🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: Bomb attack in Moscow leaves General Igor Kirillov and his assistant dead.

Kirillov was the Head of Russia's Radiation, Chemical and Biological Forces.

🇷🇺⚡- Explosion occurred in the Ryazansky Prospekt district of Moscow, Russia.

🇷🇺⚡- "An explosive device was detonated, planted in a scooter parked next to the entrance of a residential building," - Investigative Committee.

🇷🇺⚡- "This was an irreparable loss and that the killers would be punished," - Vice Speaker of Russia's Federation Council.

🇷🇺⚡- "He worked fearlessly. He didn't hide behind people's backs. He walked with an open visor. For the Motherland, for the truth. Blessed memory, the kingdom of heaven," - Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Reuters, citing a source in Ukraine's SBU, claims Ukraine's GUR may have carried out the attack.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The military-political leadership of the Kiev regime will face inevitable retribution for the murder of Kirillov," - Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council.

🇧🇾⚡- Belarus' Central Election Commission accepts current President Lukashenko's documents for registration as a candidate in the upcoming presidential elections, on January 26 2025.

🇸🇾⚡- "The Syrian Baath regime collapsed because it did not meet the needs of the time," - Mirad Qarayilan, Commander of the PKK's military wing, the HPG.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- "Turkey wants Syria to act according to Turkey's demands. But not everything is going according to Turkey's wishes in Syria," - Mirad Qarayilan, Commander of the PKK's military wing, the HPG.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- "Turkey is the biggest threat to Syria," - Mirad Qarayilan, Commander of the PKK's military wing, the HPG.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Turkey wants to get closer to the Golan Heights and impose itself [on Israel]," - Mirad Qarayilan, Commander of the PKK's military wing, the HPG.

🇷🇺🇸🇩⚡- Darfur Governor, Minnie Arko Minawi, arrives in Moscow.

Darfur was traditionally a very pro-US region in Sudan, but like the rest of the government, they have started to shift towards Russia for help in its civil war.

🇮🇷 - Iranian social media and outlets are calling for the impeachment of Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian.

🇸🇾🇮🇷⚡- "The new Syrian government will assume all of Syria's financial obligations to Iran," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Multiple Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria, west of Tell Abyad.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Scenes from Tell Abyad direction, northern Syria.