🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Two Chinese nationals have been captured fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine’s Donetsk region according to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Two Chinese nationals have been captured fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine’s Donetsk region according to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.

Presumably to protect his privacy, the private jet carrying former Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has been moved off the tarmac of The Hague and into a hangar with buses now blocking the press’ view. He stands accused of crimes against humanity.

BREAKING - US will resume intelligence sharing and security assistance to Ukraine following Jeddah talks. Ukraine has also agreed to a 30 day ceasefire - if Russia signs up too - and the US will convey to Moscow that “reciprocity from Russia is key to achieving peace

Coalition of the willing meets coalition of the billing. How the EU entered the fray as Europe copes with a brazen new world. Me for @kyivindependent.com kyivindependent.com/how-europe-i...

The White House says a peace deal ending 🇷🇺’s invasion of 🇺🇦 could come “this week” Meanwhile, Russia launched its biggest ever drone attack on Ukraine last night, hitting residential areas 267 drones were launched. 138 shot down, 119 lost/diverted. This was Kyiv last night:

Loud skies over Kyiv tonight. Air defences working against Russian drones flying over densely populated areas. 💥

EU top diplomat Kallas at NATO pushes back against US and Trump’s call with Putin: - Why are we giving them what they want before negations have started? - Negotiations behind our backs won’t work bcos 🇪🇺 is needed to implement it - any deal without EU would be a “dirty deal”

China has offered to host a summit between Presidents Trump and Putin to negotiate peace in Ukraine … without the Ukrainian President. www.wsj.com/world/china-...

NATO Sec Gen Rutte on Russian hybrid threats: "We should stop calling it hybrid, because hybrid sounds cuddly, nice, lovely. It is not. It is really state sponsored sabotage, and in some cases, even state sponsored terrorism"

A reminder that Slovakia officially recognises the International Criminal Court which issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin. Slovakia would, technically, have to arrest the Russian President. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Back on @lbc.co.uk this Christmas Day from 7-10pm… - Has anyone leaving a TV show affected you? - Have you cut back on alcohol or caffeine? - Cadbury has royal warrant removed… what would you tell the King to replace it with? Plus @alexcadier.bsky.social on 🇺🇦, @seanmandell.bsky.social on 🇺🇸 & more!

A colleague asked me if we could expect a pause in Russia’s war on Christmas Day. I told them what Ukrainians tell me: Russia ramps *up* attacks on holidays. Overnight: 70+ missiles, 100+ drones targeting energy infrastructure Today: Rolling blackouts. Casualties TBC. 🎄

Another massive Russian attack in Ukraine on Christmas Day - 5 cities were hit by 10 or more missiles. 20 in Dnipro, 15 in Kharkiv - Energy, water and heating infrastructure were targeted, causing emergency blackouts - Russian missile flew through Moldovan and Romanian airspace

BREAKING - A building which hosts the embassies of Portugal, Argentina, Morocco, North Macedonia and Palestine was damaged in this morning's Russian attack on Kyiv. I took this photo approx 90 minutes after the explosion - windows blown out and shattered.

Aftermath of Russian strikes in Kyiv this morning.

Another wave of ballistic missile attacks here in Kyiv this morning. Several cars on fire as a result of falling missile debris in central Kyiv with medics called to the scene. Fires also reported in a warehouse and construction site in the city.

A lot of people sheltering in Kyiv’s metro stations as Russia continues what Ukraine’s energy minister has called a “massive” attack on energy infrastructure.

Crowded skies over 🇺🇦 tonight - 100+ drones. Local telegram channels wondering if it might break the record number of drones launched by 🇷🇺 in one night. The air alert has just been lifted here in Kyiv after three and a half hours. Much of the country remains under alert.

Crowded skies over 🇺🇦 tonight - 100+ drones. Local telegram channels wondering if it might break the record number of drones launched by 🇷🇺 in one night. The air alert has just been lifted here in Kyiv after three and a half hours. Much of the country remains under alert.

🇩🇪‼️ Scholz it is. Pistorius says he is not available.

The damaging of two undersea telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea should be presumed to be sabotage, Germany said today, while Lithuania's armed forces boosted surveillance of its waters in response.