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[00:03:46] Today, Europe, Poland, Ukraine, found themselves at the center
[00:03:50] of geopolitical challenges. The Kremlin attacks Ukraine with drones and
[00:03:54] missiles, tanks, in Europe - with fakes and sabotage to
[00:03:57] sow fear and divide Europeans. We can say
[00:04:00] a decisive moment in our common history, from how we will react to it,
[00:04:04] how we will comprehend it, depends our victory, our development,
[00:04:07] our survival. And it is Ukraine today that is
[00:04:11] the center of Europe, and together with our partners, Poland holds a key place among them,
[00:04:14] we will stop the Kremlin's
[00:04:17] onslaught. We must say no to dictatorship, violence,
[00:04:20] authoritarianism. Watch the program "Center of Europe"
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[00:04:34] On the line of contact and in the enemy's rear, the enemy
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[00:05:04] today, so there are no awkward
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[00:05:22] Russia massively attacked peaceful Ukrainian cities, there are dead and
[00:05:25] wounded. Washington and Kyiv are looking for a way to produce Patriot
[00:05:28] missiles, and in Poland they are evaluating the first year of President
[00:05:31] Nawrodsky's work. We will tell you more in the Warsaw-Kyiv issue about the main things. I am
[00:05:35] Hanna Vasylevska, I greet you and
[00:05:37] invite you.
[00:05:45] Kyiv region is in mourning for those killed by the Russian missile strike on August
[00:05:48] 5. Meanwhile, Russia again launched a massive attack on
[00:05:52] Ukraine. More than 100 drones and missiles hit several regions.
[00:05:55] At least eight people died, dozens were injured. About the consequences
[00:05:59] of the night attack we will tell.
[00:06:03] The US continues negotiations with Ukraine on the production of Patriot
[00:06:07] missiles despite Trump's doubts. Reuters reports that several options
[00:06:11] for cooperation are being considered, but the first missiles may appear only in
[00:06:14] a year. Will this be enough to change the situation in Ukraine amid Russian
[00:06:18] attacks?
[00:06:21] Karol Nawrocki has been leading Poland for a year, almost half of Poles
[00:06:24] positively evaluate his activities on the international arena. At the same time,
[00:06:28] the president and the government often have opposing positions regarding aid
[00:06:31] from the EU and foreign policy. Will the president and
[00:06:35] the government of Poland manage to overcome disagreements in
[00:06:37] the future?
[00:06:45] On the night of August 6, Russia carried out a massive attack on Ukraine,
[00:06:49] using four missiles and more than 100 attack drones. In the Kharkiv region, in Balakliia, three
[00:06:52] people died due to the attack
[00:06:56] of Russian drones, residential buildings were damaged, in Lozova a drone
[00:06:59] hit a railway station, two
[00:07:03] men died, eight more people were injured. In the Sumy region,
[00:07:06] Russians attacked civilian infrastructure with guided
[00:07:09] aerial bombs. In the region, there are reports of
[00:07:13] wounded and three dead, including a 13-year-old girl. In
[00:07:16] Zaporizhzhia, as a result of the Russian UAV attack, four
[00:07:20] people were injured, men, three women. The roof of
[00:07:23] a nine-story building was partially destroyed, and neighboring
[00:07:26] houses were damaged. In the Kherson region, a Russian drone attacked a bus with
[00:07:30] employees. Six people were injured. And in the Kyiv region,
[00:07:34] August 6 was declared a day of mourning for those killed as a result of the Russian
[00:07:38] attack the day before. Currently, 16
[00:07:41] dead and 29
[00:07:43] injured are known.
[00:07:46] On the night of August 6, Russian Yaroslavl was attacked by
[00:07:49] drones. According to Russian authorities, due to the threat of Ukrainian UAV
[00:07:52] strikes, traffic restrictions were imposed in the city and region
[00:07:56] at the exit towards Moscow. Local
[00:07:59] Telegram channels reported explosions, drones flying over, and pillars
[00:08:03] of smoke. According to Usind analysis by Astra publication,
[00:08:06] the Slavneft oil refinery was hit. The enterprise
[00:08:10] has repeatedly been the target of attacks. According to available information, it was
[00:08:14] hit at least for the sixth time. I remind you, the day before, in the Leningrad and
[00:08:18] Moscow regions of the Russian Federation, after a drone attack, Wildberries logistics
[00:08:21] warehouses were burning, which are used by the Russian army
[00:08:25] for transporting dual-use goods.
[00:08:27] призначення.
[00:08:29] Over half a thousand children are being forcibly evacuated from the Kramatorsk community,
[00:08:32] said Vadym Filashkin, head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration. Most of
[00:08:36] them are from Kramatorsk, where 326 children from the most dangerous areas of the city
[00:08:40] are subject to evacuation.
[00:08:42] Minors will also be evacuated from the villages of Bilenke and
[00:08:45] Krasnotorka. Filashkin explained that the security situation in the community
[00:08:49] is deteriorating, and Russian strikes pose a constant threat to
[00:08:52] civilians. In the Donetsk region, in the zone of active hostilities, about
[00:08:56] 12,000 civilians remain. In total, in the territory of the region
[00:08:59] controlled by Ukraine, there are currently approximately 115,000
[00:09:02] people, including over 600 children. Since
[00:09:06] the beginning of August, the number of residents of the region has decreased by
[00:09:09] 2,400 people, some left independently,
[00:09:13] some were evacuated. Currently, the Kramatorsk community remains one
[00:09:17] of the key targets of Russian attacks in
[00:09:19] the region.
[00:09:27] In Germany, near the Ukrainian An-124 Ruslan, drones
[00:09:30] with explosives were found. The incident occurred at Leipzig-Halle
[00:09:33] airport, one of NATO's key logistics hubs, at the base of
[00:09:37] the Ukrainian airline Antonov Airlines. According to
[00:09:41] the police, drones with an explosive device were found near the runway,
[00:09:44] the explosives were defused by sappers, flights were temporarily
[00:09:48] suspended, and several flights were redirected to other
[00:09:51] airfields. During the airport closure, a DHL cargo plane,
[00:09:54] which was on approach for landing, likely collided with
[00:09:58] another unidentified flying object. The plane safely
[00:10:01] landed in Hanover, where minor
[00:10:04] damage was found. German Interior Minister Alexander
[00:10:08] Dobrind called the incident a hybrid attack scenario and
[00:10:11] stated that the drone was prepared professionally. At the same time, he
[00:10:15] emphasized that the investigation is not yet drawing conclusions about the possible
[00:10:18] involvement of a foreign
[00:10:20] state.
[00:10:23] We must consider this case. A very serious security
[00:10:26] incident. In my opinion, we are dealing with a hybrid attack scenario,
[00:10:30] which unfolded as follows: a drone was detected near
[00:10:33] Leipzig airport. This drone was equipped with explosives. This
[00:10:36] indicates a new level of threat. In the past, we have had
[00:10:40] cases with drone threats. However, the presence of a UAV armed with
[00:10:43] explosives on the airport territory is a completely new
[00:10:47] scenario.
[00:10:49] The US has resumed full intelligence sharing with
[00:10:53] Ukraine and cooperation between returned to its previous level, according
[00:10:57] to Politico, citing American senators and
[00:11:00] experts. According to US Senate Intelligence Committee member
[00:11:04] Mark Warner, increased intelligence sharing and effective
[00:11:08] use of long-range drones and missiles by Ukraine have strengthened its
[00:11:11] position in the war. Senators John Cornyn and Roger Wicker also
[00:11:15] stated that Ukraine was able to change the situation on the battlefield in
[00:11:19] its favor. Institute for the Study of War expert George Barros
[00:11:22] emphasized that American intelligence data could have increased
[00:11:25] the accuracy of strikes on Russian targets and preemptively
[00:11:28] warned about missile attacks. Recall that in March
[00:11:32] of this year, Washington temporarily suspended intelligence sharing
[00:11:35] after relations between Donald Trump and
[00:11:38] Volodymyr Zelensky flared up.
[00:11:42] The US has not stopped negotiations with Ukraine on the production of Patriot
[00:11:46] missiles, despite Donald Trump's public doubts. This
[00:11:50] was reported by Reuters, citing four informed sources. According to
[00:11:53] them, American officials are discussing several options, under
[00:11:57] which Ukraine will manufacture individual missile components, and their
[00:12:01] final assembly will take place in Germany, as well as Ukraine's
[00:12:05] accession to a joint American-European Patriot
[00:12:07] program, or the provision of a license for the production
[00:12:11] of a cheap modification of the PAC-3 missile. At the same time,
[00:12:14] American officials emphasize that any agreement
[00:12:17] must guarantee the protection of American technologies, and if
[00:12:20] agreements are signed, Ukraine may not receive new
[00:12:24] missiles earlier than in a year. According to Reuters,
[00:12:28] negotiations are being promoted by US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker, and
[00:12:31] no order to stop them has been received. Recall that in July,
[00:12:34] Donald Trump announced his readiness to provide Ukraine with a license for the production
[00:12:38] of Patriot missiles, but later noted that this issue
[00:12:41] requires a cautious
[00:12:43] approach.
[00:12:51] August 6 marks one year since the inauguration of Polish President Karol
[00:12:55] Nawrocki. Almost half of Poles, 47%, positively
[00:12:58] assess how the head of state represents Poland on
[00:13:02] the international arena. These are the results of an SFR
[00:13:06] Research poll for Onet. Nawrocki's policy is especially supported in
[00:13:10] Polish-American relations. However, respondents recognized that
[00:13:14] often the cooperation between the president and the government in the field of foreign
[00:13:17] policy is quite difficult, because Nawrocki and
[00:13:20] Tusk represent opposing positions on some
[00:13:23] issues. In particular, regarding aid from the European
[00:13:26] Union's principles of energy and climate
[00:13:29] policy. In Poland, there is again talk of
[00:13:33] stripping Volodymyr Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle. The head
[00:13:36] of the Presidential Chancellery Karol Nawrocki's Zbigniew Bogucki publicly
[00:13:40] called on Prime Minister Donald Tusk to sign the relevant decision.
[00:13:43] In a post on the X social network, Bogucki stated that Tusk must find the
[00:13:47] courage to fulfill his duty and sign the president's
[00:13:51] decree on stripping Zelensky of the highest Polish
[00:13:54] state award. In Poland, the president's decision to strip
[00:13:58] the order only comes into force after the signature of the head of government.
[00:14:01] Tusk did not sign it. The scandal arose in June, when Karol
[00:14:05] Nawrocki announced his intention to strip Zelensky of the order due to
[00:14:08] the naming of one of the Ukrainian units after the Heroes
[00:14:12] of the UPA. The Ukrainian side called such statements
[00:14:15] unacceptable. Later, at a meeting in Warsaw, Ukrainian
[00:14:17] Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha proposed a package of anti-crisis
[00:14:21] steps to reduce tensions in relations.
[00:14:33] In June, Gazprom's Nord Stream 2 company wants to join
[00:14:37] the lawsuit against Ukrainian Serhiy Koznitsov. The company plans
[00:14:40] to act in the case of the Nord Stream pipelines explosion on the side of
[00:14:43] the prosecution. This was reported by the law firm defending
[00:14:47] the Ukrainian. It emphasized that Gazprom finances military
[00:14:50] campaigns that participate in Russia's war against Ukraine. The trial
[00:14:54] against Koznitsov, according to his lawyer, will begin in
[00:14:57] Hamburg at the end of October this year. I remind you that the explosion
[00:15:01] of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, which run along the bottom
[00:15:05] of the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany, occurred
[00:15:08] on September 26, 2022.
[00:15:11] Serhiy Koznitsov is one of six suspects for whom Germany
[00:15:14] issued arrest warrants. He is accused, in particular, of complicity in
[00:15:18] a war crime, organizing an explosion, and attacking
[00:15:21] civilian targets. Kuznitsov himself denies the accusations.
[00:15:25] I will add that Serhiy Koznitsov was handed over to German law enforcement
[00:15:28] by Italy, while another suspect, Volodymyr
[00:15:31] Zhuravlov, was not extradited by a Polish court in Berlin,
[00:15:35] calling the evidence insufficient, the act itself... such that it was
[00:15:38] committed in the context of the criminal and genocidal war that
[00:15:42] Russia has been waging against Ukraine since
[00:15:45] 2014.
[00:15:53] Warsaw will be able to save up to 30% of electricity
[00:15:56] thanks to smart lighting installed on the streets of the Polish
[00:16:00] capital. This innovation is being introduced due to the consequences of the global
[00:16:03] energy crisis. This was announced on August 5 by the Mayor
[00:16:06] of Warsaw, Czaskowski. He also assured that his city
[00:16:10] is already preparing to support Ukraine in the upcoming difficult months.
[00:16:14] I remind you, in the winter of 2026, Warsaw sent more than 500 generators
[00:16:18] to Ukrainian cities as part of the "Heat for Kyiv"
[00:16:21] program, to ease the lives of civilian Ukrainians after Russian
[00:16:25] attacks on critical
[00:16:26] infrastructure.
[00:16:29] If such a need arises, of course, we will help
[00:16:32] again. I and the residents of Warsaw have always
[00:16:35] done this, because firstly... This is how we show solidarity, and
[00:16:39] secondly, this is how we strengthen our allies who are fighting
[00:16:43] the enemy.
[00:16:45] US Army veteran, mental resilience coach, Professor
[00:16:49] at Virginia Tech University and a friend of Ukraine. This is all about Matthew
[00:16:52] Komelsky. How and why did an American from overseas
[00:16:56] come to Poland, and then to Ukraine, where he spent the night under
[00:16:59] shelling. Watch the material by Inna
[00:17:01] Bilak.
[00:17:04] Before his departure to the USA, we meet with Matthew Komelsky
[00:17:07] in Warsaw, he has Polish roots, but had never been to Poland before
[00:17:11] the full-scale war broke out in Ukraine.
[00:17:13] Russia needed Ukraine's resources and
[00:17:17] the Ukrainian people, and it simply tried to illegally seize it through brutal
[00:17:21] aggression. This outraged me, immediately after the invasion, my university
[00:17:24] lit up its administrative building with blue and yellow lights as
[00:17:28] a sign of support for Ukraine. And they invited several Ukrainian students and
[00:17:31] faculty to come to our university as a safe
[00:17:35] place. But I felt that we could do more.
[00:17:42] In Poland, Komelsky joined the humanitarian headquarters at the American
[00:17:45] School in Warsaw. In parallel, he says, he raised money among his acquaintances in America for
[00:17:49] aid to Ukraine, after returning to the US, he organized
[00:17:52] online English language courses for war
[00:17:54] migrants.
[00:17:57] This was not only volunteer aid and work in a warehouse, but also a certain science
[00:18:01] behind it, because play is incredibly important for children. They need
[00:18:04] play to survive and comprehend what they are going through in their lives,
[00:18:08] so we focused on purchasing a large number of developmental toys,
[00:18:12] plasticine, art materials, so that children could create, play and
[00:18:16] work through some of the stress they face.
[00:18:18] стикаються.
[00:18:22] Komelsky's specialization is a combination of mindfulness practices, meditation and
[00:18:25] body work, and neuroscience to combat stress and post-traumatic
[00:18:29] syndrome. The American professor spent the last month in Plonsk. Together
[00:18:33] with his colleague from Virginia University, Dr. April Fou, they worked on a voluntary
[00:18:37] basis with Ukrainian psychology students from Kharkiv, Dnipro,
[00:18:41] Kherson, Zhytomyr, Poltava. The project, free for Ukrainians,
[00:18:44] was organized by the Polish city of Plonsk, paid for by benefactors of the She Pomaga foundation,
[00:18:48] and Matthew Komelsky developed a program of classes that included both theory
[00:18:52] and practice and recreation, as most of the students themselves are from
[00:18:55] frontline cities.
[00:18:57] The mind is like the weather, when we were in Warsaw for days, we were caught in a heavy rain,
[00:19:01] but eventually it passed. This is how the mind works, you cannot control
[00:19:05] it, at least you cannot control what
[00:19:07] arises,
[00:19:10] Matthew Komelsky has been to Ukraine three times, most recently in Zhytomyr, where he collaborated with
[00:19:14] students of Polissia National University, as well as with war
[00:19:17] veterans. Recently, the American became an honorary professor of this university.
[00:19:21] There was already a full group of military personnel with whom
[00:19:24] Matthew worked, and honestly, even
[00:19:28] now they are contacting us with very positive
[00:19:31] feedback, they are already asking if Matthew will come next
[00:19:34] year, because it's like word of mouth. this information
[00:19:38] spreads very well, and military personnel are sincere
[00:19:42] people who share this experience, and their comrades are already
[00:19:46] looking for an opportunity to join these
[00:19:48] initiatives that we had. Resilience and stress management
[00:19:51] did not accidentally become Matthew Komelsky's profile. His path to science
[00:19:55] began with attempts to advise himself after what he saw in the war. He
[00:19:58] served in the US Army, was a Marine and at 18 entered the battlefield
[00:20:01] during the Persian Gulf War in
[00:20:05] 1990.
[00:20:09] They launched missiles at us, I had contact with enemy fighters, took
[00:20:12] prisoners and faced similar situations, but it cannot be
[00:20:15] compared, not even slightly, to what Ukrainian soldiers are currently facing
[00:20:19] in the trenches. Some of the veterans I worked with have been serving since
[00:20:22] 2014, and therefore there are so many stories of loss,
[00:20:26] lost wives, lost children, lost husbands. The students we
[00:20:30] worked with were from frontline cities, such as Kharkiv, which is bombed
[00:20:34] daily, and Kherson, where Russian drone operators
[00:20:37] are hunting... and killing civilians, grandmothers and grandfathers on
[00:20:41] bicycles and people in the streets, just for fun, to
[00:20:44] train drone control skills, it's insane and so inhuman
[00:20:48] that for most people in the West,
[00:20:50] it's almost impossible to imagine, but I would say, despite all this, it is
[00:20:53] resilience and determination that shine brightest, none of these people
[00:20:57] are ready to give up. Another part of his help is
[00:21:01] to talk about Ukraine in the USA and convince that supporting
[00:21:04] the warring country across the ocean is extremely
[00:21:07] important.
[00:21:10] I definitely want people to know that all this is real and that it continues,
[00:21:14] that Ukraine deserves our support. It's striking how
[00:21:17] independent Ukrainians are, they don't want to be told what to do, if there is
[00:21:21] something that unites Americans from across the political spectrum, it is
[00:21:24] precisely the unwillingness to be told what to do, and this idea of
[00:21:28] freedom and independence, Ukrainians share these values very
[00:21:32] strongly, and that's why I just want Americans to understand that this is
[00:21:35] a country with values, with family values common to us, where
[00:21:39] parents, grandfathers and grandmothers go to war so that their children don't
[00:21:42] have to do it.
[00:21:45] Currently, Matthew Komelsky is returning to the USA, but is already planning his next
[00:21:49] trips, both to...
[00:22:00] These were the main news, next on air is the analytical program Ukrainian
[00:22:03] Focus, today we will talk about
[00:22:05] the following.
[00:22:11] Trump refused Zelensky to provide Patriot missiles, how
[00:22:15] Ukraine can protect its cities, when its own
[00:22:18] ballistics and anti-ballistics will appear, and why we are not destroying Russian
[00:22:21] launch installations before the attack, we analyze with aviation expert,
[00:22:25] leading research fellow of the National Aviation
[00:22:28] University, Valeriy Romanenko.
[00:22:32] Why has NATO still not created a permanent mechanism for supplying
[00:22:35] Ukraine with air defense missiles, whether Western military aid can really
[00:22:39] become an instrument of pressure on Kyiv before negotiations, and
[00:22:42] what Ukraine expects from the visit of American negotiators.
[00:22:46] We ask the program director of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory.
[00:22:58] Can security issues become the basis for a new
[00:23:01] stage of Ukrainian-Polish relations? We talk with former Minister
[00:23:04] of Foreign Affairs of Poland Jacek
[00:23:06] Czaputowicz.
[00:23:10] All this in a few minutes in the Ukrainian
[00:23:12] Focus.
[00:23:28] Hello, I'm Yevheniya Motrych, and here's a brief overview of the most important news from the Slava portal. Will Ukraine
[00:23:32] receive anti-ballistic missiles for its air defense, how do strikes on
[00:23:36] Wildberries warehouses affect Russia's economy, and what alternative service in
[00:23:39] the army have the Germans come up with? More on this and more in
[00:23:42] a moment. Strikes on the Wildberries
[00:23:45] marketplace themselves will not be able to destroy Russia's economy. This was stated on the air
[00:23:49] of the program Ukrainian Focus by economist, former advisor to the President
[00:23:53] of Ukraine Oleg Hostenko. If we are talking about such an industry as
[00:23:56] oil and gas, even the oil industry, then they get about
[00:24:00] 100 billion dollars a year, well, just different
[00:24:04] weight categories, and nevertheless, I believe that the strikes on
[00:24:08] Varus are very important, because they
[00:24:10] disrupt those
[00:24:13] logistical chains that
[00:24:17] existed in the country, they do not allow
[00:24:21] normal functioning, including their military
[00:24:25] machine, their military-industrial complex. However, according to him,
[00:24:29] these strikes, combined with sanctions, export problems, and
[00:24:33] falling oil revenues, are gradually increasing economic and social pressure on
[00:24:36] Moscow. The analyst noted that the Kremlin is trying to compensate
[00:24:40] for economic problems by strengthening control over
[00:24:43] society. This is what all totalitarian states and all
[00:24:46] totalitarian governments thought, and in the end we know that they all ended
[00:24:50] badly for them, I think the same will happen with this
[00:24:53] story in Russia. More comments from the economist on the impact of the war
[00:24:57] on Russia's economy, read and watch on the
[00:25:00] Slava portal. After months of political
[00:25:03] tension, Kyiv and Warsaw are demonstrating readiness to restore
[00:25:07] trust. Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Bosacki, in
[00:25:11] an exclusive interview for Slava, spoke about what Donald
[00:25:14] Tusk and Volodymyr Zelensky agreed on, how Warsaw
[00:25:17] reacts to manifestations of xenophobia, and why he believes
[00:25:21] the security of the two states is a common cause. The politician commented on
[00:25:24] the prospect of producing air defense missiles under
[00:25:27] an American license.
[00:25:31] Firstly, we hope that such an agreement on the production
[00:25:35] of so-called
[00:25:35] PACs
[00:25:39] i.e., missiles for Patriot systems, will be
[00:25:41] granted. After all, since then, US President
[00:25:45] Donald
[00:25:46] Trump
[00:25:50] has already expressed his opinion on this matter.
[00:25:52] definitely. We hope that such an agreement on
[00:25:56] the production of Patriot, both in
[00:25:58] Europe
[00:26:01] and in Ukraine, will be. After all, currently the only
[00:26:03] country
[00:26:06] that, besides the United States, produces these missiles is
[00:26:09] Japan.
[00:26:12] Meanwhile, for Ukraine, especially on the eve of winter, it is absolutely
[00:26:16] critically important
[00:26:19] to get as many air defense capabilities as possible.
[00:26:22] Read and watch the full interview with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland,
[00:26:26] Marcin Bosacki, on the YouTube channel and portal Slava.
[00:26:29] In Ukraine, Polish volunteer
[00:26:33] Marek Rosekwolski. This was confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
[00:26:37] of Poland. According to the spokesman of the Polish MFA, Samaciy,
[00:26:40] the volunteer died as a result of Russian military actions, and his family is already
[00:26:44] receiving the necessary consular support. Earlier, the death of
[00:26:47] Marek was reported on the page of the volunteer community "Together for
[00:26:51] Ukraine," of which he was the administrator. According to their data,
[00:26:54] on July 27, the man died in Kharkiv as a result of a Russian drone
[00:26:58] attack. Since 2023, Marek
[00:27:01] Rusekovolsky regularly traveled to Ukraine with humanitarian missions,
[00:27:04] he delivered aid to front-line communities in Kharkiv region, brought
[00:27:08] food, animal feed and other essential items, and also independently
[00:27:12] organized fundraisers. In July of this year, the volunteer reported
[00:27:16] that he was participating in the evacuation of the bodies of deceased civilians, and a few
[00:27:19] weeks before his death, he said that he witnessed the death of two civilians
[00:27:23] after a Russian drone attack. After Marek's death, his
[00:27:27] friends appealed to Ukrainians with a request to help find people who
[00:27:30] were in touch with him in Ukraine to return his personal
[00:27:34] belongings to his mother.
[00:27:37] The German government is preparing a new model of alternative service for
[00:27:41] people who do not want to serve in the military due to conscientious
[00:27:44] objection. According to Bild, the Ministry for Family Affairs has already appealed
[00:27:48] to 23 organizations to assess their readiness to accept such
[00:27:52] people in case of the return of compulsory conscription. The government
[00:27:55] explains that for now there is no military conscription and no
[00:27:58] alternative service, but in case of its restoration, the country must be ready
[00:28:02] to offer another option to those who refuse to take
[00:28:06] up arms. In Germany, conscription was suspended in
[00:28:09] 2011, but the right to refuse military service due to
[00:28:12] conscientious objection remains enshrined in
[00:28:15] the Constitution. Read more about the possible return of military conscription and
[00:28:19] new service rules in Germany on the Slava portal. And
[00:28:23] that's all for me at this moment. Take care.
[00:28:25] себе.
[00:28:39] Ukrainian focus Slavy, we talk about the main events of the day with
[00:28:43] politicians, analysts and opinion leaders. I'm Yulia Yershova,
[00:28:46] I'm Marek, welcome, good day. Of all the ballistic
[00:28:50] missiles that flew to Kyiv, only one was shot down on August 1st,
[00:28:53] none on August 5th, due to the war between the USA and Iran,
[00:28:57] Ukrainian air defense lacks ammunition to
[00:29:00] intercept ballistic missiles. And the Russians are taking advantage of this. Meanwhile,
[00:29:04] the Financial Times writes that US President
[00:29:08] Donald Trump during a meeting with Ukrainian
[00:29:11] President Volodymyr Zelensky last
[00:29:14] year provided hundreds of additional Patriot missiles for interception.
[00:29:18] But how to protect the Ukrainian sky, we will
[00:29:21] talk to the guest, aviation expert and academic
[00:29:25] staff member Valeriy
[00:29:27] Romanenko.
[00:29:30] Mr. Valeriy, good day, welcome.
[00:30:02] We remember this this, I would say, a play
[00:30:06] or a drama in several acts, we
[00:30:09] remember this well, also there will be none, so there is no
[00:30:13] alternative, I understand correctly,
[00:30:15] well, there is an alternative, but it, you know, it's so
[00:30:19] uncertain, we expect to receive, in
[00:30:22] any case, it has been ordered, we were promised eight SAMPT next
[00:30:26] generation complexes, but
[00:30:29] so far the original complex...
[00:30:32] has not shown the ability to shoot down
[00:30:36] ballistic missiles appropriately, and
[00:30:39] the next
[00:30:41] generation complex, because its improved
[00:30:44] model, it should only start combat
[00:30:48] testing in Ukraine around summer, and we still need to be sure
[00:30:51] that the developers of
[00:30:54] this complex managed to overcome
[00:30:57] the problems with shooting down ballistic missiles.