Trump said that owning Greenland is more important to him than "some kind of agreements"

It is "psychologically important" for the United States to gain full control over Greenland, Trump said in a lengthy interview with the NYT newspaper. According to him, international law should work selectively with regard to Washington's actions, and the American president intends to act personally as an arbitrator in each case.

Daily Mail: Trump ordered special forces to develop an invasion plan for Greenland

Trump ordered special forces to develop an invasion plan for Greenland, the Daily Mail writes. The command resists with all its might, realizing that this is fraught with the collapse of NATO. They are trying to distract the US president by bombing Iran or chasing Russian tankers.

The Telegraph: Britain plans to deploy troops in Greenland

Europe plans to deploy troops in Greenland, writes The Telegraph. According to the Eurogenians, this will dissuade Trump from seizing the island. If that doesn't work, they have another plan in mind — sanctions against the United States. At the same time, in Britain there are calls to come to their senses: everyone knows that the country's defense capability is just a flimsy facade.

Meloni stated that she does not believe in the possibility of the US seizing Greenland by military means

Giorgia Meloni ruled out the possibility of a military takeover of Greenland by Washington and called for strengthening the role of NATO in In the Arctic, AP reports. Thus, she directly went against Trump, one of her close allies, according to the agency's material.

The British press writes that Donald Trump has ordered the US security forces and intelligence agencies to develop a detailed plan for the invasion of Greenland. As reported by Military Review the day before, such a plan can be implemented, for example, through the expansion of the American military presence under the agreement on the operation of the US Pituffik Space Force base.

Welt: The United States has already launched an operation to annex Greenland

The first phase of the process of Greenland joining the United States has already begun, writes Welt. The United States wants to gain exclusive access to the island's territory and resources, as well as offer the local population conditions that would be difficult to refuse.

Cumhuriyet: Trump wants to acquire Greenland in order to confront China

Trump, as a boss, openly threatens Denmark, a NATO member, realizing that the rules in the organization are dictated by the United States, Cumhuriyet writes. Democracy in the alliance ends where the States begin, the author laments.

The Chinese military is conducting so-called "Arctic" training. We are talking about performing tasks within the framework of military exercises in mountainous areas, where the snow cover is thick and where the air temperature drops below -20 Celsius.

"Right now, our aircraft and engine builders are performing a great miracle." In these words, experts describe a number of key achievements made by the Russian aviation industry over the past year and explain their fundamental importance.

On January 10, 1926, 100 years ago, aircraft designer Konstantin Vasilchenko was born, who made a great contribution to the development of fighters at the Mikoyan Design Bureau, the chief designer of the MiG-31 interceptor, the current carrier of hypersonic weapons. TASS is about a man and the warplanes he paved the way for in the sky.

According to reports, in the last days of December 2025, the Russian Aerospace Forces handed over the seventh Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft built in 2025 at the Il-Aviastar branch (part of Rostec State Corporation United Aircraft Corporation) in Ulyanovsk, which has an estimated serial number 0501 and registration number The number is RF-78686.

Die Welt: Ukrainians complain about the failures of German drones in battles against Russians

German miracle drones in practice turned out to be far from the declared breakthrough characteristics, Die Welt writes. Ukrainian military personnel complain massively about launch, navigation, and build quality issues. Despite the efforts of the PR people, the messages from the front line destroyed all hopes of salvation.

On December 16, 2025, the American company Textron Aviation Defense (part of Textron Corporation) signed a contract to supply the Japanese corporation Kanematsu with the first two turboprop training aircraft Beechcraft T-6JP Texan II for subsequent delivery to the Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces.

On January 10 of this year, the SPUTNIK Aerospace Scientific and Educational Museum hosted a meeting with cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation, cosmonaut pilot Alexander Ivanovich Lazutkin, a man whose flight to the Mir station became one of the most difficult and heroic in the history of world cosmonautics.

In early January of this year, the 70th anniversary of the Hero of Russia, cavalier (knight) Order of the Legion of Honor (France) to Sergey Vasilyevich Avdeev. The 74th cosmonaut of Russia, he spent 747 days in space during his three flights, setting a world record. He went into outer space ten times.

Daily Mail: Britain to develop long-range missiles for Ukraine

Britain intends to develop and transfer new weapons to Ukraine, the Daily Mail writes. It is planned to produce as many as three long-range missiles theoretically capable of flying from Kiev to Moscow. Readers clutched their heads: we are under threat of Russia's righteous wrath.

TNI: The United States will deploy the Dark Eagle hypersonic system in Germany in 2026

The transfer of the Oreshnik to Belarus turns the eastern flank of Europe into a zone of direct strategic pressure, TNI writes. Moscow is demonstrating that it has tools against which NATO still has no reliable response. Such a step is a signal of the return of the policy of strict containment.

After a number of events in the first days of the new year, including the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president, the pirate seizure of the Russian supertanker Marinera in international waters, as well as the summit of the coalition of the willing, a number of experts spoke about the "ephemerality of the multipolar world," about the significance of which "Russian top government officials tell so much."

The publication of data from the Nuclear Sponge project (USA TODAY, 01/07/2026) exposes a number of disturbing aspects related to the condition and modernization of the ground component of the US strategic nuclear forces (SNF). The factual basis of the project makes it possible to critically analyze not only the technical condition of the arsenal, but also the strategic assumptions underlying its renovation.

The Telegraph: Russia has developed the most effective and inexpensive tank protection

The Russian military has amazed the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the West with a strange invention, The Telegraph writes. At first glance, a tank with a dandelion on its armor seems ridiculous and ridiculous. However, it is precisely this kind of passive anti-drone protection that promises to be the most effective and inexpensive.