🎥 "We lived through a nightmare out there": Many foreign mercenaries remain at the Severodonetsk Azot Plant, said a woman who recently managed to escape from the plant's bomb shelter.

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⚡️ Russia has warned Turkey that new Syria op would lead to more violence, may prompt separatism

❗️ Kremlin spokesman Peskov on the situation in Ukraine:

▪️ Moscow does not have information concerning alleged US soldiers captured by the Russian military in Ukraine;

▪️ The Kremlin is aware of Ukrainian politicians' threats regarding the Crimean bridge, they have been taken into consideration;

▪️ Crimea's security is preventively guaranteed by the Russian military;

▪️ The continuation of negotiations with Ukraine is tough: they are halted;

▪️ Moscow will welcome any recognition of the DPR and LPR by other countries, especially Syria;

▪️ The Kremlin hopes that Macron, Draghi and Scholz will not focus on pumping Ukraine with weapons during their visit to Kiev: this will extend people's suffering;

▪️ The Kremlin hopes that Macron, Draghi and Scholz will encourage Zelensky to look at the situation objectively.

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Ghislaine Maxwell faced a “credible death threat” from a fellow inmate who plotted to ‘strangle her in her sleep’, her defence lawyer has claimed.

The allegation came in a court filing aimed at lightening Maxwell’s sex trafficking sentence for procuring young women for Jeffrey Epstein.

🗣 “(One) of the female inmates in Ms Maxwell’s housing unit told at least three other inmates that she had been offered money to murder Ms Maxwell and that she planned to strangle her in her sleep,” her defence lawyer said in the filing.

The inmate allegedly claimed that "an additional 20 years incarceration would be worth the money she'd receive for murdering Ms Maxwell".

Maxwell's lawyer also argued that she should be sentenced to “well below” the 20-year imprisonment probation authorities recommended in her New York sex-trafficking case.

🌌 For the fist time, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spoted a white dwarf star ripping up its planetary system.

Photo credit: NASA's Twitter

🗣 📸 The Ukrainian press has published a photo from the talks between the European leaders and Zelensky.

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🎥 The All-Russia People's Front delivered humanitarian aid to residents of Kirovsk, Lugansk region.

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🇺🇸 John Hinckley Jr. has received an unconditional release from legally restricted living over 40 years after he shot former US President Ronald Reagan in a failed assassination attempt, according to the shooter’s social media.

🤯 Tom Hanks yelled at an aggressive fan and rushed to protect his wife after she was knocked over by a crowd while out in in New York City on Wednesday. 

▪️ The typically composed actor, 65, turned and yelled at fans to 'back the f**k off' after he and Rita Wilson, 65, were mobbed outside a restaurant in Midtown. 

▪️ The shocking moment comes amid ongoing concerns regarding Tom's health, after he was filmed visibly shaking and unable to control his arm earlier this month. 

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⚡️ Mercenaries from the US and Britain are in Severodonetsk, LPR authorities say

😑 The House 6 January Select Committee will present evidence during its third public hearing on Thursday to show how then-president Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure then-vice president Mike Pence to block certification of the 2020 election led to the Capitol breach, according to CNN.

🗯 “We’re going to show that that pressure campaign directly contributed to the attack on the Capitol, and it put the vice president’s life in danger,” one of the panel’s aides was cited by NBC News as telling reporters on Wednesday.

▪️ They added that the Thursday hearing would focus on Trump’s pressure campaign against Pence despite being told by lawyers in the White House counsel's office that the vice president did not have the authority to unilaterally subvert the election results.

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❗️ Donetsk mayor reports shelling of city center, says there are victims

🎞 Oscar winning actor Kevin Spacey has vowed to clear his name after appearing in court in London, where he charged with sexually assaulting three men.

👨‍⚖️ The 62-year-old Hollywood star attended Westminster Magistrates’ Court after returning to Britain from his home in the United States to face four counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.

▪️ The allegations relate to three men, now in their 30s and 40s, in London and Gloucestershire between 2005 and 2013, while Spacey was artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London.

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⚡️ Stoltenberg has announced that NATO's defence ministers have decided to increase the bloc's forces in Eastern Europe

📹 А clergyman tells how he was tortured by the Ukrainian security forces, who killed a man in front of him.

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❗️ Russian MoD: Fever-carrying mosquitoes studied in Ukrainian labs may have been used by US in Cuba

⚡️ Downing Street publishes resignation letter from Boris Johnson's ethics adviser Lord Geidt

▪️ NATO is "close" to accepting two new members - Pentagon chief Austin after talks in Brussels

▪️ Since the beginning of Russia's special op in Ukraine, NATO has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers. This move will continue, Austin confirmed.

❗️ Key points from the Russian MoD’s briefing on the US biolabs in Ukraine:

▪️ Since 2015, when large-scale financing of Ukrainian projects by the Pentagon began, numerous infections have been recorded among the military and residents of the DPR and LPR.

▪️ In 2016, the incidence of tularemia increased 9.5-fold compared to 2007, the number of cases among military personnel was especially high.

▪️ In NATO guidance documents, tularemia is considered one of the priority biological agents - it was used in the alliance's exercises in Sweden, as was confirmed in 2012.

▪️ Since 2017, in the 12 regions of Ukraine where biological facilities controlled by the Pentagon are located, dozens of outbreaks of hepatitis A have been recorded - more than 10 thousand people have fallen ill, in most cases the cause of the diseases has not been established.

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