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[00:01:00] and the first letter that I opened
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[00:01:07] is 8 years old. At that time, my son was also Vanya and
[00:01:10] he was also 8 years old. That's
[00:01:13] why this particular letter touched me so much,
[00:01:16] that I actively plunged into this
[00:01:19] search.
[00:01:22] And Vanya Tomas Chelyabinskaya, he's probably not 8 years old anymore, but
[00:01:26] already around 12 years old. Big regards, this is a huge hello, city!
[00:01:30] From all of us, yes, children, write to the fighters, they are very
[00:01:34] happy to receive your letters and always carry them, by the way,
[00:01:37] close to their hearts. Thank you, thank you everyone, thank you very much.
[00:02:02] The events that will be discussed today took place in the Kharkiv
[00:02:06] direction. The situation in this sector of the front will be presented by our military
[00:02:09] correspondent, whom I invite to the studio, Elena Sokolova.
[00:02:13] Let's welcome her.
[00:02:20] Spring 2025, a unit of Russian
[00:02:23] troops from the 136th Assault Brigade received
[00:02:27] a combat mission in the area of the village Tikhoe.
[00:03:00] Another damaged tank served as such a shelter. From
[00:03:03] time to time, Kazbek would turn on his phone, record
[00:03:06] a video, and then the battery would die,
[00:03:10] there was no connection, his relatives decided that Kazbek was
[00:03:13] missing. Why did close relatives decide so, how
[00:03:17] long did this wait last, and most importantly,
[00:03:20] how did it end? I invite Zakhra Zakaryayeva to the studio,
[00:03:24] let's welcome her.
[00:03:29] Hello.
[00:03:33] This video that my husband filmed, when did you see it
[00:03:36] for the first time? When he came out of there? Or
[00:03:39] after? Yes, when there was already a connection. What did you decide at that moment
[00:03:43] when the connection was lost? When he was already going on
[00:03:47] combat missions, we somehow talked
[00:03:50] on the phone, already saying goodbye, he
[00:03:53] understood the full seriousness, of course,
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[00:09:02] well, I also felt something already, although it was always hard
[00:09:05] to part, I say, God
[00:09:08] forbid, of course, but if something happens to you.
[00:09:11] He sometimes takes videos and photos
[00:09:14] so that we know how he was there all
[00:09:18] this time. It's clean, that's why Ramazan
[00:09:21] sometimes turned on his phone, made these recordings. That's how
[00:09:25] it happened. That particular time, how long was he missing when you raised
[00:09:28] the alarm that something had happened? He had the
[00:09:32] platoon commander's contacts, he said if anything, I can write
[00:09:35] to him. After about 5 days, I decided to write,
[00:09:38] I wrote, asking about Ramazan, if there was any connection with him,
[00:09:42] to which he answered, yes, he's fine, he's alive, healthy, he's at his
[00:09:45] position and that's it. And then
[00:09:48] after about two days, I guess,
[00:09:52] Ramazan's mother called me, and said
[00:09:56] that she, well, they told her that
[00:09:59] he was wounded. We also call our own, here we have long-awaited
[00:10:03] meetings. Who do you want to see here today? The director, probably, director is
[00:10:07] a call sign, a call sign. Why
[00:10:10] him specifically? Well, he and Ramazan
[00:10:14] went out together on the way. What did your husband
[00:10:18] tell you? Well, the whole way, how he was wounded, how
[00:10:21] Baba Yaga was constantly hanging over him. There
[00:10:25] was no count of these kamikaze
[00:10:28] birds. He said that he didn't expect to survive, even if
[00:10:32] wounded. He just always always
[00:10:34] said he wasn't afraid to die, he was afraid that his body wouldn't
[00:10:38] be found, that his body wouldn't be found, that they wouldn't be able to retrieve his body.
[00:10:41] Therefore, he hoped to get closer to our
[00:10:45] side and so that his body could be
[00:10:48] retrieved, and as for him remaining alive, he had no hopes
[00:10:52] at all. How many days did Kazbek remain
[00:10:55] under the tank when the director was with
[00:10:58] him? We will continue the conversation with your
[00:11:01] husband, the main character of this story, in the studio Ramazan
[00:11:04] Zakaryayev,
[00:11:08] hello, Ramazan, glad to see
[00:11:10] you,
[00:11:12] well, your wife wants to see the director,
[00:11:16] thank him, were you actually familiar with him
[00:11:19] before the incident when you were wounded, did you ever meet him?
[00:11:23] I met him on March 22nd. We showed
[00:11:26] footage, you under the tank, he's also there with you
[00:11:30] nearby, yes, yes, yes. Why did you decide to shoot a video? For
[00:11:32] proof. I didn't even want to. I didn't know if I would
[00:11:36] return. We have a video from your phone, let's watch it, attention to
[00:11:39] the screen.
[00:11:45] How much
[00:11:46] after?
[00:11:54] Hello.
[00:12:55] The enemy positions were far from you, 200-300 meters, and how
[00:12:58] did they act? They constantly shelled us, they didn't
[00:13:02] let us out. I tried two or three times, a kamikaze
[00:13:06] attacked me, in short, and Baba Yaga. I remember this
[00:13:09] wound, 10-15 meters stood on me. I came out of the
[00:13:13] tank, fired a clip, nothing happened to
[00:13:16] her, it turns out she has 15 kg of armor.
[00:13:18] That's what she dropped on me. What combat mission
[00:13:22] did you have then? What were you doing?
[00:13:55] were happening in the Kharkiv region in the spring of 2025. How did the situation change? Please, when
[00:13:58] we talk about liberation, whether it's two streets, three
[00:14:02] streets, it's incredible effort, it's
[00:14:06] incredible heroism of each of our soldiers. But as for
[00:14:10] Pytikha and Volchansk, you need to
[00:14:13] understand that it's a very small
[00:14:16] distance to the Belgorod region. The village of Tikhoe
[00:14:19] is literally 3 km from the border with
[00:14:23] the Belgorod region. And...
[00:14:25] we need to understand that the further we push back
[00:14:29] the enemy, the less intense
[00:14:33] the attacks will be over the territory, well, in
[00:14:36] particular, the Belgorod region. Every soldier
[00:14:39] who is currently in the Kharkiv region, who is currently
[00:14:43] in the Sumy region, of course, they
[00:14:46] understand this. Expanding the buffer zone allows us to
[00:14:49] pull back combat-ready units from such
[00:14:53] locomotive sectors.
[00:15:25] To be honest, there's no need to talk about it, we just went from village to village forward, without
[00:15:29] stopping, you could say, because the main combat-ready units
[00:15:32] were transferred precisely to the Kursk
[00:15:35] direction, and... as
[00:15:37] for our story, our reserve
[00:15:41] units were transferred there,
[00:15:43] and some cities were certainly liberated during
[00:15:47] this time, but as for the Kharkiv region, there are generally very
[00:15:50] heavy battles there. In the Kharkiv region, there is a Russian-speaking
[00:15:53] population, among others. Many
[00:15:57] of the guys I served with in the international brigade
[00:16:00] "Pyatnashka" were precisely from the Kharkiv
[00:16:04] militia, including Arsen Pavlov.
[00:16:37] was the director, right? And there were no products, no water, nothing
[00:16:41] at all, no, there weren't. I had an order back on
[00:16:44] April 13th, I remember, it was dangerous there, drones didn't
[00:16:48] let us. Uh-huh. So the commander said, well,
[00:16:51] take off, in short, if you can, get back by yourself,
[00:16:55] he says. So I walked for 2 days
[00:16:59] - with a Tajik, he was wounded. When we found out he was
[00:17:02] wounded, I went to the unit, I went to the command.
[00:17:06] ходила в командование.
[00:17:37] And he also, when he came
[00:17:40] to them, met with the director under the tank and
[00:17:43] then left with him. Did you and the director exchange contacts or
[00:17:47] was there any contact after that? There was none. I didn't even know he was
[00:17:50] alive. I thought he was definitely a "200" (KIA). And what else
[00:17:54] was known about him besides the call sign "Director"? What did you know? He was
[00:17:58] from the brigade, first battalion, just like
[00:18:01] you, call sign "Director", meaning
[00:18:03] infantryman, 136th brigade, first battalion. We approached
[00:18:07] the Ministry of Defense with this information,
[00:18:11] they met us halfway, we found this person. In our studio is
[00:18:15] the fighter with the call sign "Director", let's welcome him.
[00:18:35] Here, alas.
[00:20:38] Just like all of us there there was no water. These fields are all mined.
[00:20:42] A spiderweb,
[00:20:46] you hear, three, well, a living being, a sticky trap.
[00:20:50] This web, and the first time I
[00:20:53] broke loose, he was behind me, he
[00:20:56] heard, I say, it's going to go off,
[00:21:00] no, no, he walked, about two meters, then stepped on
[00:21:03] another one, I also thought, it's going to go off now, and then
[00:21:07] there are also remote-controlled devices on the road, with blinking lights. We
[00:21:11] go around them, thank God we were saved, because
[00:21:14] many guys blow up on these webs, more than on
[00:21:18] mines. This web is a terrible thing, you can't
[00:21:21] see it at all, then if you touch it slightly,
[00:21:25] that's it, it sticks to your clothes,
[00:21:29] your rifle or something, that's it.
[00:21:33] You can't just tear it off. So
[00:21:36] we kept these huge lighters
[00:21:40] in our pockets.
[00:21:42] If we saw them, we'd burn
[00:21:45] these webs. How much time was there, this shot, do we
[00:21:49] see it?
[00:22:00] You came out again by chance and met under another car
[00:22:04] picture and he screamed because I thought there was no one there
[00:22:07] I looked at that BMW there was nowhere to hide
[00:22:11] it was completely torn up I thought I'd better not
[00:22:14] go there and this FPV crashed into me and exploded I
[00:22:18] flew about three meters. Oh no,
[00:22:21] three holes in my head,
[00:22:25] and I'm sitting there thinking, where should I move now,
[00:22:29] blood is flowing, my back, I think,
[00:22:32] should I go right or left, and he, he
[00:22:36] screams, Director, Director, come
[00:22:38] here, he pulls me under the car, but
[00:22:42] there's no room, there are already three people lying there, I
[00:22:45] was unconscious for about 2 or 3 hours.
[00:22:55] He was lying on him when he was wounded, there was no room, I pulled myself. We entered there in March, it was still cold in
[00:22:58] March, and we left there
[00:23:01] in mid-April. So how long in total did you spend
[00:23:05] there? I spent 29 days. Look, 29
[00:23:08] days after the evacuation group, he stayed there for two more
[00:23:12] days, and then the evacuation came, guys, a small
[00:23:16] Chinese guy, scrawny, I almost...
[00:24:32] alive, but they got out. You were sent for treatment in Belgorod, but from there a transfer to
[00:24:35] Moscow was needed, as far as I know, right? Who helped,
[00:24:39] tell us. Honestly, Olibek
[00:24:42] Muradovich helped, he called the doctor. I
[00:24:45] wasn't myself then, in short, well, on his behalf
[00:24:49] the doctor. He is personally involved in
[00:24:51] helping
[00:24:53] SVO veterans, people affected, those who need
[00:24:57] help. He is here in our studio right in the hall, I invite
[00:25:01] Alibek Muradovich Serajinov to come here to the center,
[00:25:03] applause,
[00:25:06] hello Alibek, welcome,
[00:25:10] Alibek, tell us, how did you learn about Ramazan's story, about
[00:25:13] him needing help? I have a friend, his call sign
[00:25:16] is "Bek", he's a company commander, a former investigator. He went
[00:25:20] to serve, uh-huh, in the morning, when I woke up for that
[00:25:23] morning prayer, I saw on Bek's Telegram
[00:25:27] channel that Kazbek had wandered into his
[00:25:29] dugout, and in the evening of the same day I
[00:25:32] met completely by chance with Kazbek's
[00:25:36] wife. She told me about it, and a puzzle
[00:25:39] came together for me: I learned about it in the morning, and in the evening, well, it just
[00:25:43] so happened that we were able to help. I contacted
[00:25:46] Bek immediately, and Bek said that it was
[00:25:51] impossible to get him out, because, that is, it was impossible to leave
[00:25:54] the dugout with him, and he was very, he had three
[00:25:58] fragments in his head alone at that moment, not counting fragments all over
[00:26:01] his body. And the situation, well, his condition, the photograph, it was very
[00:26:05] telling itself,
[00:26:07] and Bek led him out, and that's exactly
[00:26:11] the video we showed, that was Bek, that's the voiceover
[00:26:14] supporting Ramazan, saying,
[00:26:17] hold on, yes, here I would give credit to
[00:26:20] Kazbek's wife,
[00:26:22] who, like a mountaineer, like a worthy
[00:26:26] wife of a serviceman,
[00:26:29] fought for him, fought for his health and fought for his...
[00:26:32] search, let's say. Bek managed
[00:26:36] to get him to the first populated area, which was about 6-7
[00:26:39] km from his
[00:26:42] position, then we managed to send him for an MRI in
[00:26:45] Belgorod, we managed to send him to Moscow
[00:26:49] the very next day. They told me directly, if we operate on him,
[00:26:53] he might die, he might stay. He
[00:26:56] had a fragment in his head, you see these scars on the right side, he had a trepanation of the skull.
[00:27:00] After the operation, praise be to the Almighty, he came out
[00:27:04] of the operation normally, the fact that
[00:27:07] Kazbek is alive, the fact that Kazbek is healthy, walking with us,
[00:27:11] this is generally, let's say, something, well,
[00:27:14] 99% out of 100, no one would have
[00:27:18] believed it, probably. I accidentally found out about Alibek, came up to
[00:27:21] him, asked for help,
[00:27:25] and then he helped us with everything,
[00:27:28] thank you very much to the doctors.
[00:28:44] Ivanovsky, central city hospital.
[00:28:46] Stanislavich, you worked a miracle, thank you very much,
[00:28:50] my deepest bow to you for believing in a person's salvation, take care of each other,
[00:28:54] always be there for each other, always be in touch.
[00:28:58] Thank
[00:28:58] you.
[00:29:04] A feat is not always a beautiful picture about the liberation of
[00:29:08] territories, victory over the enemy. Sometimes, staying
[00:29:11] alive, getting out of a hopeless situation is also a feat.
[00:29:14] To survive is to overcome the enemy, and for that you need courage and
[00:29:17] patience, the help of a combat comrade. Never
[00:29:21] lose hope of finding
[00:29:22] your own.
[00:30:03] In early November 2025,
[00:30:06] NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte called on the countries
[00:30:09] of the North Atlantic Alliance to prepare, quote: for
[00:30:12] a long-term confrontation with Russia: Russia will remain
[00:30:16] a destabilizing force in Europe and the world, they are preparing for
[00:30:20] a prolonged confrontation, we cannot be naive.
[00:30:23] The inevitability of conflict with our country is also predicted by the Chief
[00:30:27] of the General Staff of the French Armed Forces, General Fabien
[00:30:30] Mandone, and he proposes a plan for rearmament
[00:30:32] of the country for the next 3 years. The first goal I
[00:30:36] set for the armed forces is to be ready for shock in 3-4
[00:30:39] years. The course for active militarization of the country
[00:30:43] was also taken by the authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany. This was stated at the end of October by the head
[00:30:47] of the Federal Intelligence Service Martin Jäger, speaking in
[00:30:50] the Bundestag. The statements of Western and European
[00:30:53] politicians about the escalation of the conflict with our country look especially
[00:30:57] contradictory against the backdrop of regular statements.