■ Macron snubbed during Trump–Zelensky meeting in Vatican (RT)

Ignat Kuzin has fully confessed to carrying out the terrorist attack that killed Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, the deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, Russian Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said on Sunday. | The explosion occurred Friday morning in the courtyard of a residential building in the Moscow Region's Balashikha. Investigators determined that the blast was caused by a shrapnel-filled improvised explosive device planted on a car. Kuzin, a suspected Ukrainian intelligence agent, was detained on Saturday.

✅ The enemy has struck at a Russian decision-making center (Elena Panina)

After Large Explosion at Port of Bandar Abbas, Iran now seeing fires/explosions at multiple other sites | As many of you may already be aware, an accidental fire involving a fuel tank at the Port of Bandar Abbas, triggered a very large explosion in a nearby Chemical Storage building yesterday. Today, more (ahem) "accidents" are happening. A steel Plant - miles away - has now also gone up in flames, as has the Bandar Abbas Electric Generating Station - also miles away. Tonight, miles away from all the other situations, the "Persian Gulf Star Refinery" is now also burning. It is the largest gas condensate plant in the entire Middle East.

■ Death Toll in Blast in Iran’s Bander Abbas Port Rises to 25 People (RT)

Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli agent tasked with blackmailing U.S. politicians and business people by providing them with under-age girls. Virginia Giuffre, then 17, was on of those victims. Epstein was jailed and, on August 10 2019, found dead in his cell. | Today we learn that Virginia Giuffre is dead. This is curious. Potential renal failure in March is supposed to be the cause for a suicide in late April? Why is the NY Times insinuating this? We have dialysis to counter renal failure and hundreds of thousands survive with it. Then there are kidney transplants. Giuffre was 40 years old. One does not die of kidney failure at that age. It is not a reason to suicide oneself. Consider this:

💬 Virginia Giuffre @VRSVirginia - 3:32 UTC · Dec 11, 2019
I am making it publicy known that in no way, shape or form am I sucidal. I have made this known to my therapist and GP- If something happens to me- in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quiteted

Gerasimov made official confirmation of the active participation of North Korean troops in the Kursk theater | Gerasimov reports they fought shoulder to shoulder with Russian troops. And now that the cat’s out of the bag, there are more details trickling out from Russian frontline journos who had previously been sworn to OPSEC about the DPRK forces.

■ ‘Not a single North Korean violated his oath’ (RT)

The Arctic is attracting unprecedented global interest, taking existing geostrategic and military competition to new levels. | Under the cover of "defense readiness," the West is steadily turning the Arctic into its next military playground. 13 Norwegian soldiers, members of a Norwegian military intelligence regiment, are now enduring -37°C in 100-day survival missions. The goal is to test gear, tech, and the soldiers' own physical resilience for future conflict in freezing conditions.