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00:00:44The Yabloko party is facing removal from the elections in Russia; the Supreme Court will hear the lawsuit
00:00:47on Monday. The party is campaigning under the slogan "For Peace." This
00:00:51is a live broadcast from the Present Time TV channel. Today is Friday, August 7th. My name is
00:00:55Evgenia Daganovich.
00:00:56Hello.
00:00:59And so... Ukrainian drones attacked. The strike hit a Wildberries warehouse in
00:01:03Yekaterinburg. 800 people were evacuated from there. A lack
00:01:07of shelters during shelling: in Kyiv, for a three-million population, 400
00:01:10shelters have been equipped, but not all are operational. Military
00:01:14cooperation between North Korea and Russia. A new bridge is being built on the border. A missile
00:01:17unit from North Korea
00:01:21may appear near Voronezh.
00:01:26The Yabloko party may be removed from the elections in Russia as early as Monday.
00:02:30The website zamir.Live, which appeared recently and is currently accessible
00:02:33in Russia even without technical tricks, reports on a
00:02:36campaign supporting Yabloko. Here, there are photos of the participants of this campaign,
00:02:40Russians who are outside the country and openly oppose
00:02:43the war. Yulia Navalnaya, on behalf of the Anti-Corruption Foundation,
00:02:47which Russian authorities consider terrorists
00:02:51and extremists, called for voting for Yabloko on party lists.
00:02:55Let's not discuss that Yabloko is somehow not right and
00:02:58recall past sins.
00:03:33Yabloko categorically has no foreign sources of funding, does not
00:03:37maintain any relations with organizations recognized as
00:03:40undesirable in the Russian Federation, and does not consider statements,
00:03:43appeals, or events conducted by anyone abroad
00:03:47as part of its election campaign. The fact that Yabloko
00:03:50distances itself from us is absolutely correct, and truthfully, we have no connection with Yabloko,
00:03:54we support the position they have taken, but we are not
00:03:58structurally related to them.
00:05:00every one regarding the fact that a ceasefire, you all understand
00:05:03what the heck you are saying, the proposal to go to the front and stop sending
00:05:06other people there, who are there, who are dying there,
00:05:10while you are shouting here, just listen.
00:06:13Russian media and anonymous Telegram channels report on the funerals
00:06:16of two generals after Saturday's explosion at a restaurant in Moscow. There is
00:06:20evidence that they were celebrating the birthday of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace
00:06:24Forces, Alexander Chayko. Authorities reported the deaths of five
00:06:27people, including a female courier who delivered the bomb, and a security guard
00:06:31who detained her. But names and details were never
00:06:35revealed. Our colleagues from the investigative project System
00:06:38collected all known information about the victims of the explosion almost a week
00:06:41later.
00:06:43we know almost for sure, because it is confirmed by various sources, that Chayko's son-in-law
00:06:47died, his daughter's husband, Danilo
00:06:49Peredriy. He apparently died in
00:06:53the hospital, and most likely General Valery
00:06:56Plokhotnyuk died, that is, it's almost certain, because various sources confirm his death. But I will
00:06:59briefly dwell on who
00:07:02Plokhotnyuk was. He was the head of the Russian group
00:07:06in Transnistria, but before the war he was the chief of staff of the 49th
00:07:09army, which fought in Ukraine in the Zaporozhye
00:07:13and Kherson directions, if I am not mistaken. He is not a very well-known person. It is unlikely that he
00:07:17encountered Chayko in service, but judging by the data that we saw
00:07:21and which the agency confirmed, they are listed in one of the databases as relatives.
00:07:25In fact, this is most likely a mistake, they are connected by address, by one of the
00:07:28addresses in Minsk, and as the agency established
00:07:32from other data, most likely Plokhotnyuk is
00:07:35Chayko's goddaughter's godfather, that is,
00:07:38apparently they were family friends, their wives are subscribed to each other, and so on. This
00:07:42is just a family friend. Another deceased person
00:07:46remains unknown - there is some confusion here, because
00:07:492 days ago information appeared that
00:07:52another general, Igor a
00:07:56Yerusalimov, had died.
00:07:59And then - journalists from Vyortska
00:08:03called him or a person with his phone, and the person answered
00:08:07the phone and responded to the greeting, he said yes,
00:08:11so maybe he is alive. The well-known Telegram channel VChKO GPU
00:08:14wrote that he was buried at Trikurtovsky cemetery, then they said that not he was buried, but
00:08:18Plokhotnyuk was buried. Nevertheless, there were two graves, and either
00:08:22Chayko's son-in-law was buried in the second, or maybe Yerusalimov was buried there after all.
00:08:25Whether he is alive or not is still unknown,
00:08:29but as we established, he was indeed linked by service
00:08:32to Chayko, because they both worked at the headquarters
00:08:36of the Twentieth Combined Arms Army in Voronezh in
00:08:392013-2014. After that... this army
00:08:43was divided, the first tank army was allocated from it, recreated. Chayko
00:08:46led it, and immediately after that Yerusalimov went to
00:08:50Moscow, then held various positions. Studying
00:08:53Yerusalimov's biography, we found that
00:08:56his father, Felix Yerusalimov, served in
00:08:59the group of Soviet troops in Germany in the 1980s.
00:09:03He headed the political department of the Eleventh Tank
00:09:06Division in Dresden, and we found a curious fact in one
00:09:10of the military forums - a rare photograph
00:09:15in the press, where Putin visits the headquarters of this division
00:09:19on May 9, 1985, having just arrived in Dresden.
00:09:22Why this could also point to Chayko's involvement, because it is known that Chayko's father
00:09:26also served in
00:09:28Germany in the Soviet forces, and
00:09:32as one person who served with Chayko earlier told Current Time,
00:09:36he could have met Gerasimov there, who also
00:09:39served there, and his career is indebted to these
00:09:43acquaintances.
00:09:46A loud explosion was heard in Moscow today. It was heard around 11
00:09:49AM in different areas of the city, but it is still unknown what exactly caused it.
00:10:07The Moscow Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told
00:10:11journalists that they also heard the explosion, but, citation: "where and what,"
00:10:14"it's unclear." Rescuers only added that there was no smoke
00:10:18or fires in the city. The Telegram channel Baza, close to security forces, claims
00:10:21that Muscovites might have heard the sound of an aircraft breaking the sound
00:10:25barrier. The same version was put forward by an RBC source close to
00:10:28emergency services. Ukraine did not report any attacks on Moscow today.
00:10:32The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a Wildberries warehouse in
00:10:35Yekaterinburg. Personnel were successfully
00:10:39evacuated. Air defense forces could not repel the attack. Several
00:10:43drones
00:10:43hit the building.
00:11:02Yekaterinburg is the capital of the Ural Federal District. The Wildberries
00:11:05warehouse is located 200 km from the front
00:11:09line. Local authorities acknowledged the attack. According to their data, 800
00:11:13people were evacuated during the air raid. There are no casualties. The authorized
00:11:16representative of the President in the Ural Federal District said nothing about
00:11:20damage to the warehouse
00:11:21itself.
00:11:25Sellers were offered to insure goods against drone attacks, promising to
00:11:28pay up to 50,000 rubles, which is 600 dollars,
00:11:32per item, but no more than 100,000 rubles per insured
00:11:35event, which is about 1,200 dollars. Moreover,
00:11:38the insurance protects the product only while it is being delivered or stored at
00:11:42a pick-up point. There is no mention of storage at the warehouse. It was precisely
00:11:46these warehouses that became the target of Ukrainian Armed Forces attacks this summer. Ukrainian military forces are conducting
00:11:49systematic attacks on warehouses, explaining that Wildberries stores drone parts
00:11:53and ammunition for the military there. Ukraine's goal
00:11:57with long-range strikes is to force Vladimir Putin to start peace
00:12:00negotiations.
00:12:04The Russian army attacked Odesa. The Chornomorets stadium in the very center of the city
00:12:08was hit. This was confirmed by the head of the regional military
00:12:11administration, Oleg Kiper.
00:12:25The spectator stands were destroyed and windows were blown out. According to preliminary
00:12:28data, one person
00:12:30was injured.
00:12:33Authorities in Sumy Oblast stated that this morning the Russian army attacked a
00:12:37market in the Bilopillya hromada. 10 residents were injured, two
00:12:41of them in serious condition. The day before in Pavlohrad, in Dnipropetrovsk
00:12:44Oblast, two Ukrposhta employees died due to a Russian missile
00:12:47strike, and another person was wounded. In total, according to the Ukrainian Armed Forces,
00:12:51over the past day, Russia launched one and a half thousand drones
00:12:56at Ukraine. 114 were
00:12:58shot down.
00:13:01In Kyiv, people complain that there are not enough places in bomb shelters for everyone.
00:13:04To guarantee finding shelter, residents of the Ukrainian capital
00:13:08arrive early, that is, even before the siren, to take places on
00:13:11metro platforms. Yulia Zhukova investigated
00:13:14the problem. With tents, sleeping mats and chairs,
00:13:18Kyiv residents come to metro stations in advance to wait out
00:13:21a possible attack. For the past few months, Russia.
00:13:43From shelling to shelling, Kyiv residents complain about the condition and accessibility
00:13:47of shelters, and sometimes they cannot even get there during
00:13:50an attack.
00:13:55This is the Desnyansky district of Kyiv, the left bank of the capital. Here is the most
00:13:58difficult situation with shelters in the city. Those shelters
00:14:02that already exist, and these are mostly basements in hospitals,
00:14:05schools, or kindergartens, are capable of accommodating less than half
00:14:08of the residents of this district. Marina with a one-and-a-half-year-old child
00:14:12waits out all shellings at home in the corridor. There are, for example, schools
00:14:16where one could go, but again, for example, from my house, it's
00:14:20about an 8-minute walk, and with a child at night, during
00:14:23shelling, it's... ordinary
00:14:37basements that are simply overflowing with people. Not only is there no
00:14:40place to lie down, there's no place to sit, and no place to stand. People
00:14:44come, and there's no
00:14:47space, so people are sent back. It's so
00:14:51scary, that sometimes I'm behind...
00:17:47Several media outlets, citing unnamed sources, earlier reported
00:17:50a sharp reduction in the Patriot arsenal in the US due to the war
00:17:54against Iran. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Trump himself
00:17:57rejected these claims, stating that the US has enough missiles and they
00:18:01are produced in large quantities. Amid uncertainty about US
00:18:05supplies, Kyiv turned to European countries.
00:19:08campaign of terror against the civilian population, the EU must
00:19:11continue to increase pressure on Russia until Moscow
00:19:15stops its war.
00:19:17The day before, Great Britain imposed new sanctions against Russia.
00:19:21Six banks fell under the restrictions. The Russian Embassy in London called
00:19:25this economic warfare. In addition, vessels of the shadow fleet, which help
00:19:28circumvent restrictions, as well as a shipbuilding company, the
00:19:32owner of a chemical enterprise,
00:19:35fell under the new British sanctions.
00:19:38In the Far East, as part of the "Victory Murals" campaign, soldiers from
00:19:41Russia and North Korea will be drawn on the pier of the Golden Bridge. The project
00:19:45glorifies participants in the war against Ukraine. Yury
00:19:49Boronyuk will tell about the cooperation between
00:19:51Moscow and Pyongyang.
00:19:59Two soldiers are being painted on the pier of the Golden Bridge in Vladivostok. A Russian
00:20:02soldier shakes hands with a North Korean. The city head commented on this
00:20:05news in his Telegram channel as follows: the image emphasizes
00:20:09the common goals of the two countries. According to Reuters,
00:20:12a North Korean missile unit began to be deployed in
00:20:15Voronezh Oblast this summer. It may be equipped with six
00:20:19launchers and 120 missiles. Andrei Chernyak from
00:20:22the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine told journalists about
00:20:25this. Independent confirmation is not currently
00:20:28available. The Kremlin has not commented on the publication. According to
00:20:31Ukrainian intelligence, this refers to ballistic missiles. Responding to
00:20:35such strikes now due to...
00:20:44Even before the report about the deployment of a new
00:20:46unit in the region, Ukraine was actively attacked by drones.
00:22:20a road artery between the two countries. The border runs along
00:22:23the Tumen River. The construction over it is already visible from space. Satellite images
00:22:27were published by Guardian journalists. In their article, they
00:22:30write that tracking military cargo in the back of a truck with a satellite
00:22:33will be much more difficult than in a train
00:22:36car.
00:22:40The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine stated that North Korean missile
00:22:44launchers will be targets for the Ukrainian Armed Forces as soon as they appear in
00:22:47Russia. These launchers, if they are deployed,
00:22:51must be destroyed,
00:22:53and they immediately become a target, they become
00:22:56a legitimate target, a military target,
00:23:00therefore, there will be a response from our
00:23:04military. HUR,
00:23:07if it shares such
00:23:09data, it usually comes true. Currently,
00:23:12military cargo can be imported from North Korea to Russia
00:23:16in three ways: by air, by sea, or by rail
00:23:20to Primorye. The only bridge connecting the two countries
00:23:23is located next to the future automobile bridge, and it is called
00:23:26the Friendship Bridge. Yuri Boronyuk, Vladislav Maistruk and Damir
00:23:30Yasembaev, Current Time.
00:23:33Russia may be planning sabotage
00:23:38at infrastructure facilities in the Baltic states, said Lithuanian Defense Minister
00:23:42Roberta Skaunos. According to him, Lithuanian intelligence
00:23:46recorded preparations for so-called operations. In response to new threats, Vilnius has already increased security
00:24:34at transport and energy facilities, and also plans to strengthen air defense with new
00:24:37radars. The Kremlin denies preparations for sabotage. Russian
00:24:41President Dmitry Peskov called the statement by Lithuanian intelligence
00:24:44intimidation to justify the militarization of the region.
00:24:47Only in May of this year, in the Baltic states...
00:24:53Moscow claimed that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia allowed the flight
00:24:56of Ukrainian drones for attacks on Russian territory. The authorities of the Baltic
00:25:00countries and Ukraine deny these accusations. They explain that
00:25:03drones from Russian territory fly into the territory of neighboring countries due to
00:25:07the operation of electronic warfare
00:25:09systems.
00:25:12Estonia is strengthening security measures in schools near the Russian
00:25:16border. Local authorities decided to use Ukraine's experience.
00:25:27Igor Shevchuk.
00:25:29Preparations for the new academic year at this school in the Estonian city
00:25:33of Tartu are no longer just cosmetic repairs.
00:25:37Workers are carefully covering the windows with special protective
00:25:41film.
00:25:43Tartu is located only 45 km from the Russian
00:25:46border. This year, drones have already flown into Estonian territory
00:25:50several times. To protect schoolchildren, the city
00:25:52authorities turned to Ukraine's experience, where air
00:25:55raid sirens sound every day.
00:25:59In these safe rooms we already
00:27:02have cabinets with first aid kits, toilet paper,
00:27:06gloves and everything necessary in case we have to
00:27:10wait there for 2-3 or 4 hours. Parents
00:27:13of schoolchildren support such innovations, saying that in
00:27:16current realities children must be ready for
00:27:20anything. I'm much calmer that
00:27:23the school is not idle, in the current situation it is very
00:27:27important to have some kind of protection.
00:27:31Igor Shevchuk, Current
00:28:04Time.
00:28:06The head of the Mormon community in Vyborg
00:28:09was detained for donating to the Anti-Corruption Foundation. This was reported by
00:28:13local police. They published a video of the detention of the 74-year-old
00:28:17religious figure with the participation of FSB officers. The Baza publication,
00:28:20close to law enforcement, claims that this concerns the leaders of the city's
00:28:24community of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Meduza journalists
00:28:28report that the church premises were also searched. Its
00:28:31head is Valentin Gavrilov. Russian authorities recognized
00:28:35the Anti-Corruption Foundation as an extremist organization 5 years ago. The Foundation was
00:28:39founded by opposition leader Alexei Navalny. More
00:28:42than 100 people have been prosecuted or convicted
00:28:46in cases involving money transfers.
00:28:48We will say goodbye now. You can find more
00:28:52on our website currenttime.tv. Be sure
00:28:54to check out our Telegram channel, it's called Current
00:30:21We constantly hear talk about the need to mobilize
00:30:25everything, the entire economy for war,
00:30:29and so on, but the modern economy is built on.
00:30:33Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin is against military mobilization of the
00:30:37economy. To kill a normal economy is to kill the whole country.
00:30:40Therefore, such unnecessary and worthless talks. But
00:30:44Russia has caught the wartime Dutch disease,
00:30:47writes Bloomberg. War drains resources from
00:30:51the civilian sector. Vladimir
00:30:53Putin signed a law on disclosing tax secrets to control
00:30:57prices. Will this stop price increases?