NTV — broadcast 20260920 160000 UTC 388 transcript segments Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:20] but to confidently look to the future, we need to correctly summarize it. I am [00:00:24] Vladimir Chernyshov. Let's analyze the events together and [00:00:27] draw the right conclusions. This week [00:00:30] once again showed us what a full-scale war is being waged against us [00:00:33] in all directions. And sanctioning [00:00:36] actions, attempts to attack our civilian infrastructure almost daily, continue. This [00:00:39] morning, on the final [00:00:43] day of voting in the State Duma elections, the enemy tried to launch [00:00:46] an unprecedented attack on Moscow. As reported by the capital's mayor, Sergey [00:00:50] Sobyanin, 1,600 drones flew towards the city, almost [00:00:53] all of them were shot down. The Moscow region was also attacked. There, unfortunately, [00:00:57] three people died, and there are injured. [00:01:00] In the Kherson region, as a result of a drone strike on a civilian bus [00:01:04] last night, a member of the precinct election commission, Olga [00:01:07] Demyanenko, died. This was reported this morning by the [00:01:10] Central Election Commission. This is already the second targeted [00:01:13] killing of election commission employees in the returned territories [00:01:17] of Russia these days. Earlier this week, the chairman of the precinct [00:01:20] election commission in the Zaporozhye region was killed by a similar targeted drone [00:01:24] strike. This can be called a political assassination. Elena Ostanina was already [00:01:27] in 2022 among the organizers [00:01:31] of the referendum on the return of new territories to Russia. Well, [00:01:34] Kyiv apparently did not forgive her for this, especially since the strike [00:01:38] was carried out at a historical moment. These are the first elections to the State Duma [00:01:42] in which residents of our new territories participate, but the enemy [00:01:45] failed to disrupt the elections, not only in Donbass and Novorossiya, on the [00:01:48] line of combat contact, our soldiers were also able to [00:01:52] vote. The enemy's strikes and terrorist attacks against us only [00:01:56] united the whole country, and people went to the polls much more actively. The turnout was [00:02:00] already higher than in the previous parliamentary elections. Vladimir [00:02:04] Putin at a meeting of the military-industrial commission directly [00:02:07] noted that the terrorist attacks of the Kyiv regime are a demonstrative desire not [00:02:10] only to disrupt the elections, but also the negotiation process. [00:02:14] The Ukrainian elite is not in a hurry to hold elections, as is known, [00:02:17] but they are trying to hinder us. You know that the [00:02:21] Kyiv regime recently committed [00:02:24] another crime, striking the residential building [00:02:27] of the chairman of the precinct election commission in the village of [00:02:30] Oktyabrskoye, Zaporozhye region. [00:02:33] The chairman of the commission, Elena [00:02:37] Ostanina, unfortunately, [00:02:39] died. Today I signed [00:02:43] a decree on her posthumous award [00:02:47] of the Order of Courage. [00:02:50] Representatives of the Kyiv regime elite in [00:02:53] Kyiv talk about peace, [00:02:55] propose to resume supposedly negotiations, but they themselves... [00:04:00] don't get it wrong, this indirectly, of course, confirms that the subject in Kyiv [00:04:03] is not at all capable of agreements, well, and if so, then he has to be [00:04:07] forced to peace by more effective means. Pavel Remnev observed how [00:04:11] Russia decisively responds to terrorist [00:04:13] provocations. [00:04:17] This is what a normal morning in Kyiv looks like: a fire in places where the AFU [00:04:21] concentrates military cargo before sending it to the front, no one dares to extinguish it, [00:04:24] but it seems that shells begin to explode [00:04:27] in a civilian warehouse. [00:04:30] What burns is what the city administration modestly calls garages, and [00:04:33] then boxes of ammunition are carried out of these garages, a [00:04:37] tank machine gun barrel lies on the floor nearby, so outwardly ordinary logistics centers, [00:04:41] which are massively used by Ukrainian military, continue to [00:04:44] be hit. This is another of the largest terminals, near Kyiv, [00:04:47] leveled to the ground. The attempt of Ukrainian military to hide [00:04:51] drones under old Zelensky's stage costumes [00:04:54] was unsuccessful, the warehouse with props of Studio Kvartal [00:04:57] 95 was destroyed. [00:05:42] In Kyiv, they believe that about 12 Russian missiles were launched, [00:05:46] and they believe that the Ukrainians were unable to shoot down any of them. This [00:05:50] best illustrates the state of the Ukrainian air defense [00:05:53] system. Russia, meanwhile, is only increasing its strikes. [00:05:56] Russia. Russia has made a technological breakthrough in the production [00:06:00] of jet drones. Ukraine has not developed effective air defense [00:06:04] against them. Against this background, there is a noticeable increase in the work of Russian [00:06:07] drone operators on logistics corridors. Now Ukraine receives most [00:06:11] of its weapons from the west. This system has [00:06:14] a bottleneck, border crossings and port terminals, so [00:06:18] that's how it is there now, oh, how many [00:06:21] of them, oh, after the attacks, the transit [00:06:25] of military cargo is put on hold for several days, provided [00:06:28] constant strikes, the pause becomes indefinite. Russia [00:06:32] hopes to seriously complicate [00:06:36] Ukrainian exports, which critically affects the economy, [00:06:39] and complicate import of goods. [00:06:46] This traffic jam at the border with Moldova, the checkpoint is once again closed due to [00:06:50] strikes, I don't know, I don't know how visible it is, but there [00:06:53] and further, I don't know how far, Poland is [00:06:56] also closing, Geranium enters the Yagodin checkpoint, [00:07:00] followed by a railway station, here it's only a few [00:07:03] kilometers to the border, it seems that the strike was carried out on [00:07:07] a passenger train, but it's enough to look at the result, [00:07:10] only the locomotive was destroyed. the [00:07:13] reaction this strike caused, somewhere else another train was carrying to [00:07:16] Ukraine, the most valuable thing in Western democracy, former British [00:07:20] Prime Minister Boris Johnson. [00:07:23] An amazing story, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson miraculously [00:07:26] escaped a drone strike in Ukraine. The maximum that happened [00:07:30] to the former British Prime Minister and his train was a forced stop and [00:07:34] an emergency exit from the train, but even in the middle of the night, if you wake [00:07:37] Johnson up from bed and evacuate him from the compartment in pajamas, neither his [00:07:41] hairstyle nor his appearance [00:07:43] can get worse. Strikes on the railway further cut [00:07:47] the logistical capabilities of the Ukrainian army. This is the main way to [00:07:50] deliver Western weapons to the front, or rather, it [00:07:54] was. According to the publication Politico, since the beginning of the special [00:07:57] military operation, the Russian army has destroyed about 500 Ukrainian [00:08:01] locomotives and continues to eliminate them at a rate of up to 40 per [00:08:04] month. This is what the Nikolskaya Slobodka station in Kyiv looks like after [00:08:08] a ballistic missile strike, and these are shots of a strike on the information and computing [00:08:11] center of Ukrzaliznytsia in Odessa, which provided cargo support [00:08:15] to the AFU. At the same time, [00:08:17] the ports are under constant fire control. The Russian army confirmed this [00:08:21] fact again this week, in the areas of Odessa and Nikolaev, dry cargo ships [00:08:24] and tankers carrying weapons regularly burn. There are [00:08:28] few such ships, it is impossible to hide them, and Geraniums successfully ambush them on approaches [00:08:32] to harbors. For the same reason, trucks burn, they also often transport [00:08:36] military cargo, in fact, this turns them into dual-purpose [00:08:39] objects, like gas stations, which the AFU. This [00:09:01] also applies to energy, [00:09:04] I see from the window, for the third day, the fifth thermal power plant is already burning, the sixth [00:09:07] thermal power plant is almost gone, the capital lost this battle for winter, accordingly, the capital. We all together [00:09:11] will prepare for a rather difficult wintering. This [00:09:14] is a natural response to terrorist shelling of Russian territory deep [00:09:18] inside the country and in the border area. Every night, air defense systems shoot down hundreds of [00:09:21] Ukrainian drones on their approach to populated areas. Every day, [00:09:25] sappers of the North group of troops comb the territory around [00:09:29] them. Now we are going, we are walking, we are looking carefully, we are looking under [00:09:32] our feet. In addition to the bullet, there can be bells and [00:09:36] petals and everything similar. It sounds maximally harmless, but in [00:09:39] fact, the bells. petals are dangerous anti-personnel mines, so the sappers [00:09:43] of Bars-Kursk proceed to another combat mission as [00:09:46] carefully as possible. After several tens of meters, where before each step [00:09:50] the dense grass is checked with a special probe, the sappers find fragments [00:09:54] of a drone. Step back, that's it, step back, even if the drone crashed, [00:09:57] but no detonation occurred, which means the warhead could have survived and [00:10:01] posed a danger. Large fragments are marked with red flags. [00:10:05] They will remain until everything that could potentially pose a danger [00:10:09] is destroyed. This is a rather interesting example [00:10:13] of a strike and reconnaissance drone with a medium range [00:10:16] called Jupiter L1, assembled in Europe, despite [00:10:19] the fact that there are tactical signs of the AFU here. [00:10:23] ударные дроны, если им [00:10:55] If strike drones manage to break through the air defense, [00:10:58] Ukrainian operators attack the first thing that comes into view, but if you [00:11:02] analyze it, they hit wherever [00:11:05] they can, they hit civilians, [00:11:08] civilian vehicles, buses, milk trucks and the [00:11:12] like, well, precisely civilians. This is probably the best [00:11:15] explanation why the Russian army continues to strike the [00:11:19] transport system and the Ukrainian military industry. Every [00:11:22] destroyed factory, every damaged train, dry cargo ship means not [00:11:26] only accelerating advancement on the front, but also reducing [00:11:29] the capabilities of the AFU to carry out terrorist attacks on [00:11:32] Russian territory. Pavel Remnev, Weekly Results, NTV [00:11:36] Television Company. Yes. Our [00:11:39] strikes in recent weeks have intensified so noticeably that Kyiv has completely [00:11:43] forgotten the fierce Ukrainian remarks about [00:11:45] Russia having only 3 days worth of missiles left. In 2022, [00:11:49] I remind you, this was the main slogan, supposedly the inevitable Ukrainian перемоги (victory), [00:11:53] but according to the law of nature, перемоги inevitably turns into зрада (betrayal), that [00:11:57] is, defeat. Talking about historical lessons with guided [00:12:00] Ukrainians is, of course, pointless, for them logic and history are Muscovite [00:12:03] pseudo-sciences, as is geography, apparently, it replaces the globe of Ukraine for them, but [00:12:07] our round-the-clock strikes no longer give the Kyiv regime [00:12:11] cause for irony about Russian weapons. We [00:12:14] just heard in the report how Kyiv politicians doomedly acknowledge [00:12:17] Russia's technological advantage, despite all [00:12:21] Western aid to Ukraine. On the eve of Gunsmith's Day, Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin [00:12:25] noted the work of our specialists in the defense industrial complex, [00:12:28] emphasizing the effectiveness of their work and presenting state [00:12:31] awards. Today, workers of the defense industry and their [00:12:35] colleagues from related industries [00:12:38] continuously supply troops participating in the special [00:12:41] military operation with the most demanded samples of military [00:12:45] products that help our soldiers effectively [00:12:48] solve the combat tasks facing [00:12:51] them. I would particularly like to note that since the start of the special operation, [00:12:55] defense enterprises have significantly increased [00:12:59] production volumes. For example, the production and [00:13:02] supply of weapons and ammunition, [00:13:06] including high-precision missiles and shells, [00:13:09] has increased more than 22 times. [00:13:13] Supplies of radar stations have increased almost five times, [00:13:16] and armored vehicles by two and a half times. [00:13:18] Unmanned aerial vehicles are continuously [00:13:22] supplied to the troops. Their production, depending on the class, has [00:13:25] also increased many times over, and [00:13:28] for some classes, tens of times over. [00:13:32] But most importantly, our specialists are quickly improving weapons, [00:13:35] based on the experience of the SVO, because as we know, each new war is not like [00:13:38] the previous ones. In recent years, tactical priorities of [00:13:42] combat have changed, but just like our soldiers on the front line, specialists in the rear also know how [00:13:45] to adapt to new tasks and challenges, and most importantly, adapt our [00:13:49] military products. Anatoly observed how our [00:13:52] soldiers use weapons on the front line. further to the [00:13:55] west, [00:14:00] even bristling with hundreds of iron cables and rods, our [00:14:04] heavy tank rolls out of the dugout just a couple of [00:14:07] meters, a shot! [00:14:11] For several minutes, in the sky there are so many [00:14:15] enemy UAVs that the tankers of the Northern group have learned [00:14:18] to hit targets quickly, loudly, but completely unnoticed from [00:14:22] the air, due to such deep camouflage... the AFU drone does not see [00:14:26] either the vehicle or the tank shot, and the AFU [00:14:29] warehouses with dugouts are burning down. Our brightest work [00:14:32] was the defeat of the enemy's stronghold and its [00:14:36] warehouses after the first two or three [00:14:39] shots. Combat operations in the Kharkiv region, where [00:14:43] the Kyiv General Staff is still unsuccessfully trying to lift the lid from [00:14:46] the Volchansk cauldron, where in the first half of September [00:14:50] 10 Ukrainian battalions entered. The encirclement ring is tightening over [00:14:53] the past week. Under the control of the units of the Northern group, [00:14:57] Shirokaya Chernyakov, Komissarova, [00:15:00] Malaya Volchye and Loshakovo have passed. [00:15:02] Tiny, but very important settlement. Loshakovo is [00:15:05] the closest point controlled by the Russian army near the village of [00:15:09] Reznikovo, where the main deployment site of the [00:15:12] 159th AFU brigade and command [00:15:15] headquarters are located, only 2 km in a straight line remain until them. [00:15:18] Since he has nowhere to run, he is surrounded. Every house must be bypassed, [00:15:22] every piece of forest belt must be. [00:16:07] they were waiting for you for a very long time, they are eager to go faster, help, come on, [00:16:11] when we, when we, I say, all gradually, carefully evacuate, [00:16:15] and this couple from the village of Alkhavatka, the assault troops of the eleventh tank and [00:16:19] seventy-ninth motorized rifle regiments evacuated [00:16:22] together, the evacuation route for Olga and her son [00:16:25] was blocked by a radio-electronic dome of anti-drone systems, the most [00:16:29] dangerous sections were reinforced with mobile fire [00:16:32] groups, now the woman and child are completely safe [00:16:35] for the first time in their lives. [00:16:37] She tried to break out of the village on her own with her husband in a car, [00:16:49] but a Ukrainian drone then killed her husband and her hope [00:16:49] of salvation, [00:16:51] it hit the driver's seat, [00:17:00] him, and I managed, I was sitting in the back, I [00:17:04] was lucky that I was sitting in the back, I got a concussion. [00:17:49] I thought Sorsky was evil, I admit I was wrong, today, [00:17:52] unfortunately, the new command, they are just in space, they are [00:17:56] demigods, or whatever they call themselves, I don't know, but [00:17:59] the situation has never been worse at the front than it is now, according to [00:18:03] the Russian Ministry of Defense, over the past week Kyiv lost another [00:18:07] one and a half dozen. [00:18:25] But the large-scale counteroffensive, which was talked about a lot and for a long time, but even Ukrainian experts did not notice any results. This week, these [00:18:29] mystical maneuvers got an official [00:18:31] name, loud but strange. Third Army [00:18:35] Corps, Army Corps began. [00:19:37] The center begins to bypass from the north and south. On the flanks, Maryevka and [00:19:41] Gulyayeva were liberated during the week. And if our [00:19:44] offensive continues in the same directions, the main roads [00:19:48] through which the enemy is supplied will be cut off. In the [00:19:51] north, this is highway 0515, in the southwest [00:19:54] 0518 leads to the largest highway [00:19:58] M-30, named in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of Ukraine's [00:20:01] independence. How will the elite assault troops from [00:20:05] the banned Azov respond? Their famous. The commander only [00:20:08] explains why it is difficult to respond. [00:20:11] To decisive breakthroughs. Thanks to the decisive breakthroughs of the Russians, they can [00:20:15] infiltrate deep into the starting positions of our UAVs and distract us so [00:20:19] that their infantry can break through even more swiftly. Such dense [00:20:23] vegetation and some shelters on the path of our assault [00:20:26] detachments are a great rarity. The AFU [00:20:28] are trying to destroy all green areas with incendiary [00:20:32] ammunition, and rare buildings are demolished with drones and [00:20:35] artillery. [00:20:38] not to let our infantrymen closer, our task is to remain [00:20:41] unnoticed at all costs, here on the Zaporozhye front, the units [00:20:44] of the Vostok group of forces had to overcome the entire [00:20:47] strip. Fresh [00:20:58] AFU reserves from airborne assault regiments. They [00:21:01] didn't shout "surrender" to us, and we shouted "surrender" to them. But all this did not [00:21:04] affect the final result. Only over the past [00:21:07] week, the Vostokovtsy liberated two more settlements. [00:21:11] The enemy retreated, losing almost 2,000 [00:21:14] soldiers in this direction, including those very daring, [00:21:17] fashionable, and elite ones. [00:21:21] Anatoly, Weekly Results, NTV [00:21:23] Television Company. Well, European experts, by the way, observing [00:21:27] everything that is happening, begin to count their military reserves and come to [00:21:30] disappointing conclusions. In France, they calculated that about [00:21:34] 40,000 could be mobilized. In Britain, 70,000. And they even joke that [00:21:38] the personnel of the British army and navy could fit in Wembley [00:21:41] Stadium. If these armies met at Waterloo [00:21:45] today, it would rather resemble a skirmish of football fans, and [00:21:48] Napoleon with the Duke. For example, he says that [00:22:03] if anything, Poland will quickly defeat Russia, everyone around is even [00:22:06] afraid to laugh, because they understand that every time [00:22:10] the Poles said such a thing, it ended with the partition [00:22:13] of Poland, there is such a long-standing European, Russian [00:22:16] historical tradition, or here Lithuania prepared [00:22:20] to fight with Russia, the battle plan is [00:22:23] ideal, to evacuate all the population of Lithuania to Poland at the first [00:22:27] threat of a Russian strike, but you can laugh, of course, at the great [00:22:31] Lithuanian strategists, however, let's not underestimate the capabilities of not [00:22:34] the Baltic babies, but real Europe, and [00:22:38] it is increasing military production already openly declaring its readiness for [00:22:41] conflict with Russia. This panic slogan "The Russians are coming" has already [00:22:45] helped Europeans more than once in history to increase the volume of military [00:22:49] production. Only the Russians never went to Europe first, [00:22:52] they had to go when Europe came to us, now in case of an attack on us [00:22:56] from Europe, we won't even have to go to Paris or Berlin, everything will fly to them [00:23:00] from the sky itself, so why are they escalating so much? Russia [00:23:04] is not going to create a threat to Europe, but if Europe creates a threat to us, [00:23:07] Russia will inevitably respond, and Vladimir Putin reminded us of this once [00:23:11] again. I want to say once again that Russia [00:23:15] has no aggressive intentions [00:23:19] towards a group of European countries, we simply have [00:23:23] no grounds for this, [00:23:25] we are ready for cooperation, for restoring relations with [00:23:28] European neighbors, nevertheless, we [00:23:32] paid attention to the fact [00:23:34] that just now another exercise took place [00:23:38] in the Baltic Sea, [00:23:42] the goal, including practicing the seizure of [00:23:45] civilian ships, well, that's [00:23:48] normal. Europe [00:24:35] cannot, but what conclusion does the brave Latvian make at the same time, [00:24:39] does he propose to make peace, no, he proposes to increase the production of air defense [00:24:42] and missile defense in Europe. Well, by the way, when Boris Johnson saw through the train window how [00:24:46] our drone hits the locomotive, he suddenly [00:24:49] wrote in his account that Ukraine is winning, well, [00:24:53] logic is not their strong suit, obviously. Ksenia Nekrasova [00:24:56] observed where militarized dreams lead [00:24:59] Europe. [00:25:03] A photoshoot in military style at the airfield of the Finnish [00:25:06] air base, in an uneven formation of EU leadership, [00:25:09] which clearly very much wanted to look combat-ready in this military [00:25:13] uniform, but it didn't fit everyone, [00:25:16] especially Kaja Kallas, sticking out from under her jacket. [00:26:02] Estonia considers this to be an extremely simple [00:26:05] matter. NATO, say, Poland or someone else, can just [00:26:08] seize Kaliningrad. We could indeed do that. On [00:26:12] social networks, for such bravery, all Baltic leadership [00:26:15] received a virtual "brave chihuahua" order. Mocking [00:26:18] with what pride, against the backdrop [00:26:21] of pan-European military hysteria, the authorities [00:26:24] of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania began to talk about their [00:26:27] significance. The Baltic countries are often called [00:26:30] chihuahuas, the hint here is that their fight. We remember 50 years [00:26:33] of occupation, we know thoroughly what this bear feeds on, and that [00:26:37] it can only be restrained by force. Infected with Russophobia [00:26:41] in Europe, they are already openly going for any [00:26:44] provocations, another hysteria happened there after [00:26:47] the corvette "Soobrazitelny" was [00:26:50] forced to fire two signal flares to warn of [00:26:53] a risk of collision, a Danish military helicopter, which was flying [00:26:57] a converging course, ignored messages from [00:27:00] the Russian ship. Seizure. Civil ships were drilled this week by [00:27:04] the military in Finland, actively [00:27:07] building up NATO's presence in the Baltic Sea. We see [00:27:11] a whole series of European countries, an echo of the cacophony of [00:27:14] political and economic dwarfs of all stripes. Such [00:27:18] provocations from these clowns, I mean the Baltic states, [00:27:21] the Finns, who constantly pick fights, can lead to the situation getting [00:27:25] out of control. We are heading straight for war with [00:27:28] Russia, a war that will be short, but in which we obviously. [00:28:32] and special shelters for citizens, explaining this by a lack [00:28:36] of bomb shelters, according to the authorities, the 60 thousand [00:28:39] bunkers that currently exist in the country are too few [00:28:43] in case of war with Russia. Military [00:28:45] madness has already reached the point where Germany has undertaken to restore [00:28:49] underground hospitals from the Cold War era. So, in the city of [00:28:53] Ulm, the German leadership ordered the re-commissioning of a medical [00:28:57] bunker abandoned 30 years ago, which was built [00:29:00] in case of a nuclear attack. [00:29:02] Throughout the country, the Bundeswehr is conducting a large-scale inspection of hospitals, [00:29:06] medicine supplies, the number of beds, doctors with experience [00:29:10] in combat trauma. As Bloomberg writes, all civilian [00:29:13] medical facilities in the country must be ready to receive a mass [00:29:17] number of wounded in case of war with Russia, up to a thousand [00:29:20] people per day. The Inspector General of the Armed Forces urges [00:29:24] the population to be understanding. When it comes to [00:29:27] a critical situation, we will no longer be able to apply our current approaches, [00:29:31] based on... [00:30:03] you forgot that you have a case of emergency, maybe [00:30:06] some supplies in a closet or under the stairs? Just this weekend [00:30:10] we are going to buy containers for storing water. I am calm about [00:30:13] the threat from Russia, I know that the chief of staff of defense does not have a radio with a [00:30:17] hand crank under the stairs. But let's be [00:30:20] honest, we were talking about the hypothetical possibility [00:30:23] of a Russian attack. The attack is hypothetical, [00:30:27] but the billions spent by Europe on supposedly protecting against [00:30:30] Russia are quite real. The EU has already increased its [00:30:34] military spending by a record 80%, [00:30:37] Ursula von der Leyen proudly told her colleagues. [00:30:41] Speaking in the European Parliament, she reported on the progress of [00:30:44] militarization, proposed that Europe create its [00:30:47] own article on collective defense, following the example of [00:30:51] NATO, and at the same time invited Canada to the EU, [00:30:54] inventing a special associated membership for Ottawa, [00:30:57] stating that this is necessary.