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[00:00:10] Ukrainian drones hit an oil refinery in the Yaroslavl region. The governor
[00:00:14] stated that the region was subjected to the most massive attack since the beginning of the
[00:00:17] war. This is a live broadcast of the TV channel Current Time. Today is Thursday, August
[00:00:20] 6th. My name is Evgenia
[00:00:27] is looking for ways to repel Russian attacks. It asks allies
[00:00:30] to supply weapons for defense. Consequences of attacks
[00:00:34] in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Wildberries company is building logistics centers outside
[00:00:37] Russia, particularly in Kazakhstan and
[00:00:40] Belarus. Third blackout in two weeks. A large-scale power outage occurred in
[00:00:44] Georgia. The subway stopped in Tbilisi, and the operation of the
[00:00:47] railway was disrupted.
[00:00:49] railway.
[00:00:52] Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukrainian forces struck the
[00:00:55] oil refinery Slavneftyanes in the Yaroslavl region.
[00:01:30] what was happening here last night until morning,
[00:01:33] this, this
[00:01:37] all
[00:01:40] today, tomorrow and the following days
[00:01:43] will be our
[00:01:45] air.
[00:01:48] The governor of the Yaroslavl region stated that air defense forces shot down
[00:01:51] 88 drones. According to him, this is the most massive attack on the region since the
[00:01:55] beginning of the war. A private house burned down in several multi-story buildings, windows were broken
[00:01:59] out. No one was killed or injured in the cars. At the
[00:02:02] time of the attack, the authorities blocked the exit from Yaroslavl in the direction of
[00:02:05] Moscow. Volodymyr Zelenskyy also announced Ukrainian forces' attacks in the Black
[00:02:09] Sea. According to him, two Russian military patrol boats
[00:02:13] and vessels of the so-called shadow fleet were damaged. This
[00:02:17] morning, after a drone attack, a fire broke out in the Tver region.
[00:02:21] Eyewitnesses published footage of the fire in a private sector. The acting
[00:02:24] governor stated that the attack was repelled by air defense forces. The
[00:02:28] Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a total of 605 Ukrainian
[00:02:32] drones were destroyed last night.
[00:02:33] drones.
[00:02:36] In the Tver region, as a result of a drone attack, the facade of the
[00:02:40] Wildberries logistics complex was damaged. This was announced by the governor of the region
[00:02:43] Vitaly Korolev. According to him, due to the fall of drone debris,
[00:02:46] minor damage occurred. This was a quote: damage to the
[00:02:50] facade. Against the background of regular attacks, the Russian marketplace is actively
[00:02:53] looking for safe sites in neighboring countries. New hubs are already being built in
[00:02:57] Belarus and Kazakhstan. Will this help save?
[00:05:14] and millions of economic ties. Economist Aidar
[00:05:17] Alibayev is confident that Ukrainian Armed Forces' strikes on Russian centers in Kazakhstan are
[00:05:21] excluded. However, the presence of such a business creates
[00:05:24] serious sanctions risks for Astana. Especially since earlier
[00:05:28] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy directly stated: the warehouses that
[00:05:32] Ukrainian drones hit were involved in supplying Russian troops with
[00:05:35] navigation equipment, components for drones and
[00:05:38] other military goods. Some
[00:05:41] dual-use goods will definitely be there,
[00:05:45] all this will push Kazakhstan to be sanctioned, tomorrow the West
[00:05:48] чтобы мы попали под санкции, завтра запад
[00:05:51] will find out that Wildberries has changed and started using
[00:05:55] us to support
[00:05:58] the Russian army, with its components, and so
[00:06:01] on, they use us purely as a platform. Economic
[00:06:05] observer Andrey Makhovsky doubts that logistics centers,
[00:06:08] whether in Kazakhstan or Belarus, will help Wildberries to fully recover
[00:06:12] after the crisis, and will Wildberries live to see the time when
[00:06:16] it finally, when these new warehouses will be
[00:06:19] needed? I mean, that attacks on warehouses continue, they
[00:06:23] happen there on average every 2 days, on average every 2 days
[00:06:27] some warehouse burns down, Russian sellers already want
[00:06:30] to leave Wildberries, that is, Wildberries creates some
[00:06:34] administrative obstacles to not let them go, well, you can't create them for long,
[00:06:37] in the end, okay, the goods of these sellers will burn, which
[00:06:41] you do not allow.
[00:07:12] five people died, according to the head of the region, two
[00:07:16] people died and eight were injured from the strike on the railway station Lozovaya,
[00:07:19] another three people died according to rescuers in the city of Balakleya, where drones attacked
[00:07:23] the private sector. In the Black Sea, a commercial vessel under the
[00:07:27] flag of Guinea-Bissau was attacked, it was carrying Ukrainian wheat. According to the
[00:07:31] head of the Odesa region, there are dead and three more people injured. According to
[00:07:35] local authorities, at least five passengers were injured, among them
[00:07:38] a fifteen-year-old teenager. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that in the Black Sea...
[00:07:42] two vessels carrying military cargo were hit. In
[00:07:46] Dnipro, a drone hit a minibus. In Kherson region, a drone
[00:07:49] attacked a bus with people who were going to work in the fields. According to
[00:07:53] local authorities, six people were injured. In Zaporizhzhia, due to a drone
[00:07:57] attack, the roof of a nine-story building was partially destroyed. The
[00:08:00] State Emergency Service reported four injured.
[00:08:04] According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, last night, Russian military used 101
[00:08:08] drones and four missiles. Air defense forces, as reported, managed to shoot down
[00:08:11] 60 drones.
[00:08:15] Today is a day of mourning in the Kyiv region for the victims of the Russian missile
[00:08:19] attack. The State Emergency Service reported that
[00:08:22] the aftermath is still being eliminated. Rescuers are clearing debris in several
[00:08:26] districts, and sappers are simultaneously surveying the area. The day before,
[00:08:29] Ukrainian air defense failed to intercept a single ballistic
[00:08:33] missile. How Kyiv plans to solve the problem of missile shortages,
[00:08:36] Boris Sachalko will tell. This
[00:08:39] is footage from a meeting of the Ukrainian National Security and
[00:08:43] Defense Council, at least in its open part, what the Ukrainian
[00:08:47] segment of the internet has been buzzing about for the last 2 days was discussed.
[00:08:50] There are critically few missiles for intercepting ballistic missiles in Ukraine, and
[00:08:54] the main question is what to do about it? The first obvious
[00:08:57] option: partners' help is needed, however, about 600 missiles for Patriot
[00:09:01] systems are produced worldwide per year. This year, their
[00:09:04] manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, increased production
[00:09:08] to 700 units, and this is already considered a breakthrough,
[00:09:12] as many suppliers of components are simply not
[00:09:14] ready for a sharp increase in capacity. Last
[00:09:18] month, to shoot down 127 ballistic
[00:09:21] supersonic missiles, 254 Patriot missiles were needed,
[00:09:25] and this is in one month, while the US has about 800 missiles left.
[00:09:29] Production per year is 650. Simple arithmetic is sad. We need at
[00:09:32] least 1,500 missiles per year. This is unrealistic today.
[00:09:36] Hence the second thesis, which boils down to the well-known
[00:09:39] formula: the best defense is offense. Well-known Ukrainian volunteer
[00:09:43] Serhiy Starnenko is confident that it is necessary to destroy the missile
[00:09:47] launchers themselves. The previous commander-in-chief
[00:09:50] did not prioritize hunting launchers and did not provide
[00:09:53] appropriate support to units that were hitting
[00:09:57] launchers. This work was carried out mainly bypassing
[00:10:00] the General Staff on horizontal ties. Such
[00:10:04] operations require strong organizational and
[00:10:07] technological components. One would like to believe that previous developments will not
[00:10:11] be lost and will be used to destroy enemy
[00:10:14] ballistics. Ukraine has already successfully hit ballistic missile
[00:10:17] launchers of the Russian army several times, so far these are isolated
[00:10:21] cases, but military experts note that such strikes are capable of.
[00:10:46] one of the launchers was found in Crimea. In total, five Russian missile
[00:10:49] brigades of the Russian armed forces are involved against Ukraine.
[00:10:52] Each brigade has a staff of 12 launchers,
[00:10:56] meaning a total of about 60
[00:10:59] launchers. Experts are also confident that regular strikes on
[00:11:03] the Russian military-industrial complex can help, which will
[00:11:06] reduce the pace of missile production. At the same time, hitting the launcher
[00:11:10] itself is an extremely difficult task. The Iskander does not stand still
[00:11:14] waiting for a strike. The vehicle can travel to the launch position for
[00:11:17] several hours, constantly confusing its tracks. And
[00:11:21] for this, you need eyes in the air, satellite.
[00:11:25] That is, the task is very, very difficult, to catch
[00:11:28] Iskander on the march, or near positions where it
[00:11:31] deploys and attacks - it's difficult, indeed, it's the same when they say that
[00:11:35] it's necessary to destroy the production of Iskanders, we understand that this is
[00:11:38] produced deep underground, actually, air defense is another option
[00:11:42] for solving the problem, which is actively discussed online.
[00:11:45] The Ukrainian company Firepoint previously stated that, in addition to
[00:11:48] ballistic missiles, it intends to produce anti-missile
[00:11:52] systems, as well as develop domestic intercept systems.
[00:12:04] understanding such a large deficit, and I don't
[00:12:07] know if there are other reasons, besides the Middle East,
[00:12:11] maybe these are also political steps to make Ukraine more, let's
[00:12:14] say, more
[00:12:18] compliant, yes, in my opinion, that it's not
[00:12:21] without this, so today we are in
[00:12:25] a situation, well,
[00:12:27] of deficit, the direction we
[00:12:30] started, our domestic
[00:12:33] air defense system, it's correct for
[00:12:37] today, for implementation as soon as possible, while
[00:12:41] Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked allies for the provided
[00:12:44] assistance, however, he added, quote: Our
[00:12:47] country, it's ours, in the end, everything depends on
[00:12:51] us. Borys Sychalka, Serhiy Dakun, Current Time, Ukraine.
[00:12:57] Russian military struck the city of Sumy with air bombs at night. According to
[00:13:00] rescuers, 12 people were injured, and more than a dozen
[00:13:04] apartment buildings, cars, and civilian infrastructure were damaged. Sumy
[00:13:07] is located only 30 km from the Russian border, and is subjected to
[00:13:11] shelling daily. Earlier, Vladimir Putin announced plans to create
[00:13:14] a buffer zone there. How the Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding back the Russian offensive in
[00:13:18] the region, Andrey
[00:13:20] Kuzakov will tell.
[00:13:25] In a car without windows and doors, soldiers of the 47th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces rush
[00:13:28] towards the front line, the transport was specially modified
[00:13:32] so that it would be possible to quickly jump out of the
[00:13:35] car, if there is some, as
[00:13:38] they say, emergency situation, then you can just
[00:13:41] the car drove off,
[00:13:44] people remained
[00:13:46] here, well, just jump out, as
[00:13:50] they say,
[00:13:53] in our age, as technicians say.
[00:14:08] Closer to the front line, there are more and more destroyed houses, burned equipment
[00:14:12] along the roads, we drove into the 20-kilometer
[00:14:15] border zone in the Sumy region, which, according to
[00:14:18] statements by authorities in Russia, they have been trying to turn into
[00:14:22] a buffer zone for more than a year. zone.
[00:15:25] We hide under trees, because it's possible
[00:15:28] you will be shot, I hear it, but I don't
[00:15:32] see it,
[00:15:35] there's shooting at the next post.
[00:15:39] they shoot down a drone,
[00:15:42] despite constant attacks, Russian troops in the Sumy region are unable
[00:15:45] to advance deeper into Ukrainian territory, Ukrainian
[00:15:49] military say, all attacks are repelled, but the Russian
[00:15:52] army constantly storms the border zone and hits
[00:15:56] settlements, right up to Sumy, with a large number of
[00:15:59] attack drones. the situation in our area is difficult,
[00:16:03] very difficult. very.
[00:16:07] drones started flying frequently, but as we
[00:16:11] set up our air defense posts,
[00:16:15] much fewer damaged vehicles, as
[00:16:19] you know, we
[00:16:21] reduced this,
[00:16:23] we preserve much more equipment and personnel, during this time that
[00:16:27] we work in this direction,
[00:16:30] well, we didn't have any deaths, so that
[00:16:34] well, at our... posts, points, due to shelling in
[00:16:37] this settlement, only a couple of yards are inhabited,
[00:16:41] a week ago there was one more, but the man who lived
[00:16:44] here became a victim of artillery shelling,
[00:16:47] was feeding dogs there,
[00:16:51] artillery arrived,
[00:16:53] wounded him with
[00:16:55] shrapnel, in the arm, in the neck, he was given
[00:16:59] aid, an evacuator arrived, took
[00:17:02] him away, unfortunately, he could not be saved.
[00:17:05] saved.
[00:17:38] We ask Alexey and Oksana about the intention of
[00:17:41] the Kremlin leaders to create a buffer zone here,
[00:17:44] let them go back where they came from,
[00:17:47] to Russia, let them make buffer zones there, whatever
[00:17:51] they want, but this is our territory, this is Ukraine, we live here,
[00:17:55] we grew up here, we generally
[00:17:58] lived here for so many years, and farming,
[00:18:02] the only thing that Russian troops succeed in, says Oksana, is
[00:18:06] to make the border area.
[00:18:37] always, and her with her husband. Andrey Kuzakov, Vasiliy
[00:18:41] Martyschenko, Current
[00:18:43] Time.
[00:18:46] The bill on new US sanctions against Russia could be put to
[00:18:50] a final vote in the Senate as early as this week. This was stated in an interview with
[00:18:53] Radio Liberty by John Curtis, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.
[00:18:57] The document provides for large-scale restrictions
[00:19:00] on the financial and energy sectors in Russia and measures against
[00:19:04] the shadow fleet that Russia uses to circumvent sanctions. In addition, it
[00:19:08] will allow the US president to impose tariffs against buyers of
[00:19:11] Russian fuel. According to Curtis, the initiative enjoys
[00:19:14] broad bipartisan support. The Republican senator
[00:19:17] stressed that Russia should not win the war. A Radio Liberty correspondent in
[00:19:21] Washington asked Curtis what he considers a
[00:19:24] victory for Ukraine in that case.
[00:19:27] If you ask President Zelensky, victory
[00:19:30] simply means not losing today, not losing
[00:19:34] tomorrow, and not losing the day after tomorrow. From the
[00:19:37] beginning, Russia defined its victory as the complete capture of
[00:19:41] Ukraine, so for Ukraine, victory is any outcome
[00:19:45] in which this does not happen. The very
[00:19:48] fact that Ukraine was able to withstand 4 and a half
[00:19:51] years of this aggression is a huge
[00:19:53] victory.
[00:19:57] How do you manage to advocate for strong bipartisan support for
[00:20:00] Ukraine, considering that some of your Republican colleagues
[00:20:04] advocate for reducing foreign aid?
[00:20:07] Listen, in reality, we cannot do everything at once, there is
[00:20:11] common sense in their arguments, but I will repeat again,
[00:20:15] defeat is not an option, if Putin is allowed to achieve
[00:20:18] victory in Ukraine, this will have serious consequences for
[00:20:21] many other regions of the world, just look at
[00:20:25] China and Taiwan, we perfectly understand that President Xi
[00:20:29] is closely following what is happening in Ukraine, and if we
[00:20:32] retreat here, he will understand that we will retreat on the issue of
[00:20:35] Taiwan, therefore...
[00:20:50] She was assigned a bail of 6 million hryvnias, which is about 130,000
[00:20:53] dollars. She is obliged to appear for interrogations at the request of anti-corruption
[00:20:57] agencies and notify them of trips. At the request of the defense,
[00:21:00] the court hearing was held in camera. Stefanyshyna is accused of
[00:21:04] three episodes: illegal enrichment and inaccurate
[00:21:08] declaration. This refers to the purchase of apartments in a residential complex in
[00:21:11] Kyiv, which, according to media reports, could have been acquired at an understated
[00:21:14] price. Stefanyshyna herself claims that she has nothing
[00:21:17] to hide. Today's meeting in detail.
[00:21:50] railway communication and metro in Tbilisi stopped. In a number of settlements,
[00:21:53] there was no water. This is already the third power outage in
[00:21:57] the last two weeks. About possible reasons, Zvyad
[00:22:00] Nichedlishvili. A large-scale power outage
[00:22:04] throughout Georgia occurred the day before around 8:00
[00:22:07] p.m. This led to disruptions in the operation of critical
[00:22:10] infrastructure. Traffic lights did not work in a number of settlements.
[00:22:14] Pumps stopped and water disappeared. Mobile communications and
[00:22:17] the Internet worked intermittently. Intercity trains, cable
[00:22:21] cars, and Tbilis stopped at the funicular and metro, passengers
[00:22:24] had to get to the surface on their own. Power began to
[00:22:28] be gradually restored by 9:00 p.m. Later, the State
[00:22:31] Electric System of Georgia explained that the blackout occurred during
[00:22:34] equipment testing at Inguri HPP.
[00:22:38] There they were looking for the causes of the two previous
[00:22:40] large-scale outages. After system failures on July
[00:22:44] 24 and 25 at the Inguri
[00:22:47] hydroelectric power plant. technical work, to check
[00:22:50] the equipment, it was necessary to switch the energy system to an isolated mode
[00:22:54] with a non-standard frequency, this caused
[00:22:57] a temporary power outage throughout the country. The first two
[00:23:00] blackouts at the end of July lasted about 2.5 hours.
[00:23:04] The National Energy Regulatory Commission found that at that time
[00:23:07] there was a sudden disconnection of the Georgian and
[00:23:10] Azerbaijani energy systems. The Georgian
[00:23:13] network, being isolated, could not cope with the load.
[00:23:16] The regulator placed part of the blame on... this was discussed on the air of the opposition TV channel TV
[00:24:50] Pirveli by political scientist Gia Khukhashvili. The video where he appears on
[00:24:54] live with candlelight went viral on Georgian
[00:24:58] social networks. One can talk about technical reasons or
[00:25:02] corruption, but the main reason, in my opinion, is political. The first
[00:25:05] blackout coincided with European sanctions against Russian-linked
[00:25:09] structures and a US investigation into
[00:25:12] the influence of Russian special services in Georgia. I
[00:25:15] consider this a political response and sabotage by.
[00:25:18] Its tentacles have permeated the entire system, and masking sabotage
[00:25:22] as a common accident is not difficult. The sanctions
[00:25:25] of the European Union, which Khukhashvili is talking about, concerned the Georgian
[00:25:29] oil refinery Kulevi, which was engaged in
[00:25:32] the transit of Russian oil, as well as a number of Russian-linked
[00:25:36] crypto platforms. The version of sabotage is not ruled out by the
[00:25:39] State Security Service of Georgia, after the first two blackouts,
[00:25:43] the agency announced the start of an investigation under the article
[00:25:46] Sabotage. Sabotage.
[00:25:51] A large-scale internet outage occurred in Russia, from about one
[00:25:55] p.m. Moscow time, dozens of popular websites stopped opening across the country,
[00:25:58] including marketplaces Ozon and Wildberries, Avito, Kinopoisk, and the portals of some
[00:26:01] banks. According to outage tracking services, there are problems
[00:26:05] with mobile and home internet. Complaints came in en masse from
[00:26:09] Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar Krai, Novosibirsk Oblast, and other
[00:26:12] regions. Later, Rostelecom reported that the problem
[00:26:16] arose in their data transmission network. Everything is now working
[00:26:19] as normal. In mid-July, there was already a major outage in Russia, when
[00:26:22] websites of Apple, Google, and other tech giants did not load for several
[00:26:26] hours. Roskomnadzor denied its involvement in the
[00:26:29] outage. outage.
[00:26:34] A part of a SpaceX rocket crashed into the Moon. The second stage,
[00:26:38] weighing 4 tons, had been drifting in space since last year and at a speed of almost
[00:26:41] 8,700 km/h collided with the Earth's satellite. No one managed to
[00:26:45] capture this moment up close. Now scientists are waiting for data from
[00:26:48] satellites that photograph the surface of the Moon to compare photos
[00:26:52] before and after. Here are the first such images, the collision
[00:26:56] was unintentional, usually such stages return to the atmosphere
[00:27:00] and burn up, or fall into the ocean, but in general, falling on the Moon is one of
[00:27:03] the ways in which spacecraft are disposed of, and for
[00:27:07] Earthlings it is not dangerous. In addition, the collision is of scientific
[00:27:10] interest. The dust plume allowed conclusions to be drawn about the composition of the lunar
[00:27:14] soil. For example, by how sunlight played in the dust
[00:27:18] cloud, scientists understood that it contained
[00:27:21] sodium.
[00:27:22] sodium.
[00:27:26] We love the Moon, in part because it is a natural laboratory for studying processes throughout
[00:27:29] the solar system. There is no atmosphere and virtually no external
[00:27:33] influences, and the regolith, the surface layer of the Moon, remains
[00:27:36] in place for a very long time. The formation
[00:27:40] of craters is a process that occurs throughout the solar
[00:27:43] system, so when an object of known size collides
[00:27:47] with the Moon at a known speed, it helps scientists better understand
[00:27:51] the mechanism of crater formation and determine what kind of crater
[00:27:54] occurs from a collision of this magnitude.
[00:27:57] magnitude. Worry about this
[00:28:01] collision.
[00:28:12] but space debris in general is indeed a cause for concern: with each year, space is becoming more
[00:28:15] and more congested, huge satellite constellations such as Starlink are being launched
[00:28:19] into orbit. It is possible that in just a few
[00:28:22] decades, going beyond low Earth orbit will become
[00:28:25] quite difficult due to the large amount of space
[00:28:28] debris.
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[00:30:25] and the continuous improvement of the Ministry of Defense's
[00:30:28] structure in connection with the needs and
[00:30:32] experience of the special military operation. Personnel
[00:30:36] rotation of personnel. Putin announced
[00:30:39] the unification of the rear services of the Ministry of Defense. He
[00:30:42] seeks to improve the leadership of the war, but at the same time not
[00:30:46] to promote any general who would appear to be
[00:30:49] his competitor. And about the change of the head of UAV
[00:30:52] troops. The previous head was engaged in selling
[00:30:55] plumbing. Simultaneously, in Russia, attempts on the lives of
[00:30:59] factory managers continue.