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[00:00:44] Ukrainian drones attacked an oil refinery in the Yaroslavl region; the governor
[00:00:47] said that the region was subjected to the most massive attack since the beginning
[00:00:50] of the war. This is a live broadcast of the Current Time TV channel, today is Thursday, August
[00:00:54] 6, my name is Evgeniya
[00:02:02] Many have probably heard what was happening with us last night
[00:02:06] until the morning, this is
[00:02:09] all
[00:02:10] of it.
[00:02:14] Today, tomorrow, and the following days
[00:02:16] will be
[00:02:19] our
[00:02:22] air. The Governor of the Yaroslavl region stated that air defense forces shot down
[00:02:25] 88 drones. According to him, this is the most massive attack on the region since
[00:02:29] the beginning of the war. A private house burned down in several multi-story buildings, windows
[00:02:32] were blown out, and cars were damaged. There were no dead or injured. At the
[00:02:36] time of the attack, authorities blocked the exit from Yaroslavl towards Moscow.
[00:02:40] Volodymyr Zelensky also announced attacks by Ukrainian forces in the Black Sea. According to him,
[00:02:44] two Russian military patrol boats and vessels of the so-called
[00:02:47] shadow fleet were damaged. This morning, after a drone attack,
[00:02:51] a fire broke out in the Tver region. Eyewitnesses published footage of the fire in
[00:02:54] the private sector. The acting governor stated that the attack
[00:02:58] was repelled by air defense forces. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that
[00:03:01] a total of 605 Ukrainian
[00:03:04] drones were destroyed overnight.
[00:03:07] In the Tver region, as a result of the drone attack,
[00:03:10] the facade of the Wildberries logistics complex was damaged.
[00:03:13] This was reported by the governor of the region, Vitaly Korolev. According to him, due to
[00:03:17] the fall of drone debris, a minor damage occurred. This
[00:03:20] was a quote: damage to the facade. Against the background of regular
[00:03:23] attacks, the Russian marketplace is actively looking for safe sites in neighboring
[00:03:27] countries. New hubs are already being built in Belarus and Kazakhstan. Will this
[00:03:31] help save Wildberries from the crisis? Roman
[00:03:34] Vasyukovich will tell you. The construction of the logistics center of the
[00:03:37] Russian marketplace Wildberries in Belarus is progressing at an accelerated
[00:03:41] pace. The facility is located in the Great Stone Industrial Park
[00:03:44] near Minsk. The warehouse has been operating in test mode since spring of this
[00:03:48] year. Previously, the management of Wildberries reported that this center would become
[00:03:51] the largest in Belarus. Its area will be
[00:03:55] 14,000 square kilometers.
[00:03:58] Unfortunately, the circumstances that are currently developing in the territory
[00:04:01] of the Russian Federation are forcing the investor to build faster,
[00:04:05] as quickly as possible, to fully launch it into operation.
[00:04:08] Today, the company is recruiting staff, training
[00:04:12] staff. However, the logistics center near Minsk
[00:04:16] is designed exclusively for the Belarusian consumer, as explained to
[00:04:19] Current Time by economic observer of the project "Belarusians and the Market"
[00:04:23] Andrey Makhovsky, this facility will not be able to replace the burned-down warehouses in Russia.
[00:04:26] In order to build such warehouses in such...
[00:04:30] quantities to replace what burned down, well, you need
[00:04:33] time, you need a lot of time, that's one. Secondly,
[00:04:36] it takes a lot of money. The Belarusian warehouse
[00:04:40] cost, if I'm not mistaken, 110 million dollars
[00:04:43] to build, well, at least that's what was stated, possibly even
[00:04:47] more than 110 million. The Russian marketplace plans to launch new logistics centers
[00:04:51] in Kazakhstan. For now, the company only leases space there, but
[00:04:54] soon its own retail warehouses should appear in Astana and...
[00:04:58] As far as I know, about
[00:05:00] 46 thousand square kilometers
[00:05:04] are leased premises, yes and you probably know, this
[00:05:07] information was also announced, that.
[00:05:10] была анонсирована, что.
[00:05:42] which is, excuse me, nearby, a comfortable Russian-speaking environment
[00:05:46] there, and millions of economic
[00:05:49] ties. Economist Aidar Alibaev is confident that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' strikes on
[00:05:53] Russian centers in Kazakhstan are excluded. However,
[00:05:56] the presence of such a business creates serious sanction risks for
[00:05:59] Astana. Especially since earlier Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
[00:06:03] explicitly stated that the warehouses that Ukrainian drones struck were involved in
[00:06:07] supplying Russian troops with navigation equipment,
[00:06:10] components for drones, and...
[00:06:42] in Kazakhstan or Belarus will help Wildberries fully recover after
[00:06:46] the crisis. And will Wildberries survive until the time when
[00:06:49] it finally needs these new warehouses.
[00:06:53] I mean, the strikes on warehouses continue, they
[00:06:57] happen on average every 2 days, on average every 2 days
[00:07:00] some warehouse burns down. Russian sellers already want to leave
[00:07:04] Wildberries, that is, Wildberries creates some
[00:07:07] administrative obstacles to prevent them from leaving, but you can't keep doing that for long.
[00:07:11] As of July,
[00:07:25] some of the marketplace's facilities in Russia have either been completely destroyed
[00:07:29] or seriously damaged. To preserve logistics, the company's
[00:07:32] management is actively looking for new storage sites in
[00:07:36] Belarus, Kazakhstan, and
[00:07:43] In the Kharkiv region, five people died as a result of night
[00:07:47] attacks by Russian drones. According to the head of the region, two people died due to a strike on the Lozova railway station,
[00:07:50] and eight were injured. Three more
[00:07:54] deaths were reported by rescuers in the city of Balakliya, where drones attacked the private
[00:07:57] sector. In the Black Sea, a merchant ship flying the flag of Guinea-Bissau
[00:08:01] was attacked. It was transporting Ukrainian wheat. As reported by
[00:08:04] the head of the Odesa region, there are dead and three more people injured. According to
[00:08:08] local authorities, at least five passengers were injured, including a 15-year-old
[00:08:12] teenager. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that two vessels carrying
[00:08:16] military cargo were hit in the Black Sea. In Dnipro, a drone hit a minibus. In
[00:08:20] the Kherson region, a drone attacked a bus with people who
[00:08:23] were going to work in the fields. According to local authorities, six
[00:08:27] people were injured. In Zaporizhzhia, due to a drone attack, the roof of a nine-story building was partially
[00:08:30] destroyed. The State Emergency Service reported
[00:08:34] four injured. According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, over the past night, Russian
[00:08:38] military used 101 drones and four missiles. Air defense forces, as
[00:08:42] reported, managed to shoot down 66 drones.
[00:08:46] дронов.
[00:08:49] In the Kyiv region, today is a day of mourning for the victims of the Russian missile
[00:08:53] attack. The State Emergency Service reported that
[00:08:56] the aftermath is being cleared, rescuers are clearing debris in several
[00:09:00] districts, and sappers are simultaneously surveying the area. The day before,
[00:09:03] Ukrainian air defense could not intercept a single ballistic
[00:09:07] missile. Boris Sochalko will tell us how Kyiv plans to solve
[00:09:10] the problem of missile shortages. These are
[00:09:13] shots of a meeting of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council,
[00:09:16] at least in its open part, what has been buzzing in
[00:09:20] the Ukrainian segment of the Internet for the last 2 days was discussed.
[00:09:24] There are critically few missiles for intercepting ballistics in Ukraine, and
[00:09:27] the main question is what to do about it? The first obvious
[00:09:31] option: we need the help of partners, however, about 600 missiles for Patriot systems
[00:09:35] are produced worldwide per year. This year, their manufacturer
[00:09:39] Lockheed Martin increased production to
[00:09:42] 700 units, and this is already considered a breakthrough, as many
[00:09:46] component suppliers are simply not ready for a sharp
[00:09:49] increase in capacity. Last month, to shoot down
[00:09:53] 127 ballistic supersonic missiles, it took
[00:09:57] 254 Patriot missiles, and this is in one month, despite the fact that the US
[00:10:01] has about 800 missiles left, with production of 650 per year.
[00:10:04] The simple arithmetic is sad, we need a minimum of 1,500 missiles per year,
[00:10:07] as of today this is unrealistic. Hence the
[00:10:11] second thesis, which boils down to the well-known formula: the best
[00:10:14] defense is offense. Famous Ukrainian volunteer Serhiy Starnenko
[00:10:18] is confident that it is necessary to destroy the missile launchers themselves.
[00:10:22] установки.
[00:10:24] Such
[00:10:32] work was carried out mainly bypassing the General Staff through
[00:10:35] horizontal connections. Such operations require strong organizational
[00:10:39] and technological components. We want to believe that past developments
[00:10:42] will not be lost and will be used to destroy enemy
[00:10:46] ballistics. Ukraine has already successfully hit ballistic missile
[00:10:49] launchers of the Russian army several times, for now it is.
[00:10:53] армии, пока это.
[00:11:18] one of the launchers was caught in Crimea, in total
[00:11:22] five missile brigades of the Russian
[00:11:25] armed forces are involved against Ukraine. Each brigade has 12 launchers
[00:11:28] according to the staff, which means a total
[00:11:32] of about 60 launchers. Experts also
[00:11:35] believe that regular strikes on the Russian military-industrial complex can help, which will reduce the pace
[00:11:39] of missile production. At the same time, hitting the launcher itself is an
[00:11:43] extremely difficult task. The Iskander does not stand still waiting
[00:11:46] for a strike, the vehicle can travel for several hours to the starting position, constantly
[00:11:49] confusing its tracks. And... for this you need eyes in
[00:11:53] the air, satellite links, that is, the task is very, very
[00:11:57] difficult: to catch an Iskander on the march or near
[00:12:00] the position where it deploys and attacks, it's difficult,
[00:12:03] indeed, it's the same as when they say that it is necessary to destroy the production
[00:12:06] of Iskanders, we understand that it is produced deep underground.
[00:12:10] Air defense itself is another solution to the problem, which is
[00:12:13] actively discussed online. The Ukrainian company Firepoint
[00:12:17] previously stated that, in addition to ballistic missiles, it intends
[00:12:20] to produce and...
[00:12:24] I don't know if there are other reasons besides the Middle East,
[00:12:42] maybe political steps to make Ukraine
[00:12:45] more, let's say, compliant,
[00:12:48] yes, in my opinion, that... and not without that, so today we
[00:12:51] are in a situation of, well, deficit,
[00:12:55] the direction that we started
[00:12:58] with our domestic
[00:13:01] air defense system, it is correct
[00:13:03] for today to
[00:13:07] be implemented as soon as possible, while Volodymyr Zelensky thanked allies for the assistance
[00:13:11] provided, however,
[00:13:14] he added, quote: Our country, it is ours, in the
[00:13:18] end, everything depends on... Current Time
[00:13:21] Ukraine.
[00:13:32] were injured, and more than a dozen apartment buildings, cars, and
[00:13:36] civilian infrastructure were damaged. Sumy is located just 30 km from
[00:13:39] the Russian border and is subjected to shelling daily. Earlier,
[00:13:43] Vladimir Putin announced plans to create a buffer zone there.
[00:13:46] Andrey Kuzakov will tell us how the Ukrainian Armed Forces
[00:13:50] are holding back the Russian offensive in the region.
[00:13:53] Кузаков.
[00:16:08] At the neighboring post,
[00:16:09] shooting,
[00:16:13] drones are shot down,
[00:16:16] despite constant attacks, Russian troops in the Sumy region
[00:16:19] are unable to advance deep into Ukrainian territory, Ukrainian
[00:16:22] military say all attacks are repelled, but the Russian
[00:16:26] army constantly storms the border zone, striking
[00:16:30] settlements all the way to Sumy with a large number
[00:16:33] of attack drones. In our direction.
[00:17:37] Unfortunately, he could not be saved.
[00:17:39] He lay in intensive care for
[00:17:42] a day and died. Oksana and Alexey live here
[00:17:46] by visits, they are not ready to leave
[00:17:49] completely yet. Well, it's a pity, it's a pity to leave everything, we
[00:17:52] have lived here for 15 years already, well, he
[00:17:56] damaged our house a bit,
[00:17:59] let's say, now there is no
[00:18:02] opportunity to repair it, because, well...
[00:18:05] The situation will worsen, says
[00:19:07] Oksana, they will have to leave forever, her and
[00:19:11] her husband. Andrey
[00:19:22] against Russia could be brought to final approval in the Senate
[00:19:25] as early as this week. John Curtis, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee,
[00:19:29] said this in an interview with Radio Svoboda. The document
[00:19:32] provides for large-scale restrictions on Russia's financial and energy
[00:19:36] sectors and against the shadow fleet that Russia uses
[00:19:39] to circumvent sanctions. In addition, it will allow the US president to impose
[00:19:43] duties against buyers of Russian fuel. According to
[00:19:46] Curtis, the initiative enjoys broad bipartisan support.
[00:19:50] The Republican senator stressed that Russia must not win the war.
[00:19:53] A Radio Svoboda correspondent in Washington asked Curtis what he considered
[00:19:57] a victory for Ukraine
[00:19:59] in that case. If you ask President
[00:20:02] Zelensky, victory simply means not
[00:20:06] losing today. Not losing tomorrow and not losing
[00:20:09] the day after tomorrow, from the very beginning Russia defined its
[00:20:13] victory as the complete capture of Ukraine, so for Ukraine
[00:20:17] victory is any outcome in which this did not happen,
[00:20:21] the very fact that Ukraine was able to withstand 4 and
[00:20:24] a half years of this aggression, this is a huge
[00:20:27] victory.
[00:20:31] How do you manage to advocate for strong bipartisan support for
[00:20:34] Ukraine, given that some of your Republican colleagues
[00:20:38] advocate for reducing foreign aid? Listen,
[00:20:42] in reality we cannot do everything at once, there is
[00:20:46] common sense in their arguments, but I repeat again, defeat is not
[00:20:49] an option. If we allow Putin to win in
[00:20:52] Ukraine, it will have serious consequences for many
[00:20:56] other regions of the world, just look at China and
[00:20:59] Taiwan, we perfectly understand that Chairman Xi
[00:21:02] is carefully watching what is happening in Ukraine, and if
[00:21:06] we retreat here, he will understand that we will retreat on the issue of
[00:21:09] Taiwan, therefore the consequences of this war go far
[00:21:13] beyond Ukraine
[00:21:14] itself.
[00:21:17] The court chose a measure of restraint for the former
[00:21:21] Stefanishina, in a case of illegal enrichment. She was assigned a bail of
[00:21:24] 6 million hryvnias, which is about 130 thousand dollars. She
[00:21:28] is obliged to appear for questioning at the request of anti-corruption bodies
[00:21:31] and notify them of trips. At the request of the defense, the court session
[00:21:35] was held in private. Stefanishina is accused of three
[00:21:38] episodes: illegal enrichment and false
[00:21:41] declaration. It is about the purchase of apartments in a residential complex in
[00:21:45] Kyiv, which, according to the media, could have been acquired at an underestimated
[00:21:48] price. Stefanishina herself claims that she has nothing to hide,
[00:21:52] she refused to comment on today's meeting in detail.
[00:21:55] The decree on Stefanishina's dismissal from the post of ambassador was signed by Volodymyr Zelensky
[00:21:59] on August 3, after which she stated that she had resigned
[00:22:02] voluntarily. Stefanishina is involved in another
[00:22:06] criminal case, it concerns events of 2013-14,
[00:22:10] when she headed the department of the Ministry of
[00:22:12] Justice. Media reported that it was about the embezzlement
[00:22:16] of money.
[00:22:20] Georgia was left without electricity for several hours,
[00:22:23] railway communication and the metro in Tbilisi stopped. In a number of
[00:22:27] settlements there was no water. This is already the third power outage in
[00:22:31] the last 2 weeks. About possible causes, Zviat
[00:22:34] Michedlishvili.
[00:22:36] A massive power outage throughout Georgia occurred the day before
[00:22:39] around 8:00 PM. This led to
[00:22:42] disruptions in critical infrastructure, traffic lights did not work
[00:22:46] in a number of settlements. Pumps stopped, and... Water was intermittent,
[00:22:49] mobile communications and internet worked intermittently,
[00:22:52] intercity trains, cable cars, cars stopped,
[00:22:56] the funicular and metro stopped, passengers had to get to
[00:22:59] the surface on their own. Power began to be restored in stages
[00:23:03] by 9:00 PM, later the state electric system of
[00:23:06] Georgia explained that the blackout occurred during
[00:23:09] equipment testing at Enguri HPP. They were looking
[00:23:12] for the causes of the two previous large-scale outages.
[00:23:16] After systemic accidents on July 24 and 25
[00:23:20] at the Enguri hydropower plant,
[00:23:23] technical work was carried out, to check the equipment, it was necessary
[00:23:27] to switch the power system to isolated mode with
[00:23:29] a non-standard frequency, this caused a temporary power outage
[00:23:33] throughout the country. The first two blackouts at the end of July
[00:23:37] lasted about 2.5 hours. The National Energy
[00:23:40] Regulatory Commission found that a sudden
[00:23:44] disconnection of the Georgian and Azerbaijani
[00:23:46] power systems occurred then. The Georgian network found itself in isolation.
[00:25:07] This is much more than large factories consume, twice as much as the metro and
[00:25:11] railway consume, this is approximately the expenses of a city like
[00:25:14] Kutaisi.
[00:25:20] discussed in the country, this is a possible sabotage by
[00:25:23] Russia. Politologist Gia Khukhashvili said this on the air of
[00:25:26] the opposition TV channel TV Pirveli. A video where he goes live
[00:25:30] by candlelight became viral in Georgian social networks.
[00:25:34] We can talk about technical reasons or
[00:25:37] corruption, but the main reason, in my opinion, is political. The first
[00:25:41] blackout coincided with European sanctions against structures associated with
[00:25:44] Russia and a US investigation into the influence of Russian special services
[00:25:47] in Georgia. I consider this a political response and sabotage on
[00:25:51] the part of Russia, its tentacles have penetrated the entire system, and
[00:25:55] disguising sabotage as an ordinary accident is not
[00:25:58] difficult. EU sanctions, about which.
[00:26:01] Евросоюза, о которых.
[00:26:37] According to outage tracking services, there are problems with mobile and home internet, complaints
[00:26:41] were mass-reported from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar Krai,
[00:26:44] Novosibirsk region, and other regions. Later, Rostelecom
[00:26:47] reported that the problem occurred in their data
[00:26:51] transmission network. Everything is now working normally. In mid-July, Russia
[00:26:54] already experienced a major outage, when websites of Apple, Google, and other
[00:26:58] tech giants failed to load for several hours. The supervisory
[00:27:01] body denied its involvement in the outage.
[00:27:05] отрицал.
[00:27:08] A part of a SpaceX rocket crashed into the Moon. The second stage,
[00:27:11] weighing 4 tons, had been drifting in space since last year and collided with
[00:27:15] Earth's satellite at a speed of almost 8,700 km/h. No one managed
[00:27:19] to capture this moment up close. Now scientists are waiting for data from
[00:27:22] satellites that photograph the Moon's surface to compare photos
[00:27:26] before and after. Here are the first such images: the collision
[00:27:30] was not...
[00:28:02] laboratory for studying processes throughout the solar system, there
[00:28:06] is no atmosphere and practically no external influences, and the regolith
[00:28:10] surface layer of the Moon remains in place for a very long
[00:28:14] time. The formation of craters is a process that
[00:28:17] occurs throughout the solar system. Therefore, when
[00:28:20] an object of known size collides with the Moon at a known speed, it
[00:28:24] helps scientists better understand the mechanism of crater formation
[00:28:28] and determine what kind of crater arises from a collision of this
[00:28:31] magnitude.
[00:28:34] There's no need to worry about this collision, it will leave a tiny
[00:28:37] mark on the moon. For astronomers, this is an interesting opportunity to learn more
[00:28:41] about it. This will not affect Earth in any way, but space debris in
[00:28:45] general is indeed a cause for concern. Each year,
[00:28:48] space becomes increasingly congested. Huge satellite
[00:28:51] constellations, such as Starlink, are being launched into orbit.
[00:28:53] It is possible that in just a few decades, going beyond
[00:28:57] low-Earth orbit will become quite difficult due to the large
[00:29:01] amount of space.
[00:29:22] warfare like,
[00:29:25] these are just the names given by our donors, our
[00:29:28] angels. Rescuers evacuated 17 people
[00:29:31] from this house.
[00:30:22] The improvement of the Ministry of Defense's
[00:30:25] structure continues in connection with
[00:30:28] the needs and experience of the special
[00:30:31] military operation. Personnel rotation of personnel.
[00:30:34] Putin announced the unification of the Ministry of Defense's rear
[00:30:37] services, he seeks to improve, as it were,
[00:30:41] the leadership of the war, but at the same time not to nominate any
[00:30:44] general who would look like his rival. And about
[00:30:48] the change of the head of the UAV troops. The previous head
[00:30:51] was engaged in selling plumbing. Simultaneously, in Russia,
[00:30:54] assassination attempts continue on the heads of factories involved
[00:30:57] in drone production.