🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Kiev residents watch a gas station burning as a result of Russian missile strikes.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Kiev residents took shelter in the metro during Russian missile strikes.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Air raid alert across all of Ukraine has been lifted. It seems the strikes over the last few hours are over.

🌍 🇪🇹 🇪🇬 Geopolitics of the Red Sea & East Africa | @CIG_telegram

🔶️ While analysts held a magnifying lens over the Bab al-Mandab Strait due to Houthi attacks on shipping, several actors in East Africa have carried out notable actions from under the noses of international scrutiny. Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates are making big plays in the region, while Egypt, which should be furious, continues to sleep.

🔽 Article

https://telegra.ph/Geopolitics-of-the-Red-Sea--East-Africa-01-02

🇺🇸 - Power outages in Manhattan following a series of explosions from manholes.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Hamas has suspended ceasefire negotiations with Israel.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - This is likely a consequence of Israel's assassination of the founder of the al-Qassam Brigades, Saleh al-Arouri.

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 Joint Statement by the Palestinian Resistance Factions: 'We call for a strong response to the assasination of Saleh Al-Arouri from all arenas and fronts' – Al Jazeera

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Israel failed to inform the United States about the assassination of al-Arouri, only informing them when the operation was underway.

🇺🇸✡️ - Here's the new president of Harvard University.

Surely there will be no problem with antisemitism at this campus.

🇮🇱🇾🇪⚡️- Ansar Allah has fired three ballistic missiles towards the Red Sea.

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Hezbollah has promised a response against Israel for the assassination of al-Arouri.

🇺🇸⚡️- Ohio Representative Bill Johnson has announced his resignation from Congress, effective January 21st.

🇺🇸🌍⚡️- The Biden Administration has placed sanctions on Gabon, Niger, the Central African Republic, and Uganda.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian media claims two explosions occurred at General Qassem Soleimani's burial site.

🇮🇷⚡️- Multiple wounded and injured.

🇮🇷⚡️- The explosion at Soleimani's burial site has been labeled a terrorist attack. Over 73 people were killed, 171 injured. Supreme Leader Ali Khameini has ordered a harsh retaliation to this terrorist attack, and has mobilized Iran's security forces.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The Iranian Deputy Chief of Political Affairs has laid blame for the attack on Soleimani's site on the United States and Israel:

"Washington says the US & “Israel” had no role in the terrorist attack in Kerman. Really? A fox smells its own lair first. Make no mistake. The responsibility for this crime lies with the US and Zionist regimes and terrorism is just a tool.”

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranians gathered on the streets waving Palestine flags, chanting “Death to Israel!”