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[00:00:00] in France, unfortunately, to put it mildly, leaves much to be
[00:00:03] desired. As such events of this nature are, I would say a unique
[00:00:07] occurrence in western Europe, because in reality there is currently a trend in
[00:00:10] European countries towards demolishing and destroying soviet monuments,
[00:00:14] whereas here in France, we are unveiling monument to soviet
[00:00:17] heroes. Now we got comments from a grand
[00:00:21] daughter of soviet marshall Ivan konev regarding the
[00:00:24] new monument in the EU member state of
[00:00:27] Slovakia.
[00:00:31] My initial reaction naturally is one of joy. After all, these are
[00:00:35] challenging times we live in. Following the demolition of two monuments to my
[00:00:38] grandfather, one in craco and the other in Prague. This event is
[00:00:42] without a doubt absolutely extraordinary. Given the current
[00:00:45] climate in Europe and the way the red army's role in liberating the continent is viewed
[00:00:49] today. This is a highly significant and heartwarming occasion for me. We
[00:00:53] are deeply grateful to the prime minister of Slovakia Robert Fitto for
[00:00:56] unveiling this monument and for refusing to be intimidated by how the rest of Europe. might
[00:01:00] react, in spite of everything, he went ahead and did it. I believe we are
[00:01:04] currently witnessing a rewriting of history. Everything is being turned
[00:01:07] completely its head, not just the history of World War II, but arguably the
[00:01:11] entirety of modern history since the mid-20th century. I have
[00:01:14] lived on this earth for quite some time now, looking back at the heads of state of the past in
[00:01:18] Germany, France, the US and Britain, and comparing them with today's
[00:01:21] leaders, the contrast is certainly not in the ladder's favor, and asked for
[00:01:25] this war on monuments, good heavens, why even fight them? I
[00:01:29] suppose it is simply.
[00:01:39] you can check rt.com for more details. i'll see you again.
[00:03:00] Look, what are you doing,
[00:03:03] we all perform the same function, we fight for Russia, for our
[00:03:06] homeland. Now, very
[00:03:10] carefully,
[00:03:16] if on the roof behind,
[00:03:18] we need,
[00:03:24] what will come at us now, what to do, well, let it out of sight,
[00:03:28] do nothing.
[00:03:38] And that the whole road will be in nets, well almost,
[00:03:41] yes,
[00:03:45] if the drone detector goes off, if you don't visually observe
[00:03:48] it, you continue moving, if you visually observe it, or the shooters start working,
[00:03:52] so here you need to try to
[00:03:55] not fly through quickly, as practice has shown, the drone will catch
[00:03:58] up anyway, that's it... it's better to drive at a moderate speed so that
[00:04:02] the driver can brake smoothly, so that the shooters can jump
[00:04:06] out of the car if anything happens, well, and accordingly all the people in
[00:04:10] the car,
[00:04:14] and why are you a battle-hardened
[00:04:17] vegan, well, because I don't eat meat,
[00:04:19] what war on meat, exactly,
[00:04:23] точно,
[00:04:26] not out of conviction, I just psychologically can't, why?
[00:04:35] Drive, drive, drive, drive,
[00:04:46] well, nets save well, in any case they get entangled in them,
[00:04:50] and you don't even wear a helmet, that's
[00:04:52] right, yes, I'm used to driving without
[00:04:55] ездить,
[00:04:57] I used to be a tank driver, that's it. and
[00:05:01] I drove without a bulletproof vest,
[00:05:02] so I wish,
[00:05:06] in general, just now
[00:05:10] our patriot was being dragged.
[00:05:35] from the admin how much the war has replayed starting from VPV, Mavic reconnaissance,
[00:05:38] ending with agricultural drones, airborne Bupala.
[00:05:43] War is a push for progression, not for nothing, as they say
[00:05:47] patriot patriot
[00:05:49] to whom Patriot Vegan 1593
[00:05:53] 1593, emergency lights
[00:05:55] on.
[00:05:59] Patriot five small Patriot main
[00:06:02] gate as he received five small main gates
[00:06:06] he received.
[00:06:13] That's it, let's go, I myself am from
[00:06:16] Enakievo, local, let's say, from the DPR, Donetsk People's Republic, those who
[00:06:20] lived in Donbas, we, starting from 2014, later
[00:06:24] suffered a lot, liberation and so on, we
[00:06:27] had shelling, that is, next to me, where I live, in the village where I lived, they
[00:06:31] completely destroyed my house literally 10 meters away, well, by shelling, we had
[00:06:34] shelling, small arms, artillery and so on, from 2015 to
[00:06:37] 2016 we were practically daily with my mother in
[00:06:40] basements, and it somehow gave, in short.
[00:07:13] I would like to tell my story, everyone has a story, some have a big story, some
[00:07:16] have a small one, but every soldier has one, in our brigade there are
[00:07:19] truly worthy
[00:07:20] ребята,
[00:07:24] even when I decided to nevertheless and made the decision
[00:07:28] to join a volunteer formation, yes, to become a volunteer, at that moment I
[00:07:31] definitely had no thoughts, not even a
[00:07:35] желания, даже мысли, что я могу стать командиром
[00:07:38] бригады,
[00:08:12] betray the brigade to someone, he offered me,
[00:08:16] and since I'm familiar with the brigade, I've served more than one contract
[00:08:19] here as a political officer, he offered me
[00:08:23] to lead this brigade, well, of course I agreed, now
[00:08:26] I'm carrying this burden, well, this "Vygiza" is going in
[00:08:30] that direction, so that you pass, turn right, there's
[00:08:34] Danchik standing there, you see, there he is, there he is, and this
[00:08:38] is your vegan washing machine, yes, when they were attacking us, I remember that
[00:08:42] moment. Another thing, let's agree right away,
[00:08:45] if something happens to
[00:08:47] one vehicle, we continue
[00:08:51] moving, we continue moving,
[00:08:54] it's fine, we'll cope, everything will be fine, you need to think
[00:08:57] more positively.
[00:09:04] We can fight on the battlefield, we can fight in the quiet
[00:09:07] of offices, it doesn't matter, where we are needed now, there we
[00:09:10] fight. So, in this sense, all life is
[00:09:13] war, because our homeland
[00:09:17] has a lot of problems and many threats that need to be
[00:09:20] answered.
[00:09:24] From the very beginning of the war, I was involved in forming detachments, and
[00:09:27] different detachments, both detachments that were officially called
[00:09:31] DROs, reconnaissance and sabotage detachments,
[00:09:34] yes, some detachments were Bars detachments, at some point I
[00:09:38] had to directly command some of these detachments. By
[00:09:41] the spring of 2023, two detachments merged, I also
[00:09:44] called up people there, not through military enlistment offices, but it was such a call-up
[00:09:48] that it was like, "Gather, guys!" And
[00:09:51] many people came, and that's how the brigade was formed, and I became its natural
[00:09:54] commander, that's it. And why is
[00:09:57] it called...? Well, because in fact
[00:10:01] volunteers are quite closely associated with Saint George, we even have
[00:10:04] a day, well, the day of the Union of Donbas Volunteers is
[00:10:08] May 6, yes, the day of Saint George, yes, the Victorious.
[00:10:12] Therefore, naturally, the brigade became
[00:10:14] Georgian.
[00:10:18] And the lecture is peculiar, yes, there are, of course,
[00:10:21] trophies from the current war. This one.
[00:10:26] a pure trophy, a purely
[00:10:27] military one,
[00:10:30] you don't see the marks, it's an Italian combat knife, it's rather, it's quite
[00:10:34] high-quality, but if you look closely at the
[00:10:37] mark, you can see an inscription on it, it's
[00:10:41] the mark of the international legion
[00:10:44] of Ukraine, wow, yes,
[00:10:47] you could say it's a rarity,
[00:10:49] in a way.
[00:11:05] where, there he is,
[00:11:05] guys,
[00:11:10] hey,
[00:11:17] he's in the car,
[00:11:20] this is already the third head-on collision in the last 4 days, thank
[00:11:23] God, uh...
[00:11:26] the ammunition that was in the bird, did not
[00:11:30] go off, damaged the windshield, everyone is safe,
[00:11:33] the car is also basically
[00:11:34] intact,
[00:11:38] the personnel are intact, so everything else is working
[00:11:42] moments.
[00:11:50] an orphan from the age of eight, that is, mom died when I was 8 years old, then
[00:11:54] later dad... died, I studied in a boarding school, and in general I was such
[00:11:57] a street kid, a hooligan, when I often ran away from
[00:12:01] home, basements, attics, all that, for me, as such
[00:12:05] a street kid, a hooligan, well, all this was so familiar and
[00:12:08] native, so when, for example, I came here already to the SMO, basement
[00:12:12] apartments, dugouts and all that, for me it was no longer
[00:12:15] something new,
[00:12:18] well, when I was at the boarding school,
[00:12:22] that was, I think,
[00:12:26] the sixth grade, they scolded me, tried to,
[00:12:29] so to speak, educate me, if I had bad behavior, I would end up badly,
[00:12:33] I would go to prison or
[00:12:36] somewhere else, but for some reason I somehow
[00:12:40] said in my heart, no, I'll grow up and become
[00:12:43] a deputy, well, and somehow all the teachers, teachers
[00:12:46] also perceived it with laughter, but for me, on the contrary, it caused some kind of, you know,
[00:12:50] well, childish reaction, that like, I'll grow up and
[00:12:53] prove it to you and so on. Then I really became a deputy of the State Council
[00:12:57] of the Republic of Tatarstan. You can hold it here,
[00:13:00] but it's best like this, when it will be, why, because
[00:13:03] it will be with you in the moment, you just turn it over and just
[00:13:07] open fire, you don't need to aim, roughly speaking, with contact, you need to
[00:13:11] suppress it, after really getting to know the volunteers, I
[00:13:15] was imbued with this spirit of volunteering, I started
[00:13:18] coming with humanitarian aid once a month to bring
[00:13:21] привозить.
[00:13:24] Plus,
[00:14:25] plus,
[00:14:25] plus,
[00:14:31] they are now very something very
[00:14:34] active, roads are blocked.
[00:14:50] We're going through,
[00:14:53] we're meeting, we're meeting.
[00:14:59] Besides the fact that you are called to the army, for example, and you
[00:15:03] go to give your home to the homeland, as they say,
[00:15:07] a volunteer, voluntarily goes to defend his fatherland,
[00:15:10] weighed all the pros and cons, made the decision that
[00:15:14] he, well, he voluntarily goes to the fact that he can either
[00:15:18] return or not return.
[00:15:21] Listen, she remembers why, and what
[00:15:24] does it mean? Well, in different ways, in
[00:15:26] history, I think there was a Japanese commander, and my
[00:15:30] mother's cat is named that,
[00:15:33] apparently. Well, mothers are our angels.
[00:16:08] not much fun, what else do you do in your duties, my
[00:16:11] direct duties are the use
[00:16:15] of artillery means,
[00:16:17] we identify, confirm targets, we apply
[00:16:21] firepower with different means, that is,
[00:16:24] there from, in short, from small to
[00:16:27] large.
[00:16:30] These guys who work with the guns, it's always a priority, because
[00:16:33] first, they are specialists, and second, their firepower is enormous.
[00:17:20] And so, we only have two windows here: either strong wind, or strong
[00:17:24] rain. That's it, everything else is just the will
[00:17:26] of the Almighty, because different things
[00:17:30] happen. That's it, we're on
[00:17:32] site. Yes, I copy, I copy
[00:17:35] you, yes.
[00:17:40] "Hello, hello, here, yes, you can
[00:17:43] take off the band, so,
[00:17:46] the integrity of our front is our gunners, who
[00:17:50] in cold, in heat, in frost, under
[00:17:53] shelling, under attack by drones, they work,
[00:17:57] they help our assaults either to entrench,
[00:18:00] or to advance forward, well, and in general, we carry out
[00:18:03] tasks, everything related to destroying
[00:18:07] all the guys, volunteers,
[00:18:10] all gathered their strength, whoever you ask,
[00:18:14] everyone answered that, well, how am I better than those guys who are already
[00:18:18] fighting here, in general,
[00:18:20] from the year of the hairy, pull up
[00:18:23] a little, we're working,
[00:18:25] we're working, and definitely, guys, when you're about to land, let us know,
[00:18:29] we'll zoom in,
[00:18:31] the very beginning, yes, yes, yes, right here, because
[00:18:35] artillery works. gradually dismantling the enemy's
[00:18:38] fortifications, so that we can get to
[00:18:42] FPV work, you're on this, that's it, now
[00:18:45] the target has just arrived, now we need to
[00:18:48] work, there are presumably enemy
[00:18:51] fortifications, so they will now surgically simply
[00:18:55] excise the tumor.
[00:18:58] these are the most heroic stormtroopers, because
[00:19:01] we work, how we identified, we inflict
[00:19:04] fire, and we sit, wait for... our guys there to
[00:19:08] move somewhere further and some
[00:19:11] task will be performed, but they are constantly stressed, they
[00:19:15] really hope for us,
[00:19:18] for
[00:19:19] activists,
[00:19:22] we're working with a D-30 howitzer
[00:19:26] on the enemy, we're conducting harassment fire so that the enemy
[00:19:29] lowers their horizon, and doesn't twitch anywhere, while we
[00:19:33] prepare our UAVs.
[00:19:37] 56 36 56
[00:19:40] 36 aim and report, aim
[00:19:43] and report 5636
[00:19:46] aimed, ready, come on, I received the boys, fire
[00:19:50] received, aimed ready
[00:19:52] shot
[00:20:02] Here's
[00:20:02] Karlada.
[00:20:07] That's it.
[00:20:38] Yes, hello, how are you, who, I also have
[00:20:41] a dog, and you are a kind dog, yes, he
[00:20:44] is the kindest, he looks, yes,
[00:20:47] scary, but I really like the dog.
[00:21:50] Oh, handsome,
[00:21:53] birds are simply shot down, successfully moreover, they are also lucky, they can
[00:21:56] shoot, and I've already shot everything, we, we are shooters, yes,
[00:21:59] I am an old guard here, you could say, from what
[00:22:03] year, twenty-fourth, I was generally a submachine gunner, formerly
[00:22:07] now. You too, no, I only came in for
[00:22:10] an hour,
[00:22:14] we were going there, yes, I was
[00:22:17] told, I was the heaviest because of this, that's why I'm all...
[00:22:21] A drone hit me in the head, yes, and also my eye, I don't
[00:22:24] have an eye, all the ligaments were sewn through, I have a special plastic tube
[00:22:27] here, here
[00:22:31] -uh they cut out a piece of something,
[00:22:34] intestines or something, they put it in here so that all this
[00:22:37] works. Also, my lung, I don't have
[00:22:41] a little bit of it, it's artificial, one is missing, it's artificial, my knees
[00:22:44] too, well, I'm all scarred, when I came to you
[00:22:48] at the PPD.
[00:22:51] I saw that the guys were disabled, indeed with a serious degree
[00:22:54] of disability,
[00:22:56] yes, standing at the gates, working, you don't fire them, no,
[00:23:00] that's why we don't fire them, and so to speak, as you understand, in the corps they
[00:23:04] know about this very well, well, because it's
[00:23:07] a kind of social assistance, it's a certain
[00:23:11] kind of care for them, in essence,
[00:23:14] all these volunteer organizations,
[00:23:17] they are not quite like military after all.
[00:23:50] Someone has to guard the PVD, someone has to guard the headquarters, they
[00:23:53] are needed, and no one drives them away, they, they are
[00:23:57] part of our team, well, yes,
[00:24:00] some with their prostheses can go on the attack,
[00:24:03] it happens, we have people who received six wounds
[00:24:07] in this war in the brigade, six
[00:24:09] wounds, yes, there's no living spot
[00:24:13] on them,
[00:24:15] listen, well, thank God you're here and again they look at me like, what are you doing
[00:24:19] here?
[00:24:50] No, what about my mother, it's been a year since she's been gone, which is
[00:24:53] bad, of course, but who raises them, their parents,
[00:24:56] their parents,
[00:25:00] the youngest was eight, mom left, mom first left for
[00:25:03] a month for the elections, then mom will stay longer, she'll
[00:25:07] stay longer, well, another six months and for
[00:25:10] another year, but you come home on vacation, rarely,
[00:25:13] rarely, you don't leave here, even on vacation, well, sometimes, but
[00:25:16] rarely, it's such a job, I ask, why you?
[00:25:55] Tell me, how did you, a beautiful woman, end up here, what
[00:25:59] is this not honest, that's how it happened. I don't have
[00:26:03] a military specialty, no military ID, and I'm not on record, so
[00:26:07] it's practically impossible to get in
[00:26:09] in this situation now, it was a little easier then, but you also had to look for a place
[00:26:13] that would take a woman without any specialty, without any military
[00:26:17] experience, well, I found one.
[00:26:20] I had some training before this, that is, I didn't see weapons
[00:26:24] here, I worked with weapons before that, but there wasn't such
[00:26:27] a variety and well, such opportunities as here, naturally,
[00:26:31] there was no such thing.
[00:26:32] No,
[00:26:35] there was a very good mentor who taught
[00:26:39] everything, that's it, this is about the commander, this is
[00:26:42] what he says,
[00:26:48] No, I'm taking two, one stays, one
[00:26:51] is skilled with me, at least with weapons, everyone
[00:26:54] knows everything, I teach both personal
[00:26:58] weapons, teamwork in
[00:27:01] BKO. So, movement too, someone comes with
[00:27:04] experience, shares experience, someone here already gains it,
[00:27:08] helps those who are going in for
[00:27:12] everyone definitely owns weapons, everyone knows how to use them, everyone
[00:27:15] carries weapons, ammunition, and so on, so all
[00:27:18] are shooters, with a gun on them,
[00:27:21] August, where is the gun?
[00:27:24] That's it, sit down, I will, or I'll
[00:27:27] put it away now.
[00:27:32] when people see that I can really teach, that I myself can do it, I can
[00:27:36] show, I can teach, I can do it, well, they listen,
[00:27:40] most listen, yes,
[00:27:42] they learn, some kind of, let's say, trust appears, questions
[00:27:46] disappear, that is, if someone were to come on
[00:27:49] civilian clothes and say, "I'm a deputy political officer" or
[00:27:52] something else, well, I would see uncomprehending glances,
[00:27:56] so I don't particularly like to even talk about
[00:27:59] it, so you were a commander, and your
[00:28:02] husband is the commander, right? Yes, and he entrusted you with such
[00:28:06] a responsible job, because he knew you would cope? Yes,
[00:28:10] so, not enough,
[00:28:14] next
[00:28:14] question,
[00:28:20] last year, that is, they went on a mission, an assault mission, she
[00:28:24] went, along with her husband, the husband went, accordingly,
[00:28:28] to lead the group, being the commander of the battalion, she went with
[00:28:31] him. On the assault
[00:28:34] mission, the battalion commander died, suffering heavy
[00:28:37] losses, the mission was completed, and
[00:28:40] Yara, being with them, also received a serious
[00:28:42] wound, was evacuated from the
[00:28:45] battlefield. After the battalion commander died,
[00:28:49] the personnel of the detachment decided, that is, they appealed to us,
[00:28:53] to the brigade command, that she should lead the battalion.
[00:28:56] она.
[00:29:00] Okay, how do you feel as the Battalion Commander?
[00:29:10] the task is to prepare, complete the task and wait for them to return,
[00:29:14] so, well, we have to work, we are working.
[00:29:33] "now I think that this um um hegemonic kind of
[00:29:37] mindset um is um
[00:29:39] deeply ingrained within Donald Trump's
[00:29:42] personality. He thinks that America, of course, is
[00:29:46] is still the greatest and most powerful country on the
[00:29:50] planet, and the United States, according to
[00:29:53] his, uh, him and his followers, has been short-
[00:29:57] changed by even by his allies. So it's
[00:29:59] now um incumbent upon him to change that, uh,
[00:30:03] by maximizing American dominance."
[00:30:20] The Houthis warn shipping companies and airlines not
[00:30:24] to enter Saudi air space. This comes after
[00:30:27] a devastating strike on Riyadh's main airport,
[00:30:30] killing 12 people and wounding over 300. And the Houthis
[00:30:34] confirmed to RT that they carried out the the
[00:30:38] strike.
[00:30:41] these attacks are Yemeni attacks. We do not do this out of revenge or to take
[00:30:44] vengeance, but rather to force the Saudi leadership to accept a comprehensive
[00:30:48] and permanent peace by agreeing to end the war. he should have an
[00:30:52] election and he can't raise the price of oil.
[00:30:55] It's not enough. Donald Trump says Kiev needs a
[00:30:59] new leader.