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00:00:43I haven't been to Kramatorsk for about a month and a half, it's hard to say
00:00:47how much the city has changed during this time. First, these "dragon's teeth"
00:00:51have appeared almost everywhere on the streets, and
00:00:54second, in many places, this "yagaza"
00:00:57has appeared, it's simply intertwined. Along
00:01:01the street, in the last 40 minutes
00:01:03of filming here, I counted six
00:01:07drone flights above me and consequently six explosions.
00:01:10A car is burning at the next intersection, it was hit by a Russian drone
00:01:14a couple of hours ago. Among the main targets in Kramatorsk are cars, and not always
00:01:18military ones. Natalya's car was attacked just in
00:01:21the parking lot. A projectile flew in here, flew out
00:01:24through
00:01:27the car radio, flew into the driver's side.
00:02:00to leave, well, I can leave, I'm from
00:02:03Rivne region, but for civilians who are left behind, 65,
00:02:0770, or 80 years old, where can
00:02:10they go? They are used to it there, it's their home. I wouldn't have left either,
00:02:14in principle. Kramatorsk has declared mandatory evacuation for children. The front
00:02:17is approaching the city, so there are noticeably fewer
00:02:21young people on the streets. Those who remain find solace, each in
00:02:24their own way, so that I'm not so scared or
00:02:27bored, I dig, mm-hmm.
00:02:31You never get used to it, this
00:02:34war is a disaster, we are very afraid,
00:02:38we are afraid. My mother, Ira, says to me today, "Well, what are we
00:02:41doing sitting here? We need to run away somewhere.
00:02:44You have a car, so what, are we going to die? Sit here
00:02:48under bullets?" I don't want to. Of course, I want to. I'm
00:02:5288 years old, and my daughter is 66.
00:02:55And drones? I don't count them. Yes, we are all
00:02:58afraid, but there's nowhere
00:03:00to go. You sit like this, living one
00:03:03day at a time.
00:03:05Lucky, you lived another day, well, good. In the last month in
00:03:09Kramatorsk, optimism has noticeably decreased. Following the example of other cities in
00:03:13Donbas, everyone understands that battles for a settlement begin with battles
00:03:16for the air, for days.
00:03:19We hunt enemy targets at night. The number of Russian drones over Kramatorsk
00:03:23and Sloviansk has increased manifold literally in the last few weeks. Vitaly's
00:03:27operational map is dotted with marks.
00:04:12because lightning has already started, well, let's say, high-speed lightning, that is,
00:04:16a regular fivish ten-watt may not catch up with them. Finding
00:04:20a small enemy drone in the vast night sky is like a game
00:04:23of cat and mouse, it doesn't always work. Mirage visually
00:04:27sees lightning 50-80 formidable.
00:05:42women, he is 11, and he shouldn't be in Druzhkivka. The
00:05:46city has already completed the mandatory evacuation of children. His mother assures that her son
00:05:49is not at home. Why are you not with
00:05:53your son? Well, I had a job, I'm still here now, I
00:05:56have a job here? Mandatory evacuation
00:06:00of minors is a common procedure in Ukrainian front-line cities, but
00:06:03not everyone leaves. Then the search for hidden children turns into
00:06:07a detective story, for which there is simply no time in wartime conditions.
00:06:11children were hidden. in different places, we also
00:06:14were engaged in Turkish, children were hidden in wardrobes, and
00:06:18under beds, in toilets under bathtubs. Look,
00:06:22if there is no confirmation now, then you come with
00:06:24us, and we will find out where your son is.
00:06:28The situation worsened about two weeks ago, when Russian
00:06:32troops intensified pressure on neighboring Kostiantynivka,
00:06:35from there, not so long ago, the same crew evacuated people, and
00:06:38even earlier from Toretsk, Chasiv Yar, and Bakhmut.
00:06:42Donetsk region is the land where I was born, it hurts
00:06:46to see all this, all this for years,
00:06:50all people built, created, now all this
00:06:53is broken. I and the cameraman felt the worsening situation in
00:06:57Druzhkivka in the morning, during the police's first evacuation mission
00:07:01into the city, passing dozens of burned cars, bypassing loaded
00:07:04army MLRS. Anton and Alexander evacuate
00:07:0781-year-old Alexander
00:07:09Ivanovich. a lot
00:07:13of looking, we need to go there, there, there,
00:07:16Ivanovich, we need to sit on the bench,
00:07:19this way, the passage this way, then through the destroyed streets
00:07:23of a city not even on the front lines before, the crew reaches a still
00:07:27smoking house. Yes,
00:07:29good day, good day. Are you evacuating? I
00:07:33took my documents. They were putting out the fire at night, this one, well, it
00:07:37flew in at night and early in the morning. God, are you
00:07:40staying here for now? Probably tomorrow. Tomorrow, yes,
00:07:43you're leaving?
00:07:51I decided long ago, I had nowhere to go, and
00:07:55honestly, I had no money. I think people,
00:07:58people exist,
00:07:59good ones,
00:08:02and they will help. I thank you from the bottom
00:08:06of my heart. Then they go to another house in the center
00:08:10of the city. Let's not delay. Let's, but
00:08:13why meet again? Are you
00:08:15staying?
00:08:17Also leaving, in a day, in a day, yes. What, why
00:08:20stay here, if everything is
00:08:24over,
00:08:30they saw that here, well, why peaceful people,
00:08:33my God, you see that it's an evacuation. After
00:08:37this evacuation, Anton and Alexander received a new task: to find
00:08:40a child. The police are confident. He is definitely in
00:08:43Druzhkivka.
00:08:48After a half-hour conversation with the mother, the stepfather brings
00:08:52the child to the house. Because now you have 10 minutes to pack, you are packed and
00:08:55standing,
00:08:58sometimes they switch to raised tones, but influencing parents
00:09:02only within the legal framework near the front is impossible. No
00:09:05social service will reach here, it's even scary to leave the entrance here,
00:09:09the air is filled with drones. Children are hostages of this situation.
00:09:13parents just commit such silly
00:09:15actions, they go back for some jobs, what
00:09:19jobs, nothing was working here anymore, people were returning to Kostiantynivka, leaving, well, and what did that
00:09:23end with?
00:09:26A family of children died, a bomb
00:09:29arrived, give them at least a day
00:09:32to gather themselves, let's check in
00:09:34a week,
00:09:38we can provide them with free accommodation, by the way. Modular
00:09:44houses, special homes for families with
00:09:48children. In another half an hour, eleven-year-old Maksym and his mother
00:09:51leave the apartment with their belongings, they are given protection, put in
00:09:55an armored car. We have just a feeling
00:09:59that everything is bad there, so that he cries every day and
00:10:02something else, but while his mother assures of a quiet life,
00:10:06Maksym confidently copies the sound of an FPV
00:10:09drone.
00:10:26not much, but ideally, he wanted
00:10:28earlier,
00:10:31yes. The family is brought to friends in
00:10:34Kramatorsk. My sweetheart,
00:10:36hello.
00:10:39Afterwards, they will coordinate the next move. I think that they
00:10:42won't return, I think they have become wiser.
00:10:46The feelings are good, because we finally found this
00:10:49family, yes, we evacuated them, maybe even
00:10:52saved them. That's another Ukrainian child. I think,
00:10:55saved. 1 2
00:10:573. This is Izyum. In essence, it's
00:11:00the last relatively safe large
00:11:04settlement in the Kharkiv region before entering the already front-line Donetsk
00:11:08region. And until recently, Izyum remained such an
00:11:11island of civilization in the front-line
00:11:14military Donbas, but since July 5th,
00:11:17the Russian army has been systematically destroying the Izyum
00:11:21gas station. From the anti-drone net, they remove fragments of the gas station and a fragment.
00:12:55I quote: all gas stations are designated by the enemy as
00:12:59planned targets, but it must be said that Izyum is far from
00:13:02the first city where the Russian army destroys
00:13:05gas stations. To find gasoline, one must drive towards Kharkiv, but within a radius
00:13:09of 50 km, there are no gas stations, everything is destroyed. In the last
00:13:132 weeks, more than 20 gas stations were attacked in the region. At the entrance to
00:13:17Kharkiv, one of the gas stations was destroyed yesterday
00:13:20morning. And he's hitting gas stations
00:13:23everywhere now. The most painful
00:13:38blows to gas stations are felt in small settlements. In
00:13:42Bohodukhiv near Kharkiv, all gas stations are destroyed. The same situation is in
00:13:45Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, and Trostianets, Sumy region. Recently,
00:13:49information appeared that all gas stations on the Dnipro-Kharkiv
00:13:52highway were destroyed. Drivers were recommended to refuel in
00:13:55cities. There are two nuances: first, if a gas station is not
00:13:59completely destroyed, it is quite quickly restored
00:14:02and continues to operate. Filming at such facilities is quite
00:14:06nerve-wracking, people are genuinely afraid that something will
00:14:10hit their gas station again. After video recording, when
00:14:13trying to negotiate at one of these gas stations, the police were even
00:14:17called on me today. The second nuance is that even if there are
00:14:20no gas stations at all,
00:14:23then... people, businesses, and local
00:14:26authorities try to somehow organize gasoline supply.
00:14:29In most cases, these are schemes for their own, and
00:14:33strangers are not initiated into them. Somewhere, gasoline is sold strictly by
00:14:36the hour, for example, from one to two. Somewhere, cars are allowed to fill up one
00:14:40by one. Somewhere, gas stations are made inconspicuous,
00:14:44almost underground. They work, they work. Did you fill up today?
00:14:47I didn't fill up today, and do you have any gasoline
00:14:50reserves?
00:14:52No, and I need this. Fuel
00:15:04experts assure that gas station authorities are looking for solutions on how to secure their
00:15:08facilities, but there are no clear answers yet, and we are talking about hundreds
00:15:11of facilities in small towns. There can only be one solution here, well,
00:15:15these drones, they need to be shot down, you can't put a sarcophagus over
00:15:19a gas station either. I think it's just about the fact that
00:15:22consumers will have to continue... to simply go for this
00:15:26fuel and somehow deal with getting themselves some more
00:15:30reserves, because objectively, well, actually, well, they talk about
00:15:33mobile gas stations and so on, well, about... about
00:15:36ну про... около
00:16:085,500 gas stations and about 170
00:16:11damaged or destroyed, but this number
00:16:15is constantly growing, so if no measures are taken,
00:16:18a local problem could escalate into a nationwide
00:16:21one. Borisalka, Sergey Dykun, and Alexey
00:16:25Polei, present time,
00:16:26Ukraine.
00:19:07And Ayatollah in Iran, Kim Jong Un, we can
00:19:10look at this hemisphere, at Castro, Raul Castro, and until
00:19:13January at Maduro in Venezuela. There are people
00:19:16who want to destroy our way of life, so we will have to
00:19:20intervene, we must intervene and support our
00:19:23friends, expect our friends to do more for their own
00:19:27protection, but understand that we live in dangerous times. You can't, on
00:19:30the one hand, say, "Oh, Russia is a terrible place," and on
00:19:34the other, not hold it accountable. We are obliged
00:19:37to do that, we need to do the same with communist China,
00:19:41we must stop buying anything from communist China, we are
00:19:45building up our army because we are concerned, but at the same time, we
00:19:49don't explain to the American public that they should stop
00:19:52buying their goods, but the sanctions bill, in my opinion,
00:19:55is a step towards holding Putin accountable. I want Ukraine
00:19:59to win, and I want Russia to lose. Ukrainians
00:20:03are good, they are on the good side, and the Russian government
00:20:06is on the bad.
00:20:19There's a feeling that the perception of the president, and many
00:20:22in this building, the perception of Ukraine's value for the United States
00:20:26has changed. When you communicate with colleagues, do you feel
00:20:29that they truly understand that Ukraine is a much better
00:20:33ally for the United States than many in that part of the world?
00:20:41I think they are wonderful allies, they have shown they are willing
00:20:45to fight for freedom, which is truly admirable about
00:20:48Ukrainians, is that...
00:20:56They fight for their freedom, they are ready to fight because they want their children and grandchildren to live in
00:21:00a free environment. When I think of the heroism of Ukrainians, I think
00:21:04the world admires them for how they went through all this. I
00:21:08really believe that it's important, if you want support
00:21:11from the U.S., then you must explain who are the good guys and who are the
00:21:15bad guys? And I think Zelensky did that. I believe he
00:21:18could have done better in the first months, but now he
00:21:22is demonstrating his
00:21:23mastery.
00:21:27Did Putin underestimate American resolve when it comes to
00:21:31supporting Ukraine by the
00:21:33U.S.?
00:21:36Absolutely. I think Putin believed he could use Trump and
00:21:40the Europeans. And he certainly did use the Europeans. But
00:21:43I think he underestimated Trump's commitment to freedom around the world.
00:21:47I suppose people were surprised by how President... Trump is working
00:21:51to ensure Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons. I think they are
00:21:54surprised that he is trying to hold communist China
00:21:57accountable. I think they were surprised that he removed
00:22:01Maduro in Venezuela, so I suppose the world was generally
00:22:04surprised by how resolutely Donald Trump
00:22:07stands up for freedom around the
00:22:09world.
00:22:12Do you think he, Putin, still believes he can outlast
00:22:15the United States and its allies? Or, can
00:22:18Congress prove that he is wrong? You said that we need to
00:22:21act quickly and pass this bill. I think
00:22:25many believe that they can survive and outlast because historically
00:22:29they had presidents of the United States who chose a policy
00:22:32of concessions. Look back, look at Obama and look at
00:22:36Biden. They appeased dictators around the world,
00:22:39this president will not do that, and the next one will hardly
00:22:42either, because I believe people realize that the policy
00:22:45of appeasement does not work, it has never worked at
00:22:49any time.
00:23:24I think part of it is that Ukrainians are very creative in what
00:23:27they do, and they manage to create increasingly sophisticated
00:23:31drone technology, but perhaps even more impressive
00:23:34is the quality of their operators, the fact that with the efforts of a very small group
00:23:38of people, they destroy Russian troops. I spoke with one
00:23:42Ukrainian commander who, with the efforts of 2,000 people, destroyed
00:23:46Russian equipment worth more than 15 billion
00:23:49dollars. I spoke with another who manages a very
00:23:53small part of the Ukrainian military budget, but who destroyed
00:23:56about 30% of the Russian army, because they
00:24:00figured out how to do it very smartly with autonomous
00:24:03weapons, excellent training, essentially
00:24:06constant feedback, when those who use technology
00:24:10constantly communicate with those who create it, this
00:24:13is constant improvement day by day, what the
00:24:16Ukrainian army has done is truly admirable.
00:26:03together to achieve this, they already acted together to achieve
00:26:06this. We must understand that there is a significant
00:26:10threat to our freedom and independence, but this
00:26:13applies to all our allies who believe in freedom, because
00:26:16Putin does not believe in personal freedom, Xi does not believe in
00:26:19personal freedom, Ayatollah does not believe, Maduro did not believe,
00:26:23Raul Castro does not believe, Kim Jong Un does not believe,
00:26:26therefore they continue to cooperate, trying
00:26:29to destroy our way of life.
00:27:08and you should go to hell for all the death and destruction you have brought upon the Ukrainian people, and I will do everything in my power to continue to help
00:27:12fight for freedom anywhere in the world, against you, and also
00:27:15against Xi, Kim Jong, the Ayatollah, and other
00:27:18disgusting thugs who control the lives of people
00:27:22around the world. Thank you, Senator, for taking the time to
00:27:25share your
00:27:26views with us.
00:28:142020, a queue
00:28:18to vote,
00:28:20results,
00:28:39So what is his way out, besides going to hang himself quietly in the corner?
00:28:43Russia simply with its boots
00:28:47drives us into some kind of medieval age. There is a place
00:28:50for such a liberal party in Russia, absolutely, only that party
00:28:54doesn't exist.
00:28:57And I was supposed to write about what was happening there, well, like
00:29:00a concentration camp. For the state in my country, this is
00:29:04a pain that is always with you. I won't tempt
00:29:08fate. Why do you need this, what are you
00:29:11preparing for, why
00:29:14do you think this moment, or there is no single
00:29:17moment,
00:29:22persons who are not directly involved in hostilities,
00:29:26including those persons from the armed forces who
00:29:30laid down their arms, as well as those who
00:29:33ceased to participate in hostilities due to illness,
00:29:37injury, detention, or for any other reason,
00:29:40must under all circumstances be treated humanely.
00:30:24Please, give me all the lists
00:30:28of extremists, neo-Nazis, I wrote Putin in my
00:30:30passport. round, and this is my
00:30:34official and principled position. Well,
00:30:37it's a shame, damn it, someone is there, but I'm not, well!