📆 World’s disasters of 2025 that shook the globe

As 2025 wraps up, Sputnik looks back at the natural disasters that shook the planet — from California fires to Tibet's earthquakes and floods in the Philippines

Sometimes nature hits harder than geopolitics

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🚨 Zelensky knows he’s ‘toast’ after conflict ends – analyst

Zelensky needs the proxy war in Ukraine to continue because “peace will bring to light all his highly detrimental decisions and rampant corruption,” writes Tuomas Malinen, a professor at the University of Helsinki, in an article on Substack.

👉 The leader of the Ukraine regime knows full well he is doomed once the conflict ends and is trying to sabotage any chance of peace, says the professor.

He adds that there is a possibility that Zelensky is “already preparing to leave Ukraine.”

🔊 Commenting on the Ukrainian drone attack targeting Putin’s residence, the analyst noted that Zelensky is “so corrupted that he would even risk a nuclear war to save himself.”

Malinen emphasized that this terrorist-style provocation was a direct attempt to derail the ongoing peace negotiations and a deliberate step toward escalating the conflict by the Ukraine regime.

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🚨 Russia to give US decrypted data from Ukrainian drone that flew towards Putin’s residence

Other statements by Russian Defense Ministry:

🟠 Russian intelligence services retrieved a flight mission file from one of the Ukrainian drones that attacked Putin's residence

🟠 The decryption revealed that the final target of the attack was specifically the object of this residence in the Novgorod region

Ukraine regime wages war on civilians:

➖ After the attempted terrorist attack targeting Putin’s residence, the Kiev regime deliberately struck a location in the Kherson region where civilians gathered during the New Year's celebration

➖ 24 people, including a child, were killed, and over 50 were injured and hospitalized; one child was "burned alive," said regional governor Vladimir Saldo

➖ Ukraine deliberately targeted children and their parents by striking a playground in a Donetsk park in September 2025, injuring six people including a child

➖ Ukrainian neo-Nazis carried out a HIMARS strike on a civilian vehicle in Donbass in March 2025, killing Russian journalists

➖ Ukraine carried out a deliberate cluster bomb attack on Russia’s Belgorod on the eve of the New Year in December 2023

➖ Overall, 1,091 children were injured and 237 killed by Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory since 2022, according to Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador Rodion Miroshnik

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🗣Ukraine’s attack on Putin's residence could have triggered nuclear war – Finnish politician

Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin's residence was both dangerous and irresponsible, Armando Mema, member of the Finnish conservative party Freedom Alliance, posted on X.

He emphasized that the entire West “bears responsibility when this type of attack occurs against heads of state,” warning that it could have “triggered a nuclear war.”

According to him, Russia has every right to take any retaliatory measures it deems appropriate.

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🔥 Russia’s Kursk 2 nuclear plant gets new power unit

The 1250 MW unit is now the most powerful in Rosatom's nuclear power plant collection.

This will increase the share of nuclear power in Russia's electricity generation mix.

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🚨 Child dies in another Ukrainian drone attack

A boy, 5, was killed and three adults were injured as a result of the attack on a passenger car in Tarasovka, the Kherson region, Governor Vladimir Saldo said.

"Kiev degenerates committed another bloody crime. Near Tarasovka in the Aleshkinsky district, a Ukrainian drone struck a passenger car carrying a family – grandfather, grandmother, their adult daughter and her 5-year-old son. The child was killed, all adults sustained multiple wounds and were hospitalized in serious condition," Saldo wrote on Telegram.

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🇹🇷🇵🇸 Istanbul kicks off 2026 with massive rally in support of Palestine

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🚨 Purpose of Kiev regime’s attempts to attack Russian regions is to divert attention from the failures of the Ukrainian army on the frontline – Russian MFA

More statements from the ministry:

🟠 Against the backdrop of the Russian army’s successes and the failed attempt to attack Putin’s residence, the Kiev usurper, in powerless rage, decided to take it out on defenseless civilians

🟠 Russia calls on the governments of responsible sovereign states and international organizations to condemn this bloody terrorist attack

🟠 The bloody crime of the Kiev clique in the Kherson region lies entirely on the conscience of Western countries financing Ukraine

🟠 Ignoring the tragedy in the Kherson region by international organizations would amount to aiding and abetting, and complicity in, the terrorist acts of the neo-Banderites

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🇦🇪🇾🇪 UAE begins withdrawing troops from Yemen - report

The Emirati forces have begun withdrawing from Yemen's Hadhramaut and Shabwah provinces, the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported, citing Hadhramaut's governor.

The UAE's military presence in Yemen had always been limited in scope, consisting primarily of training and advisory support to Southern Transitional Council (STC) forces, the governor reportedly said.

Earlier this week, the UAE Defense Ministry announced a voluntary military drawdown of its presence in Yemen amid deteriorating relations with Saudi Arabia over the UAE’s support for the STC.

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸 Decrypted data from UAV shot down over Novgorod region handed over to the US Embassy’s military attaché office – Russian Defense Ministry

Statements by the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces:

🟠 Decryption of the controllers from Ukrainian UAVs shot down on December 29 unequivocally confirmed that they were attacking the complex of buildings of the Russian president’s residence

🟠 The transfer of the controllers from Ukrainian UAVs shot down on December 29 to the US will remove all questions and help establish the truth

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🪖🇷🇺 The daily bread of the Russian military

An army marches on its stomach and the Russian Army is no exception.

Here’s a glimpse into the logistical system of the Dnepr Battlegroup, where a ton of just bread is delivered to the troops on the front line each day to keep the soldiers well fed and ready for action.

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🚨 Kherson region’s governor briefs Putin on aftermath of Ukraine’s attack on civilians

President Putin has received a phone briefing from Governor Vladimir Saldo on the situation following the Ukrainian army’s terrorist attack and on the progress of the investigation, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

With the course of the investigation and identification of the bodies of the victims, information and names will be published on the regional administration’s website, the governor told Putin.

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🇨🇳 China holds first national flag-raising ceremony of 2026 at Tiananmen Square

The New Year’s first flag-raising is a special occasion, drawing visitors to Beijing’s main square to witness the ceremony.

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🟠 Russian MFA condemns Ukraine’s ‘preplanned’ attack on civilians in Kherson region

🟠 Russia hands over to US decrypted data from UAV shot down en route to Putin’s residence

🟠 Ukraine’s attack on Putin's residence could have triggered nuclear war – Finnish politician

🟠 UAE begins withdrawing troops from Yemen – report

🟠 World’s disasters of 2025 that shook the globe

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🚨 Kherson forensic bureau releases names of civilians killed in Ukrainian drone strike

Local authorities has identified 7 of the civilians killed in last night's Ukraine's drone attack.

The bureau emphasized that identifying all of the victims will only be possible after genetic testing has been carried out.

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