📹Russian security forces detained a former Azov* militant in the LPR who had planned terrorist attacks

*banned in Russia for terrorist activities

Intensified cooperation with NATO undermines Moldova’s security and the supply of western arms would only bring negative consequences, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin told Sputnik.

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📹WATCH: A woman from the Rubezhnoe settlement (LPR) describes how the Ukrainian Army shelled residential buildings

New Year the Japanese Way: Start Your Life From Scratch

New Year's Day is the most beloved and colorful holiday in Japan. The Japanese have been celebrating it since 1873 on January 1 by the western calendar. However, the custom of celebrating the Christian Christmas preceding the New Year did not become an integral part of Japanese cultural tradition until a century later, in the 1970s.

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Mecca flooded, whole streets turned into rivers

Crisis and disaster management officials in Mecca are asking residents not to leave their homes due to the devastating flash flood that hit the holy city on Friday.

📹WATCH: Russian President Vladimir Putin inspects an armored carrier at the Shcheglovsky Val machine-building plant in Tula.

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Russian S-400s, Iskanders Sent to Belarus Will Boost Joint Air Defense – Foreign Ministry

Russian S-400 air defense systems and Iskander missile systems supplied to Belarus will increase the effectiveness of joint air defenses, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin told Sputnik.

"The Belarusian Armed Forces received the latest Russian weapons – the S-400 air defense systems and short-range ballistic missile systems Iskander," Galuzin said.

"This should improve the combat capability of the Belarusian Army and the efficiency of the unified Russian-Belarusian air defense system," Galuzin emphasized.

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🐈 This three-year-old curious kitty explores the crosses on the handlebars of a moped.

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❗️ Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ In the Kharkov region, artillery strikes hit troops and military equipment of the 14th mechanized brigade and the 92nd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Up to 50 Ukrainian troops, four armored combat vehicles and two pickup trucks were destroyed.

▪️ In the DPR, Russian aviation and artillery hit the positions of the 111th Territorial Defense Brigade and the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. More than 40 Ukrainian troops, three armored combat vehicles and four vehicles were destroyed.

▪️ Near Donetsk, in the course of offensive operations, Russian troops destroyed a combined tactical group of foreign mercenaries and defeated units of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The irretrievable losses of the enemy per day in this direction amounted to 60 Ukrainian troops and mercenaries, four armored personnel carriers and three pickup trucks.

▪️ Russian aviation and artillery hit the concentration of units of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk People's Republic, killing more than 40 Ukrainian troops, four armored combat vehicles and six vehicles.

▪️ Missile troops and artillery of the Russian group of troops hit: the command post of the 65th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the depot of missile and artillery weapons in the Zaporozhye region, as well as 53 artillery units, manpower and military equipment in 92 districts.

▪️ Russian aviation shot down a Ukrainian Su-27 in the DPR. In addition, Ukrainian Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters were shot down.

▪️ Russian air defense systems in the Donetsk People's Republic shot down a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force. Also, fifteen Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted during the day.

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Russian Defense Ministry Names New Senior Participants in Military Bio Program in Ukraine

The Russian Defense Ministry named new high-ranking participants in the US' military biological program in Ukraine, including ex-heads of the US Department of Health structures, all of them associated with the Democratic Party.

"Earlier, we presented materials confirming the participation of Hunter Biden and his Rosemont Seneca Foundation, as well as other structures controlled by the US Democratic Party in financing the Pentagon's main contractors operating in Ukraine. It was shown how deeply the son of the current US President [Joe Biden], Hunter Biden, is involved in financing the Metabiota company controlled by the US Ministry of Defense," commander of Russian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov said following the 9th Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention.

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