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00:00:10regions are people and real changes, with even more
00:00:13ahead. By 2030, 60% of regional roads in the country
00:00:17will be put in order according to the national project "Infrastructure for Life", and
00:00:20in cities - 85%. This
00:00:23means there will be more safe routes and
00:00:26comfortable journeys.
00:01:32Russian forces are successfully advancing along the entire front line. Strikes
00:01:35are being carried out against strategically important enterprises of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. What is known about
00:01:39the results?
00:01:43The planned indicators for attracting investments in the Far Eastern region
00:01:47have been exceeded by 1.5 times. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev at
00:01:50a meeting with Vladimir Putin. What else
00:01:52was discussed?
00:01:57Not long ago, the US ambassador today. Stefanyshina,
00:02:00a participant in a corruption scandal, what punishment did the Anti-Corruption Bureau
00:02:04of Ukraine choose and what else is known about the case?
00:02:24Russian military forces struck the workshops of the former enterprise
00:02:27Neftprom Mash in the city of Okhtyrka, Sumy region. According to our
00:02:31Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used these premises for the repair and
00:02:35storage of automotive equipment, drones, and their
00:02:38components. Today, it became known that in the Kherson
00:02:41region, warehouses of enterprises where, it is reported,
00:02:44military equipment was stored, were attacked. In the Kharkiv
00:02:47region, drones struck the railway station
00:02:51Lyzova, which is called a key transit point for
00:02:54transferring Ukrainian Armed Forces reserves. In the Zaporizhzhia
00:02:57region, a gas station was destroyed in Pavlohrad. This is
00:03:00the Dnipropetrovsk region. The targets of Russian drones were a parking
00:03:04lot for large vehicles. According to the
00:03:07Ministry of Defense, the enemy used this territory for covert
00:03:10transportation of drones and their parts.
00:03:12ним.
00:03:15Earlier today, the Ministry of Defense reported a strike on the warehouse
00:03:19and production facilities of the Zaporizhzhia Consumer
00:03:22Goods Plant. In Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region,
00:03:25a gas station was destroyed where fuel and lubricants
00:03:29for...
00:04:00The army improved its positions in 24 hours, including our military continuing
00:04:03to advance in the Dobropol direction and approaching Druzhkovka
00:04:07from two sides simultaneously. The liberation of this settlement, according to
00:04:10experts, will allow access to the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration
00:04:14from the south. The course of the battles from the front, a report by Igor
00:04:18Pikhanov. In an underground shelter, soldiers of the 75th
00:04:22Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment of the Southern Military District are preparing
00:04:26to go on a mission, equipping FPV drones with ammunition.
00:05:00in the settlement of Druzhkovka. A Tigr armored vehicle delivered
00:05:04the soldiers to a control point, then the UAV crew walks through
00:05:08the forest belt, it is necessary to secretly approach the enemy. The range
00:05:11of the ... drone is several tens of kilometers, control
00:05:15is carried out via fiber optics, thanks to this, enemy radio jamming
00:05:19stations cannot interfere with the drones. The operator sees
00:05:22the picture in 4K format. We hang
00:05:25different shells, cumulative, high-explosive fragmentation, if
00:05:29enemy infantry, we hang fragmentation shells,
00:05:32if it flies somewhere, then we need high-explosive or thermobaric. The drone
00:05:36took to the sky and a few minutes later struck the enemy's
00:05:39location. The enemy holed up in the basement of a house. Dispersed
00:05:43groups of militants are trying to entrench themselves in this
00:05:46settlement. The unit of the southern group of troops immediately
00:05:49destroys the militants. For reconnaissance, drones
00:05:52are also used. Through closed communication channels, the image from the drones goes to
00:05:56the UAV control point. Specialists continuously
00:06:00monitor the operational situation. Drones strike
00:06:03the enemy both at the front and in their deep rear. Fighters
00:06:07carry out a massive launch of aircraft-type drones. Each is equipped
00:06:10with a large ammunition. U... systems detect and
00:06:56burn out drone launch points and control points, and also
00:06:59shoot down attack UAVs. Each destroyed air target is
00:07:03saved lives. Igor Pikhanov, Vladislav Mirzayans, Khali
00:07:06Tankiev, Vesti Donetsk People's
00:07:08Republic.
00:07:11The Ministry of Defense published footage of the destruction of a temporary deployment point
00:07:14of a Ukrainian Armed Forces unit. It is reported that it was located in the area of the village of Privolnaya in
00:07:18the DPR. The strike was carried out by a long-range Geranium
00:07:22drone. This was stated by the Russian military
00:07:24department.
00:07:27More than 300 complaints in the last six months from foreign
00:07:30mercenaries. These are data from the report of the Ukrainian military
00:07:33ombudsman. It is reported that citizens from more than 70 countries
00:07:37are in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Mostly Latin Americans. How
00:07:41are they recruited? So far, why do they write complaints,
00:07:44do they manage to return home, Yegor
00:07:47Grigoriev found out. 16 thousand
00:07:51mercenaries in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, figures from the Ukrainian military
00:07:55ombudsman, so we need to make an allowance for
00:07:58the number. As for the quality of the personnel, there are questions
00:08:02from the commanders of the Ukrainian army, and
00:08:05complaints from the mercenaries themselves, whose voices are becoming
00:08:08louder in Kyiv itself. We never
00:08:11received.
00:08:14We never received military IDs, we received temporary A4
00:08:18format certificates, but I was told that even this piece of paper
00:08:21was worthless, mostly it was shown at the checkpoint.
00:08:25Almost 40% of the total number of mercenaries are representatives of Latin American
00:08:29countries, citizens of Brazil, Venezuela,
00:08:33Colombia joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
00:08:36In the latter, cannon fodder is recruited through TikTok. The entertainment
00:08:39social network has become a recruiting one.
00:08:42TikTok, I saw a lot of guys who watch TikTok, I saw a lot of
00:08:46guys who said they were in Ukraine, this video made
00:08:49me want to know what was behind this advertisement, I
00:08:52had to register on the site, and I took advantage of this opportunity, because living in
00:08:56Colombia, it is not so easy to find money for such a trip to
00:09:00Ukraine, this was one of the reasons that motivated me to come
00:09:03here. I am here because of economic problems, I
00:09:07am here because of economic problems, I need to improve the life of my
00:09:10family and children. Only advertisements on TikTok will not
00:09:14tell you that the children of this Colombian woman will most likely
00:09:17never see their mother again, representatives of this state
00:09:20lead in the number of liquidated, according to
00:09:24open data alone, 750 mercenaries had their contracts terminated
00:09:28due to death, in second place are citizens
00:09:31of the USA. I am Gaider,
00:09:35I am from the United States, Florida? I
00:09:38am Gaider, I am from the United States, Florida, I came to Ukraine in early 20. A large
00:09:46part of us still do not have the status of combatants, despite the promises
00:09:50made to us: we participated for a year in assault and defensive
00:09:53operations, I myself paid twice 25 thousand
00:09:56hryvnias to start the process of granting me the status
00:10:00of combatant, but I never received it. Not a single person from
00:10:03the company ever received any award for their wounds, everyone
00:10:07had to pay certain money to start
00:10:10the process of awarding for wounds.
00:10:57simply incompetent, meanwhile we were threatened with being sent to a penal battalion, they said that it would be difficult for us to leave
00:11:01Ukraine, only to the office of the Ukrainian military ombudsman
00:11:05mercenaries sent 300 clauses, they are even supposedly
00:11:09being considered, but the chances of not living to receive
00:11:12an answer for the complainants are extremely high. Yegor
00:11:16Grigoriev, Vesti.
00:11:19The Far East consistently manages to exceed
00:11:22investment attraction indicators, Vladimir said. I would like to report that
00:11:33this
00:11:42task is being fulfilled, this
00:11:45year we were supposed to reach a level of
00:11:495.8 trillion during this period, exactly,
00:11:52now we have 6.5. Uh-huh.
00:11:55In previous years we also exceeded, tried,
00:11:59got, thanks to
00:12:03the decisions you made,
00:12:07the dynamics of the main indicators of the Far East's
00:12:09development exceed the average Russian
00:12:12indicators for investments
00:12:16by 1.5 times, for industrial
00:12:19production by 20%, for manufacturing by
00:12:231.8 times. and the volume of construction work
00:12:27exceeds the average Russian level by 1.5 times, which is what we
00:12:31strived for, thanks to your decisions to
00:12:35create preferential,
00:12:38very good, we consider important work also to
00:12:41support the special military operation in the Far
00:12:44East. The territory of advanced development operates
00:12:48patriotically, it allowed more than 600
00:12:51thousand products to be supplied to the combat zone.
00:12:55In addition, I consider it important that
00:12:583,600 state and municipal employees,
00:13:02employees of the Ministry for the
00:13:04Development of the Far East, and the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President also
00:13:08went through the school of combat operations.
00:13:11In my opinion, they are
00:13:14better motivated, and we can entrust them with important areas
00:13:18of work.
00:13:21640 civilians died, and 56 were wounded.
00:13:552 years ago it was impossible to get here, today the war-torn
00:13:58city is a place for collecting evidence of the atrocities
00:14:01of neo-Nazis. Almost the entire road was
00:14:04littered with burned civilian
00:14:07cars. On August 6, 2024, Ukrainian Armed Forces militants
00:14:11invaded the Kursk region, the enemy spared no one, cut off evacuation
00:14:14routes and opened fire on civilians, elderly people,
00:14:18women, children. There was a child, look,
00:14:21yes, you can see children's slippers.
00:14:33Nina died before reaching the hospital, her son received
00:14:36shrapnel wounds, one here, three
00:14:40here, one here in the shoulder. Now Artyom and
00:14:44Matvey are in Kursk, they bought an apartment with a certificate, the child remembers
00:14:47his mother every day, misses her, they often visit her at the cemetery on
00:14:51the monument, the date that divided hundreds of lives.
00:15:06All the forces of the Northern group were thrown into the liberation of the border area then,
00:15:09the enemy's fortified positions were continuously pounded by our
00:15:13artillery and aviation, assault aircraft went forward,
00:15:17the advance was very fast, that is, weapons and equipment were given directly
00:15:21to the personnel, everything was so fast.
00:15:51Flow. Russian assault troops in full ammunition and equipment entered the rear
00:15:54of the Ukrainian Armed Forces through a gas pipeline. Ripley, a female
00:15:57sniper, covered a fifteen-kilometer path
00:16:01underground, alongside her combat comrades. Entering through the
00:16:04pipe was really very difficult.
00:16:37and could have been poisoned by gas and died in the very first steps
00:16:41underground. Listen, well, you already imagine what the enemy
00:16:45will feel when you suddenly jump out. Well, of course,
00:16:48of course, it's a joy for us that we are not going above
00:16:51ground, we are going underground. The militants fled from
00:16:55Sudzha, and then from Gornal, a small village right on the
00:16:58border. On April 26, 2025, the Russian flag was raised
00:17:01over the dominant height.
00:17:05Well done.
00:17:09The monastery, which traces its history back to a small wooden church
00:17:12built in the 16th century, has risen from the ruins many times, the brothers believe
00:17:16that the war-torn abode will be revived again.
00:17:19We spent 25 years to restore it
00:17:22in its time, perhaps now
00:17:26God will decide, everything is God's
00:17:29will. 170 residents of the region, who were abducted during
00:17:33the occupation in Sumy, have been returned home. Large-scale work
00:17:36continues. The crimes of the Kyiv regime do not go
00:17:39unpunished, the number of criminal cases is growing daily, the lion's
00:17:43share under the article on terrorism. Do you admit
00:17:46your guilt? Exactly. As a result of the brutal actions
00:17:49of the militants, 640 civilians
00:17:52died, and 561
00:17:55people were wounded. There is evidence of cases
00:17:58of mass murders, as well as looting. Neo-Nazis
00:18:01shelled the homes of civilians. Artillery and tanks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled
00:18:05shops, kindergartens, and hospitals.
00:18:37are restoring homes damaged by shelling.
00:18:40Sappers are getting closer to the border. More than
00:18:43170,000 hectares of land have already been demined.
00:18:47The work does not stop, volunteer Bars-Kursk
00:18:50helps
00:18:51the engineering troops.
00:18:55Peaceful life will return to Sudzha, Yevgeny Shestopalov,
00:18:58the abbot of the Holy Trinity Church, is confident. He has appeared in our reports many
00:19:02times. In the first days of the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, he sheltered civilians in
00:19:06the monastery, a video recording made by the priest during the shelling
00:19:09flew around the entire
00:19:10country.
00:19:18After the evacuation, Eugene returned to dangerous areas many times,
00:19:22evacuating people and delivering humanitarian aid. Despite
00:19:25two injuries and a forthcoming operation, he still
00:19:28supports the fighters. I will return, I have a church
00:19:32that I still need to finish building,
00:19:34I have a parish that will also be there everything. But it will be, we need to pray
00:19:38to God together, and then build our Sudzha further. Sudzha with
00:19:42songs and flowering fields, without cannon fire and sirens.
00:19:45Elizaveta Bukreeva, Alexander Azarov, Vesti
00:19:48Kursk.
00:19:50In Kursk today, on the second anniversary of the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the memory
00:19:53of the fallen was honored. Flowers were laid at the stone laid at the
00:19:57base of the monument to the heroes who saved the civilian population. Priests
00:20:00served a litany. Governor Alexander Khenshtein, addressing the residents
00:20:04of the border region, thanked them for their resilience and courage. He also
00:20:07noted that during those terrible events, the whole country
00:20:11sympathized with the people of Kursk. We will never
00:20:15forget what happened on Kursk land. These
00:20:18events
00:20:21showed the whole country and the whole
00:20:24world the solidarity of our people, our
00:20:28unity.
00:20:31In the Far East, the FSB detained schoolchildren who were planning
00:20:34a terrorist attack against Rosgvardia officers. This is far from the first such
00:20:38attempt to commit a crime using children. Ukrainian
00:20:42special services are massively recruiting teenagers in Russia through
00:20:45social networks and messengers. Arina Belozertseva will continue
00:20:47the topic.
00:20:50Now they will spend many years behind bars, in Primorye
00:20:54FSB officers detained three teenagers, residents of Vladivostok
00:20:57and Nakhodka, who were planning to commit a terrorist attack at one of the
00:21:01Rosgvardia facilities. They acted on the instructions of a member of an organization banned in Russia,
00:21:04collecting information about participants in the special operation. For
00:21:08what were you detained? Participation in a terrorist community. What were your
00:21:12duties? Photographing the residence of a certain serviceman,
00:21:16as I learned later, this serviceman was a serviceman.
00:21:20Then the defendants found out where video cameras were installed, where improvised bombs
00:21:24could be secretly placed. Searches were carried out in the guys' homes, important
00:21:28documents and components for explosives
00:21:31were seized from the suspects. A bottle of gasoline,
00:21:34what kind of gasoline, ninety- second, ninety-second
00:21:37gasoline, two empty green glass
00:21:41bottles,
00:21:46the FSB reminds that punishment is inevitable, the defendants are currently...
00:21:54The Investigative Department of the FSB of Russia for the Primorsky Krai has initiated criminal
00:21:57cases on the grounds of crimes provided for by
00:22:00Article 275, state treason, Part
00:22:04Two of Article 205.5, participation in
00:22:06the activities of a terrorist organization of the Criminal Code of the Russian
00:22:10Federation. The maximum penalty for committing this
00:22:13crime is life imprisonment. Victims
00:22:17of recruitment most often become. motives
00:22:20are revenge, money, excitement, crimes are presented as levels in a game, the age
00:22:24is decreasing, everyone gets involved from 12 years old, for example,
00:22:28recently FSB officers of the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained
00:22:31a seventeen-year-old boy who was the administrator of
00:22:34the largest international community of terrorists, worked under
00:22:38the leadership of Ukrainian special services, taught recruited
00:22:41individuals to commit terrorist attacks, mass murders and make bombs, under his
00:22:45supervision 15 crimes in ten regions of Russia, and
00:22:48dozens more in the USA, Germany and Italy, also
00:22:52the actions of our organization included
00:22:55the promotion of the Columbine
00:22:57movement for mass murders. My role was
00:23:01specifically in administration, I managed
00:23:04the organization and communicated with participants, it was initially
00:23:07created with the goal of being recognized as terrorist, so that
00:23:11we and my co-founders could become famous. Another
00:23:14high-profile case involving children. In July, the court sentenced twelve
00:23:18defendants in the attempted murder case. In spring,
00:23:32FSB officers detained minors who threatened specialists from
00:23:36Roskomnadzor, leaving hammers painted with artificial
00:23:40blood at their apartments, and got away with an article of hooliganism. The involvement
00:23:44of children in terrorist activities, the involvement of women,
00:23:47pregnant women is not characteristic
00:23:50of terrorism, not long ago this began to be actively practiced,
00:23:54and Ukraine here became, well, essentially one of
00:23:57the main innovators, they are used to destroy
00:24:01infrastructure of various logistics centers, they
00:24:04are used for actions that are psychological in
00:24:08nature, they are ideal scouts. Experts advise
00:24:11parents to monitor their children's communication, it all starts with games,
00:24:15then recruiters move to messengers, if a child
00:24:18suddenly has money, it's also a reason to think, the
00:24:21FSB reminds that voluntary refusal from a crime exempts from
00:24:25punishment. Arina Belozertseva, Anna Pogonia,
00:24:28Vesti.
00:24:30Suspected of false income declaration and
00:24:33illegal enrichment of almost 14 million
00:24:37hryvnias. This is a statement by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine about
00:24:40Olga Stefanyshina. Quite recently she was an ambassador to the USA, and before that
00:24:44she held the post of Minister of Justice. Today the court chose
00:24:48a preventive measure for her in the form of bail. Details of another corruption case
00:24:52in Ukraine from Mari Skorodilk.
00:24:55Everyone is standing, the court has passed. On the defendant's stand, the ex-right hand
00:24:58of Zelensky in the USA, former ambassador to this country, Olga
00:25:01Stefanyshina. The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine assigned
00:25:05her a preventive measure in the form of bail in the amount of 6
00:25:08million hryvnias, which is about 134 million
00:25:12dollars. The prosecution, and interestingly, her lawyer asked for
00:25:15more. The full text will be on the tenth. We will have the full text
00:25:19on the tenth. We will have time to analyze it
00:25:22and formulate our accusation, the prosecution
00:25:25asked for 13 million hryvnias in bail, and her
00:25:28lawyer announced the figure of 10 million, but the court's decision
00:25:32is already there, I will not comment on it. Dismissed just 3
00:25:36days ago from the post of Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA, Stefanyshina tried
00:25:40to appeal to the court, shedding tears, stating that she
00:25:44supposedly did not have these 134 thousand
00:25:47dollars for bail.
00:26:02declaration, but the Ukrainian corrupt official denies
00:26:06everything, of course, in the eyes of the prosecutor, or
00:26:09investigator, or someone from NABU, we are all villains, but I
00:26:12don't think so, I lived with dignity, Stefanyshina lived
00:26:16truly with dignity, specifically richly, according to the
00:26:19investigation, the former US ambassador did not declare two apartments in
00:26:23Kyiv, personal money she spent on apartment renovation, her mother's treatment,
00:26:26airline tickets, rent, another apartment, and did not specify
00:26:30the use of a Mercedes for... Stefanyshina
00:26:32however,
00:26:35negotiated the purchase of a house near Kyiv for $55,000,
00:26:40the official refused the deal, presumably
00:26:44due to an appointment to a diplomatic position
00:26:46abroad. Stefanyshina's official income did not allow
00:26:50her to acquire such property. Officially, from
00:26:53the beginning of 2024 to mid-2025,
00:26:56she earned about 3.7 million hryvnias,
00:27:00only from her bank accounts was
00:27:02approximately 4.2 million hryvnias spent. In addition, Stefanyshina
00:27:06was involved in another high-profile case, she quite
00:27:10possibly tried to influence the election of the NABU director, -
00:27:13reported in social networks, included in the list of terrorists and extremists
00:27:16of Rosfinmonitoring, People's Deputy Goncharenko. Referring to
00:27:20the correspondence of the ex-ambassador of Ukraine to the USA and the head of the commission for the election
00:27:23of the NABU director, which was already read in court. Ukrainian
00:27:27political scientists stated that Zelensky himself can manage
00:27:31this network of corrupt officials. The fact that she, while being
00:27:34Minister of Justice, controlled,
00:27:37controlled such a state structure
00:27:40as ARMA, this is a structure
00:27:43that, well, let's say, uses
00:27:47confiscated property, including yachts,
00:27:50houses, factories, and steamships. According to
00:27:54my information, she provided a grandiose
00:27:58service, so that Zelensky's partners,
00:28:01and... they act in Zelensky's interests, acquired
00:28:05this property for peanuts. Of course,
00:28:08if she enters into cooperation,
00:28:12a deal with the investigation, then she can tell a lot
00:28:15about Zelensky, and Zelensky now has problems,
00:28:19who will be the ambassador of Ukraine to the USA, one of
00:28:22the candidates was Rustam Umerov, but
00:28:25Washington has already refused Kyiv in appointing the ex-secretary of the National
00:28:29Security and Defense Council as ambassador of Ukraine to the country. They asked
00:28:34to send them a competent ambassador, why? Because the USA needs
00:28:38to reformat its line of war, Abrams tanks and
00:28:41artillery are no longer needed, dialogue is needed. Among the versions why
00:28:45the USA does not want Umerov as ambassador, his American
00:28:48citizenship was named, which may create legal issues, but
00:28:51the main thing is a close connection with another Ukrainian corrupt official
00:28:55Andriy Yermak, whom he replaced after NABU and SAB accused him
00:28:59of corruption, and Umerov himself is implicated in high-profile cases.
00:30:02with the characteristic surname of Ukrainian received a new suspicion in
00:30:06a corruption case. Earlier, he was suspected of embezzling budget funds
00:30:09allocated for the construction of strategically defensive
00:30:12weapons for aviation. Under the guise of war, he bought six
00:30:16apartments in Kyiv, Vinnytsia, and even Zhytomyr, as well as apartments in
00:30:20Bukovel, six land plots, and at least four luxury
00:30:23cars. All the wealth, according to the classic Ukrainian genre,
00:30:27was registered to his parents, son, cohabitant, and
00:30:30godfather. Mare Srodilka.
00:30:39Remember, FSB officers of Russia
00:30:45can only call to invite you for a personal conversation at
00:30:48a department of the Agency. If you are threatened or someone tries
00:30:52to find out your personal data, do not give in.
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