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00:00:22I don't think he deserved a respite, the aerial
00:00:26truce turned out to be hot air, why not Russia?
00:00:30Ukraine is not
00:00:31going for it.
00:00:36From now on, an energy truce -
00:00:39US President Donald Trump wrote on his True Social network.
00:00:43The moment was Sunday evening. But on Monday morning,
00:00:46Ukrainian authorities announce a Russian
00:00:49strike on one of Ukraine's
00:00:51power plants.
00:00:54Immediately after the publication by President Trump on True Social,
00:00:58Russia launched a targeted strike on a power plant
00:01:01in Kharkov, causing additional damage
00:01:05to our energy system. Obviously, Putin does not
00:01:09read True
00:01:10Social.
00:01:15Russia, in turn, replies that it sees no
00:01:18prospects now or in the future for
00:01:22ending the shelling of energy facilities. I don't think he deserved a respite,
00:01:26I don't think we will once again...
00:01:30fall for assurances
00:01:33and promises. The president said this very
00:01:37clearly: we continue to achieve the goals of the special military
00:01:41operation. Nevertheless, the Kremlin says that
00:01:44contacts regarding a truce are still maintained, but why,
00:01:48what are these talks about at all, and what do ordinary people
00:01:51in Russia and Ukraine think about these statements?
00:01:54We will discuss this today on Face to Face with the Event.
00:01:57Hello. Donald Trump unexpectedly announced that Russia and
00:02:01Ukraine had agreed not to attack each other's energy infrastructure and that
00:02:04a truce was already in effect. From this moment on, during the war
00:02:08between Russia and Ukraine, an energy
00:02:11truce comes into force. Both sides have agreed
00:02:14to this, do not violate it. Ukrainian President
00:02:18Zelensky said that he heard about such an agreement for the first time, although Ukraine is ready
00:02:21to cease strikes if Russia does so, and the Kremlin did not respond
00:02:25to Trump's statement at all. Meanwhile, Russia continued its attacks
00:02:29that same
00:03:00day. Russian Shahed jets were flying in the sky. Immediately after
00:03:03that, Russia launched a targeted strike on a power plant in Kharkov
00:03:07and further damaged our energy system. It became
00:03:10clear that Putin does not read True Social. What exactly
00:03:13Trump meant became clear the next day. As Axios writes, citing
00:03:17a source in the White House, it is primarily about Russia
00:03:21and Ukraine stopping hitting each other's oil
00:03:24refineries. In Kyiv, such a suggestion is considered one-sided.
00:03:28Russia has a large network of oil refineries, while Ukraine has only
00:03:31one plant left, and it is not working at full capacity. For Ukraine,
00:03:35it is much more important that Russia stop hitting its power plants
00:03:39and grids. We are ready for an energy truce so that both sides do not
00:03:43strike energy facilities, and if the Russians
00:03:46want us not to attack their diesel fuel, their
00:03:49refineries, and so on, we ask President
00:03:53Trump to signal them not to attack Ukraine's energy
00:03:56infrastructure, it's a fair deal. Why would Trump save
00:04:00refineries? It's clear from how quickly Moscow reacted to his diesel
00:04:04deal with Putin. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak immediately
00:04:07promised to lift restrictions on diesel exports, although the government
00:04:10imposed them to prevent fuel shortages within the country.
00:04:14He named volumes of 300,000 tons in October, 500,000
00:04:18in November, and a million in December. In the future, the volume
00:04:21could increase to 3 million tons per month. The Russian market, meanwhile,
00:04:25will also be fully supplied with diesel. For Trump, this diesel is now
00:04:29especially important. Fuel prices in the US have risen sharply, with less than a month
00:04:33until the midterm congressional elections, and to reduce prices, the US
00:04:36Treasury even exempted these supplies from sanctions until
00:04:40April 7, 2027. But diesel is produced precisely at
00:04:43those plants that Ukrainian drones are hitting, and Trump
00:04:46believes that these strikes are driving up prices and hitting
00:04:49the American economy. On the eve of the truce
00:04:52announcement, he directly accused Zelensky of this, answering
00:04:56journalists in the White House. He, Zelensky, wants to create problems
00:05:00for our farmers, our cattle breeders with diesel fuel. I told
00:05:03him: do whatever you want, just don't hit the refineries, there are
00:05:07plenty of targets, but he went and hit them. Why is diesel expensive in America?
00:05:11Yes, the question arises.
00:05:13and the answer is very simple, yes, it is impossible to make
00:05:17cheap diesel from expensive oil, accordingly, here we need to look
00:05:21for the root cause of the problems in the fact that
00:05:24oil is expensive. Why is oil expensive? Obviously,
00:05:28yes, obviously because of the problems in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz,
00:05:31the Red Sea, but
00:05:34elections are approaching in America, and Donald Trump
00:05:38cannot admit that because of what he started...
00:06:12will block the program under which allies purchase American
00:06:16weapons for Kyiv. And Trump himself, in the same conversation with journalists,
00:06:19went further and stated that Ukraine needs a different
00:06:23president. Zelensky responded to Trump the next day in an interview
00:06:26with the American TV channel ABC News. According to him, Ukrainians
00:06:30themselves will decide who to elect president, but the law does not
00:06:33allow holding elections during the war. And if Trump wants
00:06:36change, he should turn to Putin. Putin really wanted
00:06:40to change the president of Ukraine, I understand this, and if
00:06:43President Trump really wants some changes as a result
00:06:46of the elections, I have already told his team about this, so please,
00:06:50tell Putin, give us 2 months, 60 days
00:06:53of a complete ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organize
00:06:57elections, of course, we will be ready to accept any choice of our
00:07:01people, namely the Ukrainian people. The Kremlin stated
00:07:04that they are not ready for a 2-month truce. Trump's special envoys
00:07:08Stephen Witkoff and Jared Kushner, according to Axios,
00:07:11postponed their trip to Moscow until Ukraine and the European Union
00:07:15agree to the terms that are being sought in Washington. And whether
00:07:19Washington plans to seek agreement from Ukraine and Europe, we will ask political scientist
00:07:22and journalist Peter Zalmayev. Peter, hello. Good
00:07:26morning, I greet you. I want to ask you, first of all, about
00:07:29internal American political factors that influence such
00:07:32statements. Trump, did he manage to satisfy
00:07:36the Republican voter with his statements that he
00:07:39managed to agree with the Kremlin on getting diesel?
00:07:43You know, there are no such serious
00:07:46public opinion polls yet, but already according to
00:07:50preliminary estimates, it brought absolutely
00:07:53nothing to Donald Trump. On the contrary, that still
00:07:56modest, but still demarche of the united
00:08:00Republican-Democratic
00:08:02demarche in the Senate, and we are talking about seven, if I'm not mistaken, senators
00:08:05who strongly opposed such
00:08:09agreements. In Congress, Republican
00:08:12Patrick from Pennsylvania generally wants to push through
00:08:16a resolution that would make such deals impossible,
00:08:19referring to the spirit and letter
00:08:23of the law passed in 2022, which does not allow such
00:08:26deals with Russia,
00:08:29the purchase of oil products from Russia. I
00:08:32think this will actually go against Donald Trump, and
00:08:36of course, let's not forget, again returning to the amounts themselves,
00:08:39quite insignificant. about
00:08:42which was spoken, that is, 3,000 first, then 500, a million,
00:08:46even if we add all this up, it's not more than
00:08:50a week's diesel consumption
00:08:53by the United States of America, this will not
00:08:56affect the price of diesel at all, therefore, on the eve
00:09:00of the elections, we cannot say
00:09:03that this will somehow help Trump electorally, that
00:09:07is, for an American to drive to a gas station and see that he
00:09:10spent this time... 20 or 30 dollars
00:09:14less for gasoline to fill the tank
00:09:17with gasoline, that most likely will not happen, therefore many
00:09:21point out that to a large extent
00:09:24it is useless and on the contrary
00:09:27may harm Trump, who is now perceived
00:09:30by many as openly pursuing
00:09:33a deal with Putin bypassing
00:09:37Ukraine. Donald Trump also says that strikes on Russian
00:09:41oil refineries are harmful.
00:10:12Yes, Fox News, which is usually quite benevolent towards the agenda
00:10:16of the American president, even there,
00:10:20basically the host, literally
00:10:23commenting on this diesel deal, Briann
00:10:27said that, excuse me, for how many months have we
00:10:29been discussing the increase in diesel prices as a direct
00:10:33result of a protracted, prolonged
00:10:36war in Iran, now we need to turn
00:10:39180° and say that Ukraine is to blame
00:10:43for everything, even Donald Trump started talking about this quite late, after
00:10:46the increase in diesel prices, it is
00:10:50difficult to imagine that even such stupefied, one might say,
00:10:54voters who are now ready to vote for Trump,
00:10:57could make such a mental trick
00:11:01and start believing in something else, everyone understands
00:11:04that the reason
00:11:05for the
00:11:08inflated diesel prices is the war in Iran,
00:11:12the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz
00:11:16and Donald Trump's current inability to get out of
00:11:20this adventure. He expects that in the next 3
00:11:23weeks, even if the price of diesel does not fall, at least
00:11:26everything can be blamed on Ukraine, and accordingly the Democrats,
00:11:30because of whom this war started, Joe Biden
00:11:33and so on, all this is absolutely clear
00:11:36and understandable, I have serious doubts that this will help Donald
00:11:39Trump. The Financial Times quotes European
00:11:43officials, without naming them, and writes that these officials
00:11:47say that the United States threatens to stop
00:11:50selling weapons to Ukraine. How are these
00:11:53threats viewed?
00:12:04their voice is not yet sufficiently represented in the Ukrainian direction from
00:12:07the very beginning after Trump came to power for
00:12:11a second term, and at least I had such a
00:12:14firm impression,
00:12:17a conviction that Donald Trump simply would not
00:12:20be able to change arms supplies to Ukraine
00:12:24overnight with a stroke of a pen, because this would greatly
00:12:27harm the people, the industry. We are now talking about
00:12:31arms manufacturers who are a
00:12:34serious donor to the Republican party, and again
00:12:38Donald Trump has a field for maneuvering, this field
00:12:41is called
00:12:44Elon Musk, who, as you know, spent more than 200
00:12:47million dollars on Trump's re-election. After that, they had
00:12:50certain misunderstandings, a kind of
00:12:53divorce, now they are trying again to return to warm relations,
00:12:57it seemed like he was ready again to spend on
00:13:00Republican
00:13:01political
00:13:04- on Republican elections and so on. This gives
00:13:07Donald Trump a little room to maneuver,
00:13:10therefore this industrial complex,
00:13:14so to speak, has somewhat lost its
00:13:17influence, and nevertheless, where are these manufacturers located? They
00:13:21are located in very key states, including
00:13:25Pennsylvania, which for decades
00:13:28have been decisive
00:13:31in terms of the outcome of elections, at least for president and so on. Therefore, Donald
00:13:35Trump has to
00:13:37reckon with this industry, and let's not
00:13:41forget, the flow of weapons has not dried up,
00:13:45weapons continue to be produced, Donald Trump just changed
00:13:47the formula by which these weapons are given to Ukraine,
00:13:51now they are given to Ukraine for European money.
00:13:55Trump - again threatens that he
00:13:58will rewrite this formula
00:14:01completely, remove the possibility
00:14:04of transferring American weapons, even for money to Ukraine, again I have
00:14:08doubts about this, whether he can do it, again,
00:14:11bipartisan support for Ukraine remains
00:14:15in Congress, and many senators and congressmen will be unhappy that
00:14:19their voters, people in their states,
00:14:22who work in these enterprises... continue.
00:15:02strikes on Yandex,
00:15:05let's remember what happened last weekend, shelling also
00:15:08continues in Ukraine, let's see what public opinion
00:15:11is on the topic of an energy truce, and discuss this
00:15:15matter with a political scientist. On the second day after the drone attack
00:15:19on the Yandex data center in Vladimir, the company's services
00:15:22continue to operate with limitations. Users
00:15:25complain about failures in Yandex.Go, Yandex
00:15:28Lavka, Yandex Food, and other applications. I open
00:15:32Yandex Music and want to click on the text,
00:15:35and it gives me this text. In connection with a problem in the Yandex
00:15:39Pay system, some money
00:15:42transfers and payments are unavailable there. The Yandex Pay application does not work, and
00:15:46it says why this happened, information
00:15:49that the money is safe, and
00:15:52the application should start working soon, but it is not working yet. On the eve, users
00:15:55in Russia and beyond complained about the
00:15:58unavailability of the Yandex Taxi application.
00:16:02A specific situation, I ordered a taxi and it didn't work the first time and
00:16:06even, that is, like...
00:16:37and pharmacy and others. Yandex
00:16:40did not name the full restoration dates for its services, but
00:16:44promised to complete the work as soon as possible. Engineers are
00:16:48primarily restoring services that are used by most
00:16:51people, and continue to work so that all services become
00:16:55fully available as soon as possible in all regions. The Head
00:16:58of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadaev, believes that Yandex
00:17:01has faced an unprecedented attack. The restoration
00:17:04of the company's data centers may take up to...
00:17:28Armenia, which is very dependent on Yandex Taxi, Yandex
00:17:31Maps,
00:17:36but for...
00:19:37The Kyiv Institute believes that peace is more important than any victory,
00:19:4141% believe that victory is more important than any peace,
00:19:4457% support a cessation of hostilities
00:19:48and a search for compromise at negotiations, a third are confident
00:19:51that hostilities must continue, more than half
00:19:54of respondents believe that for long-term peace, territorial
00:19:58concessions can be made, but on condition of security guarantees,
00:20:01just over a third are against territorial concessions for the sake
00:20:05of peace.
00:20:07And about public sentiment against the backdrop of talks
00:20:10about a possible
00:20:13air truce, we are talking with political scientist Georgy Chizhov. Georgy,
00:20:16hello. Hello. What does
00:20:20sociology show, is peace more important than victory or is victory more important than
00:20:24peace? It seems that the results
00:20:26are balanced, but in which direction is the trend
00:20:30in Ukraine?
00:20:32I would not pose the question that way at all, what does
00:20:36peace mean,
00:20:38to make concessions to Putin, this does not mean peace at all, this
00:20:42means the continuation of the war under even less favorable conditions for Ukraine,
00:20:45therefore, in fact, there is no such choice
00:20:49for Ukrainians, almost everyone is for peace, another thing is that
00:20:53there is a very clear understanding that if there are no certain
00:20:56guarantees, if there are no clear
00:20:59agreements, then no peace will come, this is what
00:21:03determines, first of all, the mood
00:21:05of Ukrainians,
00:21:07because in fact there is no alternative,
00:21:10no one believes Putin's promises, especially since they are not formulated as
00:21:14promises, but as abstract wishes, you give us
00:21:18this, that, and something else, and then we'll think
00:21:22whether to make peace with you, what choice do Ukrainians
00:21:25face?
00:21:29Yes, in fact, there isn't much choice, because
00:21:32in any case the war is imposed
00:21:36by the enemy, imposed by the aggressor, so Ukrainians only have to
00:21:39hold on. Now the urgent task is
00:21:43to get through this winter season, because
00:21:46obviously the Kremlin expects that they will somehow manage.
00:22:20In this sense, of course, Trump's actions can drag out
00:22:22the war, but in any case it is already clear that there will be no
00:22:26substantive negotiations before spring,
00:22:30so we just have to hold on without any choice. And the Minister
00:22:33of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, says that Russia does not want to give
00:22:37Zelensky a so-called respite.
00:22:40What if we imagine that this
00:22:43respite, let's say, Ukraine gets a respite for the winter, what can
00:22:47it manage to do this winter, what can
00:22:50it restore? Well, a lot can be restored,
00:22:54as we have seen,
00:22:57the relevant Ukrainian services sometimes demonstrate simply
00:23:00miracles, well, I cannot say exactly how much
00:23:03capacity, another question, should they be restored as
00:23:07before, if you know that in 60 days targeted
00:23:10bombardments will begin again, perhaps a completely different
00:23:14infrastructure should be built, this is difficult for Ukraine to understand for now,
00:23:18to build infrastructure for peacetime... post-war time, or
00:23:21to expect that this war will last for years, to dig in as much as possible,
00:23:25well, you understand, completely different costs, completely different
00:23:29architecture of this infrastructure, and
00:23:31wartime infrastructure is infrastructure where there are no large warehouses,
00:23:35large nodes, everything is maximally
00:23:38decentralized so that it is impossible to destroy
00:23:42it quickly, this is a serious, of course,
00:23:45question, I think it is being resolved at the strategic level
00:23:48in various departments. Vladimir Zelensky has repeatedly
00:23:52said that Ukraine is ready to agree to a ceasefire, to stop
00:23:56hitting targets deep in Russia, but
00:23:59is the political leadership of Ukraine really ready to abandon
00:24:03this, because this is probably almost the only trump card in
00:24:07the war, how Ukraine manages
00:24:09to inflict damage on
00:24:12Russia? Well, Ukraine proposed several
00:24:16formats of partial truces, if it no longer gets
00:24:20to talk about a full truce, an energy truce was proposed,
00:24:24that is, an exchange of energy infrastructure for energy infrastructure,
00:24:28this is not entirely symmetrical, because Russian energy
00:24:31infrastructure is primarily oil refineries
00:24:33and substations,
00:24:37not substations, but these nodes, oil transportation
00:24:41nodes, while Ukrainian
00:24:43energy infrastructure is power grids and generating
00:24:47capacities, because oil refining.
00:25:21That is, Ukraine is ready for a wide variety of partial truce options,
00:25:24so far all of them are consistently rejected by Russia. Well, I want to show
00:25:28our viewers a fragment about Russia, about how the strikes
00:25:32on Yandex, on marketplaces, on refineries, what trend
00:25:36they create inside the country, and how they affect public
00:25:39sentiment, we asked sociologist Dmitry Dubrovsky, this is what he told us.
00:25:43If we talk about fatigue, then it is precisely connected with those
00:25:46inconveniences with the fact that, in general, of course, Ukraine
00:25:50achieved the fact that the
00:25:53agreement that existed, an unwritten one between Putin and
00:25:56society, was largely violated, because the agreement was
00:26:00this: nothing changes, we here...
00:26:20moved the regime, so to speak, into the realm
00:26:23of tasks, what to do with this? Actually, well, for now,
00:26:27for now it is quite clear that the regime is not going to do anything about it, it quite
00:26:31successfully conducted, as it was already called, a special election operation,
00:26:34a special electoral operation, now it is possible
00:26:37to endlessly raise taxes, now, in general, one can think about
00:26:40returning, as it is, a limited
00:26:43mobilization, yes, therefore, I think that
00:26:46for now, everything that has happened
00:26:50does not pose a serious, that is, it poses problems for the regime, but I honestly
00:26:53do not see a serious threat yet. Georgy, I want to
00:26:56return to Vladimir Zelensky's words about forcing Vladimir Putin
00:27:00to peace, the campaign was.
00:28:02The main driving force of Russia is still the oil and gas
00:28:05complex, let's note that Ukraine initially did not strike
00:28:09oil fields.
00:28:11Well, I might be wrong here, since I'm not an energy specialist, but it seems to me
00:28:15that it would be simpler to hit
00:28:18not the whole country, right, but specifically the Khanty-Mansi and
00:28:21Yamalo-Nenets districts, the oil and gas fields, and Russia
00:28:25would have long since lost its oil and gas revenues, but
00:28:29this would indeed have provoked a rise in prices worldwide.
00:28:31And Ukraine initially does not allow itself
00:28:35to do this, thank you very much, these are completely empty
00:28:39talks, can an insignificant amount of
00:28:42diesel fuel, about which Trump and Putin agreed, change prices at
00:28:46gas stations in the US? Obviously not. Well, we will, of course, follow up
00:28:50and tell our viewers everything. Thank you Georgy, political scientist Georgy
00:28:53Chizhov was with us, we talked about public sentiment in Russia,
00:28:56Ukraine, how much longer are the countries willing to endure the war. Thank you for watching until the end, share your opinion in the comments,
00:29:00goodbye.
00:29:21There is something mystical in the rise of dictators to
00:29:25the peaks of power and in their
00:29:27fall.
00:29:30It seems that not long ago you were ordinary.
00:30:03Why is she leaving?
00:30:05Every dictator dreams of ruling forever, and every dictator eventually
00:30:09comes to an end, be it a natural or
00:30:13violent end, who or what kills
00:30:15them? Let's go back to the source.