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00:00:27The largest attack on Moscow with cruise missiles, drones. The Moscow
00:00:30oil refinery and a number of other facilities were again targeted.
00:00:34The capital's authorities call the attack an attempt to disrupt the elections. Today in Russia, in
00:00:38the occupied territories of Ukraine, is the last day of voting in the parliamentary
00:00:41elections. You are watching the news on the Current Time TV channel.
00:00:45Today is Sunday, September 20th. My name is Timofey Rozhansky.
00:00:49Hello. Let's move on to the main topic of the day
00:00:51.
00:01:03Oh my god, they added more action,
00:01:06to make it hotter. I don't know where
00:01:09to look.
00:01:13Oh, come on.
00:01:17Oh, come on, it fell into the next
00:01:19yard.
00:01:23They attacked Moscow and the Moscow region. The Moscow
00:01:26oil refinery in Kapotnya is burning again. Earlier, in mid-June, strikes
00:01:30put it out of action. Now it was under repair.
00:01:33Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin admitted the hit on the plant and said that air defense forces
00:01:37shot down more than 1,600 drones overnight.
00:01:40Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the Ukrainian Armed Forces' strikes on the oil refinery,
00:01:43clarifying that in addition to drones, Ukrainian-made
00:01:47cruise missiles were used for the strikes.
00:01:50In Kotelniki, near Moscow, during the attack, one of the drones hit
00:01:53a multi-story residential complex in the Novye
00:01:56Kotelniki microdistrict.
00:02:08The fire engulfed apartments on three floors. According to the head of the Moscow region, two men
00:02:11were injured in the attack and refused hospitalization. Now
00:02:15on your screens are images of the consequences of this strike, taken this
00:02:19morning.
00:02:22Another target of the attack was the Skvadsk complex in Sofyino, near Moscow
00:02:25.
00:02:34In short, a real buzz,
00:02:37look, it's quite
00:02:40large-scale.
00:02:42According to the Telegram channel Astro, the Modern Warehouse Technologies complex
00:02:46was hit. The publication also notes that a Pantsir anti-aircraft complex
00:02:49is located 500 meters from it. The governor of the
00:02:53Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, reported that the most serious consequences
00:02:56were recorded in the Ramenskoye district and mentioned a fire at the... complex
00:03:00there in Sofina. One of the drones hit a three-story residential building. One
00:03:04person died. In total, according to Vorobyov, there are two dead in the Moscow region.
00:03:08Medical assistance was needed by twenty residents, 15 of whom
00:03:11were taken to the hospital. Literally 20 steps from
00:03:15the entrance, an explosion immediately, glass flew,
00:03:19shouts, screams started. I turned around, that's it, the doors at
00:03:22the entrance were torn off, everywhere everything was junk, this
00:03:25was lying around.
00:03:29In Russia today, voting in the State Duma elections is concluding. In most
00:03:32regions, it lasted 3 days. Polling stations will close at
00:03:358:00 PM local time. In the eastern regions of Russia, they have already
00:03:39closed.
00:03:41Our correspondent Dmitry Novikov is monitoring the voting process in Russia. Dima,
00:03:45hello. What is known at this minute? Did the attack on Moscow affect the voting
00:03:48process?
00:03:52Timofey, hello. Russian authorities state that the drone attack
00:03:56on Moscow did not affect what was happening at the polling
00:04:00stations. In the commissions, their work, as the Central Election Commission
00:04:03says, began in the morning according to schedule and then proceeded in
00:04:06normal mode. However, in the afternoon throughout Moscow, at polling
00:04:10stations, due to a malfunction, they stopped issuing paper ballots
00:04:13and election commission employees began to offer
00:04:16voters to vote online. By the way, yesterday the Central Election Commission
00:04:20reported a very powerful and intense cyberattack on
00:04:24the Moscow system of remote electronic
00:04:26voting. This attack, as was claimed, was going on in...
00:04:37As for violations, the independent
00:04:39project
00:04:43Elections 2026, "We Observe Together," collected
00:04:46more than two hundred reports of
00:04:49violations from thirty-four regions just yesterday. These include illegal
00:04:52removal of observers and commission members, threats, refusals of
00:04:56documents, filming of... torn safes, night visits to
00:05:00ballots. Representatives of the Yabloko and CPRF parties also
00:05:03report mass denial of access
00:05:07to observers. Of all
00:05:09the violations discovered by independent observers at...
00:05:25This was noticed by observers from the CPRF, New People, and A Just Russia parties. Upon seeing this, they immediately raised the alarm,
00:05:28publishing as evidence photos of the safe with
00:05:31ballots with traces of fingerprint powder,
00:05:35and began to wait for what would
00:05:37happen next.
00:05:40Absolute lawlessness.
00:05:43There are also a lot of police
00:05:44standing there.
00:05:49Yes, and there is a clear fact of a violation, which
00:05:53threatens with a specific criminal case.
00:05:56A few hours later, the chairman of the local
00:05:59election commission stated that the violators, members of the commission,
00:06:02were removed from working at the elections. The head of
00:06:06the CEC, Panfilova, while acknowledging violations in Yakutsk,
00:06:10addressed the members of the election commission. What
00:06:13are you doing? Observers everywhere, round-the-clock video broadcasts from
00:06:16the polling stations, everything is visible.
00:06:20You either have no brains at all, or I don't know, or
00:06:24complete irresponsibility, brainlessness, I would say
00:06:26so. By the way, the voting process is being monitored by selected
00:06:29international observers from countries that Russia classifies as
00:06:33"friendly countries." These observers
00:06:36have not yet expressed any
00:06:39comments. Dima, do you have an understanding of how Russians are
00:06:43voting?
00:06:44Journalists from Sota Vision
00:06:49interviewed residents of Perm, Yekaterinburg, and Petrozavodsk
00:06:52about how they vote in the
00:06:55elections and whether they trust the vote count. Let's
00:06:58see. At least at the end of the first day
00:07:01of the elections, I already learned a lot, that there are
00:07:04falsifications everywhere,
00:07:07ballots are thrown in everywhere, I think that everything will be decided, but I will go
00:07:11to vote, I will. Well, it's
00:07:14worth trying. No, it should stay that way. Honestly,
00:07:18I'm
00:07:21for Putin, honestly, still, because
00:07:24he has done so
00:07:26much.
00:07:30If I go to vote, I will vote for him again. There will be
00:07:33elections to the State Duma, that is, deputies of parties.
00:07:36Oh, I don't get involved in politics at all, I don't
00:07:40know, honestly. Do you believe?
00:08:28By the way, the President of Russia did not go to the polling station and did not publicly
00:08:31throw a ballot into the ballot box in the presence of video cameras. As reported from
00:08:35the Kremlin, Putin cast his vote for candidates for
00:08:38the State Duma, while in the room, sitting at a computer.
00:08:42Already on the first day of voting, September 18.
00:08:45The day before, he addressed voters, stating that every
00:08:49voter's voice matters. End of quote.
00:08:52Independent journalists note that this is Putin's sixth remote
00:08:56voting. But the leader of the Yabloko party, who was barred
00:09:00from participating in the elections, Nikolai Rybakov, came as
00:09:03a voter to one of the polling stations in
00:09:06St. Petersburg. In an interview with journalists, he said:
00:09:10"We understand what situation."
00:09:12we are working in, what kind of elections we are participating in.
00:09:15It is reported that Rybakov wrote on the ballots "Yabloko for
00:09:19peace, for freedom Yabloko, for life without
00:09:22fear, and Yabloko for a ceasefire agreement," after
00:09:25which he cast these ballots into
00:09:29the ballot box. Timofey. Dima, thank you very much, Dmitry Novikov
00:09:33is following the elections in
00:09:34Russia.
00:09:38In Russia, in some cities of the world, at 12 o'clock at polling stations,
00:09:42the action "Noon for Peaceful Russia" took place. It was proposed by
00:09:45the "Peaceful Russia" party, founded by Russian opposition figure Ilya Yashin and his associates in
00:09:49emigration, and a number of other opposition figures. According to
00:09:53their plan, this was a safe way, including for people in
00:09:56Russia, to express protest against the war. The action was not massive,
00:10:00but at noon, queues appeared at several polling stations in Moscow,
00:10:04St. Petersburg, as well as in Berlin, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Prague, Paris and
00:10:07Vilnius. Dozens of people gathered at the Russian embassies. Our
00:10:11correspondents spoke to some of them. It seems to
00:10:14me that it's meaningless to do anything at these elections or try to win in any way, in my opinion, but I don't
00:10:18like that the state is taking away my last right, including
00:10:22demotivating me, for example, not to go to the polling station.
00:11:59As for the polling stations in the occupied territories, people with
00:12:03automatic weapons also observed the process there. The legally elected mayor of Energodar, Zaporizhzhia region, Dmitry
00:12:06Orlov, who had to leave the city after the occupation in 2022,
00:12:09believes that Moscow needs to show that the occupied territories are already
00:12:13integrated into the Russian political system. Russian
00:12:16authorities, meanwhile, announced a record turnout by Saturday
00:12:20evening in the occupied part of the Donetsk region at...
00:12:23I'm waiting for peace,
00:12:55which I hope will happen
00:12:58very, very soon here in
00:13:01Sevastopol. More than anything, I'm waiting for
00:13:04it. The EU called the holding of Russian elections in the occupied
00:13:08territories of Ukraine a violation of international law. Kyiv
00:13:12stated that the voting organized by Russia under the muzzles of automatic weapons does not change
00:13:15the internationally recognized status of these territories as Ukrainian and called on
00:13:19foreign states, as well as international organizations, not to recognize its
00:13:23results.
00:13:32In the Kyiv region, four people were killed as a result of Russian strikes, including three children. According to the head of
00:13:36the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, Timur Tkachenko, the region has been under drone
00:13:39attack for more than a day. Skachenko reported that a mother and two children died in the Fastiv district,
00:13:43and in the Vyshhorod district, another girl died in the hospital
00:13:47from her injuries. In the Zaporizhzhia region, an elderly
00:13:50woman died as a result of a drone strike. The
00:13:53railway in the region was attacked. No casualties were reported.
00:13:57The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed strikes
00:14:00on Ukraine, claiming that they attacked the Firepoint company's warehouse in the Kyiv
00:14:04region. Russian military also reported a strike on a dry cargo ship in
00:14:08the port of Odesa, at the Nova Poshta company's warehouse. According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces,
00:14:11last night Russian troops launched 138
00:14:15drones into the country, 101 of which were shot down.
00:14:19The commander of the third army corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Andriy Biletsky, reported that
00:14:23Ukrainian military personnel liberated three settlements in the Donetsk region, in
00:14:27the area of the city of Lyman, where the Ukrainian counter-offensive operation
00:14:30Vivaldi is taking place. Biletsky's words are confirmed by analysts from the
00:14:34Deep State project. According to their map, the Ukrainian Armed Forces advanced in the area
00:14:37of the cities of Lyman and Sviatohirsk. Over the past few weeks, the Ukrainian Armed Forces
00:14:41have reported a counter-offensive in the Lyman area. According to Biletsky, within
00:14:45the framework of Operation Vivaldi, the Ukrainian military has already regained control of
00:14:48125 km of territory. Earlier, Biletsky
00:14:52published a video from the center of Sviatohirsk, which before that, Russia and personally
00:14:55Vladimir Putin had already declared
00:14:57captured.
00:15:00These were the main news up to this hour. Timofey
00:15:04Rozhansky was with you. I wish you peaceful weekends and a
00:15:07good end to this week. Tune in to
00:15:10the morning program on Monday. See you.
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00:17:31This changes the attitude towards the head
00:17:34of the regime, and its ruling elite.
00:17:38And the regime will fall, it's not eternal, the regime will fall. It is in Russia's interest
00:17:41to really stop this war somehow.
00:17:44This is very, very
00:17:46scary, because I think we can't forget about this. This is a pain that is always with
00:17:50you. I understand how people live
00:17:54there today. What
00:17:57to do, this is an irreversible process. Do you think it
00:18:00was the right move
00:18:01to return?
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00:19:17Events that change the world, stories that
00:19:21cannot be missed, we analyze with you live, face to face with the event.
00:19:38Iran, if historically they were mainly interested in missile and nuclear
00:19:41technologies, then, judging by recent years, they are interested in what
00:19:45is related to the realities of modern warfare, for example, satellite navigation, the same
00:19:49GPS spoofing, artificial intelligence, and so on. That is, yes, we know well
00:19:52that Iran provided Russia with
00:19:55the design of Shaheds, which Russia then supplemented. There were
00:19:59originally Iranian Shaheds, apparently with Iranian artificial intelligence systems, but
00:20:02it is clear that Russia, which uses them daily to bomb, among other things,
00:20:06Ukrainian civilians. Yes, and some of them have some elements of artificial intelligence, it
00:20:10gains
00:20:13expertise in this area, and then through universities, through
00:20:16some means it can share it with Iran. Iran has
00:20:19its own military industry that is quite strong compared to
00:20:22many other countries, not wealthy ones.
00:20:26It is mainly based on either purchasing technologies or on
00:20:29reverse engineering, that is, a North Korean
00:20:33missile, which in turn is a copy of a Soviet missile, is taken. Then either
00:20:37technical documentation is bought or obtained in some other way, and then either
00:20:41reverse engineering is done, and then their own missiles are created. But in order
00:20:44to then support this industry, to create new variants, there must also be
00:20:48a corresponding scientific school. Why? Russia is now capable of creating new weapons even in conditions
00:20:52of sanctions, because in Russia there is not just production, but there are scientific
00:20:55schools, there are specialists who know how to do this for generations.
00:20:59This is actually a lot of things, that is, it costs a lot, few people have it, and
00:21:03Iran strives to have such scientific schools, of course, they cannot buy everything forever.
00:21:07Recently, as the Financial Times reported, they received from Russia
00:21:10a method
00:21:14for creating engines for hypersonic
00:21:17missiles, but it's not enough to just get
00:21:20the blueprints to set up production, you need specialists who will
00:21:23support all this. And in order to understand how this is arranged in the context of Iran and
00:21:27Russia, we started looking for what Iranian students or
00:21:30graduate students or researchers come to Russian universities that are associated with the defense
00:21:34industry, this is, for example, MAI or Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and what
00:21:38they do there, this can be determined by scientific papers, because
00:21:41usually, when a student or graduate student comes, especially a graduate student, he publishes joint
00:21:45scientific papers with his supervisor, with other graduate students, with
00:21:48other researchers from the laboratory, then returns to Iran and continues to publish
00:21:52already, perhaps with Iranian researchers, and so on. We were interested in cases
00:21:55when the topic clearly concerned some military
00:21:59things, and especially when people who returned to Iran
00:22:02worked in universities that are directly connected, say, with the Iranian Ministry of Defense or
00:22:06the IRGC, such exist, they are well known. And we
00:22:09really found, just from open publications, several, I would call
00:22:13them clusters, several clusters related to
00:22:16certain scientific topics that most likely have... well, that is,
00:22:20which can be accurately described as dual-use technologies. The fact is that
00:22:24Iran does not produce any civilian aircraft gas turbine engines
00:22:27at all. But it produces quite a lot of gas turbine engines
00:22:31for cruise missiles. And they produce another engine for their own
00:22:34fighters. That is, they do not have a civilian industry in this area, so any
00:22:38research related to GTDs, as they call them in short, are certainly
00:22:42military. And we found a whole group of Iranian students, graduate students,
00:22:45who regularly in recent years studied or were associated with
00:22:49one of the departments of MAI and also with several Russian
00:22:52researchers. This is one of the examples. Other examples are,
00:22:55well, for example, the nuclear field, which of course interests everyone. In fact, no one has
00:22:59proof that Russia in any way helps Iran create nuclear weapons.
00:23:03This certainly could not be found in open publications, but
00:23:07there are so-called gas centrifuges, which are used for
00:23:10uranium enrichment. It is known that the IAEA was very concerned that
00:23:14Iran was able to enrich uranium to 60%, this is not yet
00:23:17weapons grade, but this is a level that is... too high to
00:23:20be used as fuel for a nuclear power plant, so this
00:23:24raised great suspicions, and as is known,
00:23:28Israel and the USA during the current war have made every
00:23:31effort to destroy these centrifuges in Iran.
00:23:34They were also part of the nuclear deal 10
00:23:37years ago. So, we found that yes, Iranian researchers
00:23:41indeed actively cooperate with several Russian
00:23:44institutes, universities precisely in the field of gas
00:23:48centrifuges. Again, this may be purely... this is civilian work from the point
00:23:52of view of Russian researchers, it is certainly civilian work, but it has
00:23:55an obvious dual purpose. For many years, Iranian
00:23:59researchers traveled to Samara, then called
00:24:02Samara Aerospace University named after Korolev, where
00:24:06a strong, strangely enough, Danish researcher, Kaibor, worked. He died in
00:24:102017. He was an invited professor, and Iranians studied with him. Then they
00:24:13returned to Iran and then wrote a large number of papers on
00:24:16GPS spoofing, which is when the GPS signal is substituted to
00:24:20confuse enemy drones or planes or
00:24:24ships, which most likely had applied
00:24:28significance, because some of these works were in military journals or were
00:24:31also connected with quasi-military universities. It is known that Iran has quite
00:24:35strong expertise in this area,
00:24:38and well, world-class expertise that is recognized by the global
00:24:42expert community, and they actively apply GPS
00:24:45spoofing during the current war, they applied it before.
00:24:49At Bauman Moscow State Technical University, there is very
00:24:53good expertise in creating
00:24:55artificial intelligence systems for various drones, not only
00:24:58flying, but also floating
00:25:01and ground-based. They at least advise the Russian military in this
00:25:04area, but Bauman Moscow State Technical University simply has base departments, many people work there
00:25:07who also work in the Russian defense industry, and we also
00:25:11found that in one of the departments that specifically deals with artificial
00:25:14intelligence, there are quite a large number of Iranian students, and
00:25:18some of them, one of them gave an interview to the Iranian Sputnik, where
00:25:21he said that he came to study because relations
00:25:25between Iran and Russia are good, he wouldn't go to the West, and as for
00:25:29the sanctions against us, that is, against Iran, they are unfair. Specifically, his
00:25:33work, we cannot prove that it is related to the military, but it is clear that
00:25:37the exchange itself, the very basis of such scientific exchange in this area,
00:25:40it trains personnel who will then help the Iranian
00:25:44industry develop in this
00:25:46direction.
00:25:56There was grass here, everything is covered with sand
00:25:59from above. Last year there was water.
00:26:33It just hit the
00:26:37keel.
00:26:41Doesn't that uncle understand that he's throwing rockets here?
00:26:45People are dying here.
00:26:48I said, I don't know, she was very scared when it arrived and in the basement.
00:27:03Does your dog count steps to meet the daily
00:27:06norm?
00:27:08Does your hamster plan every meal?
00:27:12Or perhaps your cat wears a sleep tracker to improve its quality of
00:27:16life? Well, some people do that, but why?
00:27:20Our correspondent Suzette Kleyne decided to investigate what
00:27:23she managed to find out right now in the program "In Great
00:27:27Shape."
00:28:03There is no such thing, it's excluded.
00:28:06Do you have strong evidence that Putin directly
00:28:10ordered this, because what you said is
00:28:13the most direct accusation against the Russian leader in all
00:28:17history.
00:28:22What you managed to do here is absolutely incredible, I
00:28:25mean the foundation you created here in Germany, the Boris Nemtsov
00:28:29Foundation.
00:28:33All graduates, my great inspiration and my
00:28:36motivation to do what I do for 8
00:28:39years.
00:28:41I always set a new goal for myself and try to achieve it. This is my
00:28:45life.
00:28:45To be a modern Buddhist
00:28:54means not to look like a sectarian, even in
00:28:57the harshest times of repression, connection...
00:29:00Along the narrow, broken road, coal is transported from the quarry
00:29:22around the clock, convoys of trucks, miles of
00:29:25dust.
00:29:26It was not easy for me to talk about
00:30:03this, the worst thing is that it was
00:30:06a suicide.
00:30:08We were all mama's girls.
00:30:13Here, roughly speaking, we have.
00:30:30здесь, грубо говоря, у нас.