Footage of a Russian Shahed attack drone shredding itself on power lines in Kyiv this afternoon.

A map showing Russia’s attacks overnight and into this morning. Kyiv has been under sustained assault for more than 10 hours. So far, at least 28 people are reported injured, including 13 who have been hospitalized. The attack is ongoing.

A Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 Fulcrum flying a Christmas combat air patrol.

Russian attack drones struck several residential buildings in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, this morning. Footage shows a Russian Shahed-136 drone hitting a high-rise apartment block in the Pozniaky neighborhood.

The United States has not abandoned its pursuit of the large, rusted oil tanker it chased into international waters near Venezuela last weekend, and officials are now considering deploying additional resources to the area to forcibly board the vessel, according to people familiar with the matter cited by CNN.

A Kremlin insider has been convicted in a major espionage case. Arseniy Konovalov, a former Russian consulate official in Houston, was sentenced to 12 years in a high-security penal colony and fined 100,000 rubles on treason charges. Russia’s FSB said Konovalov attempted to approach U.S. intelligence to sell classified information while serving in Texas. He was arrested in March 2024, in what authorities describe as one of the most serious diplomatic breaches in recent years.

Australia has restricted access to social media platforms for users under 16, while exempting BlueSky. Critics have characterized BlueSky as strongly left-leaning, though authorities said the exemptions are based on regulatory criteria rather than political or ideological content. Officials said the policy is intended to protect minors from online harms, stressing that platform eligibility is determined by compliance standards, not viewpoints.

Footage shows Ukrainian NASAMS air-defense systems intercepting Russian aerial targets using AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles. Lithuania, Norway, Canada, and the United States have supplied Ukraine with several of these highly capable surface-to-air missile systems.

🚨Multiple killed after U.S. launched strikes on ISIS terrorists in northwest Nigeria, AFRICOM says.

Nigeria’s Foreign Ministry issues statement on U.S. launching strikes targeting ISIS in the northwest.