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00:00:10Ukrainian drones attacked an oil refinery in Yaroslavl region. The governor
00:00:13stated that the region was subjected to the most massive attack since the
00:00:16war began. This is a live broadcast of Current Time TV channel. Today is Thursday, August
00:00:206th. My name is Evgenia Taganovich.
00:00:22Hello.
00:00:25Protection against ballistic missiles. Ukraine is looking for ways to repel Russian
00:00:29attacks, asking its allies to supply weapons for
00:00:32defense. Consequences of attacks in the AFU, Wildberries company
00:00:35is building logistics centers outside Russia, in particular in
00:00:39Kazakhstan and Belarus. The third blackout
00:00:42in two weeks occurred in Georgia. A massive power outage occurred in
00:00:45Tbilisi. The subway stopped, and railway operations were
00:00:49disrupted.
00:00:52Vladimir Zelensky stated that Ukrainian forces attacked
00:00:55the Slav Neftis oil refinery in the Yaroslavl
00:00:59region. Later, the information was confirmed by local authorities.
00:01:15They
00:01:16only kill,
00:01:25this is a refinery,
00:01:28many have probably heard what happened to us last night
00:01:32until the morning, this is it, this
00:01:35is
00:01:36everything
00:01:40today, tomorrow and the following days
00:01:42will be our
00:01:45air.
00:01:48The governor of the Yaroslavl region stated that air defense forces shot down
00:01:5188 drones. According to him, this is the most massive attack on the region since
00:01:55the beginning of the war. A private house burned down, in several multi-story buildings, windows were
00:01:58broken, cars were damaged, there were no deaths or injuries. During
00:02:02the attack, authorities blocked the exit from Yaroslavl towards
00:02:05Moscow. Vladimir Zelensky also announced attacks by Ukrainian forces in the Black
00:02:09Sea. According to him, two Russian military patrol boats and
00:02:12vessels of the so-called shadow fleet were damaged. This morning,
00:02:15after a drone attack, a fire broke out in the Tver region. Eyewitnesses
00:02:19published footage of the fire in a private sector. The acting
00:02:23governor stated that the attack was repelled by air defense forces. The Russian
00:02:26Ministry of Defense reported that in total, over the past night,
00:02:30605 Ukrainian drones were destroyed.
00:02:33беспилотников.
00:02:36In the Tver region, as a result of a drone attack, the facade of
00:02:40a Wildberries logistics complex was damaged. This was reported by the governor of the region,
00:02:43Vitaly Korolyov. According to him, due to the falling debris of the drone,
00:02:46there was minor damage. This was a quote: "damage
00:02:49to the facade." Against the backdrop of regular attacks, the Russian marketplace is actively
00:02:53looking for safe sites in neighboring countries. New hubs are already being built in
00:02:57Belarus and Kazakhstan. Will this help save Wildberries?
00:03:01Roman Vasyukovich will tell you. The construction of the logistics center
00:03:05of the Russian marketplace Wildberries in Belarus is proceeding at an accelerated
00:03:08pace. The facility is located in the Great Stone industrial park near
00:03:12Minsk. The warehouse has been operating in test mode since spring of this
00:03:15year. Earlier, the Wildberries management reported that this
00:03:19center would be the largest in Belarus. Its area would be
00:03:2214,000 square kilometers. Unfortunately, the
00:03:25circumstances that are currently developing in the Russian Federation force
00:03:29investors to build faster, as quickly as possible, to fully
00:03:33launch it into operation. Currently, the company is
00:03:36recruiting staff, training staff,
00:03:40however, the logistics center near Minsk is designed exclusively for
00:03:43Belarusian consumers, as explained to Current Time by economic
00:03:47observer of the Belarusian market project Andrey Makhovsky, this facility will not
00:03:51be able to replace the burned-down warehouses in Russia. To build
00:03:54such warehouses in such quantities as to replace the burned ones, well, you
00:03:58need time.
00:04:10110 million dollars for its construction, well, at least that's what was stated, perhaps even
00:04:13more than 110 million. The Russian marketplace plans to launch
00:04:17new logistics centers in Kazakhstan, for now the company
00:04:21only leases space there, but soon its own retail warehouses
00:04:24should appear in Astana and Almaty, as far
00:04:27as is known, about 46.
00:05:00who are not directly involved in the war, and where else
00:05:03can Russians increase their
00:05:06warehouses, if not in Kazakhstan, which is, excuse
00:05:09me, right next door, a comfortable Russian-speaking environment.
00:05:14and millions of economic ties. Economist Aydar
00:05:17Alibayev is confident that AFU strikes on Russian centers in Kazakhstan
00:05:21are excluded. However, the presence of such a business creates
00:05:24serious sanction risks for Astana. Especially since earlier
00:05:27Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky directly stated that the warehouses that
00:05:31Ukrainian drones hit are involved in supplying Russian troops
00:05:35with navigation equipment, components for drones and
00:05:38other military goods.
00:05:42dual-use items will definitely
00:05:45be there, all of this will push Kazakhstan towards us
00:05:49getting sanctioned, tomorrow the West will find out that
00:05:52Wildberries changed and started using us
00:05:55to support the Russian army with its
00:05:59components, and so on, they use us purely as
00:06:03a platform. Economic observer Andrey Makhovsky
00:06:06doubts that logistics centers, whether in Kazakhstan or Belarus,
00:06:10will help Wildberries fully recover after the crisis, and will
00:06:14Wildberries survive until the time when it, finally, when these
00:06:17new warehouses will be needed? I mean,
00:06:21that attacks on warehouses continue, they happen on average every 2
00:06:24days, on average every 2 days some warehouse burns down,
00:06:28Russian sellers already want to leave Wildberries, that is,
00:06:32Wildberries creates some administrative obstacles to keep them from leaving,
00:06:35well, you won't be able to create them for long, well, in the end, okay,
00:06:39the goods of these sellers will burn down, which you don't allow
00:06:42to be taken out of the warehouse, well, new sellers won't bring in
00:06:46goods. Fires at Russian Wildberries warehouses after drone attacks
00:06:49have been happening regularly since mid- July. Part of the marketplace's
00:06:53facilities in Russia are either completely destroyed or seriously
00:06:56damaged. To maintain logistics, the company's management
00:06:59is forced to actively search for new storage sites in Belarus,
00:07:03Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. Roman Vasikovich, Current
00:07:06Time.
00:07:09In the Kharkiv region, as a result of night attacks by Russian drones, five
00:07:13people died. According to the head of the region, due to a strike on the Lozova railway station,
00:07:16two people died and eight were injured. Three more
00:07:20deaths were reported by rescuers in the city of Balakleya. There, drones attacked the private
00:07:23sector. In the Black Sea, a merchant ship flying the flag of
00:07:27Guinea-Bissau was attacked. It was transporting Ukrainian wheat. As reported by
00:07:31the head of the Odesa region, there are dead and three more people injured. According to
00:07:34local authorities, at least five passengers were injured, including
00:07:38a fifteen-year-old teenager. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that in the Black
00:07:41Sea, two vessels carrying military
00:07:45cargo were hit. In Dnipro, a drone hit a minibuss. In the Kherson region,
00:07:49a drone attacked a bus with people who were going to field
00:07:52work. According to local authorities, six people were injured. In
00:07:55Zaporizhzhia, due to a drone attack, the roof of a nine-story
00:07:59building was partially destroyed. The State Emergency Service reported four
00:08:02injured. According to the AFU, over the past night, Russian
00:08:06military used 101 drones and four missiles. Air defense forces, it was
00:08:10reported, managed to shoot down 66.
00:08:15In the Kyiv region, today is a day of mourning for the victims of the Russian missile
00:08:19attack. The State Emergency Service reported that the aftermath
00:08:22is still being eliminated. Rescuers are clearing debris in several
00:08:26districts, and sappers are simultaneously inspecting the territories. Earlier,
00:08:29Ukrainian air defense could not intercept a single ballistic
00:08:33missile. How Kyiv plans to solve the problem of missile shortages,
00:08:36will be explained. These are shots from a meeting
00:08:40of the Ukrainian National Council.
00:09:12component suppliers are simply not ready for a sharp
00:09:16increase in capacity. Last month, to shoot down
00:09:19127 ballistic supersonic missiles, it took
00:09:23254 Patriot missiles, and that was in one month, despite the fact that the US
00:09:27has about 800 missiles left. Annual production is 650.
00:09:30Simple arithmetic is sad. We need at least 1,500 missiles a year.
00:09:34Today this is unrealistic. Hence the second thesis,
00:09:38which boils down to the well-known formula: the best defense is
00:09:41offense. Famous Ukrainian volunteer Serhiy Sternenko is confident that it is necessary
00:09:45to destroy the missile launchers themselves. The previous commander-in-chief
00:09:48did not prioritize hunting for launchers and did not provide
00:09:51appropriate support to units that struck
00:09:55launchers. Such work was mainly carried out
00:09:58circumventing the General Staff through horizontal connections. Such
00:10:01operations require a strong organizational and
00:10:05technological component. I want to believe that previous developments will not
00:10:08be lost and will be used. Ukraine has already successfully
00:10:15struck Russian ballistic missile
00:10:18launchers several times, these are isolated cases so far, but
00:10:22military experts note that such strikes are capable
00:10:25of significantly reducing the enemy's potential. On June 5th,
00:10:29the 26th brigade in Klintsy was attacked,
00:10:32one launcher
00:10:34detonated. In August, the 448th
00:10:38missile brigade was attacked,
00:10:41one of the launchers was found in
00:10:44Crimea. In total, five Russian
00:10:48missile brigades of the armed forces
00:10:51are deployed against Ukraine. Each brigade has
00:10:5512 launchers according to its staff. That is, a total of about
00:10:5860 launchers. Experts also
00:11:01believe that regular attacks on the Russian military-industrial complex can help, which will reduce the rate of
00:11:05missile production. At the same time, hitting the launcher itself is an extremely
00:11:09difficult task. Iskander does not stand still waiting for a strike. The machine can
00:11:13travel to the launch position for several hours,
00:11:16constantly confusing its tracks. For this,
00:11:20you need eyes in the air, satellite links. The task
00:11:23is very, very difficult, to catch an Iskander on the move,
00:11:27or near positions where it deploys, attacks, it's difficult,
00:11:31indeed, it's the same when they say that we need to destroy the production
00:11:34of Iskanders, we understand that it is produced deep underground,
00:11:38specifically air defense is another option for solving the problem, which
00:11:41is actively discussed online. The Ukrainian company Firepoint
00:11:45previously stated that in addition to ballistic missiles, it intends
00:11:48to produce anti-missile systems, and to develop domestic
00:11:51interception systems.
00:12:25situation, well,
00:12:27a deficit, the direction that we
00:12:29started, our domestic
00:12:33air defense system, it is correct for
00:12:37today, to implement as quickly as possible. At
00:12:40the same time, Vladimir Zelensky thanked the allies for the provided
00:12:44assistance, however, added, quote: Our
00:12:47country, it is ours, in the end, everything depends on
00:12:51us. Boris Ichalka, Sergey Dakun, Current Time, Ukraine.
00:12:57Russian military struck Sumy with air bombs overnight. According to
00:13:00rescuers, 12 people were injured, and more than a dozen
00:13:04apartment buildings, cars, and civilian infrastructure were damaged. Sumy
00:13:07is only 30 km from the Russian border, and is daily
00:13:11subjected to shelling. Earlier, Vladimir Putin announced plans to create a buffer
00:13:14zone there. How the AFU is holding back the Russian offensive in
00:13:18the region, Andrey
00:13:20Kuzakov will tell you.
00:13:57At this time, Nazar, with the call sign "Taxi Driver", carefully watches the
00:14:01sky. A Russian kamikaze drone could appear at any
00:14:04moment.
00:14:08Closer to the front line, there are more and more destroyed houses, and burnt
00:14:11equipment along the roads. We drove into the twenty-kilometer
00:14:15border zone in the Sumy region, which, according to
00:14:18statements from Russian authorities, they have wanted to turn into a buffer
00:14:22zone for over a year.
00:15:25We hide under trees, because it might be
00:15:28flying. I hear it, but I don't
00:15:31see it.
00:15:34At the next post, there's shooting.
00:15:39they are shooting down a drone.
00:15:42Despite constant attacks, Russian troops in the Sumy region
00:15:45are unable to advance deep into Ukrainian territory, say
00:15:49Ukrainian military, all attacks are repelled, but the Russian
00:15:52army constantly storms the border zone and strikes
00:15:56populated areas, all the way to Sumy with a large
00:15:59number of attack drones. In our
00:16:01direction, the situation is difficult, very difficult.
00:16:05Very dangerous. Drones have started flying
00:16:08often, but since we set up
00:16:11our air defense posts,
00:16:15there are many fewer shot down vehicles.
00:16:19How do you, with this, we
00:16:21have reduced
00:16:23the damage to equipment and saved much more personnel.
00:16:27During the time we have been working in this
00:16:30direction, well, we have had no fatalities,
00:16:33no fatalities on our side.
00:16:55he was wounded by shrapnel in his arm and
00:16:58neck. He was given first aid,
00:17:02an evac team arrived and picked him up, unfortunately,
00:17:06he could not be saved, full stop.
00:18:42and her and her husband. Andrey Kuzakov, Vasily Martynchenko, Current
00:18:42Time.
00:18:46The bill on new US sanctions against Russia may be submitted for
00:18:49final approval in the Senate as early as this week. This was stated in an interview
00:18:53with Radio Free Europe by John Curtis, a member of the Committee
00:18:57on International Relations. The document provides for large-scale restrictions
00:19:00on the financial and energy sectors in Russia and measures against
00:19:04the shadow fleet that Russia uses to circumvent sanctions. In addition, it
00:19:07will allow the US president to impose duties against buyers of
00:19:11Russian fuel. According to Curtis, the initiative enjoys broad
00:19:14bipartisan support. The Republican senator emphasized that
00:19:18Russia must not win the war. A Radio Free Europe correspondent in Washington
00:19:21asked Curtis what he considered a victory for
00:19:25Ukraine in that case. If you ask President
00:19:28Zelensky, victory simply means not
00:19:32losing today, not losing tomorrow, and not losing
00:19:35the day after tomorrow. From the very beginning, Russia defined
00:19:39its victory as the complete capture of Ukraine, so for
00:19:42Ukraine, victory is any outcome in which this did not
00:19:46happen. The very fact that Ukraine was able to
00:19:49withstand 4 and a half years of this aggression is a huge
00:19:53victory.
00:19:57How do you manage to advocate for decisive bipartisan support for Ukraine,
00:20:01given that some of your Republican colleagues advocate
00:20:04for reducing foreign aid? Listen,
00:20:08in fact, we can't do everything at once. There's common sense
00:20:12in their arguments, but I'll say again, defeat is not
00:20:15an option. If Putin is allowed to win in
00:20:18Ukraine, it will have serious consequences for many
00:20:22other regions of the world. Just look at China and
00:20:25Taiwan. We perfectly understand that President Xi
00:20:28is closely watching what is happening in Ukraine, and if
00:20:32we retreat here, he will understand that we will retreat on the issue of
00:20:35Taiwan, so the consequences...
00:20:50She was assigned bail of 6 million hryvnias, which is about 130 thousand
00:20:53dollars. She is obliged to appear for interrogations at the request of anti-corruption
00:20:57bodies and notify them of her trips. At the request of the defense,
00:21:00the court session was held in closed session. Stefanishina is accused
00:21:04of three episodes: illegal enrichment and inaccurate
00:21:07declaration. This refers to the purchase of apartments in a residential complex in
00:21:11Kyiv, which, according to media reports, could have been acquired at an understated
00:21:14price. Stefanishina herself claims that she has nothing
00:21:17to hide. Today's session in detail.
00:22:20intercity trains, cable cars, buses
00:22:23stopped, funicular and subway. Passengers had to
00:22:26make their way to the surface on their own. Power began
00:22:29to return in stages by 9:00 PM. Later, the state
00:22:33electricity system of Georgia explained that the blackout occurred during
00:22:36equipment testing at the Enguri HPP.
00:22:39They were looking for the causes of the two previous large-scale
00:22:42outages. After systemic accidents on July 24 and
00:22:4625 at the Enguri hydroelectric power station,
00:22:50technical work was carried out. To check the equipment, the energy system
00:22:53had to be switched to an isolated mode with a non-standard
00:22:56frequency. This caused a temporary power outage across the
00:23:00country. The first two blackouts at the end of July lasted about
00:23:042.5 hours. The National Energy Regulatory Commission
00:23:07found out that then there was a sudden
00:23:10disconnection of the Georgian and Azerbaijani
00:23:12energy systems. The Georgian network, being isolated, could not
00:23:16cope with the load. The regulator placed part of the blame on...
00:24:22For 10 years now, our energy sector has been destroyed by parasitic
00:24:25crypto mining, it consumes a whole billion
00:24:27kilowatt-hours. Georgia produces only 14 billion
00:24:31kilowatt-hours, which is much more than large factories consume,
00:24:34twice as much as the subway and railway consume,
00:24:37this is approximately the expenses of one city like
00:24:40Kutaisi.
00:24:44Another version that is actively discussed in the country is a possible
00:24:48sabotage by Russia. This was stated on the air of the opposition TV channel
00:24:52TV Pirveli by political scientist Gia Khukhashvili. The video where he
00:24:55goes live by candlelight went viral on
00:24:59Georgian social networks. One can
00:25:02talk about technical reasons or corruption, but the main reason, in my
00:25:05opinion, is political. The first blackout coincided with European
00:25:09sanctions against Russian-linked structures and
00:25:12a US investigation into the influence of Russian special services in
00:25:15Georgia. I consider this a political response and sabotage by
00:25:19Russia. Its tentacles have penetrated the entire system, and
00:25:22disguising sabotage as a common accident is not
00:25:25difficult. The EU sanctions, which
00:25:28Khukhashvili mentions, concerned the Georgian oil refinery
00:25:32Kulevi, which was involved in the transit of Russian oil, as well as a number
00:25:36of Russian-linked crypto platforms. The State
00:25:39Security Service of Georgia does not rule out the sabotage version. After
00:25:43the first two blackouts, the agency announced the start
00:25:46of an investigation under the article "Sabotage."
00:25:51A large-scale internet outage occurred in Russia. Starting around 1 PM
00:25:54Moscow time, dozens of popular websites stopped opening across the country,
00:25:58including marketplaces like Wildberries, Avito, Kinopoisk, and portals of some
00:26:01banks. According to outage tracking services, there are problems
00:26:04with mobile and home internet. Complaints were massively received from
00:26:08Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar Krai, Novosibirsk Oblast, and other
00:26:12regions. Later, Rostelecom reported that the problem
00:26:16occurred in their data transmission network. Everything is now
00:26:18working normally. In mid-July, Russia already had a major outage, when
00:26:22websites of Apple, Google, and other tech giants did not load for several
00:26:26hours. Roskomnadzor denied its involvement in
00:26:29the outage.
00:26:34A part of a SpaceX rocket crashed into the moon. The second stage,
00:26:37weighing 4 tons, had been drifting in space since last year and collided with
00:26:41Earth's satellite at a speed of almost 8,700 km/h. No one managed to
00:26:45capture this moment up close. Now scientists are waiting for data from
00:26:48satellites that photograph the moon's surface to compare photos
00:26:52before and after. Here are the first such images. The collision
00:26:56was unintentional. Usually, such stages return to the atmosphere,
00:27:00burn up, or fall into the ocean, but
00:27:03generally, falling onto the moon is one of the ways spacecraft are disposed
00:27:07of, and it is not dangerous for Earth's inhabitants. Moreover,
00:27:10the collision is of scientific interest: the dust plume allowed
00:27:14conclusions to be drawn about the composition of the lunar soil. For example, by how
00:27:17sunlight played in the dust cloud, scientists understood that it
00:27:21contained
00:27:22sodium.
00:27:25We love the moon, among other things, because it is a natural laboratory for
00:27:29studying processes throughout the solar system. There is no
00:27:32atmosphere and practically no external influences, and regolith,
00:27:36the surface layer of the Moon, remains in place for a very long
00:27:40time. The formation of craters is a process that
00:27:43occurs throughout the solar system, so when
00:27:46an object of a known size collides with the Moon at a known
00:27:49speed, it helps scientists better understand the mechanism of crater
00:27:53formation and determine what kind of crater arises from a collision
00:27:57of such magnitude.
00:28:00There's no need to worry about this collision. It will leave a tiny
00:28:03mark on the moon. For astronomers, it's an interesting opportunity to learn more
00:28:07about it. It won't affect Earth in any way, but space debris in
00:28:11general is indeed a cause for concern. Each year,
00:28:14space becomes increasingly crowded. Huge satellite constellations
00:28:17like Starlink are launched into orbit. It's possible that in just a few
00:28:21decades, leaving Earth's orbit will become quite difficult due to
00:28:25the large amount of space debris.
00:28:28That's all for now, you can find more on our
00:28:32website current time.tv. Thank you for being with us, I'm Evgenia Taganovich, peace to all
00:28:36and see you soon.
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00:30:25and the improvement of the structure
00:30:28of the Ministry of Defense continues in connection
00:30:31with the needs and experience of the special military
00:30:34operation. Personnel rotation of personnel. Putin
00:30:38announced the unification of the Ministry of Defense's
00:30:40rear services. He seeks to improve the
00:30:44leadership of the war, but at the same time not to nominate any
00:30:47general who would appear to be his competitor. And about
00:30:51the change of the head of the UAV forces. The previous chief
00:30:54was engaged in selling plumbing. Meanwhile, assassination attempts
00:30:57on factory directors continue in Russia.