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[00:00:00] a turning point, why does he need it, what could he be
[00:00:03] dissatisfied with? Well, the first service,
[00:00:06] the counterintelligence service and military
[00:00:08] counterintelligence, well, here, along the lines
[00:00:12] of counterintelligence, I'm saying that the tasks are narrowing, the circle of foreigners
[00:00:15] is getting smaller, so there's less work
[00:00:19] left. Along the lines of military intelligence, it's provided, the most
[00:00:22] important thing, it's already the
[00:00:25] fifth year that the military on the front line
[00:00:29] are submissive...
[00:01:43] This is an absurd picture, also war. A tanker is burning in the
[00:01:46] Black Sea after attacks by Ukrainian naval drones. On the shore,
[00:01:50] a lonely guitarist calmly plays, passers-by walk by,
[00:01:53] as if the disaster is just a backdrop for a concert.
[00:01:56] Such footage resembles a biblical apocalypse. Moscow
[00:02:00] continues massive strikes on Ukrainian cities. This
[00:02:03] week, dozens of civilians became victims of shelling. In
[00:02:07] Pryluky, a five-story residential building was
[00:02:10] destroyed, among the twenty-two dead were entire families with children.
[00:02:40] In Ukraine, in the first 8 months of 2026 alone,
[00:02:43] over 15,000 civilians were killed or
[00:02:47] wounded. In Kramatorsk, a brutal strike hit two
[00:02:50] passenger buses. Despite the emergency work
[00:02:53] of rescuers, the tragedy could not be prevented. At least
[00:02:57] 30 people died.
[00:03:22] Kyiv and other large cities of Ukraine are facing strikes
[00:03:25] on infrastructure, as if Putin decided on a war of
[00:03:28] attrition. To exhaust the Ukrainian people, since the army
[00:03:32] is not succeeding. This week in the Lyman area, Ukrainian forces
[00:03:36] are conducting a counteroffensive operation, "Uivaldi." They
[00:03:39] are pushing back Russian units in certain
[00:03:42] areas. The AFU reports hundreds of prisoners and
[00:03:45] demonstrates them in a video. Details in Andrei Shilova's
[00:03:49] report. The capture of Russian soldiers was reported
[00:03:53] at the end of September by Andriy Biletsky, commander of the Third Army Corps
[00:03:56] of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
[00:04:33] The news was also confirmed by the President of Ukraine, who visited the command post of the Third
[00:04:36] Corps. Volodymyr Zelensky wrote that another
[00:04:39] 250 occupiers replenished our
[00:04:42] exchange fund. The discussion of this news from the Russian side
[00:04:46] became an illustration of growing tension and
[00:04:48] disagreements. Former deputy of the Ukrainian parliament from the Party of Regions,
[00:04:52] Oleg Tsaryov, living in Crimea, and regularly publishing
[00:04:55] front-line reports, called the news of the capture a Ukrainian
[00:04:59] informational bomb. He asked himself: what do
[00:05:02] the relatives of the prisoners feel, looking at faces, searching for
[00:05:06] their own, and not hearing any reaction from the Russian
[00:05:09] command. If Kyiv put prisoners from different
[00:05:13] days into one picture, this must be proven and shown.
[00:05:16] If this is a real failure, it must be acknowledged and
[00:05:19] explained. There is no special defiance in Tsaryov's text, he
[00:05:22] stipulates that anything can happen in war, and a quote: "We do not have a collapse of the front,
[00:05:26] the situation is much better than it used to be."
[00:05:29] Still, the reaction was not to the news of prisoners, but to Tsaryov's assumption
[00:05:33] of a real failure, it turned out to be loud. Prominent
[00:05:36] Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, in his standard
[00:05:40] manner, considered that the very
[00:05:43] conversation was supporting the enemy's information
[00:05:46] campaign, and we coddled
[00:05:49] this person in our country, we allocated him a
[00:05:52] system by which he can live. He exists only
[00:05:56] thanks to the mercy of our authorities, his income
[00:05:59] is connected only with our authorities. Now he's dragging
[00:06:02] into the information agenda,
[00:06:06] launched by the enemies,
[00:06:09] outright disinformation. Conditional Solovyov, we mean.
[00:06:12] Some class of propagandist works
[00:06:15] exclusively
[00:06:18] for the regime's
[00:06:20] agenda,
[00:06:22] therefore,
[00:06:26] they are included in this system where feedback from
[00:06:30] reality is
[00:06:33] absent, these are all enemy
[00:06:35] voices,
[00:06:40] and they waver along with the line. What
[00:06:42] is called,
[00:06:45] and any initiative from the ground, they will
[00:06:49] naturally reject, because
[00:06:52] their role is exclusively systemic.
[00:06:55] As for others,
[00:06:58] they are, as they say, sincere fascists.
[00:07:02] A Telegram channel, which has over a million subscribers,
[00:07:05] reposts Tsaryov's post in its feed, called "The truth about the
[00:07:09] front cannot be given to the enemy," it shows...
[00:07:25] The Elder Edda, having admitted, translating into printed language, that we, obviously, in
[00:07:29] the sense of the Russian command, lied a lot. Blogger
[00:07:33] Yuri Podolyaka, with an audience of more than 2.5 million
[00:07:36] people. Joining the conversation, he writes about the hope
[00:07:40] of gradually regaining trust.
[00:07:45] and acknowledges the problem of fake reports, because, quote, "one of its reasons is the fact
[00:07:49] that we officially do not retreat from anywhere."
[00:07:53] Many others also admit this. We forget to tell the people to their face
[00:07:56] that things are going badly in the Krasnoliman direction, there
[00:07:59] we have to, as some military correspondents cleverly say,
[00:08:02] retreat to previously prepared positions. This is
[00:08:06] the truth, this is the truth of what I am talking about, that the situation on
[00:08:09] the front is very different. Somewhere we are moving forward
[00:08:12] with great pressure, sometimes advancing not
[00:08:16] only 6, but 16 km in a day, and somewhere we have
[00:08:20] to roll back 5-6 km, giving up some
[00:08:23] settlements. All their attempts, like
[00:08:26] this, "tell us honestly,"
[00:08:29] they are initially doomed to this
[00:08:32] kind of systemic denial from
[00:08:35] the regime and
[00:08:39] ultimately they...
[00:08:42] maximum
[00:10:13] possible escalation. That is why we need to work
[00:10:16] all together. Europeans cannot put pressure on him, but they can
[00:10:20] help us, and this will push him to
[00:10:23] negotiations. They can do more, I think.
[00:10:26] President Trump can do more, and between
[00:10:30] us, he should do more, because the losses are so
[00:10:33] great.
[00:10:37] Against this backdrop, new reports are emerging from Moscow,
[00:10:40] the Telegraph writes about the possible return of
[00:10:44] General Sergei Surovikin to military command. According to the
[00:10:47] publication, an intensification of strikes on Kyiv is being discussed, including
[00:10:51] on bridges and critical infrastructure.
[00:10:55] There is no official confirmation of the new appointment yet, but the very
[00:10:59] prospect sounds like a continuation of the previous
[00:11:01] scenario. We will talk about the situation at the front with military
[00:11:05] observer Yuri
[00:11:13] troops near Lyman grind down the overall strategic picture on
[00:11:17] the front? To a very serious extent, simply because
[00:11:21] the defeat near Lyman and the liberation...
[00:11:55] but this is Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka, Kostiantynivka. So
[00:11:59] the defeat of Russian troops north of
[00:12:02] Lyman means that
[00:12:05] the strategic plan of the Russian campaign of 2026
[00:12:08] was completely thwarted.
[00:12:12] As I understand it, we are talking about the Donetsk region
[00:12:15] or going into
[00:12:18] the neighboring region. Well,
[00:12:22] it's quite possible that it was planned.
[00:16:07] Well, 250 people, that's practically
[00:16:10] three companies, if
[00:16:14] we're talking about an incomplete composition of these companies, but as it
[00:16:17] actually exists, about three companies
[00:16:20] were surrounded, this is a very
[00:16:24] serious group by current standards,
[00:16:28] they had no other choice but to either
[00:16:31] die, be eliminated, including
[00:16:35] by unmanned aerial vehicles,
[00:16:37] or to surrender, they chose to surrender.
[00:16:40] Yuri, the Z-military correspondents, they
[00:16:44] are panicking, saying that everything is very bad on the front. At the same time,
[00:16:47] the Ministry of Defense says there are successes, we are taking one settlement
[00:16:51] or one village after another, but what is actually happening on the front
[00:16:54] line?
[00:16:56] Both are happening on the front line actually,
[00:17:00] because if you look at
[00:17:03] the situation somewhere in Sumy region, in
[00:17:06] Kharkiv region.
[00:17:37] the Vivaldi operation is developing,
[00:17:40] which is apparently entering its final fourth
[00:17:44] stage. The second zone
[00:17:47] where the situation has
[00:17:50] strategic importance is the so-called
[00:17:54] Zaporizhzhia direction, that is,
[00:17:57] the direction towards the city of Zaporizhzhia, but there
[00:18:01] Russian troops practically, well, the offensive
[00:18:04] of Russian troops practically fizzled out. There are
[00:18:08] quite heavy battles, but neither side
[00:18:11] is moving, in general, reaching Zaporizhzhia is not
[00:18:15] going to happen for Russian troops anytime
[00:18:18] soon, that should be kept in mind, so
[00:18:21] that's the real situation.
[00:18:25] Now, as for the disputes between
[00:18:28] military correspondents and the Russian
[00:18:31] Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Defense in Russia never
[00:18:34] acknowledges, or practically never acknowledges, its own
[00:18:38] defeats. If in
[00:18:41] the Ministry of Defense reports this or that
[00:18:44] direction suddenly disappears, it means that
[00:18:47] there, well, not that there are no successes, but that failures
[00:18:50] are pursuing Russian troops.
[00:18:54] Z, well, that's normal, normal propaganda,
[00:18:58] normal propaganda of the Russian Ministry
[00:19:00] of Defense. As for the Z military correspondents, who
[00:19:04] are on... and failures of the Russian army,
[00:19:37] which are written about by Russian military
[00:19:41] correspondents, well, if there is that
[00:19:44] minimum, and these correspondents reflect
[00:19:47] the mood of the officer corps. Yuri,
[00:19:50] if we weigh: on one side, the successes
[00:19:54] of the AFU in Donbas,
[00:19:56] on the other side, we see a picture of infrastructure being
[00:20:00] destroyed by Russian drones, then on whose
[00:20:03] side is the advantage still?
[00:20:10] Well, it's impossible to give such an answer, because
[00:20:13] the advantage on the front line
[00:20:15] today is, well, the initiative is in
[00:20:19] the hands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, nothing
[00:20:22] else but to try
[00:20:25] to bomb, well, to destroy from
[00:20:28] the air the infrastructure and
[00:20:31] generally the life support system of
[00:20:33] Ukraine, the Kremlin has no other
[00:20:37] option, it has no other instrument, another
[00:20:40] question, I think that this instrument is not a
[00:20:44] way, with the help of this instrument the Kremlin is not
[00:20:47] capable of achieving those goals.
[00:22:21] These moods were present from the very beginning of the war.
[00:22:25] If we talk about what can really threaten
[00:22:29] Ukraine, yes, no one argues that the situation
[00:22:32] in winter, and today too, by the way, is quite
[00:22:36] difficult. In winter, it may become even more
[00:22:39] complicated. However, the question is
[00:22:42] whether this situation will transition
[00:22:45] to that state when...
[00:22:48] reach an interception rate of
[00:23:50] 70-80%. Tell me, Yuri, given
[00:23:52] the statement
[00:23:54] and the logic of Defense Minister
[00:23:57] Andrei Belousov about a protracted war, does this signal
[00:24:01] the Kremlin's preparation for an official martial law and
[00:24:04] a new wave of mobilization?
[00:24:07] I think there are
[00:24:09] many military, and not only military, in Russia
[00:24:13] who indeed insist on
[00:24:16] the introduction of martial law, which, by the way,
[00:24:20] opens up the legal possibility for carrying out
[00:24:23] total mobilization.
[00:24:25] But there is another
[00:24:27] point of view, which currently dominates in the
[00:24:31] Kremlin: let's try with
[00:24:34] the help of these massive bombardments to achieve our
[00:24:38] goal. The question is which line
[00:24:41] will prove more, more influential. For now,
[00:24:45] the second line is winning,
[00:24:48] but...
[00:25:50] The main criterion for appointment to
[00:25:53] high military posts for Putin is not
[00:25:57] so much the quality of the military, the military qualities
[00:26:00] of the candidate, but his unquestioning
[00:26:04] loyalty to Putin himself,
[00:26:08] because Putin, as I think, perfectly
[00:26:11] remembers Mao Zedong's maxim, "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," he wants
[00:26:14] these rifles to be in the hands of people
[00:26:18] fully under his control, and, by the way,
[00:26:21] devoid of political initiative. Yuri, thank
[00:26:37] of Time: Week's Results" with Mumin Shakirov. Watch
[00:26:41] us on Current Time TV on YouTube
[00:26:45] Radio Liberty. See you next week.
[00:27:56] of Russia. How do Russian authorities implement the basic law of the country?
[00:28:00] What are they discussing this week?
[00:29:19] The deportation or transfer of protected persons from an occupied
[00:29:22] territory to the territory of the occupying power or to the territory
[00:29:26] of any other state, regardless of whether
[00:29:29] they are occupied
[00:29:33] or not, is prohibited for any reason whatsoever. The occupying
[00:29:36] power shall not deport or transfer part of its own
[00:29:39] civilian population into the territory occupied by it.
[00:30:25] Vladimir Putin, in principle, prefers to live in Valdai, the lake there
[00:30:28] was closed off with fences and cameras.
[00:30:32] You absolutely cannot deviate from this route, there are guards there who
[00:30:36] immediately chase you away and scold you. We can't even go to the other side to
[00:30:57] the decision was made that there would be war after all...