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[00:00:17] News on Zvezda. Mikhail Rezhitov in the studio. Hello, powerful explosions in Kyiv,
[00:00:21] smoke for kilometers, glow of fires over the capital of Ukraine.
[00:00:25] And so, after the hits, warehouses are burning in the suburban Sofievskaya
[00:00:28] Borschagovka. Literally two kilometers from the notoriously known
[00:00:31] torture house of the
[00:00:32] Ukrainian Armed Forces.
[00:00:39] Protests against power outages began in the city itself in Obolon in
[00:00:43] the Zhytomyr metro area, residents are blocking roads, demanding the return of
[00:00:46] light, water, heating. There has been no electricity for
[00:00:50] five days now. Utility services warn that frosts are coming soon,
[00:00:53] the situation will worsen critically. It was loud tonight in
[00:00:56] Dnepropetrovsk, judging by the neon flashes, part of it... Russian
[00:01:04] troops are developing an offensive in Kharkiv region, the North group
[00:01:08] is driving the enemy out of Dementievka and Malye
[00:01:11] Prokhody. Our fighters
[00:01:14] liberated two days earlier. The assault on each settlement
[00:01:18] into the enemy's rear in advance.
[00:01:21] A fighter with the call sign Kzyr tells how in the summer he spent a whole
[00:01:24] month near the enemy in the area of the Reznikovsky cauldron. Together
[00:01:28] with his partner, he cleared a network of observation strongholds
[00:01:31] and eliminated several militants. Most often, scouts move
[00:01:35] at night or in conditions of poor visibility. For greater stealth, they
[00:01:39] use anti-drone blankets and other means of camouflage. They
[00:01:42] allow them to get close to the enemy and even capture
[00:01:45] prisoners.
[00:01:47] Two servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were captured, after
[00:01:51] working with them, enemy positions were
[00:01:54] identified, a phone,
[00:01:57] documents, everything was found on them.
[00:02:00] They said how the enemy enters, how the enemy is deployed, how many, what
[00:02:03] quantity, during missions, scouts use
[00:02:07] captured drones, the enemy takes them for their own and does not touch them,
[00:02:11] this helps our fighters gather necessary information, and if necessary,
[00:02:15] destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces positions, dropping
[00:02:17] ammunition on them.
[00:02:20] Minister of Defense Andrey Belousov congratulated servicemen and veterans on
[00:02:23] Military Intelligence Day. He noted that these fighters show high
[00:02:27] professionalism, courage and endurance, successfully solving
[00:02:30] responsible tasks in the zone of a special military operation and
[00:02:33] preventing threats to national security.
[00:02:36] The most distinguished scouts were awarded departmental and state
[00:02:40] awards. The ceremonies took place, among other things, on the front line, for example, in
[00:02:43] Dnepropetrovsk region, where the Center group of forces is operating. The command
[00:02:47] thanked the personnel for their courage.
[00:02:50] I will add, modern military intelligence officers, without exaggeration,
[00:02:53] can be called universal soldiers. They master all
[00:02:56] advanced methods of warfare and constantly hone their skills
[00:03:00] at specialized training grounds. The training program includes in-depth
[00:03:04] tactical fire training, conducting reconnaissance and
[00:03:07] sabotage activities, separate attention is paid to drone
[00:03:10] control and countering enemy UAVs. These skills
[00:03:14] are successfully applied by scouts in the SMO zone.
[00:03:18] In the Kramatorsk direction, our fighters are breaking through the enemy's defenses and
[00:03:21] advancing from Shakhovo towards Rayskoe. In
[00:03:24] Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the central part
[00:03:28] of the city are under serious threat of semi-encirclement. In both
[00:03:31] sections, UAV crews of the southern group of forces provide
[00:03:34] support to their advancing units. Thus, they
[00:03:38] discovered and destroyed a Humvee armored fighting vehicle camouflaged in
[00:03:41] a forest belt and two drone control points. Also, as
[00:03:44] a result of a series of successful attacks, a group of
[00:03:47] militants and an ammunition depot with a supply
[00:03:50] of shells for a multiple launch rocket system were eliminated.
[00:03:54] Advancement in the area of responsibility of the Vostok group. Far Easterners took more
[00:03:58] advantageous positions in the areas.
[00:05:00] confidently advancing deep into enemy defenses, cutting off
[00:05:03] logistics routes and strengthening the isolation of the Orekhovsky fortified area
[00:05:06] of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Our next broadcast is at 8:00. All
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[00:09:04] news. The floor to Alexey
[00:09:06] Koshkin.
[00:09:16] Colleagues, greetings. So, the coalition of the willing, if
[00:09:20] you remember such a one, announced the date of new exercises.
[00:09:23] The maneuvers will begin on November 9. 2800
[00:09:27] military personnel from 10 European countries will practice coordination
[00:09:30] of future actions in Ukraine at a Polish training ground.
[00:09:33] And the instigators
[00:09:36] of the demonstrative maneuvers are Britain and France, but the military
[00:09:40] games can be shattered by reality, both
[00:09:43] physical and political. The coalition of the willing still
[00:09:47] believes that Ukraine's security must be built with
[00:09:50] weapons. Therefore, the exercises will test the mechanisms
[00:09:53] for controlling combined forces. In fact, this
[00:09:57] can be called a rehearsal for occupation. The coalition
[00:10:00] of the willing is going to set up military camps in Ukraine and
[00:10:04] surround them with equipment and weapons, but they will protect
[00:10:07] themselves, not Ukraine, although
[00:10:10] this will be declared as for...
[00:10:12] civil society, this is the same model that NATO
[00:10:16] tested in Afghanistan. Also,
[00:10:18] the British plan to practice the ability to interact and effectively
[00:10:22] function as part of a single, multinational
[00:10:26] group, again not a word about protecting and helping
[00:10:29] the people of Ukraine. In parallel with the Polish
[00:10:33] maneuvers, naval exercises will be held in Istanbul. There they will
[00:10:36] practice mine clearance of the water area. In the future, this
[00:10:39] should ensure Europe a safe resumption of commercial
[00:10:43] shipping in the ports of Ukraine. In general, the maneuvers
[00:10:46] should show that Great Britain, France and others
[00:10:50] are intensifying efforts, preparing for the moment when in
[00:10:53] Ukraine.
[00:11:01] And, as the Kingdom's Minister of Defense said, this is not a hypothetical plan, but a real force ready to come to Ukraine's aid as soon as hostilities
[00:11:04] cease. Exactly the same thing was done by the British and Americans in
[00:11:08] post-war Germany in '45, they set up
[00:11:11] camps, organized their administrations and forced
[00:11:14] the surviving Germans to restore
[00:11:17] the economy. The difference is that many people have already
[00:11:20] fled Ukraine. The Maidan stood for
[00:11:23] visa-free travel, so... that Ukrainians prefer to love their homeland
[00:11:27] from afar and sitting on benefits, what
[00:11:30] kind of true Ukrainian will go back
[00:11:33] to work, but Europe has two ways to implement
[00:11:37] the brilliant plans of the coalition of the willing: the first is to
[00:11:40] scandalously push the fattened Ukrainian refugees
[00:11:43] home and to work, the second is to kill two birds
[00:11:47] with one stone, by sending hordes of legal and
[00:11:51] illegal migrants from Africa and the East to our doorstep. This is a real way
[00:11:55] to liberate European territories from rioters and
[00:11:58] turn Mohammed into
[00:12:01] the most popular name not only in London and Paris, but in
[00:12:04] Kyiv. Russia, of course, is categorically
[00:12:07] against the deployment of any coalition troops in Ukraine,
[00:12:10] and separately for humanitarian reasons, we do not like
[00:12:14] the European craving for neo-colonialism in territories
[00:12:17] neighboring us. Ukraine, however, itself very much wanted to become
[00:12:21] a colony and a brothel of Europe, but it did not seem
[00:12:25] to intend to turn into a concentration camp, although judging by
[00:12:27] recent events, no one is even thinking of asking Ukrainians if
[00:12:30] they want to become slaves,
[00:12:34] colleagues, that's for sure, Alexey, thank you, we'll see you in
[00:12:37] an hour, about the properties of the smell of chocolate, what
[00:12:40] else the world press writes about, Roman Shchukin will tell.
[00:12:53] On the day of the midterm elections. Congress Donald Trump signed
[00:12:56] a proclamation declaring the solar system,
[00:13:00] space beyond Earth, the heritage
[00:13:03] of all people. As follows from the document published on the White
[00:13:07] House website, it confirms the US intention to play
[00:13:10] a leading role in the exploration and development of space, including
[00:13:14] the creation of permanent infrastructure there. Trump
[00:13:17] also announced plans to return to the moon by
[00:13:20] 2028 to lay the foundation
[00:13:24] there for...
[00:13:55] disclosed information to journalists about the operation in the US against Iran and
[00:13:59] the conflict in Ukraine. He failed
[00:14:02] four polygraph tests and eventually confessed
[00:14:05] to the deed. The State Duma, together with
[00:14:08] the Ministry of Justice, is developing a bill that will
[00:14:11] clarify the concept of traditional values. As
[00:14:15] TASS reports, the document, in particular, may refer to such
[00:14:19] concepts as respect for elders and youngsters, historical
[00:14:22] memory and patriotism. According to
[00:14:25] the head of the State Duma Committee on Family Protection, Nina
[00:14:28] Ostanina, deputies long doubted the need for such
[00:14:32] a law, but over time it became clear that
[00:14:35] it was still necessary to clarify. At the same time, according
[00:14:38] to Ostanina, the state should start with
[00:14:42] education, since fines
[00:14:45] and prohibitions alone will not help stop offenses.
[00:14:48] Chocolate can increase strength and even
[00:14:51] endurance with its smell alone, according to...
[00:14:57] scientists at the University of Malaya conducted an experiment:
[00:15:00] 23 healthy men with at least 2
[00:15:03] years of strength training experience exercised in the gym
[00:15:06] on an empty stomach. The aroma of dark chocolate allowed them
[00:15:10] to perform an average of 18 more repetitions during
[00:15:14] leg extensions than in the control group. The smell of
[00:15:17] milk chocolate gave an increase of about nine
[00:15:20] repetitions. However, the authors of the study warn against hasty conclusions,
[00:15:25] saying that only one exercise was tested on
[00:15:29] one small group, so a placebo effect is not ruled out,
[00:15:32] therefore, the conclusion will now have to be checked
[00:15:36] on larger ones...
[00:15:50] Kyiv raised a fuss, a Russian bomb hit
[00:15:54] a supposedly underground gymnasium, but some
[00:15:57] time before that, a concerned local military blogger publicly
[00:16:01] said that there was no school there, that the equipped
[00:16:04] basement housed the police and p
[00:16:14] His words interested our intelligence officers, they began
[00:16:17] to find out what kind of interesting house that was,
[00:16:21] perhaps the blogger only confirmed what our
[00:16:23] specialists had already found out through other
[00:16:27] channels. No one can say for sure: secrecy is
[00:16:30] a distinctive feature of the work of the Main Intelligence Directorate
[00:16:34] of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, and today
[00:16:37] its employees have a professional holiday. We will congratulate
[00:16:40] the intelligence officers today together with military historian
[00:16:43] and writer Alexander Kolpakidi.
[00:16:47] Good morning, glad
[00:16:48] to see you,
[00:16:52] well, let's clarify with dates and generally when a service that can be called
[00:16:56] analogous to the modern
[00:16:59] service of the Main Intelligence Directorate
[00:17:01] appeared in Russia. In general, intelligence
[00:17:05] has existed since ancient times, there is a lot in the Bible.
[00:17:31] The only thing is that in Leningrad, on Nevsky, he stands next to Kutuzov, but
[00:17:35] in general, no one knows him.
[00:17:37] He did a lot for the army in general, for the victory in the first
[00:17:41] Patriotic War, in particular, he created both intelligence and
[00:17:44] military counterintelligence. Under whose jurisdiction was military intelligence then?
[00:17:48] It was subordinate first directly to the Ministry of War,
[00:17:51] and then it was his personal office as Minister of War,
[00:17:55] and so, well, three people
[00:17:58] headed it during the war, one of them Zakrevsky later became a very
[00:18:02] prominent minister and official under
[00:18:05] Nicholas I...
[00:19:07] transmitting a mass of information having very
[00:19:10] serious agents in Paris, and then
[00:19:14] already on the eve of the war, he went to Stockholm, fulfilled
[00:19:17] the task there, returned, participated in the war, then became
[00:19:21] Minister of War, he is one of the key figures of the Nikolaev era,
[00:19:24] so this, that is, intelligence
[00:19:27] initially in Russia was such an elite one,
[00:19:30] then after the end of the Napoleonic
[00:19:34] campaigns, there was some period when everything seemed to be
[00:19:37] quite good, quiet, calm, Russia
[00:19:41] secured its place as a superpower, we somehow
[00:19:44] all think that only the Soviet Union was a superpower, but in fact,
[00:19:48] after 1915, the Russian Empire was also
[00:19:51] a superpower, and for some time it
[00:19:54] dragged on in such a not very highly developed
[00:19:58] state, but already in the sixties, the Crimean
[00:20:01] War, the exacerbation of this hostility
[00:20:05] around Russia, it again began to
[00:20:07] intensify, and military agents were sent
[00:20:11] everywhere, well, they are still there, they are called military attachés, you know,
[00:20:15] I don't want to interrupt you, but we have so many questions, and we would
[00:20:19] like to understand what happened to this service, to
[00:20:22] military intelligence after the revolution, yes, after the revolution, strictly
[00:20:26] speaking, and if political intelligence,
[00:20:30] what Naryshkin now heads the SVR, it,
[00:20:33] of course,
[00:20:35] by Bolshevik concepts was...
[00:20:50] even if they did nothing wrong, but they were not trusted, but here it happened
[00:20:54] differently, officers were generally trusted, because many officers went
[00:20:57] back and forth, and moreover, we celebrate
[00:21:00] the fifth of November
[00:21:04] 1918, this anniversary, and what happened,
[00:21:08] a schedule was adopted in the field headquarters, and who headed
[00:21:12] the field headquarters, it was headed by
[00:21:14] tsarist generals, who themselves in their time, well,
[00:21:17] Kostyaev, Bonch-Bruevich themselves in their time had something to do with
[00:21:21] military intelligence, in general it must be said that in the Civil War,
[00:21:25] no one ever talks about it, many generals, commanders
[00:21:28] on both sides were
[00:21:32] former intelligence officers, obviously this is due to the fact that
[00:21:35] intelligence officers are passionate, they
[00:21:38] are active, they are, well, more lively, so to speak,
[00:21:42] well, they have a lot of brains in their heads and so on,
[00:21:45] they are very patriotic, here
[00:21:48] two collided... the
[00:22:24] worst, as
[00:22:26] they used to say
[00:22:30] in Soviet times, no, they spent a lot of money, but not
[00:22:34] the strongest, let's say, yes, then Soviet intelligence from
[00:22:37] the very beginning had a powerful trump card, so from the very
[00:22:41] beginning, already from the late twenties, it became the strongest intelligence
[00:22:45] in the world, let's talk about this in more detail in the twenties of the last century at the
[00:22:48] head of military intelligence.
[00:22:58] He created a system for training and selecting intelligence officers,
[00:23:01] nothing similar existed in the world, schemes for
[00:23:04] illegals were carefully worked out, from clothing and mannerisms
[00:23:07] to the ability to charm and elicit information from
[00:23:10] a foreigner. Already in the thirties, Berzin began
[00:23:13] to prepare a system of partisan detachments. Among the great illegals
[00:23:17] of that era was Richard Sorge.
[00:23:50] intelligence, watch this episode and the next two on our
[00:23:53] channel right today at 11:20. What
[00:23:57] is the uniqueness of Berzin's method? Well,
[00:24:00] Berzin was an old underground worker, he literally
[00:24:03] from childhood was a partisan in the forests, he was
[00:24:06] a green brother, sat in prison, was an illegal, that
[00:24:09] is, he, by the way, never went abroad before the revolution,
[00:24:13] but nevertheless he was an illegal, lived under false
[00:24:16] documents, knew, well, knew all the rules of conspiracy.
[00:24:20] Therefore, by the way, before him two intelligence chiefs were also
[00:24:23] Latvians, yes, by the way, one of them is completely unknown,
[00:24:27] Zeibot, he played an even bigger role, well, and Berzin, of course,
[00:24:31] relied on professional revolutionaries like himself, he recruited them,
[00:24:34] they didn't need much training, they had already gone through this school
[00:24:38] of the underground, they knew how to behave during interrogation, how to escape
[00:24:41] surveillance, how to transport documents, how to make
[00:24:45] a false bottom in a suitcase, in a mirror, and so on, that is, there was a whole science, they
[00:24:49] were already experienced.
[00:25:20] Communist Party, where hundreds of thousands of people, listen, well, Communist Party, Communist Party, but
[00:25:23] Soviet intelligence officers penetrated the highest circles
[00:25:27] of society, into the political elite, how did they manage this, for example,
[00:25:31] in America, yes, there was a special apparatus in the Communist Party,
[00:25:33] there were three people, not knowing each other, they
[00:25:37] recruited such people, they tracked who
[00:25:40] among those applying could potentially
[00:25:44] get into some government agencies,
[00:25:46] met with them and said, comrade, you don't need to...
[00:25:50] "Do you want to work in the most dangerous sector of the struggle?"
[00:25:54] "I do," so they took note of him, if he really made a career,
[00:25:57] he was passed on to intelligence, thus they helped us a lot,
[00:26:01] I must say.
[00:26:32] exceptions were ideological communists, that is, it wasn't some
[00:26:36] random person, oh no, there was one, the most
[00:26:39] useless one, who asked for money, he was given money, and characteristically, this
[00:26:43] was an emigrant from Russia, while the rest, these locals, born
[00:26:47] and raised here, they themselves, in general, the joke
[00:26:50] was that during the war they refused to take
[00:26:53] money and tried to give money themselves, well, to those officers
[00:26:57] they met with, saying, "You have Stalingrad, such horrors,
[00:27:01] we watch the chronicles."
[00:27:39] He was nominated for the Nobel Prize 15 times, but since the Nobel
[00:27:43] Committee knew that he had very big disagreements with the FBI,
[00:27:47] he was almost jailed, he was never awarded the Nobel Prize, but he has
[00:27:50] all the awards he could possibly get in physics, except for the
[00:27:54] Nobel Prize, and some were even executed, and after
[00:27:58] the war, of course, a lot changed, because technologies
[00:28:01] intensified.
[00:28:32] there were 14 brigades of special forces alone, a huge number
[00:28:35] of special forces companies, more than 22 thousand people, that is,
[00:28:39] it was a whole state within a state, no wonder under
[00:28:42] General Ivashutin, this was a real empire within the country,
[00:28:46] and but it was a superpower, a superpower, there was only
[00:28:49] one competitor, the United States of America, so to resist,
[00:28:53] it was necessary to have similar intelligence, now
[00:28:56] a new, right now as we speak, a new
[00:29:00] revolution in intelligence, these big
[00:29:03] data, this cyber intelligence, information warfare, new
[00:29:07] departments, new directions are being created and so on, young people who are
[00:29:11] technically gifted, who can count beyond ten,
[00:29:14] they are recruited there, they start to create these new
[00:29:18] directions there, because now, of course, this
[00:29:22] last war has shown that technologies have changed, yes,
[00:29:26] but to predict this was, never once did any intelligence officers
[00:29:29] fully predict what would happen, war always shows, no
[00:29:33] generals were prepared for any war, so now,
[00:29:36] of course, there is another breakthrough, comparable to the breakthrough that
[00:29:39] occurred at the beginning of the Cold War. And we once again congratulate our military
[00:29:43] intelligence officers on their professional holiday, wish them health
[00:29:47] and good luck. Thank you very much. The history of the best
[00:29:50] military intelligence in the world was told to us by special services historian
[00:29:53] and writer Alexander Kolpakidi. Well, after the news
[00:29:57] broadcast, we will tell you when Montenegro will become a member
[00:30:00] of the European Union. Thank you!
[00:30:19] News on Zvezda. Mikhail Rezhitov in the studio. Hello. Russian
[00:30:22] troops are developing an offensive in Kharkiv region. The North group
[00:30:26] is driving the enemy out of Dementievka and Malye Prokhody. Our
[00:30:30] fighters are entering these villages from Alisovka, liberated
[00:30:32] two days earlier. The assault on each settlement is prepared by reconnaissance groups,
[00:30:36] which advance into the enemy's rear. A fighter with the call sign
[00:30:39] Kyzyr tells how he spent a whole month in the summer near the enemy in
[00:30:43] the area of the Reznyakovsky cauldron. Together with his partner, he cleared a network
[00:30:46] of observation strongholds, eliminated several militants.
[00:30:50] Most often, scouts move at night or in conditions of poor
[00:30:53] visibility. For greater stealth, they use anti-drone blankets and
[00:30:57] other means of camouflage.