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00:00:50Russia does not confirm an energy truce with Ukraine, the
00:00:53Kremlin said that contacts are ongoing. This is a live broadcast
00:00:57of Current Time TV channel, today is Monday, October 12. My name is
00:01:00Evgenia Toganovich.
00:01:01Hello.
00:01:04Possible elections in Ukraine. Zelensky is ready to
00:01:07organize a vote if Russia agrees to a ceasefire
00:01:11for 2 months. The Kremlin rejected
00:01:13the proposal. Attack of Ukrainian drones on
00:01:17Yandex data centers. Users in Russia complain about service failures.
00:01:20Equipment replacement may take up to
00:01:22six months. Technologies on the battlefield. How
00:01:25artificial intelligence is used by Ukrainian and Russian armies.
00:01:29We will show you.
00:01:30Special report.
00:01:35A number of European countries, after negotiations between Kyiv and
00:01:38Washington, expressed their support for Ukraine, in particular Poland, France,
00:01:41Germany and Estonia. Ukraine called on partners to increase pressure on
00:01:45Russia, primarily through sanctions. However, the US insists that the
00:01:48Ukrainian Armed Forces stop striking Russian oil refineries. Our
00:01:51correspondent, Boris Sochalko, will tell about the demands of the parties.
00:01:55Boris, hello. What are the results of the negotiations, will the
00:01:58energy truce come into force?
00:02:30Russia wants us to stop striking its oil refineries
00:02:33and oil exports, then Russia must stop striking
00:02:37our energy system, so that it is
00:02:40fair. At the end of last week, when the Ukrainian delegation was
00:02:44in the US in Washington, they announced the purchase of diesel from Russia,
00:02:48and at the same time demanded to stop strikes on Russian oil refineries. The negotiations
00:02:51ended ahead of schedule, Zelensky called the decision to
00:02:55buy Russian diesel a weak position of strong partners, and Donald Trump
00:02:58explained his decision and his conditions
00:03:01like this.
00:03:05We told him to do whatever he wants with Russia, just don't attack the
00:03:08oil refineries, because that's a world problem, and he
00:03:12wants to create problems for the whole world, he wants to create problems with diesel
00:03:16fuel for our farmers, our cattle breeders, because Russia
00:03:19supplies most of the diesel fuel, so he better damn
00:03:23stop, and I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new
00:03:26president. According to Volodymyr Zelensky, the news about
00:03:30the energy truce came as a surprise to him. In his evening address,
00:03:34he said that it was important that what Trump wrote on social networks became
00:03:37a reality, and added that he gave the command to cease fire on
00:03:41Russian oil refineries. Today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andriy Sybiha,
00:03:44reiterated: Kyiv is ready for
00:03:46a truce?
00:03:52We are ready for an energy truce, we are ready for any mutual format, for
00:03:56anything that will not be unilateral. Yesterday there were
00:03:59statements, but... Just a few hours after them, Russia attacked
00:04:02our power plant in Kharkiv, later
00:04:05at night, the gas infrastructure in the Kharkiv region and a substation
00:04:09in the Zhytomyr region. In
00:04:12the Kremlin, this topic was commented on by the press secretary of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry
00:04:15Peskov, but he did not provide any specific
00:04:18details. In the Kremlin,
00:04:22President Putin and other levels have repeatedly said
00:04:25that
00:04:28we want not
00:04:30peace, we want long-term peace and are ready to do
00:04:34everything possible for it. I note that after the night attacks, there have been no
00:04:38news about attacks on Ukrainian energy yet. And another topic that
00:04:41has been actively discussed after Donald Trump's statement is the elections in
00:04:44Ukraine. The conditions for them, according to Volodymyr Zelensky,
00:04:48are again
00:04:49a truce.
00:04:52Tell Putin: Give us 2 months, 60 days of complete
00:04:56ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organize elections.
00:05:00Of course, we will be ready for any choice of our
00:05:02people. And in the Kremlin, they refused to cease fire for
00:05:062 months, but admitted that they might not shoot for one day on
00:05:10election day.
00:05:12I don't think he deserved a break, I don't think
00:05:16we will once again
00:05:19fall for
00:05:22assurances and promises, the president said very
00:05:25clearly about this: we continue to achieve the goals of the special military
00:05:29operation. In Ukrainian society, the demand for
00:05:33elections was mostly met with criticism.
00:05:37No one has the right to tell us what to do,
00:05:40especially during a war, elections cannot be held. Therefore,
00:05:44well,
00:05:46how to say it correctly, it's not just bad, it's, well,
00:05:50it's treason, in my opinion, it's treason of partners, but what about
00:05:54those guys who are defending us now, how can they
00:05:57vote to elect, even if a better
00:06:01president is found, during a war it
00:06:04is impossible to do this by law, by the constitution
00:06:07of Ukraine, and secondly, I don't see another
00:06:10candidate for president
00:06:14of Ukraine, and thirdly, it's not his
00:06:17business, it's not in his competence, it should be decided by the Ukrainian
00:06:21people.
00:06:29Political scientist Vladimir Fesenko is sure that the topic of elections is even
00:06:33to Vladimir Zelensky's advantage. Why? He explained it with the
00:06:36example of the last similar
00:06:38case. A year ago, or rather a year and a half ago.
00:06:42after the incident in the Oval Office, when Trump
00:06:46also, even more harshly, with insults,
00:06:49demanded the impeachment of the president of Ukraine, what happened in
00:06:52Ukraine was a sharp surge in Zelensky's political
00:06:56ratings, the biggest, by the way, in the last 3 years was exactly
00:07:00then, after Trump's call, Ukrainians did not
00:07:03like it when they are taught what kind of president they
00:07:06need, especially when it happens against the
00:07:09background of pro-Russian actions and statements.
00:07:13Ukrainian-American negotiations were actively discussed in Europe. French President Emmanuel
00:07:17Macron said that he would discuss this with Donald Trump, and meanwhile, the
00:07:21EU approved the 22nd package of sanctions against Russia, which
00:07:24included 1,500 companies and individuals.
00:07:28Friends, thank you very much, our correspondent, Boris
00:07:31Sochalka from Kyiv, on the possibility of establishing a temporary
00:07:35ceasefire, and also on the possible holding of elections in
00:07:38Ukraine.
00:07:52In total, 19 residents were injured in Kharkiv as a result of shelling.
00:07:55We saw how one missile,
00:07:59the first and second, hit the thermal power plant. Although
00:08:02Trump promised
00:08:04a truce.
00:08:07We didn't expect a missile to hit the thermal power plant. I think that this missile
00:08:10was also going for the thermal power plant, but it hit... The authorities called on local
00:08:26residents not to pick up drone debris themselves,
00:08:29but only to inform emergency services about them. Among the surviving debris
00:08:33there may be explosive
00:08:34substances.
00:08:37As a result of drone attacks on Yandex data centers,
00:08:41at least 10 services in the company are operating with failures. For
00:08:44several days, drones attacked data centers in the
00:08:47Vladimir, Ryazan, and Kaluga regions. It may take several months
00:08:51to restore them. More details from Artyom
00:08:54Filatov. On the second day after the drone
00:08:57attack on the Yandex data center in Vladimir, the company's
00:09:00services continue to operate with limitations. Users
00:09:04complain about failures in the operation of Yandex Go, Yandex
00:09:07Lavka, Yandex Eda, and other applications. I open
00:09:10Yandex Music and I want to click on the text, yes, it
00:09:14gives me this text. Problems also persist
00:09:17in the Yandex Pay system, where some money transfers and payments
00:09:21are unavailable. The application is not working and
00:09:24it says why this happened, information
00:09:28that the money is safe, and the
00:09:31application should start working soon, but it's not working yet. The day before, users in
00:09:34Russia and abroad complained about the unavailability of
00:09:37the Yandex Taxi application. In a specific situation, I ordered
00:09:41a taxi. It didn't work the first time, and even, that
00:09:45is, when the application showed me that the taxi
00:09:49was ordered and the driver was on his way, nothing else was displayed at all.
00:09:52Drivers also reported serious failures in the Yandex Taxi application.
00:09:56There is no Yandex at all,
00:09:59it's impossible to turn it on, then
00:10:02they turn it on, something appears, and then everything
00:10:06disappears. The problems affected third-party platforms that
00:10:09use Yandex cloud infrastructure, in particular, users of the
00:10:13Cyan website, Vkusvill applications, and
00:10:16Apteka.ru continue to report failures. Yandex did not
00:10:19specify the full recovery time for its
00:10:22services, but promised to complete the work
00:10:25as soon as possible. Engineers are primarily
00:10:28restoring services that are used by the most people. They
00:10:31continue to work to make all services available in full volume in all
00:10:35regions as soon as possible. Last week, three out of six
00:10:39Yandex data centers in Vladimir, Ryazan region,
00:10:42and Kaluga were attacked. According to Kommersant today, replacing
00:10:46equipment that failed as a result of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
00:10:49could take up to 6 months, and Yandex will have to
00:10:53buy new equipment at the highest prices
00:10:57in recent years. Strikes on Yandex affect its
00:11:01reputation as a reliable service provider, including in
00:11:05countries neighboring Russia, say IT experts. I
00:11:08think this was a quite indicative story, especially for countries
00:11:12like Kazakhstan, Armenia, which are very heavily dependent on
00:11:16Yandex Taxi, Yandex Maps.
00:11:20But for Yandex, of course, this means
00:11:23that there will be no more expansion, but of course,
00:11:27on the contrary, there will be a shrinking of the sphere of influence and
00:11:31the refusal of foreign users from
00:11:34services that have already failed once.
00:11:37Last night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not strike Yandex infrastructure. In total,
00:11:41over Russian regions and annexed Crimea,
00:11:45151 Ukrainian drones were shot down,
00:11:48reported the Russian Ministry of Defense. The Rostov region was also attacked,
00:11:51according to the Astro publication, there...
00:12:25all flights are cancelled, we just can't
00:12:29fly anywhere. Flights at Moscow
00:12:32airports began to be cancelled on Friday. On that day, 15
00:12:36drones were shot down by air defense forces approaching Moscow,
00:12:39announced Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin. Temporary
00:12:42restrictions were in effect at Vnukovo,
00:12:45Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, and Zhukovsky airports, flights had to be
00:12:49redirected.
00:12:54Closed.
00:12:58Airport disruptions continued over the weekend. On Sunday
00:13:01morning, the Krasnodar Territory operational headquarters reported
00:13:05drone debris falling on the territory of Sochi airport
00:13:08and a fire in one of the administrative buildings. At night, drones
00:13:12also attacked the federal territory of Sirius. The attack
00:13:15has been going on for the second hour, the second time in my life I have to stand
00:13:19in the entrance, because it's really unsafe, friends. Some
00:13:23passengers after many hours.
00:13:55they feed us breakfast for five minutes and they don't
00:13:58tell us anything, they don't know anything, first they
00:14:02wanted to put us in a hotel, now they changed their mind, they said
00:14:05we are refueling, after refueling they told
00:14:08us to wait for an answer
00:14:11from ground transport, soon we will go on
00:14:15cockroaches. For many, finding
00:14:19hotels became a problem. According to Russian regulations, the carrier is obliged to provide
00:14:23a hotel free of charge if passengers wait for boarding to begin for more than 8
00:14:26hours during the day or more than six at night. Transfer to
00:14:30the hotel and back
00:14:33should be arranged. The room stock is limited for the
00:14:36airline, unfortunately, your airline rebooked
00:14:39you on the next flight based on
00:14:42seat availability, that is, it fulfilled
00:14:45its obligation. Airports are much less protected than
00:14:49oil refineries or thermal power plants, says Alexander Lonets, director of the consulting company Friendly
00:14:53Aviasupport.
00:14:55Airports themselves are a very fragile, poorly protected
00:14:59infrastructure object, which is very easy
00:15:03to put out of order or, at least,
00:15:06well, probably the most suitable word is to scare, uh,
00:15:10to scare, to knock out of the normal rhythm
00:15:13of work. So far we have heard more threats than real, well,
00:15:17real actions, but if strikes are indeed delivered,
00:15:21then this will paralyze all air traffic, at least.
00:15:28In the 9 months of 2026, compared
00:15:30to the same period last year, flights were cancelled
00:15:34twice as often, write Kommersant journalists, citing
00:15:38the insurance company Alfa-Strakhovanie. According to the company's
00:15:41estimates, based on the average capacity of aircraft, during this
00:15:44period, more than 7.5 million passengers waited for their flights for more than
00:15:483 hours, which is approximately 2.2 times more than in the
00:15:52same period of 2025.
00:15:54года.
00:15:57Russian and Ukrainian armies use weapons on the battlefield
00:16:01that work with artificial intelligence. These are autonomous combat
00:16:04systems, drones, missiles, and control complexes. Our correspondent
00:16:08Andrei Kuzakov spoke with Ukrainian military personnel and
00:16:12drone manufacturers about how the technology works and how
00:16:16it should be controlled. Chicks, cool. That's how
00:16:20the Ukrainian drone pilot from the 154th Brigade of the
00:16:23Armed Forces of Ukraine comments on the interception of a Russian Shahed.
00:16:27The operator watched the air battle and hardly interfered. His
00:16:30drone did almost everything itself. This is one of
00:16:34the weapons samples that has artificial
00:16:37intelligence integrated. This drone can
00:16:40independently fix
00:16:42a target, find it, chase
00:16:46it, destroy it, and you may not even
00:16:49see this target, but the artificial intelligence
00:16:53already guides it with a square
00:16:56from about a kilometer away. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported that the
00:17:00armed forces are already using over seventy
00:17:03diverse systems with artificial intelligence and
00:17:06machine vision.
00:17:53This was a Russian lightning bolt that attacked a gas station in Zaporozhye. Among the debris, a mini-computer
00:17:55NVIDIA was found. It is responsible for the operation of
00:17:59artificial intelligence. Well, how did
00:18:01it happen, they sent drones,
00:18:05through the network. with cameras on sticks, they
00:18:09set a specific task, to search
00:18:12for, well, what a gas station looks like, and
00:18:15what's around it, that's it, it flew, took pictures, immediately
00:18:19sent the picture that was needed, you don't sit there, it
00:18:23sends it with coordinates, after that it
00:18:25is processed, well, it's already implemented. Chips with
00:18:29artificial intelligence, built into drones or missiles,
00:18:32are constantly trained by humans. Data sets, what are they,
00:18:36they are... many, many photos and
00:18:39videos, for example, of one object, and then
00:18:42a person sits down, a specialist,
00:18:46takes this photo and marks it:
00:18:49this is a Zhiguli, it cannot be
00:18:53hit, this is an armored personnel carrier,
00:18:56it can be hit. An agreement on
00:18:59how to control autonomous weapon systems
00:19:02is currently being discussed at the UN. American and Russian
00:19:05diplomats removed a clause from the project about mandatory
00:19:09human verification of targets, the Washington Post
00:19:13reported, citing three participants in the negotiations. The document also no longer
00:19:16contains a requirement to consider ethical aspects when
00:19:20using weapons with artificial intelligence. For example, when
00:19:24the European community or
00:19:26Americans
00:19:28through their legislative norms limit the development
00:19:32of this, then, for example, such a monster as
00:19:35China does not limit it and...
00:19:37then it gives an opportunity for the development of these artificially
00:19:41without control, but without those
00:19:45principles that are laid down, conditionally speaking, in a democratic society.
00:19:49Volodymyr Zelensky stated at the General Assembly that the
00:19:52point of no return is close.
00:19:56Already next year there is a real possibility that
00:19:59artificial intelligence, not just people, will start making decisions about what
00:20:03happens on the battlefield. We need peace before we reach this.
00:20:24Kohanovsky called it an experiment that did not continue.
00:20:27In combat conditions, the decision rests with the human, insists
00:20:31the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, but the technology is being
00:20:34actively developed at training grounds.
00:20:40and that's it, and you don't touch it, and if someone passes
00:20:44at a distance of more than 500 meters, and it
00:20:47reads this with the camera, it
00:20:51lifts itself up and works on the target itself, without an operator,
00:20:55without an operator, we recently
00:20:57showed
00:20:59it to the Bundeswehr, and Americans came to Germany to see
00:21:03these models, and it tracks, searches for what
00:21:06the operator told it, that you are looking for this
00:21:10point, this flag, this
00:21:13dugout, and there is no connection with the operator anymore,
00:21:17it searches, searches, searches, and found it, hit it. Roman, Myron
00:21:21and Sova continue to cover the Ukrainian sky with their
00:21:24artificial intelligence drones. They
00:21:27also believe that it is not worth
00:21:30letting it out of
00:21:31human control.
00:21:35Well, there are a couple of films where artificial intelligence
00:21:37became very smart and could control itself. I believe
00:21:41that if a person does not control it,
00:21:44then the Internet and technology
00:21:47will control us. I believe that
00:21:51we need to control it. Andrei Kuzakov, Vasily
00:21:54Martynchenko, Current
00:21:56Time.
00:21:59In the European Union, the issue of restricting visas for Russian
00:22:03tourists, military personnel, and possibly athletes has been revisited. The issue was discussed
00:22:06today at a meeting of the foreign ministers of the European
00:22:09Union countries. Our European correspondent, Elena
00:22:12Abramovich, will provide details. After
00:22:15the incident with a Russian drone found with explosives at
00:22:19Leys airport, the European Union decided to return to the issue
00:22:22of restricting the entry of Russian citizens into the Schengen area, as well as to
00:22:26additional restrictions for diplomats. Earlier this
00:22:30year, employees of Russian diplomatic missions in the EU were already obliged to
00:22:33notify another country where they are going if they travel outside
00:22:37the state where they work. Now they want
00:22:40a Russian diplomat, for example, in Brussels, when traveling to Berlin
00:22:43or Paris, not just to notify, but to ask for permission
00:22:47to visit a neighboring state and could...
00:23:20Germany became the advocate for restrictions. Berlin also wants visa
00:23:23restrictions for tourists from Russia. This issue has long been
00:23:27promoted by Poland and the Baltic states, and they are also seeking
00:23:30entry restrictions for military personnel who fought in
00:23:33Ukraine.
00:23:36Last year, Schengen zone countries issued 650,000
00:23:39tourist visas to Russian citizens, this is something we can no
00:23:43longer allow. Estonia also proposed a sanctions regime, and
00:23:46the European Commission supported this initiative. Now it is trying to
00:23:50find a way to implement it, to prohibit entry to former combatants.
00:23:53Countries where there are the most Russian tourists, France and
00:23:56Italy, oppose the restrictions. French diplomats
00:23:59believe that Russians should not be left in complete
00:24:03isolation. Diplomats from northern and eastern
00:24:05countries argue that Rome and Paris simply do not want to lose tourism
00:24:09revenue. Due to the position of these countries, the European Union
00:24:12failed to agree last summer on a complete ban on entry for
00:24:16Russian military personnel. Instead.
00:24:50which Vladimir Putin pays for a colonial and
00:24:53imperialist war that must definitely
00:24:56stop. The problem with banning visas for combatants
00:25:00was the limited number of employees of European
00:25:03states in consulates in Russia, because each visa
00:25:06application needs to be thoroughly checked. Moreover, among
00:25:09consulate staff there are many Russian citizens, and Russian
00:25:13authorities threatened them with prosecution if they demanded
00:25:16documents about military service, diplomats say.
00:25:20It may be easier to restrict visas for Russian
00:25:23athletes, there are far fewer of them, they are easier
00:25:27to check, but this is only an idea that arose in some
00:25:30countries in response to the return of Russian citizens to international
00:25:34competitions. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs previously accused the European Union of
00:25:37hypocrisy and double standards in response to all these
00:25:40steps. And in response to the restriction of diplomatic movement,
00:25:44Moscow responded with reciprocal measures. This summer, diplomats
00:25:47from EU countries were required to
00:25:51additionally report on crossing the Russian border.
00:25:54Elena Abramovich, Marok Gaiduk, Current Time.
00:25:58Brussels.
00:26:01In Tbilisi, it is understood why Rospotrebnadzor banned
00:26:05the supply of a number of goods from Georgia, this statement was made by the speaker
00:26:08of parliament. On October 10, it became known that Russia imposed temporary
00:26:12restrictions on the import and sale of some Georgian beverages, including
00:26:15alcoholic ones, citing a decision of the Council of the Eurasian
00:26:18Economic Commission. The official reason is the non-compliance
00:26:22of products with established requirements, for example, regarding color or taste, or
00:26:26chemical composition. This is
00:26:28surprising, the reasons are unclear to us, so the authorities, of course...
00:26:32will sort out this issue, we will see, we hope that this decision will be
00:26:36changed, because in this case the reasons for its adoption are unclear
00:26:39to us. The interpretations we heard from different
00:26:42sides are separate interpretations, whereas we
00:26:46have not heard any official justifications. The Ministry of Agriculture
00:26:50of Georgia has the opportunity to clarify this issue with the Russian
00:26:54Federation.
00:26:56In total, the products of four large producers of wine and brandy,
00:27:00one brewing company, as well as the products of the
00:27:02Coca-Cola plant and a mineral
00:27:05water producer, fell under the sanitary restrictions. Russian retail
00:27:08chains have already begun to withdraw the products of these companies from
00:27:12sale. At the same time, no similar restrictions by other
00:27:15states of the Eurasian Economic Union were reported.
00:27:18The founder and head of the sanctioned
00:27:21wine company Gbilvino,
00:27:24Georgy Margvilashvili, called this decision political. He
00:27:28believes that it, I quote, has nothing to do with
00:27:32product quality. End of
00:27:33quote.
00:27:36The Nobel laureates in economics this year were Americans
00:27:40Robert Hall and Michael Woodford. They received
00:27:44the award for, I quote: Microeconomic foundations
00:27:47of macroeconomic stabilization. In simple terms, economists
00:27:51linked the behavior of an individual person or firm, that is,
00:27:54microeconomics, with how the entire economy
00:27:57of a country works, and taught the state to save markets from severe
00:28:01crises.
00:28:04The Central Bank, with its statements and changes in rates, can
00:28:08calm people and businesses, keeping inflation at a stable
00:28:12level. Thanks to Robert Hall's research,
00:28:15governments understood how to properly support citizens during
00:28:18crises and how to regulate the labor market to quickly get
00:28:22people back to work after economic downturns. Hall
00:28:26and Woodford gave states and central banks
00:28:29precise mathematical tools, thanks to which...
00:29:23persons who do not directly participate in hostilities,
00:29:26including those persons from the armed forces who
00:29:30have laid down their arms, as well as... those who have ceased to participate
00:29:34in hostilities due to illness,
00:29:37injury, detention or for any other reason,
00:29:41must under all circumstances be treated humanely.
00:30:26I don't think he deserved a break, the aerial
00:30:29truce turned out to be nothing. Why neither
00:30:33Russia nor Ukraine are
00:30:35going for it?
00:30:40From this moment on, an energy truce -
00:30:43wrote in his social network True Social US President Donald Trump.
00:30:46The moment was on Sunday evening. But on Monday
00:30:49morning, Ukrainian authorities announced a Russian
00:30:52strike on one of the Ukrainian
00:30:54power plants.
00:30:58Immediately after publication.