🗣🗣❌🥴🇪🇺 — 📰 Mish Talk | Elon Musk and X Will Help Crush EU and UK Censorship | January 14, 2025:

"The EU and UK fear they are under attack by Musk and Trump. But the Nannycrats need to look in the mirror to see the real problem.

This has come to a head with objections to Musk lending support to AfD, an alleged “far right” German political party, and also with Musk putting a well-deserved spotlight on gang rapes in the UK.

Instead of tackling the real issues, EU and UK politicians seek to silence Musk, control AI, and suppress freedom of speech. But every time they do, opposition grows."

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺🛢 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Turkey Confirms Key Gas Pipeline Was Attacked After Kremlin Accused United States | January 16, 2025:

"Moscow has this week made a big and provocative accusation, saying that the United States is seeking to sabotage the last pipeline transporting Russian gas exports into Europe, the TurkStream.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov alleged in a Tuesday press briefing that Washington is encouraging "terrorist" attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure. He specifically cited plans to target TurkStream, following a recent large-scale drone attack.

"The US does not tolerate competition in any sphere, including energy. They are recklessly endorsing terrorist activities aimed at undermining the energy stability of the European Union," Lavrov said as quoted in Turkey's Anadolu news agency."

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🇺🇸⁉️🚫🎵 — 🇺🇸 The Epoch Times | Incoming National Security Adviser Says Trump Exploring Ways to Preserve TikTok in US | The popular video-sharing app could be banned on Jan. 19 | January 16, 2025:

"Florida Rep. Mike Waltz, whom President-elect Donald Trump recently announced as his national security adviser, said on Jan. 15 that the incoming U.S. leader is exploring ways to “preserve” TikTok in the country amid a looming ban.

Waltz made the remarks during an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier in response to questions regarding a report from The Washington Post that stated that Trump was considering various options to prevent TikTok from having to cease U.S. operations.

Such options could include an executive order to suspend enforcement of the divest-or-ban law for 60 to 90 days, Baier said, citing the report."

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🇺🇸⁉️🚫🇷🇺🇮🇷🛢 — B Bloomberg | Trump Team Readies Oil Sanctions Plan for Russia Deal, Iran Squeeze | Measures being considered with a view to ending Ukraine war | Iranian, Venezuelan oil exports climbed under Biden presidency | January 16, 2025:

"Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are crafting a wide-ranging sanctions strategy to facilitate a Russia-Ukraine diplomatic accord in the coming months while at the same time squeezing Iran and Venezuela, people familiar with the matter said.

The outgoing Biden administration on Friday imposed the most disruptive sanctions on Russia’s oil trade by any Western power to date. The move created an open question about how Trump views the measures, given his commitment to quickly ending the war in Ukraine.

There are two main approaches under consideration by the Trump team. One set of policy recommendations — if the incoming administration believes a resolution to the Ukraine war is in sight — involves some good-faith measures to benefit sanctioned Russian oil producers that could help seal a peace deal, said the people, requesting anonymity as the deliberations are private. A second option would build on the sanctions, ramping up pressure even further to increase leverage, they said."

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👔🗯🚫🇺🇦🤝🇺🇸 — B Bloomberg | Putin Would Demand Ukraine Never Join NATO in Any Trump Talks | January 15, 2025:

"Russia will demand Ukraine drastically cut back military ties with the NATO alliance and become a neutral state with a limited army in any talks with incoming US President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

Increasingly confident he has the advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to achieve his goal that Kyiv never join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and that limits are placed on its military capacity, said the people with knowledge of Kremlin thinking who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive information.

The Kremlin’s position is that while individual NATO members may continue to send arms to Ukraine under bilateral security agreements, any such weapons should not be used against Russia or to recapture territory, said one of the people, who is familiar with Moscow’s preparations for possible negotiations."

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🇬🇧🤝🇺🇦1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ — 🇩🇪 BILD:

"Ukraine and Great Britain signed a 100-year partnership agreement

Amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, Britain and Ukraine have signed a partnership agreement with a symbolic duration of 100 years.
"Today we have reached a new level of relations, and this is even more than a strategic partnership," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Kyiv. Ukraine is determined to defend its independence, he noted. Starmer called the agreement "historic."

The document does not contain any guarantees or commitments regarding the alliance. However, the UK has committed to providing Kyiv with military aid in the amount of more than 3.5 billion euros annually until at least the 2030/31 financial year and “for as long as required”.

In addition, it was agreed that the UK would increase its contribution to training specialists on Western combat aircraft for the Ukrainian Air Force. The navies of both countries will also cooperate more closely, especially in the Black Sea region. The partnership agreement envisages, in addition to defence cooperation, deepening cooperation in areas such as science, energy and trade."

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🇬🇧🤝🇺🇦1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ — 🇬🇧 The Guardian | UK to back Ukraine ‘beyond this terrible war’ with 100-year pact, says Starmer | PM visits Kyiv to agree partnership and says Putin shows no signs of wanting to stop ‘unrelenting aggression’ | January 16, 2025:

"Keir Starmer has announced a “historic” 100-year partnership with Ukraine, saying the UK would support the country “beyond this terrible war” and into a future where it is “free and thriving again”.

Speaking during his first trip to Kyiv as prime minister, Starmer said the unprecedented agreement reflected the “huge affection between our two nations”. He added that “right now Putin shows no signs of wanting to stop” his “unrelenting aggression”.

The point was dramatically underscored by a Russian drone flying over Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Mariinskyi Palace in Kyiv while the two leaders were in the middle of talks. Anti-aircraft fire erupted as the drone buzzed overhead."

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🇨🇳👺❌🇺🇸👩🏻‍🦳 — 🌟 Reuters | Chinese Hackers Accessed Yellen's Computer in US Treasury Breach, Bloomberg News Reports | January 16, 2025:

"(Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's computer was hacked and unclassified files were accessed as part of a broader breach of the Treasury Department by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing two people familiar with the matter.

The computers of two of Yellen's lieutenants, Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo and Acting Under Secretary Brad Smith, were also breached, the report said.

The hackers accessed fewer than 50 files on Yellen's machine, Bloomberg said."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🖌 AFU StratCom:

"🔱 Operational information as of 08:00 on January 18, 2025 regarding the Russian invasion

❗️ The main point of the summary :

🔵 In total, 174 combat clashes were recorded over the past 24 hours.

🔥 Over the past day, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces have struck two areas of concentration of personnel, weapons, and military equipment, as well as two air defense systems of the Russian invaders.

🔵 On the Kharkiv direction, the enemy once tried in vain to advance in the Vovchansk area.

🔵 In the Kupyansk direction, eight attacks by the invaders took place over the past 24 hours. Defense forces repelled enemy assault actions near the settlements of Golubivka, Stepovaya Novoselivka, and Kruglyakivka.

🔵 In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 13 times. He tried to advance near Kopanky, Tverdokhlibovye, Makiivka, and Terni.

🔵 In the Siversky direction, our troops repelled an enemy attack near the settlement of Bilogorivka.

🔵 In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy launched 26 attacks on the positions of our troops in the Chasovy Yar area and in the direction of Stupochok and Bila Hora.

🔵 Over the past day, in the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked Ukrainian units 19 times near Toretsk, Diliivka, Krymske, and Shcherbinivka.

🔴 In the Pokrovsky direction, over the past 24 hours, our defenders stopped 79 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of Zeleny Pole, Vodyany Drugy, Elizavetivka, Promyen, Lysivka, Shevchenko, Zvirovye, Udachny, Uspenivka, Sribny, Dachny, Ulakly, and Yantarny.

🔵 In the Novopavlivka direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled two attacks by the invaders in the area of ​​Velyka Novosilka and Konstantinopol.

🔵 In the Orikhiv direction, yesterday the enemy tried to advance once in the direction of Novodanylivka, but was repulsed.

🔵 In the Dnieper direction, the Defense Forces successfully repelled two enemy assaults.

🔵 In the Kursk region, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 16 attacks over the past day."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇺🇦 General Staff of the Armed Forces:

"Operational information as of 08:00 18.01.2025 regarding the Russian invasion

The 160th day of large-scale armed aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine has begun.

In total, 174 combat clashes were recorded over the past 24 hours.

Yesterday, the enemy launched one missile strike using two missiles against the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements, engaging 2,147 kamikaze drones to destroy them. The enemy also launched about four thousand artillery shells, 154 of them from multiple launch rocket systems.

Over the past day, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces have struck two areas of concentration of personnel, weapons, and military equipment, as well as two air defense systems of the Russian invaders.

On the Kharkiv direction, the enemy once tried in vain to advance in the Vovchansk area.

In the Kupyansk direction, eight attacks by the invaders took place over the past 24 hours. Defense forces repelled enemy assault actions near the settlements of Golubivka, Stepovaya Novoselivka, and Kruglyakivka.

In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 13 times. He tried to advance near Kopanky, Tverdokhlibovye, Makiivka, and Terni.

In the Siversky direction, our troops repelled an enemy attack near the settlement of Bilogorivka.

In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy launched 26 attacks on the positions of our troops in the Chasovy Yar area and in the direction of Stupochok and Bila Hora.

Over the past day, in the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked Ukrainian units 19 times near Toretsk, Diliivka, Krymske, and Shcherbinivka.

In the Pokrovsky direction, over the past 24 hours, our defenders stopped 79 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of Zeleny Pole, Vodyany Drugy, Elizavetivka, Promyen, Lysivka, Shevchenko, Zvirovye, Udachny, Uspenivka, Sribny, Dachny, Ulakly, and Yantarny.

In the Novopavlivka direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled two attacks by the invaders in the area of ​​Velyka Novosilka and Konstantinopol.

In the Orikhiv direction, yesterday the enemy tried to advance once in the direction of Novodanylivka, but was repulsed.

In the Dnieper direction, the Defense Forces successfully repelled two enemy assaults.

The enemy did not conduct any active operations in the Hulyaipil direction.

In the Kursk region, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 16 attacks by invaders over the past day.

No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Polissya directions.

Our soldiers inflict significant losses on the occupation forces in manpower and equipment, and actively undermine the enemy's offensive potential in the rear.

In total, the losses of the Russian invaders last day amounted to 1,340 people. Ukrainian soldiers also neutralized 13 armored combat vehicles, 21 artillery systems, 13 operational-tactical level UAVs, and 69 vehicles of the invaders."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"⚡️ Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation (as of January 18, 2025)

▫️ This morning, in response to the shelling of civilian infrastructure in the Belgorod region with US-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with high-precision weapons against Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities, including the Luch design bureau, which designs and manufactures NEPTUNE long-range guided missiles and rockets for the Olkha multiple launch rocket system. The strike targets were achieved, all facilities were hit.

▫️ Units of the North group of forces in the Kharkiv direction inflicted defeat on formations of the motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk and Glubokoe in the Kharkiv region.

The AFU lost up to 30 servicemen, two vehicles and three field artillery pieces.

▫️ Units of the West group of forces have taken up more advantageous lines and positions. The manpower and equipment of two airmobile brigades and an airborne assault regiment of the AFU were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Lozovaya and Zagryzovo in the Kharkiv region.

The enemy's losses amounted to 470 servicemen, a tank, two combat armored vehicles, including a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, five cars, eight field artillery guns, including two made by NATO countries. An ammunition depot was destroyed.

▫️ Units of the "Southern" group of forces improved their tactical position. Formations of three mechanized, airmobile and assault brigades of the AFU were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Novodmitrovka, Chasov Yar, Dachnoe and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The AFU lost more than 245 servicemen and four vehicles. An ammunition depot was destroyed.

▫️ As a result of successful offensive actions, units of the Center group of forces liberated the settlement of Petropavlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

Manpower and equipment of seven mechanized brigades of the AFU were damaged in the areas of the populated areas of Petrovka, Dzerzhinsk, Solenoe, Petrovpavlovka, Peschanoye, Novovasilevka and Slavyanka of the DPR.

The enemy lost up to 585 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, four cars and four artillery pieces.

▫️ Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense and liberated the settlement of Vremevka in the DPR.

The mechanized and airborne assault brigades of the AFU were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Constantinople and Velyka Novosyolka of the DPR.

The AFU lost up to 135 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, three cars and five foreign-made field artillery guns. An ammunition depot was destroyed.

▫️ Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of two marine brigades in the areas of the settlements of Antonovka and Kazatskoye in the Kherson region.

The enemy lost up to 65 servicemen, eight vehicles, a field artillery gun and a Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station.

▫️ Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups damaged the infrastructure of military airfields, a workshop for the production and assembly of unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment in 156 areas.

▫️ Air defense systems shot down 83 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.

▫️ In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,726 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,658 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,510 multiple launch rocket systems, 20,764 field artillery pieces and mortars, 30,459 units of special military vehicles."

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"⚡️ Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of repelling the attempted invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the territory of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region (as of January 18, 2025)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to defeat the formations of the AFU in the Kursk region.

▫️ Units of the North group of forces in the course of offensive operations defeated formations of a tank, heavy mechanized, four mechanized, two airborne assault brigades, and a marine brigade and three brigades of territorial defense of the AFU in the areas of the settlements of Guevo, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya Sorochina, Pogrebki, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. One enemy counterattack was repelled.

▫️ Strikes by operational-tactical, army aviation and artillery fire hit enemy manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Viktorovka, Zaoleshenka, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Loknya, Martynovka, Melovoy, Nikolsky, as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolaghi, Zhuravka and Miropolye in the Sumy region.
 
▫️ AFU losses in 24 hours More than 210 servicemen were killed, an armored personnel carrier, five armored combat vehicles, nine cars, an artillery piece and two mortars, as well as an ammunition depot and a UAV control center were destroyed.
 
▫️ In total, during the military operations in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 52,660 servicemen, 304 tanks, 231 infantry fighting vehicles, 174 armored personnel carriers, 1,567 armored combat vehicles, 1,502 vehicles, 372 artillery pieces, 44 multiple launch rocket system launchers, including 13 HIMARS and six MLRS made in the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile system launchers, eight transport and loading vehicles, 93 electronic warfare stations, 14 counter-battery radars, four air defense radars, 30 units of engineering and other equipment, including 13 engineering obstacle clearing vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing unit, as well as eight armored repair and recovery vehicles and a command and staff vehicle.

The operation to destroy the AFU formations continues."

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🇷🇺⚠️⚠️❌🗺 — 🇺🇦 General Staff of the Armed Forces:

"⚡️ 2 BALLISTIC MISSILES AND 24 ENEMY UAVS SHOT

On the night of January 18, 2025 (from 19:00 on January 17), the enemy attacked with 39 Shahed attack UAVs and simulator drones of various types from the directions: Millerovo, Bryansk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk - Russia, and also used four Iskander-M /KN -23 ballistic missiles (launches from the Voronezh and Bryansk regions).

The air attack was repelled by anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and Defense Forces of Ukraine.

💥 As of 08:00, the shooting down of two Iskander-M /KN -23 ballistic missiles in the Kyiv region and 24 Shahed attack UAVs and drones of other types in Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Donetsk regions has been confirmed.

14 enemy drone simulators were lost in location (without negative consequences).

Unfortunately, people died as a result of the enemy attack on Kyiv - the downed ballistic missiles fell in the Shevchenkivskyi district of the city. The production building of the enterprise was partially destroyed, houses, the entrance to the metro, cars and the main water supply were damaged."

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺🛢 — 🇺🇦 General Staff of the Armed Forces:

"Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the oil depot of the Russian occupiers in the Kaluga region

On the night of January 18, units of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces, successfully struck the Rosneft base in the settlement of Lyudinovo, Kaluga region of the Russian Federation.

This oil depot is part of JSC Kaluganefteproduct and is a logistics center that supplies units of the Russian Armed Forces that are directly participating in the war against Ukraine.

As a result of the attack, a fire broke out on the territory of the base. More detailed information on the results of the combat operation is being clarified.

The destruction of such facilities creates serious logistical problems for the army of the Russian aggressor."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 Russian channel @RVvoenkor:

"🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian Army is only 3 km from the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Russians are approaching Novosergeevka

➖"In the Pokrovsk direction north of Uspenovka, the Russians are bypassing Uspenovka itself and have already reached the settlement of Novosergeevka in the Donetsk region, which is located 3 kilometers from the borders of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Russian assault groups are being recorded there," this is what they are saying on Ukrainian TV.
▪️"The positions that should have been equipped and in which there should have been infantry to create a line of defense along which the Russians could not pass are in fact absent."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 Russian channel @RVvoenkor:

"🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The Russian army is trying to encircle Velyka Novosilka.

▪️The analytical resource Deep State, working for the Main Intelligence Directorate, writes about the difficult situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction.
▪️"It is becoming increasingly clear that the Russians are planning to capture Velikaya Novoselka without getting involved in fighting in the development.
▪️Over the past three days, Russian troops have captured Neskuchnoye and are conducting a final cleanup of Vremevka. The latter has effectively been lost, although even if there is still an observation post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village, this will no longer play a role.
▪️If by midday on January 15, there was still information that Ukrainian forces were resisting in Neskuchnoye, then closer to nightfall the Russians were already in the center of Vremovka.
▪️How two entire villages ended up empty in 3 days is still unknown."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 Russian channel @RVvoenkor:

"🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian Army Breaks Through Pokrovsk, Storming Udachnoye and Kotlino

▪️On the continuing collapse of the front under Ukrainian military analysts from DS write about Pokrovsky.
▪️On the morning of January 17, the forces of the "Center" group began assault operations on the Pokrovsk Mine Administration and the landing perpendicular to the railway forest belts.
▪️"The Russians have been pushing into Kotlino in recent days, trying to gain a foothold, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to prevent them from doing so. Since Thursday, information has been coming in about the presence of Russians at mine № 2 of the Pokrovskoye mine administration. Active fighting has continued in recent days.
▪️The Russians are bringing up reserves. The amount of equipment in the area is quite small, so the main problems are created by small groups of infantry," Kyiv propagandists complain."

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