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[00:00:00] GRU. It is being dismantled during the training of American
[00:00:03] special forces. The assault claimed the lives of five
[00:00:06] KGB officers, two GRU intelligence officers, and eight
[00:00:09] paratroopers. Five participants in the operation were
[00:00:13] awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The operation
[00:00:16] involved a special forces group from the State
[00:00:20] Security Committee. But the planning and leadership of the entire
[00:00:23] operation was carried out by military intelligence officer Colonel Kolesnik. He was
[00:00:26] led by the head of the GRU. The operation
[00:00:30] took place at night with
[00:00:32] minimal losses, in less than an hour the task
[00:00:36] was solved, the palace was captured, Amin was killed,
[00:00:39] this storm entered all world
[00:00:42] textbooks of special services and special purpose units.
[00:00:45] The wild nineties became, perhaps,
[00:00:48] the most difficult period in the history of the Main Intelligence
[00:00:51] Directorate. State funding was
[00:00:55] significantly reduced, due to
[00:00:58] which foreign activity
[00:01:00] was frozen, in Yeltsin's inner circle
[00:01:04] the prevailing opinion was: Russia no longer has enemies, which means
[00:01:07] it doesn't need military intelligence. In general,
[00:01:11] a lot of effort was made to weaken the GRU.
[00:01:15] It even came down to completely absurd
[00:01:18] actions, for example, from the Kremlin an instruction
[00:01:22] was received that from now on, the head
[00:01:26] of the GRU should be chosen secretly.
[00:01:47] The first and only time, they turned out, fortunately
[00:01:50] for the GRU, to be very successful. The head
[00:01:54] of the Main Intelligence Directorate was a career intelligence officer,
[00:01:57] Fyodor Ivanovich Ladygin, who
[00:02:00] did a tremendous job to preserve
[00:02:03] military intelligence for Russia.
[00:02:06] The service was being weakened,
[00:02:08] stripped of its core, against the backdrop of this collapse,
[00:02:12] just a few years later, Russian intelligence officers and
[00:02:15] paratroopers conduct a special operation that will change
[00:02:18] all global geopolitics, for the first time
[00:02:21] in a long time this tactical move by Russia, in essence,
[00:02:25] a geopolitical slap in the face, will force
[00:02:28] them to
[00:02:30] stop.
[00:02:36] June 1999. Yugoslavia is
[00:02:40] on fire. NATO bombings have been going on for more than two
[00:02:43] months. The smell of burning and gunpowder hangs in the air. And
[00:02:47] at this moment, when it seems that the West is already celebrating victory,
[00:02:51] something happens that no one expected. The Russian battalion
[00:02:55] makes a 600 km dash and occupies
[00:02:58] the strategic Slatina airfield a few hours
[00:03:02] before the arrival of NATO troops. Without a single
[00:03:05] shot, without a single loss. The GRU
[00:03:07] is the ears, eyes, and hands
[00:03:11] of any state, that is, both the Soviet Union and
[00:03:15] the Russian Federation. The more successfully the GRU works, the stronger
[00:03:19] the state becomes, because security is paramount, and
[00:03:23] security is precisely emphasized through the work
[00:03:26] of the GRU, they learn about the echelons of power of other states,
[00:03:30] what tasks are being set there against our state, they learn about
[00:03:34] new models of military equipment, they also influence
[00:03:37] to maybe even ideologically change
[00:03:41] the situation in relation to our states. The Slatina
[00:03:44] airfield near Pristina was the only
[00:03:48] facility in the region capable of receiving
[00:03:51] heavy military transport aircraft. Whoever
[00:03:54] controlled Slatina, controlled the entrance to
[00:03:57] Kosovo. And NATO understood this perfectly well.
[00:04:00] The invasion of the Alliance's ground forces was scheduled for
[00:04:04] June 12th, they were supposed to enter from the side
[00:04:07] of Macedonia, and first of all to occupy this
[00:04:11] airfield, but Moscow had other plans: 2
[00:04:14] weeks before the start of the march into Kosovo, a GRU
[00:04:18] special forces group secretly infiltrated the airfield and held
[00:04:22] it until the main forces arrived. 18
[00:04:25] people, the commander, then still a major, Yunus-Bek
[00:04:28] Yevkurov. I believe that,
[00:04:32] in my opinion, this is Yevkurov's personal
[00:04:36] merit in many ways, I have the honor of knowing
[00:04:39] him, he is truly a brave, talented
[00:04:43] general, what he accomplished
[00:04:46] with small forces, but for me it's like
[00:04:49] a combined-arms operation, to capture this
[00:04:53] airfield with such a number of paratroopers, well, in my opinion, it was unrealistic,
[00:04:56] but they captured it, they held it. They showed
[00:05:00] that we are still strong, count on us, and
[00:05:03] I think that this may be one of
[00:05:06] such bright operations, very bright, 2 weeks later
[00:05:10] the main forces arrived,
[00:05:13] six paratroopers. By 7:00 AM on June 12,
[00:05:16] Russian units took full control of Slatina
[00:05:20] airfield, established all-round defense, and set up
[00:05:23] checkpoints. Around 11:00, British
[00:05:26] troops approached the airfield. NATO helicopters appeared
[00:05:30] in the sky. But it was too late. Russian
[00:05:33] armored vehicles blocked the runway and maneuvered,
[00:05:37] not allowing British pilots to land.
[00:05:41] NATO, accustomed to dictating conditions, for the first time encountered a situation
[00:05:44] where someone had anticipated them.
[00:05:48] Why did polite people enter
[00:05:56] Crimea so easily? In the name of what do modern
[00:06:00] heroes sacrifice their lives for the salvation of comrades?
[00:06:03] How do the tactical decisions of Russian military
[00:06:06] intelligence surprise the whole world?
[00:06:09] Watch today live:
[00:06:21] Attack aircraft of the Center group of forces practiced tactics
[00:06:24] to counter drones in the special military operation zone. Mortar operators
[00:06:28] of the East group of forces ensured the advance of assault
[00:06:31] groups in the Zaporozhye region. Specialists of the Rubicon center inflicted
[00:06:35] strikes on Ukrainian long-range UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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[00:08:40] Mishki-Krutyshki at Perekrestok for a purchase. In the supermarket and delivery,
[00:12:52] people in camouflage without distinguishing
[00:12:56] marks appeared on the peninsula, "polite people," as they
[00:12:58] would later be called. In a few days, they took control
[00:13:02] of key facilities: Simferopol airport,
[00:13:05] the military airfield in Belbek, the building
[00:13:08] of the Supreme Council and the Council of Ministers of Crimea.
[00:13:11] Simultaneously, according to Vladimir Putin, GRU
[00:13:14] and marine infantry units were transferred
[00:13:18] to Crimea to block and disarm
[00:13:21] the twenty-thousand-strong Ukrainian grouping. GRU
[00:13:24] special forces disabled the special communication system
[00:13:28] of Ukrainian military units, depriving them of coordination
[00:13:31] with Kyiv. The Ukrainian army on the peninsula
[00:13:35] was paralyzed, without orders, without
[00:13:38] communication. This was an operation in which the GRU acted not
[00:13:42] with weapons, but with knowledge, speed, and absolute
[00:13:45] precision of calculation. The main principle that the
[00:13:49] GRU always adheres to is to act preemptively, and
[00:13:52] it has become part of the DNA of military intelligence.
[00:13:56] The GRU doesn't wait for the enemy to make the first
[00:13:59] move, it makes its own earlier.
[00:14:02] Of course, military intelligence units
[00:14:06] are actively participating in the special military operation, and
[00:14:09] they operate not only on the line of combat
[00:14:12] contact, but also in the enemy's
[00:14:14] rear, at a depth of tens, or even
[00:14:18] hundreds of kilometers from the front. When
[00:14:22] our strikes are carried out against
[00:14:26] railway convoys or naval vessels transporting
[00:14:29] military cargo for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, when we
[00:14:32] attack ammunition storage sites
[00:14:35] and workshops where drones and missiles
[00:14:38] are produced in Ukraine, when we strike
[00:14:42] concentrations of foreign mercenaries or
[00:14:45] locations of meetings of the command staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
[00:14:49] the identification of such targets is also
[00:14:52] the work of military
[00:14:55] intelligence.
[00:14:58] 2024. Avdeevka. Ukrainian
[00:15:02] fortified areas that could not be taken for a long time.
[00:15:05] A frontal assault could have led to serious
[00:15:08] losses. Earlier, scouts discovered a secret collector
[00:15:12] that led to the rear of Ukrainian positions. In late January
[00:15:16] 2024, about 150 fighters
[00:15:19] secretly passed underground about 4 km into the enemy's
[00:15:23] rear and began to attack from below. The Armed Forces of Ukraine
[00:15:27] were in a panic, the command could not understand
[00:15:30] for almost a day where the attack was coming from.
[00:15:33] 2025, Sudzha, repeated
[00:15:36] use of tactics with...
[00:16:08] people who walked through these pipes, yes,
[00:16:11] they risked terribly, I can't even imagine
[00:16:15] such a risk, and it was not the kind of risk that probably happens in
[00:16:19] battle, a person gets up, goes into battle, yes, but it lasts
[00:16:22] for some time, these were days when people walked
[00:16:26] through this pipe, breathed
[00:16:29] gases, uh, slept, I don't
[00:16:32] know how, this is a real feat, in Sudzha, in
[00:16:35] anticipation of the command to attack... The fighters spent six days
[00:16:39] in the gas pipeline. On March 8th at 6 AM,
[00:16:43] they blew up an opening and exited into the industrial zone.
[00:16:46] The enemy was caught by surprise. This marked the beginning
[00:16:49] of the offensive, as a result of which the front was broken through by 20
[00:16:53] km. Participants of the stream operation were
[00:16:57] awarded special departmental awards, and they, in turn,
[00:17:01] presented a gift to the GRU leadership, which they
[00:17:04] brought from the special military operation zone. This.
[00:17:07] position was made by the scouts themselves from Donetsk
[00:17:10] steel fragments of ammunition. Soon
[00:17:14] it will take its rightful place in the GRU
[00:17:17] museum hall dedicated to modern operations
[00:17:20] of Russian intelligence. Once again, I say, now
[00:17:23] there is a complete revolution in intelligence. Drones, these
[00:17:27] UAVs, cyber intelligence, information
[00:17:30] wars, and so on. Now
[00:17:33] we are in a new world. Former CIA director John
[00:17:36] Brennan, speaking in Congress, reluctantly admitted
[00:17:39] that, unfortunately, he has respect for
[00:17:42] the capabilities of Russian intelligence. Perhaps
[00:17:46] the image in the minds of strategic partners often does not
[00:17:49] align with what Russian intelligence officers are capable
[00:17:52] of. Recently, one of the exploits of sniper Vitaly Shapovalov with
[00:17:55] the call sign "Ded" was declassified, in his track record, two Chechen
[00:17:59] companies "War in Syria, where he earned the nickname "anti-tank
[00:18:03] grandpa" for stopping".
[00:18:05] The group defended positions
[00:18:37] in the special military operation zone. Vitaly
[00:18:41] Shapovalov repelled three counterattacks, pulled
[00:18:44] two subordinates from under the rubble. And then, when
[00:18:47] an enemy drone hung over the position, he opened
[00:18:50] fire from his automatic rifle, distracting the drone to
[00:18:53] himself. He died, but saved his own.
[00:18:57] The title of Hero of Russia was awarded to Vitaly Shapovalov
[00:19:00] posthumously. The archives of military intelligence are never
[00:19:04] disclosed and never will be. disclosed, this is due to
[00:19:07] the specifics of military intelligence activities, and
[00:19:10] specific, as a rule, informational
[00:19:13] materials related to the preparation of certain
[00:19:16] works or historical research
[00:19:19] are disclosed. Iron self-control,
[00:19:22] heroism, and dedication are the rule
[00:19:25] in the GRU. This rule was followed by people who worked
[00:19:28] in New York in 1944,
[00:19:31] in Prague in 1968. Those who entered Pristina
[00:19:35] in 1999,
[00:19:38] those who walked through the pipe in Sudzha in 2025,
[00:19:41] and those who today look at the world from headquarters through the lenses
[00:19:45] of satellites and monitors of unmanned systems,
[00:19:49] intelligence does not like loud words, its victory is
[00:19:52] in silence, because if the service worked
[00:19:56] perfectly, the world will never know about it, it
[00:19:59] will simply wake up in safety, today
[00:20:03] we say thank you.
[00:20:06] Pavel Vedenyakin with
[00:20:38] you, please, take care of yourselves.
[00:20:42] No, no, I think if they do this,
[00:21:15] they will destroy the Democratic Party. There are no
[00:21:19] reasons for impeachment,
[00:21:21] what for impeachment, for the fact that the country
[00:21:24] is successful?
[00:21:25] Trump says somewhat timidly,
[00:21:28] and he stated that he is not afraid of impeachment by Democrats after
[00:21:31] the crushing defeat of the Republican Party in the midterm elections in
[00:21:35] the USA. How will the course of the United States change after Trump's
[00:21:38] party members lost control of the House of Representatives and
[00:21:42] the Senate. Today we will discuss in detail. This is a live broadcast. In
[00:21:45] the studio are Darina Borovik and Denis Kachanov.
[00:21:48] With the current news of the day: the Kremlin hopes that Donald Trump
[00:21:51] will not abandon efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine after
[00:21:54] the midterm elections in the USA. This was stated by Russian President's Press Secretary
[00:21:58] Dmitry Peskov. According to
[00:22:00] the latest data from the US elections, in the House of Representatives there are
[00:22:04] 240 Democrats and 147 Republicans, that's
[00:22:07] how the seats were distributed. In the Senate, 54
[00:22:10] and 44. Meanwhile, the crushing failure of
[00:22:14] Republicans, the victory of Democrats, even in those states that always
[00:22:17] voted for the red. Michael Atiha Georgia, Ohio and Iowa - this
[00:22:21] is now the number one topic in the entire Western media space. So
[00:22:24] the Ratorc agency names five directions of US foreign policy
[00:22:28] that may change after the Democrats' loss. These are: limiting
[00:22:32] the military campaign against Iran, increasing aid to Ukraine, reviewing
[00:22:36] military support for Israel, cutting defense spending,
[00:22:39] restoring foreign aid programs blocked by Trump,
[00:22:42] as well as strengthening control over Washington's policy
[00:22:45] in Latin America, including actions in that the new Congress gets the opportunity to seek the return of sanctions against Russia, suspended after
[00:23:02] the Moscow-Washington agreement on diesel fuel. Well,
[00:23:05] the Washington Post writes that the failure of the Republicans may make
[00:23:09] Trump even less predictable in foreign
[00:23:12] policy. In addition, US Vice President JD Vance
[00:23:14] admitted, quote: "Relations with Israel are one of the reasons
[00:23:18] for the defeat of the Republican Party, but the main reason for our defeat was
[00:23:21] the war against Iran," end quote. By the way, Donald
[00:23:25] Trump partially agreed with this. Let's watch
[00:23:28] the video. In part, this is true, in the short
[00:23:31] term it led to some increase in gas prices. Probably
[00:23:35] so it is, but at the same time, if I had to make
[00:23:39] the decision again, I would have done exactly the same thing, because in
[00:23:42] the long term it is the only right
[00:23:46] path. In the US Senate, Chuck Schumer
[00:23:50] has already announced that he will seek an end to the war with Iran,
[00:23:54] this is what he stated: "Because of Trump's unpredictable judgments,
[00:23:57] the American people do not know what the hell we are fighting for in Iran."
[00:24:01] He never clarified it, he changes his mind day
[00:24:05] by day. This war must end. By the way, Donald
[00:24:09] Trump has already stated that he will become Mr. Veto and will begin
[00:24:13] to block any initiatives of Democrats with which he will not
[00:24:16] agree. In confirmation of his words. published a photo on his social media page
[00:24:20] of a baseball cap with the inscription veto. Well, American
[00:24:23] journalist Aker Carlson, who was once a staunch supporter
[00:24:26] of Trump, the Maga movement, and the Republican Party, summed up
[00:24:29] his results of the midterm elections in the USA.
[00:24:33] Let's watch. So, we can say, without
[00:24:36] exaggeration, without gloating, this is the end of the Trump era. After
[00:24:39] last night, it's all over. Everyone knew that the Republicans were facing
[00:24:43] a defeat because of the war in Iran. Everyone knew that, and they just
[00:24:46] wanted you to know that it's completely. We will discuss the US elections
[00:25:10] with Malik Dudakov, we ask him to the chair of the main hero
[00:25:13] with applause. Let's watch the material, then we'll talk.
[00:25:17] The Democratic
[00:25:20] Party, based on the results of the US congressional elections, receives more than
[00:25:23] 250 seats in the Lower House and
[00:25:25] 55-56 in the Senate. It wins
[00:25:29] literally everywhere, from North Carolina and Georgia to
[00:25:33] Michigan, Texas, and Kansas. In the latter
[00:25:36] state, Democrats win the Senate race for the first time
[00:25:39] in almost 100 years, since 1932.
[00:25:42] This is an even more serious success than the 2006
[00:25:45] elections, when Democrats managed to take both
[00:25:48] houses of Congress due to the unpopularity
[00:25:51] of the war, but with fewer seats than
[00:25:54] now. For the first time in 40 years, the state
[00:25:58] of Texas turned blue, and there, the Democratic Party took all the seats, both
[00:26:01] Senate and gubernatorial and other
[00:26:04] lower-level elected positions, but there is also a fly
[00:26:07] in the ointment in the barrel of democratic honey, immediately
[00:26:10] after such a triumph, their internal civil war
[00:26:13] will worsen, the socialists winning
[00:26:16] in many places, including Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan, will
[00:26:20] push the status quo to the left. Centrist Democrats will
[00:26:24] concentrate only on blanket criticism of Trump and investigations
[00:26:28] of corruption. The US President himself de facto acts as
[00:26:32] Nero, watching a burning Rome, while
[00:26:35] NATO bureaucracy got nervous. Bureaucrats in Brussels
[00:26:39] believe that Trump, after a painful defeat, may
[00:26:42] try to take it out on the alliance.
[00:26:46] Malik, well, finally the day has come, we have discussed so much in this studio
[00:26:50] with you, what the alignment will be, now everything is finally over, essentially,
[00:26:53] all our scenarios have, in some sense,
[00:26:57] come true, here we see the result.
[00:27:01] the victory of the Democrats, the other thing is that they won,
[00:27:32] of course, very overwhelmingly, right? That is, even I there
[00:27:35] gave them, say, 230 seats in the House of Representatives, in the end they take
[00:27:39] 260 seats, that is, it is, of course, well, I don't think such a thing has happened
[00:27:42] since the eighties, right, such a large control, serious control over
[00:27:45] Congress, well, Democrats are confident that they received
[00:27:49] a complete carte blanche from voters to block any initiatives
[00:27:52] of Trump, especially of course the most unpopular ones, right, that is, what is Trump's most
[00:27:56] unpopular thing, the war in Iran and the provoked
[00:27:59] fuel crisis. The wave of inflation and trade wars, well, and in general
[00:28:03] the consensus opinion is that they lost all
[00:28:07] elections mostly because of Iran. The war was extremely popular,
[00:28:10] considering that your fuel prices have doubled since the beginning of this
[00:28:14] year, this led to an increase in inflation for everything. We understand that diesel is,
[00:28:17] excuse me, logistics, farmers, everything else. By the way, Trump
[00:28:21] lost all key American farming states, including
[00:28:24] Ohio, which voted for Republicans for 10 years non-stop,
[00:28:28] but in these elections they didn't make it, well, and of course, the defeat in
[00:28:32] painful, right, in Texas for half a century, in Kansas for almost 100 years,
[00:28:35] since 1932 there they, yes, imagine, the Great Depression, Roosevelt
[00:28:39] was elected for his first term, a completely different America, for the first time in 100 years, of course,
[00:28:43] they made history, so here, well, yes, it is worth noting that the war in Iran
[00:28:46] de facto buried Trump's presidency and buried the Republican Party, at
[00:28:50] least for the moment, this happened, now, what can the Democrats do and what will
[00:28:54] they do, well, look, they certainly have, I think, two main
[00:28:57] tricks in terms of leverage: first, everything
[00:29:01] that is called oversight in English, that is, control over what the
[00:29:05] executive branch does, the ability to initiate investigations, they
[00:29:08] are already, in general, this is a big clothing store, there is a fashion
[00:29:12] for that now, yes, and to initiate investigations against Trump in all
[00:29:15] directions, that is, I remind you that they still in September submitted
[00:29:19] for discussion eight articles of impeachment against both Trump and Defense
[00:29:23] Secretary Pete Hegseth, and these are articles of impeachment related to the beginning
[00:29:26] of military action in Iran without congressional approval, that is, violations of the constitution and Trump
[00:29:30] from
[00:29:42] power, but they de facto paralyze the work of his
[00:29:48] administration, right, that is, all bureaucrats will have to constantly
[00:29:51] attend hearings, give sworn testimony, that is, a lot
[00:29:54] of unpleasant things to do, yes, of course, and we understand that, you know, they
[00:29:58] will seize on any wrong word, that is, if you lied
[00:30:02] in sworn testimony, that's a criminal offense,
[00:30:06] it's clear that, of course, many will try to avoid this, simply resign,
[00:30:09] well, now we already see that Pete Hegseth, apparently, right away
[00:30:13] after the elections are dismissed
[00:30:17] will be made a scapegoat for all failures in Iran, perhaps,
[00:30:21] by the way, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will be the future US Secretary of War, but
[00:30:25] this is like a story for the future, so yes, the opportunities
[00:30:28] to create problems they will have a lot, well, the second point is budgets, here of course...
[00:30:32] the main powers are with Congress, I remind you
[00:30:36] that this year a historical event can also happen,
[00:30:39] for the first time in 65 years, Congress may not approve
[00:30:43] the military budget for next year, precisely because the Democrats are blocking
[00:30:47] tranches for the continuation of the war in Iran, this, of course, will be a story no budget, no war,
[00:30:50] an unprecedented story, imagine, no, formally, of course, theoretically, yes,
[00:30:54] Trump can still try to wage a confrontation without money, but
[00:30:58] when you have, excuse me, 2/3 there.