🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian President Zelensky arrives at Joint Base Andrews.

🇺🇸⚡️- FBI Director Kash Patel has released a statement following the “release” of the Epstein files, in what appears to be a response to AG Pam Bondi’s letter to Patel and a form of damage control in the wake of the largely redacted Epstein declassification.

🇺🇸⚡️- “President Trump has rolled back constraints on American commanders to authorize airstrikes and special operation raids outside conventional battlefields, broadening the range of people who can be targeted.” - CBS News.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russia has rejected US President Trump's peace proposals in Ukraine, demanding that Ukraine surrender control over all of the 4 oblasts Russia annexed from Ukraine in September 2022.

🇷🇺⚡️- Oil tanker owners are using divers and underwater drones to check for mines after unexplained explosions on ships that docked in Russia. The move follows attacks in the Mediterranean and Baltic. Some owners are doubtful it’ll help, given the low chances of finding anything, but security is tightening.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- US and Russian officials are talking about working together in the Arctic on things like natural resources and trade routes, as part of Trump’s push to ease tensions with Russia. The melting ice is making the region more attractive for energy and shipping, though some are doubtful about the cooperation's success.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces have launched counter offensive action against Russian positions in Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk).

From the east, Ukrainian troops have reached the center of Toretsk city, taking positions in the central high-rise buildings, we have geolocated recent footage to confirm the advance. Ukrainian forces also attempted to storm Toretsk Soccer Stadium, but have so far failed.

From the west, Ukraine launched separate attacks north of Zabalka district. Ukrainian forces have begun attacking the town of Shcherbinovka too.

Russian troops are launching counterattacks to prevent Ukraine from regaining strategic positions, but have so far failed.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump is using the strategy of ensnaring Putin to gain control of Russian resources and humiliate Russia," - Mykhailo Podolyak, Ukraine's Presidential Advisor.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Right now, supply lines aren't properly established. Ukrainian forces are trying to infiltrate deeper, possibly in an attempt to cut off the Russians in the west of the city, however this isn't possible right now. There are less than 100 Ukrainian soldiers taking part in these operations," - AMK Mapping.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Burlatskoe and Privolnoye, Velikaya Novoselka direction.

🇨🇳⚡- Jin Zhuanglong, China's Minister of Technology, has been removed from office. He has not been seen in public since early December 2024.

🇰🇷⚡- "Nuclear armament is not off the table," - Cho Tae-yul, South Korea's Foreign Minister.

🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡- "Developing nuclear weapons to counter North Korea is a possibility," - Cho Tae-yul, South Korea's Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇰🇷⚡- "The redeployment of US tactical nuclear weapons to the [Korean] peninsula is also a possibility," - Cho Tae-yul, South Korea's Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇸🇪⚡- "Against the backdrop of Sweden's membership in NATO, the Russian military is monitoring the situation in the Baltics and taking appropriate measures," - The Kremlin.

🇬🇧⚡️- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer visited Palantir’s H.Q. in Washington, D.C. before returning back to Great Britain from his diplomatic visit to the United States.

To his right is Alex Karp, co-C.E.O.

#BREAKING | During Zelensky's visit to Ireland, Irish PM Michael Martin told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that #Ireland is open to sending peacekeepers to #Ukraine.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- According to Reuters, Israel wishes to extend the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal by 42 days, which Hamas 'categorically rejects', and wants talks on Phase 2 to begin.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Hamas rejects the attempt to extend Phase A of the deal, and demands to immediately enter into negotiations on Phase B," - al-Rad, Egyptian channel.