🪖🇷🇺 Russia liberated 8 settlements in just 2 weeks of January - Chief of Staff Gerasimov

Russian forces continue to expand buffer zones in Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy and Kharkov regions.

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🇺🇳🇮🇷 UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting on Iran

The gathering, which was requested by the US, is due to kick off at 20:00 GMT, a UN Security Council source told Sputnik.

The source added that the meeting will be held with the agenda of the situation in the Middle East.

Donald Trump earlier threatened to launch strikes on Iran amid ongoing massive protests across the country.

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🇮🇷 ✈️ Iran reopens airspace after closure to most flights amid US attack threats

💬 "Iran's airspace is open for transit flights, incoming and outgoing flights, and airports are providing services to passengers," the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran was quoted as saying by IRIB.

Earlier, Flightradar24 showed that Iranian airspace was closed amid escalation and anticipation of possible strikes from the United States. The country was only accepting international flights with special permission.

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🚨🇷🇺 Russia agrees with Trump’s statement about Zelensky delaying resolution to Ukraine conflict – Kremlin

Other statements by Dmitry Peskov:

🟠 Putin remains open to negotiations, and Russia’s position is well known to both the US and Ukraine

🟠 The situation regarding the resolution is worsening for Ukraine day by day, and it is time for Zelensky to make a decision

🟠 Putin will speak at the meeting with new foreign ambassadors, his speech will focus on main foreign policy issues

🟠 Russia considers it necessary and important to continue dialogue with the United States

🟠 Channels of communication between Russian, US negotiators continue to work, dialogue is underway

🟠 It is important that Russia presents its views to the United States on ongoing discussions on Ukraine

🟠 Kremlin does not confirm reports that Russia would agree to deploy peacekeeping contingent in Ukraine, provided China and the Global South participate

🟠 Kremlin hopes Witkoff, Kushner's visit to Russia will take place when dates are agreed upon

On New START:

🟠 Russia is awaiting response from US to Putin's New START initiative, but has not yet received one

🟠 Everyone needs more favorable agreement concerning New START, but it is not so easy to reach it

🟠 Putin said it is impossible to discuss issues of strategic stability without taking into account the arsenals of France and the UK

🟠 China's position on the New START treaty well known, Russia respects it

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

🟠 Russian air and missile firepower pounded energy and transport infrastructure used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, long-range drone storage sites, as well as temporary deployment points for Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries in 162 places

🟠 Air defense superiority: five guided aerial bombs, one US-produced HIMARS rocket, two guided Neptune missiles and 265 UAVs were vaporized by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,310 troops killed or wounded

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

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🚨 🪖 Not in the army now: Yermak’s frontline pledge falls flat

✍️ Ukraine’s former presidential chief of staff has not contacted any of the Territorial Recruitment Centers to voluntarily go to the front, despite previous promises, Ukrainian MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak wrote on social media.

🔊 He shared the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s response to his inquiry, which pointed out that “[…] Yermak has not applied to any Territorial Recruitment Centers to serve in the military voluntarily during mobilization, for a particular period, or under contract.”

Yermak was dismissed in November 2025, following a search of his home conducted in connection with a massive graft corruption case, investigated by Ukraine’s NABU anti-corruption watchdog. Shortly after the search, Yermak announced his intention to go to the front.

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🚨 🪖 Iran’s defense minister: Rioters received money for killings

Protesters in Iran were offered about $3,500 for killing people, and about $1,500 for setting a car on fire, Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh said.

💬 "At these meetings [where protesters discussed plans to worsen the situation in Iran], even prices were set for committing acts of sabotage in Iran. Murder of a person — 500 million tomans [$3,448], arson of a car — 200 million tomans [$1,379], arson of a police station — 80 million tomans [$551], committing an act of vandalism — 15 million tomans [$103]," the minister was quoted as saying by Iran's state broadcaster IRIB.

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🚨 West doesn't want peace or end to Ukraine conflict - MFA Spox

"The fact that the West doesn't want the conflict to end, doesn't want any peace, just as they never wanted it, is evidenced by the uninterrupted operation of the airport in Poland's Rzeszow, through which a steady flow of military cargo for the needs of the Ukrainian armed forces has been passing since 2022," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing.

🟠 The actions of European and NATO countries to pump up Ukraine with military and financial resources speak volumes about their true intentions, even more so than hypocritical words about their desire for peace, the spokeswoman added

🟠 "Any foreign contingents in Ukraine are considered legitimate targets for the Russian army," Zakharova said

🟠 "Multinational forces" are no exception", she emphasized, noting that by talking about such forces in Ukraine, Macron, Starmer, and Zelensky aim to undermine the settlement process

On Greenland

🟠Russia is closely watching the situation around Greenland

🟠Neither Russia nor China ever announced aggressive plans to ‘capture’ Greenland, the sides intend to develop relations with the region

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📹LIVE NOW: Putin speaks at meeting with new foreign ambassadors 🇷🇺

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🚨 The situation in the modern world is increasingly deteriorating - Putin

🟠 Stability and security in the modern world directly depend on the ability of states to interact

🟠 Russia is sincerely committed to ideals of multipolar world order

🟠 Russia has always pursued, and will continue to pursue, a balanced, constructive political course

🟠 Russia advocates strengthening the UN's central role in global affairs

🟠 Security of countries cannot be ensured at expense of others

🟠 Security must be truly comprehensive, meaning equal, indivisible

🟠 Ignoring Russia's legitimate interests led to the Ukrainian crisis

🟠 Russia will continue to steadily pursue its set goals until Ukraine expresses readiness for a settlement

🟠 A peaceful settlement in Ukraine should be achieved as soon as possible

🟠 I suggest returning to discussions of Russia's proposals for a fair security architecture, which could help resolve the crisis in Ukraine

🟠 Russia is ready to restore the necessary level of relations with European countries

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🚨 Putin: Russia will continue to consistently pursue its goals until Ukraine expresses its readiness for settlement

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🚨 Russia has repeatedly came up with initiatives to build a new, reliable and just architecture of European and global security - Putin

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🪖🇮🇳 Indian Army Day parade features powerful tribute to Operation Sindoor

India marked Army Day with a parade in Jaipur.

A video shown at the event showcased Operation Sindoor, launched to destroy terrorist infrastructure.

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🚨🇪🇺 Europe’s plans for Greenland’s defense? Not quite Trump’s ‘two dogsleds’, but not far off

A European coalition of the willing is huddling around Denmark, pledging to help defend Greenland amid US threats to seize the island.

But the size of the force the Europeans are assembling for ‘Operation Arctic Endurance’ leaves something to be desired. It’s not much bigger than the “two dogsleds” Trump has joked about.

🔹 President Macron says the first French forces “are already en route” to Greenland and that “others will follow.” An ambassador says the first batch will number ~15 troops

🔹 Germany has pledged 13 troops for ‘joint reconnaissance and maritime surveillance’

🔹 Sweden is sending “several” officers and “a small number” of unarmed personnel

🔹 Norway has pledged two troops

🔹 The UK is deploying one officer, and is too nervous to even say why, delusionally framing it as a move to “deter Russian aggression,” and saying London shares “Trump’s concern about the security of the High North”

🔹 The Netherlands and Canada area are reportedly mulling a mission, but no details on its scope are available

🔹 Italy, Poland and Spain expressed verbal support

🔹 Denmark has ~150-200 military and civilian personnel in Greenland, a 12-member Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, and seven Arctic-capable patrol vessels, four of which will be scrapped by 2030. The country plans to spend $13.8B on Arctic rearmament amid “the serious security situation we find ourselves in”

🔹 Two planeloads of European troops landed in Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, under the cover of night, their tracking transponders turned off, per Bild

In all, that’s 30+ NATO troops, an unknown number of additional Danish forces, and ~150-200 already on the island (some of them civilians). That’s about one company-sized unit.

And the US?

🟠 150 personnel at Pituffik Space Force Base

🟠 Alaska’s 11th Airborne Division (~12k troops), thousands of Arctic-trained SOF, Delta, Green Beret and Marine units, ~270 C-17 and C-5 transports, 31 amphibious assault ships, and 9 helicopter carriers

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