🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation from January 17 to 23, 2026.
 

💥 From January 17 to 23, in response to Ukrainian terrorist attacks on civilian targets in Russia, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive strike and five group strikes, striking Ukrainian military industry facilities, energy and transport infrastructure facilities used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ammunition and fuel depots, production facilities, storage areas, pre-flight preparation and launch sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as temporary deployment sites for AFU and foreign mercenaries.
 
🚩 Over the course of a week, as a result of active offensive actions by units of the "North" military group in the Kharkiv direction, control was established over the village of Siminovka in the Kharkiv region.

💥 Three mechanized brigades of the AFU, two territorial defense brigades, a National Guard brigade, and two border detachments of the Ukrainian Border Service were defeated.

💥 In Sumy Oblast, the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, motorized infantry, ranger, assault, and airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments of the AFU, and two territorial defense brigades were defeated.

▪️ In total, in the area of ​​responsibility of the "North" group of forces, the enemy lost more than 1,110 servicemen, nine armored combat vehicles, 107 vehicles, and 18 field artillery pieces. Ten electronic and counter-battery warfare stations and 23 ammunition and supply depots were destroyed.
 
❗️ Over the past week, units of the "West" group of forces have taken up more advantageous positions and lines. The manpower and equipment of six mechanized brigades, two airmobile brigades, an airborne assault brigade, two assault brigades, two territorial defense brigades, and three National Guard brigades of the AFU were damaged.

▪️ AFU lost over 1,400 troops, two tanks, 18 armored combat vehicles, 150 vehicles, and 11 field artillery pieces in this area. Twenty-nine ammunition depots were destroyed.
 
🚩 As a result of decisive actions by units of the "Southern" group of forces, the village of Privolye in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.

💥 Formations of six mechanized brigades, a motorized infantry brigade, an airborne assault brigade, a mountain assault brigade, a marine brigade, and a territorial defense brigade of the AFU were damaged.

▪️ Over the past week, in the Southern Group of Forces' area of ​​responsibility, the AFU lost more than 1,255 service members and 33 armored combat vehicles, including two Stryker armored vehicles and four US-made M113 armored personnel carriers. Eighty vehicles, 18 artillery pieces, including six Western-made ones, 13 electronic and counter-battery warfare stations, and 11 ammunition, fuel, and supply depots were destroyed."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation from January 17 to 23, 2026.

🚩 Units of the "Center" group of forces continued active offensive operations and liberated the village of Novopavlivka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

💥 The personnel and equipment of seven mechanized brigades, two Jaeger brigades, an airmobile brigade, two airborne assault brigades, three assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine brigade, a territorial defense brigade, and five National Guard brigades were defeated.

▪️ Over the past week, enemy losses in this area amounted to over 2,970 servicemen, four tanks, including a German-made Leopard tank, 33 armored combat vehicles, 50 vehicles, and 15 field artillery pieces, including two US-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery mounts.
 
🚩 Units of the "East" force group advanced deep into enemy defenses and liberated the village of Pryluky in the Zaporizhzhia region.

💥 Four mechanized brigades, two assault brigades, an unmanned systems brigade, five assault regiments of the AFU, a marine brigade, two territorial defense brigades, and a National Guard brigade were defeated.

▪️ In total, in the area of ​​responsibility of the "East" group of forces, the enemy lost more than 1,740 servicemen, three tanks, 23 armored combat vehicles, 67 vehicles, 11 artillery pieces, and three ammunition and supply depots.
 
🚩 Over the past week, as a result of coordinated actions by units of the "Dnipro" group of forces, the village of Pavlivka in the Zaporizhzhia region was liberated.

💥 The manpower and equipment of the mechanized, mountain assault, and two coastal defense brigades of the AFU were damaged.

▪️ The AFU lost up to 335 servicemen, 37 vehicles, two artillery pieces, 13 electronic warfare stations, and five supply depots.
 
💥 Over the past week, strike drones, missile forces, and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed eight multiple launch rocket system combat vehicles, three of which were Western-made, as well as an Osa anti-aircraft missile system combat vehicle.
 
🎯 Air defense systems have shot down 35 guided aerial bombs, 47 US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system missiles, seven Neptune long-range guided missiles, and 1,468 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
📊 Since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:

▫️ 670 aircraft,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 110,812 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 646 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 27,279 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
▫️ 1,650 multiple launch rocket system combat vehicles,
▫️ 32,775 field artillery pieces and mortars,
▫️ 52,611 special military vehicles."

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🇨🇳🛩‼️🇹🇼— 📰 Financial Times | China flies drone into Taiwan’s airspace for first time | Surveillance flight over disputed atoll highlights Beijing’s growing aerial capabilities | January 17, 2026:

"China’s military has escalated its campaign of pressure against Taiwan by violating the island nation’s airspace with a drone for the first time.

A Chinese surveillance drone entered the airspace of Pratas, a Taiwan-controlled island in the South China Sea also known as Dongsha, for four minutes on Saturday.

The unmanned aerial vehicle was a WZ-7 known as ‘Soaring Dragon’ according to a Taiwanese national security official. It flew at an “altitude outside the range of our air defence weapons and left following warnings Taipei broadcast via international radio channels”, Taiwan’s defence ministry said in a statement.

Analysts said the move highlighted Taiwan’s difficulties in countering China’s high-end drone capabilities and allowed Beijing to further undermine the country’s sovereignty.

“China has found another soft spot,” said Kitsch Liao, an associate director at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub. “They can repeat this to demonstrate that they can enter Taiwan airspace with impunity. And what do you do if they start flying lower and lower? If you decide to shoot the drone down when it comes into range, China can blame Taiwan because it didn’t do anything before.”

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🇨🇳😀🌍 — 🗞 Daily Mail | China applies to launch 200,000 satellites into space, sparking concerns they plan to build a 'mega-constellation' | January, 15 2026:

"China has applied to launch almost 200,000 satellites into space, sparking concerns that the nation seeks to build a 'mega-constellation'.

On December 29, a newly formed body called the Institute of Radio Spectrum Utilisation and Technological Innovation filed applications for two satellite constellations.

Each of these enormous collections of spacecraft, dubbed CTC-1 and CTC-2, would contain 96,714 satellites spread over 3,660 different orbits.

If completed, China's new mega-constellation would dwarf even SpaceX's bold ambition to put 49,000 Starlink satellites in orbit.

Together, CTC-1 and CTC-2 would be the largest assembly of satellites ever put in orbit, and would effectively lock competitors out of a region of low-Earth orbit."

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🇺🇸🗯🇺🇸🤝🇨🇳🏛 — 🇺🇸 President of United States Donald J. Trump on 🌐:

"The people who brought the Tariff Litigation against our Country, now in the United States Supreme Court, are strongly China oriented, and very upset by the fact that the United States is doing so well — GIANT GROWTH AND INVESTMENT, ALMOST NO INFLATION! These people, in some cases Americans, should be ashamed of themselves. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

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👔👏🇺🇸🤝🙎‍♂️🇨🇳🎵 — 🇺🇸 President of United States Donald J. Trump on 🌐:

"I am so happy to have helped in saving TikTok! It will now be owned by a group of Great American Patriots and Investors, the Biggest in the World, and will be an important Voice. Along with other factors, it was responsible for my doing so well with the Youth Vote in the 2024 Presidential Election. I only hope that long into the future I will be remembered by those who use and love TikTok. Thank you to Vice President JD Vance, and all of the others within my Administration, who helped bring this Deal to a very dramatic, final, and beautiful conclusion. I would also like to thank President Xi, of China, for working with us and, ultimately, approving the Deal. He could have gone the other way, but didn’t, and is appreciated for his decision. PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP"

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👔👏🛬🇨🇭666 — 🇺🇸 President of United States Donald J. Trump on 🌐:

"What a great trip to Davos it was. So many things accomplished, including the framework of a deal with NATO on Greenland. Also, the BOARD OF PEACE. WOW!!! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT"

🔗 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

🇺🇸🗯🇨🇦— 🇺🇸 President of United States Donald J. Trump on 🌐:

"Canada is against The Golden Dome being built over Greenland, even though The Golden Dome would protect Canada. Instead, they voted in favor of doing business with China, who will “eat them up” within the first year!"

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🇺🇸💲⚡️🧪 — 📰 Associated Press | Lawmakers propose $2.5B agency to boost production of rare earths and other critical minerals | January 15, 2026:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers have proposed creating a new agency with $2.5 billion to spur production of rare earths and the other critical minerals, while the Trump administration has already taken aggressive actions to break China's grip on the market for these materials that are crucial to high-tech products, including cellphones, electric vehicles, jet fighters and missiles.

It’s too early to tell how the bill, if passed, could align with the White House’s policy, but whatever the approach, the U.S. is in a crunch to drastically reduce its reliance on China, after Beijing used its dominance of the critical minerals market to gain leverage in the trade war with Washington. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to a one-year truce in October, by which Beijing would continue to export critical minerals while the U.S. would ease its export controls of U.S. technology on China.

The Pentagon has shelled out nearly $5 billion over the past year to help ensure its access to the materials after the trade war laid bare just how beholden the U.S. is to China, which processes more than 90% of the world's critical minerals. To break Beijing's chokehold, the U.S. government is taking equity stakes in a handful of critical mineral companies and in some cases guaranteeing the price of some commodities using an approach that seems more likely to come out of China's playbook instead of a Republican administration."

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👔🔣🇬🇱— 📰 ZeroHedge | Putin Puts A Price Tag On Greenland, Appears To Relish NATO Turning On Itself | January 22, 2026

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Putin explained that Russia has experience in selling Arctic territories to the United States, recalling that the Russian Empire sold the sprawling and resource-rich Alaska peninsula for $7.2 million in 1863.

"At today's prices, taking into account inflation over the decades, this sum is equivalent to about $158 million," Putin said. He then said that given Greenland is a bit bigger than Alaska, a similar deal would have seen Greenland priced at roughly $200 million to $250 million.

Factoring in the relative value of gold at the time, he described that the true valuation could be pushed up to "probably about $1 billion." And he concluded, "Well, I think the United States can afford such a sum."

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🇺🇸💬🇬🇱— 📰 ZeroHedge | Trump Touts "Total And Permanent" Access To Greenland, While Nobody Has Any Clue What's In The Deal | January 23, 2026:

"Trump said on Thursday he had secured "total and permanent" US access to Greenland in a deal with NATO, whose head said allies would have to step up their commitment to Arctic security to ward off threats from Russia and China. 

News of a framework deal came as Trump backed off tariff threats against Europe and ruled out taking Greenland by force, bringing to an end what was brewing to be the biggest rupture in transatlantic ties in decades. Yet despite the optimism, details of any agreement were unclear and Denmark insisted its sovereignty over the island was not up for discussion. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc's U.S. relations had "taken a big blow" in the past week, as EU leaders met for an emergency summit.

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen welcomed Trump's comments but said he was still in the dark on many aspects.

"I don't know what there is in the agreement, or the deal, about my country," Nielsen told reporters in the capital Nuuk."

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🇨🇦☄️ — 📰 ZeroHedge | Alberta Sees Large Turnout For Petition To Separate From Canada | January 23, 2026:

"Crowds of Canadian citizens stood in long lines across Alberta for hours this week to sign a petition for a referendum on leaving Canada - officially titled "A Referendum Relating to Alberta Independence." The petition requires at least 177,000 signatures in order to trigger the referendum, which would ultimately decide if the province will separate.

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🇨🇦❌🇺🇸 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Canada's Military Preps Model Of Hypothetical US Invasion In Historic First | January 23, 2026:

"It's quite surprising, and a bit absurd, to read these lines in one of Canada's premier and most widely read newspapers: "The Canadian Armed Forces have modelled a hypothetical US military invasion of Canada and the country’s potential response, which includes tactics similar to those employed against Russia and later US-led forces in Afghanistan, two senior government officials say."

This is widely believed to be a first in the history of Canada's military, given there's never been reason for this founding NATO member to be attacked by another founding member of NATO, Globe and Mail additionally stated."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront | Military Situation In Ukraine On January 23, 2026 (Map Update)

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront's high resolution map regarding Volchansk front.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront's high resolution map regarding Pokrovsk-Dobropolye front.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront's high resolution map regarding Pokrovsk-Mezhevsk front.

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🇷🇺📈🥇Russia gains $216 billion in gold rally, replacing lost assets

Russia has reaped a windfall from a surge in gold prices since the start of its war in Ukraine, generating gains on a scale comparable to the sovereign reserves frozen in Europe over President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.

The value of the Bank of Russia’s gold holdings has increased by more than $216 billion since February 2022, according to Bloomberg calculations. At the same time, the central bank has largely refrained from both major purchases of the metal and using its gold reserves during that period, despite the loss of access to foreign securities and currencies blocked under sanctions.

In December, European Union countries approved extending a freeze on around €210 billion ($244 billion) of Russian sovereign assets held in the bloc.

https://www.mining.com/web/russia-gains-216-billion-in-gold-rally-replacing-lost-assets/

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🗣🙏🗣🗣 — 🇺🇸 President of United States Donald J. Trump on 🌐:

"I want to thank President Aliyev of Azerbaijan, and Prime Minister Pashinyan of Armenia for upholding the Peace Agreement we signed last August. This was a nasty War, 1 of 8 that I have ended, but now we have Prosperity and Peace. In February, Vice President Vance will travel to both Countries to build on our Peace efforts, and advance the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity. We will strengthen our strategic partnership with Azerbaijan, a beautiful Agreement for Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation with Armenia, Deals for our Great Semiconductor Makers, and the sale of Made in the U.S.A. Defense Equipment, such as body armor and boats, and more, to Azerbaijan. Thank you! President DJT"

🔗 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)