RT News - December 20 2024 (17:00 MSK)

Ukraine withdraws from positions outside the stronghold city of Kurakhovo in Donbass as Moscow’s troops reclaim more territory. Russia unleashes a barrage of retaliatory strikes across Ukraine, hitting the command centre of the nation's Security Service. Some top brass are reportedly killed in the strikes, just days after Ukraine assassinated a Russian general in Moscow. Zelensky refuses to prolong a Russian gas transit agreement to Europe. It's set to expire in two weeks, leaving Europe in the cold. Is Zelensky biting the hand that feeds him? A militant group formerly known as the Syrian Free Army says Washington prepared it to join the offensive that overthrew the al-Assad government. That's as a US delegation arrives in Damascus to meet with the new authorities, who were originally called terrorists and Islamist mercenaries.