Zelensky:

Putin does not believe in people; he believes only in power and in money.

He spends around 40,000 soldiers’ lives on the front every month — not wounded, 40,000 each month killed.

Russian assaults are always insanely bloody, but Putin does not care.

Zelensky:

Russians don’t count their dead, but they do count every dollar and every euro they lose.

Zelensky:

During this war, there is hardly a crime against humanity that Russia has not committed.

MI6 Chief Warns of Tech Power Shift

Britain’s new MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli warns that power is shifting from governments to tech companies, with algorithms increasingly shaping global security.

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Russian oil prices have fallen to their lowest levels since the war in Ukraine began, as Western sanctions deepen discounts and global crude prices slide.

Exporters are receiving just over $40 a barrel—down 28% in three months—after new restrictions on major firms like Rosneft and Lukoil.

Source: Bloomberg

China’s Y-30 Transport Aircraft Makes Maiden Flight

China’s new medium military transport aircraft, widely referred to as the Y-30, conducted its maiden flight.

The aircraft is intended to replace the aging Y-8/Y-9 family and fill the gap between the Y-9 and the Y-20.

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MI6 Chief Blaise Metreweli:

AI-powered robots and drones are brilliant for scaled manufacturing, but devastating on the battlefield.

Discoveries that cure disease can also create new weapons.

Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations and sometimes to individuals.

WATCH: A drone crashed into a high-rise building in Odesa but did not explode.

Thailand Seizes Chinese ATGMs From Cambodia

Thai troops seized Chinese GAM-102LR ATGMs from Cambodian positions, exposing the use of fifth-generation anti-tank weapons in the border conflict.

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Nigeria: Gunmen abducted at least 13 worshippers after attacking a church during Sunday service in Kogi State.

In this episode of Clash Point, we examine how Sudan’s gold trade is fueling civil war and mass killings.

Sudan expert Dr. Suleiman Baldo reveals who profits from the violence and how a global criminal network is shaping the country’s future.

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Sudan: The UN says drone attacks in the Kordofan region have killed at least 104 civilians, including 43 children, since December 4.

According to Susie Wiles, the confrontation between Trump, JD Vance, and Zelensky in the Oval Office was the culmination of tensions that had been building well before the meeting.

Wiles said relations had been strained by a series of behind-the-scenes issues, including missed meetings and disagreements over protocol. In her account, the atmosphere was already tense when Zelensky arrived, making a clash likely.

She later said she regretted allowing cameras into the room, arguing that the exchange would probably have unfolded the same way but without becoming a public spectacle.

Wiles rejected the idea that Vance lost his temper, describing his intervention as deliberate rather than impulsive.

Source: Vanity Fair

Susie Wiles describes Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin as inconsistent rather than uniformly friendly.

Recalling Trump’s 2018 Helsinki summit with Putin, Wiles said that, from a distance, the interaction appeared to show genuine admiration or rapport.

However, she said Trump’s phone calls with Putin during his second term have been mixed—some cordial, others tense.

Source: Vanity Fair

Susie Wiles said Trump privately believes that Putin’s aims in Ukraine go beyond limited territorial concessions.

While some advisers and outside experts argued that Putin would be satisfied with consolidating control over parts of eastern Ukraine, Wiles said Trump rejected that view.

In her account, Trump concluded that Putin ultimately wants control of the entire country.

Source: Vanity Fair

Cameroon: ISWAP attacked an army camp in Ngouma in the Far North.

One soldier was killed, three were wounded and five militants were reportedly killed.

NEW: The United States has designated Colombia’s Clan del Golfo—the country’s largest criminal armed group—as a terrorist organization.

Susie Wiles said Trump appears in the Epstein records, including flight manifests, but said his presence is not incriminating.

She described Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein as social, saying the two moved in the same circles as “young, single playboys,” and insisted there is nothing in the files indicating Trump engaged in illegal or abusive conduct.

Source: Vanity Fair

Susie Wiles said Attorney General Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” the handling of the Epstein files.

She said Bondi gave conservative influencers binders containing no new information and then compounded the mistake by publicly suggesting that a “client list” existed, which Wiles said was not the case.

Source: Vanity Fair