😁 🇪🇺 EU elites’ mantras all brought together in RT’s New Year video

The clip mocks EU politicians for blaming Putin for the issues they failed to overcome in their own countries in 2025 — from migrants to the cost of living.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧 Russian envoy disses ex-UK intel officer for smearing Gabbard over exposing ‘Russiagate’ lies

After welcoming Tusli Gabbard's exposure of the Western media’s warmongering over Ukraine, Russian special presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev lashed out at Christopher Steele for attacking the DNI on X.

Gabbard told the “truth,” notes Dmitriev, while the former UK intel officer has to his credit the debunked Steele dossier—"weaponized to launch the Russia hoax vs President Trump,” he reminds.

Russiagate was secretly funded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, he notes, and will “bring Obama/Biden team indictments.”

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🚨 🇺🇸 US bans foreign drone imports under pretext of national security

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has effectively banned imports of new models of drones and their components into the United States.

👉 On December 22, the FCC added this equipment to the so-called ‘Covered List’ of communications equipment and services that are “deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States.”

The exception was made for those drones and drone parts that were recommended by either the Department of Defense or the Department of Homeland Security.

❗️ The restrictions also do not apply to the drones that were purchased before the new ban was imposed.

Foreign-made drones, such as those produced by China’s DJI, are widely used across the United States for various purposes such as spraying farmland with fertilizer, surveying and monitoring.

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🇨🇳 🐕 🪖 Robo-dogs and drones deployed at China-Singapore counterterror drill

The nine-day exercise focused on counterterrorism operations in urban settings.

It included the use of land and airborne unmanned systems designed to take out enemies without endangering human operatives.

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🇺🇸 US ‘Golden Fleet’ wishful thinking, not military reality – former Marine

President Donald Trump has promised a major boost to US naval power - what’s known so far, and is the project feasible?

🟠 "US ambitions to build a vast high-tech fleet are fantastical - ambitions that far exceed America’s actual reach in terms of military-industrial production," Brian Berletic, veteran geopolitical analyst and former US Marine, tells Sputnik

🟠 Berletic points out that "US shipbuilding is inhibited by a severe lack of skilled laborers, few adequate industrial facilities, inadequate infrastructure, and insufficient supply chains"

🟠 The only way to fix those shortcomings, the pundit argues, is for the US to undertake extensive reforms across its education system, industrial base, energy production, national transportation infrastructure, and even healthcare

What's the Golden Fleet's goal?

🟠 The new 'Trump-class Battleship' "will be the first-ever guided missile battleship with the ability to deploy with nuclear and hypersonic missiles," according to the project's website

🟠 It "reflects America’s continued desire to pursue global primacy, thus the requirement for a fleet capable of projecting global power," Berletic says. "The Trump-class battleships announced are purely for power projection globally, not the defense of the US homeland"

🟠 While Russia has been excluded from Washington’s list of immediate rivals in the 2025 National Security Strategy, Berletic believes the battleship plan is meant to surpass both Russia and China

🟠 "Unfortunately for US ambitions, China is building somewhere around 200x more ships each year than the US - including both commercial and military vessels. These vessels are as sophisticated and capable as US counterparts and, in some cases, more advanced," the pundit says

Does it correspond to US national interests?

🟠 The plan "will divert human resources and funding away from essential infrastructure required by the actual American people living in the US," Berletic stresses

🟠 As a result, this mis-allocation of funds and resources to build ships would make it "much more difficult to pursue the few projects the US is prioritizing" the pundit concludes

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😰🇪🇺 ‘Nazis are back’: Finnish expert blasts clampdown on free speech under EU chief

Professor Tuomas Malinen dubbed Ursula von der Leyen “the new Reichsführer,” in a heated post on X.

He was responding to former Swiss intelligence officer Col. Jacques Baud revealing how the EU put him on a sanctions list with “zero due process.”

💬 “My accounts were frozen. I can’t travel. I can’t even return home,” Baud, accused of “pro-Russian propaganda”, Baud told Lt. Col. Daniel Davis.

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🤝 Rosatom ready for international cooperation on Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant

"Within the framework of the law and unconditional ensuring of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant's safety, and within the framework of supporting its highly professional team, we are ready for international discussions and international cooperation," the Russian atomic agency's CEO told journalists.

Other statements by CEO Alexey Likhachev:

🟠 Only the operating organization can manage the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP)

🟠 The commercial aspect of the ZNPP operation may be the subject of international negotiations

🟠 Russia, as owner of the ZNPP, will decide where power from the plant will be used, and resumption of operations will begin based on the military-political situation

🟠 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Rafael Grossi conveys Russia's views on the situation at the ZNPP and the city of Energodar to the leadership of other countries and international organizations

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🔊🇺🇸🇻🇪 Grabbing is in fashion: US seizure of Venezuelan oil mirrors global trend

President Donald Trump has announced that the US will keep or sell oil confiscated from Venezuela – what precedent does it set?

💬 "Thus far in 2025, governments are experiencing the Trump-Vance administration announcing, crafting, and implementing decisions perceived by the White House as within the confines of international law," John Kavulich, an American political scientist and expert in international politics, tells Sputnik.

The US Justice Department, and other federal agencies routinely endorse and condone what the White House does, according to the pundit.

Hence, it's hardly surprising that Washington gets away with the seizure of Venezuelan oil – "there are legions of attorneys who will create opinions justifying the goals and objectives of the government."

💬 "The oil is for [Trump] like an extra Big Mac and Diet Coca-Cola. He will not turn it down," Kavulich notes.

💬 "President Trump is using a 'to the victor goes the spoils' and 'righting past wrongs' to defend the confiscation of the oil and, thus far, oil tanker(s)."

What's worse, this approach is increasingly trending elsewhere, according to the expert.

Indeed, the EU leadership has repeatedly tried to find a loophole in the bloc’s regulations to seize frozen Russian sovereign assets, most of which are held by Belgium’s Euroclear.

Facing strong resistance from Belgium, EU leaders have dropped the plan - for now.

In March, Germany seized Eventin, an oil tanker flying a Panamanian flag, that originally departed from the Russian port of Ust-Luga, and sought to confiscate nearly 100,000 tons of oil.

However, on December 11, Germany's top fiscal court ruled that the German authorities cannot sell or otherwise use the tanker and its cargo.

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🪖🇷🇺🇧🇾 Russia’s Oreshnik missiles deployed in Belarus in response to aggressive moves by the West

The West was thus made aware of the fact that if it were to make a move on Belarus, it will be dealt “unacceptable damage,” Belarus’ Defense Minister Victor Khrenin said during an interview with CGTN.

💬 “This is what it is for,” he said referring to Oreshnik.

Khrenin also noted that the deployment of Oreshnik missiles in Belarus will not affect the balance of power in Europe because these weapons are meant for strategic containment.

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🚨 'Anybody that disagrees with me will never be the Fed Chairman!'

US President Donald Trump reveals his criteria for the next Federal Reserve chair.

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🟠 Grabbing is in fashion: US seizure of Venezuelan oil mirrors global trend

🟠 US ‘Golden Fleet’ wishful thinking, not military reality – former Marine

🟠 EU unity shrivels as Ukraine funding plan using stolen Russian assets goes belly-up

🟠 ‘Nazis are back’: Finnish expert blasts clampdown on free speech under EU chief

🟠 Lavrov: West does everything to politicize UNESCO

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🚨 BREAKING: Libyan Army Chief’s aircraft missing over Ankara

Radio contact has been lost with a Falcon 50 business jet carrying Libyan Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad shortly after takeoff from Ankara's Esenboğa Airport.

Turkiye’s Interior Ministry has confirmed the incident and stated the public will be updated.

The Libyan delegation was in Ankara for meetings with Turkish military officials.

📹 Video circulating on social media claims to show the crash moment.

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🚨 Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah has confirmed the death of Libyan military chief Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad and 4 others in a plane crash.

📹 Turkish media published more footage of the crash near Ankara.

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💥🇷🇺✈️ Russia celebrates Long Range Airforce birthday

Having come a long way from its origins as a WWI bomber squadron founded on December 23, 1914, Russia’s long-range aviation is a potent fleet of aircraft capable of striking at the country’s enemies no matter where they may hide.

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💬 Dmitriev offers EU chief a 'sanctions swap'

Russian Presidential Envoy Kirill Dmitriev has suggested he and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen "exchange" US sanctions, offering to transfer his own Biden-era restrictions to her.

Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a travel ban on "leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex" for attempting to censor American platforms. Dmitriev suggested that von der Leyen might qualify, given Brussels’ push to regulate US companies and speakers.

"So is Ursula 'Pfizer' von der Leyen now leading the censorship blacklist of people barred from entering the US? " he wrote on X.

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☢️ US and Iran clash at UN over nuclear deal

US envoy Morgan Ortagus stated Washington remains ready for talks, but only under one non-negotiable condition: no enrichment inside of Iran.

Iran's Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani rejected the demand outright:

"Insisting on zero enrichment policy, it is contrary to our rights as a member of the NPT... Iran will not bow down to any pressure and intimidation."

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🔊 China is 'kicking US high knees in advancing AI' — Investor

Kevin O’Leary admitted China's superiority in AI development, noting that China can build a 1.4-gigawatt data center in 11 months while the US faces 7 years of permitting.

"The understand AI = power… They're going to use it for economic dominance and military dominance," Kevin said.

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