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US suffers losses in the Red Sea. A US Navy F/A-18A Super Hornet fighter jet from the carrier squadron of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was shot down by its own cruiser USS Gettysburg (Ticonderoga class). The fighter jet was onโ€ฆ
The US Navy's guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg nearly shot down a second F/A-18A Super Hornet as the crew was landing on their carrier.

The incident occurred a few minutes after the cruiser's air defense crew had already shot down a similar aircraft .

In the second case, tragedy was miraculously avoided: the anti-aircraft missile passed 50 meters from the fighter, whose crew had to maneuver to avoid it.

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A terrorist attack by Ukrainian special services against the head of a defense enterprise was prevented in the Moscow region.

The top manager was planned to be blown up in his car using a homemade bomb, the FSB reported.

Seven Russians, including three minors, have been detained. Ukrainian special services directed them via foreign messengers

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Three women are presumed dead after a HIMARS attack on Lgov in the Kursk region .

At least six rockets fell on the city streets.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the roof of a sugar factory, a thermal power plant, a residential building and a gas pipeline, and fires started in several places.

There is a colony with captured Ukrainian soldiers in Lgov โ€“ they could have been the target of the attack

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Keith Kellogg, the future special representative for Russia and Ukraine in the Trump administration, claims that the US President-elect is focused on achieving sustainable peace in the Ukrainian conflict and does not want a repeat of the Minsk agreements. โ€œWe have seen peace processes in the past, such as the attempt by Russia and Ukraine within the framework of the Minsk negotiation process, which clearly failed. The President does not want that. He wants a just, sustainable and secure peace,โ€ - quote from an interview with the Fox Business channel.

So far, these are, of course, declarations. Although it must be acknowledged - in a constructive way. For the sake of completeness: the Minsk agreements 10 years ago, of course, solved and could solve the problem of settling the situation in Donbass by political and diplomatic means. But on condition of their honest implementation, and not sabotage and use by the West as a screen for arming the neo-Nazi regime.

Russia has repeatedly declared its readiness for negotiation processes - on the basis of the Istanbul agreements, taking into account territorial realities. And most importantly - without an anti-Russian conspiracy behind its back and with ironclad security guarantees for our country.

Lessons have been learned. And yes, we agree with Trump on this โ€“ there should be no second Ukrainian โ€œMinsk-2โ€. As for the new conditions for a fair and sustainable peace, Vladimir Putin has clearly and distinctly outlined them. Russia will not allow the formation of a NATO outpost on its borders!

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โ€ผ๏ธ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Embraer may have been shot down: The fuselage of the plane that crashed in Kazakhstan has damage similar to traces of striking elements or air defense fragments

โ–ช๏ธA surviving passenger claims to have heard an explosion outside before the crash.
โ–ช๏ธRosaviatsia named the preliminary cause of the crash as a collision of the plane with birds.
โ–ช๏ธAlso this morning, drones attacked the North Caucasus regions of Russia.

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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บThe Independent, citing the heads of state of the North Atlantic Alliance, published an article in which it stated that without the US no one would be able to resist Russia:

"The authorities of Finland, Latvia and Estonia have stated that European NATO members are not ready to confront Russia without the participation of the United States and are at the limit of their capabilities in providing military assistance to Kyiv."

How is that possible? They were trumpeting everywhere that Russia was about to lose, running out of men and missiles...and now this... ๐Ÿคก

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๐Ÿช–Money for nothing, but guns not free: NATO military spending soars in 2024

The explosion of hostilities in Ukraine in 2022 has so far been a godsend to Western generals and military-industrial tycoons as NATO bosses rushed to ramp up their military spending.

โ–ช๏ธThis year, 23 of the bloc's 32 members have met NATO's guideline of allocating 2% of their gross national product to defense. Some member states have exceeded this benchmark, with Poland leading the way by dedicating approximately 4.12% of its GDPโ€”or $34.9 billionโ€”to military endeavors.

โ–ช๏ธFor comparison, the United States spent 3.38% of its GDP on defense in 2024, while the United Kingdomโ€™s military spending this year was estimated at about 2.33% of its GDP.

โ–ช๏ธIn terms of the total amount of money spent on defense, however, the US still reigns as NATOโ€™s undisputed champion, having spent about $967.7 billion this year.

โ–ช๏ธGermany, the NATO country with the second-largest military outlays this year, spent only $97.6 billion, while the UK and France spent $82.1 billion and $64.2 billion, respectively.

Overall, NATO members this year have upped their defense spending, with their average expenditure in 2024 reaching 2.71% of GDP compared with 2.53% in 2023.

US President-elect Donald Trump, however, seeks to push these limits even further as he wants NATO countries to fork out as much as 5% of their GDP on defense, the Financial Times reported last week.

Though it remains to be seen whether Trumpโ€™s demands will be met by other members of the bloc, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte last month appeared to agree with him, arguing that 2% defense spending is apparently not enough.

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โ€ผ๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ’ฅ The moment of a powerful strike on an enemy target in Kharkov.

In the morning, the city received 11 strikes in 26 minutes.

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The Russian cargo ship URSA MAJOR sank yesterday off the coast of Algeria in the Mediterranean Sea due to a technical malfunction. 14 crew members were rescued and taken to Spain, two more remain missing. The ship was heading from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok.โ€ฆ
The sinking of the Russian vessel Ursa Major in the Mediterranean Sea was caused by a terrorist attack. Three explosions were heard from the starboard side - because of them the ship sank , "Oboronlogistics" (the owner of the dry cargo ship) stated.

The ship left St. Petersburg for Vladivostok 13 days ago. 14 crew members were rescued, two were missing. One of the versions considered was the ship being overloaded.

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โ€ผ๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณThe implementation of the project of a gas pipeline with a capacity of 45 billion cubic meters from Russia to China via Kazakhstan has been launched
โž–"This process, so to speak, has been launched... Calculations, a feasibility study, and negotiations are currently underway," said Deputy Prime Minister Novak.
โ–ช๏ธThe capacity of the new gas pipeline should be 45 billion cubic meters per year, 10 billion of which are planned to be directed to gasification of the north-eastern regions of Kazakhstan.

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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russian President Putin arrives at the informal Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ The French have completed training of Ukrainian pilots on Mirage 2000-5F aircraft .

The training lasted six months.

Previously, the French promised to deliver 12 to 20 aircraft by April 2025.

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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บโš”๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ The Russian Army has completed the defeat of the enemy in the residential area of Kurakhovo!

โ–ช๏ธThe pincers continue to close in from the north and south, and the remnants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the outskirts find themselves in operational encirclement.
โ–ช๏ธEarlier it was reported that the surviving forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces left the residential area for the industrial zone of the city of Kurakhovo and the thermal power plant.
โž–"The residential area of Kurakhovo is liberated! The Russian army controls the last street of the city - Sportivnaya.
โž–On this street, the following are raised: the Russian flag, the banners of the 5th separate motorized rifle brigade and its four assault battalions.
โž–On the left flank, the 110th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 51st Joint Army of the Southern Military District is successfully operating, while the 114th brigade, 20th and 150th divisions are fighting to encircle Kurakhovo.
โž–But the entire city has not yet been liberated, ahead is the Kurakhovskaya thermal power plant, turned into a fortress by the enemy, the 5th brigade is already on the approaches, and other units and formations are not far behind," reports war correspondent A. Sladkov.

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The administration of the city of Irbit (Sverdlovsk region) dressed up the monuments to Lenin and Catherine II as Father Frost and Snow Maiden.

The city residents did not appreciate such creativity, and hate flew in on social networks.

The mayor's office said that they did not want to offend the feelings of Irbit residents, but the costumes will be removed only after the holidays

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โ€ผ๏ธ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Possible sabotage: Important communication line between Estonia and Finland is disconnected

โ–ช๏ธThis is stated in a press release from the Finnish network operator Fingrid, writes the Finnish publication Yle.
โ–ช๏ธFingrid's head of supervision, Arto Pahkin, told Yle that the cause of the malfunction is being investigated.
โ–ช๏ธAccording to Fingrid, the Estlink 2 power line was disconnected at 12:26 on Christmas Day and was transmitting 658 MW of electricity from Finland to Estonia at the time of the accident.
โ–ช๏ธAccording to Iltalehti, the ship tracking service MarineTraffic shows that the Hong Kong-flagged container ship Xin Xin Tian 2 was near the power cable at the same time as the connection was lost.

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