🗣 📸 The Ukrainian press has published a photo from the talks between the European leaders and Zelensky.

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🎥 The All-Russia People's Front delivered humanitarian aid to residents of Kirovsk, Lugansk region.

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🇺🇸 John Hinckley Jr. has received an unconditional release from legally restricted living over 40 years after he shot former US President Ronald Reagan in a failed assassination attempt, according to the shooter’s social media.

🤯 Tom Hanks yelled at an aggressive fan and rushed to protect his wife after she was knocked over by a crowd while out in in New York City on Wednesday. 

▪️ The typically composed actor, 65, turned and yelled at fans to 'back the f**k off' after he and Rita Wilson, 65, were mobbed outside a restaurant in Midtown. 

▪️ The shocking moment comes amid ongoing concerns regarding Tom's health, after he was filmed visibly shaking and unable to control his arm earlier this month. 

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⚡️ Mercenaries from the US and Britain are in Severodonetsk, LPR authorities say

😑 The House 6 January Select Committee will present evidence during its third public hearing on Thursday to show how then-president Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure then-vice president Mike Pence to block certification of the 2020 election led to the Capitol breach, according to CNN.

🗯 “We’re going to show that that pressure campaign directly contributed to the attack on the Capitol, and it put the vice president’s life in danger,” one of the panel’s aides was cited by NBC News as telling reporters on Wednesday.

▪️ They added that the Thursday hearing would focus on Trump’s pressure campaign against Pence despite being told by lawyers in the White House counsel's office that the vice president did not have the authority to unilaterally subvert the election results.

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❗️ Donetsk mayor reports shelling of city center, says there are victims

🎞 Oscar winning actor Kevin Spacey has vowed to clear his name after appearing in court in London, where he charged with sexually assaulting three men.

👨‍⚖️ The 62-year-old Hollywood star attended Westminster Magistrates’ Court after returning to Britain from his home in the United States to face four counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.

▪️ The allegations relate to three men, now in their 30s and 40s, in London and Gloucestershire between 2005 and 2013, while Spacey was artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London.

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⚡️ Stoltenberg has announced that NATO's defence ministers have decided to increase the bloc's forces in Eastern Europe

📹 А clergyman tells how he was tortured by the Ukrainian security forces, who killed a man in front of him.

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❗️ Russian MoD: Fever-carrying mosquitoes studied in Ukrainian labs may have been used by US in Cuba

⚡️ Downing Street publishes resignation letter from Boris Johnson's ethics adviser Lord Geidt

▪️ NATO is "close" to accepting two new members - Pentagon chief Austin after talks in Brussels

▪️ Since the beginning of Russia's special op in Ukraine, NATO has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers. This move will continue, Austin confirmed.

❗️ Key points from the Russian MoD’s briefing on the US biolabs in Ukraine:

▪️ Since 2015, when large-scale financing of Ukrainian projects by the Pentagon began, numerous infections have been recorded among the military and residents of the DPR and LPR.

▪️ In 2016, the incidence of tularemia increased 9.5-fold compared to 2007, the number of cases among military personnel was especially high.

▪️ In NATO guidance documents, tularemia is considered one of the priority biological agents - it was used in the alliance's exercises in Sweden, as was confirmed in 2012.

▪️ Since 2017, in the 12 regions of Ukraine where biological facilities controlled by the Pentagon are located, dozens of outbreaks of hepatitis A have been recorded - more than 10 thousand people have fallen ill, in most cases the cause of the diseases has not been established.

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❗️ Stingers and Javelins that the West has delivered to Ukraine are already being sold on the black market, Lavrov says

❗️ Kiev admits that it does not want negotiations with Russia - Lavrov

❗️Obviously there are attempts to make 'second Ukraine' out of Moldova - Lavrov

❗️ Macron says France, Germany, Italy and Romania support 'immediate' EU candidate status for Ukraine

❗️ Germany's Scholz vows military backing for Ukraine for 'as long as needed'