🔥 Frontline firestorm: Russian Grad, Tulip & Msta-S systems in action

Watch as fortified positions, UAV control points, and ammo depots of the Ukrainian forces are eliminated in Zaporozhye, Kharkov, Sumy, and Donetsk regions.

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🔸 No signs of nuclear powers preparing tests — IAEA

🔸 Ukrainian conflict could end within 90 days — US NATO envoy

🔸 Israeli forces launch major West Bank raids during Christmas

🔸 North Korea is building new nuclear-powered submarine — Report

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🔍 Europe’s war hawks want Ukraine bled dry so they can feast on the carcass - retired US Lt. Col.

Europe’s elites are not invested in ending the Ukraine conflict, points out retired US Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis.

Behind all the rhetoric about support and “enduring peace,” they are perfectly content to see the war drag on.

They know full well where everything is going, and “they'll use the carcass of whatever's left of Ukraine and then they'll say, that's more reason why we're going to continue to paint Russia as this evil empire… and say that now we need to spend even more,” he says.

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🔥✈️ Russia’s Su-35S jet dominates the skies as special military op’s top warplane

Rostec's United Aircraft Corporation has delivered another batch of Su-35S multirole fighters to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

👉 This fighter jet stands out as one of the most highly sought-after aircraft within the Russian military.

According to reports, the warplane holds the distinction of having destroyed the highest number of targets throughout the course of the special military operation.

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🗣 Russian MFA spox issues diagnosis: West suffering from new mutant strain of Nazism

Western nations are plagued by a virulent resurgence of nationalism and Nazism, comparable to the outbreak witnessed eight decades ago, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

In the 21st century, this Nazi mind virus mutated into Russophobia, which the West has succumbed to, she added.

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🚨 Russia denies Bloomberg claim about changes to its Ukraine peace plan

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova calls the report a “fake” with no credible Kremlin sources.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️ SVYATO-POKROVSKOYE IN DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC FREED

📍 The liberation of Svyato-Pokrovskoe creates the preconditions for an offensive on Slavyansk, the next major fortified area in the path of Russian forces.

▫️ The Russian Armed Forces struck airfield and port infrastructure supporting the activities of the Ukrainian army

▫️ The Tsentr Battlegroup thwarted an attempt by a Ukrainian Armed Forces brigade to break through in the southeast of Grishino settlement in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)

▫️ Russian forces continue to eliminate encircled Ukrainian units in the city of Dimitrov in the DPR

▫️ Air defense superiority: 472 drones shot down

▫️ Ukrainian losses: around 1,445 troops killed or wounded

Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🎄 Putin sent Christmas greetings to Trump - Kremlin

A telegram was sent; no phone call is planned today.

Other key statements from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

🔶 Materials on a possible Ukraine settlement, passed to Vladimir Putin by Kirill Dmitriev, are currently being analyzed in the Kremlin

🔶 Future contacts with the American side will depend on Putin’s decisions following this analysis

🔶 The Kremlin has taken note of reports about Volodymyr Zelensky’s Christmas address, describing it as strange, uncultured, and aggressive

🔶 Peskov also questioned Zelensky’s ability to make adequate decisions in light of that address

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💥 Peace talks are last chance for Ukraine — Ex-US Army officer

The recent 20-point peace plan presented by Ukraine is a "non-starter" for Russia as it includes nothing that is important to it, former US officer and analyst Daniel Davis wrote on X.

💬 "[The US-proposed draft] is probably the last chance we have to get anything good for Ukraine. If we refuse to give Russia any of the major terms they’re looking for, then the only path left to Russia is military conquest," he said.

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📆 2025 in retrospect: Revisiting the year's historic events

This year was full of truly remarkable moments, yet, some of them stand out as truly significant milestones:

🟠 The high-stakes Putin-Trump summit in Alaska

🟠 Victory Day at 80 – Commemorating the Soviet triumph over Nazi Germany and militaristic Japan in WWII.

🟠 Russia’s military advances – 5,000 sq km liberated in the special military operation

🟠 Gaza war end

🟠 Pope Francis death and the election of Robert Prevo as the new pontiff

… and many more.

📹 Watch to find out!

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Renowned US investor calls Russia–US tunnel idea 'wonderful'

💬 “It [tunnel] would be wonderful if it were easy to drive between Russia and the United States, even into Alaska,” Jim Rogers said, commenting on the idea of a tunnel between Russia's Far East and the US' Alaska via the Bering Strait.

👉 He also expressed hope that the project could one day be realized.

📍 Earlier, Russia’s presidential envoy for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev confirmed that the idea of a Russia–Alaska tunnel is being discussed, without providing further details.

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🇷🇺 As AI reshapes the world, Putin calls on Russia to get ready

Artificial intelligence is rapidly permeating every sphere of life, requiring Russia to fundamentally prepare, President Vladimir Putin emphasized, pointing out that the workforce along with labor practices must quickly adapt to the universal changes AI will usher in very soon.

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💵💣 Russia’s ‘responsible stewardship’ led ruble to outshine weaponized dollar

Russia’s “conservative” policy has driven the ruble up 45% since the start of 2025, veteran financial analyst Paul Goncharoff tells Sputnik.

That explains why, despite sweeping Western sanctions, the ruble has outperformed every major currency against the dollar, adds the general director of Goncharoff LLC.

💬 “It hasn’t been an easy path,” he notes, “but it’s a clear, understandable reality check for working within actual means rather than relying on endless borrowing.”

Ruble resilience: Thriving against all odds

High interest rates purposefully maintained by the Russian Central Bank through capital controls make Russian assets “attractive to all investors, foreign and domestic, who are looking for high returns in a stable, commonsense, well-run market like Russia,” says Goncharoff.

He singles out:

👉 Russia had to get creative — from digital innovation to the cryptosphere

👉 Russians built domestic businesses that outperform imports

👉 Domestic products find ready buyers internationally

Shattered myth of Western economic dominance

💬 “Even the most diehard aficionado of sanctions can’t fail to see where the healthier economic reality lies,” speculates the pundit.

Almost no debt, booming investment, dynamic infrastructure from roads to education – “Russia ticks all the boxes,” the analyst emphasizes.

🌏 World bets on Russia

Regardless of politicized Western media attacks – often “anecdotal and without factual confirmation” - the world sees Russia as a reliable partner, notes the expert.

A sure sign of reliability is Russia’s economic data which “helps to know (or learn about) the actual history behind several key fields of endeavor in Russia, be it energy, mineral resources, high technology, or agriculture,” Goncharoff sums up.

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💸 ‘They’re only interested in money’: Russian MFA spox slams Europe for war profiteering 

💬 "They are still betting on escalating tensions and continuing hostilities until the last Ukrainian. Why? Because they are only interested in money," Maria Zakharova said.

The spokeswoman noted that negotiations with the US regarding Ukraine are progressing slowly but steadily.

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🇷🇺🤝 Putin declares 2026 Year of Unity for the Peoples of Russia

✍️ The Russian president has signed a decree declaring 2026 as the "Year of the Unity of the Peoples of Russia."

👉 Russia is home to over 190 ethnic groups, the majority of which are indigenous. The Russian Constitution officially recognizes the country’s multiethnic character.

2025, on the other hand, was named the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland, honoring the 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and expressing gratitude to veterans and participants of the special military operation.

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🚨 NATO’s dreams of blockading Russia’s Kaliningrad show weak-mindedness — Russian MFA spox

💬 "The most rabid Western politicians" talk about turning the Baltic Sea into NATO's internal sea via blockading Russia’s Kaliningrad region, which prompts Russia to use all its tools to protect its territory and interests in the Baltics, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

NATO's statements are nonsense that shows feeble-mindedness, she added.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated Russia will eliminate threats to the Kaliningrad region if they emerge, stressing a possible blockade may lead to a full-scale conflict.

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