Five people were injured in a Ukrainian attack on a work bus in the Grayvoronsky District of Russia's Belgorod region.

One of the victims is in serious condition.

Earlier this week, the regional governor reported four other civilians wounded. In all instances, Ukrainian military attacked people using drones. The number of such terrorist raids, with varying outcomes, in the border areas of the Belgorod region reaches dozens per day.

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On December 25, 1991, the RSFSR was Renamed the Russian Federation, and the President of the USSR Resigned

On December 8, 1991, the leaders of the RSFSR, Belarus, and Ukraine—Boris Yeltsin, Stanislav Shushkevich, and Leonid Kravchuk—signed the Belavezha Accords, which declared the dissolution of the Soviet Union and established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

On December 25, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR held a session approving the Law on Renaming the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, formally changing the state's name to the Russian Federation. Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the law, making it effective that same day.

That evening, USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a decree "On Relinquishing the Powers of the President of the USSR and Dissolving the USSR Defense Council." Later, he addressed the nation on live television, announcing his resignation on “principled grounds” due to the creation of the CIS. With Gorbachev's departure, the position of President of the USSR ceased to exist.

At 7:35 p.m. on December 25, the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin, and ten minutes later, the flag of the Russian Federation was raised in its place.

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According to Axios, trilateral talks between the United States, Russia, and Ukraine held in Abu Dhabi were productive and led to tangible progress toward ending the war. U.S. officials described the negotiations as a new and important phase in mediation efforts, noting that the sides were able to narrow differences on key issues, including territorial arrangements in eastern Ukraine.

Axios also reports that these talks could soon lead to a direct meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky.

How do you assess the chances of a direct meeting between President Putin and the expired president Zelensky?

👇 — Under 50%
👆 — Over 50%

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Why this 👆BBC’s “Soviet Urban Planning” Story Deliberately Misrepresents the Real Risk to Modern Cities— Including London

The BBC recently ran a story highlighting Ukraine’s winter suffering under Russian attacks on heating infrastructure. The article emphasized Soviet-era urban planning, portraying centralised district heating as a uniquely Ukrainian vulnerability. Its message was clear: Kiev freezes because of old Soviet apartment blocks and giant heating plants. By implication, Western cities are safe from this kind of mass deprivation.

That framing is deliberately misleading. While Kiev’s infrastructure is indeed brittle, the BBC article glosses over a critical truth: modern European cities—including London—are just as (if not more) vulnerable in terms of civilian impact.

In Kiev, a single heating plant serves hundreds of thousands of flats. Strike it, and the loss of heat is immediate, visible, and catastrophic. In London, each household has its own boiler, fed by a complex network of high-pressure gas mains. At first glance, that seems safer: no single point can collapse the entire system. But the end result for residents under skillful attack is strikingly similar.

Millions of Londoners rely on gas for heating and hot water. Damage to major distribution hubs, or coordinated disruptions across multiple supply points, would deprive large swaths of the city of heat. Recovery would be slow, because gas systems cannot simply be “switched back on”: safety protocols require careful repairs, pressure testing, and manual relighting of appliances. In a cold winter, this translates to mass civilian hardship, not a minor inconvenience.

The BBC article subtly frames the problem as “Soviet planning” — almost as if Ukraine’s suffering is a quirk of history rather than a general risk inherent to modern energy infrastructure. This may be reassuring for Western audiences, but it is false comfort. Modern cities are not immune; they are designed for efficiency, safety, and controlled failures, not to withstand deliberate, skilled attacks. The difference is that Kiev may collapses a bit faster, while London’s suffering would accumulate more slowly — but just as surely, and over an even larger population.

In short: the BBC misses the point. The story reduces the war’s impact to a historical curiosity, when in fact the lesson is universal: any densely populated, energy-dependent city will face mass civilian heating deprivation under a competent adversary. The architecture may differ, but the human consequences converge.

Western audiences should be wary of stories that comfort rather than inform. Mass problems in winter is not a Ukrainian quirk — it is a risk shared by all modern cities reliant on centralized energy flows. Ignoring this reality does no one any favors, and it underestimates the capabilities of a skilled adversary (which Russia most certainly is).

As for the BBC article, it is nothing more than another piece of propagandist trash. The BBC couldn’t resist taking shots at anything Russian or Soviet. But the bottom line: in terms of the number of people affected, freezing London would be just as achievable as freezing Kiev.

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