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00:00:19It's time to know
00:00:20everything.
00:00:23The commander of NATO forces identified how the alliance would defend itself if it were
00:00:27attacked, saying the response would be fierce against the entire military
00:00:30chain of command, up to the leadership.
00:00:33We will break through its forces and the war operations system
00:00:36lined up against
00:00:37us.
00:00:41After Trump announced an energy truce, Russia continues to attack
00:00:44Ukraine. Although European diplomacy leaders don't believe in the benefits of Trump's
00:00:48cooperation with Moscow, they do not condemn
00:00:51his stance. The latest episode is not what
00:00:54we have seen, let's say, the worst in
00:00:57almost two years.
00:01:02Fewer students in regional schools, in some places it's no longer possible
00:01:05to form first grades, the school network has to be reformed,
00:01:09we really won't get
00:01:12any more students from God, we are shrinking.
00:01:30Good evening, Panorama begins live. I'm
00:01:33Eglė Bučelytė. The NATO force commander announced that
00:01:37if necessary to defend, they would not only fight on Russian territory but also
00:01:40destroy its force leadership. General
00:01:43Alex Grinkevich never mentioned Russia, but the
00:01:47long-prepared speech was intended to signal the alliance's
00:01:50precise position, that NATO does not intend to seek
00:01:54Russia's strategic defeat, but only to defend
00:01:57its allies. The general, commanding
00:02:00American forces in Europe, stated that he does not see an immediate
00:02:03and inevitable conflict, but would render any enemy
00:02:07attack meaningless.
00:02:10So that a NATO-Russia war would not break out due to miscalculation, this
00:02:14speech, long prepared and carefully coordinated within the alliance, is intended not so much
00:02:18for the audience in Warsaw, but for every person in the Kremlin. The NATO
00:02:21force commander does not present a plan, saying they have no plans to fight Russia,
00:02:25but a theory on how the alliance would make an attack completely
00:02:28meaningless.
00:02:31"My theory of victory is simple: we will block the initial
00:02:34attack, if the attack continues, we will stop it and prevent
00:02:38the enemy from moving forward, and if necessary, we will break through its forces
00:02:42and the war operations system, lined up against
00:02:45us. Western intelligence warns that Russia, currently
00:02:48incapable of a large war, might seize a small NATO area
00:02:52and expect the alliance to hesitate to retaliate, but the force
00:02:55commander assures that he will not allow even the slightest attempt. When Moscow
00:02:59threatens nuclear..." NATO justifies Estonia's doctrine of fighting
00:03:02on Russian territory, and Grinkevich himself conveys the message
00:03:06that if necessary, they would even strike the leadership. If
00:03:08the enemy decided to continue the attack and throw in
00:03:11reserves, we would break the very
00:03:14system of warfare directed against us. This includes not only
00:03:18the attacking forces, but also anything and everything that supports,
00:03:21maintains, or controls those forces. Grinkevich
00:03:25emphasized: he hopes never to give such an order, but the only
00:03:28important thing is that before. it would not be today.
00:03:32In my assessment, the conflict is neither
00:03:35delayed nor inevitable. It is not
00:03:38such. Avoiding conflict is helped by
00:03:41clearly stating our defensive intentions and
00:03:44maintaining open lines of communication to resolve misunderstandings
00:03:48and promote transparency. But deterring conflict
00:03:51also requires preparation to wage war. And preparation
00:03:55requires planning not only for what is probable, but also for what
00:03:59is possible. "The General, commanding
00:04:02all American forces in Europe, denied the old Kremlin thesis:
00:04:06"The US wars aimed at Russia's strategic defeat," according to him,
00:04:09there are no plans, intentions, or ambitions to attack, the alliance will only defend
00:04:13its allies. Furthermore, NATO is ready to respond to every
00:04:17level of escalation, even when the head of American diplomacy last
00:04:22such statements and the week warned that only Russia can dangerously escalate.
00:04:25This is very dangerous in the context of the Russian- Ukrainian war, because
00:04:28that escalation can turn into a campaign of sabotage in neighboring countries,
00:04:30which
00:04:33are NATO members. The Polish Prime Minister, who speaks loudest about possible Russian
00:04:37escalation, says: "This is not because he seeks conflict,
00:04:41but to stop Russia seeking
00:04:43dominance.
00:04:45In Poland, with our history, geography, and common
00:04:48sense, no one, absolutely no one wants
00:04:51escalation or war. We all dream of
00:04:54peace. The road to peace does not lead through
00:04:57weakness, the road to peace leads through..."
00:05:12on social networks, the Lithuanian Prime Minister proposes a concrete way to stop
00:05:15the aggressor. We should ask Mr. Zelensky to attack
00:05:19more data centers in Russia, that might
00:05:22help. Berlin and Paris are so far only calling
00:05:26for stricter sanctions.
00:05:28Russia will negotiate in good faith only under pressure, which is why we maintain our
00:05:32sanctions on Russia. German
00:05:34intelligence stated today that the hybrid threat has long been detached from
00:05:38the war in Ukraine. Moscow's goal, a new map of Europe
00:05:41and. Russia's role in Europe.
00:05:45The goal of the shadow war, as it is fought now, far surpasses anything
00:05:49we saw during the Cold War. Its clear goal, ultimately:
00:05:52to destabilize us, to destabilize to the foundations.
00:05:55Let's put it this way, the goal is not to defeat us in war, but to defeat us politically and
00:05:59socially. As of today, even Czech intelligence
00:06:03has warned that Russia is leaning towards more dangerous operations within
00:06:06NATO. The alliance force commander says: "Allies must speak with one
00:06:09voice to Russia, where is the fateful line?"
00:06:13It is important that the allies continue to consult, think about how
00:06:16to respond, and ensure that our message to Russia is clear
00:06:20and brief, where are our red
00:06:22lines. He says there are no things that keep him awake
00:06:26at night, it's his job that others don't sleep
00:06:29peacefully.
00:06:32European Union foreign policy leaders do not condemn Donald Trump's
00:06:35agreement with Vladimir Putin, but do not believe in its benefit.
00:06:39The Lithuanian Prime Minister called this a shameful and...
00:06:42busy act. Ministers today approved the largest sanctions
00:06:46list against Russia to date. They added over 1,500 military
00:06:49industry figures responsible for ballistic missile production to the
00:06:52blacklist. From Luxembourg, Milda Vilkanskytė
00:06:56and Evaldas Labanauskas.
00:06:59Russian strike on Kharkiv, three dead
00:07:02and nine injured reported. This
00:07:05explosion immediately after the United States President announced on his
00:07:08social network about Russia and Ukraine's
00:07:12agreed energy truce, which, according to Donald
00:07:15Trump, took effect immediately.
00:07:19We saw a rocket hit the thermal power plant. Trump
00:07:22had promised a ceasefire. We didn't expect it to hit
00:07:26the thermal power plant. Kyiv residents also don't believe in the
00:07:30truce. I don't know what kind of truce Trump
00:07:34is referring to, we certainly don't feel it. Electricity sometimes
00:07:38comes on, sometimes goes off, I think, just like everyone
00:07:40else. The Foreign Minister says,
00:07:43Ukraine, and primarily
00:07:47deserve a truce.
00:07:49I don't think he deserved such a thing. I also don't think we will believe
00:07:53assurances and promises again. The president has made that very
00:07:55clear. We continue to pursue the goals of the special military
00:07:59operation. Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia
00:08:02has struck six
00:08:05energy facilities in Ukraine today alone.
00:08:09Obviously, Putin doesn't read Truth Social.
00:08:12Zelensky says if there is no truce, Ukraine will continue
00:08:15attacks. It is clear that at this moment we need more
00:08:19pressure on Russia, not to send signals that we are somehow softening
00:08:23everything, because they are killing more civilians than ever, so
00:08:27they are indeed escalating the situation on
00:08:29the ground.
00:08:31European Union Foreign Ministers welcome the truce, if
00:08:35it happens, but say it's naive to expect Russia's good
00:08:38will. If a truce means that Russia and Ukraine
00:08:43agree not to attack Russian processing oil refineries,
00:08:46then this is probably not serious, and not even an insult, I don't
00:08:50even know what to call it.
00:08:54Community diplomacy leaders also do not believe in Trump's agreement
00:08:57with Putin regarding diesel imports.
00:09:01I don't think this agreement will change oil or diesel prices, it's
00:09:05more related to the United States' domestic political situation,
00:09:08midterm elections are approaching. Europeans don't want
00:09:11to condemn Washington for deciding
00:09:14to cooperate with Moscow at all, saying the United States' stance
00:09:18on the Russian-Ukrainian issue often changes. This
00:09:21latest episode is not what
00:09:24we have seen, let's say, the worst in
00:09:28almost two years. However, the Lithuanian
00:09:31Prime Minister speaks boldly to Sky News journalists
00:09:34in Poland, Mindaugas Sinkevičius called Trump and Putin's
00:09:38agreement shameful and dishonorable.
00:09:41Latvia's Foreign Minister considers whether the community even
00:09:45has the right to be outraged.
00:09:48The European Union first removed two important oligarchs, some
00:09:52of Putin's biggest regime supporters, from the sanctions list. Therefore, before
00:09:55criticizing others, the European Union needs to look in the
00:09:58mirror.
00:10:00European moralizing is hypocritical, says the United
00:10:04States Treasury Secretary.
00:10:07Europeans have given Russians more money since the very beginning of this war,
00:10:11they have allocated more to Russians than to Ukrainians, because they cannot
00:10:15get rid of their dependence on Russian energy. Their
00:10:18energy policy was unsuccessful, and they continue
00:10:21to finance Vladimir Putin. So their claim:
00:10:25"that we cannot provide a respite due to diesel prices is
00:10:28completely hypocritical. There is much truth in these
00:10:31words of Scott Bessent. Media reports that in the first
00:10:35nine months of this year, the European Union imported
00:10:38a record amount of liquefied
00:10:42natural gas from Russia, over 12 million tons. For this,
00:10:45Europeans paid Russia eight
00:10:48billion euros. Sanctions are also on
00:10:52today's agenda.
00:10:55which we are imposing today on 1600
00:10:57entities is simply the largest set of sanctions we have imposed
00:11:01since the beginning of the war, they have deprived Vladimir Putin's Russia of resources
00:11:05worth 500 billion euros, otherwise they
00:11:08would have been used for this colonial war. However, not
00:11:12only sanctions are a headache now, but also support
00:11:15for Ukraine, currently bilateral support
00:11:18is the lowest since the beginning of the full-scale war.
00:11:20pradžios.
00:11:24LRT. President in Washington, Augustinas Šemelis
00:11:27is now on Panorama. Good evening, Augustinas. So, neither
00:11:30Europe, nor the European Union's diplomatic leaders
00:11:34condemned Trump's decision to cooperate with Moscow. What
00:11:37are the reactions in the United States themselves?
00:11:40Valstijose.
00:11:44Hello Eglė. First of all, there is a lot of criticism in the United States, I am currently
00:11:48greeting you from the White House, where we await Donald
00:11:51Trump's latest statements and how he will react to that criticism. The important thing
00:11:55here in Washington is first of all that we hear it not only from
00:11:58Democrats, which is common, but we also hear it from a handful
00:12:01of Republicans, Donald Trump's own party members in both houses of Congress,
00:12:05and perhaps the most striking example of such criticism is
00:12:08yesterday's statement from the Senate Foreign
00:12:11Relations Committee, signed by senators
00:12:14from both parties, which stated that Donald
00:12:18Trump's so-called diesel agreement with Vladimir Putin is
00:12:21simply illegal, why? Because in 2020.
00:12:25in the spring, after Russia's full-scale invasion, Congress
00:12:29passed a law that explicitly prohibited
00:12:33the import of any Russian energy into the United States,
00:12:36and that law very specifically provides for the
00:12:40conditions under which such a prohibition can be
00:12:43terminated, the president under that law must
00:12:46address Congress, must consult with Congress, cannot
00:12:49unilaterally terminate such a prohibition and begin importing Russian
00:12:53energy, that law. even provides that the president must
00:12:56submit a certificate to Congress stating that
00:13:00Russia no longer poses a threat to Ukraine, that Russia no longer poses a threat
00:13:03to NATO, it is obvious that such conditions are not currently
00:13:07met, however, the paradox is that currently, well, there
00:13:11is no one to implement such a law. Congress
00:13:14passes laws, and the administration, the White
00:13:18House, and departments subordinate to the White House, in this
00:13:21case the United States Treasury, Justice Department. In element
00:13:25are Donald Trump's people, and they apparently
00:13:28are not prepared to implement this law, so
00:13:31we now have such a paradoxical situation where senators from both parties
00:13:34claim that Donald Trump, the President
00:13:38of the United States, is simply violating and ignoring the laws of the United States of America.
00:13:41Eglė, are there reactions or what other
00:13:45reactions could our Prime Minister's words receive, when he called Trump's and Putin's
00:13:48agreement shameful and
00:13:50disgraceful.
00:13:54Well, we know, observing over
00:13:57the past eighteen months and over the decade, Donald
00:14:00Trump, that he reacts very sensitively, sometimes
00:14:04very sharply to such statements, a few
00:14:08months ago we saw an example when the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
00:14:11publicly stated that Donald Trump's Iran war was
00:14:14unsuccessful, I don't remember the exact quote now, but
00:14:18Merz sharply criticized Donald Trump's war in Iran, and Donald Trump
00:14:21reacted by announcing that he would withdraw five
00:14:25thousand American troops from Germany, we have no
00:14:28reason, we have no reason to say that Lithuania will now
00:14:31receive such a sharp reaction, usually Donald Trump reacts, and
00:14:35not always, only to the statements of leaders of larger
00:14:38countries, however, I have heard many times from sources that
00:14:42United States officials notice
00:14:47reaction might be that it will be not public, what that reaction will be,
00:14:51or if it will be, I don't know, but in any case, it is probably more likely to be not public
00:14:55than public in this case Eglė.
00:14:58Thank you, colleague, Augustinas Šemelis, live from Washington, and
00:15:02tonight's question about Donald Trump's statements and the Lithuanian
00:15:05President Gitanas Nausėda in today's topic
00:15:09studio. Watch at nine.
00:15:12Requests for heating cost compensation are flowing into municipalities.
00:15:16The Ministry of Social Security and Labor estimates that this could require
00:15:19almost 95 million euros. Some
00:15:23people are already preparing to start their expenses and even
00:15:26the most essential ones.
00:15:29In their minds, warm lands, and in reality, the heating
00:15:33season has already begun. People from Kaunas district are among those who
00:15:35are abundantly submitting requests to the municipality to compensate
00:15:38for heating costs, without compensation, they say, it would be quite expensive,
00:15:42of course, of course, of course, I get a pension,
00:15:46not a full one, well,
00:15:48not worked out,
00:15:51it's already warm at home, warm, warm, for the second week already, roughly
00:15:54how much do you pay for the apartment, I
00:15:57don't know, my wife, she's the
00:16:00accountant, cashier,
00:16:04everything, the municipality calculates that those applying. more
00:16:07than last year at this time, people in the district heat in various ways, so they also
00:16:11ask for compensation for various fuels, for all and
00:16:15for solid and for liquid and for centralized,
00:16:18because since January first, since the VAT rate increased,
00:16:22it used to be 9%, now
00:16:2421, so naturally people's bills have already gone up by
00:16:28about 12%, so naturally that comes,
00:16:317 euros, Panevėžys resident Mrs. Anutė has not yet
00:16:35asked for compensation, and the heating season, she says, and... That's
00:16:38why we sell socks.
00:16:42Heating is not turned on everywhere in the city, but people already want warmth.
00:16:45They are already asking, what are people buying the most now?
00:16:49Socks, socks, they are already asking for hats. In Panevėžys, requests
00:16:52for compensation are almost a fifth more than last year at this
00:16:56time, and there haven't been this many for five years.
00:17:00If we compare the five-year statistics, yes, this
00:17:03September we received the most requests.
00:17:08The municipality representative says that there are more requests this year not only because of increased
00:17:12fuel prices, but also because the conditions for granting compensation have become
00:17:15more favorable. I will give such an example that a single
00:17:18person living in a multi-apartment
00:17:22building can expect compensation for almost
00:17:2590 square meters of housing
00:17:28heating. So far, Vilnius residents are surprising, their requests
00:17:31for compensation are almost a tenth less than last year at this time,
00:17:35but the municipality has no doubt it will increase soon. According to Citadele Bank
00:17:39survey data, many are concerned about the start of the heating season,
00:17:42six out of ten say they plan to limit expenses, there are some
00:17:46people who plan to completely reduce non-essential
00:17:49expenses, that is to say travel,
00:17:53tourism, some investments, but there are many
00:17:55people, about 23%,
00:17:58who plan to cut even essential expenses, that is
00:18:01food, that is for example medicine
00:18:04and other things. And that survey essentially once again
00:18:07confirms that people really feel that
00:18:11heating will become significantly more expensive and some people have already started
00:18:14preparing financially for it. Economist Izgorodinas says, looking at the increase in gas and biofuel
00:18:18prices on the market, heating this season should be at least
00:18:2235% more expensive. I personally, I would
00:18:25be in favor of returning the heating
00:18:28subsidy, but these are theoretical matters, there
00:18:31are also practical matters, that is the budget situation, because now we hear
00:18:34from the Prime Minister. that next year the budget deficit could reach almost
00:18:384% of GDP, and that number
00:18:41suggests that unfortunately we won't be able to help everyone
00:18:45with everything. The Ministry of Social Security
00:18:49and Labor estimates that 171
00:18:53people will apply for compensation for this heating season. This could require
00:18:5594 million euros. 25
00:18:59million more than last season. Regional
00:19:02municipalities ask people to apply online
00:19:05for compensation. There will be no need to wait
00:19:09in line.
00:19:10eilėje.
00:19:13Interior Minister Martynas Katelyna proposes banning work for
00:19:17foreign students arriving with individual activity certificates. According
00:19:20to him, some of those who arrive only want to get a temporary
00:19:24residence permit in Lithuania. The Director of the Migration
00:19:28Department says that the department recorded cases of abuse
00:19:31last year. This year the situation has already changed.
00:19:34pasikeitusi.
00:19:37is in his second year studying at Vilnius College, having arrived from
00:19:40Bangladesh, where he balances work and studies. I know
00:19:43the study schedule, I have one or two lectures every day, so everything
00:19:47is easy to combine. However, he says it is almost
00:19:50impossible to work under an employment contract while studying for a bachelor's
00:19:53degree. In summer, I worked full-time in a warehouse,
00:19:57but when studies started, it became difficult to combine, so I left, but I
00:20:01came here to study, so I focus on that, and I only work to
00:20:04survive. According to Migration Department data, there are currently
00:20:08over 230,000 immigrants in the country with temporary residence permits,
00:20:12of whom more than 12,000 came here to
00:20:15study. Most came to Lithuania to study from
00:20:19Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Morocco and
00:20:22Belarus. Interior Minister Martynas Katelynas
00:20:25says some of those arriving abuse the system. Lecturers
00:20:29say that, well, migrants often only come for
00:20:32assessments to ask for a positive grade, so that the
00:20:35residence permit is not revoked. According to the minister, they seek to enter
00:20:39Lithuania to work, therefore he proposes to abolish the possibility for incoming
00:20:42students to work under an individual activity certificate, which
00:20:46is accounted for more flexibly than an employment contract. Banning
00:20:49work is not permitted by European directives, but
00:20:52activities carried out on the basis of individual activity are already a national
00:20:56competence, now, according to Katelynas, the situation is exploited by
00:20:59higher education institutions by accepting such students for increased
00:21:03funding. Last year, the Migration Department conducted checks
00:21:06at higher education institutions and found cases where, according to the schedule,
00:21:10students were supposed to be in lectures, but did not
00:21:13attend. The department did not receive information even when students from
00:21:16abroad went on academic leave. In such cases. his
00:21:20residence permit should have been revoked, these are mostly
00:21:23colleges, so please tell me which higher education institutions, which
00:21:27colleges did not draw conclusions from
00:21:30the comments made, to talk about the need to limit
00:21:34the number of foreign students, when their number is only
00:21:3712 out of 220 of all
00:21:39arrivals, well, it sounds too harsh,
00:21:43it sounds too harsh in relation to other higher education institutions, when they are required
00:21:47to have international studies.
00:21:50According to the Migration Department, the situation has changed. It is mandatory to report any
00:21:54change about a student to the Migration Department, that they
00:21:58discontinue studies, that they do not accumulate credits, all
00:22:01this information must be reported, otherwise it incurs an administrative
00:22:05penalty provided in the Code of Administrative Offenses,
00:22:08so universities really listen to us. Universities
00:22:12also talk about the changed situation. In the private
00:22:15Simonas Daukantas University, about two-thirds of the students are foreigners. The university
00:22:18representative
00:22:20says that the rules have been tightened, attendance has improved, and abuse
00:22:23has decreased. In previous years, the rules
00:22:26were perhaps a little more liberal, let's say
00:22:29that, the selection criteria were perhaps a little less strict
00:22:33and, he says, limiting employment opportunities would harm the country's
00:22:36attractiveness for studying here, and this was supported by
00:22:39the conference of rectors of state universities. We would not want
00:22:43our students to be disadvantaged in any way
00:22:46compared to students from other countries, because
00:22:50half a week's time for additional
00:22:53work while doing student work is
00:22:57adequate, according to Katelyna, the possibility of working
00:23:00would not disappear, it could be done under an employment
00:23:02contract.
00:23:05As birth rates decrease in the regions, schools are emptying, in some
00:23:09rural schools, first grades are no longer being formed,
00:23:12municipalities are forced to undertake reforms,
00:23:15some close schools, some reduce classes. One.
00:23:21Balsiai primary school is the smallest in Pakruojis
00:23:24district, it has about 91-10
00:23:27students from grades, with the decreasing number of children, this year there were challenges
00:23:31in forming the first grade. Since we had four
00:23:34pre-primary education pupils
00:23:37and there was some concern, of course, whether
00:23:41the first class would gather, but as of today
00:23:44we have 10 first-graders and we
00:23:46are happy about that.
00:23:50about 70 children, which means that after six years, from the current
00:23:53eight first grades, only three will remain. We also have
00:23:57one reorganized school, Rozalimas,
00:24:00we have one liquidated branch.
00:24:03Looking at the trend in the
00:24:06deeper future, it is true that
00:24:10the God of students will not give us more
00:24:13we are shrinking, we plan, perhaps,
00:24:16if in the future we shrink so much...
00:24:20we will need to reorganize more branches,
00:24:23merge schools. In the Kriukai branch of Joniškis district
00:24:26primary school, this year there are no first graders, fifth graders, or sixth graders at all.
00:24:30In five years, the number of students has decreased by almost half.
00:24:33It's really sad that
00:24:36a similar situation would happen.
00:24:39in Gaščiūnai and Gataučiai.
00:24:42However, we can carry out
00:24:45more flexible education among ourselves, we combine
00:24:49classes. When they come to this school
00:24:51to play sports, we simply do a lot of common activities, because
00:24:55we are neighbors. Several decisions were made
00:24:58in Joniškis: schools and kindergartens were merged.
00:25:01In 2022, we already had a network reform,
00:25:04when we merged three primary schools into
00:25:07one. And currently it is Joniškis primary
00:25:10school. Well, this year we also merged two
00:25:14gymnasiums. The number of students is decreasing in Šiauliai as well. After
00:25:18four years, the number of students here will be even 200
00:25:22lower and will reach about 12,000.
00:25:25Šiauliai will not close schools, but will reduce classes,
00:25:28the reforms will also affect kindergartens. The number of
00:25:32children in classes will be reduced, meaning that
00:25:35newly formed classes will accept no more than
00:25:3821 students and we also
00:25:42intend, since the number of children in kindergartens also
00:25:46proportionally decreases, according to this year's data.
00:25:50we have 400 free places in
00:25:53nurseries and kindergartens, therefore children will have the opportunity
00:25:56to continue pre-school education programs precisely
00:26:00in nurseries and kindergartens.
00:26:03The birth rate is decreasing throughout the country, in the first
00:26:06half of this year, 15% fewer children were born than last year
00:26:10during the same period, therefore, school network reform
00:26:14threatens many
00:26:14municipalities.
00:26:18Ukrainian attacks against Russian Yandex data centers affected
00:26:22service availability for Russian users. On social
00:26:26networks, some commentators and politicians claim to have noticed that
00:26:29the attacks allegedly could have an impact on... bot
00:26:33farms, as there were significantly fewer comments from fake user
00:26:37accounts, however, according to Lithuanian experts, the data
00:26:40does not show that Ukrainian attacks have actually disrupted bot
00:26:44networks in Lithuania. Chaos and indignation
00:26:48in Moscow, as Ukraine targeted Russian Google Yandex
00:26:52data centers, residents report being unable to use many
00:26:55services, order food, buy online, ride-hailing
00:26:59services also stop.
00:27:03Yandex is gone, it's completely impossible to turn anything on,
00:27:06sometimes it seems like there are signs that it might start working, but then
00:27:10everything disappears again. The Yandex payment app
00:27:13is not working, it only shows a message about the reasons, it emphasizes that the money
00:27:17is safe and the app malfunctions will be removed, but for now it's
00:27:21not working. Yandex Music selects any
00:27:25music, but not what I want to listen to, I noticed that even the lyrics when listening
00:27:29are gone. Yandex announced that it was operating in emergency
00:27:33mode, it is reported that Ukraine destroyed three data centers out of five, primarily
00:27:37the Ukrainians targeted the Sasovo center, which
00:27:40contained two of the company's three supercomputers used for
00:27:43artificial intelligence, on Friday, the center in Kaluga
00:27:46was hit, and yesterday in Vladimir, next to
00:27:48Moscow. Information is spreading on social networks
00:27:52about a possibly different side effect of the attacks.
00:27:55Users, commentators, and even politicians from various countries
00:27:58claimed that the flow of Russian bots had decreased,
00:28:01according to Nerijus Maliukevičius from the center, this could
00:28:05also be a Ukrainian communication operation, more
00:28:08data is still needed for that, but Ukrainian
00:28:11drone manufacturers are sending that message quite actively
00:28:15and many
00:28:18supporters of Ukraine are
00:28:22further spreading that message, so it seems very
00:28:25important not to make a mistake and
00:28:29not to lose the main resource that Ukraine has.
00:28:32"Ukraine's struggle and Ukraine's communication, that is
00:28:36trust. Data analysis company Repsents
00:28:40today checked the version spread on social networks that Ukrainians allegedly
00:28:43removed fake accounts publishing information useful to
00:28:47Russians from the internet. The results show that,
00:28:50at least in Lithuania, the situation has not changed. According to Repsens
00:28:53CEO Mykolas Katkus, the research was conducted in various cross-sections, but
00:28:57the results show the same: the attacks do not affect
00:29:00bots in any way. They travel on our own built electronic
00:29:04infrastructure and unfortunately, but shutting down the Yandex server
00:29:07harms Russians in other ways, it will be harder for them to block the internet, it will be
00:29:11harder for them to block VPNs, it will be harder for them to ensure
00:29:14the individuality of the internet, their Cheburnet,
00:29:17they will have more difficulty violating all kinds of electronic
00:29:21payments and similar things, but unfortunately, they failed to
00:29:23harm bots and perhaps we ourselves will
00:29:27have to fight them, according to information technology experts,
00:29:31restoring Russia's data centers will not only be
00:29:34extremely expensive, but will also take time. There is global
00:29:37competition for equipment components, and Russia's capabilities
00:29:41are hampered by sanctions.
00:29:44Next up is the topic of the day, and after that we will continue
00:29:47the panorama.
00:29:50Colleagues remember Henrikas Vaitiekūnas as a journalism
00:29:54professional who was able to notice and inventively tell about even
00:29:57the simplest
00:30:18on the topic of the day. Good evening, Mr. President. Hello. So
00:30:21the Minister of Foreign Affairs regrets
00:30:24Donald Trump's agreement with Vladimir Putin and says that it
00:30:28weakens the West. And Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius
00:30:31is less diplomatic and says that it is a shameful and
00:30:35dishonorable decision. What is your position,
00:30:38does Lithuania consider this agreement harmful to
00:30:42Western efforts to stop Russian aggression
00:30:46and are you, as the leader of our country, prepared
00:30:50to say that to ally Donald
00:30:52Trump? Friends must speak openly
00:30:56and if the decisions are good, we.