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00:00:32The marketplace began preventively closing its warehouses that could
00:00:36fall under Ukrainian attack, and today a company warehouse in
00:00:39Ukrainian drones was hit in
00:00:42Yekaterinburg. 800 people were evacuated from the premises of the
00:00:45logistics center. After Russia's strikes on Ukrainian businesses, the country
00:00:48expects price increases and a shortage of goods. On Wednesday night, large
00:00:52enterprises and logistics centers were hit by Russian ballistic missiles.
00:00:55Will the Ukrainian economy withstand the intensified shelling? We will discuss it live
00:00:59on air.
00:01:19warehouse was attacked by drones this morning. It is located 2,000
00:01:23km from the border with Ukraine. Eyewitnesses filmed drones flying over the city
00:01:26and at least two hits on the marketplace.
00:01:34There's another one flying, look, look, look, the warehouse
00:01:37is gone, it's the second one,
00:01:49that's it, it's gone, it's there,
00:01:51it hit.
00:02:06The Wildberries press service confirmed that a fire broke out at the company's logistics
00:02:09facility in Yekaterinburg due to the attack. Employees were evacuated
00:02:13in advance and no one was injured. The governor of the Sverdlovsk region said that
00:02:17air defense systems shot down eight UAVs, while three fell on the roof of the logistics
00:02:21center. By this hour, the fire has been contained. Wildberries claims that
00:02:24most of the goods were not damaged.
00:02:28In short, Wildberries is burning
00:02:30hard,
00:02:32it's burning hard, I think most likely it will be shut down because
00:02:36of such events,
00:02:39something somehow everything is very often, this has become
00:02:43happening, as if, damn, here, as if it didn't
00:02:46drag all this
00:02:48crap.
00:02:52Satellite images of the previously damaged Wildberries warehouse in Tula appeared online. The attack took place on the night of August
00:02:555th. The photo shows that the roof of the building
00:02:59was completely burned down.
00:03:03Marketplace Wildberries has started closing its warehouses that could become targets
00:03:06of Ukrainian strikes. Sellers, carriers, and employees themselves
00:03:09said that the first to be closed was the warehouse near Kazan. It is no longer accessible to
00:03:13sellers or buyers, and goods from it have started to be removed. The Kazan
00:03:17warehouse was hit twice by Ukrainian drones, on July 31st and August
00:03:205th. I remind you that since July 18th, Ukrainian drones have been hitting
00:03:24Wildberries warehouses almost every day. More than twenty logistics centers across
00:03:27the country have been hit. Journalists from the publication estimate the direct losses of the company at
00:03:31100 to 200 billion rubles. And against the backdrop of
00:03:34ongoing attacks, the head of Gazprom-Media, Alexander Zharov, announced that
00:03:38the company plans to shoot a comedy series about the operation of marketplace
00:03:41pick-up points. The working title is "PVZ" (Pick-up Point).
00:03:45The holding wants to film the series together with one of the marketplaces and is conducting
00:03:49negotiations with Ozon, Wildberries, and Avito. The premiere is promised for next
00:03:52year. Zharov is confident that the topic is endless. A comedy of errors,
00:03:56which, according to him, can stretch for 100, 200, or 300 episodes.
00:04:02Russian opposition figures abroad, including Andrei Pivovarov, Vladimir
00:04:06Kara-Murza, and Dmitry Bykov, have launched a campaign in support of the Yabloko party in
00:04:09the State Duma elections in September. They call the party the only one on the ballot
00:04:13that openly advocates for peace in Ukraine and the release of
00:04:16political prisoners. Yulia Navalnaya also called for voting for Yabloko, and
00:04:20in single-mandate districts, to follow the recommendations of smart
00:04:23voting.
00:04:25These elections will be the first parliamentary elections that
00:04:29will take place under full-scale war conditions. We
00:04:32know that a huge number of Russians are against the war, we
00:04:35know that there is no more important issue than its speedy
00:04:39completion, at least for now, there is
00:04:42only one party on the ballot that publicly declares an anti-war
00:04:46stance, this is the Yabloko party.
00:04:50But Yabloko itself disavowed such support. Party chairman Nikolai
00:04:53Rybakov stated that it has neither foreign funding nor ties with
00:04:57undesirable organizations, and as for foreign actions, according to him...
00:05:12And the leader of the LDPR, Leonid Slutsky, called for the party to be declared
00:05:15undesirable. All of this is happening against the backdrop of falling
00:05:19support for the war. According to the Levada Center, the proportion of Russians who believe that military operations are going
00:05:23successfully has dropped to 50% for the first time. This is the lowest
00:05:27indicator since the beginning of the full-scale
00:05:28war.
00:05:34In Moscow, Major General Valery Plakhatnyuk was secretly buried. He died on
00:05:38August 1st, the day of the explosion in a Moscow restaurant, where another Russian, presumably, was celebrating his birthday.
00:06:10Chaiko, who also suffered injuries in the explosion. I remind you, her husband, the son-in-law of the Aerospace Forces commander, Daniil, died. His
00:06:13death is confirmed by leaks from two state databases, the
00:06:16agency writes. As Important Stories found out, Major General
00:06:20Plakhatnyuk was no longer on active military service, but worked in
00:06:23the military-industrial complex. He was involved in the development of the latest command and control systems
00:06:27for troops and electronic warfare systems. And in the past he commanded a group of Russian troops in
00:06:30unrecognized Transnistria. Earlier, Ukrainian OSINT blogger
00:06:34Necroman reported on the funeral of Lieutenant General Igor Ierusalimov,
00:06:38citing a message about a farewell to the general in the chat of the district where he lived.
00:06:42However, the Verstka publication believes that this message was a falsification. Journalists called
00:06:46the number belonging to the military man, and a man answered who responded to Ierusalimov's
00:06:50first name and patronymic. During the conversation, he asked not to write anything
00:06:53about him.
00:06:58Mr. President, regarding Ukraine, President Zelensky says
00:07:01that his country desperately needs long-range missiles or Patriot
00:07:05air defense systems, what can be transferred? Well, we also
00:07:08need missiles ourselves. You know, when Biden gave him so much.
00:07:12Biden provided him with ammunition worth 300 billion dollars. When
00:07:16I left, everything was full, and he gave away a very large part
00:07:19of it. Now we are restoring stocks and using ammunition
00:07:23that is very powerful, very good. We
00:07:27ourselves need missiles. That's how US President Donald Trump responded to Volodymyr
00:07:31Zelenskyy's call to transfer long-range missiles or Patriot
00:07:34munitions to Ukraine amid intensified massive Russian ballistic
00:07:37missile strikes on Ukrainian cities. The Russian military began
00:07:41launching strikes.
00:08:12was strongly felt, the house
00:08:15shook, the desire to hide not
00:08:19just in some basement, but
00:08:21to leave Kyiv as soon
00:08:24as possible, so that this horror, nightmare would stop,
00:08:28because it's impossible not to sleep,
00:08:32not to work, life has simply become impossible in
00:08:35Kyiv, this
00:08:37savagery, this
00:08:40savagery.
00:08:44that we never thought such a thing could happen in our
00:08:46country, we haven't slept for 5 years,
00:08:50no sleep, nothing, well, people are afraid, constant
00:08:53fear, constant fear, we just live for today
00:08:56and that's it.
00:09:00This Russian shelling became the most massive attack on
00:09:03Ukrainian businesses in all the years of the war. Logistics centers,
00:09:06warehouses and civilian enterprises were hit. Some
00:09:10of the biggest losses were incurred by...
00:09:42it happens for the first time, and you don't
00:09:45need to stay in Epitsentr stores during
00:09:49air raid alerts. If you wish well for yourself, your
00:09:53family, please, you have a few minutes to leave
00:09:56the store premises.
00:09:59Another Ukrainian company, Rozetka, the largest marketplace in the country,
00:10:03lost its automated distribution
00:10:06center in Brovary. According to the company's co-founder, the damage
00:10:09is estimated in billions of hryvnias. Destroyed
00:10:12warehouses could have contained goods from hundreds of suppliers, from small
00:10:16Ukrainian manufacturers to importers of equipment, household goods, and
00:10:20food products. In addition, as a result of that attack, the Nova Poshta
00:10:23sorting center in Kyiv was completely
00:10:27destroyed. The company reported the death of three people. The Silpo
00:10:30supermarket chain reported that the Russian attack destroyed
00:10:34two distribution centers. Silpo announced the death of six
00:10:37company employees. Several direct missile hits were received by
00:10:41the supermarket logistics center. In
00:10:44addition, the Puma company reported the complete destruction of its logistics
00:10:47complex. The company warned that in the near future, there may be
00:10:51a shortage of certain goods in Ukraine.
00:10:55Yes, the logistics warehouse of the Intertop shoe store chain was also completely
00:10:59destroyed.
00:11:01You know, there's only one thought in my head. God, how
00:11:05do you even conduct business in such times, when in the morning
00:11:08you don't even know if your team is alive, or if your warehouse is intact, or if
00:11:12the highly flammable perfumes haven't caught fire, we're planning new arrivals,
00:11:16but how can you predict anything when in
00:11:20Kyiv, businesses and
00:11:22warehouses are being burned down?
00:11:24Some Russian media wrote that Moscow is launching strikes in response
00:11:28to Ukrainian attacks on Wildberries logistics centers, however,
00:11:32the Russian army began attacking Ukrainian businesses long before
00:11:35this. Here in this photo, on
00:11:39March 3, 2022, the Epicenter construction hypermarket in
00:11:43Mariupol is burning. These were the first days of Russia's full-scale invasion of
00:11:46Ukraine and the first attempts to occupy the city. The first thing
00:11:49the Russian army did was to strike at such hypermarkets and Nova Poshta
00:11:53logistics centers. In June 2022, a Russian strike on
00:11:57the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk, Poltava region, claimed the lives of
00:12:00dozens of people. The Nova Poshta logistics center is attacked several
00:12:04times a month, and over the years of the
00:12:08full-scale war, more than a hundred such examples
00:12:23Facebook page a post about the Ukrainian economy, and you start it with
00:12:27the words: "The Russians did it again." What do you
00:12:31mean by that? Please elaborate for our viewers. Well, the speech
00:12:34was about propaganda, about an attempt to sow panic,
00:12:37which is done with enviable regularity
00:12:40after some massive shelling. There is massive
00:12:44shelling, then there is an information dump
00:12:47that is supposed to shake the minds of Ukrainians, it is supposed to
00:12:50promote capitulation, it is supposed to cause panic, an outflow of people from
00:12:54cities, so that people leave, people get depressed, and so on and so
00:12:57forth. Now again they used this
00:13:00attack, I don't know if it was a joint
00:13:03special operation, or simply an attack first, and then it occurred to them
00:13:07to use it in this way, but now after this
00:13:11concentrated attack on business, because usually here for
00:13:144 years there has been shelling once a
00:13:17week, and usually one or two businesses
00:13:21suffer that are not related to energy or...
00:13:30they used this moment to pump up Kyivites in the first
00:13:34place with these panic
00:13:37moods, to cause some completely wild
00:13:40expectations about inflation as a result of these
00:13:43strikes, or hunger, or the collapse of the banking
00:13:47system, and so on and so forth. And your
00:13:50predictions, will this not cause inflation, price
00:13:53increases, well...
00:14:55price increases and product shortages, shouldn't Ukrainians run to the supermarket now
00:14:59and stock up on some special type of products for the winter?
00:15:02No, there can be no shortage of any products, it doesn't work that way,
00:15:06the economy is much wider than one warehouse that is knocked out, and
00:15:10the economy is much more flexible, so there is no
00:15:13talk of any hunger, plus we are now talking about
00:15:17the increased effectiveness of ballistic missile strikes, that's true, when it
00:15:20concerns Kyiv, but at the same time, if we are talking about the whole of Ukraine, about the whole
00:15:24country, we must say that cruise missiles and Shaheds have now
00:15:27almost completely lost their
00:15:30effectiveness, because they are very effectively shot down, as a
00:15:34result you have a huge part of the territory of Ukraine, where Russian
00:15:37ballistic missiles do not reach and where in principle it is much,
00:15:41much more difficult for Russians to destroy anything
00:15:44and very unlikely, so there will simply be a certain
00:15:47redistribution of logistics flows within the
00:15:50country, and business will adapt. You
00:15:53know, one of the messages I read on social media is that
00:15:56Zelensky is being accused of having launched this forty-day operation to
00:16:00force Russia to peace, striking Wildberries, striking oil refineries, while not
00:16:04protecting Ukrainian business from, as it were,
00:16:07retaliatory strikes from Russia. Could Ukrainian business have been protected,
00:16:11could entrepreneurs protect themselves?
00:16:13защитить,
00:16:16Look, you can't protect Ukrainian business, because Trump
00:16:19spent too many Patriot missiles attacking
00:16:22Iran, and this led to a shortage.
00:16:26Now, Ukraine is not supplied with very necessary
00:16:29interceptor missiles. Well, plus you have to understand that before you could only
00:16:33protect Kyiv, that is, other cities were like that.
00:16:43Kyiv, yes, Kyiv has become more vulnerable to ballistic missiles, but
00:16:47I repeat, against the background of the fact that now
00:16:51Shaheds and cruise missiles are less effective or almost not
00:16:54effective, the situation actually looks balanced compared to what we
00:16:57have seen for the last 5 years, it doesn't add anything
00:17:01particularly new. You can't protect business, accordingly, you can't protect
00:17:05it, could we have taken any... I will explain
00:17:44that Trump denies that there is any shortage of ammunition, that the US
00:17:46has all the ammunition, but at the same time, Patriot missiles,
00:17:50as he gave us in today's broadcast,
00:17:53are needed by the US itself. And Sergey, you know, I noticed, maybe
00:17:57there's a difference or not, that Russian entrepreneurs on social media are just massively complaining that
00:18:01Wildberries after such attacks does not provide compensation, and
00:18:04if they do give compensation, it is too small. But Ukrainian
00:18:08entrepreneurs don't seem to complain, and Nova Poshta announced that it would compensate
00:18:11for the damage. Is there this difference, if there is, why is it
00:18:14like that? Look, I don't know, this is a question that needs
00:18:18further investigation, but in principle, let's put it this way, when something
00:18:21hits an oil refinery, we see many videos, so
00:18:25-called our correspondents, who perfectly curse and describe everything
00:18:29that is happening. In Ukraine, this does not happen, I
00:18:32think this is a general perception, when Ukrainians
00:18:35understand what Ukraine is fighting for.
00:18:37They understand that they are part of this confrontation, which
00:18:41is existential, and Russians do not
00:18:44understand why the war started, why they need this war
00:18:47at all, and accordingly, the reaction to
00:18:50events related to the war
00:18:52differs. Sergey, we have less than a minute left with you,
00:18:55but can we compare how Ukrainian strikes will affect
00:18:59the Russian economy with how Russian strikes will affect the Ukrainian
00:19:03economy, whose economy is under a bigger blow, can
00:19:07we compare?
00:19:11After all, this will not significantly affect either economy. So why are such strikes being carried out? Just to cause panic among
00:19:15the population?
00:19:17I can, therefore I strike. Well, look, it's
00:19:21a thousand cuts tactic and so on. That is, it has a
00:19:24negative effect, it does, but it's not capable of... you won't see
00:19:28it on a GDP chart, figuratively speaking. The war itself,
00:19:31the costs of the war itself, that's the factor, that's the argument, not
00:19:35a specific small or large object that you... Well,
00:19:48and
00:19:52this morning in Sumy region, in the city of Bilopillya, 10 people were injured
00:19:56by Russian shelling. The attack occurred near the market. According to
00:20:00authorities, first the Russian army struck a car with a drone,
00:20:03when local residents came to help, the Russian army
00:20:06launched an attack. On Thursday in Pavlograd, in
00:20:09Dnipropetrovsk region, two Ukrposhta employees died due to a Russian
00:20:13missile strike, another person was
00:20:15injured.
00:20:18Well, of course, especially you know, when all the glass then flew, it
00:20:22was certainly scary. Maybe if people hadn't panicked so much,
00:20:25when the woman stood here next to me, she started screaming,
00:20:29she probably got confused, maybe panicked, was afraid of where to run and
00:20:32what to do. In total, over the past day, at least
00:20:3613 people were killed in Ukraine due to Russian attacks,
00:20:39and more than sixty were injured. Officials and rescuers
00:20:43repeatedly urge Ukrainians not to ignore air raid alerts,
00:20:47go to shelters, or at least follow the two-walls rule. However, in
00:20:51frontline regions, from the moment of the alert to the explosion of a Russian missile,
00:20:54sometimes less than a minute passes.
00:20:58For example, in Kyiv, people complain that there are not enough places in bomb shelters
00:21:02for everyone. To guarantee a shelter, residents of the Ukrainian
00:21:05capital come to the metro platforms in advance, even before
00:21:09the siren. Why haven't new shelters been dug in Kyiv's
00:21:12courtyards in the fifth year of the full-scale war? Yulia
00:21:16Zhukova investigated the issue. With tents, sleeping mats, and chairs.
00:21:20Kyiv residents come to metro stations in advance to wait out
00:21:23a possible attack. For the last few months, Russia has regularly
00:21:27attacked
00:21:28Kyiv.
00:21:31During air raid alerts, the stations are overcrowded. In one of the recent attacks,
00:21:3556,000 people spent the night in the subway,
00:21:38which is less than 2% of the population of three-million-strong
00:21:41Kyiv.
00:21:45From shelling to shelling, Kyiv residents complain about the condition and accessibility
00:21:48of shelters, and sometimes they cannot get there even during
00:21:51an attack.
00:21:56This is the Desnyansky district of Kyiv, the left bank of the capital. Here the situation
00:22:00with shelters is the most difficult in the city. The shelters
00:22:04that already exist, which are mostly basements in hospitals,
00:22:07schools, or kindergartens, can accommodate less than half
00:22:10of the residents of this district. Marina with her one-and-a-half-year-old child
00:22:14waits out all the shelling at home in the corridor. There are, for example,
00:22:17schools where you could go, but... but such
00:22:20ones, for example, from my house, it's about an 8-minute walk, and with
00:22:23a child at night, and also during shelling, that's a story.
00:22:27Anna, along with her nine-year-old son Misha, moved to Kyiv from
00:22:30the most shelled district of Kharkiv, northern
00:22:33Saltovka, but now she says it seems
00:22:36she has to go through it here too. Ordinary basements, which are simply
00:22:40overcrowded with people, it's not that there's nowhere to lie down, nowhere to sit,
00:22:44and nowhere to stand, people simply came, people come,
00:22:47there are no places.
00:23:20development, many houses here do not have basements that could be
00:23:24converted into shelters. The simplest
00:23:26and fastest solution, says Bakhmatov, are these
00:23:30mobile shelters. This is the first mobile certified
00:23:34shelter in Kyiv and so far the only one. It was installed in the Desnyansky
00:23:38district at the expense of business representatives. This concrete
00:23:41structure accommodates 30 people and is adapted
00:23:44even for people with disabilities. The shelter
00:23:47passed a test at the training ground and withstood it.
00:24:06The absence of shelters and the responsibility of district administrations - says
00:24:09Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Last year, half a billion hryvnias
00:24:13were allocated for the construction and arrangement of shelters, however,
00:24:16most of these funds were not used and were returned
00:24:20to the budget. If the district administration does not fulfill
00:24:24its duties, it should find those people who will
00:24:28fulfill these duties, but unfortunately, they made such a construction
00:24:31that the mayor of the city cannot even reprimand the head of the district.
00:24:35In turn, the head of the Desnyansky district administration
00:24:38states that the problem with shelters in Kyiv is the result of decisions
00:24:42by the city leadership. Some money was allocated, but
00:24:46you need to allocate not money, but have a plan and strategy.
00:24:50How many shelters are needed, conditionally for the forest,
00:24:53no one will say. According to official data, there are more than
00:24:57400 shelters in the capital, however, a monitoring by the
00:25:01Ombudsman's office showed that some facilities are inaccessible or
00:25:18put to a final vote in the Senate as early as this week. This was stated by
00:25:22John Curtis, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, in an interview with Radio Liberty.
00:25:25The document provides for large-scale restrictions on Russia's financial and
00:25:29energy sectors, and measures against the shadow fleet that Russia
00:25:32uses to circumvent sanctions. In addition, it will allow the US President
00:25:36to impose tariffs on buyers of Russian fuel. According to
00:25:39Curtis, the initiative enjoys broad bipartisan support.
00:25:42The Republican senator emphasized that Russia must not win the war. A Radio
00:25:46Liberty correspondent in Washington asked Curtis what he considered victory for
00:25:50Ukraine in that case.
00:25:53If you ask President Zelensky, victory
00:25:56simply means not losing today, not losing
00:25:59tomorrow, and not losing the day after tomorrow. From the very
00:26:02beginning, Russia defined its victory as the complete seizure
00:26:06of Ukraine, therefore for Ukraine victory is any outcome
00:26:10in which this did not happen. The very fact that Ukraine
00:26:14was able to withstand 4 and a half years of this aggression is
00:26:18a huge
00:26:19victory.
00:26:22How do you manage to advocate for decisive bipartisan support for Ukraine,
00:26:26considering that some of your Republican colleagues advocate
00:26:30for reducing foreign aid? Listen,
00:26:33in fact, we can't do everything at once. There is common sense
00:26:37in their arguments, but I repeat again, defeat is not
00:26:41an option. If Putin is allowed to win in
00:26:44Ukraine, it will have serious consequences for many
00:26:47other regions of the world. Just look at China and
00:26:51Taiwan. We прекрасно understand that Chairman Xi
00:26:54is closely watching what is happening in Ukraine, and if
00:26:57we withdraw here, he will understand that we will withdraw on the issue
00:27:01of Taiwan. Therefore, the consequences of this war go far beyond
00:27:05the borders of Ukraine itself.
00:27:07Donald Trump denied media reports that the US had a shortage of missiles due to the war in Iran and threatened
00:27:11prison sentences for sources who leak information to the media about a shortage
00:27:15of weapons.
00:27:16The US has huge stockpiles
00:27:19of ammunition, especially certain types of it. In addition, as
00:27:23needed, large volumes of new ammunition are produced
00:27:26and supplied in the US. Defense
00:27:30companies are building the largest number of factories and
00:27:33production facilities in our country in its entire history. Those who leak these
00:27:37treacherous statements are now being sought, and they will be
00:27:40prosecuted for long prison terms. I remind you, earlier this week, Reuters
00:27:44news agency and CNN television channel, citing sources
00:27:48familiar with Pentagon data, reported that during the war with Iran, the United
00:27:52States had used almost its entire arsenal of high-precision long-range
00:27:55missiles. CNN journalists clarified that the American military allegedly
00:27:59used almost 80% of its interceptor missiles for...
00:28:11The new Russian film The Last Bogatyr Kolobok failed at the box office. As
00:28:15Meduza journalists reported, who studied the data on the websites of cinemas in different
00:28:18Russian cities, tickets for this film are almost not sold. In one of the
00:28:22Moscow cinemas, not a single seat was sold for all five
00:28:25premiere screenings. The film is essentially playing without an audience. The new fairy tale
00:28:29faced criticism from viewers even before the premiere. Earlier, the
00:28:33distributor of Kolobok urged the cinema to postpone the premiere of the new Spider-Man,
00:28:36to avoid competition. In response, viewers crashed the rating of Kolobok
00:28:40on the movie poster and Kinopoisk services. The latter decided to completely hide the film's rating,
00:28:44stating that more than 90% of the reviews were sharply negative. In addition,
00:28:47an instruction for Kolobok's promotional campaign was leaked online. As reported
00:28:51by the specialized publication Cinemaplex, the guidelines prohibit
00:28:55any mention of previous parts of the "Last Bogatyr" franchise, which
00:28:58were created jointly with Disney before its withdrawal from the Russian market.
00:29:03Russian singer Grigory Leps, who openly supports Russia's war against
00:29:07Ukraine, canceled concerts in occupied Feodosia and Yalta. They were
00:29:10scheduled for August 11th and 12th. The reasons for the cancellation, as stated on
00:29:14Leps's page on Instagram, which is banned in Russia, are power supply problems
00:29:17in Crimea and a difficult situation in the region. The concerts
00:29:20have been postponed to next year. I'll add that in March 2025, the Security
00:29:24Service of Ukraine informed Grigory Leps of suspicions under the article on
00:29:28financing the activities of the Russian army. The singer, on his personal initiative,
00:29:31paid Russian. dollars for
00:29:35each destroyed
00:30:50The improvement of the Ministry of Defense's
00:30:53structure continues in connection
00:30:56with the needs and experience of the special.