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00:00:26I don't think he deserved a break, air force.
00:01:30served, I don't think we will once again
00:01:34buy
00:01:35into
00:01:38assurances, promises, the president very clearly said about this: we
00:01:42continue to achieve the goals of the special military
00:01:44operation. Nevertheless, the Kremlin says that
00:01:48it still maintains contact regarding a truce, but why,
00:01:51what are these talks for, and what do ordinary people
00:01:55in Russia and Ukraine think about these statements,
00:01:58we'll discuss this today live. Face to face with the event. Hello.
00:02:02Donald Trump unexpectedly announced that Russia and Ukraine agreed not to
00:02:06strike each other's energy infrastructure anymore, and that a truce is already in effect. As
00:02:10of now, during the war between Russia and Ukraine,
00:02:13an energy truce
00:02:16comes into force. Both sides have given their consent, do not violate
00:02:20it. Ukrainian President Zelensky said that he hears about
00:02:23such an agreement for the first time, although Ukraine is ready to stop strikes if
00:02:27Russia does so, and the Kremlin did not respond to Trump's statement. Russia,
00:02:31meanwhile, continued attacks, the same day drones
00:02:34hit a power plant in Kyiv and energy facilities in the Kharkiv
00:02:37region, power went out in parts of the capital.
00:02:52Yesterday, it hardly surprised any of us that after
00:02:54the sudden but very important post by the American president
00:02:58about what he achieved.
00:03:30this assumption is considered one-sided: Russia has a large
00:03:33network of oil refineries, and Ukraine has only one plant left, which
00:03:36is not operating at full capacity, and it is much more important for Ukraine
00:03:40that Russia stops hitting its power plants and grids. We
00:03:43are ready for an energy truce, so that both sides do not strike
00:03:47energy facilities, and if the Russians want us not to
00:03:51attack their diesel fuel, their oil refineries, and so
00:03:55on, we ask President Trump to give them a signal not
00:03:58to attack energy.
00:04:02Why does Trump need to save Russian oil refineries? It's clear from how quickly Moscow
00:04:05reacted to his diesel deal with Putin. Deputy Prime Minister
00:04:09Alexander Novak immediately promised to lift restrictions on diesel
00:04:13exports, although the government imposed them to prevent
00:04:16fuel shortages within the country, named volumes of 300
00:04:20thousand tons in October, 500 thousand in November, and a million in
00:04:23December. In the future, the volume could grow to 3 million tons per
00:04:27month. The Russian market, meanwhile, will also be
00:04:31fully supplied with diesel. For Trump, this diesel is especially important
00:04:34right now. Fuel prices in the US have sharply increased, and the midterm
00:04:38congressional elections are less than a month away. And to lower prices, the US Treasury
00:04:42even lifted sanctions on these supplies until
00:04:45April 7, 2027. But diesel is produced at those very plants that
00:04:49Ukrainian drones are hitting. And Trump believes that these strikes
00:04:51are driving up prices and hitting the American economy.
00:04:54On the eve of the truce announcement, he directly accused
00:04:58Zelensky of this, answering a journalist.
00:05:13Why is diesel expensive in America? Yes, the question
00:05:15arises, and the answer is very simple, yes, from
00:05:19expensive oil it is impossible to make cheap diesel.
00:05:22Accordingly, we need to look for
00:05:24the root of the problem in the fact that oil is expensive, why is oil
00:05:28expensive, obviously, yes, obviously because of problems in
00:05:32the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea,
00:05:36phew, but, elections are approaching in America,
00:05:39and Donald Trump.
00:06:12on Russian refineries, the US will stop sharing intelligence with it
00:06:16and will block the program under which allies buy
00:06:19American weapons for Kyiv. Trump himself, in the same conversation with
00:06:23journalists, went further and stated that Ukraine needs
00:06:26a different president. Zelensky responded to Trump the next day in an interview
00:06:30with the American TV channel ABC News. According to him, Ukrainians
00:06:33will decide for themselves whom to elect president, but holding
00:06:36elections during wartime is not permitted by law, and if Trump wants
00:06:40changes, he should turn to Putin. Putin very much wanted
00:06:43to change the president of Ukraine, I understand that, and
00:06:47if President Trump really wants some changes as a result
00:06:50of elections, I've already told his team about this, so please,
00:06:54tell Putin: give us 2 months, 60 days of a full
00:06:58ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organize elections,
00:07:01of course, we will be ready to accept any choice of our people,
00:07:05specifically the Ukrainian people. The Kremlin stated
00:07:08that they are not ready for a 2-month truce, according to Trump's special envoys.
00:07:22And will Washington seek agreement from Ukraine and Europe? We
00:07:25will ask political scientist and journalist Peter Zalmayev. Peter,
00:07:28hello, greetings. I
00:07:31want to ask you first of all about internal American political factors
00:07:35that influence such statements. Has
00:07:37Trump managed to satisfy Republican
00:07:40voters with his statements about having managed to negotiate with
00:07:44the Kremlin to get diesel? You know,
00:07:48there are no serious -
00:07:50public opinion polls yet, but according to a
00:07:53preliminary assessment, it brought
00:07:56absolutely nothing to Donald Trump, on the contrary, that still
00:08:00modest, but still demarche - a combined
00:08:03Republican-Democratic
00:08:06demarche in the Senate, and it's about seven, if I'm not mistaken, senators who
00:08:09categorically opposed such...
00:08:12agreements. In Congress, Republican Brian
00:08:16Fitzpatrick from the state of Pennsylvania actually wants
00:08:19to push through a resolution that would make such
00:08:22deals impossible, referring us to the spirit
00:08:25and letter of the law that was adopted in the twenty-second year, which does not
00:08:29allow such deals with Russia, and
00:08:32the purchase of oil products from Russia. I
00:08:36think this will definitely go against Donald Trump, and
00:08:39of course, let's not forget, again, returning to... to the amounts
00:08:43of diesel, quite insignificant, that were mentioned, that is, 3,000
00:08:46first, then 500, a million,
00:08:50even if we add all this up, it's about no more than
00:08:53a weekly, weekly consumption of diesel
00:08:57by the United States of America. This will not
00:09:00affect the price of diesel at all, therefore, in the run-up to
00:09:04the elections, we cannot say
00:09:07that this will in any way help Trump electorally, that
00:09:11is, for an American... to drive to a gas station, see that he
00:09:14spent 20 or 30 dollars
00:09:18less on gas this time to fill the tank
00:09:21with gas, this is unlikely to happen, which is why many
00:09:25people point out that this is largely
00:09:28useless and on the contrary
00:09:31can harm Trump, who is now perceived by many as
00:09:35openly making a deal with
00:09:38Putin, bypassing Ukraine. Trump
00:09:42also says that strikes on Russian refineries harm
00:09:46American farmers. Do American farmers also
00:09:49think that?
00:09:52Well, again, how many months has the war been going on in Iran, right? So,
00:09:56the war in Iran has been going on
00:10:00longer than Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil refineries,
00:10:03and even leading, let's not talk now about
00:10:07left-liberal channels, which Donald Trump declared
00:10:11enemies, not only of himself and Republicans, but of all
00:10:14America. The same Fox News, yes, Fox News, which
00:10:17is usually quite friendly to the agenda of the American
00:10:20president, even there, basically.
00:10:24The host literally just
00:10:27commenting on this diesel deal, Brian
00:10:30Kilmeade said that excuse me, how many months have we
00:10:33been discussing the rising prices of diesel as a direct
00:10:37result of a prolonged, drawn-out
00:10:40war in Iran, now we need to turn
00:10:43180 degrees and talk about Ukraine being to blame for everything,
00:10:47even Donald Trump started talking about it quite late, only after
00:10:50the rise in diesel prices, it's
00:10:54hard to imagine that even such deluded, one might say,
00:10:57voters, who are ready to vote for Trump now,
00:11:01can perform such a mental trick and start
00:11:05believing something else, everyone understands that the reason
00:11:09for the
00:11:12inflated diesel prices is the war in Iran,
00:11:16the blocking of essentially the Strait of Hormuz
00:11:20and Donald Trump's inability to get out of
00:11:23this adventure yet.
00:12:25to cancel arms supplies to Ukraine overnight with a stroke
00:12:28of a pen, because that would severely harm
00:12:32people, the industry, we're talking about
00:12:34weapon manufacturers who are
00:12:38serious donors to the Republican party, and again,
00:12:42Donald Trump got room to maneuver, this room
00:12:45is called Elon Musk, who, as you
00:12:49know, spent over 200 million dollars on Trump's re-election,
00:12:53after that there were certain...
00:12:55misunderstandings, a kind of divorce, now they are trying
00:12:58to get back into a warm relationship, it seems he was ready
00:13:02to spend again on Republican
00:13:05political
00:13:08elections for Republicans and so on, this gives
00:13:11Donald Trump a little room to maneuver,
00:13:14so this industrial complex,
00:13:17let's say, has slightly lost, as
00:13:20far as its influence is concerned, and yet... where are these
00:13:24manufacturers located? They are located in very key
00:13:27states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania,
00:13:30which for decades have been
00:13:33decisive for the outcome of elections, at least
00:13:37for presidents and so on, so with this industry, Donald
00:13:40Trump has to
00:13:43uhm take into account, and let's not forget, the flow of
00:13:47weapons has not dried up, weapons continue to be produced, it's just that
00:13:50Donald Trump changed the formula, uh-uh, according to
00:13:53which these weapons are given.
00:14:55Mayev was with us and explained
00:14:58Washington's intentions regarding an energy truce
00:15:02between Russia and Ukraine. And we, let's look at Russia and
00:15:05Ukraine. Strikes continue on Yandex, remembering what happened
00:15:09over the weekend from last week, and shelling also continues in Ukraine.
00:15:13Let's see what public opinion is on the topic
00:15:17of an energy truce and discuss this with a political scientist. On the second
00:15:20day after the drone strike on the Yandex data center in Vladimir,
00:15:25the company's services continue to operate with limitations.
00:15:28Users complain about glitches in Yandex Go, Yandex
00:15:32Lavka, Yandex Eda, and other applications. I open
00:15:36Yandex Music and want to. click on the text, and
00:15:39it shows this text. There are problems in
00:15:42the JandexPay system, some money transfers and payments
00:15:46are unavailable there. The application is not working and
00:15:49it says why this happened, the information
00:15:53that money is safe, and
00:15:56the application should start working soon, but it's not working yet. The day before, users in
00:15:59Russia and beyond complained about
00:16:02the unavailability of the Yandex Taxi application. A specific
00:16:05situation: I ordered a taxi.
00:16:43and others. Yandex did not name the full recovery time
00:16:47for its services, but promised to complete the work as soon
00:16:50as possible. Engineers are primarily restoring
00:16:53services that are used by the most people and continue to work
00:16:57so that all services can become available in full as soon as possible
00:17:00in all regions. The head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadaev,
00:17:04believes that Yandex has faced an
00:17:06unprecedented attack, and it could take up to half a year
00:17:10to restore the company's data centers. Currently, the Ministry of Digital Development
00:17:13and the Ministry of Defense are resolving issues of protecting
00:17:16data centers. Strikes on Yandex, meanwhile, affect its
00:17:19reputation as a reliable service provider, including
00:17:23in countries bordering Russia, say IT experts. I think
00:17:25this was quite a telling story,
00:17:29especially for countries like Kazakhstan, Armenia, which are very
00:17:33heavily dependent on Yandex.Taxi,
00:17:36Yandex.Maps.
00:17:38Hmm, but for Yandex, of course, this means
00:17:42that there will probably be no more expansion, and
00:17:45of course, it will be the opposite, a shrinking
00:17:48space of influence and refusal of foreign
00:17:50users from services that have already
00:17:54failed once like this. A fresh Levada Center
00:17:57poll from October 6 shows that 2/3
00:18:01of Russians are already in favor of transitioning to peace negotiations.
00:18:04Approval of army actions remains at the level of seven.
00:18:20Those polled by Reuters in the streets of Moscow believe that a truce could also be beneficial for the US in the run-up to the elections. He is also hoped
00:18:23for, he said so today, and tomorrow it will be different, although it is
00:18:26probably beneficial for him to conclude a truce with us now.
00:18:30Uh-huh.
00:18:32Yes, why? Why? Well, he's not a fool either, he understands that without
00:18:36Russia, they can't go anywhere. Not Europe, not America,
00:18:39no one, and then he has midterm elections, he needs to somehow
00:18:43show himself, and a poll
00:18:46by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology shows that more than
00:18:4960% of Ukrainians are ready for a long
00:18:52war, and only 23% are ready
00:18:55to endure for a maximum of six months. As for possible
00:18:59elections during wartime, Ukrainians are extremely
00:19:02skeptical, no one has the right
00:19:05to tell us what to do, especially elections cannot be held
00:19:09during wartime, in my opinion, this is a betrayal on the part of our
00:19:13partners, it is a betrayal, as I see it, it is a betrayal of partners, we still
00:19:16live in a regime, we live in wartime conditions and
00:19:20should not take every word on the international arena at face
00:19:23value. As for Trump's agreement, today he
00:19:27may offer one thing, and tomorrow something else, there have been
00:19:30too many cases when a ceasefire
00:19:34or truce was announced, but... they still
00:19:37attacked. 50% of those polled by the Kyiv
00:19:41Institute believe that peace is more important than any victory.
00:19:4441% believe that victory is more important than any peace.
00:19:4857% support stopping hostilities
00:19:52and seeking compromise in negotiations. A third are confident
00:19:55that hostilities must continue. More than half
00:19:58of respondents believe that for lasting peace, territorial
00:20:01concessions can be made, but on condition of security guarantees.
00:20:05Just over a third are against it.
00:20:11and about public sentiment against the background of talks
00:20:13about a possible air
00:20:16truce, we are speaking with political scientist Georgy Chizhov. Georgy,
00:20:20hello, hello. What does
00:20:24sociology show, is peace more important than victory or is victory more important
00:20:27than peace? It seems the results are
00:20:30balanced, but in which direction is the trend going in
00:20:33Ukraine?
00:20:36I wouldn't put the question like that at all, what, what, what does peace mean?
00:20:40Yes, uh, making concessions to Putin, this does not mean
00:20:44any peace, it means the continuation of the war on
00:20:47even less favorable conditions for Ukraine. So, in fact,
00:20:51there is no such choice, Ukrainians are almost all for
00:20:55peace, another thing is that there is a very clear understanding that
00:20:58if there are no certain guarantees,
00:21:01if there are no clear agreements, then no peace will
00:21:05come, that is what primarily determines the mood
00:21:09of Ukrainians,
00:21:11because in fact there is no alternative,
00:21:14no one believes Putin's promises, especially since they are not formulated as
00:21:18promises, they are just abstract...
00:22:20hostilities and everything can settle down, in this
00:22:23sense, of course, Trump's actions can prolong
00:22:26the war, but in any case it is already obvious that there will be no substantive
00:22:30negotiations before spring, so
00:22:33we just have to hold on without any choice. And the Russian Foreign Minister,
00:22:37Sergei Lavrov, says that Russia does not want
00:22:41to give Zelensky a so-called respite.
00:22:44What if we imagine that this
00:22:47is a respite, let's say, Ukraine gets a respite.
00:23:20About Ukraine, it's difficult to understand yet, whether to build infrastructure for a peaceful
00:23:23post-war time, or to assume that this war will last for many
00:23:27years, burying themselves as deeply as possible in the ground, well, you understand, completely
00:23:30different costs, completely different architecture of this
00:23:33infrastructure, while wartime infrastructure is
00:23:37infrastructure where there are no large warehouses, large hubs, everything
00:23:40is maximally decentralized,
00:23:43so that it is impossible to quickly destroy it, this
00:23:47is a serious, of course, question, I think it is currently being solved
00:23:50at the strategic level in various departments.
00:23:54Vladimir Zelensky has repeatedly stated that Ukraine is ready
00:23:57to agree to a ceasefire, to stop striking
00:24:00targets deep inside Russia, but is Ukraine's political
00:24:04leadership really ready to abandon this? After all, this is,
00:24:08perhaps, almost the only trump card in the war,
00:24:11how does Ukraine manage to inflict damage
00:24:15on Russia?
00:24:18Well, Ukraine has proposed several formats of partial
00:24:21truces, if it's not possible to talk about a full
00:24:24truce, they propose an energy truce, meaning
00:24:27an exchange of energy infrastructure for energy infrastructure, but
00:24:31it's not entirely symmetrical, because Russian energy
00:24:34infrastructure is primarily oil refineries and
00:24:38substations,
00:24:40not substations, but these nodes, nodes for transporting
00:24:44oil, while Ukrainian
00:24:47energy infrastructure is networks.
00:25:20100 km from the contact line, from the
00:25:23front line, that is, Ukraine is ready for a wide variety
00:25:26of partial truce options, but so far all of them are consistently rejected
00:25:30by Russia. Well, I want to show our viewers a little about Russia,
00:25:34a fragment about how the strikes on Yandex, on
00:25:37marketplaces, on refineries, what trend
00:25:40they create within the country, how they affect public
00:25:43sentiment, we asked sociologist Dmitry Dubrovsky, here's what he told us:
00:25:47if we talk about fatigue, then it's precisely...
00:26:32not going to do anything about it, he quite successfully carried out, as colleagues
00:26:36have already called it, a special electoral operation, a special electoral
00:26:39operation, now it's possible to raise taxes indefinitely, now in
00:26:42general it's possible to think about the return of, as it
00:26:45were, limited mobilization, so
00:26:48I think that for now everything that
00:26:52was is not a serious problem, meaning it poses
00:26:55a problem for the regime, but I don't honestly see a serious
00:26:58threat yet. Georgy, I want to go back to Vladimir
00:27:02Zelensky's words about forcing Vladimir Putin to peace, there was a campaign,
00:27:06facilities deep within Russia were shelled, is there an effect,
00:27:10are there any changes at the political level in Russia, are there new tasks
00:27:14for the Kremlin, but
00:27:16can we draw any interim conclusions, was there any point
00:27:19in influencing Vladimir
00:27:21Putin in this way?
00:27:24There was probably a point, no one knows the recipe in advance, right, it's not like
00:27:27there is, there is one true path,
00:27:31which is important.
00:28:02conducting, expanding it somehow,
00:28:05the Achilles' heel of Russia so far turns out to be precisely the oil and gas
00:28:09complex. Let's note that Ukraine initially did not strike
00:28:13fields, well, I might be wrong here, as I'm not
00:28:15an energy specialist, but it seems to me
00:28:19that it would have been easier to hit not across
00:28:22the whole country, right, but purposefully at the Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets
00:28:25districts, at oil and gas fields, and Russia would have
00:28:29long ago lost its oil and gas revenues. But this
00:28:32would indeed have provoked a rise in prices worldwide, and
00:28:36Ukraine initially did not allow itself to do that. Thank you
00:28:39very much, these are completely empty talks. Can
00:28:43a insignificant amount of diesel fuel, which Trump
00:28:46and Putin agreed on, change prices at gas stations in the US? Obviously not,
00:28:49and we will of course keep an eye on it, we will definitely tell our viewers everything.
00:28:53Thank you, Georgy, political scientist Georgy Chizhov was with us, we talked about public
00:28:57sentiments in Russia and Ukraine, how much longer are the countries willing
00:29:00to endure the war? Thank you for...
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