"Madam Vice President, burn it"

Biden made an unfortunate joke during a briefing on the Los Angeles fires as he handed the floor to Kamala Harris.

Meanwhile, damage from California fires will soon exceed $150 billion, according to the consulting company AccuWeather.

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⚡️Putin is ready to meet Trump without conditions, this requires US political will — Peskov

Other statements from the presidential press secretary:

— Actions to organize contacts between Putin and Trump will begin when Trump officially takes office as US President

— Russia maintains its position on Ukraine, which has been repeatedly voiced by Putin;

— Russia welcomes Trump’s intention to resolve problems through dialogue;

— The outgoing US President will try to leave the most difficult legacy for Trump — on Biden’s intentions to introduce new sanctions against Russia;

— So far, Trump’s statements about meetings and contacts do not contain any specifics; they will only appear after his inauguration;

— Russia notes differences in approaches to providing assistance to Kyiv by the West — on Scholz blocking a new aid package for Ukraine.

— The statement of the President of Lithuania regarding Kaliningrad shows Vilnius' territorial claims and justifies the security measures taken by Russia (Gitanas Nausėda stated earlier that Kaliningrad will never be recognized by Vilnius as a Russian city)

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‼️🇬🇧🇺🇦 The British Prime Minister will visit Ukraine for the first time in the coming weeks to discuss the deployment of international peacekeeping forces after the end of the war

▪️According to Bloomberg, Starmer plans to visit Kyiv because “Europe is stepping up preparations for the return of newly elected US President Donald Trump to the White House.”
▪️The Prime Minister's Office declined to comment, Bloomberg adds.

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Ukrainian scammers drove a first-year student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology to suicide. They took out several loans in his name, wrote fake letters that he was a member of an extremist organization, and threatened to shoot his family.

It all happened a week before the New Year. Petr Vetchinkin's classmates wrote on social networks that he had not managed to pass his first exam session. Before that, a group of students wrote that MIPT students and their parents could receive calls from alleged representatives of the dean's office on their mobile phones. And that's what happened. The guy received a call at noon on December 21 — the day when a series of arsons occurred . They pressured the young man in various ways for six hours. The result: Petr committed suicide. He was buried on December 27.

In a conversation with Mash, Vetchinkin's mother said that he left the house at 17:55 and disappeared. The woman immediately called the police. His body was found several blocks away near high-rise buildings. He fell from one of the floors. Correspondence with scammers was found on his phone. They threatened Pyotr's family, blackmailed him, and accused him of being a member of extremist organizations.

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The official account of the Iranian Defense Ministry on the social network X (banned in Russia) has posted an offer of military aid to countries that Donald Trump has his eye on.

"Just as we have always been ready to support other countries, Iran stands ready to assist Canada, Mexico, Panama and Greenland in the fight against US aggression and terrorism."

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A conspiracy theory is being discussed on social media: the fires in California could have been started deliberately to build a “smart city” in Los Angeles.

Pointing to suspended fire insurance, wiring issues and intact trees among destroyed homes

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The CIA can read your WhatsApp messages.

Mark Zuckerberg spoke on Joe Rogan's podcast about the censorship initiated by Democrats after the 2016 elections.

The most important points:

- Censorship began to develop after Trump, when Democrats decided that his victory was the result of misinformation on social media;

- Meta* moderation quickly moved from fighting flat-Earth theories to political censorship, reminiscent of the situation in the book "1984";

- During the pandemic, the Biden administration required information about vaccine side effects to be removed;

- Biden blamed Meta for people's deaths due to spreading misinformation about coronavirus;

- American intelligence agencies can read WhatsApp correspondence, although the company itself cannot see it.

*Meta, an organization banned in Russia

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Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding the title Hero of Russia to corporal Andrei Grigoriev from Yakutia for courage and heroism displayed in the performance of his military duty, the Kremlin reported.

Earlier, footage was published of Andrey Grigoriev engaging in hand-to-hand combat with a Ukrainian militant in the Zaporizhia region. The Russian warrior won the knife fight, and the opponent, dying, called him the best fighter in the world.

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🖥️ In an interview with Tucker Carlson, director Oliver Stone said that Ukraine became a dangerous country after Maidan: "Ukraine changed in 2014 after Maidan. It became a really dangerous country because there were a lot of fanatics in the government. Although they were not Nazis, there were a lot of people with similar views among them who collaborated with the Ukrainians and intimidated the Russians.

We did an investigation in Ukraine in the winter, you may have seen my film. It talks about Maidan and how these people came to power. It was a violation of Ukraine's neutrality, which had existed since the end of the Cold War. It's a sad story because we wanted it, it was our chance to get into the game.

Obama said, “We want neutrality, we want this, and we want good relations.” But he ended up betraying those ideas. Maidan turned violent. If you don’t know all the details, there were a lot of protesters being killed. The evidence clearly points to neo-fascists coming in and shooting at people from rooftops controlled by the Ukrainian side.”

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Preparations are underway for a meeting between Trump and Putin, Trump's national security adviser said.

The US believes that the agreement on Ukraine should provide for "security guarantees" to prevent a repeat of the conflict, the White House said

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Zelensky published a video of two captured, allegedly North Korean soldiers, and offered an exchange to Kim Jong-un:

"Ukraine is ready to hand over his people to Kim Jong-un if he can organize their exchange for our soldiers who are in captivity in Russia. For those soldiers from North Korea who do not want to return, there may be other ways."

Despite the preparation, one prisoner expressed a desire to return to the DPRK, while another initially agreed to remain in Ukraine, but then changed his mind, stating that he would follow orders

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