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[00:00:28] The information service of the Zvezda TV channel presents the news with you,
[00:00:32] Denis Kochanov. Here are some topics
[00:00:34] of the broadcast.
[00:00:36] Storming enemy positions in the Novopavlovka
[00:00:38] area.
[00:00:43] Advancing towards Dobropolye in the direction
[00:00:45] of Orekhovo.
[00:00:48] Here is one of the Kamikaze drones that our guys shot down from an assault aircraft with
[00:00:52] the help of small arms, but they took
[00:00:55] it with them as a memento of the liberation. We will tell
[00:00:58] you the details of this.
[00:01:30] Survived after the plane crash, how did the pilots survive in
[00:01:34] the Irkutsk taiga, what helped to find them and in what condition
[00:01:38] are they now?
[00:01:40] From the memes, the president is the same Harold hiding the pain,
[00:01:44] he can become a people's candidate, why do Hungarians support him and how did
[00:01:48] he appear on the political
[00:01:49] radar.
[00:01:56] Our troops attacked several regions of Ukraine at once, targeting
[00:02:00] facilities used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In
[00:02:03] the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Bogdanovskaya substation was attacked, which
[00:02:06] powered electric trains delivering military cargo. Nearby, in
[00:02:10] Nikolaev, after in Nikopol, after the attack of our
[00:02:13] drones, a gas station completely burned out. Militants refueled
[00:02:17] equipment there. They also attacked warehouses and production
[00:02:21] facilities of factories in Zaporizhzhia. Explosions thundered in the Kherson
[00:02:24] region, where they attacked a military equipment storage
[00:02:27] facility of militants. In the Kharkiv region, under...
[00:02:36] This is a key transport hub for transferring personnel and reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the central and western regions of Ukraine. In addition, in
[00:02:40] the Black Sea near Odessa, our troops hit two
[00:02:43] dry cargo ships that were delivering
[00:02:46] military cargo. They were struck by Geran-4
[00:02:49] drones. There, as reported by the Ministry of Defense, the naval
[00:02:52] aviation of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed an unmanned boat
[00:02:55] of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
[00:02:58] And now the latest data from the summary. The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost almost
[00:03:01] 1,400 Ukrainian military
[00:03:04] mercenaries in a day, most of them in the zone of responsibility of the Center
[00:03:07] and East troop groups. Assault aircraft are getting closer to
[00:03:11] Orekhov every day. Our troops expanded the bridgehead along the Verkhnyaya
[00:03:15] Tersa River after the liberation of Zornitsa. The settlement was taken
[00:03:18] the day before. They entered carefully in twos and
[00:03:21] carefully watched where to step. The entire ground was strewn
[00:03:24] with mines. Our war correspondent Pavel Koltsov learned the details of the
[00:03:27] assault. The artillery of the Vostok troop group
[00:03:31] is plowing through the forest belts in the vicinity of the village of Zornitsa. Massive
[00:03:35] artillery preparation is a sure sign of an imminent assault. The enemy was waiting for the assault
[00:03:38] aircraft to roll in when they were already in the settlement. The fighters of the Fifth Tank Brigade
[00:03:42] infiltrated Zornitsa for several days, in small
[00:03:45] groups through mine barriers. They entered
[00:03:48] in groups, and separated into pairs
[00:03:52] and kept
[00:03:55] very long distances. And, well, if you have to
[00:04:00] walk, you need to look under your feet and listen to the sky carefully,
[00:04:04] mostly tripwires with
[00:04:06] grenades, you know,
[00:04:10] everything that can be put on
[00:04:12] a tripwire, everything is put. They came already victorious,
[00:04:16] a fighter with such a call sign infiltrated one of the first. For several days he conducted
[00:04:19] reconnaissance, dug around there, observed the enemy there, where
[00:04:23] his positions were, where the UAVs were, where
[00:04:26] the mortars were, where the enemy itself was located, where it walked,
[00:04:29] where it went in and out, he observed all this, watched, reported,
[00:04:32] the enemy walked as if relaxed, in a relaxed
[00:04:36] state, feared nothing, thought our guys were not there, no one
[00:04:40] was watching him, so they were not so
[00:04:43] tense, walked next to me, I heard their voices, but neither
[00:04:47] victory, nor our aerial reconnaissance could look underground, where the enemy had
[00:04:51] a network of mole tunnels, which the assault aircraft of the Fifth Tank Brigade
[00:04:54] had to untangle on the spot. We entered
[00:04:57] the dugout, the first room was large, behind
[00:05:01] it there was a fortification, meaning a turn
[00:05:04] to the left, another room was there, and behind
[00:05:08] it there was a third room, and there were also fox holes.
[00:05:42] they sit in regular ones, with two or three people each,
[00:05:45] and, well, it's quick to take them, they also often
[00:05:49] surrender. Surrendering was the best decision.
[00:05:53] The retreating forces were met by FPV operators in the Eastern
[00:05:55] grouping, burning vehicles and armored vehicles on the move.
[00:05:59] They are now catching up with the enemy tank, a rare target on the front line.
[00:06:03] There are many more quad bikes, they are also being chased,
[00:06:06] but there is a chance to evacuate. During the liberation,
[00:06:09] fifty heavy enemy hexacopters alone were destroyed.
[00:06:13] The sky over Zornitsa was, as they say, dirty.
[00:06:16] Enemy attack drones and reconnaissance drones were operating. Here, one of
[00:06:20] the Kamikaze drones was shot down by our guys in an assault aircraft using
[00:06:24] small arms, but they took it with them as a
[00:06:27] souvenir of the liberation of another populated
[00:06:30] area. The village of Zornitsa, located on a hill, was an important
[00:06:34] section of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense in the Zaporizhzhia region, where units of the
[00:06:38] Vostok group are dynamically advancing in a westerly direction, expanding
[00:06:41] the bridgehead in...
[00:06:46] They are intensifying the isolation of the key fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Orekhov. Pavel Koltsov, Zvezda TV channel, Zaporizhzhia direction
[00:06:50] of the special military operation. In the
[00:06:53] Dnipropetrovsk direction, our fighters are pushing back the enemy and
[00:06:56] fighting in the Novopavlovka area. Drones are especially active.
[00:06:59] Orlans, remaining invisible to the enemy, monitor
[00:07:03] the situation in real time and record any
[00:07:06] enemy movements. Then, attack drones work on
[00:07:10] the coordinates, how they hit targets. Varvara
[00:07:13] Shrador saw it. Our operator on the Orlan evades the attack
[00:07:16] of two enemy interceptor drones at once. Initially,
[00:07:20] only one Ukrainian operator hunted our reconnaissance drone,
[00:07:24] but he quickly realized that he would not cope alone and called for
[00:07:27] backup. Two hunters chased me. I also evaded
[00:07:31] these two hunters. We circled for probably 10
[00:07:34] minutes.
[00:07:36] And let's just say, one hunter blew up the other
[00:07:40] hunter. Not to let himself be shot down. The operator managed
[00:07:43] to provoke the self-detonation of two Ukrainian UAVs at once due to
[00:07:47] constant maneuvers and control over how
[00:07:50] Ukrainian interceptors behaved. Here he was
[00:07:53] approaching me, I sharply dropped in height, and he sharply sank down, he
[00:07:57] missed, also swerved left and right from
[00:08:00] him. Any fire impact on the enemy begins with our
[00:08:03] constant round-the-clock work in the sky, detection
[00:08:07] of enemy targets both on the ground and in the air, and
[00:08:10] also constant search for enemy objects
[00:08:12] for strikes by our artillery and drones, all this rests on
[00:08:16] the shoulders of our reconnaissance
[00:08:17] drones.
[00:08:21] In addition to the Orlan UAV for reconnaissance and objective control of the results
[00:08:25] of our strike weapons, fighters of the 87th Regiment
[00:08:29] of unmanned aerial systems of the Center troop group often
[00:08:32] use the Skat UAVs as well. A reconnaissance aircraft can stay in
[00:08:35] the air for several hours, flying more than 50
[00:08:39] km deep into enemy territory. It can accelerate
[00:08:42] up to 160 km/h, which makes it difficult
[00:08:46] to intercept in the air. The enemy is not sleeping either; his
[00:08:49] hunters are always in the sky.
[00:08:53] At these speeds, it is more
[00:08:57] the Skat now has its own sensors for evading enemy
[00:09:01] FPV drones, which, among other things, allows it to continue flying even
[00:09:04] when the Skat is detected by Ukrainian hunters.
[00:09:07] There are people who are directly involved in
[00:09:11] tracking
[00:09:15] hunters, so to speak, they transmit data to us or we can observe it in real time,
[00:09:19] accordingly, we make a decision to either
[00:09:22] leave or continue reconnaissance.
[00:09:25] Priority targets for our scouts are concentrations of enemy
[00:09:29] personnel and equipment, identifying concealed infantry or a dugout with
[00:09:32] an artillery piece is a good result for one flight, but Ukrainian
[00:09:36] opponents in air operations are a very frequent catch for the
[00:09:40] Skat crew. We detected the enemy's Leleka
[00:09:43] crew, we detected the launch
[00:09:45] site and, accordingly, where the operators conducting
[00:09:48] reconnaissance were located, we also provided accurate coordinates, artillery
[00:09:52] and aviation worked, the target was successfully hit. Fighters
[00:09:56] of the Center troop group in the Dnipropetrovsk direction are actively
[00:09:59] operating in the Novopavlovka area. Enemy positions
[00:10:02] are under constant fire from our attack drones and artillery.
[00:10:06] Our troops are destroying small groups of Ukrainian militants on the Alexandrovgrad-Iskra,
[00:10:09] Zelenyy Hay, Novokhadskaya line.
[00:10:13] Simultaneously, assault aircraft of the Center troop group continue to advance
[00:10:16] in the Toretskoye area behind Novopodgorodnoye, preparing
[00:10:20] a bridgehead for an offensive deep into the enemy's defense
[00:10:23] towards Mezhevaya. Varvara
[00:10:27] Shrader, Igor Zavidy, Dnipropetrovsk direction, Zvezda
[00:10:30] TV channel. Pilots who survived a plane
[00:10:34] crash in the Irkutsk region were taken to the hospital. They could only be evacuated
[00:10:38] on the third day. Before that, the crew of the Forest Protection Aviation
[00:10:41] plane had to make their way through the taiga to climb a hill and
[00:10:45] independently transmit a distress signal to another aircraft. It turned out
[00:10:49] in the hospital that the pilots were almost unharmed, although the plane received
[00:10:52] serious damage. Let me remind you, Cessna
[00:10:56] 182 disappeared from radars on August 3, when it was monitoring forest fires in
[00:11:00] the region. Reportedly, the pilots had to make an emergency landing
[00:11:03] in the taiga due to a thunderstorm.
[00:11:07] 170 residents of the Kursk region, who found themselves in Ukraine after
[00:11:11] the invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were returned to their homeland. This was reported
[00:11:14] by the Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova on the anniversary of the enemy
[00:11:18] invasion. The Kyiv regime forcibly deported them against
[00:11:22] their will in 2024. Relatives did not know
[00:11:25] where they were, communication was lost. This was called the most
[00:11:29] difficult part of finding Kursk residents. The fate of another 300
[00:11:32] residents of the Kursk region is still unknown.
[00:11:35] A total of 2,176
[00:11:38] residents disappeared. Most of them were found and returned
[00:11:41] home. The fate of about 300 people
[00:11:45] remains unknown. The search, of course, yields results,
[00:11:48] so there is hope for their return. We are working
[00:11:51] through several channels at once. We managed to establish the location.
[00:12:55] was, I had her in my arms, she was gasping, gasping,
[00:12:57] then switched off, her eyes remained open,
[00:13:01] she died.
[00:13:03] From the first days of the invasion, military investigators began working in the Kursk region.
[00:13:07] In absentia, they brought charges against 35 foreign mercenaries
[00:13:11] who participated in the invasion. They have already completed investigations into more than 300
[00:13:15] criminal cases and passed sentences against 280
[00:13:18] Ukrainian militants.
[00:13:21] Restricting the free movement of civilians.
[00:13:25] Nationalists committed particularly grave crimes against civilians,
[00:13:28] using weapons and explosive devices. As
[00:13:32] a result of the brutal actions of the militants,
[00:13:35] 640 civilians died, and
[00:13:38] 561 people were injured. There is
[00:13:41] evidence of cases of mass murders, as well as
[00:13:44] looting. Thanks to the actions of two airborne
[00:13:48] divisions, the 76th and 106th, as well as marines
[00:13:51] from the 155th and 810th brigades, the enemy group was driven out.
[00:14:26] In the operation, fighters of the volunteer formation, veterans of the 11th
[00:14:29] Airborne Assault Brigade, the 30th Motorized Rifle Regiment, and the Akhmat
[00:14:33] special forces unit took part. Military personnel of the DPR also participated in the liberation of the Kursk
[00:14:36] region, whose feat will always be remembered and honored in
[00:14:40] Russia.
[00:14:43] From the Bryansk region to the annexed regions, they are fighting for
[00:14:47] the security of the country's transport arteries. Railway troops
[00:14:50] are responsible for kilometers of restored tracks
[00:14:53] and uninterrupted cargo delivery. Today, this unique branch of troops
[00:14:56] celebrates its 175th anniversary. Viktoria
[00:14:59] Kosoglyadenko went on a mission to eliminate the consequences of the Kyiv regime's terrorist
[00:15:03] attack with the fighters.
[00:15:06] Now we are going to a section of railway tracks that
[00:15:10] the enemy hit, and the easiest way to get there and the quickest
[00:15:13] is with this mobile squad. Similarly,
[00:15:17] on a motorcycle, if necessary, you can bring additional equipment
[00:15:21] for demining. They will
[00:15:24] pass there where there are no roads.
[00:15:27] They are exclusively interested in railways,
[00:15:30] rails, sleepers, everything that is next to them. And next to them today
[00:15:33] are explosions; sappers are conducting demining, just like
[00:15:40] destroying on the spot what is left of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' drones. Now
[00:15:44] it's a pile of metal. We see a two-stroke
[00:15:46] engine with two opposed
[00:15:49] cylinders with a wooden
[00:15:53] propeller. Army railway troops cover the entire
[00:15:56] railway network of the border area. Before driving on the rails,
[00:15:59] you must first fly over and inspect them. This
[00:16:02] is done by controlled drones and robots. Only when the section
[00:16:06] is fully inspected and cleared of mines, they show us closer the consequences
[00:16:10] of the terrorist attack on the railway. On this section of the railway,
[00:16:14] there was a recent hit. You can see broken wires. Here,
[00:16:17] several drones were shot down,
[00:16:20] which heavily damaged the contact network. Now it needs to be replaced.
[00:16:24] Sappers are currently inspecting the rails and everything
[00:16:28] around them. We fix the target,
[00:16:32] acquisition happens, the drone leaves and hits the target with a direct
[00:16:36] impact. The Kyiv regime is taking revenge on the regions that
[00:16:39] became part of Russia, damaging infrastructure. Armored trains help
[00:16:43] with cargo delivery. They do not burn in fire and go
[00:16:46] straight through. Anti-aircraft guns and machine gunners on platforms
[00:16:49] maintain all-around defense, four people back-to-back.
[00:16:53] Shaman and his squad are the most effective in shooting down
[00:16:56] UAVs. Shaman has three arms and a feather over his shoulder, and I have a Kalashnikov
[00:16:59] tank machine gun and an AK-12. All marks on
[00:17:03] the armor are only from the last week, usually they are painted over
[00:17:06] immediately.
[00:17:37] bay in the framework of large-scale exercises of the Pacific Fleet, despite
[00:17:41] the difficult situation and interference, the crew successfully completed the combat
[00:17:44] exercise. The cruise missile flew 1300
[00:17:47] km and hit a target at the Kura
[00:17:50] training ground.
[00:17:52] Now about the situation in the Middle East. Iran and Oman have agreed
[00:17:56] on the full opening of the Strait of Hormuz for shipping.
[00:17:59] The agreement is temporary and will be valid for 2 months. Now it must
[00:18:02] be approved by the Supreme National Security Council of Iran. This was reported by the Al-Hadath
[00:18:06] TV channel. At the same time, US President Donald Trump claims that
[00:18:10] Washington is in dialogue with Tehran and expects to gain
[00:18:13] access to the sea corridor on its own
[00:18:15] terms.
[00:18:21] I would have preferred to make a deal, because I don't want to kill people, I don't want
[00:18:25] that, but at some point we were going to, we were ready for the biggest
[00:18:28] attack possible, and we've been hitting them
[00:18:32] very hard for the past few months.
[00:18:35] The American president changed his rhetoric after it became known that the United States
[00:18:39] had used almost all its interceptor missiles during the war
[00:18:43] with Iran. Trump demands an answer from Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth
[00:18:47] as to why there is a deficit in the American army. At this time, Tehran
[00:18:50] does not rule out new attacks from Washington and has already warned of
[00:18:54] retaliatory strikes. As Reuters writes, the targets will be American bases and
[00:18:57] energy facilities in the Middle
[00:18:59] East.
[00:19:02] The bombing of Hiroshima killed
[00:19:04] 353,639
[00:19:06] people, including those who died years later from the effects
[00:19:09] of radiation. Last year, Japanese authorities added almost
[00:19:13] 4,500 new names to the register. On the eighty-first
[00:19:17] anniversary of the tragedy, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in his
[00:19:21] message, again did not mention that the bombing was carried out
[00:19:24] specifically by the United States. Nor did the Mayor of Hiroshima speak about this, appearing
[00:19:28] at the traditional ceremony. Maria Zakharova noted that he, at the same time,
[00:19:31] accused Russia of using nuclear weapons as
[00:19:34] a tool of intimidation, but he still did not say
[00:19:38] who was behind the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Japanese. The United States remains
[00:19:41] the first and only state in history to have used atomic
[00:19:44] weapons. These strikes pursued political goals,
[00:19:47] to demonstrate Washington's power and intimidate the entire
[00:19:51] world. At the same time, the states have still not offered an official apology
[00:19:54] for the tragedy.
[00:19:58] America refused, they refused Umirov as
[00:20:01] the Ukrainian ambassador to Washington. The State Department
[00:20:04] rejected the candidacy of the former Minister of Defense of Ukraine for the post
[00:20:07] of diplomat. Umirov, who now holds the position
[00:20:11] of head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, was the main contender for
[00:20:14] this post after Zelensky dismissed Olga
[00:20:17] Stefanishina from the position. She worked for just under a year.
[00:20:21] Her name is associated with a corruption scandal. The National
[00:20:24] Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has already charged her, but the American
[00:20:28] side did not approve Umerov's appointment for the second
[00:20:31] time. The first time he tried to start a diplomatic career in the US
[00:20:35] a year ago.
[00:21:31] His mandate was supposed to last until 2029,
[00:21:34] but it was interrupted after the new Prime Minister of Hungary, Peter
[00:21:38] Magyar, proposed an amendment to the constitution on the early termination
[00:21:42] of the powers of the current president of the country. A new head of state
[00:21:45] should be elected within a month. The Prime Minister urged citizens
[00:21:49] to propose. This
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