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00:00:44Ukrainian drones attacked an oil refinery in the Yaroslavl region; the governor
00:00:47said that the region was subjected to the most massive attack since the beginning
00:00:50of the war. This is a live broadcast of the Current Time TV channel, today is Thursday, August
00:00:546, my name is Evgeniya
00:02:02Many have probably heard what was happening with us last night
00:02:06until the morning, this is
00:02:09all
00:02:10of it.
00:02:14Today, tomorrow, and the following days
00:02:16will be
00:02:19our
00:02:22air. The Governor of the Yaroslavl region stated that air defense forces shot down
00:02:2588 drones. According to him, this is the most massive attack on the region since
00:02:29the beginning of the war. A private house burned down in several multi-story buildings, windows
00:02:32were blown out, and cars were damaged. There were no dead or injured. At the
00:02:36time of the attack, authorities blocked the exit from Yaroslavl towards Moscow.
00:02:40Volodymyr Zelensky also announced attacks by Ukrainian forces in the Black Sea. According to him,
00:02:44two Russian military patrol boats and vessels of the so-called
00:02:47shadow fleet were damaged. This morning, after a drone attack,
00:02:51a fire broke out in the Tver region. Eyewitnesses published footage of the fire in
00:02:54the private sector. The acting governor stated that the attack
00:02:58was repelled by air defense forces. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that
00:03:01a total of 605 Ukrainian
00:03:04drones were destroyed overnight.
00:03:07In the Tver region, as a result of the drone attack,
00:03:10the facade of the Wildberries logistics complex was damaged.
00:03:13This was reported by the governor of the region, Vitaly Korolev. According to him, due to
00:03:17the fall of drone debris, a minor damage occurred. This
00:03:20was a quote: damage to the facade. Against the background of regular
00:03:23attacks, the Russian marketplace is actively looking for safe sites in neighboring
00:03:27countries. New hubs are already being built in Belarus and Kazakhstan. Will this
00:03:31help save Wildberries from the crisis? Roman
00:03:34Vasyukovich will tell you. The construction of the logistics center of the
00:03:37Russian marketplace Wildberries in Belarus is progressing at an accelerated
00:03:41pace. The facility is located in the Great Stone Industrial Park
00:03:44near Minsk. The warehouse has been operating in test mode since spring of this
00:03:48year. Previously, the management of Wildberries reported that this center would become
00:03:51the largest in Belarus. Its area will be
00:03:5514,000 square kilometers.
00:03:58Unfortunately, the circumstances that are currently developing in the territory
00:04:01of the Russian Federation are forcing the investor to build faster,
00:04:05as quickly as possible, to fully launch it into operation.
00:04:08Today, the company is recruiting staff, training
00:04:12staff. However, the logistics center near Minsk
00:04:16is designed exclusively for the Belarusian consumer, as explained to
00:04:19Current Time by economic observer of the project "Belarusians and the Market"
00:04:23Andrey Makhovsky, this facility will not be able to replace the burned-down warehouses in Russia.
00:04:26In order to build such warehouses in such...
00:04:30quantities to replace what burned down, well, you need
00:04:33time, you need a lot of time, that's one. Secondly,
00:04:36it takes a lot of money. The Belarusian warehouse
00:04:40cost, if I'm not mistaken, 110 million dollars
00:04:43to build, well, at least that's what was stated, possibly even
00:04:47more than 110 million. The Russian marketplace plans to launch new logistics centers
00:04:51in Kazakhstan. For now, the company only leases space there, but
00:04:54soon its own retail warehouses should appear in Astana and...
00:04:58As far as I know, about
00:05:0046 thousand square kilometers
00:05:04are leased premises, yes and you probably know, this
00:05:07information was also announced, that.
00:05:10была анонсирована, что.
00:05:42which is, excuse me, nearby, a comfortable Russian-speaking environment
00:05:46there, and millions of economic
00:05:49ties. Economist Aidar Alibaev is confident that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' strikes on
00:05:53Russian centers in Kazakhstan are excluded. However,
00:05:56the presence of such a business creates serious sanction risks for
00:05:59Astana. Especially since earlier Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
00:06:03explicitly stated that the warehouses that Ukrainian drones struck were involved in
00:06:07supplying Russian troops with navigation equipment,
00:06:10components for drones, and...
00:06:42in Kazakhstan or Belarus will help Wildberries fully recover after
00:06:46the crisis. And will Wildberries survive until the time when
00:06:49it finally needs these new warehouses.
00:06:53I mean, the strikes on warehouses continue, they
00:06:57happen on average every 2 days, on average every 2 days
00:07:00some warehouse burns down. Russian sellers already want to leave
00:07:04Wildberries, that is, Wildberries creates some
00:07:07administrative obstacles to prevent them from leaving, but you can't keep doing that for long.
00:07:11As of July,
00:07:25some of the marketplace's facilities in Russia have either been completely destroyed
00:07:29or seriously damaged. To preserve logistics, the company's
00:07:32management is actively looking for new storage sites in
00:07:36Belarus, Kazakhstan, and
00:07:43In the Kharkiv region, five people died as a result of night
00:07:47attacks by Russian drones. According to the head of the region, two people died due to a strike on the Lozova railway station,
00:07:50and eight were injured. Three more
00:07:54deaths were reported by rescuers in the city of Balakliya, where drones attacked the private
00:07:57sector. In the Black Sea, a merchant ship flying the flag of Guinea-Bissau
00:08:01was attacked. It was transporting Ukrainian wheat. As reported by
00:08:04the head of the Odesa region, there are dead and three more people injured. According to
00:08:08local authorities, at least five passengers were injured, including a 15-year-old
00:08:12teenager. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that two vessels carrying
00:08:16military cargo were hit in the Black Sea. In Dnipro, a drone hit a minibus. In
00:08:20the Kherson region, a drone attacked a bus with people who
00:08:23were going to work in the fields. According to local authorities, six
00:08:27people were injured. In Zaporizhzhia, due to a drone attack, the roof of a nine-story building was partially
00:08:30destroyed. The State Emergency Service reported
00:08:34four injured. According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, over the past night, Russian
00:08:38military used 101 drones and four missiles. Air defense forces, as
00:08:42reported, managed to shoot down 66 drones.
00:08:46дронов.
00:08:49In the Kyiv region, today is a day of mourning for the victims of the Russian missile
00:08:53attack. The State Emergency Service reported that
00:08:56the aftermath is being cleared, rescuers are clearing debris in several
00:09:00districts, and sappers are simultaneously surveying the area. The day before,
00:09:03Ukrainian air defense could not intercept a single ballistic
00:09:07missile. Boris Sochalko will tell us how Kyiv plans to solve
00:09:10the problem of missile shortages. These are
00:09:13shots of a meeting of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council,
00:09:16at least in its open part, what has been buzzing in
00:09:20the Ukrainian segment of the Internet for the last 2 days was discussed.
00:09:24There are critically few missiles for intercepting ballistics in Ukraine, and
00:09:27the main question is what to do about it? The first obvious
00:09:31option: we need the help of partners, however, about 600 missiles for Patriot systems
00:09:35are produced worldwide per year. This year, their manufacturer
00:09:39Lockheed Martin increased production to
00:09:42700 units, and this is already considered a breakthrough, as many
00:09:46component suppliers are simply not ready for a sharp
00:09:49increase in capacity. Last month, to shoot down
00:09:53127 ballistic supersonic missiles, it took
00:09:57254 Patriot missiles, and this is in one month, despite the fact that the US
00:10:01has about 800 missiles left, with production of 650 per year.
00:10:04The simple arithmetic is sad, we need a minimum of 1,500 missiles per year,
00:10:07as of today this is unrealistic. Hence the
00:10:11second thesis, which boils down to the well-known formula: the best
00:10:14defense is offense. Famous Ukrainian volunteer Serhiy Starnenko
00:10:18is confident that it is necessary to destroy the missile launchers themselves.
00:10:22установки.
00:10:24Such
00:10:32work was carried out mainly bypassing the General Staff through
00:10:35horizontal connections. Such operations require strong organizational
00:10:39and technological components. We want to believe that past developments
00:10:42will not be lost and will be used to destroy enemy
00:10:46ballistics. Ukraine has already successfully hit ballistic missile
00:10:49launchers of the Russian army several times, for now it is.
00:10:53армии, пока это.
00:11:18one of the launchers was caught in Crimea, in total
00:11:22five missile brigades of the Russian
00:11:25armed forces are involved against Ukraine. Each brigade has 12 launchers
00:11:28according to the staff, which means a total
00:11:32of about 60 launchers. Experts also
00:11:35believe that regular strikes on the Russian military-industrial complex can help, which will reduce the pace
00:11:39of missile production. At the same time, hitting the launcher itself is an
00:11:43extremely difficult task. The Iskander does not stand still waiting
00:11:46for a strike, the vehicle can travel for several hours to the starting position, constantly
00:11:49confusing its tracks. And... for this you need eyes in
00:11:53the air, satellite links, that is, the task is very, very
00:11:57difficult: to catch an Iskander on the march or near
00:12:00the position where it deploys and attacks, it's difficult,
00:12:03indeed, it's the same as when they say that it is necessary to destroy the production
00:12:06of Iskanders, we understand that it is produced deep underground.
00:12:10Air defense itself is another solution to the problem, which is
00:12:13actively discussed online. The Ukrainian company Firepoint
00:12:17previously stated that, in addition to ballistic missiles, it intends
00:12:20to produce and...
00:12:24I don't know if there are other reasons besides the Middle East,
00:12:42maybe political steps to make Ukraine
00:12:45more, let's say, compliant,
00:12:48yes, in my opinion, that... and not without that, so today we
00:12:51are in a situation of, well, deficit,
00:12:55the direction that we started
00:12:58with our domestic
00:13:01air defense system, it is correct
00:13:03for today to
00:13:07be implemented as soon as possible, while Volodymyr Zelensky thanked allies for the assistance
00:13:11provided, however,
00:13:14he added, quote: Our country, it is ours, in the
00:13:18end, everything depends on... Current Time
00:13:21Ukraine.
00:13:32were injured, and more than a dozen apartment buildings, cars, and
00:13:36civilian infrastructure were damaged. Sumy is located just 30 km from
00:13:39the Russian border and is subjected to shelling daily. Earlier,
00:13:43Vladimir Putin announced plans to create a buffer zone there.
00:13:46Andrey Kuzakov will tell us how the Ukrainian Armed Forces
00:13:50are holding back the Russian offensive in the region.
00:13:53Кузаков.
00:16:08At the neighboring post,
00:16:09shooting,
00:16:13drones are shot down,
00:16:16despite constant attacks, Russian troops in the Sumy region
00:16:19are unable to advance deep into Ukrainian territory, Ukrainian
00:16:22military say all attacks are repelled, but the Russian
00:16:26army constantly storms the border zone, striking
00:16:30settlements all the way to Sumy with a large number
00:16:33of attack drones. In our direction.
00:17:37Unfortunately, he could not be saved.
00:17:39He lay in intensive care for
00:17:42a day and died. Oksana and Alexey live here
00:17:46by visits, they are not ready to leave
00:17:49completely yet. Well, it's a pity, it's a pity to leave everything, we
00:17:52have lived here for 15 years already, well, he
00:17:56damaged our house a bit,
00:17:59let's say, now there is no
00:18:02opportunity to repair it, because, well...
00:18:05The situation will worsen, says
00:19:07Oksana, they will have to leave forever, her and
00:19:11her husband. Andrey
00:19:22against Russia could be brought to final approval in the Senate
00:19:25as early as this week. John Curtis, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee,
00:19:29said this in an interview with Radio Svoboda. The document
00:19:32provides for large-scale restrictions on Russia's financial and energy
00:19:36sectors and against the shadow fleet that Russia uses
00:19:39to circumvent sanctions. In addition, it will allow the US president to impose
00:19:43duties against buyers of Russian fuel. According to
00:19:46Curtis, the initiative enjoys broad bipartisan support.
00:19:50The Republican senator stressed that Russia must not win the war.
00:19:53A Radio Svoboda correspondent in Washington asked Curtis what he considered
00:19:57a victory for Ukraine
00:19:59in that case. If you ask President
00:20:02Zelensky, victory simply means not
00:20:06losing today. Not losing tomorrow and not losing
00:20:09the day after tomorrow, from the very beginning Russia defined its
00:20:13victory as the complete capture of Ukraine, so for Ukraine
00:20:17victory is any outcome in which this did not happen,
00:20:21the very fact that Ukraine was able to withstand 4 and
00:20:24a half years of this aggression, this is a huge
00:20:27victory.
00:20:31How do you manage to advocate for strong bipartisan support for
00:20:34Ukraine, given that some of your Republican colleagues
00:20:38advocate for reducing foreign aid? Listen,
00:20:42in reality we cannot do everything at once, there is
00:20:46common sense in their arguments, but I repeat again, defeat is not
00:20:49an option. If we allow Putin to win in
00:20:52Ukraine, it will have serious consequences for many
00:20:56other regions of the world, just look at China and
00:20:59Taiwan, we perfectly understand that Chairman Xi
00:21:02is carefully watching what is happening in Ukraine, and if
00:21:06we retreat here, he will understand that we will retreat on the issue of
00:21:09Taiwan, therefore the consequences of this war go far
00:21:13beyond Ukraine
00:21:14itself.
00:21:17The court chose a measure of restraint for the former
00:21:21Stefanishina, in a case of illegal enrichment. She was assigned a bail of
00:21:246 million hryvnias, which is about 130 thousand dollars. She
00:21:28is obliged to appear for questioning at the request of anti-corruption bodies
00:21:31and notify them of trips. At the request of the defense, the court session
00:21:35was held in private. Stefanishina is accused of three
00:21:38episodes: illegal enrichment and false
00:21:41declaration. It is about the purchase of apartments in a residential complex in
00:21:45Kyiv, which, according to the media, could have been acquired at an underestimated
00:21:48price. Stefanishina herself claims that she has nothing to hide,
00:21:52she refused to comment on today's meeting in detail.
00:21:55The decree on Stefanishina's dismissal from the post of ambassador was signed by Volodymyr Zelensky
00:21:59on August 3, after which she stated that she had resigned
00:22:02voluntarily. Stefanishina is involved in another
00:22:06criminal case, it concerns events of 2013-14,
00:22:10when she headed the department of the Ministry of
00:22:12Justice. Media reported that it was about the embezzlement
00:22:16of money.
00:22:20Georgia was left without electricity for several hours,
00:22:23railway communication and the metro in Tbilisi stopped. In a number of
00:22:27settlements there was no water. This is already the third power outage in
00:22:31the last 2 weeks. About possible causes, Zviat
00:22:34Michedlishvili.
00:22:36A massive power outage throughout Georgia occurred the day before
00:22:39around 8:00 PM. This led to
00:22:42disruptions in critical infrastructure, traffic lights did not work
00:22:46in a number of settlements. Pumps stopped, and... Water was intermittent,
00:22:49mobile communications and internet worked intermittently,
00:22:52intercity trains, cable cars, cars stopped,
00:22:56the funicular and metro stopped, passengers had to get to
00:22:59the surface on their own. Power began to be restored in stages
00:23:03by 9:00 PM, later the state electric system of
00:23:06Georgia explained that the blackout occurred during
00:23:09equipment testing at Enguri HPP. They were looking
00:23:12for the causes of the two previous large-scale outages.
00:23:16After systemic accidents on July 24 and 25
00:23:20at the Enguri hydropower plant,
00:23:23technical work was carried out, to check the equipment, it was necessary
00:23:27to switch the power system to isolated mode with
00:23:29a non-standard frequency, this caused a temporary power outage
00:23:33throughout the country. The first two blackouts at the end of July
00:23:37lasted about 2.5 hours. The National Energy
00:23:40Regulatory Commission found that a sudden
00:23:44disconnection of the Georgian and Azerbaijani
00:23:46power systems occurred then. The Georgian network found itself in isolation.
00:25:07This is much more than large factories consume, twice as much as the metro and
00:25:11railway consume, this is approximately the expenses of a city like
00:25:14Kutaisi.
00:25:20discussed in the country, this is a possible sabotage by
00:25:23Russia. Politologist Gia Khukhashvili said this on the air of
00:25:26the opposition TV channel TV Pirveli. A video where he goes live
00:25:30by candlelight became viral in Georgian social networks.
00:25:34We can talk about technical reasons or
00:25:37corruption, but the main reason, in my opinion, is political. The first
00:25:41blackout coincided with European sanctions against structures associated with
00:25:44Russia and a US investigation into the influence of Russian special services
00:25:47in Georgia. I consider this a political response and sabotage on
00:25:51the part of Russia, its tentacles have penetrated the entire system, and
00:25:55disguising sabotage as an ordinary accident is not
00:25:58difficult. EU sanctions, about which.
00:26:01Евросоюза, о которых.
00:26:37According to outage tracking services, there are problems with mobile and home internet, complaints
00:26:41were mass-reported from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar Krai,
00:26:44Novosibirsk region, and other regions. Later, Rostelecom
00:26:47reported that the problem occurred in their data
00:26:51transmission network. Everything is now working normally. In mid-July, Russia
00:26:54already experienced a major outage, when websites of Apple, Google, and other
00:26:58tech giants failed to load for several hours. The supervisory
00:27:01body denied its involvement in the outage.
00:27:05отрицал.
00:27:08A part of a SpaceX rocket crashed into the Moon. The second stage,
00:27:11weighing 4 tons, had been drifting in space since last year and collided with
00:27:15Earth's satellite at a speed of almost 8,700 km/h. No one managed
00:27:19to capture this moment up close. Now scientists are waiting for data from
00:27:22satellites that photograph the Moon's surface to compare photos
00:27:26before and after. Here are the first such images: the collision
00:27:30was not...
00:28:02laboratory for studying processes throughout the solar system, there
00:28:06is no atmosphere and practically no external influences, and the regolith
00:28:10surface layer of the Moon remains in place for a very long
00:28:14time. The formation of craters is a process that
00:28:17occurs throughout the solar system. Therefore, when
00:28:20an object of known size collides with the Moon at a known speed, it
00:28:24helps scientists better understand the mechanism of crater formation
00:28:28and determine what kind of crater arises from a collision of this
00:28:31magnitude.
00:28:34There's no need to worry about this collision, it will leave a tiny
00:28:37mark on the moon. For astronomers, this is an interesting opportunity to learn more
00:28:41about it. This will not affect Earth in any way, but space debris in
00:28:45general is indeed a cause for concern. Each year,
00:28:48space becomes increasingly congested. Huge satellite
00:28:51constellations, such as Starlink, are being launched into orbit.
00:28:53It is possible that in just a few decades, going beyond
00:28:57low-Earth orbit will become quite difficult due to the large
00:29:01amount of space.
00:29:22warfare like,
00:29:25these are just the names given by our donors, our
00:29:28angels. Rescuers evacuated 17 people
00:29:31from this house.
00:30:22The improvement of the Ministry of Defense's
00:30:25structure continues in connection with
00:30:28the needs and experience of the special
00:30:31military operation. Personnel rotation of personnel.
00:30:34Putin announced the unification of the Ministry of Defense's rear
00:30:37services, he seeks to improve, as it were,
00:30:41the leadership of the war, but at the same time not to nominate any
00:30:44general who would look like his rival. And about
00:30:48the change of the head of the UAV troops. The previous head
00:30:51was engaged in selling plumbing. Simultaneously, in Russia,
00:30:54assassination attempts continue on the heads of factories involved
00:30:57in drone production.