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00:00:14The Yabloko party faces removal from elections in Russia. The Supreme Court will hear the lawsuit
00:00:18on Monday. The party is campaigning under the slogan "For Peace." This is
00:00:21live, on Current Time TV channel. Today is Friday, August 7th. My name is
00:00:25Evgenia Daganovich.
00:00:26Hello.
00:00:30Ukrainian drones struck a Wildberries warehouse in
00:00:33Yekaterinburg. 800 people were evacuated from there. A shortage
00:00:37of shelters during shelling: In Kyiv, for a population of three million,
00:00:40400 shelters were equipped, but not all are operational. Military
00:00:44cooperation between North Korea and Russia: a new bridge is being built on the border. A missile
00:00:47unit from North Korea
00:00:51may appear near Voronezh.
00:00:56The Yabloko party may be removed from elections in Russia as early as Monday,
00:01:00following a lawsuit from competitors. Opposition figures who left the country have spoken out in support of Yabloko,
00:01:04while leaders of remaining parties are writing appeals. Yabloko itself has
00:01:08distanced itself from foreign support, accusing critics within
00:01:11the country of callousness and saying their actions will lead to
00:01:14great sacrifices in the war. Andrey Shilov
00:01:16will continue: Six weeks before elections to the Russian
00:01:20parliament, the most discussed topic of the campaign was not the position of the
00:01:24United Russia party, which undoubtedly supports the president and is
00:01:27first on the electoral list.
00:02:00The website zamir.Live, which appeared recently and is currently accessible in
00:02:03Russia even without technical tricks, reports on
00:02:06a campaign supporting Yabloko. Here are photos of the participants of this
00:02:09campaign—Russians who are outside the country and openly
00:02:13opposing the war. Yulia Navalnaya, on behalf of the Anti-Corruption
00:02:16Foundation, which Russian authorities consider terrorists and extremists,
00:02:20issued a separate call to vote for Yabloko on party lists.
00:02:24Let's not discuss that Yabloko is somehow not good enough
00:02:27and recall past sins.
00:03:00distanced itself from any foreign support. The Yabloko
00:03:03party categorically does not have foreign sources of
00:03:06funding, does not maintain any relations with organizations
00:03:09deemed undesirable in the Russian Federation, and does not consider
00:03:13statements, appeals, or events conducted by anyone
00:03:16abroad as part of its election campaign. The fact that
00:03:20Yabloko is distancing itself from us is absolutely correct and true. We have no connection with
00:03:24Yabloko. We support the position they
00:03:27have taken, but we are not structurally related to them.
00:04:01the obscene Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty concluded
00:04:04by the communists 100 years ago, although
00:04:08Lenin, saying that peace was obscene, did
00:04:11conclude a peace treaty. A skirmish between the leaders of the Yabloko and Rodina parties
00:04:15at the Central Election Commission headquarters took place in almost the same crude terms, and
00:04:18after that, Rodina demanded Yabloko be removed from the elections, filing a lawsuit with the Supreme Court
00:04:22alleging violations related to party funding. Yabloko
00:04:26is preparing a countersuit for slander. What are you saying,
00:04:29basket? Everyone about stopping the war, do you all understand
00:04:33what the hell you're saying? So the suggestion to go to the front and stop
00:04:36putting down other people who are there, who are dying there,
00:04:40while you argue here, just shut his mouth, you from here
00:04:44at all, mother, the increased heat of the discussion
00:04:47clearly contributes to growing interest in the election campaign, which many
00:04:51considered meaningless. If
00:04:53we talk about whether it is possible in general to influence
00:04:57the war through so-called elections,
00:05:00no, absolutely, because, I repeat, these are not elections.
00:05:03If the campaign for Yabloko's support does
00:05:07take the form of a campaign for peace, and goes
00:05:10beyond that.
00:05:43Russian media and anonymous Telegram channels are reporting on the funerals of two generals
00:05:47after Saturday's explosion at a restaurant in Moscow. There is evidence
00:05:51that the birthday of the commander-in-chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces,
00:05:54Alexander Chaiko, was being celebrated there. The authorities reported the deaths of five people, including
00:05:58a female courier who delivered the bomb, and a security guard who
00:06:01detained her. But names and details have not
00:06:05been disclosed. Our colleagues from the investigative project "Sistema"
00:06:08have collected everything known about the victims of the explosion almost a week later.
00:06:13We know almost for sure, because it is confirmed by various sources, that Chaiko's son-in-law,
00:06:17his daughter's husband, Danio
00:06:19Peredriy, died. He apparently died in
00:06:23the hospital, and most likely General Valery
00:06:26Plakhotnyuk died, which is also almost certain because it is confirmed by various sources.
00:06:29I'll talk a little about who Plakhotnyuk was. He was
00:06:32the head of the Russian group in Transnistria, but
00:06:35before the war, he was the chief of staff of the 49th Army. It fought, in particular,
00:06:39in Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, if I'm not
00:06:43mistaken. He is not a very well-known person. In terms of service, he and
00:06:46Chaiko would hardly have crossed paths, but according to the data we saw
00:06:49and which the agency confirmed, they are listed as relatives in one of the databases.
00:06:53In fact, this is most likely a mistake. They are linked by address, by one of
00:06:56the addresses in Minsk, and
00:07:00as the agency established from other data,
00:07:04most likely Plakhotnyuk is Chaiko's
00:07:06goddaughter's godfather. So it seems they were friends as families, their wives are
00:07:10subscribed to each other and so on. He's just a family friend.
00:07:13Another deceased person remains unknown -
00:07:17there is some confusion here, because two days
00:07:20ago information appeared that another
00:07:24general, Igor Yershalimov,
00:07:26had died. And
00:07:29then, journalists from "Verstka" called him or a person with his
00:07:33phone, and the person picked up the phone and
00:07:37answered the greeting, he said yes. So
00:07:41maybe he is alive. The well-known Telegram channel VChK-OGPU
00:07:44wrote that he was buried at the Troekurovskoye cemetery, then they said that it was not him who was buried, but
00:07:48Plakhotnyuk. Nevertheless, there were two graves there, and either Chaiko's
00:07:52son-in-law was buried in the second one, or maybe Yershalimov was buried there. Whether he is
00:07:55alive or not, it remains
00:07:58unknown. But as we established, he was indeed related
00:08:02to Chaiko by service, because they both worked at
00:08:05the headquarters of the 20th Combined Arms Army in
00:08:08Voronezh in 2013-2014. After that...
00:08:12this army was divided, and the First Tank Army, recreated, was separated from it.
00:08:16Chaiko headed it, and immediately after that, Yershalimov went to
00:08:20Moscow and then held various positions. Studying
00:08:23Yershalimov's biography, we discovered that his father,
00:08:27Felix Yershalimov, served in the group, the group
00:08:31of Soviet troops in Germany in the 1980s. He headed
00:08:34the political department of the 11th Tank Division in Dresden,
00:08:38and we found a curious fact on one of the military forums, a rare
00:08:41photograph of Vladimir Putin, which, I believe, had not been published in
00:08:44the press before, showing Putin visiting the headquarters of this division
00:08:48on May 9, 1985. I had just arrived in
00:08:52Dresden. Why this may also indicate a connection with Chaiko, is because it is known that Chaiko's
00:08:55father also served in
00:08:59Germany in the Soviet forces, and
00:09:02as one person who served with Chaiko earlier told Current Time,
00:09:06he could have met Gerasimov, who also served there. His career
00:09:09is essentially owed to these connections.
00:09:13обязано.
00:09:16A loud explosion was heard in Moscow today,
00:09:19around 11 AM in various parts of the city, but the exact cause remains unknown.
00:09:37The Moscow branch of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told
00:09:41journalists that they also heard the explosion, but, quote, "where and what,
00:09:44it's unclear." Rescuers only added that there was no smoke
00:09:48or fires in the city. The Telegram channel "Baza," which is close to law enforcement, claims
00:09:51that Muscovites might have heard the sound of an airplane breaking the sound barrier.
00:09:55A similar version was put forward by an RBC source close to
00:09:58operational services. Ukraine did not report any strikes on Moscow
00:10:02today.
00:10:06The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a Wildberries warehouse in Yekaterinburg. Personnel were evacuated
00:10:09in time. Air defense forces were unable to repel the attack.
00:10:13Several
00:10:13drones hit.
00:10:19They are
00:10:19putting it out.
00:10:23Oh, man.
00:10:32Yekaterinburg is the capital of the Ural Federal District. The Wildberries
00:10:35warehouse is located 2,000 km from the front
00:10:39line. Local authorities confirmed the attack. According to their data, 800
00:10:43people were evacuated during the air raid. There were no casualties. The
00:10:46plenipotentiary representative of the President in the Ural Federal District said nothing about
00:10:50damage to the warehouse
00:10:51itself.
00:10:55Sellers were offered to insure goods against drone attacks, promising to
00:10:58pay up to 50,000 rubles, which is 600 dollars
00:11:02per item, but no more than 100,000 rubles per
00:11:05insured event. This is about 1,200 dollars. Moreover,
00:11:08the insurance protects the product only while it is being delivered or stored at
00:11:12the pickup point. Storage in the warehouse is not mentioned at all. These
00:11:16became the targets of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces this summer. Ukrainian military forces are launching
00:11:20systematic strikes on warehouses, explaining that Wildberries stores spare parts for drones and
00:11:23ammunition for the military there. Ukraine aims with long-range strikes to
00:11:26force Vladimir Putin to start peace negotiations.
00:11:30переговоры.
00:11:34The Russian army attacked Odesa, the Chornomorets stadium
00:11:38in the very center of the city was hit. This was confirmed by the head of the regional military administration,
00:11:42Oleg Kiper.
00:11:55The spectator stands were destroyed, and windows were blown out. According to preliminary
00:11:58data, one person was
00:12:00injured.
00:12:03Authorities in the Sumy region stated that this morning the Russian army struck
00:12:07a market in the Bilopillia hromada. 10 residents were injured, two of
00:12:10them in serious condition. The day before, in Pavlohrad,
00:12:13Dnipropetrovsk region, due to a Russian missile strike, two
00:12:17employees of Ukrposhta died. Another person was injured. In total, according
00:12:20to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, over the past day, Russia launched one and a half
00:12:25hundred drones over Ukraine. Reportedly, 114 were
00:12:28shot down.
00:12:31In Kyiv, people complain that there are not enough bomb shelter spots for everyone.
00:12:34To guarantee finding shelter, residents of the Ukrainian capital
00:12:38occupy spots on metro platforms in advance, even
00:12:41before the siren. Yulia Zhukova investigated
00:12:44the problem. With tents, sleeping mats, and chairs,
00:12:48Kyiv residents arrive at metro stations in advance to wait out
00:12:51a possible attack. The last few months, Russia.
00:13:10From shelling
00:13:13to shelling, residents of Kyiv complain about the condition and accessibility
00:13:17of shelters, and sometimes they cannot even get there during
00:13:20an attack.
00:13:25This is the Desnyansky district of Kyiv, the left bank of the capital. Here, the situation with shelters
00:13:28is the most difficult in the city. The shelters
00:13:32that already exist, which are mostly basements in hospitals, schools, or
00:13:36kindergartens, can accommodate less than half of the residents of this
00:13:39district. Marina, with her one-and-a-half-year-old child,
00:13:42waits out all the shelling at home in the corridor. There are, for example, schools
00:13:46where one could go, but again, for example, from my house, it's
00:13:50about an 8-minute walk, and with a child at night, especially during
00:13:53shelling, it's like this.
00:14:25my mother. Maxim Bakhmatov, head of the Desnyansky District Administration,
00:14:28shows one of the few houses in the district that has an equipped shelter
00:14:32in the basement. It can accommodate only two hundred
00:14:35people. Here it's made,
00:14:39repaired, ventilated,
00:14:41all the key
00:14:44communications are made. The peculiarity of the Desnyansky district
00:14:47is Soviet panel buildings. Many houses here do not have basements
00:14:51that could be converted into shelters. The most
00:14:55simple and quick solution, says Bakhmatov,
00:14:58is these mobile shelters. This is the first mobile certified
00:15:02shelter in Kyiv and so far the only one. It was installed in
00:15:05the Desnyansky district at the expense of business representatives. This
00:15:09concrete structure accommodates 30 people
00:15:12and is adapted even for people with disabilities. The shelter
00:15:16passed inspection at the testing ground and withstood the detonation of the warhead
00:15:19of a Shahed drone. It arrives like
00:15:23Lego from such separate modules. You see, it's made, it's
00:15:27assembled, bolted together, and after
00:15:29that, literally two or three days, and it's ready.
00:15:33Go into the shelter for ballistic protection. The absence of shelters is the responsibility of the district administrations.
00:16:37in Current Time,
00:16:38Ukraine.
00:16:41The US does not plan to supply Ukraine with additional missiles for Patriot
00:16:45systems because Americans themselves need them. This was stated by President
00:16:48Donald Trump at a White House briefing.
00:16:50Трамп.
00:16:54As for Ukraine, President Zelensky says his country
00:16:57desperately needs long-range missiles or Patriot
00:16:59missile batteries.
00:17:03You see, we ourselves need missiles. When Biden gave them so much,
00:17:07he handed over 300 billion dollars worth of ammunition. When I left,
00:17:11the arsenals were full, and he gave away a huge part of it. Now we are restoring our
00:17:15reserves. Several media outlets, citing
00:17:18unnamed sources, previously reported a sharp reduction in
00:17:21the Patriot arsenal of the US due to the war against Iran. US
00:17:25Defense Secretary Pete Hekset and Trump himself rejected these claims,
00:17:29stating that the US has enough missiles and they are produced in large
00:17:32quantities. Against the backdrop of uncertainty with American
00:17:35supplies, Kyiv turned to European countries. However,
00:17:38there is a shortage of interceptors in Europe. The Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands, in a comment to
00:17:42the Ukrainian service of Radio Svoboda, stated that they cannot yet allocate
00:17:46additional missiles for Patriot from their own arsenals, but are looking for
00:17:49alternative aid options. The defense ministries of Germany and Romania
00:17:53refused to comment on the availability of missiles in their warehouses, citing national
00:17:57security. According to Vladimir Zelensky, this year Ukraine received
00:18:00three times fewer missiles than in the same period last year. This
00:18:04week, during a massive attack on Kyiv and the region.
00:19:08In the Far East, as part of the "Victory Murals" campaign, military personnel from Russia and
00:19:12North Korea will be painted on the support of the Golden Bridge.
00:19:14The project glorifies participants in the war against
00:19:17Ukraine. Yuri Boranyuk will tell us about the cooperation
00:19:21between Moscow and Pyongyang.
00:19:21Боранюк.
00:19:29On the support of the Golden Bridge in Vladivostok, two soldiers are being painted. A Russian
00:19:32soldier shakes hands with a North Korean one. The city's mayor commented
00:19:35on this news in his Telegram channel as follows: the image emphasizes
00:19:39the common goals of the two countries. According to Reuters,
00:19:42a North Korean missile unit began deploying this summer
00:19:45in the Voronezh region. It may be equipped with six
00:19:49launchers and 120 missiles. This was
00:19:52told to journalists by Andrey Chernyak from the Main Intelligence Directorate
00:19:55of Ukraine. Independent confirmation is not available at the moment.
00:19:59The Kremlin did not comment on the publication. According to
00:20:02Ukrainian intelligence, this refers to ballistic missiles. To respond to
00:20:05precisely such strikes now due to...
00:20:38my mother Lena also loved to embroider very much,
00:20:41she could knit with needles and crochet
00:20:44too. I lost
00:20:47my son.
00:20:49The first
00:21:50road artery between the two countries. The border runs along
00:21:53the Tumen River. Construction above it is already visible from space. Satellite images
00:21:57were published by journalists of The Guardian. In their article, they
00:22:00write that tracking military cargo in the back of a truck with a satellite
00:22:03will be much more difficult than in a train
00:22:06car.
00:22:10The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that North Korean missile
00:22:14launchers will be targets for the Ukrainian Armed Forces as soon as they appear in
00:22:17Russia. These launchers, if they are deployed,
00:22:21they must be destroyed,
00:22:25and they immediately become a target, they become
00:22:28a legitimate target, a military target,
00:22:32therefore, there will be a reaction from our
00:22:35military.
00:22:37GUR,
00:22:39if it shares such data, then usually it
00:22:42comes true. Currently, military cargo can be imported from
00:22:46North Korea to Russia in three ways: by air, by
00:22:50sea, and by rail in Primorye. The only bridge
00:22:53connecting the two countries is located near the future
00:22:56automobile bridge. It is called the Friendship Bridge. Yuri
00:23:00Boranyuk, Vladislav Maystruk, and Damir Yasembaev, Current
00:23:03Time.
00:23:08Russia may be planning sabotage at infrastructure facilities in the Baltic
00:23:12states, said Lithuanian Defense Minister Robert Skovnis. According to
00:23:16him, Lithuanian intelligence has recorded preparations for so-called operations.
00:23:53Lithuanian intelligence believes that the main goal of possible provocations is
00:23:56to discredit Ukraine and sow discord within NATO to reduce
00:24:00aid to Kyiv. Amidst new threats, Vilnius has already strengthened security for
00:24:03transport and energy facilities, and also plans to reinforce
00:24:06air defense with new radars. The Kremlin denies preparing for sabotage.
00:24:10Russian President's press secretary Dmitry Peskov called the statement by Lithuanian
00:24:14intelligence intimidation to justify the militarization of the region.
00:24:17Only in May of this year in the Baltic states.
00:24:23Moscow claimed that Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia allowed Ukrainian
00:24:26drones to fly over their territory for attacks on Russian territory. The authorities of the Baltic
00:24:30countries and Ukraine reject these accusations. They explain that
00:24:33drones fly into the territory of neighboring countries from Russian territory due to the operation of electronic
00:24:37warfare systems.
00:24:39борьбы.
00:24:42Estonia is strengthening security measures in schools near the Russian
00:24:46border. Local authorities decided to use Ukraine's experience in...
00:24:56Igor Shevchuk will continue the topic.
00:24:59Preparations for the new school year at this school in the Estonian city of
00:25:03Tartu are now more than just cosmetic repairs.
00:25:07Workers are carefully covering windows with special protective
00:25:11film.
00:25:13Tartu is located only 45 km from the Russian
00:25:16border. This year, drones have flown into Estonian
00:25:20territory several times. To protect schoolchildren,
00:25:22the city authorities turned to the experience of Ukraine, where air
00:25:25raid sirens sound every
00:25:29day. We decided to cover the outer windows with special
00:25:33film. If an explosion occurs within a 100-meter radius, broken glass will not
00:25:37harm those sheltering inside. We learned from our Ukrainian
00:25:40colleagues that shrapnel dispersal is one of the main problems.
00:25:44Protective film is only part of the new security
00:25:47measures that are currently being implemented.
00:27:11Security measures in Estonian schools are being strengthened amidst
00:27:14statements about possible Russian provocations. The intelligence
00:27:17of the Baltic countries and Poland warn that Moscow may
00:27:21use drones to strike their territory.
00:27:24The military emphasizes that there is no direct threat of invasion
00:27:28now, but the risk of hybrid attacks remains high. The Kremlin
00:27:32under...
00:27:34Igor Shevchuk, Current
00:27:36Time.
00:27:39The head of the Mormon community in Vyborg was detained for donating to the Anti-Corruption Foundation.
00:27:43This was reported by local police, who published a video
00:27:47of the 74-year-old religious figure's detention involving
00:27:50FSB officers. The pro-security forces publication Baza claims
00:27:54that it concerns the leaders of the city community of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
00:27:58Saints. Meduza journalists report that the church premises
00:28:01have already been searched. Its leader is
00:28:05Valentin Gavrilov. Russian authorities recognized the FBK as an extremist organization
00:28:09five years ago. The foundation was founded by opposition leader
00:28:12Alexei Navalny. Over 100 people have been prosecuted
00:28:16or convicted in cases involving money transfers.
00:28:19человек.
00:28:22We will say goodbye now. You can find more on our website
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00:29:27The conflicting parties will try to conclude local
00:29:31agreements. From the besieged or encircled zone,
00:29:35the wounded, sick, disabled, elderly, children, and
00:29:38pregnant women will be allowed passage into this zone, as will religious ministers of all
00:29:42faiths, medical personnel, and medical supplies.
00:30:24We constantly hear talk about the need to mobilize
00:30:28the entire, entire economy for war, to
00:30:31unleash it, and so on. But a modern economy is built
00:30:35differently. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin is against the military
00:30:38mobilization of the economy. To kill a normal economy is to kill
00:30:42the entire country, so these are unnecessary, worthless
00:30:46talks. But Russia has caught the Dutch
00:30:49disease of wartime, Bloomberg writes. War drains
00:30:53resources from the civilian sector. Vladimir
00:30:56Putin signed a law on the disclosure of tax secrets for control.