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[00:00:23] The Zvezda TV channel news service presents the news, with Denis
[00:00:27] Kochanov, here are some topics of the issue:
[00:00:31] Al-Hawātqa was liberated, the outer ring of the Reznikovsky cauldron
[00:00:35] is expanding, we are advancing inward, battles are underway for Malaya
[00:00:38] Volchya and details from the Dobropolsky direction, where our
[00:00:42] troops are using unique combined drones, this
[00:00:45] twin-drone plus lightning flies for more than fifty
[00:00:49] kilometers, when lightning reaches its target, the FPV drone
[00:00:52] rises into the sky and flies further to strike enemy
[00:00:55] positions. There are no more suspicions against NABU, the Prosecutor General's Office
[00:00:59] of Ukraine.
[00:01:30] and units of the Sever group took control of Al-Hawātqa in the Kharkov
[00:01:34] region, assault troops of the seventy-ninth motorized rifle regiment fought for this village,
[00:01:37] under the cover of artillery and attack
[00:01:40] drones, they entered and secured themselves in the settlement, drove the militants out of there
[00:01:44] and began clearing buildings and cellars.
[00:01:47] Al-Hawātqa is located in the outer ring of the Reznikovsky cauldron, our
[00:01:51] military is squeezing it,
[00:01:54] actually driving out the enemy, expanding the outer control
[00:01:57] zone, fighting for the liberation of the settlement. Malaya
[00:02:00] Volchya. Remnants of enemy units are being destroyed in the area of the settlements
[00:02:04] Khrepuna and Buzova. Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost
[00:02:07] 35 militants in the cauldron. A total of over one and a half thousand
[00:02:11] are blocked in it. In all directions, over 1,200 Ukrainian
[00:02:14] military mercenaries were
[00:02:16] destroyed.
[00:02:20] Russian troops launched group drone attacks on logistics and
[00:02:24] energy facilities in Ukraine, as well as naval vessels that are involved in
[00:02:27] the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the Dnepropetrovsk region. They hit auxiliary buildings
[00:02:31] of a shopping center where drones and components for
[00:02:34] them were stored. A fire broke out in the Kharkov region, in the
[00:02:37] village of Velikiy Burluk, where warehouses with
[00:02:41] drones and military cargo were also attacked. In Odessa, a warehouse was hit,
[00:02:45] in the Odessa region, a logistics center in the village of Velikaya Balka.
[00:02:49] Military cargo from abroad was stored and distributed there. In Zaporozhye,
[00:02:52] after our strikes, a power substation went out of order, and due to power outages
[00:02:56] in the region, problems with logistics and enterprise operations began.
[00:03:00] Kiev is also in smoke, where a gas station that supplied
[00:03:03] fuel to the Armed Forces of Ukraine was attacked. In the port of Chernomorsk, our troops hit a
[00:03:07] dry cargo ferry with weapons. In addition, in the western
[00:03:10] regions of Ukraine, railway infrastructure facilities that were
[00:03:14] used to transport military cargo from
[00:03:17] Europe were hit. The Dnepr group advanced to
[00:03:21] Orekhov from the west after the liberation of Novoandreevka. The village is only
[00:03:25] 4 km from the outskirts of the city. Orekhov is a key defense hub
[00:03:29] of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region. Now our units are advancing from several
[00:03:33] directions. Previously, the Dnepr and Vostok groups occupied Novopavlovka
[00:03:36] and Chervonaya Krynica. Now Russian troops have approached the
[00:03:40] city from the western side. All key highways
[00:03:43] are under our control. Battles are taking place in the eastern part of Orekhov
[00:03:46] itself. Simultaneously, Russian units are advancing in the area of
[00:03:50] Preobrazhenka on the northwestern outskirts of the city. The pressure on
[00:03:54] enemy positions in this direction is also being increased by Novorossiysk
[00:03:57] paratroopers. Operators of attack.
[00:04:30] to provide opportunities to bring in reserves, for greater effectiveness
[00:04:33] they use combined drones, meaning one drone carries
[00:04:37] another, how they work in tandem, what makes them unique
[00:04:41] Andrey Vakula found out,
[00:04:43] come on right-left, propellers, camera, ammunition, technicians
[00:04:47] of the center group of forces first check the lightning, and then attach another
[00:04:51] attack drone on top, such a tandem is a development of the fighters of the
[00:04:54] radiation, chemical and biological protection unit, this
[00:04:58] is the FPV drone plus lightning. at a distance of more than fifty
[00:05:01] kilometers, when the lightning reaches its target, the FPV drone
[00:05:05] rises into the sky and flies further to hit enemy
[00:05:08] positions. The birds fly towards the forest belts at the junction of the DPR and
[00:05:11] the Dnepropetrovsk region. According to intelligence data, Ukrainian militants are accumulating
[00:05:14] forces here for a further breakthrough, but our lightning
[00:05:18] reaches its target: I see, filmed, there was an explosion,
[00:05:21] an explosion, yes, clearly, the FPV drone camera records the hit
[00:05:24] seconds later, another control strike, these fighters launch
[00:05:27] 30 drones a day, burning Ukrainian
[00:05:30] UAV launch points with hexacopters, the enemy unsuccessfully
[00:05:33] tries to stop the advance of the Russian army. The Lightning itself
[00:05:37] crashed into the command post, where about four
[00:05:41] militants were located, accordingly. the Baba Yaga crew, we on
[00:05:44] the FPV drone, with a second drone, already hit the Baba Yaga itself.
[00:05:47] These aces of unmanned aviation operate on the border of Novopodgorodnoye, Mirnaya
[00:05:51] Matyashevo, thwarting enemy counterattacks. And the stormtroopers
[00:05:55] are now engaged in fierce battles in the urban development of Dobropolye.
[00:05:58] They are advancing from three sides from Anovkinova, Donbas, Krasnoyarsk,
[00:06:02] Krasnopodye and Novogrishina. The Center group is advancing
[00:06:05] along a wide front line. We have a very active offensive, over the past 3
[00:06:09] days our infantry, which we accompany, has covered about six kilometers,
[00:06:12] maybe seven, that is, we help in every way we
[00:06:16] can without hindrance, they are consolidating, hitting the
[00:06:19] enemy, the fighters of the NBC protection troops, they are called chemists
[00:06:22] at the front, have all types of ammunition, cumulative ones easily penetrate concrete
[00:06:26] shelters where Ukrainian commanders are sitting, and this is the so-called
[00:06:29] thermobar, in the epicenter of the explosion, the temperature reaches
[00:06:32] 3,000°. the aerosol ignites,
[00:06:35] gets into all crevices, penetrates all
[00:06:38] dugouts, premises, detonation occurs.
[00:06:42] there is no way to hide from it, so Ukrainian militants are being smoked out of
[00:06:46] cellars and mines, the enemy has dug in underground, they rarely engage in small arms combat with
[00:06:49] the Center's stormtroopers, only occasionally militants from Azov, a terrorist organization
[00:06:53] banned in Russia, offer resistance, but
[00:06:57] our UAV operators work ahead of time. About five
[00:07:00] people, everything hit, everything is burning there, reconnaissance
[00:07:04] flew, looked, almost nothing was left of the house,
[00:07:07] then they caught an interception from the other
[00:07:11] side and... and one of the
[00:07:15] groups belonging to the first Azov corps, that is,
[00:07:18] destroyed. For months now in Dobropolye, the Ukrainian forces
[00:07:21] have been holding on with remnants of ammunition, roads, including those from the Dnepropetrovsk region,
[00:07:25] are under fire control of our drones, pickups and robots are burned
[00:07:29] on the road. The enemy can bring in equipment in the morning, deliver
[00:07:33] ammunition, literally a couple of hours later, where
[00:07:36] they, where the ammunition is delivered, that place is no longer there, this place
[00:07:39] is piled up by ours. UAV
[00:07:42] operator Daniil Glazovsky 2024. He volunteered
[00:07:46] when he turned 18. Today he is celebrating his
[00:07:49] 21st birthday at the front. A holiday with a
[00:07:52] drone remote in his hands, there are plenty of enemy targets. I'm used to it, the guys congratulated
[00:07:55] me, thank you all, it's all very pleasant. My family is waiting
[00:07:58] at home, I'll be back soon. Soon on vacation. The
[00:08:01] Center group of forces is bringing closer the complete liberation of the DPR territory from
[00:08:05] the formations of the Kyiv regime every day. When the Russian tricolor is unfurled in
[00:08:08] Dobropolye, the fighters will increase pressure on the Ukrainian garrison in Druzhkovka.
[00:08:12] then Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. Andrey Vakula,
[00:08:16] Konstantin Terentiev, Natalya Ushakova, Zvezda TV channel, Donetsk People's
[00:08:19] Republic. In the Kramatorsk region, drone crews
[00:08:23] of the southern group worked on targets, they disrupted the rotation of
[00:08:27] enemy units. Drone operators set up an ambush in the bushes,
[00:08:30] waited for the vehicle to pass by, and at the right moment flew onto
[00:08:34] the road. Thanks to this trick, four enemy pickups were hit
[00:08:38] in Druzhkovka, Cherevkovka and Druzhkovskoye,
[00:08:41] despite the fact that... that the militants' transport was equipped with
[00:08:45] FPV protection, it was completely disabled. Not a single
[00:08:48] vehicle is salvageable.
[00:08:52] The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has changed its stance, stating that
[00:08:56] there are no longer any accusations or suspicions against NABU. This
[00:08:59] means that the agency itself distanced itself from its former
[00:09:03] head Kravchenko, who was the one who leveled accusations against
[00:09:06] the leadership of NABU and ISA. Zelensky also pretended
[00:09:09] to have nothing to do with it and personally removed Kravchenko from
[00:09:13] his post by decree, but how could he have left Ukraine without
[00:09:17] the personal permission of the head of the Kyiv regime? The question remains
[00:09:20] open. Alexey Sapozhkov investigated the details of the corrupt
[00:09:23] war. Disreputable, this
[00:09:27] wording is a quite official description of the fleeing Prosecutor General
[00:09:31] Ruslan Kravchenko, which was heard at the NABU director competition
[00:09:34] back in 2023.
[00:09:37] A hero, of the so-called ATO, a prosecutor for high-profile cases against
[00:09:40] representatives of the former Ukrainian authorities, and then the head of the
[00:09:44] Kyiv regional military administration. He was promoted
[00:09:47] by Zelensky himself. On December 31, 2024, he gave
[00:09:50] Kravchenko the position of chairman of the tax service, and already in mid-
[00:09:54] June 2025, he became Prosecutor General. It would seem
[00:09:58] that such a person could build a long and successful career by Ukrainian
[00:10:01] standards, but in his last post he lasted just over
[00:10:05] a year. This is not a fight against corruption. This is not a fight against corruption, this is
[00:10:08] the transformation of a law enforcement agency into an independent center of political
[00:10:12] power, which the Ukrainian people did not elect, which does not bear political
[00:10:16] responsibility before them and tries to put itself in place of
[00:10:19] parliament and president, despite the fact that in the background there is the Coat of Arms
[00:10:23] and Flag of Ukraine, this... video was made in France, somewhere in
[00:10:26] Paris. After his office was searched by NABU,
[00:10:30] the first evidence of his involvement in fraudulent
[00:10:34] call centers appeared in court, detectives found
[00:10:38] a safe full of cash. Ruslan Kravchenko issued
[00:10:41] himself a five-day business trip. The justification
[00:10:44] was participation in a PACE event, but the organization later
[00:10:47] stated that Kravchenko was not invited, while Ukrainian
[00:10:51] media notes that Zelensky himself authorized the prosecutor general's departure,
[00:10:55] but only on condition that he sign the suspicion notice against the NABU director. Already,
[00:10:59] when Kravchenko was safe abroad, Zelensky immediately
[00:11:02] publicly distanced himself from him, submitting a proposal for his
[00:11:06] dismissal to the Rada. Today Ukrainian deputies voted for
[00:11:09] his resignation. And the prosecutor general himself published
[00:11:12] accusations against Semyon Krivonos, the director of NABU.
[00:11:15] This recording of a phone conversation was made in 2014, when
[00:11:19] he was the district head of the registration service. According to the
[00:11:23] prosecutor general, Krivonos participated in a
[00:11:55] scheme involving receiving seventy. Kravchenko accuses the NABU director of
[00:11:58] illegal land registration. NABU accuses the Prosecutor General's office of
[00:12:02] covering up fraudulent call centers. Each
[00:12:05] point could bring in about 7,000 dollars. Kravchenko was considered
[00:12:09] Zelensky's protégé, perhaps that is why the reaction of the head
[00:12:12] of the Kyiv regime was so belated. Ukrainian authorities
[00:12:16] previously praised the developed call center industry as an
[00:12:19] economic asset. And then it turned out that a significant part of it
[00:12:23] was fraudulent. In general, I believe that this whole call center story.
[00:12:26] In general, I believe that this story with call centers could be part of Russian
[00:12:30] aggression, because I remind you that it seems, what is happening,
[00:12:34] let's look now, that is, about call centers, about jobs in which
[00:12:37] tens of thousands of young people are involved, who are actually
[00:12:40] engaged in fraudulent activities, and they work
[00:12:44] against European partners, not against Russians. If
[00:12:48] the investigation establishes that Kravchenko indeed received money from a network of
[00:12:52] call centers or patronized it, then the corruption scandal
[00:12:55] will unfold around. The most dangerous scenario for the head of Ukraine
[00:12:58] right now is the following: the investigation into Carthage will begin to climb up
[00:13:02] the chain, at the same time Kravchenko will begin to reveal
[00:13:05] compromising information on NABU and SAB, as a result, the entire law enforcement
[00:13:08] system of Ukraine will find itself in a public war, as has already happened with
[00:13:12] the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU. Alexey Sapozhkov,
[00:13:15] Zvezda TV channel.
[00:13:18] Sergey Lavrov announced that he will meet with Markarova at the UN General Assembly in
[00:13:22] New York. Lavrov announced this at the embassy.
[00:13:55] They talked again about how nice it would be to resume
[00:13:57] negotiations. We explained that we never
[00:14:01] refused negotiations, all those negotiations that
[00:14:05] took place, were interrupted not at our
[00:14:08] initiative. Therefore, if
[00:14:11] our colleagues are ready,
[00:14:14] I think it is quite possible to resume this, we have something
[00:14:18] to say, we have never, never since the beginning of
[00:14:21] the special military operation.
[00:14:55] Our intelligence emphasizes that Berlin deliberately went for a provocation to
[00:14:59] justify itself to the European Union for the growing costs of
[00:15:03] militarizing the country.
[00:15:06] New strikes in the Middle East. Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia
[00:15:09] with missiles and drones - this is a response to airstrikes on the provinces
[00:15:13] of Yemen. The targets in Saudi Arabia were military facilities located at
[00:15:17] an air base in the south of the country. The exchange of strikes is taking place against the backdrop of
[00:15:21] an escalation around the Strait of Hormuz, whose throughput initially.
[00:15:37] In addition to blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait
[00:15:41] has also been blocked, control over which has been established by the Yemeni Houthis.
[00:15:45] Thus, two vital oil sea routes in the Middle
[00:15:48] East have been blocked. Against this backdrop,
[00:15:51] oil prices are continuously rising. Currently, the price of a barrel is already approaching
[00:15:54] $110. In February, before the escalation began, this
[00:15:58] indicator was at $72. Donald
[00:16:01] Trump stated on his social media that prices will fall immediately after
[00:16:05] the conflict with Iran ends. And this will happen in the very near
[00:16:09] future, this is a quote. The Middle East conflict and interruptions in
[00:16:12] oil supplies from Russia forced Washington to use the country's
[00:16:16] oil reserves. As a result, US strategic reserves
[00:16:19] hit their lowest since 1982.
[00:16:23] In the Chelyabinsk Higher Military
[00:16:26] Aviation School of Navigators, the newest flight simulators
[00:16:29] appeared. The first to be allowed to practice flights were cadets, participants of the SVO.
[00:16:33] The cockpit almost completely replicates the workplace of the crew of a real one.
[00:17:07] 10, 9,
[00:17:11] the footage shows a Su-34 simulator, it reproduces the cockpit of the aircraft,
[00:17:14] airspace and terrain, cadets also
[00:17:17] practice flights in the supersonic interceptor
[00:17:20] MiG-31. Combat experience of SVO participants is taken
[00:17:24] into account when updating the
[00:17:26] training program.
[00:17:28] The navigator is already prepared to work with
[00:17:32] the crew, with the commander, with the ground and so on.
[00:17:35] He already leads and... and even more, the evaluation, the evaluation
[00:17:39] is based on working with
[00:17:42] the intercom, meaning how you talk to the commander,
[00:17:46] what phrases and so on, all this is evaluated in real
[00:17:49] time, in turn the command of the military university
[00:17:52] emphasizes that the training program is transforming and being supplemented with
[00:17:55] the experience of the special operation, fundamentally new forms of
[00:17:59] practical classes
[00:18:02] are being prepared, we plan
[00:18:05] to carry out flights. with navigator cadets, with
[00:18:08] cadets, pilots of the Krasnodar school in one crew
[00:18:10] composition, now the issue is in the stage of
[00:18:14] deep development, primarily related to ensuring flight
[00:18:17] safety. Well, for now, the main part of the practice takes place on
[00:18:21] the ground, future navigators learn to work in a crew, conduct
[00:18:24] negotiations with the commander and make decisions in changing flight
[00:18:28] conditions. Moral and spiritual support,
[00:18:32] which is so necessary during battle, the opportunity to venerate the relics
[00:18:36] of the Great Prince Dmitry Donskoy, according to our
[00:18:39] soldiers, gives them additional strength. The ark with the holy relics is now
[00:18:43] at the front line in the area of responsibility of the Sever military group.
[00:18:46] Our correspondent Igor Lapek met them.
[00:18:50] Holy righteous Prince
[00:18:52] Demetrius
[00:18:55] God. Priests sing praises to Prince Dmitry Donskoy and pray
[00:18:59] that he may help the Russian army achieve victory over the enemy.
[00:19:03] Fighters take turns venerating the ark with the relics. Here in the zone
[00:19:06] of the special military operation, soldiers especially need moral support,
[00:19:10] everyone understands that not the strong in body, but the strong
[00:19:13] in spirit will win. Here we have no atheists, yes, here every
[00:19:17] person, prays in their heart
[00:19:21] constantly, they brought the relics of such a
[00:19:24] great prince, I think that
[00:19:27] this is additional,
[00:19:30] additional strength, to each of us, I am grateful
[00:19:33] to fate that I found myself precisely
[00:19:37] on this day at this moment, precisely in this place, when
[00:19:41] you venerate the relics, you know, there is
[00:19:44] this feeling of spiritual fulfillment, you wouldn't think it was
[00:19:48] an underground field temple, it's so bright and
[00:19:51] spacious, the church is part of a large rear area of the special military operation zone, where
[00:19:55] servicemen recover their strength after completing
[00:19:58] tasks, in fact, there is a whole rehabilitation
[00:20:01] center here, with a phyto-barrel, a salt room, acupuncture,
[00:20:04] and a psychological relief room.
[00:20:07] War is a certain burden, a certain task that
[00:20:10] is placed on a warrior, this is precisely the implementation of the principle of not
[00:20:14] abandoning our own, we didn't just say that, therefore we support
[00:20:17] the warrior, we are ahead, but we are behind, we are his shoulder,
[00:20:21] we are his hand, we are his word, and now and
[00:20:25] forever and ever, amen,
[00:20:27] веков,
[00:20:29] the ark with the relics of Dmitry Donskoy is accompanied on its journey by the sacristan of
[00:20:33] the main church of the armed forces, Archpriest Alexander
[00:20:36] Soldatenkov. He has served as a military priest for 27
[00:20:40] years and previously ministered to our soldiers in Yugoslavia,
[00:20:43] Tajikistan, Syria, and the North Caucasus. And now he has been entrusted
[00:20:47] with one of...
[00:21:20] several arks, a large one is in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow,
[00:21:24] and the small ark is currently in the special military operation zone.
[00:21:27] The ark with the relics of Dmitry Donskoy is made in
[00:21:31] Orthodox traditions with the appropriate ornament. This is a
[00:21:35] door with an icon, and here is a reliquary, cast from metal in the form of
[00:21:38] a hand, inside is a particle of the right
[00:21:41] hand of the righteous prince. The entire ark
[00:21:44] is made of solid metal and weighs almost 6 kg.
[00:21:48] It is transported, carried in such a special military bag, placed
[00:21:52] here and carefully covered with such a
[00:21:55] cushion. Dmitry Donskoy was canonized by the Russian Orthodox
[00:21:59] Church in 1988
[00:22:01] at the Local Council dedicated to the millennium of the Baptism of
[00:22:04] Rus'. Usually, relics are opened immediately before
[00:22:07] canonization or immediately after it. Why this was not
[00:22:11] done then in the USSR remains a mystery.
[00:22:15] Perhaps the Lord was waiting for the present moment and revealed the relics
[00:22:18] precisely now, as...
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