RT News - December 26, 2018 (18:00 MSK)

RT shows unique footage from the Russian defense ministry's first full public test run of a new hypersonic strategic missile called Avangard. Britain's The Times newspaper interviews a Chechen fighting against anti-government forces in Eastern Ukraine. He says there are members of Islamic State in his ranks, while the leader of his battalion earlier admitted being part of a terror group committing atrocities in Russia. With the imminent departure of US Defense Secretary James Mattis, fears grow that notorious mercenary outfit Blackwater, is making a comeback after a full-page ad is published in its name, warning that, "we are coming."