🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 Scotland cannot hold independence referendum without UK government approval - UK Supreme Court

Scottish independence campaigners lose bid to hold referendum on leaving UK without approval of British authorities.

Previous independence referendum, held in 2014, resulted in Scotland remaining part of UK, with 55% voting no to be independent country.

UPDATE:🗣 Law that doesn't allow Scotland to choose our own future without Westminster consent exposes as myth any notion of UK as voluntary partnership, and strengthens grounds for referendum - Scottish PM Nicola Sturgeon.

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🤬 JUSTIFYING SICKNESS: Following in the footsteps of their hero mass murderer and Nazi collaborator Bandera, CRUEL Kiev's Prosecutor General says Russian troops FAKED surrender and attacked Ukrainian soldiers making the barbaric killing of prisoners of war a reasonable act after videos of remorseless and bloody execution of Russian soldiers by bloodthirsty Ukrainian forces appear to show Russians were murdered at CLOSE range as Moscow vows retribution and punish those guilty of committing the war crime.

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🇹🇷🇸🇾 Turkey has right to resolve security issues stemming from Northern Syria - Turkish President Erdogan

Erdogan says Turkey intends to begin new cross-border operation at appropriate time in order to clear out terrorists from Syrian cities, and Syria and Iraq’s territorial integrities will NOT be violated during Ankara’s military operation.

UPDATE:🗣 Russia hopes Turkey will refrain from its operation in Syria and Moscow will attempt to provide assistance in solving issue of Kurdish militants - Russian Representative at Astana Platform.

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⚡️🚨 Air raid alerts sound in Central and East Ukrainian regions, including in Ukrainian capital Kiev.

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⚡ Acting Head of Donetsk People’s Republic Pushilin announces prisoner exchange with Ukraine taking place today, where 35 servicemen from each side will be swapped.

UPDATE:🗣 35 captive Russian servicemen in MORTAL danger returned from Kiev regime as a result of negotiation process - Russian Defense Ministry.

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⚡🇪🇺🇷🇺 European Parliament recognizes Russia as "State Sponsor of Terrorism"

Move largely symbolic as EU reportedly does not have legal framework to back up such recognition.

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🇷🇸🇽🇰 Negotiators from Serbia and partially-recognized Kosovo to travel for talks in Brussels - EU Commission

Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo mounting over Kosovo’s plans to fine ethnic Serb residents who refuse to surrender their Belgrade-issued car number plates, with Kosovo agreeing to delay implementation of measure and EU and US seeking negotiations to avoid unrest between countries.

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⚡🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian Sabotage and Reconnaissance group DESTROYED in Zaporozhye region, South Ukraine, Russian air defenses shoot down 5 drones over gas fields in Black Sea and Sevastopol region, Crimea, and Russian forces continue offensive in Donetsk People’s Republic, killing over 60 Ukrainian soldiers - Russian Defense Ministry.

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🗣 US making strenuous attempts to maintain dominance in rapidly changing world, in doing so they caused DEGRADATION of Ukraine by cultivating extreme nationalism in country - Russia’s foreign intelligence service chief Naryshkin.

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⚡🇷🇺🇦🇲 Putin arrives in Yerevan and is welcomed by Armenian PM Pashinyan, as Russian President takes part in Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) - Eurasian military alliance - meeting in Armenia.

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⚡🇺🇦 Footage allegedly captures Russian cruise missile SOARING toward military target over Kharkov region, East Ukraine, as air raid alerts across entire country warn of Russian strikes.

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💀 LITTLE GIFTS: Christmas comes early for Ukrainian saboteurs trying to sabotage Russian defenses but step on little but lethal presents called mines, left by Russian forces for those who cannot MINE-D their own business, leaving the enemy saboteurs dead in the forest.

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⚡🪫 LIGHTS OUT: Say goodbye to electricity In Kiev after Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, with even capital’s metro system suffering from outages, as Odessa, South Ukraine, joins list of country’s cities lacking power.

Even parts of Moldova lose energy, as locals report power outages across capital Chisinau and Northern regions of country.

UPDATE: Kiev, Kharkov, Khmelnitsky, Nikolaev, Lvov and Kiev-controlled Zaporozhye left partially without electricity while Sumy, North Ukraine suffering from TOTAL blackout.

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⚡🪫 Unconfirmed reports of EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN at South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant after Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, leaving MAJOR cities including Kiev without power.

UPDATE:🗣 There will be no electricity throughout Ukraine for 24 HOURS - Ukrenergo (Ukraine's electricity transmission company).

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🙅‍♂️ NO CAN DO HOMIE: is basically what the Croatian President Zoran Milanovic's response is to his defense minister's request to approve training of Ukrainian soldiers in Croatia as he throws it straight into the BIN 🗑

Milanovic's office, in a statement, says that defense minister is NOT even authorized to demand such a thing according to the Constitution, adding that the President will NOT allow training of Kiev forces in Croatia.

Well that's one way of keeping Russian missiles away from your country if it all goes down 😁

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⚡🇨🇭🇷🇺 Switzerland approves introduction of price cap on Russian oil - Swiss Economy Minister

EU and US discussing price cap on Russian oil between $65-$70 a barrel, a cap seen by some experts as too high to have any effect on Russia’s oil trade.

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