Urban Warfare: Russia's special forces sharpen assault skills
Russia's special forces units engage in daily exercises focused on storming urban enemy buildings, refining attack techniques in pairs to coordinate movements, provide cover, and administer first aid.
#Russia
Macron's 'deluded' govt ‘pushed our cooperation off a cliff’ – Azerbaijani President to VGTRK and RIA Novosti
‘Our cooperation was very active […] Our cities have 13 sister cities in France. Still, the unbridled ambition and delusions of grandeur of Macron’s government have essentially pushed it all off a cliff,’ Azerbaijani President Aliyev told VGTRK and RIA Novosti.
#Azerbaijan #France
Azerbaijan and Russia are reliable partners – President Aliyev
Azerbaijan and Russia "have always shown understanding and behaved in a friendly manner towards one another, and I am sure that this will continue," President Aliyev said in an interview with Russia’s VGTRK TV company and RIA Novosti.
#Russia #Azerbaijan
German market attack: Scholz shuffles awkwardly through scene of tragedy
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Saturday visited Magdeburg, where at least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market, in what officials have called a deliberate attack.
Surely people need reassurance - not Scholz.
#Germany
Gaza 'Evacuation Order' protest takes over Oslo shopping mall
Social media footage appears to show a group of pro-Palestine protestors staging a mocked-up demonstration mimicking the leaflets Tel Aviv has dropped into Gaza ordering Palestinians to make way for military operations.
Will Norwegian Christmas shoppers buy the message?
#Norway #Gaza
❗️Kazan Airport traffic resumes - Rosaviatsia
Restrictions on arrivals and departures have been lifted, the agency confirmed.
Only five flights had to be diverted to alternate airfields while the temporary precautionary measure was in place.
#Russia #Kazan
Deadly Magdeburg car ramming: Latest updates
The devastating car-ramming incident in Magdeburg has claimed two lives and left at least 68 injured.
RT’s Chay Bowes reports on the tragedy that has rocked German society.
#Germany
❗️Flames erupt from multi-story building in Kazan following drone strike
Footage shows the damage left from a building in Kazan that was struck earlier by two Ukrainian UAV attacks. According to official reports, there are no casualties or injuries resulting from the attacks.
#Russia #Kazan
❗️Tatarstan leader Rustam Minnikhanov cancels all mass events in the republic for Saturday and Sunday due to security concerns
Kazan Airport has cancelled all air traffic, according to Rosaviatsia.
#Russia #Kazan
❗️Another Kazan drone attack strikes residential building
#Russia #Drone #Kazan
Target destroyed: Russian ‘Giatsint-S’ dismantles Ukrainian UAV stronghold - MoD
#Russia
⚡️New footage appears to show FAILED INTERCEPTION of Houthi missile over Tel Aviv
IDF has now CONFIRMED that its air defenses were not able to stop the Yemen-launched ballistic missile from making a direct hit
#Israel
❗️Kiev’s Western mentors are behind Gen. Kirillov killing and other crimes aimed against Russian political, military and creative elite – Russian envoy to UN
#UN #Russia
Ok one more: Steve Bannon hugs the purple-haired US congress eater
#SteveBannon
Cuban protesters rally against US trade blockade amid economic crisis
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the US embassy in Havana on Friday, calling on the Biden administration to lift long-standing sanctions as Cuba grapples with a deepening economic crisis.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel addressed the demonstration, slamming Washington for doing nothing to alleviate the "economic suffocation" of the island nation.
Reckon Washington will listen?
#Cuba #US
Imagining NATO vs Russia hot war would be like 'global apocalypse' – Ilham Aliyev
"I think there is enough political wisdom in Washington, Moscow, and other capitals to ensure that such a nightmarish scenario does not materialize," the Azerbaijani President told VGTRK and RIA Novosti.
#Russia #Azerbaijan
Kazan under attack: Ukrainian UAVs strike residential buildings
Kazan has come under a coordinated attack by Ukrainian UAVs, targeting residential buildings. The city's tallest structure was hit twice in the same area, resulting in three reported injuries.
RT's Charlotte Dubenskij queries Ukraine's timing for these strikes.
#Russia #Kazan #Drones
❗️UPDATE: German terror attack death toll rises to four - German media
The number of people injured in the Magdeburg Christmas market attack has risen from 68 to more than 200.
#Germany
Oil-smothered dead dolphin washes ashore in southern Russia
It's just one of many wildlife casualties of two tankers crashing in the Kerch Strait and spilling tons of oil products.
#Russia
Military helicopter ablaze after emergency landing near California military base
Although the chopper was forced to make a crash landing near Camp Pendleton, everyone on board escaped injury.
#US
❗️Ukrainian drones attacked Kazan in three waves from different directions — Russian MoD
3 UAVs were destroyed by air defense systems, while 3 more were suppressed by electronic warfare systems.
#Russia #Kazan #Drones
US Govt Shutdown: Senate escapes last-gasp holiday crisis
The US Senate scrambled to pass a government funding bill in the nick of time late Friday night to avoid a shutdown by sending yet another stop-gap bill to President Biden’s desk.
The late deal approves spending through March, but does not include a raise in the debt ceiling that President-elect Donald Trump had demanded.
Unlike Washington to be scrabbling around for funds.
#US
❗️Eight drone strikes target Kazan
Authorities say of the eight attacks, six struck buildings in residential areas.
#Russia #Kazan
❗️Drones attack Kazan high-rise building, residents evacuated
Two drones have struck a high-rise building in Kazan, prompting emergency services to respond and evacuate residents. There is currently no information regarding potential casualties.
#Russia #Kazan
Scientists at Caltech have discovered that the human brain can only think at 10 bits per second – about a million times slower than a Sega Genesis – which is so slow we wonder if their test subject was Joe Biden
#Biden
EU ‘must make up their tremendous deficit with the US by the large-scale purchase of our oil and gas. Otherwise, it is TARIFFS all the way!’ – Trump
#EU #US
❗️ Multiple videos appear to show Houthi ballistic missile making a DIRECT STRIKE on Tel Aviv neighborhood in Israel
#Israel
Europe and the US spent $300 BILLION on Ukraine:
Hungarian PM revealed the ‘nightmarish’ amount of money West gave to Kiev so far, adding that he learned this number after conversations with American officials.
#Orban #Hungary
Trump wins big in Congress - burning the bill 95% in length down from 1,500 pages
The amended bill passed by over 300 votes with a majority of Republicans and Democrats voting in favor. And now Trump gets a clean vote with little to no fat.
More importantly he slashed a useless state department agency that imposes outrageous global censorship.
#US
