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[00:00:00] including the United Nations cannot stand up against aggression
[00:00:03] and hold accountable the violators of international law, it is
[00:00:07] only natural that the credibility and
[00:00:10] legitimacy of these institutions will be damaged, but
[00:00:14] calls for accountability are also being linked to a broader
[00:00:17] debate over the future of multilateralism and
[00:00:21] whether the international system can be reformed to better
[00:00:24] reflect the interest of developing and middle-sized
[00:00:28] nations, the legacy of Indonesia's
[00:00:31] 1955 Bandung Conference which
[00:00:34] helped shape the non aligned movement was
[00:00:37] highlighted as a possible starting point for new
[00:00:40] global dialogue. The United Nations can be a framework
[00:00:44] for some activity in that regard, but not quite
[00:00:48] yet and so forth. So perhaps I could
[00:00:51] conclude by saying, well, let's use the
[00:00:55] history of Indonesia and history
[00:00:58] of Bandung. for calling bandung to as
[00:01:02] as a as an opportunity for a
[00:01:06] critique of the existing circumstances and the existing
[00:01:09] leading powers and offering alternatives
[00:01:12] perhaps based on the idea of middle income or middle
[00:01:15] size countries or some other ideas that need to be
[00:01:18] explored. The need for a more inclusive international
[00:01:22] order was also reflected in discussions on
[00:01:25] Palestine where the full realization of Palestinian
[00:01:29] sovereignty. Independence remained a
[00:01:32] central issue. The full realization of Palestinian
[00:01:35] sovereignty and independence therefor, depends first and
[00:01:39] foremost on ending the occupation and reversing the
[00:01:42] policies that are destroying the territorial
[00:01:45] political and economic foundations of the two
[00:01:48] states solution. Ladies and gentlemen, Gaza
[00:01:51] is and will remain an integral part of the
[00:01:55] state of Palestine. There can be no separate political
[00:01:58] future for Gaza. no arrangements that detach it from the
[00:02:02] west bank including east Jerusalem. any transitional or
[00:02:06] stabilization agreements or
[00:02:08] arrangements must be temporary and palestinian
[00:02:11] owned. they must support rather than
[00:02:14] substitute palestinian institutions. they must lead
[00:02:18] to the reunification of palestinian territory
[00:02:22] under one legitimate palestinian government, one
[00:02:25] law and one system, and with the full exercise of
[00:02:29] palestinian. and independ with international
[00:02:32] rules increasingly challenged and force playing a greater
[00:02:36] role in shaping global affairs, accountability
[00:02:39] of international law is kept on being questioned, but
[00:02:43] such discussions also underscored a share
[00:02:46] desired for the future of international relations, a
[00:02:49] global system that protects sovereignty and at the
[00:02:53] same time administers justice
[00:02:55] globally. reporting from Jakarta for
[00:02:59] RT. Well rt.com is where you can get
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[00:03:34] The Kuril landing is an operation, it
[00:03:37] restored Russia's sovereignty over the Kuril
[00:03:41] Islands, which we lost in the second half of the 19th
[00:03:44] century. On Paramushir and Shumshu islands,
[00:03:48] 20 thousand Japanese were taken prisoner here.
[00:03:52] The first island of the Kuril Ridge from the north is
[00:03:55] Shumshu, fortifications on it, an airfield,
[00:03:59] tanks, cannons, that is, in fact, it is like
[00:04:02] an aircraft carrier, we honor the traditions and
[00:04:06] merits of our ancestors, Russia's borders are sacred,
[00:04:10] inviolable, we will try to do everything to
[00:04:13] keep it that way in the future. Everything was
[00:04:16] classified, my grandfather was tasked with
[00:04:19] taking the enemy's
[00:04:23] Japanese position.
[00:04:31] In a few minutes, we take off from the airport of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
[00:04:34] towards Shumshu Island
[00:04:38] in 1945, where the most difficult battles
[00:04:41] for the liberation of the Kuril
[00:04:44] Islands took place, it was on the fields of this
[00:04:47] island that the last battle of the Second World
[00:04:50] War unfolded. We suffered
[00:04:53] defeat in the Russo-Japanese War and
[00:04:57] the Japanese occupied Southern Sakhalin. By 1945,
[00:05:00] they controlled half of Sakhalin and all the Kuril
[00:05:04] Islands. By that time, the Kwantung Army had been
[00:05:07] defeated. There was nothing in the Kurils, and in order
[00:05:11] to...
[00:05:43] Simultaneously with the offensive on land, Soviet troops
[00:05:46] struck at Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril
[00:05:49] Islands.
[00:05:56] My grandfather was born on January 6,
[00:05:58] 1896. When he was 18
[00:06:02] years old, he was drafted into the army. At that time, the First World War began and
[00:06:05] my grandfather was at the front in the thick of the fighting.
[00:06:09] My grandfather, this handsome man in a cap, young. At first,
[00:06:12] he was a Red partisan, then he became a Red Army soldier. My grandfather
[00:06:16] was a reserve officer. Throughout the war,
[00:06:19] my grandfather worked as the head of the
[00:06:23] print distribution department. My grandmother told me that
[00:06:27] my grandfather went to some courses. What kind of courses? It turned out to be
[00:06:30] training. They already knew that there would be a war with Japan
[00:06:34] and they were preparing. So he joined
[00:06:37] the special purpose landing
[00:06:39] detachment. There were 26 of them.
[00:07:14] but these are the remnants of Japanese fortifications, they are all
[00:07:18] around the perimeter here for aircraft, but
[00:07:21] directly on this island, on
[00:07:24] Shumshu, there are two full-fledged concrete
[00:07:27] airfields, by the way, there was Baikova Katao, as
[00:07:30] it was called, a base, there were even two runways for
[00:07:34] different winds, one at an angle of
[00:07:37] 90°. Shumshu Island was
[00:07:40] transformed into... an impregnable fortress, there were
[00:07:44] over 50 long-term firing
[00:07:48] structures on the island, both artillery and machine gun,
[00:07:51] several rows of trenches, communication
[00:07:54] passages, buried command
[00:07:58] posts and
[00:08:01] rest and catering points for personnel were
[00:08:03] created, their depth reached up to 50
[00:08:06] meters in places. This is one height, this is one
[00:08:10] height, this is height 165 meters, as it was called,
[00:08:13] yes, according to the 1945 document, and behind it there is height
[00:08:16] 171, this is the shelling sector, well, look how everything is visible, the shelling
[00:08:20] sector that keeps under fire the road that
[00:08:24] goes directly from Baikova, the opening, let's say,
[00:08:27] is original, and the facing is already a later
[00:08:30] repair, here is a complex system of passages,
[00:08:34] well, this is either a command post or artillery, well,
[00:08:37] this, most likely, is a command observation post, which, so
[00:08:41] to speak, the 28th separate battalion
[00:08:45] held here. As of today, the number of dead in the
[00:08:48] Kuril landing, and that is 1010
[00:08:52] people, but no later than July 8,
[00:08:56] 2025, on the northern slopes of Mount Severnoye, our
[00:08:59] searchers found a soldier, unburied remains, he is not
[00:09:03] on the list of the dead.
[00:09:04] нет,
[00:10:25] Night surface target on bearing 280 at
[00:10:28] a distance of 70 cable lengths, there is a target at
[00:10:32] anchor, pass the command to
[00:10:34] Captain
[00:10:37] to conduct
[00:10:39] 35
[00:10:42] prepare to conduct CPM in
[00:10:45] 40
[00:10:47] minutes
[00:10:51] I'm waiting for you stop.
[00:10:55] everyone, when conducting an inspection, order
[00:10:59] safety measures when handling weapons when conducting
[00:11:01] an inspection, painfully
[00:11:03] we will pay
[00:11:06] with a step,
[00:11:11] to the boat crew, launch the left boat,
[00:11:14] to the boat crew, launch the boat on the port side.
[00:11:17] спусти.
[00:11:26] Good day, commander, we arrived at your vessel with the
[00:11:30] aim of conducting an inspection for illegal
[00:11:33] trade, we are primarily visually inspecting
[00:11:35] boxes, packages,
[00:11:39] bags, feeling them,
[00:11:42] checking the contents
[00:11:45] to ensure there are no prohibited
[00:11:47] goods, illegally
[00:11:51] obtained biological resources,
[00:11:54] during the inspection, no violations were found, the vessel recently
[00:11:58] left port, there are no fish products on board, only
[00:12:01] bait,
[00:12:08] on the eighteenth, the landing operation
[00:12:11] began, they landed from the ships and immediately the most
[00:12:14] difficult battles began, my grandfather was tasked with
[00:12:18] taking the enemy's
[00:12:20] Japanese position.
[00:12:23] In this battle, my grandfather... was very seriously
[00:12:26] wounded by a mine fragment in the stomach.
[00:12:29] On August 24 at 10 PM,
[00:12:32] in my grandmother's arms, my grandfather died. I was informed
[00:12:35] from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky that my grandfather's
[00:12:39] grave had been found, and
[00:12:42] I would very much like to hand over this photograph of
[00:12:44] my grandfather, but I think that is where it
[00:12:47] belongs.
[00:12:50] And we are in a place where, in fact, the first
[00:12:53] clashes began.
[00:13:25] The predators, they started storming this lighthouse,
[00:13:28] they climbed up here, the first battles
[00:13:31] began, the Japanese jumped out and were
[00:13:35] on the ridge there, here the border guards and Chekists suffered
[00:13:39] the first losses, including Senior
[00:13:42] Lieutenant Kuys.
[00:13:51] During this shift, many cartridges,
[00:13:55] Japanese - mines, fuses,
[00:13:58] anti-tank shells, well, of course, I want to find a soldier,
[00:14:01] to raise him, so that
[00:14:05] we can find relatives, or else - as is customary,
[00:14:09] bury him in a mass grave, this
[00:14:11] is a cartridge, a cartridge, this is such a
[00:14:15] tent, where indeed a mystery occurs, where,
[00:14:18] strictly speaking, well, a soldier, if he doesn't acquire a name,
[00:14:21] but at least fixing all the...
[00:14:25] elements that we see here, especially when we
[00:14:28] do 3D scanning, a soldier who has no
[00:14:31] name, generally has a chance, small, but it
[00:14:35] exists, here the guys who
[00:14:38] find soldiers hand them over, we retrieve them and bring
[00:14:41] them here for comprehensive processing of the remains
[00:14:44] that we find, here we can determine the age of
[00:14:48] this one, he is a quite young man, he is
[00:14:52] about 25-30 years old. This
[00:14:55] is the place where the bones of a Japanese
[00:14:58] tanker lay, yes, look, a hit, but not
[00:15:01] a penetration, that is, a dent from a PTRD, here's another
[00:15:04] hit under a rivet, also, so to speak, slightly
[00:15:08] touched, here's another hit, when
[00:15:12] clearing the Type 95 Ha-Go tank,
[00:15:15] several, so to speak,
[00:15:18] explosive items, FOO, so called, were found,
[00:15:21] including these 37mm shells
[00:15:26] from the Ha-Go tank gun, among which are
[00:15:28] these armor-piercing
[00:15:32] grenades, our RGD grenade
[00:15:35] with a fuse, with the jacket removed, apparently, a grenade with a fuse, so it should
[00:15:39] be handled very carefully, it, so
[00:15:42] to speak, is indeed an explosive
[00:15:45] object.
[00:15:50] Gentlemen, I confess myself increasingly disconcerted by the
[00:15:53] Russians rather alarming advances in Asia.
[00:15:56] Indeed, word has reached us that they have of late
[00:16:00] dispatched their first steamship to
[00:16:02] Bombay. India must remain
[00:16:06] our.
[00:16:13] Their fears came to pass. The Russians really did come to
[00:16:17] India, but not as colonizers, and we
[00:16:20] quickly found a common language.
[00:16:33] This is the place where we are now, Shumshu Island, its northern part.
[00:17:38] fulfilled its duty to the people,
[00:17:42] Russia, therefore, fulfilled its duty to its
[00:17:45] allies, which is very important.
[00:18:04] I order to defend and protect the state border, economic...
[00:18:15] never used it, yes, everything is done with
[00:18:17] commands, everything is on a legal basis,
[00:18:31] and so every day some movement happens, so you came to
[00:18:35] the office and sit all day in the office, that doesn't happen, our administrative building
[00:18:39] is separated from the residential officer's mess, it's about a minute's
[00:18:42] walk, and we're home, or a minute's
[00:18:46] walk and we're at work, I'm from the Republic of Dagestan, from a small city
[00:18:49] of Derbent, the southernmost point of the Russian Federation, it's
[00:18:53] very good to serve here, Kamchatka is of course extraordinary, despite the fact that I
[00:18:57] am from a mountainous area, the mountains here are certainly
[00:18:59] mesmerizing, it's impossible to get used to them, especially
[00:19:03] the volcanoes, it's all very beautiful, Nardo is a gift
[00:19:06] from friends. Upon graduation from the institute, I myself
[00:19:10] am a hunter, so they decided to depict hunting in Nardo,
[00:19:13] a wild boar and a bear, well, a bear is relevant for
[00:19:16] Kamchatka, violations, mainly, are illegal
[00:19:20] extraction of aquatic biological resources, these are salmon species of fish,
[00:19:23] or Kamchatka crab, which is highly valued
[00:19:26] on the territory of Kamchatka Krai, our main task, of course, is the protection
[00:19:30] of the state border, as we have a twelve-mile zone behind
[00:19:33] us, this is the state border, the whole difficulty is that they... completely
[00:19:46] I plan to get married soon,
[00:19:50] I showed my future wife the area, as she said,
[00:19:52] it's attractive, so I think she will like it here too, there is work for her
[00:19:56] , she is a medic, the future hospital is
[00:19:59] in the village of Ust-Bolsheretsk, 20 km from here, my future
[00:20:02] wife is from a village, when I had
[00:20:06] a distribution after university... I was offered all of Russia, but I
[00:20:10] chose Kamchatka, my mom told me that there was no other place, I said: Mom, this is Kamchatka, this is
[00:20:14] cool.
[00:20:18] Japanese fortifications have been found here, yes, in
[00:20:22] this case, this is the entrance, the so-called
[00:20:25] den, here we see the formwork, here accordingly, wooden
[00:20:28] ceilings came from above, at the moment of impact or
[00:20:31] explosion of a shell, the entrance was blocked, we
[00:20:35] found this thing, the fact that...
[00:20:37] that there are structural elements here and accordingly we are digging the entrance to
[00:20:41] go further in, to see what's inside, you see,
[00:20:45] beams are going, brackets are fastened,
[00:20:47] covered, well, himself.
[00:21:20] Kolosov Ivan, a conscript, by the way, from Petropavlovsk-
[00:21:22] Kamchatsky.
[00:21:25] We also found several more shells from
[00:21:28] PPSh. TT-type shells,
[00:21:31] which were used in magazines for Shpagin's
[00:21:34] submachine gun, how could they end up inside
[00:21:37] the tank? Most likely, the tank crew was destroyed by a Soviet
[00:21:41] paratrooper who shot them through the open hatch. Not far from another
[00:21:45] tank, our searchers found an equally
[00:21:48] remarkable find. This is
[00:21:51] a regulation Japanese army sword, which
[00:21:55] is called Shingunto, which means
[00:21:58] "new military sword". A small
[00:22:01] sleeve for the hilt has survived,
[00:22:05] on which one can find the manufacturer's stamp, this is the Kokura
[00:22:08] arsenal, and the inspector's
[00:22:10] stamp.
[00:22:12] We are now at the top of Height 171, which
[00:22:16] during the Kuril landing operation, during the assault on
[00:22:20] Shumshu Island, was referred to in Soviet documents as "Height with a radio station." Here the
[00:22:23] Japanese had a radio hub
[00:22:26] in underground bunkers, as well as a
[00:22:29] radar station, with the help
[00:22:32] of which they monitored the air and intercepted
[00:22:36] radio communications. This is a system of ventilation pipes,
[00:22:39] ventilation ducts, because the building is buried
[00:22:43] underground, dampness, and here are niches, ventilation
[00:22:46] niches, you see, I'm illuminating it. That is, for
[00:22:50] draft, an opening was made at the bottom
[00:22:53] and at the top, well, and the most interesting thing is that, most
[00:22:57] likely, the grounding
[00:23:00] came out through this opening for laying cables,
[00:23:04] it is very important that our children come to this
[00:23:07] place, it is clear that this
[00:23:10] tourist route today is, well,
[00:23:13] not properly equipped, so, someone there, museum workers live,
[00:23:17] doing their own thing, uh, searchers.
[00:24:25] We are now on the main command post
[00:24:28] of the ship, this is, so to speak, the brain of the ship. We
[00:24:32] conduct inspections of vessels entering
[00:24:36] Vachinskaya, the inspection team works,
[00:24:39] transmits information based on the results of the inspection to
[00:24:42] the ship, we are approaching your starboard side,
[00:24:46] ready for inspection,
[00:24:48] you just heard how... a pleasure boat made contact,
[00:24:52] requesting permission to approach us to pick up the inspection
[00:24:56] team for an inspection.
[00:24:59] At the moment, control measures are being carried out against
[00:25:02] vessels proceeding to the Port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,
[00:25:06] regardless of size, came alongside our starboard bow,
[00:25:10] inspection can be performed.
[00:25:13] Yes.
[00:25:19] Good afternoon. This vessel is registered
[00:25:21] with the border authorities, therefore it
[00:25:25] has the right to enter the border zone, which is established in the waters
[00:25:29] of Vachinskaya Bay. Pleasure boats are also subject
[00:25:33] to inspection, because they
[00:25:35] go out to sea. The ship is characterized by a high level
[00:25:39] of automation and the most
[00:25:41] modern weaponry, communications,
[00:25:45] navigation, and radio-technical
[00:25:47] equipment. Officer's
[00:25:51] cabin, bunk, workspace,
[00:25:54] and
[00:25:58] how new modern ships
[00:26:01] differ from older ones. Each cabin
[00:26:04] has its own separate bathroom. Each cabin has a TV. The ship is armed
[00:26:08] with two machine gun mounts, and
[00:26:11] a short.
[00:26:14] Our ships perform tasks in the eastern part
[00:26:18] of the Arctic, this is the Chukchi Sea, the East Siberian
[00:26:21] Sea, the Laptev Sea, the Bering
[00:26:24] Strait, where the border between Russia and
[00:26:27] the USA passes, and accordingly, the Bering
[00:26:31] Sea, the northern... western part of the Pacific
[00:26:33] Ocean up to the border of the exclusive economic
[00:26:37] zone of the USA, and accordingly the Sea of Okhotsk, our
[00:26:40] islands, the large Kuril chain, now
[00:26:44] all of this is ours, they were always our primordial Russian
[00:26:48] islands, we were their
[00:26:49] discoverers,
[00:26:54] we want to live in peace with our neighbors and always wanted to live in peace,
[00:26:58] in the future we want to live in peace, but our history... The ceremony
[00:27:43] of surrender and disarmament took place, and
[00:27:46] the signing of the necessary documents.
[00:27:50] Three Japanese committed
[00:27:53] suicide, they performed hara-kiri. The
[00:27:56] garrison of Shumshu was disarmed, about 1200
[00:28:00] people, and... and another 10,000 people on
[00:28:04] Paramushir.
[00:28:07] The Kuril landing operation is a unique military operation
[00:28:11] that was successfully conducted. If
[00:28:14] previously the border with Japan was 170 km, a land border,
[00:28:18] the land border disappeared, but a sea
[00:28:21] border appeared. The border increased by almost 1,100
[00:28:24] km, the length of the Kuril chain. Already in February
[00:28:28] 1946, from Vladivostok to the islands of the Kuril chain began.
[00:29:03] Here is the list of the dead, here he
[00:29:06] is right in the middle, Skopintsev Nikolay
[00:29:08] Ivanovich.
[00:29:12] His name appeared here quite recently, thanks to
[00:29:16] the efforts of searchers, Chekists of the Kamchatka Directorate
[00:29:19] of the FSB of Russia.
[00:29:38] "the deep state has its hands in everything. I was in the
[00:29:41] middle of it for decades. when I blew the whistle on CIA
[00:29:45] torture, the deep state turned on me. They ruined my
[00:29:49] life, took away my rights, threw me in
[00:29:52] prison, but they didn't break
[00:29:54] me.
[00:29:57] I fought back and I still do. I'm John
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