🇷🇺 Russian President Putin arrives at the informal Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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🇫🇷🇺🇦 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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‼️🏴‍☠🇫🇮 Possible sabotage: Important communication line between Estonia and Finland is disconnected

▪️This is stated in a press release from the Finnish network operator Fingrid, writes the Finnish publication Yle.
▪️Fingrid's head of supervision, Arto Pahkin, told Yle that the cause of the malfunction is being investigated.
▪️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.
▪️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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🇷🇺🤝🇮🇷Russia and Iran may sign new strategic partnership agreement ahead of Trump's inauguration, - Newsweek

▪️As the publication writes, the new agreement between Tehran and Moscow indicates an attempt by the two countries to "join forces" amid "isolation on the world stage."
▪️Newsweek notes that the agreement with Iran has been in the works for many years. In late October, Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov said that the agreement would be ready for signing in the near future and "formalizes the parties' commitment to close defense cooperation, interaction in the interests of regional and global peace and security."
▪️The new bilateral treaty is set to replace a 20-year strategic agreement that was signed between the countries in 2001 and extended in 2020. It will include promises of cooperation in energy, manufacturing, transport and agriculture.

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Three more cables between Finland and Estonia have failed.

The cause of the failure is unknown, the Estonian Ministry of Economics said.

Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal announced an extraordinary government meeting dedicated to the incident.

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🇨🇳 First video of the brand new Chinese stealth fighter jet, believed to be a 6th-generation warplane.

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"I believe in God, and God is with us"

This is how Putin answered the question about the possibility of ending the Ukrainian conflict in 2025.

Other statements by the President:

- Russia seeks to end the conflict in Ukraine;

- If necessary, the Russian Federation could use Oreshnik again, but it is in no hurry;

- If it is necessary to use more powerful medium-range weapons, we will use them ;

- The Russian Federation will continue to achieve all the goals of the special operation in 2025, this is task number one

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A captured American M1A1 Abrams tank "arrived" in Nizhny Tagil for examination by specialists from Uralvagonzavod, the main manufacturer of armored vehicles for the Russian army.

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As part of the agreement reached, Israeli army units are leaving the southern regions of Lebanon, while simultaneously destroying existing infrastructure.

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‼️🇺🇦🇺🇸 Grim Ukrainian soldiers await the end: Trump makes it clear to Europe that US aid to Ukraine will be cut and puts pressure on them to increase their aid

▪️The Washington Post writes about this in a report entitled “As Ukraine Celebrates Christmas, Exhausted Soldiers Wonder Whether Trump Can End the War.”
▪️A WP reporter visited the Dnipropetrovsk region and spoke about the pessimistic mood of the Ukrainian military.
➖"There is no good mood. There is no feeling that the end of the war is near. The fighting spirit is falling lower and lower, it is getting worse and worse," Kirill, deputy battalion commander of the 33rd mechanized brigade, told the newspaper.
▪️When asked what they thought about a possible ceasefire in 2025, soldiers from the 33rd Brigade said they would welcome it but were skeptical that it would happen soon.
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces are monitoring changes in the international situation.
➖"I'm afraid that they'll just abandon us. These are the thoughts that creep in - that support and supplies from our allies, ammunition will simply stop. If this doesn't happen, we won't have anything to shoot with," said 26-year-old Alexander.
▪️But most Ukrainian military personnel acknowledge that the shortage of soldiers is now as critical as the shortage of weapons. Some specialist positions in the 33rd Regiment – such as an armored personnel carrier driver – have been reduced to one person per battalion, complicating the logistics of safely transporting troops back and forth from their positions.
➖"Do we even have infantry? It all comes down to a couple of guys, and they're over 50 years old. What are they going to do?" says drone operator Denis, 37.

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‼️War and touching footage: Russian attack drone stopped before attacking Ukrainian military equipment so that a granny could throw out her trash

▪️In Pokrovsk, our drone was flying to destroy an enemy vehicle, and an elderly woman was going to throw garbage into a container, despite the war around her.
▪️Such ordinary people in the cities of Donbass occupied by Kiev are waiting for liberation and believe in our victory.

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