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[00:00:32] The marketplace began preventively closing its warehouses that could
[00:00:36] fall under Ukrainian attack, and today a company warehouse in
[00:00:39] Ukrainian drones was hit in
[00:00:42] Yekaterinburg. 800 people were evacuated from the premises of the
[00:00:45] logistics center. After Russia's strikes on Ukrainian businesses, the country
[00:00:48] expects price increases and a shortage of goods. On Wednesday night, large
[00:00:52] enterprises and logistics centers were hit by Russian ballistic missiles.
[00:00:55] Will the Ukrainian economy withstand the intensified shelling? We will discuss it live
[00:00:59] on air.
[00:01:19] warehouse was attacked by drones this morning. It is located 2,000
[00:01:23] km from the border with Ukraine. Eyewitnesses filmed drones flying over the city
[00:01:26] and at least two hits on the marketplace.
[00:01:34] There's another one flying, look, look, look, the warehouse
[00:01:37] is gone, it's the second one,
[00:01:49] that's it, it's gone, it's there,
[00:01:51] it hit.
[00:02:06] The Wildberries press service confirmed that a fire broke out at the company's logistics
[00:02:09] facility in Yekaterinburg due to the attack. Employees were evacuated
[00:02:13] in advance and no one was injured. The governor of the Sverdlovsk region said that
[00:02:17] air defense systems shot down eight UAVs, while three fell on the roof of the logistics
[00:02:21] center. By this hour, the fire has been contained. Wildberries claims that
[00:02:24] most of the goods were not damaged.
[00:02:28] In short, Wildberries is burning
[00:02:30] hard,
[00:02:32] it's burning hard, I think most likely it will be shut down because
[00:02:36] of such events,
[00:02:39] something somehow everything is very often, this has become
[00:02:43] happening, as if, damn, here, as if it didn't
[00:02:46] drag all this
[00:02:48] crap.
[00:02:52] Satellite images of the previously damaged Wildberries warehouse in Tula appeared online. The attack took place on the night of August
[00:02:55] 5th. The photo shows that the roof of the building
[00:02:59] was completely burned down.
[00:03:03] Marketplace Wildberries has started closing its warehouses that could become targets
[00:03:06] of Ukrainian strikes. Sellers, carriers, and employees themselves
[00:03:09] said that the first to be closed was the warehouse near Kazan. It is no longer accessible to
[00:03:13] sellers or buyers, and goods from it have started to be removed. The Kazan
[00:03:17] warehouse was hit twice by Ukrainian drones, on July 31st and August
[00:03:20] 5th. I remind you that since July 18th, Ukrainian drones have been hitting
[00:03:24] Wildberries warehouses almost every day. More than twenty logistics centers across
[00:03:27] the country have been hit. Journalists from the publication estimate the direct losses of the company at
[00:03:31] 100 to 200 billion rubles. And against the backdrop of
[00:03:34] ongoing attacks, the head of Gazprom-Media, Alexander Zharov, announced that
[00:03:38] the company plans to shoot a comedy series about the operation of marketplace
[00:03:41] pick-up points. The working title is "PVZ" (Pick-up Point).
[00:03:45] The holding wants to film the series together with one of the marketplaces and is conducting
[00:03:49] negotiations with Ozon, Wildberries, and Avito. The premiere is promised for next
[00:03:52] year. Zharov is confident that the topic is endless. A comedy of errors,
[00:03:56] which, according to him, can stretch for 100, 200, or 300 episodes.
[00:04:02] Russian opposition figures abroad, including Andrei Pivovarov, Vladimir
[00:04:06] Kara-Murza, and Dmitry Bykov, have launched a campaign in support of the Yabloko party in
[00:04:09] the State Duma elections in September. They call the party the only one on the ballot
[00:04:13] that openly advocates for peace in Ukraine and the release of
[00:04:16] political prisoners. Yulia Navalnaya also called for voting for Yabloko, and
[00:04:20] in single-mandate districts, to follow the recommendations of smart
[00:04:23] voting.
[00:04:25] These elections will be the first parliamentary elections that
[00:04:29] will take place under full-scale war conditions. We
[00:04:32] know that a huge number of Russians are against the war, we
[00:04:35] know that there is no more important issue than its speedy
[00:04:39] completion, at least for now, there is
[00:04:42] only one party on the ballot that publicly declares an anti-war
[00:04:46] stance, this is the Yabloko party.
[00:04:50] But Yabloko itself disavowed such support. Party chairman Nikolai
[00:04:53] Rybakov stated that it has neither foreign funding nor ties with
[00:04:57] undesirable organizations, and as for foreign actions, according to him...
[00:05:12] And the leader of the LDPR, Leonid Slutsky, called for the party to be declared
[00:05:15] undesirable. All of this is happening against the backdrop of falling
[00:05:19] support for the war. According to the Levada Center, the proportion of Russians who believe that military operations are going
[00:05:23] successfully has dropped to 50% for the first time. This is the lowest
[00:05:27] indicator since the beginning of the full-scale
[00:05:28] war.
[00:05:34] In Moscow, Major General Valery Plakhatnyuk was secretly buried. He died on
[00:05:38] August 1st, the day of the explosion in a Moscow restaurant, where another Russian, presumably, was celebrating his birthday.
[00:06:10] Chaiko, who also suffered injuries in the explosion. I remind you, her husband, the son-in-law of the Aerospace Forces commander, Daniil, died. His
[00:06:13] death is confirmed by leaks from two state databases, the
[00:06:16] agency writes. As Important Stories found out, Major General
[00:06:20] Plakhatnyuk was no longer on active military service, but worked in
[00:06:23] the military-industrial complex. He was involved in the development of the latest command and control systems
[00:06:27] for troops and electronic warfare systems. And in the past he commanded a group of Russian troops in
[00:06:30] unrecognized Transnistria. Earlier, Ukrainian OSINT blogger
[00:06:34] Necroman reported on the funeral of Lieutenant General Igor Ierusalimov,
[00:06:38] citing a message about a farewell to the general in the chat of the district where he lived.
[00:06:42] However, the Verstka publication believes that this message was a falsification. Journalists called
[00:06:46] the number belonging to the military man, and a man answered who responded to Ierusalimov's
[00:06:50] first name and patronymic. During the conversation, he asked not to write anything
[00:06:53] about him.
[00:06:58] Mr. President, regarding Ukraine, President Zelensky says
[00:07:01] that his country desperately needs long-range missiles or Patriot
[00:07:05] air defense systems, what can be transferred? Well, we also
[00:07:08] need missiles ourselves. You know, when Biden gave him so much.
[00:07:12] Biden provided him with ammunition worth 300 billion dollars. When
[00:07:16] I left, everything was full, and he gave away a very large part
[00:07:19] of it. Now we are restoring stocks and using ammunition
[00:07:23] that is very powerful, very good. We
[00:07:27] ourselves need missiles. That's how US President Donald Trump responded to Volodymyr
[00:07:31] Zelenskyy's call to transfer long-range missiles or Patriot
[00:07:34] munitions to Ukraine amid intensified massive Russian ballistic
[00:07:37] missile strikes on Ukrainian cities. The Russian military began
[00:07:41] launching strikes.
[00:08:12] was strongly felt, the house
[00:08:15] shook, the desire to hide not
[00:08:19] just in some basement, but
[00:08:21] to leave Kyiv as soon
[00:08:24] as possible, so that this horror, nightmare would stop,
[00:08:28] because it's impossible not to sleep,
[00:08:32] not to work, life has simply become impossible in
[00:08:35] Kyiv, this
[00:08:37] savagery, this
[00:08:40] savagery.
[00:08:44] that we never thought such a thing could happen in our
[00:08:46] country, we haven't slept for 5 years,
[00:08:50] no sleep, nothing, well, people are afraid, constant
[00:08:53] fear, constant fear, we just live for today
[00:08:56] and that's it.
[00:09:00] This Russian shelling became the most massive attack on
[00:09:03] Ukrainian businesses in all the years of the war. Logistics centers,
[00:09:06] warehouses and civilian enterprises were hit. Some
[00:09:10] of the biggest losses were incurred by...
[00:09:42] it happens for the first time, and you don't
[00:09:45] need to stay in Epitsentr stores during
[00:09:49] air raid alerts. If you wish well for yourself, your
[00:09:53] family, please, you have a few minutes to leave
[00:09:56] the store premises.
[00:09:59] Another Ukrainian company, Rozetka, the largest marketplace in the country,
[00:10:03] lost its automated distribution
[00:10:06] center in Brovary. According to the company's co-founder, the damage
[00:10:09] is estimated in billions of hryvnias. Destroyed
[00:10:12] warehouses could have contained goods from hundreds of suppliers, from small
[00:10:16] Ukrainian manufacturers to importers of equipment, household goods, and
[00:10:20] food products. In addition, as a result of that attack, the Nova Poshta
[00:10:23] sorting center in Kyiv was completely
[00:10:27] destroyed. The company reported the death of three people. The Silpo
[00:10:30] supermarket chain reported that the Russian attack destroyed
[00:10:34] two distribution centers. Silpo announced the death of six
[00:10:37] company employees. Several direct missile hits were received by
[00:10:41] the supermarket logistics center. In
[00:10:44] addition, the Puma company reported the complete destruction of its logistics
[00:10:47] complex. The company warned that in the near future, there may be
[00:10:51] a shortage of certain goods in Ukraine.
[00:10:55] Yes, the logistics warehouse of the Intertop shoe store chain was also completely
[00:10:59] destroyed.
[00:11:01] You know, there's only one thought in my head. God, how
[00:11:05] do you even conduct business in such times, when in the morning
[00:11:08] you don't even know if your team is alive, or if your warehouse is intact, or if
[00:11:12] the highly flammable perfumes haven't caught fire, we're planning new arrivals,
[00:11:16] but how can you predict anything when in
[00:11:20] Kyiv, businesses and
[00:11:22] warehouses are being burned down?
[00:11:24] Some Russian media wrote that Moscow is launching strikes in response
[00:11:28] to Ukrainian attacks on Wildberries logistics centers, however,
[00:11:32] the Russian army began attacking Ukrainian businesses long before
[00:11:35] this. Here in this photo, on
[00:11:39] March 3, 2022, the Epicenter construction hypermarket in
[00:11:43] Mariupol is burning. These were the first days of Russia's full-scale invasion of
[00:11:46] Ukraine and the first attempts to occupy the city. The first thing
[00:11:49] the Russian army did was to strike at such hypermarkets and Nova Poshta
[00:11:53] logistics centers. In June 2022, a Russian strike on
[00:11:57] the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk, Poltava region, claimed the lives of
[00:12:00] dozens of people. The Nova Poshta logistics center is attacked several
[00:12:04] times a month, and over the years of the
[00:12:08] full-scale war, more than a hundred such examples
[00:12:23] Facebook page a post about the Ukrainian economy, and you start it with
[00:12:27] the words: "The Russians did it again." What do you
[00:12:31] mean by that? Please elaborate for our viewers. Well, the speech
[00:12:34] was about propaganda, about an attempt to sow panic,
[00:12:37] which is done with enviable regularity
[00:12:40] after some massive shelling. There is massive
[00:12:44] shelling, then there is an information dump
[00:12:47] that is supposed to shake the minds of Ukrainians, it is supposed to
[00:12:50] promote capitulation, it is supposed to cause panic, an outflow of people from
[00:12:54] cities, so that people leave, people get depressed, and so on and so
[00:12:57] forth. Now again they used this
[00:13:00] attack, I don't know if it was a joint
[00:13:03] special operation, or simply an attack first, and then it occurred to them
[00:13:07] to use it in this way, but now after this
[00:13:11] concentrated attack on business, because usually here for
[00:13:14] 4 years there has been shelling once a
[00:13:17] week, and usually one or two businesses
[00:13:21] suffer that are not related to energy or...
[00:13:30] they used this moment to pump up Kyivites in the first
[00:13:34] place with these panic
[00:13:37] moods, to cause some completely wild
[00:13:40] expectations about inflation as a result of these
[00:13:43] strikes, or hunger, or the collapse of the banking
[00:13:47] system, and so on and so forth. And your
[00:13:50] predictions, will this not cause inflation, price
[00:13:53] increases, well...
[00:14:55] price increases and product shortages, shouldn't Ukrainians run to the supermarket now
[00:14:59] and stock up on some special type of products for the winter?
[00:15:02] No, there can be no shortage of any products, it doesn't work that way,
[00:15:06] the economy is much wider than one warehouse that is knocked out, and
[00:15:10] the economy is much more flexible, so there is no
[00:15:13] talk of any hunger, plus we are now talking about
[00:15:17] the increased effectiveness of ballistic missile strikes, that's true, when it
[00:15:20] concerns Kyiv, but at the same time, if we are talking about the whole of Ukraine, about the whole
[00:15:24] country, we must say that cruise missiles and Shaheds have now
[00:15:27] almost completely lost their
[00:15:30] effectiveness, because they are very effectively shot down, as a
[00:15:34] result you have a huge part of the territory of Ukraine, where Russian
[00:15:37] ballistic missiles do not reach and where in principle it is much,
[00:15:41] much more difficult for Russians to destroy anything
[00:15:44] and very unlikely, so there will simply be a certain
[00:15:47] redistribution of logistics flows within the
[00:15:50] country, and business will adapt. You
[00:15:53] know, one of the messages I read on social media is that
[00:15:56] Zelensky is being accused of having launched this forty-day operation to
[00:16:00] force Russia to peace, striking Wildberries, striking oil refineries, while not
[00:16:04] protecting Ukrainian business from, as it were,
[00:16:07] retaliatory strikes from Russia. Could Ukrainian business have been protected,
[00:16:11] could entrepreneurs protect themselves?
[00:16:13] защитить,
[00:16:16] Look, you can't protect Ukrainian business, because Trump
[00:16:19] spent too many Patriot missiles attacking
[00:16:22] Iran, and this led to a shortage.
[00:16:26] Now, Ukraine is not supplied with very necessary
[00:16:29] interceptor missiles. Well, plus you have to understand that before you could only
[00:16:33] protect Kyiv, that is, other cities were like that.
[00:16:43] Kyiv, yes, Kyiv has become more vulnerable to ballistic missiles, but
[00:16:47] I repeat, against the background of the fact that now
[00:16:51] Shaheds and cruise missiles are less effective or almost not
[00:16:54] effective, the situation actually looks balanced compared to what we
[00:16:57] have seen for the last 5 years, it doesn't add anything
[00:17:01] particularly new. You can't protect business, accordingly, you can't protect
[00:17:05] it, could we have taken any... I will explain
[00:17:44] that Trump denies that there is any shortage of ammunition, that the US
[00:17:46] has all the ammunition, but at the same time, Patriot missiles,
[00:17:50] as he gave us in today's broadcast,
[00:17:53] are needed by the US itself. And Sergey, you know, I noticed, maybe
[00:17:57] there's a difference or not, that Russian entrepreneurs on social media are just massively complaining that
[00:18:01] Wildberries after such attacks does not provide compensation, and
[00:18:04] if they do give compensation, it is too small. But Ukrainian
[00:18:08] entrepreneurs don't seem to complain, and Nova Poshta announced that it would compensate
[00:18:11] for the damage. Is there this difference, if there is, why is it
[00:18:14] like that? Look, I don't know, this is a question that needs
[00:18:18] further investigation, but in principle, let's put it this way, when something
[00:18:21] hits an oil refinery, we see many videos, so
[00:18:25] -called our correspondents, who perfectly curse and describe everything
[00:18:29] that is happening. In Ukraine, this does not happen, I
[00:18:32] think this is a general perception, when Ukrainians
[00:18:35] understand what Ukraine is fighting for.
[00:18:37] They understand that they are part of this confrontation, which
[00:18:41] is existential, and Russians do not
[00:18:44] understand why the war started, why they need this war
[00:18:47] at all, and accordingly, the reaction to
[00:18:50] events related to the war
[00:18:52] differs. Sergey, we have less than a minute left with you,
[00:18:55] but can we compare how Ukrainian strikes will affect
[00:18:59] the Russian economy with how Russian strikes will affect the Ukrainian
[00:19:03] economy, whose economy is under a bigger blow, can
[00:19:07] we compare?
[00:19:11] After all, this will not significantly affect either economy. So why are such strikes being carried out? Just to cause panic among
[00:19:15] the population?
[00:19:17] I can, therefore I strike. Well, look, it's
[00:19:21] a thousand cuts tactic and so on. That is, it has a
[00:19:24] negative effect, it does, but it's not capable of... you won't see
[00:19:28] it on a GDP chart, figuratively speaking. The war itself,
[00:19:31] the costs of the war itself, that's the factor, that's the argument, not
[00:19:35] a specific small or large object that you... Well,
[00:19:48] and
[00:19:52] this morning in Sumy region, in the city of Bilopillya, 10 people were injured
[00:19:56] by Russian shelling. The attack occurred near the market. According to
[00:20:00] authorities, first the Russian army struck a car with a drone,
[00:20:03] when local residents came to help, the Russian army
[00:20:06] launched an attack. On Thursday in Pavlograd, in
[00:20:09] Dnipropetrovsk region, two Ukrposhta employees died due to a Russian
[00:20:13] missile strike, another person was
[00:20:15] injured.
[00:20:18] Well, of course, especially you know, when all the glass then flew, it
[00:20:22] was certainly scary. Maybe if people hadn't panicked so much,
[00:20:25] when the woman stood here next to me, she started screaming,
[00:20:29] she probably got confused, maybe panicked, was afraid of where to run and
[00:20:32] what to do. In total, over the past day, at least
[00:20:36] 13 people were killed in Ukraine due to Russian attacks,
[00:20:39] and more than sixty were injured. Officials and rescuers
[00:20:43] repeatedly urge Ukrainians not to ignore air raid alerts,
[00:20:47] go to shelters, or at least follow the two-walls rule. However, in
[00:20:51] frontline regions, from the moment of the alert to the explosion of a Russian missile,
[00:20:54] sometimes less than a minute passes.
[00:20:58] For example, in Kyiv, people complain that there are not enough places in bomb shelters
[00:21:02] for everyone. To guarantee a shelter, residents of the Ukrainian
[00:21:05] capital come to the metro platforms in advance, even before
[00:21:09] the siren. Why haven't new shelters been dug in Kyiv's
[00:21:12] courtyards in the fifth year of the full-scale war? Yulia
[00:21:16] Zhukova investigated the issue. With tents, sleeping mats, and chairs.
[00:21:20] Kyiv residents come to metro stations in advance to wait out
[00:21:23] a possible attack. For the last few months, Russia has regularly
[00:21:27] attacked
[00:21:28] Kyiv.
[00:21:31] During air raid alerts, the stations are overcrowded. In one of the recent attacks,
[00:21:35] 56,000 people spent the night in the subway,
[00:21:38] which is less than 2% of the population of three-million-strong
[00:21:41] Kyiv.
[00:21:45] From shelling to shelling, Kyiv residents complain about the condition and accessibility
[00:21:48] of shelters, and sometimes they cannot get there even during
[00:21:51] an attack.
[00:21:56] This is the Desnyansky district of Kyiv, the left bank of the capital. Here the situation
[00:22:00] with shelters is the most difficult in the city. The shelters
[00:22:04] that already exist, which are mostly basements in hospitals,
[00:22:07] schools, or kindergartens, can accommodate less than half
[00:22:10] of the residents of this district. Marina with her one-and-a-half-year-old child
[00:22:14] waits out all the shelling at home in the corridor. There are, for example,
[00:22:17] schools where you could go, but... but such
[00:22:20] ones, for example, from my house, it's about an 8-minute walk, and with
[00:22:23] a child at night, and also during shelling, that's a story.
[00:22:27] Anna, along with her nine-year-old son Misha, moved to Kyiv from
[00:22:30] the most shelled district of Kharkiv, northern
[00:22:33] Saltovka, but now she says it seems
[00:22:36] she has to go through it here too. Ordinary basements, which are simply
[00:22:40] overcrowded with people, it's not that there's nowhere to lie down, nowhere to sit,
[00:22:44] and nowhere to stand, people simply came, people come,
[00:22:47] there are no places.
[00:23:20] development, many houses here do not have basements that could be
[00:23:24] converted into shelters. The simplest
[00:23:26] and fastest solution, says Bakhmatov, are these
[00:23:30] mobile shelters. This is the first mobile certified
[00:23:34] shelter in Kyiv and so far the only one. It was installed in the Desnyansky
[00:23:38] district at the expense of business representatives. This concrete
[00:23:41] structure accommodates 30 people and is adapted
[00:23:44] even for people with disabilities. The shelter
[00:23:47] passed a test at the training ground and withstood it.
[00:24:06] The absence of shelters and the responsibility of district administrations - says
[00:24:09] Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Last year, half a billion hryvnias
[00:24:13] were allocated for the construction and arrangement of shelters, however,
[00:24:16] most of these funds were not used and were returned
[00:24:20] to the budget. If the district administration does not fulfill
[00:24:24] its duties, it should find those people who will
[00:24:28] fulfill these duties, but unfortunately, they made such a construction
[00:24:31] that the mayor of the city cannot even reprimand the head of the district.
[00:24:35] In turn, the head of the Desnyansky district administration
[00:24:38] states that the problem with shelters in Kyiv is the result of decisions
[00:24:42] by the city leadership. Some money was allocated, but
[00:24:46] you need to allocate not money, but have a plan and strategy.
[00:24:50] How many shelters are needed, conditionally for the forest,
[00:24:53] no one will say. According to official data, there are more than
[00:24:57] 400 shelters in the capital, however, a monitoring by the
[00:25:01] Ombudsman's office showed that some facilities are inaccessible or
[00:25:18] put to a final vote in the Senate as early as this week. This was stated by
[00:25:22] John Curtis, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, in an interview with Radio Liberty.
[00:25:25] The document provides for large-scale restrictions on Russia's financial and
[00:25:29] energy sectors, and measures against the shadow fleet that Russia
[00:25:32] uses to circumvent sanctions. In addition, it will allow the US President
[00:25:36] to impose tariffs on buyers of Russian fuel. According to
[00:25:39] Curtis, the initiative enjoys broad bipartisan support.
[00:25:42] The Republican senator emphasized that Russia must not win the war. A Radio
[00:25:46] Liberty correspondent in Washington asked Curtis what he considered victory for
[00:25:50] Ukraine in that case.
[00:25:53] If you ask President Zelensky, victory
[00:25:56] simply means not losing today, not losing
[00:25:59] tomorrow, and not losing the day after tomorrow. From the very
[00:26:02] beginning, Russia defined its victory as the complete seizure
[00:26:06] of Ukraine, therefore for Ukraine victory is any outcome
[00:26:10] in which this did not happen. The very fact that Ukraine
[00:26:14] was able to withstand 4 and a half years of this aggression is
[00:26:18] a huge
[00:26:19] victory.
[00:26:22] How do you manage to advocate for decisive bipartisan support for Ukraine,
[00:26:26] considering that some of your Republican colleagues advocate
[00:26:30] for reducing foreign aid? Listen,
[00:26:33] in fact, we can't do everything at once. There is common sense
[00:26:37] in their arguments, but I repeat again, defeat is not
[00:26:41] an option. If Putin is allowed to win in
[00:26:44] Ukraine, it will have serious consequences for many
[00:26:47] other regions of the world. Just look at China and
[00:26:51] Taiwan. We прекрасно understand that Chairman Xi
[00:26:54] is closely watching what is happening in Ukraine, and if
[00:26:57] we withdraw here, he will understand that we will withdraw on the issue
[00:27:01] of Taiwan. Therefore, the consequences of this war go far beyond
[00:27:05] the borders of Ukraine itself.
[00:27:07] Donald Trump denied media reports that the US had a shortage of missiles due to the war in Iran and threatened
[00:27:11] prison sentences for sources who leak information to the media about a shortage
[00:27:15] of weapons.
[00:27:16] The US has huge stockpiles
[00:27:19] of ammunition, especially certain types of it. In addition, as
[00:27:23] needed, large volumes of new ammunition are produced
[00:27:26] and supplied in the US. Defense
[00:27:30] companies are building the largest number of factories and
[00:27:33] production facilities in our country in its entire history. Those who leak these
[00:27:37] treacherous statements are now being sought, and they will be
[00:27:40] prosecuted for long prison terms. I remind you, earlier this week, Reuters
[00:27:44] news agency and CNN television channel, citing sources
[00:27:48] familiar with Pentagon data, reported that during the war with Iran, the United
[00:27:52] States had used almost its entire arsenal of high-precision long-range
[00:27:55] missiles. CNN journalists clarified that the American military allegedly
[00:27:59] used almost 80% of its interceptor missiles for...
[00:28:11] The new Russian film The Last Bogatyr Kolobok failed at the box office. As
[00:28:15] Meduza journalists reported, who studied the data on the websites of cinemas in different
[00:28:18] Russian cities, tickets for this film are almost not sold. In one of the
[00:28:22] Moscow cinemas, not a single seat was sold for all five
[00:28:25] premiere screenings. The film is essentially playing without an audience. The new fairy tale
[00:28:29] faced criticism from viewers even before the premiere. Earlier, the
[00:28:33] distributor of Kolobok urged the cinema to postpone the premiere of the new Spider-Man,
[00:28:36] to avoid competition. In response, viewers crashed the rating of Kolobok
[00:28:40] on the movie poster and Kinopoisk services. The latter decided to completely hide the film's rating,
[00:28:44] stating that more than 90% of the reviews were sharply negative. In addition,
[00:28:47] an instruction for Kolobok's promotional campaign was leaked online. As reported
[00:28:51] by the specialized publication Cinemaplex, the guidelines prohibit
[00:28:55] any mention of previous parts of the "Last Bogatyr" franchise, which
[00:28:58] were created jointly with Disney before its withdrawal from the Russian market.
[00:29:03] Russian singer Grigory Leps, who openly supports Russia's war against
[00:29:07] Ukraine, canceled concerts in occupied Feodosia and Yalta. They were
[00:29:10] scheduled for August 11th and 12th. The reasons for the cancellation, as stated on
[00:29:14] Leps's page on Instagram, which is banned in Russia, are power supply problems
[00:29:17] in Crimea and a difficult situation in the region. The concerts
[00:29:20] have been postponed to next year. I'll add that in March 2025, the Security
[00:29:24] Service of Ukraine informed Grigory Leps of suspicions under the article on
[00:29:28] financing the activities of the Russian army. The singer, on his personal initiative,
[00:29:31] paid Russian. dollars for
[00:29:35] each destroyed
[00:30:50] The improvement of the Ministry of Defense's
[00:30:53] structure continues in connection
[00:30:56] with the needs and experience of the special.