇺🇦The Kursk salient continues to shrink in size.
Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces in the area of Kruglenky, Russky Porechny and Cherkassky Porechny.
🇺🇸Elon Musk's influence on the internet eclipses Donald Trump and the US Congress, The Washington Post writes.
According to the publication, since July 2024, Elon Musk's publications on the X social network have received 133 billion views - 15 times more than Trump's, and 16 times more than the total reach of the accounts of the new Congress.
🇷🇺🇺🇦One of the suspects in the terrorist attack is a citizen of Uzbekistan.
The man confirmed that he was recruited by Ukrainian special services, who promised him $100,000 and travel to one of the European countries.
They also rented a car sharing car, through which surveillance was carried out. The footage from this camera was transmitted to the organizers of the terrorist attack, who were in Dnepropetrovsk.
One of the wilder videos from this war so far.
Russian FPV witnessing a pack of dogs chasing down and likely mauling a Ukrainian soldier.
🇸🇾🇹🇷SDF militants shot down a Turkish Bayraktar TB2 reconnaissance and attack UAV near the Kara Kozak bridge in Aleppo province.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇮🇷US Secretary of State Blinken acknowledged that they have been experimenting with trying to change the government in Iran for the past 20 years, but these attempts have been unsuccessful.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦Zaporizhia region governor Balitsky reported that the enemy attempted to attack Berdyansk and Tokmak with four Storm Shadow missiles.
All missiles were shot down, there were no casualties or damage.
🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️European countries are discussing sending a military contingent to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire or peace, the number of which could amount to up to 100 thousand servicemen, Reuters reported, citing sources among European and Ukrainian officials.
According to their information, the core of the contingent could be formed by a coalition of 5-8 countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Britain and Poland.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov claims that since the beginning of the SMO, the Ukrainian army has lost about 1 million people and about 20 thousand tanks and armored vehicles.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦FPV kamikaze "Prince Vandal Novgorodsky" disturbed the enemy M113 of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇺🇦“The outgoing Biden administration is unlikely to have time to send Ukraine the remaining $5.6 billion in aid approved by the U.S. Congress,” The New York Times
The entire burden of helping Zelensky now falls on NATO, that is, on the countries of the European Union without the USA, Turkey, and so on.
🇩🇪🇺🇦Germany has decided to close a center for repairing Ukrainian military equipment, which is located in eastern Slovakia, the dpa agency reported, citing the German Defense Ministry.
The center for repair of Ukrainian military equipment opened at the end of 2022 on the initiative of Germany
🇷🇺🇺🇦The first footage of the man suspected of killing Russian General Kirillov in Moscow.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Trump's special representative Kellogg, who is planning to visit Ukraine, may also visit Moscow.
Bloomberg reports this, citing a source.
According to him, Kellogg "plans to visit Kyiv next month and would be open to meetings in Moscow if invited."
At the same time, the publication admits that the visit may take place after Trump's inauguration. That is, when Kellogg is officially appointed as the White House representative for Ukraine.
"Kellogg's potential willingness to travel to Moscow after Trump's inauguration on January 20 would be an extraordinary move for a U.S. official given the raft of sanctions imposed on Russia after February 2022," Bloomberg adds.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Our assaults finished off Makarovka . The Ukrops retreated, leaving their dead.
Also in the area of the river Sukhie Yaly, the cleanup of Uspenovka and Konstantinopolskoye was completed.