📹 Russian pilots perform air patrol tasks and cover the operations of the Russian Armed Forces as part of a special operation in Ukraine (video by Russia's MoD)

Su-34 fighter-bombers are on combat sorties around the clock at home airfields. Combat sorties are carried out with the use of missile weapons of various classes.

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Protests, Inflation & a New King: How 2022 Treated the UK

A new monarch, a new prime minister and a precarious economy are but a few marks left by the outgoing year on the fabric of the British state.

2022 was quite intense for the United Kingdom, with a number of monumental events drastically affecting the country’s politics and economy. Analyzing how 2022 went for the UK in our article.

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Twitter Files: FBI's Infiltration of Big Tech is Step on Path to Totalitarian State, Journo Warns

US author Michael Shellenberger released the seventh tranche of the explosive "Twitter Files" earlier this week to shed light on the FBI's censorship and meddling with the platform. New Twitter owner Elon Musk made internal Twitter files available for several US investigative journalists in December.

The recently released sixth and seventh batches of the Twitter Files shed light on the FBI's instructions to censor specific tweets and accounts for "violating" the company's terms of service.

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📹 Grad MLRS battery in action

Enemy targets are suppressed by multiple rocket launchers and 122mm rockets hit platoon strongholds and enemy forces in concentration areas before they reach their lines.

After each fire, the vehicles covertly change position, reload, and strike again. Artillerymen coordinate with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to get target designations and fire adjustment.

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UK Tabloid Apologizes For Jeremy Clarkson's Column on Meghan Markle

Jeremy Clarkson’s stern remarks about the Duchess of Sussex have prompted a wide public uproar, with more than 20,000 complaints against the UK presenter’s article made to the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

A UK tabloid has extended an apology over British television host Jeremy Clarkson's column on Meghan Markle, keeping mum, however, on whether any action had been taken against the Top Gear presenter.

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📹 A captured soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine speaks about the attitude of Ukrainian command towards ordinary soldiers.

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Pentagon Considers Buying Electric Planes to Confront China – Report

In October, the US Department of Defense issued a request for information (RFI) to assess how a new electric aircraft might be deployed for military operations. The Pentagon said that the RFI, which is “solely for planning purposes,” aims “to better understand the current cost benefit” of the plane.

The Pentagon continues to move toward rolling out its first-ever electric plane amid a technological war with China, a US media outlet has reported.

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The US Department of Energy has allowed the state of Texas to bypass some emissions standards for power plants in order to prevent a shortage of electricity during Christmas.

"I hereby determine that an emergency exists in Texas due to a shortage of electric energy, a shortage of facilities for the generation of electric energy, and other causes, and that issuance of this Order will meet the emergency and serve the public interest," Kathleen Hogan, Undersecretary of Energy for Infrastructure at the department, said.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) asked the US Department of Energy on Friday to exceed federal air quality restrictions in order to compensate for a higher demand for power amid unusually cold weather.

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❗️The 69-year-old shooter who opened fire near a Kurdish cultural center in Paris earlier this week, killing three people, has been transferred to a psychiatric infirmary, the prosecutor's office said.

💬"The doctor who examined the suspect today in the late afternoon declared that the state of health of the person concerned was not compatible with the measure of police custody," the Paris prosecutor's office said, adding that the suspect "was taken to the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters."

The prosecutor’s office specified that the police custody measure was lifted pending the suspect’s appearance before the judge, "when his state of health allows it."

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Sleeper in the Bog: Ancient Skeleton Found in Denmark Might Have Been Victim of Ritual Sacrifice

Scientists believe that the bones belong to a victim of ritual sacrifice practiced over 5,000 years ago.

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient body in Egedal Municipality, near Copenhagen, Denmark.

Researchers at ROMU, an organization representing 10 museums in Denmark, were excavating at the site of a planned housing development when one of them noticed a femur sticking out of the mud. After that they were able to retrieve nearly all the bones from both legs, a pelvis, and a jaw.

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📹WATCH: Captured Ukrainian servicemen admit that those Ukrainians who are mobilized are almost never given military training

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❗️Around 60 percent of the US population has already faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning as a result of the brutal storm, which is expected to persist in the coming days.

▪️A massive winter storm has left at least 28 people dead and about 380,000 homes and businesses without power across the US, where more than 8,000 flights have been canceled since Friday due to the Arctic blast.

▪️The National Weather Service (NWS) reported that the storm was almost unprecedented in its scope, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande River along the border with Mexico.

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❗️Ukrainian media reports explosions in Kiev, according to it's data, an air alert has been delcared in all parts of Ukraine

❗️An unknown individual opened fire in a pub in the UK county of Merseyside on Christmas Eve, killing one woman and injuring several other people, local police said on Sunday.

🗣"We can confirm we have launched a murder investigation following the death of a woman in Wallasey Village," the Merseyside Police said in a statement.

📌The incident occurred in the Wallasey Village district at around 23:50 GMT on Saturday.

🇷🇺Russia will look for new markets and logistics even at higher costs so as not to supply oil at prices set by the West, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Sunday.

🗣"We will not supply oil by contracts, which will indicate price limits offered by Western countries. This is out of the question. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia will not supply oil under agreements that specify price caps," Siluanov stated.

The minister also said that Russia will look for new consumers as the demand for oil is expected to increase. "We will look for new markets, we will look for new logistics, and perhaps it will be more expensive," Siluanov specified.

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⚡️Latest statements made by Russian President Vladimir Putin:

▪️Russia is ready to negotiate with all participants to the conflict in Ukraine, but they refuse;

▪️Russian President Vladimir Putin on the situation in Ukraine: we simply have no other choice but to protect our citizens;

▪️Russia is going in the right direction in the conflict with Ukraine, protecting its national interests and its citizens;

▪️Russian President Vladimir Putin says '100%' sure that Russia will destroy US Patriot missiles in Ukraine;

▪️West is aiming to 'tear apart' Russia.

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Twitter Files: Staffers Had to 'Triage' Multiple FBI Requests on Tackling 'Misinformation' Accounts

The publication of Twitter Files kicked off on December 2 after a pledge by the social platform's chief executive Elon Musk to release the company's internal dialogue on the suppression of the New York Post's exclusive Hunter Biden laptop story.

The recently released sixth and seventh batches of the Twitter Files claimed that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had issued instructions to censor specific tweets and accounts for "violating" the company's terms of service.

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❗️An update by Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov:

▪️Oil and gas price ceilings are unacceptable for Russia, we will never agree to the destruction of market pricing;

▪️Germany's concern about Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Minsk absurd: contacts are made not against someone, but in the name of mutual benefit.

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

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 30 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed three Ukrainian armored combat vehicles and three other vehicles near Kupyansk;

▪️Russian troops eliminated and wounded up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed four Ukrainian armored combat vehicles and three pick-up trucks near Krasny Liman;

▪️The Russian Army eliminated more than 80 Ukrainian troops and mercenaries, as well as destroyed two tanks, five armored combat vehicles and four other vehicles near Donetsk;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 50 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed one tank and three armored combat vehicles near the Pavlovka and Vladimirovka settlements (DPR);

▪️Russian troops hit 58 Ukrainian artillery units at their firing positions;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed two Ukrainian Uragan MLRSs in the DPR, as well as two Ukrainian Grad MLRSs in the LPR.

▪️In addition Russian troops destroyed a Krab Polish-made self-propelled artillery station in the DPR, as well as destroyed three US-made M777 artillery systems in the Kharkov region and in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defenses destroyed five Ukrainian UAVs, as well as intercepted six HIMARS and Uragan rockets.

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📌 WATCH LIVE: Pope Francis Delivers Urbi et Orbi Blessing From St. Peter's Basilica on Christmas Day