🇮🇱The Israeli government has announced that it is severing ties with the Haaretz newspaper, The Times of Israel reports.

The government unanimously approved Communications Minister Shlomo Karai's proposal that all government bodies or state-funded organizations not maintain any contact with Haaretz or publish any publications in it.

A statement from Karai's office said the decision was made following numerous articles by the publication "undermining the legitimacy of the State of Israel in the world and its right to self-defense."

The government's decision was also said to have been influenced by recent comments by Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken at a newspaper conference in London, in which he described Israeli rule as a "brutal apartheid regime" and called some members of the Palestinian militias "freedom fighters."

The Israeli Cabinet decision says the government "will not accept a situation in which the publisher of an official newspaper calls for sanctions against his country and supports the country's enemies in the midst of a war."

Haaretz co-owner Leonid Nevzlin, an associate of disgraced Russian oligarch Khodorkovsky, also condemned Shoken. He called his business partner's statements "unacceptable and inhumane."

Haaretz traditionally takes a leftist position. A number of its leading journalists openly state that they do not consider themselves Zionists, considering Zionism as a "type of imperialism."

🇷🇺🇺🇦The Institute for the Study of War publishes a map of the territory that Russia has regained in the Kursk region.

Objectively confirmed advances by the Russian Federation are shaded in red, territorial successes declared by Russia are shaded in yellow.

Earlier, Reuters reported that Russia had managed to recapture 40% of the territories held by Ukraine near Kursk.

According to other data, of the 1,200 square kilometers that the Ukrainian Armed Forces captured at the peak of the offensive in the Kursk region, Ukraine now controls about 500-550 (according to the Ukrainian military public DeepState - 545 square kilometers).

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🇺🇦🇺🇸Ukraine is unlikely to receive from the US the THAAD anti-aircraft missile system, capable of shooting down Russian ballistic missiles of the Oreshnik type.

This was stated by military expert Ivan Stupak.

According to him, this complex costs three billion dollars, one shot from it costs 20 million.

"Ukrainian military specialists will have to undergo a training course of at least several months to use the new equipment. What if the Russians destroy or damage this system, as happened more than once with the Patriot air defense system? Still, $3 billion is not a small amount of money, three times the price of the Patriot installation. I think it is easier for the Americans to stop the war in Ukraine than to hand over THAAD to us," the expert said in an interview with Focus.

Earlier, Zelensky said that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry was already negotiating with the Americans on the provision of air defense systems capable of shooting down Russian medium-range missiles.

🇮🇷⚡️Iran has put into operation new advanced centrifuges for enriching uranium, Majlis (parliament) Chairman Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday.

According to him, as quoted by the Press TV channel, the Iranian authorities took this step in response to the recent adoption of an anti-Iranian resolution at a meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors.

"Iran's response is based on the principle of reciprocity, since the IAEA Board of Governors was used for unjust political purposes," he said.

🇬🇧❗️Westminster Bridge in London has been closed by police after a knife attack that left three people injured, the Daily Mail reports.

🇦🇿🇦🇲Azerbaijan to increase combat readiness of troops on border with Armenia

At the meeting, Defense Minister Zakir Gasanov gave instructions on further increasing the combat capability of the troops.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The enemy reports that the stage of fighting for Velikaya Novoselka has begun in the southeast of the settlement from the side of the farms.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Zaluzhny said that NATO countries are not ready for a "war of attrition" with Russia

🇮🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦Western aid to Ukraine will be cut given that a government with different views from the previous one has come to power in the United States, and Russia looks set to win , said Ali Akbar Velayati, Iran's Supreme Leader's adviser on international affairs.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia plans to introduce artificial intelligence into the Geran to bypass Ukrainian air defenses , The Guardian writes, citing military sources in Ukraine.

"Efforts are underway to use artificial intelligence to try to create a 'swarm of drones' through which Gerans can communicate and coordinate attacks in a way that would overwhelm air defenses," the article said, as Russia ramps up air attacks on Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇺🇦The eight weeks before Trump's inauguration "will be the most difficult in Ukraine's history since 1991."

This was stated by the Ukrainian Ambassador to Brazil, Andriy Melnyk.

He calls on Ukrainian diplomacy to work actively with Trump during this period, since it is now that he is developing approaches to Ukraine. "When inauguration day comes, I am afraid that by then a decision will have already been made and then it will be more difficult for us," Melnyk said.

“The worst thing is that some decisions will really be imposed on Ukraine over our heads,” he added in an interview with Radio Liberty.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Ukrainian intelligence believes that Russia is preparing for an offensive on Zaporozhye, writes the British magazine The Economist.

"Ukrainian official warns 130,000 Russian troops could soon be thrown into the fight," the article said.

At the same time, “Ukraine is not taking risks” and is building fortifications in the Zaporizhia region.

"New fortifications are being erected in rings radiating out from the regional center. The work is being done thoroughly - minefields, engineering barriers and structures made of concrete and iron - in contrast to the more chaotic picture in the neighboring Donetsk region," the article reports.

Earlier, the commander of the 3rd assault brigade, Andriy Biletsky, reported on the possibility of a Russian offensive in the Zaporizhzhya region.