- Ukraine has announced that it used British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to strike the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia's Rostov region.
- Officials said that the targeted refinery was a major producer of petrol products and directly supplied the Russian Federation’s armed forces.
- Separately, Ukrainian long-range drones hit oil product storage tanks in Temryuk, Krasnodar region, and a gas processing plant in Orenburg.
- Russian officials confirmed that two tanks caught fire in Temryuk, with the blaze covering an area of approximately 2,000 square metres.
- Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hinted at progress on a peace deal following discussions with Steve Witkoff, an envoy for US President Donald Trump.
Friday, December 26, 2025
Ukraine uses British missiles to strike Russian oil refinery
European NATO nations openly ‘preparing for war’ – Belarusian defense minister
RT
The leaders of European NATO countries are making no secret of the fact that they are preparing for war against Russia and Belarus, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin has said.
The situation on Belarus’ western border is “tense, prone to radicalization and difficult,” the defense minister, who also holds the rank of lieutenant general, said in a televised interview on Friday, according to Belta news agency.
“The actions of the leaders of neighboring countries also indicate – and they don’t hide it – that preparations for war are underway,” Khrenin said. “They claim they are threatened by Russia and, of course, by Belarus. We have a Union State, and they will fight us.”
Poland, Germany, France and the Baltic states are all vying to militarize and create powerful armies, he added.
The European NATO nations’ recent commitment to allocate 5% of their GDP to their militaries “already suggests that this is a pre-war budget,”Khrenin said.
The US-led military bloc has been upgrading ports and airfields near Belarus and ramping up drills and training, as well as creating new units and boosting the forward presence of its troops near the Russian and Belarusian borders, he asserted.
The deployment of nuclear-capable, medium-range Russian Oreshnik missiles in Belarus is a strategic deterrent against this, Khrenin said.
“This is our reaction to their aggression, aggressive actions, to their statement that they are going to war with us,” he said. “We say: there is no need, we don’t want to fight. Let’s negotiate.”
On Thursday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was briefed on the deployment of the Oreshnik system in his country.
The missile system, armed with hypersonic IRBMs, will enter combat duty before the new year, Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week.
Moscow “has been seeking diplomatic resolutions to contradictions and conflicts as long as there is the slimmest hope of success,” Putin noted. Any lost chances are the responsibility of those who mistakenly “believe that they can use the language of force with us,” he stressed.
Putin scares British Politics and Tabloids with Christmas Nuclear Bombers
Putin scares British Politics and Tabloids with Christmas Nuclear Bombers – VIDEO by Russian MOD
Gospa News
On Christmas Eve, Vladimir Putin sent Tu95MS strategic bombers over the Norwegian Sea, near the northern approaches to Britain. The flight duration was more than 7 hours, and the Russian Navy Su33 fighters accompanied the bears...
“The Tu95MS of the long—range Military Air Forces of Russia made a planned flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Barents and Norwegian Seas,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.“At certain stages of the route, the bombers were accompanied by fighters from foreign countries,” without specifying which ones.
NATO had to raise fighter jets to escort Russian aircraft, the newspaper noted. The flight looked like a deliberate show of force aimed at the West on the eve of the holiday, the Western press claims.
Signs In Abundance
Pete Garcia
Matthew 24:1-3, 15 (my emphasis)
- The temple and the city’s destruction foretold by Jesus in one other place: (Luke 19:44) (Palm Sunday). It was falsely attributed to Him— John 2:19 (see Matt 26:61).
- Jesus acknowledged the destruction of the Second Temple while simultaneously pointing to a future desecration of it.
- Matthew 24:15 presupposes a standing sanctuary where the abomination of desolation occurs.
- Paul reinforces this in 2 Thessalonians 2:4, describing a man of sin entering the temple of God.
- Temple preparations today indicate readiness without requiring prophetic speculation.
- Jerusalem trampled by Gentiles until the fullness (Luke 21:24)
“And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled” (Luke 21:24).
- Jesus declared Jerusalem would remain under Gentile domination until the defined prophetic limit is reached.
- Many empires over the past two thousand years have sought to rename Jerusalem and erase it from history. All have failed.
- Aelia Capitolina: The Roman emperor Hadrian renamed Jerusalem after the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 135 A.D., and it was called that until 324 A.D., when Emperor Constantine I changed its name back to Jerusalem.
- Al-Quds (Arabic): Meaning “The Holy One,” widely used by Muslims instead of Jerusalem.
- Bayt al-Maqdis (Arabic): “The Holy House,” referring to the Jewish Temple.
- Major Far and Near East cities of antiquity whose names did not survive time.
- Alexandropolis → Kandahar
- Byzantium → Constantinople → Istanbul
- Ninevah → Mosul (Iraq)
- Babylon → Hillah (Iraq)
- Although Israel regained control of Jerusalem in 1967 in the Six-Day War, the Temple Mount remains under the Gentile authority of the Jordanian Waqf.
- This partial control aligns with Romans 11:25, where the fullness of the Gentiles precedes Israel’s restoration.
- Jerusalem will remain the most contested city on earth until the Second Coming.
- Global antisemitism rising (Zechariah 12)
“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it” (Zech 12:1-3).
“For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city” (Zech 14:2).
Zechariah foretold Jerusalem becoming a burdensome stone to all nations.
- Modern antisemitism has been rampant from the first century until the present, at times waxing and waning. However, since the early 20th century, it has intensified globally across political, academic, religious, and cultural spheres, culminating in the first half with the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and World War 2.
- Anti-Zionism was politically acceptable in the post-World War II era…until October 7, 2023. Now, Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism have become mainstream, both on the political left and the right.
- Hostility toward Israel increasingly transcends ideological and religious boundaries.
- The trend mirrors the prophetic convergence of global opposition against Jerusalem, Israel, and the Jewish people.
Kim Jong Un vows expanded missile development ahead of party congress
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signaled that his country will continue developing missiles over the next five years, during visits to major munitions enterprises in the last quarter of 2025, state media KCNA reported.
According to KCNA, Kim said that “the country's missile and shell production sector is of paramount importance in bolstering war deterrent.”
The report said Kim ratified draft documents for the modernization of major munitions enterprises, which are to be submitted to a key party congress expected in early 2026. The congress will determine a five-year development plan for the regime.
The announcement comes a day after the North Korean leader personally oversaw the test-firing of a long-range surface-to-air missile at a launch site near the country’s east coast.
KCNA reported the test was conducted to evaluate North Korea’s strategic technology for developing a new type of high-altitude missile. The missile successfully destroyed aerial targets from a distance of 200 kilometers.
Kim was quoted as stating that the “all-out development of nuclear capabilities and modernization of the Navy are essential and inevitable,” adding that “the present world is by no means peaceful.”
North Korea has upped its rhetoric over the past two years and staged dozens of launches of missiles.
In October, North Korea test-fired sea-to-surface cruise missiles off its western coast, a week after it launched a hypersonic missile.
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