🇺🇸🇷🇺The United States has expanded its sanctions list against Russia to include the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.
In general, they recognized Zaporizhzhya NPP as Russia's. Well done.
🇧🇾🇺🇦Video from the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.
The road across the border is littered with huge boulders.
Barbed wire runs through the forest.
🇺🇸Biden addressed the Americans with a short farewell speech, in theses :
— against the backdrop of the division of credit between him and Trump, he noted that it was his team that developed and agreed on the plan for a ceasefire in Gaza;
— He declared that he “strengthened NATO” and was able to keep “Ukraine free”;
— allegedly the US managed to overtake China in the competitive struggle. He emphasized that it is the Americans who should lead in the field of artificial intelligence, and not the PRC;
— He stated that he had ensured a peaceful transfer of power for Trump and wished him success;
— Believes that the US Constitution must be amended so that no president can escape responsibility for crimes committed during his term;
— He believes that Americans will feel the results of his work in decades.
Surprisingly, Putin or Russia were not mentioned once.
🇵🇸🇮🇱A major agreement has been reported between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages.
According to American and Israeli media, the concluded agreement provides for a preliminary six-week stage , during which a ceasefire must be observed, a partial withdrawal of the Israeli army must be carried out, and an exchange of hostages must be carried out.
The agreement provides for:
▪️Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, partial withdrawal of the IDF and the return of local residents to the north of the region.
▪️Gaza will receive 600 trucks with humanitarian aid .
▪️Hamas will release 33 captured Israelis in stages.
▪️Israel, in turn, will release 30 Palestinian prisoners for each kidnapped person and 50 for each female soldier.
The video shows Gazans celebrating the news of a ceasefire. The conflict has now lasted 465 days .
🇺🇦🇺🇸Ukrainian MP Bezugla appealed to the US government to stop providing military aid to Ukraine as long as Syrsky remains the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Читать полностью…🇫🇷France has held a secret exercise called Perseus aimed at deploying special forces in Ukraine to counter a possible Russian breakthrough from Belarus, Intelligence Online reports.
More than 3,000 French troops trained in an area that resembled a stretch of the Dnieper River north of Kyiv. French special forces were preparing to repel a possible Russian breakthrough from Belarus.
🇪🇸Spain plans to introduce a 100% tax on property purchases by non-EU residents, the BBC reports.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the "unprecedented" measure was necessary to address the country's extraordinary housing problem. He said non-EU citizens had bought 27,000 properties in Spain in 2023 "not to live there" but "to make money".
"The West faces a critical challenge: not to become a society divided into two classes: rich landowners and poor tenants," he said, without specifying a time frame for introducing such a tax.
— ❗️🇮🇱/🇵🇸 The Office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: 'Contrary to many reports in the media, Hamas has not yet agreed to the ceasefire proposal'
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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners on a 25-25 basis, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.
Читать полностью…🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️The ban on direct negotiations with Russia for Ukraine remains in force, said the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Sybiga.
He added that Kiev will not make concessions on the issue of the right to join NATO.
🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Russian military took control of Ukrainka in the DPR — Russian Defense Ministry
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️The Ukrainian GUR promised Russian servicemen $1 million to leave their positions in Gorlovka in the DPR, counterintelligence foiled these plans, the FSB reported
As an advance payment, $100 thousand was received from the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, and during the operational activities, areas of concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces units were uncovered.
As a result, the Russian military launched attacks on the identified routes of the Ukrainian troops, and they suffered serious losses.
The money received from Ukraine was used to purchase material and technical resources in the interests of units participating in the SMO, the FSB emphasized.
🇷🇺🇺🇦According to information that has emerged, the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked Ukrainian gas storage facilities in the Lviv region this morning.
Читать полностью…🇸🇰🇺🇦🇷🇺If Zelensky could ban birds from flying from Russia to Slovakia, he would do it – Vice Speaker of the Slovak Parliament
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦our soldiers near Pokrovsk recently epically blew up enemy armored vehicles with an FPV drone. This iron box became a mass grave for them.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️The Russian Defense Ministry reports that the group strike on Ukrainian gas infrastructure facilities was a response to the Ukrainian Armed Forces' strikes with Western ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles, as well as an attack on a compressor station in Kuban with the aim of disrupting gas supplies via the Turkish Stream.
The strike damaged the ground infrastructure of the largest underground gas storage facility in the city of Stryi in the Lviv region of Ukraine.
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Ukraine will not be able to oust all Russian forces under any circumstances, said the candidate for the post of US Secretary of State under Trump.
Читать полностью…🇲🇽🇺🇸Hundreds of migrants are rushing to reach the United States in order to cross the border before Trump's inauguration, Reuters reports.
Journalists encountered a whole caravan of migrants in the south of Mexico, 1,500 km from the US border.
🇩🇪The German Defense Ministry and the German army (Bundeswehr) will suspend their X accounts because exchanging arguments on the social network is “becoming increasingly difficult.”
Politico notes that all this is happening against the backdrop of an open conflict between Berlin and entrepreneur and owner of X Elon Musk. He publicly supported the far-right opposition party Alternative for Germany, interviewed its leader Alice Weides on the platform, and called Chancellor Olaf Scholz a fool.
🇺🇦A bill has been introduced in Ukraine that will require media outlets (including Telegram channels) to delete negative comments about officials
The comment must be removed within 3 days after receiving the court decision, complaint or order of the National Council. Otherwise, the media and Ukrainian channels in TG face administrative liability.
— ❗️🇮🇱/🇵🇸 BREAKING: Israel has delivered IDF troop withdrawal maps and timings to Hamas and the mediators, the ceasefire deal is now (allegedly) approved by both sides
The ceasefire deal will reportedly be signed as early as TONIGHT, and it will be announced tomorrow. – Channel 12
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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Reuters has published the most likely outcome of the peace talks.
The publication reports that most of the advisers to US President-elect Donald Trump are in favor of creating a demilitarized zone in Ukraine as part of a plan to resolve the conflict.
According to them, the buffer zone should be patrolled by European troops.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Map of the morning missile strike on Ukrainian territory.
Energy facilities in the Lviv region were attacked. In particular, the gas storage facility in the city of Stryi was targeted once again.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Ukrainian sources report that the Russian Armed Forces have captured 11 settlements in Donbass over the past 10 days.
Among them: Kurakhovo, Yantarnoye, Lozovaya, Ivanovka, Petrovpavlovka, Vozdvizhenka, Solenoye, Zelenoe, Novoivanovka, Leonidovo and Alexandria, Shevchenko.
🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼Trump intends to speed up arms supplies to Taiwan, said future US National Security Advisor Waltz.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️On the Khreshchatyk square in the center of Kiev, not far from Zelensky’s office, an electrical substation was attacked.
Читать полностью…🇮🇷🇮🇱Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's vice president and former foreign minister, said in an interview that Israel had planted explosives in a centrifuge purchased for Iran's nuclear program. Zarif did not elaborate or say when this became known, but said the explosives were found embedded in components of a centrifuge purchased by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and they were found and successfully removed.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦On January 9, in the Pokrovsk direction, the command post of the 1st Presidential Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit.
Colonel Dmitry Permyakov and Major Andrei Perepechko were eliminated.