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20260915 230000 UTC
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[00:01:10] Two nights in Moscow, this is a live broadcast on Russia 24, in the studio is
[00:01:14] Roman Plyusov. Hello. Another
[00:01:17] village in the Kharkiv region, Olkhovatka, has come under the control of our units.
[00:01:20] This settlement is located directly
[00:01:23] inside the Reznikovsky cauldron, where thousands of AFU militants are blocked.
[00:01:27] Their situation is getting worse every day. It's impossible to escape
[00:01:31] the encirclement. The enemy is offered to surrender.
[00:01:34] In case of refusal, they will face complete elimination.
[00:01:38] Our troops daily inflict massive strikes on the rear of Ukraine
[00:01:42] in the Volyn region. A railway train with military cargo was derailed.
[00:01:45] In Kyiv and Sumy, weapons depots and
[00:01:48] power stations and gas stations were attacked.
[00:01:52] In the Odesa region, a logistics center was hit, in the port of Chornomorsk - a dry cargo ship and
[00:01:56] a ferry, in the Kharkiv region, a drone depot.
[00:02:00] and spare parts for them.
[00:02:03] Ukrainian taxi drivers help the Zelensky regime in forced
[00:02:06] mobilization. This is reported by TASS citing an anonymous
[00:02:09] source in Russian law enforcement agencies. The scheme
[00:02:12] is simple: a person gets into a taxi, and they are immediately taken to
[00:02:15] the military enlistment office. Often, policemen and
[00:02:19] TCC employees are already in the cars. Viktoria
[00:02:22] Talberg
[00:02:23] is monitoring the progress of Ukrainian mobilization.
[00:02:28] That's how a woman in a hand-to-hand fight pounces on ghouls
[00:02:31] in camouflage. The enraged Ukrainian woman literally alone
[00:02:34] manages to fend off a whole bus from headhunters.
[00:02:38] Moreover, such local conflicts are already escalating into real
[00:02:42] underground resistance. Women, mothers, and
[00:02:45] wives are standing up to protect the remaining men
[00:02:48] in Ukraine. Give back my child, you took
[00:02:51] my son. The situation with
[00:02:55] catching people seems to have already reached its peak. Even
[00:02:58] children are suffering. Here...
[00:03:11] A man ran into the territory of the educational institution, chased by
[00:03:15] unknown people in camouflage, probably TCC employees. During
[00:03:19] the chase, they sprayed pepper spray. A third-grade student
[00:03:22] was injured, and this teenager was even less lucky in Volyn. A bike ride
[00:03:26] ended in busification. In these shots, several burly men in
[00:03:30] camouflage drag a schoolboy. In order to fulfill the plan of sending 35,000
[00:03:34] people a month to the front, military enlistment offices are already ready to steal
[00:03:37] children. Wait for us, you morons,
[00:03:41] you're awesome. In Ukraine, there is already a general panic. People go out into the streets
[00:03:44] with heavy objects to try to
[00:03:47] fight back. The man took a hammer to
[00:03:50] defend himself from the TCC. The man took a hammer to defend himself from
[00:03:53] the TCC. What have you driven people to, that they grab hammers? To become
[00:03:57] a passenger of a minibus is, in fact, to get a ticket
[00:04:01] to nowhere. The chances of returning are extremely small. People in uniform have created
[00:04:04] real concentration camps in Ukraine, where they simply mock people,
[00:04:08] their own citizens. They beat me with clubs, three people, then poured
[00:04:12] water on me, threw me into the basement in handcuffs, I lay there with dogs. The only
[00:04:16] chance to be released is to pay. The price of freedom
[00:04:19] reaches half a million rubles, but ordinary Ukrainians certainly
[00:04:23] don't have that kind of money, because mostly ordinary
[00:04:26] laborers are rounded up. If they catch you, then...
[00:05:03] The Verkhovna Rada voted to dismiss the Prosecutor General of
[00:05:06] Ukraine. Thus, the deputies supported Zelensky's decision, who
[00:05:10] earlier by his decree dismissed Ruslan.
[00:05:31] another security official close to the head of the specialized anti-corruption
[00:05:34] prosecutor's office, also on suspicion of
[00:05:37] corruption. Alternative for Germany intends to
[00:05:40] stop military aid to Ukraine and achieve full normalization of relations with
[00:05:44] Russia, claims the German newspaper Bild. As the publication writes,
[00:05:48] the AfD working group approved a concept in which, among
[00:05:51] the key points, is the resumption of trade and
[00:05:55] purchases of hydrocarbons from Russia.
[00:05:58] Meanwhile, Chancellor Merz's policy has made him one of the most
[00:06:01] unpopular leaders in Europe, with a rating of only
[00:06:04] 10%. What Germans especially dislike about Merz
[00:06:07] on the eve of new regional elections, Maria
[00:06:10] Skorodilka found out.
[00:06:42] The main thing is different now. We don't need a chancellor who hates
[00:06:46] people. The election results in the East exposed the problem
[00:06:49] on a large scale, and that is the personality of Merz. Even in the West, people
[00:06:53] are dissatisfied with his government, and it turned out that the problems are still the same: high
[00:06:57] prices, a course towards war, many words, little action.
[00:07:00] He is still rambling about statements that he
[00:07:03] should have thought about. As chancellor, he is
[00:07:06] reckless.
[00:07:09] He ignores us so much, almost nothing is done for families. Everything
[00:07:12] is being cut. Everything I get, I pour into the car
[00:07:16] tank. In fact, I work for free. What will happen after
[00:07:20] the elections? Will Merz leave his post, or will force have to
[00:07:23] be used for that? Experts debate live, saying
[00:07:27] that early parliamentary elections are just around the corner. There is
[00:07:30] a scenario for Merz's overthrow. Axenant
[00:07:33] regenrecht. After the failure in Saxony-Anhalt, the CDU faces
[00:07:37] another blow. Will the Chancellor's party be kicked out of the Landtag in
[00:07:40] Mecklenburg-Vorpommern? Current polls show the AfD
[00:07:44] in the lead. At the same time, Christian Democrats are getting only
[00:07:48] 7%. What will happen next? Friedrich Merz simply
[00:07:51] leaves voluntarily or under enormous pressure from his
[00:07:54] own party, or the Bundestag elects a specific successor
[00:07:58] by a majority vote. The third scenario is if Merz himself admits
[00:08:02] his mistake and addresses the parliament. And then the President of Germany, Frank-Walter
[00:08:05] Steinmeier, within 21 days, will have to dissolve
[00:08:09] the Bundestag. However, the probability of Merz doing exactly that.
[00:08:42] Russia is not our enemy, this is written on my poster. Sorry, of course, I
[00:08:46] watch our propaganda, but I don't believe them. It's much
[00:08:50] more complicated here. Russia took a stand. It wants to end
[00:08:53] the war. It wants to eradicate Nazism in Ukraine, just as we
[00:08:57] once wanted the same for ourselves. What's wrong with that? Against the backdrop
[00:09:00] of falling ratings, Merz plans to enlist the support of the party, but he has
[00:09:04] many enemies there.
[00:09:07] The problems of the CDU go far beyond the question
[00:09:10] of Merz.
[00:09:12] Restructuring, returning to the course that Merz once advocated,
[00:09:16] a consistent policy of reforms. This means that he will have to put
[00:09:20] pressure on the SPD, be ready to accept the collapse of the current
[00:09:23] government. If that doesn't work, lead a minority government with
[00:09:27] a shifting majority. Alas, but this is the only way for this
[00:09:30] government. The German opposition has already stated that in the upcoming elections in
[00:09:34] Pomerania, they are confident in their victory, and in the failure of personal
[00:09:37] ratings and the CDU, the German Chancellor is to blame himself by supporting
[00:09:41] Ukraine, he simply.
[00:09:55] and many forget about this, it happens through the EU,
[00:09:58] because 200 billion euros were also transferred
[00:10:02] there. Germany has a 25% share
[00:10:04] in the EU, thus 150 billion euros,
[00:10:08] which is almost the entire special budget that we withdrew.
[00:10:25] Berlin has long been pumping weapons into Kyiv. Information has emerged that
[00:10:29] some secret government unit, the so-called
[00:10:31] Sonderstab, which is based in the German Ministry of Defense building,
[00:10:35] in a particularly protected wing, is purchasing it for Ukraine,
[00:10:39] writes the Financial Times. According to the publication, it concludes deals for
[00:10:42] the supply of weapons to Ukraine in the shortest possible time, bypassing German
[00:10:46] bureaucracy, and makes possible the supply of shells in just two
[00:10:49] weeks. About 20 people work in the Sonderstab, who
[00:10:53] are well versed in... systems, speaking before.