🇷🇺 - The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has opened criminal proceedings against Popcorn Books, a Moscow bookstore, for promoting homosexuality. Among other pro-sodomy items, the bookstore sold a novel ennoscriptd "Summer in a Pioneer Tie" which was aimed at minors and described a pedophilic relationship between a Komsomol leader and a teenager in the USSR.

If the case is successful, the owners of the bookstore will be the first people to be convicted under Russia's new law on "non-traditional sexual relations".

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ - The Armed Forces of Ukraine have been preparing defences around the city of Kiev, in anticipation of Russia opening a second front there.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ - AFU troops remaining in Soledar have been ordered to surrender, according to a post circulating on Russian telegram channels.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- 14 battalions defending Soledar from the AFU have either left the city or surrendered to PMC Wagner. This accounts for upwards of 80,000 Ukrainian soldiers.

🇺🇸⚡️- All US flights grounded due to “FAA technical issues.”

🇹🇷🇺🇦⚡️- Erdogan has denied sending cluster munitions to the Ukrainian army.

🇺🇸⚡️- All US flights suspended for the next hour and a half.

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇿🇦⚡️- Russia, China, and South Africa to conduct joint military exercises in February.

🇵🇱🇺🇦⚡️- Poland will transfer an armored division to Ukraine as part of an “international coalition.”

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ - Russian forces have liberated Opytnoye, a southern suburb of Artyomovsk. The suburb has changed hands several times during the past 3 months, and Russia managing to hold it would enable Artyomovsk to be liberated.

🇫🇷⚡️ - A Libyan terrorist carried out a stabbing at the Gare du Nord in Paris.

🇺🇸⚡️- The DOJ may be pursuing an investigation against Joe Biden following a scandal involving him being found to have classified documents at his personal residence.

🇺🇸⚡️- Attorney General Merrick Garland to make a statement at 1:15 PM EST.

🇺🇸⚡️- Merrick Garland has announced a special counsel to investigate Joe Biden.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️ - According to a survey published by the so-called "Anti-Defamation" League, a Jewish supremacist group, over 40% of Americans believe that Jews are more loyal to Israel than America.

The survey also found that 25% of Americans believe Jews hold a disproportionate amount of power in business.

🇺🇸⚡️- Louisiana has passed a law to require Photo ID to view pornography online.

🇺🇸⚡️- Ye West has remarried to Bianca Censori, a Yeezy designer, in a private ceremony.

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- An Israeli drone was just shot down above Southern Lebanon.

🇺🇦⚡️- In a video posted by a motorcyclist on TikTok, Ukrainian authorities are preventing Christians from entering areas, but are only allowing Jews to pass through.

🇧🇾🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian forces have begun building fortifications and trenches along the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.

🇺🇸⚡️- US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has left for Africa.