🇲🇽❌🇺🇸 — 🇻🇪 Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, comes to the defense of Nicolás Maduro following Donald Trump’s announcement to block sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela:

“No to intervention! I call on the United Nations to assume their role; they have not been seen.”

🇲🇽🤝🇨🇺 — Claudia Sheinbaum admits that Mexico continues to send oil to Cuba as “humanitarian aid,” through Gasolinas del Bienestar, without disclosing amounts, contracts, or oversight mechanisms. Meanwhile, she insists that “there is nothing shady.”

🇷🇺🎙📝 — Russian State media published the moment when Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at the Ministry of Defense for a meeting of the department’s board.

There, he noted that 2025 has become an important stage in solving the problems of the Northern Military District.

🇷🇺🎙📝 — Before the Russian General, Putin says that Russian Federation is "proud of the feats of soldiers and officers fighting on the front line"

According to him, the Russian State will do everything to support the families of fallen soldiers

Afterwards, he announced a minute of silence in memory of the deceased.

🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵❌🇺🇦 — During his speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the 'valiant actions' of North Korean People's Army personnel that joined on Russian side against Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region and thanked their assistance in the large-scale work of demining the Kursk area

Initially denied, the North Korean KPA participation became one of the key points of the Russo-Ukrainian War since last year

🇷🇺❌🇪🇺🪖 — Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a speech, says that the geopolitical situation in the world remains tense, and "in a number of regions it is critical", stating that Russia has no plans to attack NATO:

In Europe, people are being instilled with fears about an allegedly inevitable clash with Russia, but this is a lie and simply nonsense, the president noted. Large-scale military aid to Ukraine from NATO is ongoing without interruption.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking to Russian Generals:

The goals of the Special Military Operation will undoubtedly be achieved

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that Russia will start putting hypersonic IRBMs into action:

The "Orekhnik" missile system will be put on combat duty in Russia before the end of the year

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian President Vladimir Putin in declaration for Russian generals:

If Kyiv refuses to discuss the matter in substance - Russia will achieve the liberation of the lands by military means

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️ — Reporter: Will you be seeking any authorization from Congress for any land attacks on cartels in Venezuela?

Trump: I don't have to tell them, but I would not mind it all. I just hope they would not leak it. They are politicians, and they leak like a sieve.

🇪🇨❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — Ecuador’s National Assembly approved a resolution to support the detention of Nicolás Maduro.

With 80 votes in favor, the full National Assembly approved a resolution endorsing international actions aimed at restoring democracy in Venezuela and the detention of the drug-running dictator.

🇻🇪📞🇨🇴❗️ — Chavista Dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, in a speech in Caracas (one of his last as President of Venezuela) has made an official appeal to Petro's Colombia to Join together in Arms against "Anglo-American Invasion"

Maduro calls to history, as today is the 206th anniversary of the formation of Gran Colombia:

I make my call. Reaffirmed, with the deep love of a Gran-Colombian that I feel I am, to the ordinary people of Colombia, to their social movements, to their political forces and to the Colombian army, whom I know very well, for a perfect union with Venezuela.

So that no one dares to touch the sovereignty of our countries and to comply with Bolívar's decree of permanent union and shared happiness.

🔗 SA Defensa (@SA_Defensa)

🇺🇸🌎❌🏴💊 — United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announces that US Armed Forces conducted new strikes at the Eastern Pacific against Drug Cartels as part of Operation Southern Spears:

On December 17, 2025, Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters.

Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. A total of four male narco-terrorists were killed, and no U.S. military forces were harmed.

🔗 U.S. Southern Command (@Southcom)