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.

The United States has launched airstrikes against ISIS targets in northwest Nigeria, President Trump said. According to Fox News, the U.S. has carried out airstrikes this year in several regions, including Nigeria, Somalia, Iran, Yemen, the Caribbean, and the eastern Pacific.

The Pentagon’s latest report confirms that China’s Chengdu J-36 and Shenyang J-50 sixth-generation fighter prototypes are undergoing active flight testing and feature tailless stealth designs. With multiple prototypes flying since late 2024 and rapid design iterations continuing in 2025, the report indicates that China is accelerating development of its next-generation airpower, potentially reaching visible milestones ahead of the U.S. Boeing F-47, which is scheduled for its first flight in 2028.