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[00:01:00] Daily news channel Russia 24, we
[00:01:03] are live. Today is the Day
[00:01:06] of Agricultural and Processing
[00:01:09] Industry Workers. The agricultural sector is one of the most dynamic
[00:01:12] branches of modern economy. Russia has become
[00:01:15] a leading grain power. Our producers virtually
[00:01:19] fully supply the domestic market. Vladimir Putin
[00:01:22] congratulated agrarians on their professional holiday.
[00:01:26] Thanks to your energy and dedication.
[00:02:00] farms had to face a whole range
[00:02:03] of difficulties, they are caused by sanctions,
[00:02:07] infrastructure and export barriers, rising
[00:02:10] costs. The state will definitely continue
[00:02:14] to provide agrarians with necessary assistance, to assist
[00:02:17] both in solving operational issues related to fuel,
[00:02:21] transportation and sales of products, in providing
[00:02:25] with seed material, as well as generally continue
[00:02:28] to systematically support the agro-industrial sector, which faces
[00:02:32] large-scale tasks.
[00:02:35] Russian military took control of two settlements in Kharkiv
[00:02:39] region, Lukashovo and Labanovka. The cleansing
[00:02:42] of the Vovchansk cauldron continues, where the enemy lost about
[00:02:46] 50 militants in a day. Fighters of the Center group in Dobropolye in
[00:02:49] the DPR liberated 82 buildings, disrupting
[00:02:53] attempts by the AFU to break out of the city. The Russian army
[00:02:56] continues to strike at Ukraine's military infrastructure.
[00:03:00] Vessels used to deliver military cargo to the AFU came under attack.
[00:03:03] More details on the situation from Vitaly
[00:03:06] Kormazin.
[00:03:09] Wow, it hit hard, everything was hit, they hit
[00:03:12] the power line. Near Dnepropetrovsk, reactive Gerani
[00:03:15] are cutting another power line, and there a new post office terminal
[00:03:19] was destroyed. Phew, maybe a second one. Explosions at warehouses in
[00:03:22] Ilyichevsk and Odessa, where after the strikes the lights went out all over the city, including
[00:03:26] at military enterprises and, what is most important, in the port. The Ministry of Defense
[00:03:30] of Russia reports that the exit of Ukraine to the sea remains under fire control.
[00:03:33] As a result of the strike at sea, a dry cargo vessel
[00:03:36] carrying military cargo to the port of Odessa was hit.
[00:03:40] In Odessa itself, the office of the Internet provider
[00:03:44] TNet was destroyed, on whose servers data used for military
[00:03:47] purposes was stored. In the capital, interceptors again shot down
[00:03:51] several missiles directly over residential buildings.
[00:03:54] And this is the consequence of the explosion in the restaurant "Desant", where, according to local
[00:03:58] public pages, people like to gather.
[00:04:02] In Kyiv, there is a transport collapse, the subway is de-energized, all due to
[00:04:05] hits on large distribution substations.
[00:04:09] If we do not take the Kyiv agglomeration, but take the entire territory of Ukraine, then
[00:04:13] the Russians want to cut off electricity supplies from the right bank
[00:04:16] war was nothing like to the left bank. They hit one support 30-40 times
[00:04:20] to completely bring it down. Military enterprises
[00:04:23] that produce drones and components for them are forced
[00:04:27] to reduce, or even completely stop production. According to local
[00:04:30] experts, even with round-the-clock work to
[00:04:33] restore infrastructure, it will not be possible to repair it quickly, and
[00:04:36] therefore, Kyiv residents, for example, are advised to leave the city,
[00:04:39] imagine that you will not have, imagine that you will not have water, heat, light for
[00:04:43] a week, for example, 2 months, this is a difficult task, a big
[00:04:46] problem, the same methodical approach in attacks on railways, every
[00:04:50] month Russia destroys about 40 locomotives,
[00:04:53] we clarify that in September we had already lost 553
[00:04:57] locomotives, which is more than 10% of the entire fleet.
[00:05:01] The basis of the attacking swarm is reactive Gerani of new
[00:05:03] generations, this is the first one that reached Lviv. And for
[00:05:07] Ukrainian air defense, this is still an insoluble
[00:05:09] problem.
[00:05:12] are tested at speeds up to 800 km/h, and when diving they
[00:05:16] can accelerate up to 100-100 km/h. We need to focus
[00:05:20] on radars, interceptors and turrets. Patriots are mentioned less
[00:05:23] and less, it seems no one plans to supply them to Kyiv in large
[00:05:26] quantities. The Telegraph newspaper comes out with the headline: Spain and
[00:05:30] Greece refuse to give Ukraine even expired
[00:05:34] shells. Ukrainian officials noted that in 4 years Kyiv
[00:05:37] received only 600 such missiles. Kyiv states that this
[00:05:41] is a reserve for 2 months, and therefore Russian attacks are becoming more effective. Strike on
[00:05:44] the infrastructure of the railway station Kryvyi Rih Main in Dnepropetrovsk
[00:05:48] region. Warehouse facilities in
[00:05:52] Nikolaev were damaged, where military property was stored. At night,
[00:05:55] port infrastructure facilities in Odessa were attacked, and this is a hit in the port of Nikolaev
[00:05:59] region.
[00:06:01] Burned down warehouses in Zaytsevo, Dnepropetrovsk region, where UAV components
[00:06:05] were stored. At the same time, explosions in
[00:06:08] Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk and Vinnytsia. The Rubicon unit is now hunting for... trucks
[00:06:12] and lorries that supply military
[00:06:15] cargo. At the same time, there is no escape from Russian drones on the
[00:06:19] combat contact line, armored vehicles with
[00:06:22] anti-drone nets and trucks with
[00:06:24] machine guns are burning.
[00:06:28] Russian UAV operators systematically track down ground
[00:06:31] robotic systems of the AFU and attack enemy drone
[00:06:34] control points. Here's what it looks like from inside
[00:06:38] a Ukrainian dugout, buzzing sound
[00:06:40] impact. The Russian Ministry of Defense reports on
[00:06:44] the advance of the assault troops of the 51st army in Dobropolye and on taking control
[00:06:47] of the settlements Lukashovo and Labanovka
[00:06:50] in the Kharkiv region. Here, units of the North group of forces
[00:06:54] are tightening the encirclement of a large group of the AFU and
[00:06:57] expanding the external zone
[00:06:59] of control.
[00:07:01] Vitaly Karmazin, Eva Safronova and Philip Nazarov.
[00:07:04] Vesti. Uralvagonzavod celebrates
[00:07:07] its ninetieth anniversary. Here they produce modernized
[00:07:10] T-72 BM. PT Spiridon and the main
[00:07:14] battle tank of the Russian army T-90M Proryv. About
[00:07:17] how the combat vehicles are tested in the report by Albert
[00:07:21] Musin.
[00:07:25] Shooting at the UVZ test range does not stop for a
[00:07:28] second. They shoot from morning
[00:07:31] till evening, from all types
[00:07:34] of weapons.
[00:07:37] Nikita, a weapons tester, monitors the aiming and automatic loading. He
[00:07:41] is a successor of one of the largest factory dynasties, whose total love for
[00:07:45] tanks accumulated 734 years. My aunt works in
[00:07:48] the armored museum, and all my free time in summer during
[00:07:52] holidays I spent in the armored museum, climbing on tanks. In
[00:07:56] another part of the testing ground, running loads are being applied simultaneously, there are many
[00:07:59] new machines, and without tests, the troops will not accept them, so there is their own
[00:08:02] conveyor, just in the spirit of UVZ, the main tank factory
[00:08:06] of the country.
[00:08:09] Uralvagonzavod celebrates its ninetieth anniversary at its production
[00:08:13] peak. One of its main creations is the deeply modernized
[00:08:16] T-72 B3M with modern aiming and firing
[00:08:20] systems, and drone protection. Another iconic product is the IMR -
[00:08:24] engineering obstacle clearing vehicles for clearing blockages in the path of troop
[00:08:27] columns. The heavily armed BMPT Spiridon was created to
[00:08:31] cover armored columns and raid enemy rear areas. And, of course,
[00:08:34] the main battle tank of the Russian army, the T-90M Proryv,
[00:08:38] capable of monitoring the situation 360° and autonomously
[00:08:42] hitting some targets. UVZ specialists are at the front,
[00:08:45] they help repair equipment along the entire line of combat contact,
[00:08:49] right here we have the same machine, that is, it has a crane, we also
[00:08:52] use it to lift the turret and change engines, it's hard
[00:08:56] work, yes, because we don't have a roof over our heads, sometimes we do it in
[00:08:59] dugouts, UVZ has been building its labor glory since
[00:09:02] 1931, the beginning of the construction of the giant plant, but already in
[00:09:05] '36 the first wagons were made, and this is considered the year
[00:09:09] of birth of Uralvagonzavod. In 1941,
[00:09:12] 12 factories were evacuated to Tagil, including from Kharkov, and literally
[00:09:16] 2.5 months later the tank of victory went to the front,
[00:09:19] the legendary T-34. They know, their work
[00:09:23] helped achieve a new victory. Since then, tanks have become the hallmark of the factory
[00:09:27] alongside wagons. Since the evacuation of the Kharkov factory, the entire
[00:09:31] history of UVZ is a chronicle of true engineering audacity, where
[00:09:34] every bold experiment gradually turned into a revolution in
[00:09:38] world tank building. For example, the return to long guns
[00:09:42] or... the transition from rifled to smoothbore weapons and
[00:09:45] generally the appearance of the world's first anti-atomic tank, whose
[00:09:48] crew could survive and continue the battle, even in the event of a nuclear
[00:09:52] attack. The culmination of decades of hard work was the T-72 tank with
[00:09:55] layered armor and a 125 mm caliber gun. On
[00:09:59] the T-72 tank for the first time in Tagil history appeared
[00:10:03] an automatic loader. Later, another novelty made headlines worldwide,
[00:10:07] the most perfect at that time
[00:10:08] T-90.
[00:10:11] The factory also doesn't forget its origins, as it began its
[00:10:15] work in 1936 as a wagon enterprise for the needs of the actively
[00:10:18] growing Soviet industry.
[00:10:21] Here they assemble universal bogies for transporting coal, oil, containers
[00:10:24] with. For 90 years, the plant has been at the forefront of various engineering
[00:10:27] developments, each batch of combat vehicles receives new types of protection
[00:10:31] from shells and drones, sighting systems, new types of weapons
[00:10:35] in how to assemble all this into one formidable machine and the
[00:10:39] engineering genius of tank builders is manifested.
[00:10:42] Albert Musin, Alexander Smirnov, Lugunov, Lina Goleeva. Vesti,
[00:10:45] Sverdlovsk region.
[00:10:48] The Russian Embassy in Saudi Arabia is clarifying whether there are citizens
[00:10:52] of our country among those affected by the attacks on
[00:10:56] Riyadh International Airport. According to
[00:10:59] the Kingdom's Civil Aviation Authority, 12 people died,
[00:11:02] more than 300 were injured. The airport suspended operations,
[00:11:06] passengers and staff were urgently evacuated.
[00:11:09] The Yemeni Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack. In
[00:11:12] response, the Arab coalition stated that it would not leave the
[00:11:16] attack on the airport in Riyadh unanswered. This missile strike
[00:11:19] was the second in 3 days. The Houthis call their actions a response to
[00:11:23] Saudi bombardments of Yemeni
[00:11:25] territory. On the Italian island of Lipore,
[00:11:29] road and utility workers are clearing
[00:11:33] streets after a powerful flood. It was caused by
[00:11:36] torrential rains. Dozens of residential buildings were flooded. Rescuers
[00:11:40] helped people get out of blocked premises.
[00:11:43] No one was injured, many cars were damaged. Due to
[00:11:47] debris and rubbish in the harbor, ship
[00:11:50] traffic is hampered.
[00:11:53] Bashkortostan celebrates Republic Day. The holiday will last 4
[00:11:57] days, and its program includes folk festivals, concerts, exhibitions
[00:12:00] and sports competitions. All the details from Murat
[00:12:03] Zaripov. The culmination of the sports season. Right
[00:12:07] now, participants are preparing for the main start of this year, the race for
[00:12:11] the Bashkortostan Republic Cup. In just a few seconds, the signal
[00:12:14] to start sounds.
[00:12:18] A fierce struggle continues right up to the very last meters of the distance, because
[00:12:22] at stake is not just a cup, but also the title of the best of the best.
[00:12:27] The last race of the racing season is invariably held on Republic
[00:12:30] Day, with honor to bear the name
[00:12:33] of Shaymuratovets, I swear,
[00:12:36] I swear. The ceremony of initiation into Shaymuratovets is also
[00:12:40] a tradition, although much more recent. Students
[00:12:43] of patriotic classes, named in honor of the Hero of Russia, commander of the famous
[00:12:47] 112th Bashkir Cavalry Division named after Shaymuratov,
[00:12:51] solemnly take an oath: to be loyal to their people
[00:12:55] and to study well. Today in this formation there are 550
[00:12:58] schoolchildren from all over
[00:12:59] the republic.
[00:13:03] The Republic honors its heroes, including representatives of working
[00:13:07] professions, cultural figures and artists, scientists and
[00:13:10] , of course, veterans of the special military
[00:13:12] operation.
[00:13:16] It is precisely the support of servicemen, veterans of military actions and their families
[00:13:19] that is currently the main task of the region, which celebrates its main holiday
[00:13:23] with the slogan: "Everything for victory." It is very important to always
[00:13:26] prioritize, in this difficult period
[00:13:30] for our country, of course, everything for victory, this is the support
[00:13:33] of our warriors, this is ensuring the defense capability of our
[00:13:37] country, this is the coordinated work of the economy, the social
[00:13:40] sphere, at the same time I always say that our
[00:13:44] task is for the economy to work stably, because we
[00:13:47] must provide all social guarantees, all necessary payments. Dozens
[00:13:51] of public organizations and volunteer associations
[00:13:55] joined this work from the very first days of the special operation, and now veterans
[00:13:58] of military operations themselves are joining it, returning
[00:14:01] home after service. We try very hard to
[00:14:05] help the families
[00:14:08] of veterans.
[00:14:10] Now I am just getting into the work of providing
[00:14:14] assistance and support
[00:14:17] to veterans. A lot of humanitarian aid is sent
[00:14:21] from the republic, both timber and all sorts of...
[00:14:30] New social and infrastructure facilities,
[00:14:34] and updated public spaces opened simultaneously in several
[00:14:37] districts of the
[00:14:40] republic, became a real holiday gift for the residents.
[00:14:43] Murat Zaripov, Sergey Shilipin, Timfir Abzalov, Vesti: Republic of
[00:14:46] Bashkortostan.
[00:15:14] They are soldiers of fortune, wild geese, dogs of war, whatever
[00:15:17] they are called, in other words,
[00:15:19] mercenaries.
[00:15:27] And Poles, Frenchmen, Brazilians, there was everyone, everyone was there, where
[00:15:31] Poles, Frenchmen
[00:15:33] were
[00:15:35] and Negroes, we saw Negroes. Citizens of
[00:15:39] Great Britain, USA, Brazil,
[00:15:42] Colombia and Venezuela were also
[00:15:45] identified. They call the fighting in Ukraine a safari,
[00:15:49] hunting Russians in search of easy money. First of all, of course,
[00:15:52] we are talking about high fees, so high that
[00:15:56] it is even difficult to imagine. As a bonus: torture, robbery, looting:
[00:16:00] someone goes to earn money, someone with a real thirst to kill,
[00:16:03] there was no distinction, woman or not a woman, they shoot everyone
[00:16:07] indiscriminately.
[00:16:11] Among the local population there was an opinion that
[00:16:15] foreign mercenaries are distinguished by particular cruelty. Then I fired
[00:16:18] three short bursts from the automatic rifle, killing
[00:16:22] three people.
[00:16:25] I'm telling you about the Georgian Legion, now we
[00:16:28] will not take Russian soldiers prisoner
[00:16:31] under any circumstances.
[00:16:42] So you are sending your angry
[00:16:45] sons to us, there is a place for them in the fields of Russia,
[00:16:49] among graves that are not alien
[00:16:50] to them.
[00:16:55] Defenders, heroes
[00:16:57] of Ukraine.
[00:17:19] Who are they, why do they travel thousands of kilometers for a foreign war,
[00:17:23] what crimes do they commit and what does such bloody
[00:17:26] tourism turn into for them? Our new film is about foreign mercenaries,
[00:17:30] the most despised category of fighters, no one likes them,
[00:17:33] not even those on whose side they are.
[00:18:38] the participation of mercenaries in combat operations, a special investigative
[00:18:41] group was created for the investigation, it included the most
[00:18:45] experienced investigators of the central office of the department, interdepartmental
[00:18:48] interaction with operational and intelligence
[00:18:51] bodies was organized, criminalists and experts
[00:18:55] of the department were involved in the investigative work. The problem
[00:18:57] of mercenary activities and the formation of the Kyiv
[00:19:01] regime, it has existed for a very long time, it is a mistake to think that all this
[00:19:04] appeared only in 2022, for the first time...
[00:19:07] manifested itself in such, as they usually say, a full bloom, in this case
[00:19:11] an orange bloom, as part of the same Orange
[00:19:14] Revolution, when under the guise of protesters
[00:19:18] came out precisely recruited, well-trained,
[00:19:21] then the events of 2013 and 2014
[00:19:24] , of course, showed
[00:19:27] that these were no longer isolated cases and
[00:19:31] not even dozens, or even
[00:19:34] hundreds. These people were trained on the territory of countries,
[00:19:37] primarily such as Poland and, of course,
[00:19:41] the Baltic countries. They were trained there in
[00:19:44] special camps, trained for street fighting.
[00:19:48] They were all surprised later when they realized where they had ended up. The real
[00:19:53] that, but I thank my God that
[00:19:57] for the grenade that fell on me there, it would have turned me into
[00:20:01] shit, but thank God it only injured
[00:20:04] my arm. And...
[00:20:13] yesterday they tried to come to us, but they
[00:20:16] didn't quite succeed. What prevented
[00:20:19] him from staying home? We are working, brothers,
[00:20:22] at best, mercenaries return home in an urn with ashes, more often bodies
[00:20:26] or what is left of them rest in damp earth, however there is another
[00:20:30] option.
[00:20:30] of
[00:22:50] CIS countries, Armenia, Georgia,
[00:22:54] Uzbekistan,
[00:22:56] yes, quite a large geography, quite
[00:23:00] extensive, so to speak, a large number
[00:23:03] of participants are involved in this conflict, an investigator
[00:23:07] of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia, together with his colleagues, has been collecting evidence
[00:23:10] of crimes committed by Ukrainian militants and their
[00:23:14] foreign accomplices for several months. The number of
[00:23:17] individuals who took part in the territory
[00:23:21] of the region, for which we have already collected
[00:23:24] evidence, and sent these criminal cases to court, is
[00:23:28] 28. The region was liberated more than a year ago, but the work
[00:23:31] of investigators did not stop, the main task is to identify
[00:23:35] and punish those involved in the attack, when
[00:23:38] any war
[00:23:41] criminal is detained, yes, who committed any
[00:23:45] crimes, they all always deny their involvement
[00:23:49] in the commission. As an excuse for themselves, they say
[00:23:52] that they held positions as cooks, that they
[00:23:55] held positions in the orchestra,
[00:23:58] yes, they even say that, even in the rear
[00:24:02] they were shuffling papers.
[00:24:59] In fact, such a reaction from people is quite understandable, this is not
[00:25:02] the first time we have worked in Kursk, based on experience we can say
[00:25:06] that it is very difficult for people to return to
[00:25:09] those memories, to that pain and relive it again
[00:25:13] and again, because many have of course lost
[00:25:16] everything, home, shelter, relatives.
[00:25:20] loved ones, and talking about it on camera,
[00:25:23] remembering it again, reliving that pain, picking at wounds
[00:25:27] that have not yet healed completely,
[00:25:30] they certainly don't want to do that again, therefore not everyone is ready
[00:25:34] to communicate on camera
[00:25:36] and share their memories.
[00:25:39] Facts, namely,
[00:25:43] murders, violence, committed against
[00:25:46] local residents, who
[00:25:50] were absolutely peaceful residents, not
[00:25:53] involved in the conflict,
[00:25:56] who were not military personnel, that
[00:26:00] is... those people whose interests
[00:26:04] were protected not only by Russian norms, but also by
[00:26:08] international norms, which
[00:26:10] prohibit the use of any force against peaceful
[00:26:14] civilians.
[00:26:21] Hundreds of Kursk residents are recognized as victims, the investigation is still
[00:26:24] questioning witnesses at the crime scene, that is, at their
[00:26:27] homes. This is Viktor Klyuev from the village of Kazachya Loknya, accustomed to living, as
[00:26:31] they say, on the land. He takes care of the garden and livestock, so he and his
[00:26:35] wife ended up in occupation for a long 7 months, it was a pity to abandon
[00:26:38] the farm, and we had guys there, well, maybe two people, we didn't
[00:26:42] know, we only saw it later, when
[00:26:45] they climbed onto the school roof, broke it
[00:26:49] and installed a machine gun, it turned out, well, we only
[00:26:52] understood this later, and the machine gun, well, they install a machine gun there, swear,
[00:26:55] our guys there started climbing on them yelling, screaming there, only a machine gun
[00:26:59] burst, well, at that time they were being
[00:27:02] shot because they were climbing on them, but I understood that
[00:27:06] well, these were not the Ukrainians themselves, this was the first mercenary
[00:27:09] brigade that came, they are real
[00:27:12] animals.
[00:27:21] You saw, these are bullet holes, see, those
[00:27:24] who climbed, who tried to leave, were also shot in
[00:27:27] the car, approximately, they try to run away in cars, they are shot, well, mercenaries, I
[00:27:31] would say, as