🇺🇸⚡️- Local authorities now report that the shooter did NOT enter the courthouse; instead, the proximity between the sheriff’s office and the courthouse led to the confusion.

🇺🇸⚡️- “Sheriff Bob Norris confirmed that the suspect is dead at the scene.” - KHQ, NBC-affiliated local media out of Spokane, Washington.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- Massive bombardments of ballistic missiles struck the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, overnight.

According to Yahoo News, “Russia launched several Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, four Iskander ballistic missiles, and a group of Kalibr cruise missiles.”

This development comes in the wake of the announcement that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Denis 'WhiteRex' Kapustin, commander of the far-right anti-Putin and ethnic Russian group 'Russian Voluntary Corps', has died in action in eastern Ukraine.

WhiteRex played an instrumental part in building several different European nationalist scenes.

🇪🇬🇸🇴🇮🇱⚡- A senior Egyptian Mukhabarat delegation has departed for Mogadishu, Somalia, after Israel declared its recognition of Somaliland.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi jets continue operating over the Hadhramaut region of eastern Yemen.

🇹🇩🇸🇩⚡- BREAKING: Chad has identified the drone that struck the Abeche military outpost, killing two Chadian soldiers, as belonging to the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces.

🇬🇳⚡- BREAKING: Gunfire heard in Conakry, Guinea. Heavy deployment of Guinea's military in the capital, specifically in the district of Sonfonia.

🇸🇾⚡- Commander-in-Chief of the SDF, Mazloum Abdi, has arrived in Damascus for integration talks.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi Arabia has given the pro Southern Transitional Council armed groups 48 hours to withdraw from the Hadhramaut and al-Mahrah regions of eastern Yemen, Ahmed al-Shalfi of al-Jazeera reports.

🇸🇾 - Syrian state media are now denying the arrival of Abdi in Damascus.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Pro-Emirati sources report a large-scale build up of Saudi military along the Saudi-Yemeni border, notably across the al-Wadiah border crossing.

‼️ The Director of Public Relations at the Syrian Ministry of Information:

What was published in some media outlets about the arrival of Mazloum Abdi to Damascus is not true, and we categorically deny the validity of this information.

@Mena_Live

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi airstrikes against the E50 highway near the town of Wadi Khard, north of Ash Shihr, Hadhramaut region, south east Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Large number of casualties reported amongst the UAE-backed Hadhrami Elite Forces in Wadi Khard, eastern Yemen.

Local Hadhramaut sources report a convoy of ambulances heading to the sites struck by Saudi's airforce.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- A maritime notice is requiring civilian ships and aircraft to avoid two areas north of Venezuela from December 27–28, as hazardous and likely military operations will be taking place.