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Hostomel Airport, north of Kyiv, 4 years ago today. A pair of Ukrainian Air Force Su-24M tactical bombers drop 500 kg parachute-retarded bombs onto Russian VDV airborne infantry assaulting the airfield.

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Footage of a Ukrainian Patriot SAM system shooting down a Russian 3M22 Zircon hypersonic cruise missile near Kyiv last night. This appears to be the first ever footage of a combat shootdown involving a HACM.

Russian state TV anchor Solovyov called for Russia to conduct orbital nuclear strikes on SpaceX satellites, after Musk shut down Russian Starlink terminals. Solovyov seemed unbothered by the potential collateral damage to Russian satellites: "We'll switch to carrier pigeons!"

The U.S. has deployed 8 destroyers and an aircraft carrier near the Middle East, with a total of 756 VLS cells available for strike and air defense missiles The buildup comes as the US begins to surge additional fighters and air defense assets amid escalating tensions with Iran.

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Massive Russian drone and missile attack on civil targets in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv tonight. Several energy targets have been hit, along with civilian housing. Seen here, a Russian Shahed attack drone slams into a Ukrainian apartment building.

The commander of the Czech armed forces is backing a plan to provide Ukraine with Czech Aero L-159 light fighters for drone hunting. “Every drone shot down by the L-159 over Ukraine will not reach the Czech Republic.”

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French forces raided and seized the Russian shadow fleet oil tanker Grinch this morning. The tanker was intercepted off Spanish waters in the Mediterranean with help from the UK, and is now under French naval escort.

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Denmark is planning to deploy up to 1000 new soldiers to Greenland in the near future, with troops rotating through the territory -TV2 A few hundred have already deployed to Kangerlussuaq and Nuuk, including a platoon-size formation from France's mountain troops.

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The Danish pension fund AkademikerPension is offloading its entire U.S. treasury position by the end of the month, selling roughly $100 million in U.S. debt. The fund’s CIO: "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable,"

Trump appears to now be posting a private text from the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte. Rutte’s message congratulates Trump on his work in Syria, says he will highlight Trump’s achievements in Davos this week.

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French President Macron, in what appears to have been a private text to President Trump, posted by Trump on his Truth Social account: “We are totally in line on Syria. We can do great things on Iran. I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.”

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