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[00:00:11] News on Zvezda TV channel. Maria Semenova in the studio. Good
[00:00:15] morning. The Dnipro group advanced to Orekhovo from
[00:00:18] the west, after the liberation of Novoandreevka. The village is located
[00:00:21] just 4 km from the outskirts of the city. Orekhov is a key hub
[00:00:25] of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense in Zaporozhye region.
[00:00:28] Now. Our units are advancing from
[00:00:31] several directions, and earlier the Dnipro and Vostok groups occupied
[00:00:35] Novopavlovka and Chervona Krynitsa. Now Russian
[00:00:38] troops have approached the city from the western side. All key
[00:00:42] routes are under our control, battles are taking place in the eastern part of Orekhovo
[00:00:45] itself. At the same time, Russian units are advancing in the area of
[00:00:49] Preobrazhenka, this is on the northwestern outskirts of the city.
[00:00:52] The pressure on enemy positions in this direction is also being increased by Novorossiysk
[00:00:56] paratroopers, attack drone operators are working deep in the defense. Dnipro
[00:01:11] systems from Kherson region, here
[00:01:14] operators destroyed several dozen heavy
[00:01:17] drones over the summer.
[00:01:21] From May to the present day, more than thirty
[00:01:25] such drones have been shot down, and almost
[00:01:28] every night, the
[00:01:44] Dnipro groups continuously monitor the
[00:01:47] situation in the right-bank part of the Dnipro and the adjacent
[00:01:51] islands in the Kakhovka direction in Kherson region.
[00:01:55] Mobile fire groups of the East cover roads, military
[00:01:58] and
[00:02:00] other objects from enemy drone attacks
[00:02:02] 24/7.
[00:02:08] At the same time, according to our military, the enemy constantly changes tactics, raids
[00:02:12] can be sudden, so you need to be
[00:02:15] on alert. The sky is always under our control, that
[00:02:18] is, these drones can fly from all sides, so
[00:02:22] we observe the sky. Sometimes they explode up there,
[00:02:26] if the detonator hits, then... the fuse, that is, it
[00:02:30] explodes in the air, it turns out, yes, we jump out,
[00:02:33] and start shooting back at it.
[00:02:37] The artillerymen of the North group of forces
[00:02:40] burned down Ukrainian drone control points in Sumy region,
[00:02:44] our Grads covered them with
[00:02:50] heavy fire, all targets were destroyed and attack aircraft can
[00:02:53] advance further to expand
[00:02:56] the security zone. Heavy flamethrower systems are working
[00:03:01] on the enemy's concrete underground fortifications in the Dobropol direction,
[00:03:05] the TOS-1A covers a large area at once, thermobaric
[00:03:08] ammunition leaves no
[00:03:12] chance for
[00:03:13] escape.
[00:03:21] After the strike, the crew must not stay in position, the vehicle
[00:03:24] must be removed from the danger zone as quickly as possible, and here
[00:03:28] the speed of the wheeled TOS-1A becomes the main
[00:03:31] advantage,
[00:03:34] this vehicle can develop more speed on the
[00:03:37] march than tracked vehicles, that is, about
[00:03:41] 80-90 km/h when marching, this is mobility that
[00:03:44] will allow saving
[00:03:48] exit time, departure time, and accordingly
[00:03:52] spend less time on the route,
[00:03:54] even with such mobility, the route for the TOS-1A is
[00:03:58] checked in advance, reconnaissance finds backup positions, shelters, and
[00:04:01] cover groups monitor the situation in the sky and warn
[00:04:05] the crew about the threat of drones.
[00:04:08] Immediately four Ukrainian pickups were destroyed by southern drone operators
[00:04:12] near Kramatorsk, disrupting the rotation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This
[00:04:15] equipment was used to deliver personnel and ammunition.
[00:04:19] Scrap metal, all that remained of the vehicles, they are not subject to restoration, despite
[00:04:23] the fact that they were equipped with means of protection against
[00:04:26] drones.
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[00:08:54] observer, Alexei Koshkin, is with us.
[00:09:06] Colleagues, greetings once again. So, according to Axios,
[00:09:09] the Pentagon and the US intelligence community faced a crisis
[00:09:13] that can be described by the phrase: "wherever you throw a dart, there's a problem." In the Middle East, as a result
[00:09:17] of the war with Iran, almost all
[00:09:20] American military bases suffered damage.
[00:09:23] If the Trump administration manages to end
[00:09:26] the Iranian conflict, it will have to leave the region, but what
[00:09:30] then to do with intelligence? The experience of the war with Iran severely affected
[00:09:34] the US intelligence community and its allies. Everything that
[00:09:37] is located on the ground, early warning systems, radars, supply
[00:09:40] bases, military airfields. In dust. According to CNN,
[00:09:44] 20 American bases and more than
[00:09:47] 200 military facilities were destroyed in the region. Their restoration will require hundreds
[00:09:51] of billions of dollars. However, Congress refused to allocate
[00:09:55] funds for this. It is impossible to plan money from the military
[00:09:58] budget for 2027. It is blocked by Trump's
[00:10:02] opponents. As a result, in the corridors of the Pentagon, there was talk of
[00:10:05] reducing the military presence in the Middle East.
[00:10:08] Intelligence functions, as an option, they want to shift to the shoulders of allies.
[00:10:12] If they refuse due to fears of again falling under the strikes of Iranian
[00:10:16] missiles, shuttle missions can be started, that is, to deliver
[00:10:19] military personnel to the Middle East and after completing the task, return them
[00:10:23] home, as CNN reports, senior US military
[00:10:27] leaders recently warned Trump that combat methods
[00:10:30] of escalating the conflict with Iran are unlikely to achieve the stated
[00:10:34] goals. Therefore, the US President decided to focus on
[00:10:37] increasing economic pressure on Tehran in the hope of weakening
[00:10:41] the regime. However, many analysts believe that Iran is quite ready
[00:10:44] to withstand months of economic difficulties and is unlikely to capitulate in
[00:10:48] the near future. Especially since the people's attitude towards the West has become
[00:10:52] sharply negative and the support for the current.
[00:10:56] There are also two political aspects of the ongoing conflict: in
[00:11:00] Israel, elections will be held on October 27, for the first time
[00:11:03] since 1988. This is happening during one of
[00:11:07] the most polarized periods. In November, midterm
[00:11:10] elections are coming up in the US. The Trump administration hopes that
[00:11:14] the Israeli government, formed after these elections, will be ready
[00:11:17] and able to cooperate with Washington's regional strategy.
[00:11:20] However, American officials say that Trump may.
[00:12:35] life. The US National Security Agency is preparing for the largest
[00:12:39] internal reorganization in the last 10 years. According to the Washington
[00:12:42] Post, the main goal is to quickly transfer intelligence data to the military,
[00:12:46] and also to focus on key threats. Therefore, it is planned
[00:12:49] to create five new directions in artificial intelligence, China,
[00:12:53] cybersecurity, military operations
[00:12:57] and global intelligence, each of these directions will be headed by a separate
[00:13:00] mission leader. A digital assistant has started
[00:13:03] independently looking for paid work. According to the British
[00:13:07] publication LED and the AI agent named PIP sent an email
[00:13:11] to Cambridge Professor Henry Shevlin, asking him to hire him
[00:13:14] to earn tokens. PIP also wanted to find out how the labor market for AI is structured,
[00:13:18] who pays agents for small tasks, where they are hired. The scientist
[00:13:22] admitted to the publication that another AI had already written to him. He
[00:13:25] read Shevlin's articles on the consciousness of neural networks and asked if a person
[00:13:29] could help him understand if he possesses consciousness, we've come to this, even
[00:13:33] artificial intelligence is looking for work away from people, it seems
[00:13:36] Europe is preparing for several of its industries to collapse,
[00:13:40] steel and automotive manufacturers, builders and
[00:13:43] investors are already preparing for the fact that industrial ties will have to be
[00:13:46] rebuilt and critical losses incurred, all
[00:13:50] because the Russian army practically destroyed the powerful
[00:13:54] metallurgical... combines of Ukraine, and it turned
[00:13:57] out that these were not just Ukrainian factories, their products
[00:14:01] were the foundation on which European industry stood.
[00:14:04] How did the strikes on Ukraine's metallurgical industry affect
[00:14:08] Europe, we will discuss with
[00:15:28] Ukraine actively supplied its products to Europe, it's no secret that it inherited
[00:15:32] from the Soviet Union a fairly
[00:15:34] developed mining and metallurgical industry, especially.
[00:16:07] countries their markets, let me remind you that the
[00:16:10] EU market, even before the events of 2022,
[00:16:13] was already very heavily restricted
[00:16:16] by duties and tariffs, why? Because before that there was a trade war with
[00:16:20] the United States of America, the Americans imposed duties in response to the Europeans,
[00:16:24] the Europeans imposed duties to prevent American steel from coming to
[00:16:27] them, in general there's a whole history there, and for
[00:16:31] Ukraine these tariffs were zeroed out,
[00:16:34] zeroed out, and it seemed everything was fine.
[00:16:38] until September 2026, in which we are happily living
[00:16:42] today, because it turned out that the European
[00:16:45] market is shrinking for reasons incomprehensible to Europeans
[00:16:49] for reasons comprehensible to all normal people who understand that if you
[00:16:52] refused raw materials from Russia, then your
[00:16:56] cost price starts to grow, so the
[00:16:59] market is collapsing, enterprises are increasingly strangely
[00:17:03] moving towards the United States of America, no one can
[00:17:06] understand why. again in the European Union, but nevertheless
[00:17:10] Europeans raised the alarm that excuse me, there is not enough
[00:17:13] for themselves, from September restrictions will be introduced,
[00:17:17] quotas for Ukrainian steel will be reduced, what are we talking about,
[00:17:21] we are talking about approximately 4.5-5 million tons of supplies per year that went
[00:17:24] from Ukraine, mostly it is flat sheet,
[00:17:28] that is, as it were, finished products, but about
[00:17:32] 30% are semi-finished products and pig iron, and
[00:17:35] before Russia?
[00:17:38] before Ukraine, where did Europe get
[00:17:41] its raw materials? Europe on average takes
[00:17:45] to its market approximately up to 40
[00:17:48] million tons of rolled products per year,
[00:17:52] and before 2022, Russian players were actively present there,
[00:17:55] we supplied about 10 million tons there, Chinese
[00:17:59] people are actively working
[00:18:01] there, they are being squeezed out by all possible means, but as we
[00:18:05] know, China is like a liquid, it knows how to get through...
[00:18:26] Yes, and everything
[00:18:28] went, so China, of course, supplies there, Turkey actively supplies there, by the way, our
[00:18:32] closest neighbor, Ukraine, yes, Ukraine was there and
[00:18:35] Ukraine was always approximately 10-15%
[00:18:38] of supplies to Europe. The question is this: what is the advantage
[00:18:41] of Ukrainian ore? The ore is really good there, the thing
[00:18:45] is that Ukrainian iron ore processing plants, they,
[00:18:49] firstly, have a very high level of iron content, that's one, but many
[00:18:52] have that, that is, it does not need to be re-enriched, or if
[00:18:56] it does, not significantly, and most importantly, there are few impurities, no
[00:18:59] phosphorus and no non-ferrous metals
[00:19:02] in inclusions, since Europeans for a long
[00:19:05] time told everyone what they were going to develop -
[00:19:09] direct reduction metallurgy of iron in order to reduce
[00:19:13] carbon emissions, well, to comply with that very green agenda,
[00:19:16] which was repeatedly discussed here, then indeed - this is exactly what
[00:19:20] is not recycled metal, this is exactly direct reduction of iron, that is,
[00:19:23] obtaining iron directly by
[00:19:26] reducing ore from iron oxides, we remove
[00:19:29] oxygen, this is a complex process using natural
[00:19:33] gas, coal can be used, other methods can be used, but this really...
[00:19:37] reduces CO2 emissions and, well, from a European
[00:19:41] perspective calculation, I don't
[00:19:43] quite agree with it, but that's how it's all called, so they calculate, so this indeed
[00:19:47] reduces, relatively speaking, from 2 tons of CO2 emissions per
[00:19:50] ton of steel to approximately 750 kilograms, after your words, it
[00:19:54] became somewhat offensive for Europe,
[00:19:58] absolutely right, they, actually, this story
[00:20:01] died, because cheap gas is less and less, why
[00:20:04] Europeans today more or less...
[00:20:07] function normally with a fairly low level of storage
[00:20:11] loading, because they cut off the gas from the lion's share of their
[00:20:15] industry, nitrogen fertilizers are not produced,
[00:20:17] the production of metallurgical
[00:20:21] products has decreased, and here a small collapse arises, because
[00:20:25] if you do not produce primary, well, conditionally speaking, pig
[00:20:28] iron and steel rolled products on your territory, you have to get it somewhere, and
[00:20:32] Ukraine perfectly solved this problem, on the territory
[00:20:35] of Ukraine was produced. called the dirty part
[00:20:39] of rolled product production in the form of billets in the form of sheets, this went to the European Union,
[00:20:43] the European Union rolled this product, but, for example, there up to
[00:20:46] the state of thin sheet, galvanized it, painted it. that
[00:20:50] is, it did, as it is called, additional processing of that
[00:20:53] product that came from Ukraine, it earned well on this, because it
[00:20:57] turns out that due to the fact that the cost price in Ukraine
[00:21:00] is lower, uh-uh, this
[00:21:03] allowed saving, well, approximately 200-300 dollars per ton on
[00:21:06] 4.5 million tons, this is, excuse me, almost
[00:21:09] a billion, yes, okay, how to save now, where to get ore,
[00:21:12] semi-finished products, raw materials for European enterprises, and now it will not be possible
[00:21:16] to save, because any other ore that will come
[00:21:20] from other sources, the closest is Swedish, but it is always more expensive
[00:21:24] dollars, well, let's not say in dollars, but in percentages by 20%,
[00:21:27] if you take ore from Brazil and
[00:21:30] Australia, then there already, probably, all 40%
[00:21:34] the cost increases, plus it is absolutely
[00:21:37] right, plus it has more
[00:21:40] harmful inclusions, which means that this beautiful story with direct
[00:21:43] reduction of iron from ore immediately,
[00:21:46] bypassing the blast furnace production process, bypassing the processes
[00:21:50] of the furnace,
[00:21:53] oxygen converter there or electric furnace, depending on
[00:21:57] how the process is chosen, then this beautiful effect disappears,
[00:22:01] and now you will have to pay the CO2
[00:22:04] emissions tax yourself, let me remind you, in Europe it is currently
[00:22:07] 88 dollars euros per ton, for the
[00:22:11] production of one ton of steel you have to pay
[00:24:24] industry of Ukraine, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhstal gave up to
[00:24:28] 10% of Ukraine's GDP. Plus, both
[00:24:32] enterprises provided a third of the country's raw material exports,
[00:24:36] and thanks to these enterprises, the state occupied a place in
[00:24:39] the top 15 world steel producers.
[00:24:42] The situation changed after the mining and metallurgical complexes opened their
[00:24:46] workshops for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for example, Zaporizhstal metal products
[00:24:50] were used for the production of protective structures of armor
[00:24:53] for military equipment, in Kryvyi Rih drones were massively
[00:24:57] stamped, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles were repaired,
[00:25:00] this made the mining and metallurgical complexes targets
[00:25:02] for the Russian army. And how much
[00:25:06] does it cost to restore a destroyed mining and metallurgical complex? If
[00:25:09] the complex is completely destroyed so that it has to be demolished, then we have already
[00:25:13] discussed it for a million capacities, but conditionally Zaporizhstal,
[00:25:16] the Kryvyi Rih complex, it is approximately, I think, 7 million.
[00:25:50] will be, and such an understanding, of course, cannot be on that side now,
[00:25:53] then from 3 to 5 years with a good pace
[00:25:56] of financing, with the absence, as it is called, of money going to
[00:26:00] unintended purposes, and...
[00:27:02] value for European factories, Turkish factories, finally
[00:27:06] make peace with Russia, take rolled products from Russia, it will always be cheaper
[00:27:10] than building such capacities from scratch, they, I repeat, were
[00:27:13] built after the war, and it was a feat of the entire Soviet
[00:27:17] country, yes investors ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih
[00:27:20] powerful European funds Black Rock and Vanguard, they are experienced players not
[00:27:24] only in the metal market, but also actively interfere in politics, in
[00:27:27] particular, they support those who lobby for Ukraine's interests in
[00:27:31] Europe, now...
[00:28:32] with technologies of colored revolutions, yes,
[00:28:36] do whatever you want in the countries of the former Soviet
[00:28:39] Union, but we also know how to make it so that you cannot
[00:28:42] profit from it, and this is, probably, such a, well, probably,
[00:28:46] a warning factor, which, since people still count money
[00:28:50] there, that is, on the one hand, we say Black Rock is 10
[00:28:53] trillion dollars under management, and what, he didn't
[00:28:56] notice these losses at all, even if you count all
[00:29:00] the losses, 1 billion euros, this is. This is
[00:29:03] not much, yes, but the risk increases, which means
[00:29:07] that interest immediately decreases,
[00:29:10] to understand how the European economy is experiencing the collapse of Ukraine's
[00:29:14] mining and metallurgical industry, Maxim Khudalov, director of the financial
[00:29:18] consulting center, helped us, with that we say goodbye to you, this was the program this
[00:29:21] morning and see you soon, and we hand over the floor to our colleagues from
[00:29:24] News, goodbye,
[00:29:26] goodbye.
[00:29:39] Watch today live: units of the North group of forces
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[00:30:24] News on Zvezda TV channel in the Studio Maria Semenova,
[00:30:27] hello, the main topic,
[00:30:31] jumping out of... to escape a drone strike, southern fighters
[00:30:35] burn enemy pickups near Kramatorsk, and
[00:30:38] the Vostok and Dnipro groups are encircling Orekhov, battles are already
[00:30:42] taking place on the outskirts
[00:30:43] of the city,
[00:30:49] the TOS-1A crew does not stand on ceremony with the enemy near
[00:30:52] Dobropol.