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20260915 080000 UTC
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[00:00:03] The logistics port infrastructure of Ukraine was again
[00:00:07] under attack last night, our troops attacked railway hubs,
[00:00:10] warehouses and naval vessels associated with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Let's talk more about
[00:00:13] the targets.
[00:00:17] He spied on the Russian military, transmitted data to enemy intelligence and
[00:00:20] prepared terrorist acts. Residents of the Kherson region were sentenced to 18 years in
[00:00:24] prison, what was found during the search of the criminal's
[00:00:26] hideouts.
[00:00:31] The Verkhovna Rada will consider today the issue of the dismissal of the Prosecutor General, who
[00:00:35] fled the country the day before. The official crossed the border after being accused of
[00:00:39] corruption by the head of the anti-corruption bureau. New details of the corruption scandal in
[00:00:42] the highest political circles
[00:00:44] of Ukraine.
[00:00:48] A supertanker blew up on mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran stated that
[00:00:52] it had warned about the danger of shipping in this area. And until the US
[00:00:56] fulfills Iran's conditions, the crew risks running into new ordnance.
[00:01:09] Let's start with urgent reports from the Ministry of Defense. The military department
[00:01:12] reports that units of the northern group of forces have established control over
[00:01:16] the settlement of Al-Khawatka in the Kharkiv region.
[00:01:19] Formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blocked east of the settlement
[00:01:22] are being destroyed. In addition, battles continue for the liberation of Malaya Volchya.
[00:01:25] Complex fire damage was inflicted on the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Khrepunov and Buzova in
[00:01:29] the Kharkiv region, the Ministry of Defense reports. More details about the situation from
[00:01:33] the special military operation zone will be available soon. In the meantime,
[00:01:36] the Ministry of Defense also reported new strikes on Ukraine's port
[00:01:39] infrastructure. At night, a logistics center in Velikaya Balka in the Odesa region was
[00:01:43] hit, where military cargo from abroad was distributed
[00:01:47] and stored. In addition, in the port of Chornomorsk, dry cargo ferries
[00:01:50] that were delivering cargo for the Armed Forces of Ukraine were attacked.
[00:01:53] Earlier, according to reports from the Ministry of Defense, gas stations in Kyiv and Sumy region were
[00:01:57] hit. In Kharkiv region, a warehouse with drones and
[00:02:00] regions of Ukraine, strikes were carried out on
[00:02:04] railway infrastructure. All details from Vladislav
[00:02:07] Kharchenko. Kyiv, Bazhan Avenue, a gas station
[00:02:11] attacked by our Geranium, and this is smoke already in another area of the Ukrainian
[00:02:15] capital. A combined attack on the fuel infrastructure was
[00:02:19] more than
[00:02:19] successful.
[00:02:25] In the Sumy region, Geranium hit an ANP gas station, where
[00:02:28] the Ukrainian Armed Forces often refuel
[00:02:30] military equipment.
[00:02:34] In the Kharkiv region, in the village of Veliky Burluk, after a precise attack by our Aerospace Forces,
[00:02:37] a warehouse is burning down. In it, the Ukrainian Armed Forces stored military equipment and drones.
[00:02:41] Firefighters cannot cope with the fire. Everything inside burned
[00:02:45] to the ground. Missile alert maps glowed red
[00:02:48] across Ukraine last night. Explosions rattled Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Sumy,
[00:02:52] Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk regions, and the part of Zaporizhzhia
[00:02:55] controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Reactive Geraniums
[00:02:58] hit targets. and the Black Sea. In the Odesa region,
[00:03:02] a logistics center in the settlement of Velikaya Balka was hit, providing
[00:03:06] storage and distribution of military cargo entering Ukraine from
[00:03:09] abroad. In the port of Chornomorsk, a dry cargo type vessel and a ferry
[00:03:13] delivered cargo intended for the support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In
[00:03:17] addition, in Odesa, a strike was carried out on the storage facilities of the military academy,
[00:03:20] located next to the Lazovsky Horse Farm. Thanks to the precise
[00:03:23] strike, black plumes of smoke covered the entire area within hundreds
[00:03:27] of meters. Military property inside the building
[00:03:30] burned completely.
[00:03:36] The Russian Aerospace Forces, in conjunction with unmanned aircraft, destroy enemy
[00:03:39] logistics even in the most remote corners of Ukraine. In the western
[00:03:43] regions of Ukraine, strikes continued on railway infrastructure
[00:03:46] used for transporting military cargo from European
[00:03:49] countries. The situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces on all sectors of the front is becoming increasingly
[00:03:53] difficult. The clear and coordinated actions of our units leave
[00:03:56] the enemy no chance. In response, attacks on civilian targets in Russia,
[00:04:00] our Aerospace Forces deliver preemptive strikes, precisely, harshly,
[00:04:04] without compromise. Vladislav
[00:04:07] Kharchenko, Vesti.
[00:04:10] The Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Ruslan Kravchenko, who was dismissed from office
[00:04:13] and fled abroad, accused the director of the National
[00:04:17] Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine Semen Kryvonos of
[00:04:19] extortion. It concerns the sum of more than 70 thousand
[00:04:23] dollars for the allocation of land in the Kyiv region. The day before, Kravchenko
[00:04:26] stated that he had sent official notification of charges. However,
[00:04:30] his former subordinates soon reported that the document was annulled.
[00:04:34] Let me remind you, Kravchenko himself fled Ukraine after another anti-corruption case, it
[00:04:37] was related to the work of fraudulent call centers, which were allegedly
[00:04:41] protected by
[00:04:42] the Prosecutor General.
[00:04:46] A NATO fighter jet shot down a drone in Lithuanian airspace, Reuters reported.
[00:04:49] Footage is published on social networks. Earlier it became known that a drone was found near
[00:04:53] Vilnius. Lithuanian authorities state that its
[00:04:56] origin has not been established. I will note that recently in the airspace
[00:05:00] of the Baltic countries Ukrainian
[00:05:03] drones have repeatedly appeared.
[00:05:06] A resident of the Kherson region was sentenced to
[00:05:09] 18 years in prison for... espionage and preparing terrorist attacks. According to the
[00:05:12] FSB, the convicted person worked for Ukrainian intelligence, transmitting information
[00:05:16] about the location of Russian military personnel and movements of equipment in the special
[00:05:20] operation zone. During a search of caches, explosive
[00:05:23] devices were found, they were intended for terrorist attacks.
[00:05:26] I got in touch with a person
[00:05:30] who made a statement that he would help
[00:05:32] to get to the other side. We decided to use this method
[00:05:36] to leave the left bank, I contacted him, he said he would
[00:05:39] get in touch. Units of the southern group are actively
[00:06:07] advancing in the direction of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. they attack
[00:06:11] AFU equipment, destroy enemy logistics chains
[00:06:14] and disrupt the delivery of ammunition to enemy positions. Igor
[00:06:17] Pihanov, about combat work.
[00:06:20] Soldiers of the southern group of forces are preparing
[00:06:23] a reconnaissance drone for operation. UAV crews are
[00:06:26] observing the front line. There are many more
[00:06:29] birds now, reconnaissance practically never leaves the field, one
[00:06:33] bird is hanging, another arrives and replaces it, we always have eyes
[00:06:37] there. The footage shows the outskirts of Druzhkovka, along this road
[00:06:40] militants try to deliver
[00:06:43] reinforcements and ammunition to the front, but the enemy will not
[00:06:46] break through, the road is under fire control of our
[00:06:49] UAVs. We know the routes how they move, we have constant
[00:06:52] broadcasts, we see how infantry or equipment moves, if there is
[00:06:56] movement we destroy them, everything is delivered by birds, by birds of long-range
[00:07:00] artillery, we try to destroy them on the approaches here, accordingly we slowly seep
[00:07:04] into Novoselovo. Scouts discovered a new target for our
[00:07:07] UAVs. The militants themselves gave themselves away, saboteurs entrenched themselves in
[00:07:11] the private sector of Mask.
[00:07:42] defeat, the speed of the drone is more than 100
[00:07:45] km/h, each is equipped with an anti-tank mine, this is how
[00:07:49] all attempts of the enemy to stop the advance of our
[00:07:52] units end, they are trying with all their might to
[00:07:55] hold it, but the outcome is already clear
[00:07:59] to everyone, the enemy pushed
[00:08:02] back, already
[00:08:05] accordingly, the flight points moved back,
[00:08:09] the artillery moved back, and
[00:08:43] they were picked up from the street, the mood is not
[00:08:45] very good, naturally the morale is the same, every day our mobile
[00:08:49] fire groups and interceptor drones shoot down hundreds of enemy
[00:08:53] drones, this American-made kamikaze Hornet was
[00:08:56] shot down yesterday, but even in such a state it is very dangerous, in addition to
[00:09:00] explosives, it is stuffed with metal damaging
[00:09:03] elements, the dangerous territory is cordoned off,
[00:09:06] sappers will arrive at this point now,
[00:09:09] who... not to say neo-Nazis, destroys everything in Ukraine that is in any way connected with
[00:10:22] Russia. linguistic,
[00:10:25] cultural rights of Russians and Russian-speakers are violated, they were
[00:10:28] legally, legally prohibited
[00:10:31] long before the special military operation, in all
[00:10:35] spheres, including education at all its
[00:10:38] stages, mass media,
[00:10:41] culture, and so on, freedom of speech,
[00:10:44] assembly, religion, rights to participate in the management of state
[00:10:47] affairs, party
[00:10:51] field was completely cleared of
[00:10:55] any political forces that in any way
[00:10:58] advocate independent, dissenting from
[00:11:02] the regime's positions, the fundamental human
[00:11:06] right, the right to life, is not observed, you observe, I
[00:11:09] hope, regularly
[00:11:12] the broadcast of situations
[00:11:16] that show the activities of so-called
[00:11:18] "man-catchers", those
[00:11:21] who catch people, young
[00:11:25] people, and not very young people, in the streets of Kyiv
[00:11:29] and other Ukrainian cities,
[00:11:32] dragging them into vehicles for forced
[00:11:35] conscription to the front, without any summons, without
[00:11:38] any official mobilization, I have no doubt that
[00:11:42] soon it will come to women as well, but
[00:11:45] all these rights, which... correspond to
[00:11:49] his political
[00:11:52] plans, it was necessary to tear Kosovo away
[00:12:26] from Serbia, they unilaterally
[00:12:35] declared independence, saying that it was
[00:12:38] the right of peoples to self-determination.
[00:12:41] When a few years later there was
[00:12:45] a referendum in Crimea, there was no referendum in Kosovo.
[00:12:48] Then they said: no, in Crimea, this is not the right of peoples to
[00:12:51] self-determination, the principle of territorial integrity of Ukraine must
[00:12:55] prevail. There are many
[00:12:58] such examples at every step,
[00:13:02] I will once again refer to the consensual UN Declaration of
[00:13:06] 1970, it is called the
[00:13:10] Principles of International Law concerning relations between
[00:13:14] states in accordance with the Charter. It is a thick
[00:13:17] document, they worked on it for a long time, in
[00:13:20] the part that interests us now, it is directly
[00:13:23] stated that the principles of sovereignty and
[00:13:26] territorial integrity apply to
[00:13:30] states that observe the principle of
[00:13:32] equality and self-determination of peoples
[00:13:36] having a government representing,
[00:13:40] without distinction of race, creed, or color
[00:13:43] of skin, all the people living in that territory.
[00:13:47] all stages of this crisis
[00:13:50] are characterized by blatant legal
[00:13:53] cynicism. I mentioned
[00:14:55] February 2014, the coup d'état
[00:14:57] happened the day after, or rather the morning after,
[00:15:01] on February 21, an agreement was reached,
[00:15:04] an agreement was signed between the president
[00:15:08] and the opposition, in which the president
[00:15:12] renounced most. and in order to prepare
[00:15:16] elections, they agreed, signed on
[00:15:19] paper, to create a government
[00:15:21] of national unity,
[00:15:37] this document was guaranteed by the foreign
[00:15:40] ministers of France,
[00:15:43] Germany, that's Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the current president of the Federal
[00:15:47] Republic, and the foreign minister of Poland, Radek Sikorski, who is now
[00:15:50] the foreign minister of Poland,
[00:15:53] and... in the morning,
[00:15:57] a coup d'état took place, no government of national unity
[00:16:00] was created, those who signed on behalf of the opposition
[00:16:03] along with the president this document, they went out to the square and said: congratulate us,
[00:16:08] we have created a government of victors, do you understand
[00:16:11] the difference in mentality: a government of unity and a government
[00:16:15] of victors, meaning they defeated their enemies, whom they still
[00:16:19] consider all the people living in
[00:16:22] Crimea, in Donbas, in Novorossiya, who
[00:16:25] were once part of the Ukrainian state,
[00:16:29] but categorically broke with it after that state
[00:16:33] became openly Nazi. So
[00:16:36] what happened in the morning after the coup d'état is characteristic
[00:16:40] of the West's position. We
[00:16:43] tried to hint to the Germans, the French,
[00:16:47] the Poles, you
[00:16:50] guaranteed peace,
[00:16:53] and then the coup d'état happened. "Bring your proteges to their senses, demand that they
[00:16:57] observe what they signed a few
[00:17:00] hours ago," no reaction
[00:17:03] followed. On February 23, that is, a day
[00:17:08] after the coup d'état, a phone call took place between
[00:17:11] French President Hollande and Chancellor Merkel.
[00:17:15] Following this conversation, Merkel
[00:17:18] reported, "We emphasized that..." after
[00:17:21] the violence of the past few days, the emerging
[00:17:24] democratic transition meets the aspirations
[00:17:26] of the Ukrainian people. Well, how can we do without
[00:17:30] the British? Even earlier, on February 22, their foreign minister
[00:17:34] William Hague stated: the last day
[00:17:37] showed the will of Ukrainians to
[00:17:41] move to a different future. The voices of those
[00:17:44] who bravely protested have been heard. I repeat, all this
[00:17:47] after the opposition. Luhansk and Donetsk People's
[00:17:51] Republics against
[00:17:54] these putschists refused to obey them, they
[00:17:57] were declared terrorists, a war was started against them in gross
[00:18:00] violation of international humanitarian law, you know
[00:18:03] this story. UN Security Council, by the
[00:18:50] way, a few days after it was, it was signed on
[00:18:54] February 12, and already on February 17 it was
[00:18:58] approved by a Security Council resolution,
[00:19:01] and, nothing came of it,
[00:19:05] although the UN Charter in Article 25 states that everyone
[00:19:23] is obliged to comply with Security Council resolutions,
[00:19:27] and despite this,
[00:19:30] the West turned a blind eye
[00:19:34] to how first Poroshenko, then Zelensky
[00:19:38] grossly refused to comply with the requirements
[00:19:40] of the Minsk agreements,
[00:19:44] and subsequently. Both Merkel and Hollande,
[00:19:46] who signed this document, admitted
[00:19:50] publicly, a couple of years ago, that
[00:19:53] no one in the West intended to follow
[00:19:56] this document, the Minsk agreements, it was simply necessary
[00:20:00] to buy time to arm the Kyiv regime
[00:20:03] for
[00:20:05] confrontation, for war against the Russian
[00:20:09] Federation. In March 2022, a month
[00:20:12] after the start of the special military operation, when
[00:20:16] Ukraine asked for negotiations and itself
[00:20:19] proposed after
[00:20:22] a series of rounds of consultations in Belarus and
[00:20:26] Turkey. at least, it deprives
[00:20:29] all numerous resolutions and reports
[00:20:33] of international bodies of meaning, where
[00:20:36] theses about discrimination in
[00:20:40] Crimea are repeated. I ask you, with fakes about discrimination
[00:20:43] against national minorities, among other things. The International Court refused to recognize
[00:20:47] the terrorist nature of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's
[00:25:50] Republics, which devalues
[00:25:54] and renders meaningless Kyiv's attempts to present the war against its then
[00:25:58] own citizens as an anti-terrorist
[00:26:00] operation. They declared them
[00:26:32] the Donetsk nor the Luhansk People's Republics are
[00:26:35] terrorist organizations, effectively it
[00:26:39] confirmed the validity of the choice of the people
[00:26:43] of Donbas in favor of independence, and subsequent entry into the Russian
[00:26:46] Federation, the second Ukrainian
[00:26:50] lawsuit against Russia failed,
[00:26:53] which was filed in February 2022, when
[00:26:56] Kyiv accused us of abusing
[00:26:59] the Genocide Convention
[00:27:03] by protecting the people of Donbas from genocide.
[00:27:06] This is nonsense, of course, it's complete
[00:27:10] absurdity. The lawsuit was,
[00:27:13] despite this, supported by
[00:27:17] 32 Western countries, mainly EU members
[00:27:20] and... in February 2024,
[00:27:23] the court ruled that there were no violations of the
[00:27:27] Genocide Convention in Russia's actions.
[00:27:30] Period. All accusations against Russia
[00:27:34] were dropped. However, the court retained
[00:27:38] one question: did Ukraine itself
[00:27:41] commit genocide in Donbas? It
[00:27:44] is still under consideration by the
[00:27:47] court. And at the request of this body, we
[00:27:50] provided it for full
[00:27:53] consideration, and we expect a quick
[00:27:56] verdict, but after all this happened,
[00:27:59] half of the Western countries that signed up as third
[00:28:32] parties withdrew from the process, realizing the futility, and indeed
[00:28:36] the disgrace, of this entire situation.
[00:28:40] Here he writes in his report, I
[00:28:43] quote: the question of the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukrainian territory under
[00:28:47] the pretext that the Russian-speaking
[00:28:50] minority is a victim of genocide
[00:28:52] was submitted by Ukraine to the International
[00:28:56] Court. This is a striking
[00:28:59] example of verbal acrobatics, meaning
[00:29:12] that Russia's behavior was such that the International Court
[00:29:15] became involved in this behavior, and that...
[00:29:19] under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, we were presented with
[00:29:22] a long list of accusations under two dozen articles,
[00:29:25] formally speaking about allegedly violated rights
[00:29:28] of Ukraine in the Black Sea, Azov Sea and Kerch Strait. And
[00:30:02] the background of all this was Kyiv's attempt to challenge
[00:30:05] Russia's sovereignty over Crimea in accordance with the free
[00:30:08] expression of will of the residents of this peninsula.
[00:30:12] But on June 15, 2026, in its final
[00:30:15] decision, the arbitration, to which Ukraine appealed,
[00:30:18] supported Russia's position.
[00:30:21] It was confirmed in this decision that the waters of the Azov Sea,
[00:30:24] Kerch Strait, Russia, hydrocarbon fields and
[00:30:27] marine resources of the Crimean shelf. And again
[00:30:30] it was rejected.
[00:31:02] The arbitration rejected Ukraine's cynical demand
[00:31:06] to dismantle the Crimean bridge. In principle,
[00:31:10] the demand to destroy a bridge, any bridge, in a civilized
[00:31:13] world looks wild. But in this case, we are talking about a bridge whose construction
[00:31:17] was dictated by humanitarian necessity,
[00:31:20] because Kyiv arranged a total,
[00:31:24] land... blockade of Crimea in gross violation
[00:31:27] of those same Minsk agreements that I already
[00:31:31] mentioned. Once again, I emphasize, all
[00:31:35] the aforementioned proceedings were completely
[00:31:38] lost by Ukraine. They
[00:31:41] were knowingly not conscientious. And
[00:32:15] the Kyiv regime and its Western masters understood that
[00:32:18] the claims were unfounded, in some cases not at all related
[00:32:21] to the subject of the relevant conventions, but this is the
[00:32:25] specificity of the legal warfare invented by the Anglo-Saxons,
[00:32:28] an effect is achieved, as they believe, due
[00:32:31] to the loudness of the accusations, they first need to crow,
[00:32:35] whether morning will come already concerns them
[00:32:39] little, well, and the well-known historical
[00:32:42] figure in Nazi Germany said, the more incredible the lie,
[00:32:46] the sooner it will be believed, so these
[00:32:49] Nazi instincts among our Western colleagues are still
[00:32:53] very and very tenacious. Unfortunately,
[00:32:55] many other international
[00:32:58] Украиной. Они были заведомы не
[00:33:01] добросовестны. И киевский режим, и его западные
[00:33:04] хозяева понимали, что претензии необоснованы,
[00:33:08] в ряде случаев вообще не связаны с предметом соответствующих
[00:33:11] конвенций, но это вот специфика -
[00:33:15] изобретённой англосакцией юридической войны,
[00:33:18] достигал, достигается эффект, как они считают, за
[00:33:22] счёт громкости обвинений, надо сначала прокукарекать,
[00:33:25] наступит ли утро, их уже мало
[00:33:28] волнует, ну и известный исторический персонаж в
[00:33:32] гитлеровской Германии сказал, чем невероятнее ложь, тем скорее в неё
[00:33:36] поверят, так что вот эти вот нацистские инстинкты у
[00:33:40] наших западных коллег до сих пор весьма и весьма
[00:33:43] organizations have failed
[00:33:46] to avoid politicization, among them the Council of the
[00:33:50] International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO,
[00:33:53] which, in general, is endowed with Chicago.
[00:33:57] наделён чикагской.