🇺🇦🇺🇲 The American M1A1 SA Abrams tank transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces is somewhere in the rear. They still won’t reach the front.

One interesting thing is that the tank in the video is equipped with a set of mounted ARAT dynamic protection, which protects the side of the hull from cumulative ammunition.

🇹🇷🇫🇷 The Turks bombed the French-owned Lafarge plant in Syria. During the times of ISIS, the plant regularly paid taxes to terrorists and continued to operate. After the destruction of the Caliphate, the plant came under the control of the Kurds. After the killing of 9 Turkish soldiers in Iraq, Turkish responses were expected. One of the answers was "Lafarge".

🇨🇳 Chinese Foreign Ministry on elections in Taiwan.

Taiwan is an indivisible part of our country and will not become a separate state, it will return to China

For obvious reasons, China's position has not changed.

As well as the position of the PLA, according to which an attempt to declare the independence of Taiwan will inevitably lead to war and the use of the Chinese armed forces to prevent the secession of the island.

🇺🇲🇮🇱❗️The Washington administration believes that the time has come for Israel to reduce the intensity of hostilities in the Gaza Strip, and the United States is discussing this with the authorities of the Jewish state.

This statement was made by the coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, on the CBS television channel.

🇷🇺🇰🇵 North Korean Foreign Minister Choi Song Hee will be on an official state visit to Russia from January 15 to 17 at the invitation of Lavrov.

The parties will discuss the further development of bilateral relations and the implementation of the agreements already reached by Putin and Kim Jong-un.
The potential for developing relations with the DPRK is very large; the parties have something to offer each other on many issues.

🇺🇲 The Pentagon continues to insist that while treating prostate cancer and battling infections in unexpected places, US Defense Secretary Lloyd-Austin continues to effectively run the defense department and is involved in directing military operations from his hospital bed. At the same time, the Pentagon does not provide any specific dates for the Secretary of Defense’s discharge from the hospital

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The reality of modern warfare - a Russian soldier taunts a Ukrainian FPV drone in order to be able to evade it. He succeeds

🇺🇲🇾🇪 According to a statement from the Pentagon, the United States repelled a Houthi attack on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Laboon by shooting down an anti-ship missile launched from Yemen.
The very fact of the attack shows that the Houthis, despite the attacks of the United States and Britain, are not going to stop attacks on ships associated with Israel and ships of the United States and Britain in the Red Sea.

We can only wish the Houthis more accurate volleys and accurate hits.

🇧🇾🇷🇺 Footage of sending Belarusian military personnel to Russia for training with an emphasis on the experience gained by the Russian military during the Special military operation.

The training will take place on the basis of one of the joint training combat training centers, after which the Belarusian military, as instructors in the most complex combat training subjects, will transfer the experience gained to units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus.

Let us recall that at the end of August - beginning of October 2023, military personnel of the 120th separate guards mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus already completed training in Russia.

🇺🇲 Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin has been released from the hospital, ABC News reports.

According to the release, after his discharge, the US Secretary of Defense will continue to work from home “for some time.”

🇾🇪🇺🇲🇬🇧⚡️The Houthis consider all US and British ships that were used to strike Yemen as legitimate targets - a representative of the movement

🇮🇷🇾🇪 Iran’s Revolutionary Guard deployed in Yemen

Commanders and advisors from Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are on the ground in Yemen and playing a direct role in Houthi rebel attacks on commercial traffic in the Red Sea.

The IRGC has stationed missile and drone trainers and operators in Yemen, as well as personnel providing tactical intelligence support to the Houthis, U.S. and Middle East officials told Semafor. The IRGC, through its overseas Qods Force, has also overseen the transfer to the Houthis of the attack drones, cruise missiles, and medium-range ballistic missiles used in a string of strikes on Red Sea and Israeli targets in recent weeks, these officials said.

📎 Semafor

📝 🇾🇪 🌍 The Houthis shifted attacks to the Gulf of Aden at the same time the Iranian Base ship Behshad shifted from its position in the Bab el Mandeb to one between Djibouti and Yemen