Russia is now reportedly using IR (Infrared) searchlight on its Geran-2/Shahed-136 drone to blind Ukrainian anti-drone UAVs (like the STING) and other aircraft as part of its developing countermeasures.

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The Special Operation was meant to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, according to US President Donald Trump.

According to President Trump, there will be a “News Conference” at 11:00 AM (4:00 PM UTC) in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Flordia, possibly to announce the capture of the Venezuelan President.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced several reshuffles in the Government, naming the head of the country’s Main Directorate of Military Intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, as his new Chief of Staff, and replacing his Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal, with his current Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhaylo Fedorov.

Most of oil tankers in Luhansk region were either destroyed or damaged following the FP-2 drone strikes by Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) on Dec. 31, according to satellite images from DniproOSINT.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was captured earlier today by members of Delta Force, the US military's top special mission unit, according to US officials who told CBS News.

Head of the Israeli Opposition, Yair Lapid, says the regime in Iran should pay close attention to what is happening in Venezuela, referring to the special military operation by the US Delta Force that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.

A medium-range Buk-M2E surface-to-air missile (SAM) air defense system with the Venezuelan Army at the Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda (La Carlota) Air Base in Caracas, destroyed by the US airstrikes earlier today.

Venezuelan Army is believed to have ≈12 Buk-M2 systems on 6x6 wheel trucks, with some of them operated by the Venezuelan Marine Corps to protect Navy installations west of Caracas.

US Attorney General of the Department of Justice, Pam Bondi, has announced that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife have been indicted in the Southern District of New York and charged with “Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy,” and will soon be in American courts.

“Ghosts” drone unit of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) is thought to have destroyed a Belarusian-Chinese “Polonez” Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), according to footage released by the GUR and analyzed by Ukrainian milbloggers. GUR first reported that it was a S-300V surface-to-air missile system in the Crimean Peninsula.

Just for comparison: Transport and Launch Containers (TLCs) of the S-300V SAM are round, whereas the Launch Pods in the Polonez MLRS are square.

Correction: It’s indeed a S-300V SAM system, thanks to the clarification made by Russian milblogger. It appears that distortions caused by the drone footage caused the TLCs to look square.

First image of Venezuelan President Maduro in U.S. custody after he was captured last night.

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2007488631603376504?s=20

The photo was published by US President Donald Trump, captioned: "Nicolas Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima."

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115832088990838303

Bro was really captured sleeping LMAO

Estimated locations of US airstrikes against military and communication targets across Venezuela and its capital, Caracas.

About 15 airstrikes were visually confirmed across the country, with 11 of them in Caracas. Most if not all of them were conducted before US Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment–Delta (1st SFOD-D), aka Delta Force, captured the Venezuelan President and his wife, with the participation of personnel from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau for Investigations (FBI).

H/T: @john_marquee and @Stinky915846091on X/Twitter for their help with identifying some of the strikes.

Over 150 aircraft participated in the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, including F-22 “Raptors”, F-35 “Lightning” IIs, Electronic Warfare (EW) EA-18G “Growlers”, F/A-18 “Super Hornets”, and B-1 “Lancer” heavy bomber(s), according to Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, who held a News Conference a short while ago with President Donald Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Reports of explosions in al-Mazzah, Damascus.

The explosion was caused by an unidentified person who fired a rocket that landed in the vicinity of Mezzah Military Airport.