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[00:00:00] in the zoo, they also do not take red-eared sliders, it's an invasive species, and
[00:00:03] besides, such animals are usually sick without documents.
[00:00:07] Perhaps, St. Petersburg needs a temporary
[00:00:10] reptile containment center. Yulia Vasilyeva, Mikhail Yudin, Olga
[00:00:13] Potapenko, Vesti Duty Station St.
[00:00:15] Petersburg. Unique reports, the full spectrum
[00:00:19] of today's legal news. In our channels, Vesti Duty Station, Eduard Petrov on
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[00:00:33] are all the latest news and the channel of journalist Eduard
[00:00:57] This is a big news evening. We continue to introduce you to today's
[00:01:01] agenda.
[00:01:04] In Druzhkovka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces move in short dashes,
[00:01:08] hiding from our drones, which have woven a web of
[00:01:12] fiber optics in the sky. Towards our Konstantinovka, they are still
[00:01:16] sending suicide bombers, making PR at the cost of their lives.
[00:01:19] The situation at the gates of Kramatorsk, through the eyes of
[00:01:22] the enemy.
[00:01:25] Under the blows of FABs, the earth groans, rapid assault groups compete
[00:01:28] as if.
[00:01:39] Zaporizhzhia, the most striking footage from colleagues at
[00:01:41] Arti.
[00:01:45] An exchange of experience that they deserved, among the mercenaries of
[00:01:48] the Ukrainian Armed Forces, there are now Libyans, Malians and other natives of
[00:01:52] Africa. What Kyiv promises soldiers of fortune, why do
[00:01:55] Ukrainian soldiers themselves travel to
[00:01:57] the continent?
[00:02:01] The border between Poland and Ukraine is locked, the keys are with
[00:02:04] Russia. Our army once again hit the international checkpoint
[00:02:07] Yagodin in Volyn region, what kind of goods
[00:02:11] pass through it to
[00:02:12] the independent state.
[00:02:15] In search of sponsors, they turned to God. The Armed Forces of Ukraine
[00:02:19] are undergoing a rebranding. The so-called Christian Corps should replace the
[00:02:23] Nazi Azov. What circumstances
[00:02:26] force Kyiv to change strategy?
[00:02:41] A Russian drone hung at an impressive height, but
[00:02:44] thanks to the high resolution of the camera, the image remains quite
[00:02:48] clear, and the multiple zoom allows to ensure that
[00:02:51] the ammunition reached each intended target.
[00:02:55] This is how the quality of our reconnaissance and strike circuit
[00:02:58] was confirmed in Druzhkovka, where...
[00:03:00] The Z16 drone from Zala Holding discovered
[00:03:04] a temporary deployment point for Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry, then
[00:03:07] provided all necessary coordinates to the crew of the
[00:03:11] SU-34 aircraft, which in turn sent a powerful
[00:03:14] explosive package to the militants in the form of guided high-explosive
[00:03:17] aerial bombs, that is, it virtually wiped the enemy's shelter off the face of
[00:03:20] the earth. But on the other hand, there is no doubt that Ukrainian media
[00:03:24] will call the destroyed buildings a civilian object and will
[00:03:28] certainly fabricate some propaganda reports on this topic, like
[00:03:31] several that were released just today, although their authors
[00:03:35] can no longer hide the whole truth about the situation in the city, Yegor
[00:03:38] Grigoriev will confirm this. Yegor, good evening, the militants don't even deny that it's
[00:03:42] most convenient for them to be located precisely in
[00:03:45] the residential sector of Druzhkovka. Alexey, hello, that's right,
[00:03:49] it's indicative that they send their own journalists on a hiking trip through
[00:03:52] the kill zone, that's how they protect
[00:03:54] their equipment.
[00:03:56] The more they talk on the air of the Ukrainian TV marathon. We move
[00:04:54] on command,
[00:04:56] when we need to run, we run, we don't stop, when we need to stop, on the contrary, we hide.
[00:05:01] The armor of their Cossack will no longer help,
[00:05:05] the net from modern drones is also no salvation,
[00:05:08] confirmed by the roadside, strewn with remnants. The most
[00:05:20] terrible thing is fiber optics, if in beer you can still see it,
[00:05:23] intercept it, then fiber optics only at the exit and wait for it to
[00:05:27] fly somewhere in time, and it can land,
[00:05:30] wait.
[00:05:33] Druzhkovka is like a fishing village, the streets are in
[00:05:36] nets, and the sky is as if tightened with fishing line
[00:05:39] with fiber optics, the bloodsuckers move in dashes
[00:05:42] between positions, which they equipped in residential
[00:05:46] buildings.
[00:05:51] Before us, before us is a post-apocalyptic
[00:05:54] picture, private houses completely destroyed next to
[00:05:57] half-destroyed ones on the roadside, more and more burned
[00:06:00] cars. Firing points, warehouses with
[00:06:04] ammunition and provisions, command posts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
[00:06:07] occupy the basements of multi-story buildings, private
[00:06:10] houses, Druzhkovka, they are turning into.
[00:07:17] It's interesting that on foot, according to the Ukrainian journalist, it's not
[00:07:20] because it's safer, but so as
[00:07:23] not to risk the armored vehicle. Equipment, weapons, money
[00:07:27] for their commanders, and for the entire Ukrainian junta, has long
[00:07:31] become more valuable than people, especially those who
[00:07:35] remain in the frontline cities of Donbas, Russian
[00:07:38] cities, such as Druzhkovka.
[00:07:42] Yegor Grigoriev, the situation in
[00:07:45] the kill zone.
[00:07:48] As for the operational situation on other sectors of the front. In the Kharkiv
[00:07:52] region near the settlement of Kazachya Lopan, a Ukrainian tank was
[00:07:55] disabled today. Apparently, it was being prepared by the enemy for another
[00:07:59] counterattack or even for an attempt
[00:08:02] to break through in the area of that very Reznikovsky
[00:08:05] cauldron. Meanwhile, in the Dobropolye direction in
[00:08:08] the DPR, several control points for Ukrainian Armed Forces unmanned aircraft were destroyed.
[00:08:12] Traditionally, they equipped them in the middle of inconspicuous buildings, but still
[00:08:16] revealed their location to the drone operators of the Center group of forces.
[00:08:19] In addition, slightly further north on the Kramatorsk front, the rotation of
[00:08:23] Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry was successfully disrupted. They decided to sneak to
[00:08:26] the front line along one of the death roads, but personally
[00:08:29] saw how dense the Russian fire
[00:08:32] control is there. Well, the residents of the rear regions of Ukraine
[00:08:36] listened to loud explosions all day and admired strong fires at the sites
[00:08:39] of our reactive drones' strikes. Which ones?
[00:09:12] Fires in large logistics complexes in Kyiv and Kharkiv
[00:09:16] regions, they have long been used as transshipment bases by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Poroshenko,
[00:09:19] who, as president, promised that the children
[00:09:22] of Donbas would sit in basements, now predicts the same for all of
[00:09:26] Ukraine. The reality is such. The reality
[00:09:29] is such, the security situation is rapidly deteriorating. Russia,
[00:09:33] with its reactive drones, has made a technological breakthrough,
[00:09:37] and Ukraine has not developed effective air defense. At
[00:09:41] the village of Rymachina, a military echelon was hit by reactive
[00:09:44] drones. In total, so much railway transport has already been destroyed
[00:09:48] that Ukraine is forced to ask for it abroad, but in Europe
[00:09:51] the track gauge is different. We urge all our partners
[00:09:55] to urgently help us find locomotives compatible with
[00:09:58] the 1,520 mm track gauge,
[00:10:01] as well as financing to accelerate the purchase of new ones. They are threatening
[00:10:04] a harsh winter without light and heat. In Zaporizhzhia, a large
[00:10:08] power station was hit today. The whole of Ukraine's great.
[00:10:25] To conserve capacity, Ukraine tried to avoid its destruction. The military
[00:10:28] academy in Odessa is smoking, and throughout the Black Sea coast
[00:10:32] of Ukraine, port infrastructure is being disabled. As a result,
[00:10:36] a logistics center in the settlement of Velika Balka
[00:10:39] in the Odesa region was hit, providing storage and
[00:10:42] distribution of military cargo entering Ukraine from
[00:10:45] abroad. In the port of Chornomorsk, a dry cargo ship and a
[00:10:49] Ro-Ro type ferry, which delivered cargo intended for
[00:10:53] supporting the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Roll-on, roll-off class vessels, or
[00:10:57] simply Ro-Ro, are formally civilian, but have long been adapted for
[00:11:00] delivering military equipment. The convenience is that it doesn't even need
[00:11:03] to be unloaded, it just drives off the ship's ramp, and then
[00:11:07] appears on the front, like these Polish Crab self-propelled guns,
[00:11:10] American M-777 howitzers,
[00:11:13] destroyed today by Russian troops in the Zaporizhzhia
[00:11:17] direction. Our war correspondent Kirill Popov is working
[00:11:19] there.
[00:11:25] now our equipment, be it artillery, multiple
[00:11:28] rocket launcher systems,
[00:11:30] air defense, is accompanied by mobile fire groups, these guys
[00:11:34] are now moving out in advance to the right
[00:11:37] square. Then a self-propelled howitzer 100S rolls out of the forest belt
[00:11:40] to deliver a surprise strike.
[00:11:43] Shot!
[00:11:45] Shells one after another fly into Chervony Yar, a village in the Zaporizhzhia region, from where
[00:11:49] our assault groups still have to drive out the militants and where the enemy
[00:11:53] is currently active.
[00:11:56] And here are some more objective control shots, aerial reconnaissance records
[00:12:00] the landing of a Ukrainian hexacopter in a forest belt. The first shell
[00:12:03] is a ranging shot, the second immediately follows, and the UAV control point
[00:12:07] is already engulfed in fire. I think the enemies don't really like this, because
[00:12:10] there are very serious consequences. The same thing is happening now in
[00:12:14] another direction, the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration,
[00:12:17] Russian troops are approaching. The main direction is Druzhkovka, and
[00:12:21] further. We are liberating the territory directly in front of us. The creation continues.
[00:12:34] here are fresh shots from there, this is part of the Reznikovsky cauldron, into which up
[00:12:38] to 1700 in the Kharkiv region. Inside there are still
[00:12:41] servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fell 24 settlements,
[00:12:44] the ring is expanding in both directions,
[00:12:47] both inward and outward, depriving the enemy of any
[00:12:51] possibility to escape. To all those surrounded...
[00:12:55] the Russian army offers to surrender. Andrey Grigoriev, Maxim
[00:12:58] Shchepilov, Alexander Ivankov,
[00:13:00] Vesti!
[00:13:03] Enlisted personnel desperately demand rotation or at least normal
[00:13:07] supplies, however, commanders pretend that these problems
[00:13:10] do not concern them at all. Such is the content
[00:13:13] of enemy radio communications that our military managed to intercept in the area of the city of
[00:13:17] Dobropillia, where Ukrainian militants seem to have not only gotten stuck in
[00:13:21] their positions, but are also seriously starving.
[00:13:56] Well, in general, it can hardly be called a cry from the heart, the character
[00:14:00] is already so exhausted that he can barely squeeze out even a
[00:14:04] whisper, but his superior interlocutor simply
[00:14:07] turns off the radio, which means neither cigarettes, nor tea,
[00:14:11] let alone provisions, the inhabitants of the landing sites can not expect, all their
[00:14:15] hope is for the speedy arrival of Russian troops, who are always
[00:14:18] ready to provide demoralized Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel with a decent
[00:14:22] captivity, but at the same time merciless... to those who do not
[00:14:25] want to surrender, as, for example, on the approaches to Orekhovo, where the chief of staff
[00:14:29] of the 270th Motorized Rifle Regiment
[00:14:32] spoke about the specifics of combat operations. The most interesting fragments from his
[00:14:36] interview were selected by Anton Potkovenko. Anton, greetings, the enemy
[00:14:39] suicidally clings to areas that have long been
[00:14:43] under our fire control. Greetings, yes, exactly, therefore it suffers
[00:14:47] more and more losses.
[00:14:50] They press so hard that the enemy does not have time to rotate, FABs,
[00:14:53] drones, a series of raids by stormtroopers, the city of
[00:14:57] Orekhov, another fortress of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,
[00:15:00] in the grip of Russian troops, who are cracking the defense of the main
[00:15:04] fortified area of Zaporizhzhia from the ground
[00:15:06] and from the air. In the report of war correspondent Arti Vlad Andritsa,
[00:15:10] it is clearly visible how our aviation
[00:15:13] dislodges the enemy's drone operators hiding in the ruins.
[00:15:17] In the last 2-3 weeks, the Aerospace Forces
[00:15:20] of our country are now striking with FABs,
[00:15:23] 500s, thousands. at the landing sites, where
[00:15:27] the enemy's unmanned aerial vehicle crews are located, this
[00:15:30] is a great help for the people who work on
[00:15:34] the ground, without question.
[00:15:38] generally now, if you look at the enemy, he is
[00:15:41] already running out of steam in our direction, now they simply have no
[00:15:44] supplies, what should they do now, they themselves
[00:15:48] go out, look for something and at the same time our
[00:15:51] reconnaissance works constantly 24/7, always, if
[00:15:55] the enemy is spotted somewhere, a group of
[00:15:58] infantry comes out on the radio, they give approximate
[00:16:01] coordinates and then combat work
[00:16:04] begins, but best of all.
[00:16:37] Krynytsia, in the center Novodanylivka and that
[00:16:41] very Malaya Tokmachka, around
[00:16:44] which there were so many evil memes from the Ukrainian
[00:16:47] side, many remember Malaya
[00:16:51] Tokmachka, located southeast of Orekhovo, it
[00:16:54] repeatedly changed hands over these years, now
[00:16:58] our forces not only entrenched themselves in Malaya Tokmachka, but made
[00:17:01] a dash that seemed a complete gamble, reaching
[00:17:05] the outskirts of Preobrazhenka and Orekhovo, and managing
[00:17:08] to hold on to them, here, perhaps, the enemy was played a cruel joke
[00:17:12] by the habitual
[00:17:15] confidence from the summer of 2023
[00:17:18] that Orekhovo is an impregnable fortress,
[00:17:22] because simultaneously with this, our troops began
[00:17:25] an advance near Orekhovo
[00:17:29] with the aim of encircling it,
[00:17:32] the Chief of Staff of the 270th
[00:17:35] Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Guards. The assault
[00:17:57] group that came from the east side was supported by
[00:18:00] artillery, the group that came from the south side was
[00:18:03] supported by the drone crew. Thanks to
[00:18:07] this good plan and good decision, we
[00:18:10] were able to break through to the eastern part
[00:18:14] of the prison, where the industrial zone is located, and
[00:18:17] entrenched ourselves in the buildings where there used to be
[00:18:21] barracks, but we are already moving further along
[00:18:24] the road that leads to
[00:18:26] Orekhovo,
[00:18:28] and there are clear prerequisites for the entire Orekhovsky defensive
[00:18:32] area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to collapse much earlier
[00:18:35] than actually expected. This is partly because our soldiers are taking
[00:18:39] the N08 highway under fire control,
[00:18:42] which connects Orekhov and Zaporizhzhia.
[00:18:46] This is a crucial logistical artery for the city
[00:18:50] garrison. I'm standing on the road that leads to this
[00:18:54] highway, at the intersection. Well, of course, the H08 highway
[00:18:57] is a federal highway that passes
[00:19:01] through the city of Orekhiv and leads to
[00:19:03] the regional capital, the city of Zaporizhzhia.
[00:19:06] And fire control over sections of this
[00:19:09] road is critically important, yes, we are taking, of course,
[00:19:13] sections of this federal road under fire
[00:19:16] control with the help of our unmanned aerial
[00:19:19] vehicles.
[00:19:23] About the N08, our fighters say this: if the enemy
[00:19:26] loses the highway, he will lose Orekhovo, and if he loses Orekhovo,
[00:19:30] he will lose Zaporizhzhia, meaning another
[00:19:34] Ukrainian Armed Forces fortress is indeed strongly fortified.
[00:19:56] and the development of the offensive on Orekhovo. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine today voted for
[00:19:58] the final resignation of the head of the Prosecutor General's Office, Ruslan
[00:20:01] Kravchenko. Thus, he became the fourth consecutive head
[00:20:05] of this department who...
[00:20:11] resigned not on his own initiative and, like his three predecessors, managed
[00:20:14] to flee abroad, and now from afar observes
[00:20:17] new details of the corruption scandal, where there was room not only
[00:20:21] for covering up fraudulent call centers, but also for
[00:20:24] numerous bribes and even the actual hijacking of a service
[00:20:27] car, about the scale of impunity and how Western
[00:20:31] patrons of Kyiv react to inconvenient truth, in the
[00:20:34] material by Evgeny Reshetnyov. About
[00:20:37] giving consent to the dismissal of the President of
[00:20:41] Ukraine, Ruslan Andreevich Kravchenko, from the post of Prosecutor
[00:20:45] General.
[00:20:48] The decision has been made. And the obedient parliament
[00:20:51] votes to dismiss the head of the regime, his own man, Prosecutor General
[00:20:55] Kravchenko. He had to do it reluctantly, because NABU and
[00:20:58] SAPO were too strongly after him.
[00:21:01] How did it happen that Mr.
[00:21:04] Kravchenko, who before 2019 was in the ATO,
[00:21:07] investigating Yanukovych's crimes, headed
[00:21:10] the criminal Carthage and turned the prosecutor's office, you know, into some kind
[00:21:14] of gang that simply covers up businesses and criminal
[00:21:17] call centers. From the country, Kravchenko unleashed what
[00:21:20] journalists called the war of tapes. In response to NABU's
[00:21:23] recordings, where employees of the Prosecutor General's Office were accused
[00:21:26] of covering up fraudulent call centers,
[00:21:29] the former Prosecutor General publishes his own, where
[00:21:32] he claims that the head of the anti-corruption bureau
[00:21:35] Krivonos, is himself a corrupt official with experience.
[00:21:38] He took a bribe, he received a bribe. Kravchenko completely
[00:21:42] copies the style of NABU's videos, which named each episode of their series
[00:21:46] catchily so that the public would remember.