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[00:00:00] of the Financial University, Igor Yashkov. Well, in a few
[00:00:03] minutes we will find out what rarities the Ukrainian army is using against us.
[00:00:20] On Zvezda, it's news time. In the studio, Maria Grigoryeva,
[00:00:23] hello.
[00:00:25] Energy and logistics facilities became the target of Russian drones last night.
[00:00:30] The previous evening, a branch of Nova Poshta burned to the ground in Nikolaev. The warehouses
[00:00:34] of this company are used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to store and transport weapons and
[00:00:37] drone parts. In the Kharkiv region, TEC-5 in the village of
[00:00:41] Pesochin, which worked in the interests of Ukrainian
[00:00:43] formations, was hit.
[00:00:47] Leaflets urging the Ukrainian Armed Forces to lay down
[00:00:50] their arms and surrender were scattered over encircled Dobropolye.
[00:00:53] They are being dropped by lightning operators of the
[00:00:55] Center group of forces.
[00:00:58] Takeoff.
[00:01:03] The leaflets are sent there in whole batches. They are carried by the wind over
[00:01:07] a large area. Each contains detailed instructions on how to report
[00:01:10] readiness to surrender, safely approach our positions, and
[00:01:14] exit the encirclement with the help of a guide drone. Our
[00:01:17] Ministry of Defense emphasizes that for Ukrainian militants, this is the only
[00:01:21] chance to stay alive.
[00:01:24] Leaflets are needed to show how to
[00:01:26] surrender, because in the current war it is very difficult.
[00:01:30] The opponents also do not want their allies to
[00:01:33] surrender for them, they try to kill
[00:01:37] them too.
[00:01:41] It's hard to surrender in the current time. Meanwhile,
[00:01:45] more than fifty assault aircraft of the Center group of forces
[00:01:48] received state and departmental awards. This refers to
[00:01:52] servicemen of the Ural motorized rifle brigade. The
[00:01:55] awarding is timed to coincide with the third anniversary of its
[00:01:57] formation.
[00:02:01] They covered from the air and cleared the way for the infantry. Today, details of
[00:02:04] the liberation of Annopolye in the Kharkiv
[00:02:08] region became known. The settlement came under our control last Thursday.
[00:02:11] The North group of forces entered there. Before the assault,
[00:02:15] artillerymen suppressed enemy firing
[00:02:17] points.
[00:02:20] Shot.
[00:02:25] Well, drone operators rammed Ukrainian drones to cover
[00:02:29] the assault troops. When the enemy
[00:02:33] already, how to say, still starts to shoot back, to
[00:02:36] the last bullet, one could say, when we
[00:02:40] send two or three shells from an RPO there, well, in common parlance
[00:02:44] Shmel, then almost immediately they
[00:02:47] surrender,
[00:02:50] and practically without a fight this point is taken,
[00:02:54] thanks to the liberation, the northerners were able to take control
[00:02:58] of the old highway.
[00:03:09] The crew of the modernized T-80 destroyed
[00:03:12] a camouflaged group delivering ammunition for Ukrainian
[00:03:16] militants.
[00:03:21] The tank crew fired from a distance of 9 km, despite such a
[00:03:25] long distance, hitting the target
[00:03:27] 100%.
[00:03:31] Northern Fleet sailors repelled an attack by a simulated enemy
[00:03:34] on Dudinka port. To liberate it, a detachment of warships was sent there. From the board of
[00:03:38] the flagship Ivan Papanin, a helicopter was launched.
[00:03:42] It landed an assault landing group.
[00:03:45] The marines
[00:03:54] liberated administrative buildings and cleared
[00:03:57] the territory. At this time, combat swimmers
[00:04:00] blocked the path to enemy boats and
[00:04:03] neutralized saboteurs on the shore. From the landing ship,
[00:04:06] military personnel on Vityaz all-terrain vehicles were delivered to land.
[00:04:10] A swift forced march, all port facilities completely came
[00:04:13] under the control of the Northern Fleet sailors.
[00:04:17] And that's all I have for now. More news on Zvezda News channel.
[00:04:21] Stay with us, stay informed and remember that all stated goals
[00:04:24] will be achieved. See
[00:04:26] you.
[00:09:05] observer Alexey
[00:09:06] Koshkin is with us.
[00:09:20] resist our drones, took decommissioned weapons from warehouses
[00:09:23] from the Soviet Union. But, as
[00:09:27] it turned out, it doesn't save, rather it kills. These are shots from
[00:09:31] social networks. A Ukrainian MiG-29 is pursuing
[00:09:33] Geran-4. Since air-to-air missiles of the Ukrainian
[00:09:37] Air Force have long run out. The pilot opens
[00:09:41] fire on the drone from close range with an aviation
[00:09:44] cannon. The Geran explodes, the explosion hits
[00:09:47] the fighter flying behind it. The plane does not have time to evade and
[00:09:51] goes down. The engines start to work
[00:09:55] intermittently. The recording breaks off. The head of the Ukrainian foundation
[00:09:58] "Come Back Alive", Taras Chmut, stated in an
[00:10:02] interview with German Deutsche Welle that Ukrainian aviation cannot resist
[00:10:05] Russian drones. According to him, attempts to shoot down
[00:10:09] Russian Geraniums are always a game of death for pilots. Modern missiles
[00:10:12] have run out and aviation technicians are now trying
[00:10:16] to adapt old, still Soviet
[00:10:19] R-73 and ancient R-60
[00:10:22] to fighters, which still remain
[00:10:26] in weapons depots, and everyone knows that they are
[00:10:29] unsafe for both pilots and aircraft, but as Chmut
[00:10:33] said, there is no alternative yet. Missiles can explode upon
[00:10:37] launch, they can simply fail, and such cases
[00:10:40] have already happened, that is, every time an old
[00:10:44] munition is used, there is a probability of an accident or
[00:10:47] a catastrophe. That is why, when intercepting drones,
[00:10:50] Ukrainian pilots try to destroy drones with onboard
[00:10:54] cannons. Now, for understanding, what are
[00:10:57] R-73 and R-60? The 73
[00:11:00] were adopted 43 years
[00:11:03] ago, and the R-60 10
[00:11:06] years earlier, so the missiles are about
[00:11:09] 50 years old. In order to install them on more or less modern
[00:11:12] fighters, it is necessary to modify the suspensions,
[00:11:15] reprogram the onboard computer, recalibrate
[00:11:19] the instruments, but success is still not guaranteed.
[00:11:22] But things are even more fun with the American. Dutch
[00:11:30] F-16s, which Kyiv is so proud of. First, these
[00:11:33] missiles can only be used with American equipment.
[00:11:37] Second, the Americans themselves modestly keep silent about the fact that Sidewinder
[00:11:41] is a missile that appeared in the US Air Force in
[00:11:44] 1956.
[00:11:47] It became the world's first mass-produced guided air-to-air
[00:11:50] missile. It, of course, was improved in
[00:11:54] its modified form and is still
[00:11:57] used by the air forces of many states. The
[00:12:00] only question is which ones: The Kyiv
[00:12:03] authorities ordered fishing nets to be wrapped around bridges,
[00:12:07] decommissioned missiles to be installed under the wings of fighters, heavy,
[00:12:11] unsuited for modern warfare remnants of American
[00:12:14] tanks and decommissioned cannons to be sent to the battlefield. In short, the war until the last
[00:12:18] Ukrainian
[00:12:24] move on to the review
[00:12:25] from Renata Kamalova.
[00:12:35] The European Union will face a record gas deficit this coming winter, the highest in 15 years.
[00:12:39] As Politico writes, gas reserves in storage facilities have dropped to their lowest
[00:12:43] level since 2011 and barely exceed
[00:12:46] 70%. According to EU rules, they should be
[00:12:49] filled to 90%. Russian
[00:12:52] LNG cannot be bought. Alternative American gas has
[00:12:55] risen by 12%. As the publication notes,
[00:12:59] Europeans will inevitably face rising utility prices.
[00:13:02] The European Union intends to cut its new seven-year budget to satisfy
[00:13:05] donor countries Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, which are demanding
[00:13:09] spending cuts. Ireland, which currently presides over the EU Council,
[00:13:13] presented a draft that provides for a reduction of
[00:13:16] 159 billion euros. In particular, administrative
[00:13:19] expenses will be optimized by 10 billion, and 38 billion
[00:13:22] will not be received as foreign aid.
[00:13:25] At the same time, support for Ukraine will be maintained for
[00:13:27] 2028-2034.
[00:13:30] Kyiv is expected to receive almost 89 billion
[00:13:34] euros. The food industry has found a new source of
[00:13:37] profit in what was previously considered production waste. As the
[00:13:41] Financial Times writes, amidst a boom in protein products, companies
[00:13:44] are turning whey, by-products of meat processing, into expensive
[00:13:48] ingredients. Thus, demand for whey is growing faster than supply,
[00:13:51] and its cost has more than tripled in 2 years,
[00:13:55] according to the publication. In September, a kilogram of whey protein concentrate with
[00:13:58] 80% protein content cost about 24 euros
[00:14:01] in Europe, compared to 6.5 in
[00:14:04] 2024. The Anglicism "rage
[00:14:08] bait" has been recognized as the main youth word of the year in Germany, reports
[00:14:12] Langenscheidt. This term refers to content on
[00:14:14] social networks that deliberately provokes the audience into disputes and aggression
[00:14:18] for the sake of increasing reach. The publication notes that teenagers have started
[00:14:22] to use this word in everyday life. Content
[00:14:49] favorite Donald Fredovich is the best dealmaker in the world,
[00:14:52] this weekend he arranged... a difficult
[00:14:56] day not only for Zelensky, but also for his defenders.
[00:14:59] Social networks rated this approximately
[00:15:01] like this.
[00:15:04] Not only did he decide to buy diesel from the Russians, he also
[00:15:08] again showed Zelensky the door. Change this incapable
[00:15:11] of negotiation, Ukrainians, for someone
[00:15:14] else. Who could that be, we will discuss with the scientific
[00:15:18] director of the Institute of Regional
[00:16:52] sought a way to agree, to unite the position of Europe, NATO and the United States,
[00:16:55] yes, it was not possible to agree and it could not
[00:16:58] be possible, because the task was,
[00:17:01] as it were, to combine our Russian position with
[00:17:05] the Ukrainian one, and in such a way that Ukraine.
[00:19:27] from Trump, but why did he talk about his replacement as President of Ukraine
[00:19:31] Trump exactly now? Well, honestly
[00:19:34] speaking, right after being expelled from the White House, he also...
[00:20:37] Don Quixote, uh-huh, there's probably enough dirt for
[00:20:41] everyone, but somehow they don't notice
[00:20:45] it yet, they don't smear this dirt on
[00:20:48] their faces yet, that's true. For Kyiv and its allies,
[00:20:51] Trump's statement seems to have come as a shock:
[00:20:54] Zelensky immediately started making blanket calls to his friends in
[00:20:58] Europe. The first in his address book, apparently, was
[00:21:02] British Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Here, the press could only state
[00:21:06] that the last 24 hours were difficult for
[00:21:09] Ukraine. Then there were Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas
[00:21:12] Gahr Støre, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Finnish
[00:21:15] President Alexander Stubb. To all of them, Zelensky complained about his bitter
[00:21:19] fate and demanded increased pressure on the Russians. He secured promises
[00:21:23] of personal meetings and assurances that the Europeans would help him. He
[00:21:26] immediately insulted Trump again, saying it was not up to him to decide who would be president
[00:21:30] in Ukraine, and also announced that Trump is weak and therefore
[00:21:34] agrees with Putin. Trump was told of this valuable statement,
[00:21:37] here's how he reacted. Zelensky
[00:21:40] said you are weak. Who said that? Zelensky, President of
[00:21:44] Ukraine. Okay, next
[00:21:46] question.
[00:21:50] How can Europeans help
[00:21:53] Zelensky today? Buy American weapons
[00:21:55] once,
[00:21:59] which is very welcomed, they pay his debts,
[00:22:02] he won't pay them off, but the process will be,
[00:22:05] yes, secondly, create a political position, because why is Zelensky
[00:22:09] still rude, he is sure that he has very good positions
[00:22:13] there, he has very good positions in European
[00:22:16] capitals, so this very Trump comes and goes, but...
[00:22:20] Zelenky remains. Which president of ours has he already
[00:22:24] outlasted? The second one, because
[00:22:26] there was already Trump, and again Biden,
[00:22:30] yes, and he's still in his place, although everyone
[00:22:33] says he's a puppet in the hands, yes, he's a puppet, but not
[00:22:37] in the hands of the government, but much deeper structures,
[00:22:41] yes, these structures don't care what the US
[00:22:44] president's name is, today it's one, tomorrow we'll appoint
[00:22:47] another, somewhere in some countries...
[00:23:20] outlasted many, two
[00:23:24] US presidents. And what are the chances that he will outlast this time, he
[00:23:28] sponsored his chances that he will outlast Trump, yes, well,
[00:23:31] because Trump cannot extend his powers, he will serve
[00:23:35] as long as he has, this is the maximum option, the minimum is that he will be
[00:23:38] impeached, yes,
[00:23:41] and Zelensky, no one will announce impeachment, he will either
[00:23:45] be shot, or he will be president,
[00:23:48] an interesting alternative. And there's no one to announce impeachment, not a single
[00:23:52] constitutional body in Ukraine
[00:23:54] exists, legally no one can sign
[00:23:57] treaties, or announce impeachment.
[00:24:01] Uh-huh, okay, why does Zelensky interfere with Trump
[00:24:04] personally? Well,
[00:24:06] disobedient, how does he perceive the world? Uh-huh.
[00:24:10] He is the president of the greatest country, period. Uh-huh. So, all
[00:24:13] other presidents are his servants.
[00:24:16] He only broke down on the English king, well, you know.
[00:24:21] That person just couldn't understand why he was Trump's servant, and
[00:24:24] she also couldn't stand it, but you had to
[00:24:28] see it, it wasn't even about the words, everyone spoke correctly,
[00:24:31] but what faces they had.
[00:24:34] Zelensky, when he refuses to hold elections, appeals to the constitution, which
[00:24:38] states that during martial law, voting
[00:24:42] is impossible, however, the situation in the country is such that
[00:24:45] references to legality from Zelensky's lips sound at least
[00:24:48] strange, no trace of popularity remains. The Ukrainian
[00:24:52] sociological center Socius placed Zelensky in ninth
[00:24:55] place in the ranking of trust in Ukrainian politicians. If elections
[00:24:59] were held, he would lose to Fyodorov, Budanov, and even
[00:25:02] Poroshenko. According to the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology,
[00:25:06] more than 50% of respondents do not want
[00:25:09] Zelensky to be re-elected. As for the attitude towards the current government,
[00:25:12] Ukrainians increasingly feel disappointment and
[00:25:15] shame. And how can the most democratic democrat,
[00:25:19] Trump, manage to remove him? What
[00:25:22] mechanisms could he use? Well, first, he could create
[00:25:26] economic misery for him, and at
[00:25:29] the same time hint to the security forces in Kyiv that, in
[00:25:33] general, the US is not against it, because
[00:25:35] the security forces can well overthrow Zelensky, well, there's Budanov there,
[00:25:39] who might not want to, but if he's told from Washington,
[00:25:42] from Langley, yes, that "man, come on, come on, our people,
[00:25:46] let's agree," he might well do it, because... It's
[00:25:50] not even about Zelensky's legitimacy, God be with it, if it died, it
[00:25:54] died, but who actually can
[00:25:57] control Ukraine among them, practically no one,
[00:26:01] uh-huh, and they can.
[00:27:03] the former commander of the armed forces for the British, or the British for
[00:27:07] him, uh-huh, yes, as I understand, the former military
[00:27:10] minister, the former prime minister, a woman,
[00:27:13] these are all people of the Americans,
[00:27:16] yes, Zelensky cleanses them, notice, he protects American people,
[00:27:20] Americans are silent, yes, even with this,
[00:27:24] with whom he kissed the rabbit, most likely no
[00:27:28] president would have survived this, but
[00:27:31] the Americans are silent, why? Well, this is my version, because
[00:27:34] neither the CIA nor the State Department perceive Trump
[00:27:38] as their president, well, he walks around, he mumbles something, but let him
[00:27:42] mumble, he'll finish talking, they'll start
[00:27:44] acting.
[00:27:47] Uh-huh, well, what's happening on social media these days, people are remembering
[00:27:50] last year's memes, like this one, it appeared after
[00:27:54] Trump kicked Zelensky out of the White House, now the legendary
[00:27:58] phrase also sounds: "You're fired." Well, we all
[00:28:01] remember that... he
[00:28:32] will be overthrown
[00:28:35] and everyone will be left with the feeling that freedom has won,
[00:28:39] uh-huh, but still there is a possibility that this very last recent
[00:28:42] attack by Trump on Zelensky is serious,
[00:28:45] no, it's serious, it's just that no one takes
[00:28:53] is ready to hold elections if Moscow agrees to
[00:28:56] a sixty-day truce, yes, because
[00:28:59] after that there will be a six-month war, clear, so...
[00:29:21] we won't believe that, I hope, because God forbid, the word truce generally terrifies me, not because I'm for war, I actually like it when people don't fight and don't die, from Ukraine, where a quarter of my relatives live, and from Russia, yes, but a truce is the most
[00:29:24] harmful, the most dangerous, the most treacherous
[00:29:28] thing, because there will be no peace, but
[00:29:31] on the other hand...
[00:30:02] channel "Philosopher of the World" Dmitry Zhuravlev. Well, in a few
[00:30:06] minutes we will see who became Donald Trump's new press secretary.
[00:30:22] On Zvezda, it's news time in the studio with Maria Grigoryeva.
[00:30:25] Hello.
[00:30:28] Energy and logistics facilities became the target of Russian drones last
[00:30:31] night. The previous evening, in Nikolaev, a branch of Nova Poshta
[00:30:35] burned to the ground. The warehouses of this company are used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to store and transport weapons and
[00:30:39] drone parts. In the Kharkiv region, TEC-5 in the
[00:30:42] village of Pesochin, which worked in the interests of Ukrainian
[00:30:45] formations, was hit.
[00:30:48] They provided air cover and cleared the way for the infantry. Today,
[00:30:52] details of the liberation of Anapolya in the Kharkiv
[00:30:55] region became known. The settlement came under our control last Thursday.
[00:30:59] The group of troops entered there.