North Korea is preparing to send additional troops, weapons and kamikaze drones to Russia, the South Korean military told Yonhap news agency. At the same time, North Korea increased supplies of ammunition to Russia, The Wall Street Journal reports , citing satellite imagery and sources. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea is preparing to rotate and increase the number of troops in Russia.

US President-elect Donald Trump made two territorial claims on Sunday. On his social media site Truth Social, he called ownership and control of Greenland an “absolute necessity.” At a meeting with supporters in Arizona, Trump accused Panama of charging too much tolls to cross the canal and threatened to demand the return of the Panama Canal to the United States.

Telegram creator Pavel Durov said that three years after monetization was activated, the messenger began to make a profit for the first time. He wrote about this in his Telegram channel and called 2024 “a very successful year for Telegram.” “This year the number of Telegram Premium subscribers has tripled and exceeded 12 million. Advertising revenues also increased several times.

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Tatyana Butskaya said on the radio station “Moscow Says” that breastfeeding prevents cancer in women and affects the child’s academic performance in the future. The telegram channel “Bloody Lady” drew attention to the broadcast. “Breastfeeding only makes your breasts get better. This is cancer prevention and she [the woman] is only becoming more beautiful. You grow into a beautiful woman,” she said.

At the “Direct Line” held last week, Vladimir Putin noted the “successes” of the Russian army, “liberating square kilometers” of Ukrainian territory and said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will definitely be “knocked out” of the Kursk region. Meanwhile, in Z-space, the main topic of discussion is not the president’s speech, but signs of an impending counter-offensive from Ukraine. Find out what these signs are in a new column by writer and Z-community researcher Ivan Filippov.

The body of the mammoth was presented at the Mammoth Museum of the North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU) in Yakutsk. His remains were found in 2024 on Batagaika in the Verkhoyansk region of Yakutia, and the geological age, according to radiocarbon analysis, is 50 thousand years. TASS reports this. The baby mammoth turned out to be a female - she was named Yana. The head is preserved almost completely: the ears, mouth area and trunk are without visible damage.

Several State Duma deputies and senators named the conditions that the owners of the WhatsApp messenger from the American company Meta must fulfill so that the service is not blocked in Russia.

At the Christmas market on Immanuel Kant Island in Kaliningrad, a metal sculpture of a man appeared holding copies of city landmarks in his hands. In local public pages, people began to be outraged that the man was depicted naked, the publication Podem reported . The author, as well as the Cathedral, had to make excuses for the sculpture, the New Kaliningrad publication said .

Passengers in Alphabet-owned Waymo's self-driving taxis are at risk of attack and harassment because the cars do not have a driver, there is no ability to change the route, and the passengers themselves often have no control over emergency situations. The Washington Post reports this. The publication spoke with passengers of self-driving taxis who said that they faced harassment or a threat to their safety.

The Ukrainian military has published a video that allegedly shows the execution of Ukrainian prisoners by the Russian military in the Donetsk region. The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine accused Russia of killing four prisoners of war and announced the start of an investigation into a war crime case.

Regional waste removal operator Vega again filed a lawsuit against 82-year-old pensioner Zoya Rodionova, the only resident of the Svetly Put village in the Voronezh region. This time, the company, which previously sued a pensioner for a debt for garbage that was not removed, wants to recover 78 thousand rubles from Rodionova as compensation for the work of the company’s lawyer in the courts. The company has been suing the pensioner over payment for garbage removal for almost a year.

Retired police colonel, ex-deputy head of the department for combating corruption in government agencies, Mikhail Smirnov, admitted to the murder of Fontanka and Agency for Journalism Research (AZHUR) journalist Maxim Maksimov, who disappeared in June 2004. According to Fontanka, Smirnov showed the place where he buried the body of the murdered journalist. After this, search services began excavations. Maksimov was known for his investigations into corruption in law enforcement agencies.

Companies founded by popular Russian blogger Vlad A4, also known as Vlad Bumaga, found themselves in debt of 2.5 million rubles in taxes and insurance premiums, RIA Novosti reports , citing data from BIR Analytics. Vlad A4 founded seven companies, in most of which he is listed as a minority shareholder. Some of his companies have debts in the form of overdue payments. At the same time, the blogger personally has no debts or blocked accounts. I moved from a Bashkir village to Finland.

Nikita Evlakhin, a resident of the city of Gus-Khrustalny in the Vladimir region, was put on the wanted list after he fled from the war zone in Ukraine and raped a minor girl in the Nizhny Novgorod region. This is reported by Dovod. The publication published a photo of a leaflet that said that Evlakhin is “a deserter prone to rape.” According to the announcement, he served as a private in the Russian army. “Argument” found Evlakhin’s pages on VKontakte and Odnoklassniki.

A meta-analysis of 14 studies found that people who drink more than four cups of coffee a day have a reduced risk of various head and neck cancers. It is clarified that decaffeinated coffee reduces the risk of oral cancer, and tea - although it reduces the risk of head and neck cancer in general - increases the risk of certain types of cancer. This was reported by Medpage Today.