Donald Trump allowed the introduction of new sanctions against Russia if Vladimir Putin does not negotiate a settlement to the conflict in Ukraine. The American president said this during a conversation with reporters at the White House, he was quoted by Reuters. Trump did not specify what restrictions his administration might impose against Russia. At the same time, he announced that the United States was considering the issue of supplying weapons to Ukraine.

Doctors at the Ivano-Matreninsky Children's Clinical Hospital operated on a 14-year-old teenager in whose chest a firework exploded. The incident occurred on New Year's Eve. This was reported on the telegram channel of the medical institution. According to eyewitnesses, the teenager and his friends went to set off fireworks, but the pyrotechnics were installed not in an open space, but in a certain pipe.

In Ukrainian hospitals where military personnel are treated, an increase in the number of cases of infection resistant to antiviral drugs is recorded. The war appears to have accelerated the spread of multidrug-resistant pathogens, the BBC reported , citing Ukrainian doctors. At the Feofaniya hospital in Kyiv, more than 80% of all incoming patients have infections caused by antibiotic-resistant microbes, said Andrey Strokan, the head physician of the clinic.

What's happened? A Russian journalist known under the pseudonym Asiya Nesoeva, who collaborated as a freelancer with a number of independent media, falsified some of the facts in her materials. Why did this become known now? In early January 2025, Kholod's fact-check department checked the material sent to Nesoeva's editorial office and found that the author could not confirm a significant part of the story. After she was asked to provide confirmation, Nesoyeva sent falsified evidence.

The Russian airline Pobeda has canceled the possibility of online check-in for flights for passengers with children from 2 to 12 years old. The airline's press service explained this by the fight against frequent errors and fraud. RIA Novosti writes about this. Updated information about check-in rules for flights has appeared on the Pobeda website.

The country's first base for training humanoid robots has been opened in Shanghai, China. The Chinese news portal Yicai Global writes about this. It is reported that at the training base, robots will perform various tasks, and the collected data will be sent to developers to further optimize the level of intelligence of the machines. The opening ceremony took place on January 21.

An unnamed US Defense Department official told The New York Times that more North Korean military reinforcements should arrive for the war with Ukraine “within the next two months.” The source of the publication did not provide more detailed details. NYT notes that even before sending its soldiers to Ukraine, North Korea supported Russia and supplied the Russian army with weapons, including artillery shells and medium-range ballistic missiles.

Two members of the French Parliament, Véronique Riotton and Marie-Charlotte Garin, have proposed clarifying the legal definition of rape. They proposed that any act of penetration without voluntary consent should be considered rape. Deputies recalled that many of the men convicted of raping Giselle Pelico had a misconception about consent to sex. For example, some defendants believed that they obtained consent for sexual intercourse through her husband.

Angelina (name changed at the request of the heroine) is 23 years old, and she refused sex with her husband because of painful sensations. She changed a dozen gynecologists, underwent surgery to cut the hymen, and had sex through pain for more than six months. Angelina told Kholod about her attempts to find a solution to her problem, its causes and shame in front of her partner. Previously, I tolerated her and hated everything related to intimacy.

SpaceX CEO and head of the Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz a “stupid piece of shit.” This is how the businessman commented on Scholz’s answer to a question about Elon Musk’s gesture yesterday, which was similar to a Nazi salute. Scholz said that there is freedom of speech in Germany, but he does not support right-wing positions.

The founder of the legendary darknet marketplace Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence, has been pardoned. US President Donald Trump signed a corresponding decree shortly after his inauguration. He himself reported this on his social network, Truth Social. “I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht and told her that in honor of her and the Libertarian movement that has supported me so strongly, I have signed a full and unconditional pardon for her son,” he wrote.

A cage containing an eight-year-old Maine Coon cat named Mittens was forgotten in the cargo hold of a plane, causing the animal to make three flights between New Zealand and Australia within 24 hours. CNN reports this. According to the publication, the cat was supposed to fly from Christchurch in New Zealand to Melbourne, where its owner Margo Nees was moving. However, the woman said she waited three hours at Melbourne Airport for her cat to be unloaded from the cargo hold.

A video has spread online in which a man introducing himself as a lieutenant colonel calls himself the son of the head of North Ossetia, Sergei Menyailo, and argues with a traffic police officer over a request to open the trunk.

The Rus Food Bank charity foundation, which distributes food that is about to expire, received a presidential grant of 30 million rubles. The Agency drew attention to this, noting that the co-founder of the fund is Yulia Nazarova, a member of the Human Rights Council and Putin’s confidant. The goal of the grant is to create a national network of food banks that will receive food that is nearing its expiration date from producers and retailers and then distribute it to families in need.

Real rates on credit cards in Russian banks have risen to almost 40%, a record at least since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, RBC reported , citing Scoring Bureau. According to the publication, a similar surge in the total cost of credit card loans was observed in March 2022, shortly after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the end of December, the average total cost of loans on credit cards increased by 9.7 percentage points, to 38.8%.