🇰🇷❗️179 killed, 2 survived in Boeing crash in South Korea — Yonhap

🇷🇺🇸🇾Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Damascus had not asked Moscow to review bilateral agreements on Russian military bases in the republic.

He stressed that Syria, as a sovereign state, has the right to conclude and terminate agreements with foreign partners, but Russia has not received such requests.

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Ukrainian pilot Vladimir Popovich surrendered to Russian military in Kursk region - TASS.

As reported by the Severny Veter Telegram channel, he was a 47-year-old man who served in the 456th Transport Aviation Brigade at the Gavrilovka Air Base near Vinnytsia. Having served in the Air Force all his life, Popovich unexpectedly received a notice of transfer from the Air Force to the 129th Territorial Defense Brigade. He was given only a few days to prepare, after which he was assigned to battalions. The soldier was sent to the Sumy region to guard the border, but he decided to flee and surrendered.

🇷🇺🇺🇦29-12-2024 • Pokrovsk

The Russian assault forces entered and consolidated their positions on the territory of mine No. 3 in the village of Peschanoye. Thus, the encirclement of Pokrovsk from the south to the east continues.

🇬🇪French citizen Salome Zurabishvili will leave the residence of the President of Georgia. She announced this at a briefing.

Until the very end, she hoped for a violent seizure of power by the opposition.

🇷🇺🇺🇦A Russian has been detained for passing photos of fuel and energy complex facilities in the Moscow region to Ukrainian military intelligence, the FSB Public Relations Center reports.

🇸🇾🇷🇺⚡️The new authorities in Syria do not want Russia to leave the country to the detriment of relations between the two countries.

The leader of the new authorities announced this. He also noted that Damascus has strategic interests with Moscow.

🇦🇿🇷🇺Statement by the President of Azerbaijan:

The facts are that the Azerbaijani civilian aircraft was damaged from outside on Russian territory, near the city of Grozny, and practically lost control. We also know that our aircraft was rendered uncontrollable by electronic warfare , he said in an interview with Azerbaijani television.

🇦🇿🇷🇺⚡️ Baku demands that Moscow "admit guilt, punish those responsible and pay compensation" in the situation with the AZAL plane crash , Aliyev said.

" These are our conditions. The first of them was already provided yesterday. I hope that our other conditions will also be accepted ," the President of Azerbaijan said.

🇦🇿🇷🇺❗️ Aliyev: "One of the things that upset and surprised us was that Russian official structures put forward versions about the explosion of some gas cylinder. That is, it openly showed that the Russian side wants to hush up the issue, and this, of course, does no one credit."