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[00:00:44] I haven't been in Kramatorsk for about a month and a half, and it's hard to say how much the city has changed during this time,
[00:00:48] first, these dragon's teeth appeared almost everywhere
[00:00:52] on the streets, and second, in many
[00:00:55] places here, this hedgehog has appeared, it's just
[00:00:58] intertwined along the street. Over the last
[00:01:02] 40 minutes of filming here, I
[00:01:04] counted six drone flights above me and
[00:01:08] accordingly six explosions. An adjacent intersection, a car is burning
[00:01:11] out, it was hit by a Russian drone a couple of hours ago. Among the main targets in
[00:01:15] Kramatorsk are cars, and not always military ones. Natalya's car
[00:01:18] was attacked simply in the parking lot. A shell
[00:01:22] flew in here, flew out
[00:01:25] through the car stereo, flew into...
[00:01:40] the locals have a joke, if you search, from the remnants of shot down ones you can
[00:01:43] assemble a new one, value pink
[00:01:46] charge, explosive, this is its board
[00:01:50] board initiation,
[00:01:54] or cumulative jet, people
[00:01:57] are already used to all this, you understand, so well...
[00:02:00] where to go, okay, I can go,
[00:02:04] I'm from Rivne region, what about civilians
[00:02:07] who are 65, 70,
[00:02:10] 80, where should they go, they are used to it here, this is their home, I
[00:02:14] wouldn't leave either, in Kramatorsk, mandatory
[00:02:17] evacuation of children has been announced, the front is approaching the city, so there are noticeably
[00:02:21] fewer young people on the streets, those who remain find solace
[00:02:24] each in their own way, so that it's not so scary and
[00:02:28] boring,
[00:04:30] 80 dimensions, work now there are different types of zippers, there are
[00:04:34] evasive zippers, when you approach it, it starts to
[00:04:37] wiggle spin or burn
[00:04:40] already b****, and sometimes
[00:04:44] the target is simply intercepted from under the nose by other
[00:04:47] crews.
[00:04:49] It tore off,
[00:04:51] these are competitors from a couple of crews who got lucky with, say,
[00:04:55] a zipper two, and they all saw it, but who
[00:04:58] gets to hit first, well... Whoever is first, let's
[00:05:02] say, new and new Russian drones are entering Kramatorsk,
[00:05:06] the crew takes off again and
[00:05:07] again.
[00:05:12] Calm.
[00:05:43] this woman's son, he's 11 and he shouldn't be in Druzhkivka, the mandatory evacuation of children has already
[00:05:47] ended in the city, the mother assures that her son is
[00:05:51] not home, why are you not with
[00:05:54] your son? Well, I had work, I'm still here now,
[00:05:57] I have a son, mandatory evacuation
[00:06:01] of minors is a routine procedure in Ukrainian frontline cities, but
[00:06:04] not everyone leaves, then the search for hidden children turns into
[00:06:08] a detective story, for which in wartime conditions there is simply no time.
[00:06:43] Donbas is the region where I was born, it hurts
[00:06:47] to see all this, all this
[00:06:50] for years, people built,
[00:06:53] created, now it's all destroyed.
[00:07:05] Into the city, passing dozens of burnt cars, bypassing loaded military vehicles, Anton and Alexander evacuate
[00:07:08] 81-year-old Alexander Ivanovich.
[00:07:24] even of a previously non-frontline city, the crew drives up to a still
[00:07:28] smoking house, yes, good
[00:07:30] day, good, are you evacuating,
[00:07:32] they put it out last night,
[00:07:35] this, well, it flew in at night and early in the morning, my God, are
[00:07:38] you still here, still... they saw that here, well, why on peaceful people, my God, you see that evacuation, after this evacuation
[00:08:37] Anton and Alexander received a new task - to find a child.
[00:08:40] sometimes they raise their voices,
[00:08:59] but influencing parents only within the legal framework near
[00:09:03] the front is impossible, no social service will reach here,
[00:09:06] it's even scary to leave the entrance here, the air is filled with drones, children for...
[00:09:10] special homes for families with
[00:09:47] children, after another half an hour eleven-year-old Maxim and his mother
[00:09:50] leave the apartment with their belongings, they are given protection, seated in
[00:09:54] an armored car, well, we just had
[00:09:58] a feeling that everything was bad, there, so that he cried every
[00:10:01] day and something else didn't happen, but while his mother assures in a quiet
[00:10:05] life, Maxim confidently copies the sound of an FPV
[00:10:08] drone. Do you distinguish when it's close or when
[00:10:14] it's far? Yes, that's when you need to hide
[00:10:18] already, when you can already clearly hear the whistle
[00:10:21] of the engines, glad that he left. not return, I think they became wiser, the feelings are good, because we
[00:10:47] still found this family, yes,
[00:10:50] we took them out, maybe even saved, that's another Ukraine.
[00:10:53] big point in Kharkiv region before
[00:11:02] the already frontline Donetsk region, and until recently Izium
[00:11:07] entering remained such
[00:11:10] an island of civilization in
[00:11:13] the frontline military Donbas, but since
[00:11:16] July 5, the Russian army has been systematically
[00:11:19] destroying Izium's gas stations, removing debris
[00:11:22] from the anti-drone net. so that there was no gasoline, I personally
[00:13:25] saw, well, a small airplane,
[00:13:29] it just you see,
[00:13:31] it just cut through, well, there was no one there,
[00:13:34] if there had been someone, it would have killed them, the most painful
[00:13:38] blows are felt in small settlements, in Bohodukhiv near
[00:13:41] Kharkiv all gas stations have been destroyed, the same situation in Nikopol,
[00:13:45] Dnipropetrovsk region and Trostyanets, Sumy region, recently
[00:13:48] information appeared that all gas stations on the Dnipro-Kharkiv
[00:13:52] highway were destroyed. there are two nuances: firstly, if
[00:13:57] a gas station is not completely destroyed, it is restored quite quickly,
[00:14:01] it continues to operate, filming at such
[00:14:04] facilities is quite nerve-wracking, people
[00:14:07] are really afraid that something else will hit their gas station
[00:14:11] after filming, when trying to arrange something at one of these
[00:14:14] gas stations, the police were even called on me today, the second
[00:14:18] nuance is that if there are no gas stations at all...
[00:14:21] then people, business and local authorities try
[00:14:25] to organize the supply of gasoline, in most cases these
[00:14:28] schemes are for insiders and outsiders are not informed about them,
[00:14:32] somewhere gasoline is sold strictly by the hour, for example, from one to
[00:14:36] two, somewhere they let one car into the gas station, somewhere the
[00:14:39] filling stations are made inconspicuous, almost underground,
[00:14:43] they work, they work, they filled up today, I filled up today, I didn't
[00:14:46] fill up today, and do you have gasoline reserves,
[00:14:49] no, huh?
[00:14:51] Fuel experts assure that gas stations and authorities are looking for solutions on
[00:15:05] how to secure their facilities, but there are no clear answers yet, and it's about
[00:15:08] hundreds of facilities in small towns. There can only be one solution here,
[00:15:12] well, these drones, they need to be shot down, you won't put a sarcophagus
[00:15:15] over a gas station, I think it's simply about
[00:15:19] consumers having to drive further
[00:15:23] for this
[00:15:25] fuel and somehow deal with fueling
[00:15:29] up some reserve, because
[00:15:32] objectively, well, actually, they talk about
[00:15:36] mobile gas stations and so on, but the problem is that there's already
[00:15:39] a real hunt for fuel tankers, drivers don't
[00:15:42] want to go, which is exactly why we preventively refueled the car near
[00:15:46] Kharkiv at an uncharacteristically empty gas station, where life
[00:15:50] used to always bustle.
[00:15:53] Now it's unclear what's happening in Izyum, and you'll go to Kramatorsk and it's
[00:15:57] the same there.
[00:16:01] The fuel expert assures that attacks on gas stations, though
[00:16:03] trending, are currently a localized problem. In
[00:16:07] Ukraine, there are about 5,500 gas stations and about
[00:16:11] 170 damaged or destroyed,
[00:16:14] but this number is constantly growing, so
[00:16:17] if no measures are taken, the local
[00:16:21] problem could escalate into a national one. Borisalka, Sergey
[00:16:25] Dykun and Alexey Polye, Nastoyashchee Vremya,
[00:16:27] Ukraine.
[00:16:36] It's all here.
[00:17:07] owned 5 hectares of land.
[00:17:11] Now, together with her husband, they cultivate 400 hectares, on
[00:17:14] which they grow sunflower, wheat, barley, peas,
[00:17:17] rapeseed, corn sorghum.
[00:17:21] I was raised with these values, that the village gives
[00:17:23] freedom, which I never felt in
[00:17:27] the city.
[00:17:43] Thank you so much for taking the time for us, I know you have a busy
[00:17:47] schedule, we saw last week you lobbying and posting
[00:17:51] on Instagram the sanctions bill against Russia and
[00:17:54] Iran. Do you believe it's time to pass it and that
[00:17:57] the president may sign
[00:17:59] it soon?
[00:18:02] Absolutely, Putin is a gangster, what he has done to the Ukrainian people
[00:18:06] is disgusting, how much? When
[00:18:48] you talk to colleagues about why this bill should
[00:18:51] be passed, how do you
[00:18:53] explain it?
[00:18:57] Well, when we talk, I say that we live in dangerous times, right
[00:19:01] now there are disgusting people all over the world who
[00:19:04] control countries and their resources, Si in China.
[00:19:15] and until January to Maduro in Venezuela, there are people who want to destroy our
[00:19:19] way of life, so we will have to intervene, we must
[00:19:22] intervene and support our friends, expect our
[00:19:26] friends to do more for their own defense, but understand that we
[00:19:30] live in dangerous times, you can't on the one hand say, oh, Russia
[00:19:33] is a terrible place, and on the other, not hold it accountable.
[00:20:50] It's that in very difficult conditions they are fighting for
[00:20:53] freedom. Look at how we treat Israelis. They are fighting for
[00:20:57] their freedom, they are ready to fight because they want their
[00:21:00] children and grandchildren to live in a free environment. When I think of
[00:21:03] the heroism of Ukrainians, I think the world admires them for how
[00:21:07] they went through all this. I really think this
[00:21:10] is important. If you want support from the US, you have to explain
[00:21:14] who the good guys are, who the bad guys are. And I think Zelensky
[00:21:18] did that. I believe he... Congress
[00:22:20] prove him wrong, you said
[00:22:32] we need to act fast and pass this bill. I think many believe they can outlast and outwait, because historically they have had presidents of the United States who chose a policy of appeasement. Look back, look at Obama
[00:22:36] and look at Biden. They appeased dictators all over
[00:22:39] the world. This president will not do that, and the next one
[00:22:43] probably won't either, because I believe people realize that
[00:22:46] the policy of appeasement does not work, it never worked.
[00:23:25] I think part of it is that Ukrainians are very creative in what
[00:23:28] they do, and they manage to create more and more
[00:23:31] sophisticated drone technology, but perhaps even
[00:23:34] more impressive is the quality of their operators, the fact that they,
[00:23:38] with the forces of a very small group of people, destroy Russian
[00:23:41] troops. I talked to one Ukrainian commander who,
[00:23:44] with 2,000 people, destroyed Russian equipment worth
[00:23:48] over 15 billion.
[00:23:59] Russian army, because they figured out how to do it very
[00:24:02] competently, using autonomous weapons, excellent training,
[00:24:06] essentially, constant feedback, when those who use
[00:24:10] technology constantly communicate with those who create it,
[00:24:14] this constant improvement day by day, what the
[00:24:17] Ukrainian army has done, really.
[00:24:50] Russians had practically no inconveniences due to
[00:24:53] the war, now there are costs for the Russian economy
[00:24:57] and for Russians, and this happened because of what
[00:25:01] Ukrainians were able to achieve. The difference is that Ukrainians are not just killing
[00:25:04] Russians, they are destroying the Russian army, while
[00:25:08] Russia is trying to stop them by killing Ukrainian
[00:25:11] citizens.
[00:25:15] In this regard, Ukrainians are also concerned that Patriot production has been delayed,
[00:25:19] the president has made it clear that he is ready to grant Ukraine a license, but then
[00:25:23] we heard ambiguous signals. Do you have any other
[00:25:26] information? When I talk to the White House, I hear that they
[00:25:30] are absolutely committed to Ukraine, so I am absolutely sure that they
[00:25:33] will provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs, when
[00:25:37] it needs them. You spoke about
[00:25:40] several countries, Iran, you spoke about North Korea, Russia,
[00:25:43] China, do you see any connection between
[00:25:47] them?
[00:25:49] Absolutely. There is definitely cooperation between them,
[00:25:52] they hate our way of life, they hate
[00:25:55] capitalism, they hate Judeo-Christian values,
[00:25:59] they want to destroy us, they want to control the world and... they will
[00:26:02] act together to achieve this, they have already
[00:26:06] acted together to achieve this. We must
[00:26:09] understand that there is a significant threat to our freedom and
[00:26:12] independence. But this applies to all our allies
[00:26:16] who believe in freedom, because Putin does not believe in personal
[00:26:19] freedom, Xi does not believe in personal freedom, Ayatollah does not
[00:26:22] believe, Maduro did not believe, Raul Castro does not believe,
[00:26:25] Kim Jong Un does not believe, so they continue to
[00:26:29] cooperate, trying to destroy our way of life.
[00:27:09] "You are a bandit, and you must go to hell for all the death and destruction you have caused the Ukrainian people, and I will do everything in my power to continue to help
[00:27:13] fight for freedom anywhere in the world, against you, and
[00:27:16] also against Xi, Kim Jong, Ayatollah and
[00:27:19] other disgusting bandits who dispose of people's lives
[00:27:23] all over the world. Thank you, Senator, for taking the time to
[00:27:26] share your
[00:27:28] perspective with us.
[00:28:15] 2020, line to vote, that what?
[00:28:30] So, what's his way out,
[00:28:40] well, besides the way out to go hang himself quietly in a corner?
[00:28:44] Russia just with its boots, drives us into some
[00:28:48] kind of medieval age. Is there a place for such a liberal party in Russia?
[00:28:52] Absolutely, only there is no such
[00:28:55] party,
[00:28:58] and I had to write about what was happening there, well, like.
[00:29:32] and also those who have ceased to participate in military actions
[00:29:36] due to illness, injury, detention
[00:29:39] or for any other reason, must in all
[00:29:42] circumstances enjoy humane treatment.
[00:30:24] Please, put me on all lists
[00:30:28] of extremists, neo-Nazis, I wrote
[00:30:30] "Putin" in my passport. cold and this is my
[00:30:34] official and principled position, well,
[00:30:37] it's offensive, damn it, well, there's someone, but not me, well.