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On 9 Jan 2026, Moscow fired a single Mach-10 Oreshnik ballistic missile from Kapustin Yar at Lviv Oblast during a 242-drone, 36-missile night barrage—the weapon’s first appearance in 14 months and the closest strike yet to NATO territory.
On 8 Jan 2026 Zelenskyy announced the draft bilateral security-guarantee treaty with the United States was 100 % written and only awaits President Trump’s signature, while Russia simultaneously rejected the plan’s European peacekeeping element.
On 9 Jan 2026, Iran’s government cut nationwide internet and phone links and intensified force against demonstrators, after nearly two weeks of unrest that has left over 40 dead and triggered explicit U.S. threats to intervene.
On 8 Jan 2026 President Trump signed a memorandum directing federal agencies to end U.S. membership and funding in 66 multilateral bodies effective immediately.
On 9 Jan 2026 Moscow launched its nuclear-capable Oreshnik IRBM at an infrastructure site near Lviv, marking the weapon’s second-ever combat use just hours after rejecting a Western troop-deployment proposal for post-war Ukraine.
Within 48 hours of Nicolás Maduro’s 3 Jan 2026 capture, at least sixteen U.S-sanctioned oil tankers simultaneously left Venezuelan ports—many spoofing identities or switching off transponders—in a coordinated bid to outrun President Trump’s December 16 naval blockade.
On 7 Jan 2026, President Donald Trump ordered all federal agencies to end participation and funding for 31 UN bodies and 35 other multilateral groups, marking the largest single-day U.S. withdrawal from international institutions in modern history.
On 6–7 Jan 2026, 35 nations in Paris declared that security protocols for Ukraine are "largely finished," pairing a 15-year U.S. guarantee with European troop deployments and a U.S-led cease-fire monitor once fighting stops.
In an overnight 3‒4 Jan 2026 raid, U.S. special forces seized Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Caracas and delivered him to Brooklyn to stand trial under a newly unsealed four-count narco-terrorism indictment.
On 6 Jan 2026, 30-plus ‘Coalition of the Willing’ states—including the UK and France, which pledged ground troops—signed a Paris statement establishing a U.S-monitored, multinational security force that would deploy inside Ukraine once a ceasefire with Russia is in place.
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