🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- “The Trump administration is actively seeking regime change in Cuba and hopes to cut a deal to end communist rule on the island by the end of the year, according to a report. 

The Jan. 3 military operation to arrest Maduro required help from an asset within the Venezuelan dictator’s inner circle.

To identify a similar potential asset in Cuba, the Trump administration has been meeting with Cuban exiles and civic groups in Miami and Washington, US officials told the Journal.” - NYP.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇭⚡- President Trump met with Ukraine's Zelensky on the sidelines of the WEF summit in Davos. The meeting lasted 90 minutes.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇭⚡- "The meeting [with Ukraine's Zelensky] was good," - President Trump.

🇺🇦🇨🇭⚡- "Last year I ended my speech here that Europe must know how to defend itself. A year has passed, nothing has changed," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, at the WEF summit in Davos.

🇺🇦🇨🇭⚡- "Europe gave their attention to Greenland, but most European leaders don't know what to do, they were hoping America would just cool off. What if America didn't cool off? What then?

Europe sent 14 or 40 soldiers to Greenland. What is this meant to achieve? What message is this to the Russians or Chinese? Europe must learn how to defend itself," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, at the WEF summit in Davos.

🇺🇦🇨🇭⚡- "We, in Ukraine, know what to do. If Russian ships sail near Greenland, we can sink them, just like we sink them in the Black Sea," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, at the WEF summit in Davos.

🇺🇦🇨🇭⚡- "The rest of the world offers nothing. Europe does nothing, you do not engage. You rely on the United States and waits to see what they do," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, at the WEF summit in Davos.

🇺🇦🇨🇭⚡- "Why can the US stop tankers from the shadow fleets but Europe does not?" - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, at the WEF summit in Davos.

🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: The French Navy is currently seizing a Russian shadow vessel in European waters!

🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡- "We will not tolerate any violation.

The French Navy boarded an oil tanker coming from Russia, subject to international sanctions and suspected of flying a false flag.

The operation was conducted on the high seas in the Mediterranean, with the support of several of our allies. It was carried out in strict compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea," - Emmanuel Macron, President of France.

🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡- "French authorities did not notify us [Russia] about the detention of an oil tanker that was on its way from Murmansk, northern Russia.

The Russian Embassy in France is checking whether there are Russian citizens among the crew of the tanker detained in the Mediterranean," - TASS, Russian outlet.

🇫🇷⚡️- France's National Assembly voted in favor of registering the Muslim Brotherhood on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations.

🇺🇸⚡️- Two New York Police Department officers were refused treatment at NYU yesterday after nurses and staff mistook them for ICE agents.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇩🇿⚡️- After a long-winded court battle, Mahmoud Khalil, a Colombian University grad-student, head of Columbia’s pro-Palestine protests, and detained by ICE last year, will be deported to Algeria. - NYP.

🇺🇸⚡️- “President Donald Trump said Thursday that another government shutdown is likely as Congress approaches its Jan. 30 funding deadline, even as members work to hammer out funding agreements.

“I think we have a problem, because I think we’re going to probably end up in another Democrat shutdown,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business on the sidelines of Davos.” - POLITICO.

🇺🇲⚡- “Multiple sources familiar with the proceedings confirm a Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint bringing charges against Don Lemon in connection with the church protest on Sunday.” - CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane.

🇺🇸🇬🇱⚡- "President Trump and NATO Secretary General Rutte reached a verbal agreement on Greenland. The agreement will see the US-Denmark 1951 deal upgraded, granting increased US military rights.

The agreement would also see an increase of the rest of NATO's role in the Arctic security, and block Russian and Chinese investments," - CNN.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "US and Ukraine have discussed a possible energy ceasefire to Russia. Under the idea, Russia would halt air strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, in exchange for Ukraine stopping attacks on Russian oil refineries and Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers.

Vladimir Putin is seen as unlikely to agree because strikes on Ukrainian energy networks are viewed by the Kremlin as a key source of pressure and leverage, especially during winter.

US, Ukraine and Russia are set for trilateral talks in the United Arab Emirates," - Financial Times.

🇺🇸 - Approximate location of the USS Abraham Lincoln, CVN-72, and its carrier strike group:

As of 18:00 UTC the carrier group is off the coast of India's Maharashtra region, and will enter the CENTOM area of responsibility in the next few hours.

The estimation is based on a carrier's average speed in open waters – 30 knots. If it arrives earlier, it would indicate the carrier was 'speeding'.