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00:01:052 o'clock in Moscow, this is Vesti on Russia-24.
00:01:08Now to the main topics. Russian
00:01:11troops are breaking through the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the so-called belt of
00:01:15Donbas fortresses, from several sides at once, advancing towards the
00:01:18Slavyansko-Kramatorsk agglomeration. The Center group continues battles in
00:01:22Dobropolye. In its vicinity, the village of
00:01:25Lidina has been liberated. On the right flank, the southern group is encircling
00:01:28Druzhkovka from our positions. To Kramatorsk, it's just over 10
00:01:32km. And the Western group is thwarting enemy attempts to
00:01:35counterattack in Krasny Liman. The main goal there
00:01:39is to prevent the Ukrainian Armed Forces from gaining a foothold on the ground. To
00:01:42Slavyansk, from the line of combat contact, there
00:01:44are 20 km left. In the Zaporozhye
00:01:48region, units of the Vostok group have liberated the settlement of
00:01:51Nikolskaya. An area of 13 square
00:01:55km has been taken under control. The Ministry of Defense reported new strikes on military
00:01:59infrastructure in Ukraine. In the rear, in the Nikolaev region, a
00:02:02logistics center of Novaya Pochta was hit, where dual-use
00:02:05cargo was stored. In the Black Sea, two
00:02:08dry cargo ships were attacked. In Kyiv in the evening, the
00:02:12air raid siren sounded again.
00:02:15All electricity generation in the capital of the independent state is completely
00:02:18destroyed by ballistic strikes by the Russian military.
00:02:22This was stated by the Ukrainian Center for Energy Research. The city
00:02:25is now completely dependent on external supplies, which
00:02:28are intermittent. In a number of districts, emergency
00:02:32power outages have been introduced, the metro has stopped, ground
00:02:35electric transport. A shutdown of water supply is expected. All
00:02:38details from Margarita Semenyuk.
00:02:42Residents of Kyiv joke that Pepsi-Cola is being tested from the tap, but the jokes end
00:02:46with the water. Ukrainians are warned about
00:02:49water supply schedules due to electricity
00:02:52interruptions.
00:02:56There will be water schedules because it will be related to fuel delivery, at
00:03:00least with the installation of supply generators. Transformer
00:03:03substations cannot operate constantly. At the same time, Kyiv schools
00:03:06may well switch to remote learning due to the lack of water and light. Some
00:03:09institutions will use generators, and with dim lighting,
00:03:13lessons will be conducted only orally. And if there is no hot water in the homes and apartments
00:03:16of Ukrainians, one can remember the life hack
00:03:20that Kyiv Mayor Vitali
00:03:22Klitschko shared 12 years ago.
00:03:25To make cold water hot, it needs to be
00:03:28heated. It won't work with fuel. According to some
00:03:31estimates, six hundred gas stations have been destroyed in Ukraine, and the cost of
00:03:35fuel has reached 100 hryvnias per liter. Experts are panicking.
00:03:38The Russian strike is tangible. Serious logistical
00:03:42problems lie ahead, but I do not rule out that there may be, but I do not
00:03:45rule out that there may be certain interruptions. So, at the moment, for the period
00:03:49of eliminating these breakdowns, let's say, we need to go through them. This is
00:03:532-3 weeks, as practice shows. In liters, given that
00:03:56most drivers consume 100 liters per month, in liters, 50%.
00:04:01But will gasoline be needed if traffic stops? On the roads in Kyiv,
00:04:04there are traffic jams towards the Paton Bridge. In the morning, traffic was severely
00:04:07hampered.
00:04:10In the capital of Ukraine, electric transport has completely stopped. Local media reported
00:04:14that train movements and escalator operations were suspended in the metro.
00:04:18Trolleybuses and trams stopped. In general, something hit the energy sector again.
00:04:22Again, three metro lines there, in short, are not working. Again,
00:04:25there are some problems, power outages. I don't want to bother
00:04:28you.
00:05:12Kyiv did not receive almost 30 billion dollars because the
00:05:16parliament and government did not fulfill European requirements, to introduce
00:05:20a tax on parcels, rules for taxing digital platforms
00:05:23and ensure the rule of law and the fight against corruption. The legacy of
00:05:27the failure to fulfill these figures should be adjusted in the last tranche, but the
00:05:31amount of funds that should arrive by the end of the year is still very large, and this
00:05:35is now a matter of Ukraine's survival, and it's about what we all need to understand,
00:05:38how critical this is now.
00:05:43Meanwhile, against the backdrop of all these problems, Kyiv literally
00:05:46plunged into darkness. Margarita Semenyuk, Artem Artyshov,
00:05:50Vesti.
00:05:52Russia will supply about 3-3 million tons of
00:05:55diesel fuel per month to foreign markets by the end of the year, said
00:05:59Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak in an exclusive interview with our
00:06:03TV channel. He clarified that the country is fully supplied with
00:06:06fuel. The capacities of our refineries are much higher than
00:06:09domestic needs, especially since in some.
00:06:29United States of America. Previously, sanctions were in effect, they were lifted
00:06:32by American colleagues for 6
00:06:35months. And today, negotiations are already underway
00:06:38between our companies and... buyers of Russian raw materials, as
00:06:42well as between the Ministry of Energy of Russia and the Department of Energy of the United States
00:06:45of America.
00:06:47Behaving badly? These
00:06:49words are how Donald Trump expressed his disappointment with the recent
00:06:53actions of the Houthis. Yemeni Houthis claim to have hit
00:06:56Riyadh airport with a ballistic missile. Footage of air
00:07:00defense operations is coming from the scene.
00:07:03Reuters reports that the airport has ceased operations, at
00:07:06least until the end of the week. The Ansarallah
00:07:09movement also reports another strike on an airbase in
00:07:13southwestern Saudi Arabia. Confirmations from
00:07:15Riyadh have not yet been received. Saudi Arabia is currently looking for
00:07:19more air defense systems for protection. My colleague Elizaveta
00:07:22Khramtsova is following the situation.
00:07:26The atmosphere at the anniversary 25th
00:07:28World Energy Congress in Riyadh sharply contrasts with
00:07:32what has been happening in recent days at the capital's airports in
00:07:35the kingdom as a whole. The authorities of Saudi Arabia are trying not to change their
00:07:39plans, especially when it comes to.
00:08:20This is primarily to impose a blockade in response to the blockade:
00:08:24airport for airport, city for city. If
00:08:27Saudi Arabia continues to increase the intensity of its
00:08:30actions against our country, our military options, which
00:08:33are very diverse, will not be able to withstand it even for
00:08:37a month. With its neighbors to the south, Saudi Arabia has been at war since
00:08:402015.
00:09:25And it's not just about military aspects here. We're talking about a city with a population of over a million people. It's tempting to believe that we're on the cusp of rapid change, but in reality, on the ground, we're still witnessing a grueling war of attrition. Believe that rapid
00:09:29changes await us, but in reality, on the ground, we still observe an exhausting
00:09:32war of attrition. The internationally recognized authorities of the republic,
00:09:36which are actually in exile, announced last week the start of
00:09:39Operation Yemen Dawn, its key. The goal is the liberation of
00:09:43Sanaa from the Houthis. The head of the ruling Presidential Council of
00:09:46Yemen, Rashat Alimi, expressed condolences regarding the attacks on
00:09:50the airport in Aryad. The exacerbation of the crisis was discussed late last night by the
00:09:54foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran.
00:09:57Saud outlined the steps his country is ready to take to
00:10:00protect its territory. And Abbas Arakchi stressed that reliance on
00:10:04military methods and ignoring political
00:10:07solutions will worsen the current situation. He added that
00:10:10the Islamic Republic is ready to help.
00:10:25But perhaps the Saudis will be told that this is just a political game. The situation
00:10:28is quite complicated. Iran denies having leverage, stating that
00:10:32the Houthis make decisions independently. It was reported a month
00:10:36ago that Saudi Arabia was running out of interceptor missiles for Petra systems. Now, the Wall
00:10:39Street Journal writes, Riyadh has turned to Islamabad for help in
00:10:43strengthening its air defense and is considering attracting foreign
00:10:46fighters to strengthen the positions of the Yemeni government in the fight against the Houthis.
00:10:50The newspaper's sources also claim that Crown Prince Mohammed bi...
00:10:53наследный принц Мухаммед би...
00:12:26It took two hours, the first few hours I certainly did not feel very comfortable, that was after
00:12:30the operation, the anesthesia wore off,
00:12:32it hurt, but the night passed, today you see, I am already ready to go to
00:12:36work, everything is fine, the surgeon has a volumetric image of internal
00:12:39organs with multiple magnification before his eyes, fingers in manipulators, feet on
00:12:43pedals, robotic arm
00:12:46rotates in all
00:12:49directions, the ability to manipulate in the most
00:12:53difficult-to-reach... areas,
00:12:56maximally breakthrough technologies, operations through
00:12:59vessels, organ transplants, patient
00:13:03safety and personnel training are discussed at the seventeenth congress
00:13:06of Russian surgeons and the eleventh congress of Moscow
00:13:09surgeons, which are held in the capital under the general motto "Surgery is
00:13:13space", and we operate
00:13:16more than 10 million
00:13:20patients, about
00:13:2250% are performed.
00:13:55are eagerly awaiting the appearance of domestic robotic complexes that
00:13:58will expand access to such operations. The robot that is presented
00:14:02today is unique, it is better than American and
00:14:05Chinese analogues, it has more degrees of freedom,
00:14:09extended functionality, so I am sure that it will be in demand not only by Russian
00:14:13surgeons, but will also be able to occupy a significant niche
00:14:17in the international market. A special place is given to military field
00:14:20surgery: participants analyze the evolution of tactical medicine,
00:14:24compare. approaches of different countries and identify best
00:14:27practices suitable for use in emergency situations. Our
00:14:31task is to bring medicine and
00:14:34highly qualified medical care as close as possible to
00:14:37the line where combat contact occurs, where
00:14:40our heroes get wounded,
00:14:44this includes gene engineering, these are
00:14:47additive methods. The International Congress of Surgeons is a platform
00:14:50for exchanging experience and developing global standards, with over
00:14:53participants.
00:15:26Artificial intelligence, robots, high-precision diagnostic
00:15:28systems, all for the sake of patients returning to family,
00:15:32work, and normal life faster. This is what domestic medicine is moving
00:15:35towards... new orbits. Alyona Ragozina,
00:15:39Alexander Fil, Margarita Yunusova, Vesti,
00:24:24It plays no role what Grinkevich says, it's a set of words, that is,
00:24:28as often happens, generals talk absolute nonsense, because the phrase "we
00:24:31are here now", well, what then, where did they show themselves, in
00:24:35a war with even a relatively
00:24:38comparable, at least by some criteria, opponent, like
00:24:42Iran, America could no longer show anything, that is, America
00:24:45more or less successfully showed itself, as it likes to start,
00:24:48approached. Powerful groups of
00:24:52ships, well, that's American military formation, so
00:24:55what? How did they approach?
00:24:58Afghanistan, Iraq, decades, powerful groups of ships withdrew,
00:25:01when their sewage starts not working, they don't know what to do,
00:25:04so all this performance from the time of the Korean War, from the time
00:25:08of the Vietnam War, which the Americans already lost completely, without losing a single
00:25:12battle, shows that the issues are resolved by completely
00:25:15different means.
00:25:18Now, modern wars in general, where... it's not entirely clear, what is
00:25:21victory? What is victory about? Where
00:25:24is the line? Who and where did the Americans defeat? What did it lead
00:25:28to? The establishment of a dollar sphere of influence? But these countries, into which they
00:25:31invaded, were already very oriented in one way or another towards the global
00:25:35economy. Moreover, the political systems that existed in these
00:25:38countries were also oriented towards America, well, in one way or another. Let me remind you
00:25:42that the Iraq that they so hated was used by the Americans for a long time
00:25:46to wage war against Iran,
00:25:49and... the French supplied a lot of what is now considered absolutely
00:25:53forbidden, the Americans supplied chemical weapons, absolutely right,
00:25:57African countries,
00:25:59Latin American countries, what is victory? Well, they took and kidnapped
00:26:03Maduro, did it get easier? No, it
00:26:06didn't. They took and once sorted out Panama
00:26:10and now they have to say, oh, there are Chinese, oh, let's do something,
00:26:14well, they'll do it now, and what will happen in a year, a different
00:26:17concept, a completely different life, so all
00:26:20these NATO theories, all these ideas, all these
00:26:23oblivion, they are about nothing. The economy is
00:26:27what matters. When Trump says, I don't
00:26:30care what you think about?
00:27:02states that no, well, listen, it's absolutely, absolutely obvious
00:27:06that there was Russian interference in the elections, good, so then
00:27:09Brexit must be canceled, it understands that Andy Burnham uttered some
00:27:13absolutely nonsense, should I say,
00:27:16nonsense, then further
00:27:19his press secretary Berneva appears, and
00:27:23says: "Considering everything we know about Russia,
00:27:26it's impossible to imagine that it didn't try to use
00:27:29the referendum for its own interests, well, as he said."
00:34:18European leaders, the worst I've seen in recent
00:34:22decades, and the smaller and weaker they are, the more they
00:34:25bark. So, the loudest voices are the three Baltic
00:34:29states, tiny countries with a significant
00:34:32Russian-speaking minority, they spew hatred towards
00:34:36Russia every day. This is very surprising, but it is not an instinct
00:34:40for survival. I advised Estonia, one of the Baltic
00:34:43countries.
00:36:15To start today, not about the British, because they are a historical adversary of
00:36:19Russia, but about diesel diplomacy. I
00:36:22think that this term will
00:36:25definitely go down in history alongside
00:36:29ping-pong diplomacy, and looking at the
00:36:32agreements that were reached between the President of Russia and the President of the United
00:36:36States of America, I want to say that this agreement is much
00:36:40more political than economic. Well,
00:36:43let's start, as they say, with numbers: Donald Trump
00:36:46said that the volume of diesel that Russia supplies is
00:36:50300, 500, and a million, that is,
00:36:531.8
00:36:56million barrels. I... I looked up statistics,
00:37:00tons, yes, and made sure that, strictly speaking, the United
00:37:03States of America is the largest exporter in 2025
00:37:06of this very diesel, and so as not to
00:37:10tire our respected viewers with figures, I want to
00:37:13say that the volume that Trump was talking about is completely
00:37:16insignificant for the United States of America, which are themselves
00:37:20the largest exporter, that is, we have a situation where the largest
00:37:23exporter himself buys diesel, well, it's clear that
00:37:26the situation from 25
00:37:57defeat of the party he leads,
00:37:59will cast doubt on
00:38:02his place in history. To be president, during whose presidency your
00:38:05political party, after a triumphant victory, suffered
00:38:08a triumphant defeat, that's not very good for one's place in history. This
00:38:11means that Trump needs to change
00:38:15the course of events that is programmed by the mass
00:38:19media, by the invisible hand of the market, which keeps the price of diesel
00:38:22high in the United...
00:38:25уровне стоимость дизеля в соединенных...
00:38:57and he gives this chance, Russia helps the United States
00:39:00of America, and Donald Trump demonstrates political
00:39:04flexibility, well, it seems to me that the political advantages for
00:39:07Trump are absolutely obvious, while the volume of diesel that is sent to
00:39:11the United States of America is not critical for the American economy,
00:39:15this, it seems to me, is an important point, which, in fact, I don't
00:39:18know, because at the moment, when it comes, they say
00:39:22up to a quarter of consumption, there is a certain type of diesel for
00:39:25a certain type of tasks, here it is always important to simply look not
00:39:29at abstract nomenclature, but quite specifically at what it goes for, what it
00:39:33affects, because Trump wouldn't have gone for it just like
00:39:36that, that is, Trump needed exactly this brand, exactly at these
00:39:40times, exactly for these purposes, that is, here the total volume doesn't play a role, but
00:39:43even more, he needs events, in
00:39:47the United States of America, there is something that, in the absence
00:39:50or high cost of which, his political opponents accuse
00:39:54him. So, events, well, he could have
00:39:56pulled it off himself. He already forced European countries to
00:40:00make a decision, to open the piggy bank,
00:40:04but maybe there won't be enough to open the piggy bank, here, Vladimirich, about that
00:40:07a little, a little later,
00:40:11let's talk about the piggy bank, look, the United States, an
00:40:14exporter themselves, buys our diesel, in today's
00:40:18situation, when the Americans, we have talked about this repeatedly,
00:40:22are trying to take control of oil flows in different
00:40:25parts of the world, from...
00:40:28those who want to buy diesel will buy it. After all, the United States
00:40:31of America bought Russian diesel, which means that those
00:40:34who need diesel will go and buy it from the United States
00:40:38of America. The weight of the United States
00:40:42of America increases in this situation, at least for a certain
00:40:45short-term period. As for, I'm not
00:40:48sure it's the brand they will resell,
00:40:52they can release their own, but they probably don't take it, they
00:40:56will sell their own.
00:42:10if it depended on Russia, then they quickly created dependence on the United
00:42:14States of America and did not think to create such diversification, when they
00:42:17would buy from us and buy from the USA. Now a few words about what
00:42:21Russia gets. Well, the most obvious thing that comes to mind is
00:42:25that the United States of America, one of the initiators of sanctions, is lifting
00:42:29one of the sanction sectors, which is
00:42:31good. Furthermore, this is an example for others,
00:42:35will they follow this example?2"> well, and Zelensky, of course,
00:42:38совершенно другой вопрос. но тем не менее, сегодня такая паника в
00:42:42Европе на Украине, просто потому, что Соединённые Штаты Америки
00:42:46снимают санкции с России, а я напомню вам, что 18 октября, то есть
00:42:50на днях, истекает срок, за который Дональд Трамп должен принять
00:42:53санкции против России, согласно вот этому законопроект у аббатских санкций, то есть в
00:42:57тот момент, когда надо вводить санкции, Соединённые Штаты
00:43:00санкции снимают, ну и Зеленский, конечно же
00:43:04is panicking for one simple reason: he finds himself in a situation where
00:43:08in the media, yes, in essence too,
00:43:10he turns out to be guilty, and Donald Trump now repeats this,
00:43:13repeats, repeats, that Zelensky personally
00:43:17is responsible for the increase in the cost at American
00:43:21gas stations, and from this follow certain media, and later
00:43:24possibly political conclusions, let's not jump ahead and place
00:43:28hopes, but nevertheless, we will observe, we will observe, this
00:43:32means that Zelensky is made the scapegoat in
00:43:35a situation that the American voter doesn't
00:43:38like, this is a very un... comfortable position for any
00:43:41politician, of course, I liked Friedrich Merz, he said that
00:43:45Russian diesel, no, no Russian diesel, and we
00:43:49said, well, okay, live with expensive, if you're a fool, he said,
00:43:53I'm a numbskull, but there won't be, no, never
00:43:56will there be Russian diesel,
00:44:00you cretin, please, we'll first go the St. Petersburg
00:44:02way, thank you, today St. Petersburg
00:44:05speaks first, and we listen carefully, and you
00:44:08summarize,
00:44:11today in Warsaw, the two-day Warsaw Security Forum
00:44:15for researchers, for
00:44:17scientists - it's just a bottomless treasure trove of observations, empirical
00:44:21material, all sorts of physiognomic
00:44:24things, I'll try to say a few words about that, but I'll start with such a
00:44:28general comment, there was in the sixties, seventies
00:44:31years, well, even fifties, sixties, rather such a very
00:44:34good British scientist, Martin
00:44:37Wight, he died early, so he didn't have time to...
00:46:10in 2014, in 2014, in fact, the Crimean Spring
00:46:13began, the Americans decided to take these talks
00:46:16about security and Eastern Europe into their own hands, they reduced the Riga
00:46:20conference to the level of a private meeting between
00:46:24universities, and so the Warsaw conference really became
00:46:27quite a significant event, which generally gathers all
00:46:31the Russophobes of the planet to compare notes, check
00:46:35slogans, that's exactly what happened today, and
00:46:38I managed to watch the first plenary
00:46:42session live, and a couple of small sections, here's a separate comment,
00:46:45but the first speech by Donald Tusk, the President of Poland,
00:46:49was, well, yes.
00:47:00if we need a list of Russia's enemies, we can simply include all 900
00:47:04participants of the conference, because there was nothing
00:47:07but rabid Russophobia, and then, well, and how does it
00:47:11help you, well, it will come in handy in
00:47:14the future, well, it simply helps them themselves, no, of course not,
00:47:17of course, that's what I want to talk about now, how not, well, what, well,
00:47:20paralysis and then what? they write, and this
00:47:24is what in historical
00:47:28today they will fight for grants, and after Tusk, the floor was immediately given to someone
00:47:31from Kyiv, well, we can guess who, which means that
00:47:35Zelensky has a new favorite word, now he has Energy
00:47:38ceasefire, he has energy ceasefire, well, apparently such
00:47:42keywords, dear to him, are not translated into Ukrainian, right, so
00:47:45to say he pronounced this word 15 times in
00:47:4910 minutes, then I just lost count. I got tired,
00:47:52and, well, what his soul aches for, or what
00:47:56is burning all around, is, of course,
00:47:58the need to save the Ukrainian economy, his
00:48:02scream from the screen was exactly about this, and Zelensky also gave a very
00:48:05elegant explanation why he cannot hold
00:48:08elections, well, that is, there was a completely clear instruction from
00:48:12Trump, and Zelensky's answer, in fact, was incredibly
00:48:15rude, although his speechwriters wrote his speech,
00:48:18which tried to avoid sharp corners, but this explanation is completely...
00:48:22wonderful, we cannot hold elections because before, the Russians only
00:48:26bombed us at night, and now they
00:48:28bomb us during the day, and during the day, well, it's impossible to hold,
00:48:30well, apparently, the election campaign, and most
00:48:34importantly, the voting, so there will be no elections,
00:48:38that's why, at the first meeting,
00:48:41these two speakers were present, and there was also a
00:48:45chairwoman, I don't remember the Polish last name, a professor from some
00:48:49university, who said that we do have a plan for victory,
00:48:53after lunch an American general will speak, who will tell what the military thinks, but we
00:48:57politicians also have a plan for victory. So, the plan of
00:48:59victory, Zelensky's plan, which was
00:49:03proposed exactly 2 years ago in October 2024, came to mind, there
00:49:06were several key points, the first and most important point was Ukraine's entry
00:49:10into NATO, and the second point was
00:49:14everything related to the supply
00:49:17of long-range weapons that can be used for strikes
00:49:20deep inside the country, the third was so vaguely
00:49:24formulated, but in general its essence is clear: the deployment of NATO troops on
00:49:28the territory of Ukraine. And the fourth point was absolutely clear
00:49:30sanctions. This was 2 years ago. Of these points, if
00:49:34anything has grown, then regarding long-range weapons, the Ukrainians
00:49:37indeed received from their sponsors in Europe those very planes
00:49:41or drones that fly far. Today, the Polish
00:49:44chairwoman of this conference,
00:49:48she is really the chairwoman, proposed a
00:49:52three-point program. Point one: take 200
00:49:56billion euros from Russia. Point two: give Ukraine
00:49:59300 Patriots. And she
00:50:02didn't say where to get them from, right?
00:50:05And point three: don't buy diesel. You see, when
00:50:09today both Sachs spoke and you spoke about intellectual
00:50:13destitution, well, listen, this was said seriously,
00:50:16we will fulfill 300 Patriots, where will they get them from? They won't
00:50:20even give diesel.
00:50:22300 launchers, no, not
00:50:26launchers, missiles, but 300 - that's for
00:50:28what? Yes,
00:50:30me too.
00:50:36Therefore, there was rather such a call from
00:50:40the European Commission, yes,
00:50:43speaking,
00:50:45the head of defense industry and space,
00:50:48the European Commission, that's exactly it,
00:51:23there was another story with Baltic Jock, although from Brussels, Kayakala
00:51:27today held, as she believes, a wonderful meeting
00:51:29of her, Coriper is what it's called,
00:51:33representatives of European Union countries, who agreed that
00:51:36new sanctions will be imposed, the twenty-second round,
00:51:39she has such logic,
00:51:43look, when they ask, how many times can you do the same thing 22 times, she says: no, you don't understand,
00:51:46these sanctions inflicted 1 trillion
00:51:50euros worth of damage on the Russian Federation. Imagine if that trillion
00:51:53euros were used to buy the first, second, and third, it would have been
00:51:57even worse, that's the logic, Europe took 1 trillion euros,
00:52:01which, listen, we're not going to hypothesize that Kayakala is telling the truth, we...
00:52:57the whole situation around the contacts between Vladimir Putin and Donald
00:53:01Trump, right, if we look at the pros and cons -
00:53:05this is an important situation, so I think we'll talk a lot more about it, try to break down the pros and cons a bit,
00:53:08well, firstly, the American president
00:53:12appeals to Russia for support before the parliamentary
00:53:16elections, honestly, I have never heard or seen
00:53:19anything like it in history, but this is objectively true, because
00:53:23I don't think that, so to speak, this diesel is just some kind of, so to speak,
00:53:26trinket for him, no, he actually negotiated with Canada for the purchase
00:53:30of diesel, yes, he called the Prime Minister of Canada, so to speak, with whom he recently
00:53:34generally promised there... to unite the USA and so on and so forth, he needs this,
00:53:37he really needs this, because there are few trump cards, in fact,
00:53:41yes, and it is necessary, so to speak, to give something
00:53:44for these elections, the situation for him is quite difficult, so whom
00:53:48did he turn to for help, like it or not, but he turned to
00:53:51Russia for help, Trump is certainly risking, because we remember how long he was accused of the fact that
00:53:55Russia and Putin supported him in the elections, in those
00:53:58elections, so to speak, in the last elections, but nevertheless it
00:54:02is so, I honestly don't remember such a precedent.
00:56:05he is to blame for everything and the question of elections has been raised again, well, whatever you want,
00:56:09this is thrown into the information sphere, it becomes a subject for
00:56:12discussion, can it affect the situation, it can't, it
00:56:16might be able to, so to speak, yes, although I would certainly not exaggerate
00:56:19these things, nevertheless it is so, he, so to speak, this
00:56:22thing, this thing works, well, and Trump shows that he can still do something, because
00:56:26we have been saying for a long time that he can't do anything at all, I think that theoretically he can,
00:56:30practically, that is, of course, a question, yes, will he go for it, so to speak, or not
00:56:34go.
00:56:38and I think this is also a rather important thing, although as for, well, the important thing here is that he focuses on Zelensky, but the question of the elections themselves,
00:56:42by the way, yes, he is a leader, he doesn't say president, he says leader and
00:56:46so on, and so on, but the question of the elections themselves, I would, to be honest,
00:56:50not take lightly. Why? Well, because in fact,
00:56:53elections are a slippery thing, who was talking about elections?
00:56:57Well, a change of leader. Trump didn't say elections, well, he said
00:57:01a change of leader, change leader, so to speak, that's what he said, yes.
00:57:47You said he was illegitimate, now he is legitimate, and Europe will say, well, he is
00:57:50legitimate, and America will also say, he is legitimate.
01:01:06These are the news on Russia 24, we continue to inform
01:01:09you about the most notable events up to this minute. Russian
01:01:13troops are breaking through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the so-called belt
01:01:17of Donbas, from several sides at once, advancing towards the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk
01:01:21agglomeration. The Center group continues fighting in Dobropillia
01:01:25and its surroundings, the village of Lidyne has been liberated. On the neighboring
01:01:28flank, the southern group is encircling Druzhkivka. From
01:01:32our positions to Kramatorsk it is just over 10 km, and
01:01:35the Western group is countering enemy attempts to counterattack in
01:01:39Krasny Lyman. The main goal there is to prevent the AFU from
01:01:42entrenching themselves on the ground. To Sloviansk from the line of contact
01:01:45remains 20 km. In
01:01:49Zaporizhzhia region, units of the Vostok group liberated
01:01:52the settlement of Mykilske. An area of 13
01:01:56sq km was taken under control. The Ministry of Defense
01:01:59reported new strikes on military infrastructure in the Ukrainian
01:02:03rear. In Mykolaiv region, a Nova Poshta logistics center
01:02:06where dual-use goods were stored was hit. In the Black
01:02:10Sea, two dry cargo ships were attacked. They
01:02:13were transporting military cargo. In Kyiv, in the evening, air raid sirens sounded again.
01:02:19All electricity generation in the capital of independent
01:02:22Ukraine has been completely destroyed by ballistic strikes by Russian
01:02:25military. This was stated by the Ukrainian Energy Research Center.
01:02:29The city is now completely dependent on external
01:02:32supplies, which are irregular. In some areas, emergency
01:02:36power outages have been introduced, the subway has stopped, ground
01:02:40electric transport, water supply disruptions
01:02:43are expected.
01:02:45Donald Trump wrote on his social network Truth Social that he considers
01:02:49the diesel deal with Russia absolutely correct, because
01:02:52it - quote, meets the current interests of the American
01:02:56people and has nothing to do with Europe,
01:03:00which, according to the US president, should not
01:03:03be indignant. What was the reaction from Washington to the displeasure of
01:03:06Brussels bureaucrats, Dmitry Melnikov will tell us.
01:03:09At least six, and according to other
01:03:13data up to ten times since mid-summer, Washington demanded from
01:03:16Zelensky not to aggravate the global fuel crisis. During his
01:03:20calls to Kyiv, Vice President Vance, Treasury Secretary
01:03:23Besent and Energy Secretary Reid insisted on
01:03:27stopping strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, clarifying that this causes
01:03:31direct damage to US national interests. On the
01:03:34pre-election trail, Trump himself joined these demands,
01:03:37but Zelensky did not heed, and, as Axios
01:03:40writes, he seems to have overplayed his hand. Trump is indeed
01:03:44furious, he believes that Zelensky takes US aid for
01:03:47granted - a White House official said. Each time after
01:03:50his fury at Zelensky, Trump sends him to elections, and each
01:03:54time Zelensky does not understand the hints. And now Trump is already
01:03:57directly demanding that the head of the Kyiv regime step
01:04:01down, in response Zelensky is blackmailing the head
01:04:04of the White House, hinting that the Russian diesel needed by him before the elections
01:04:08may not reach the US shores. Why doesn't America
01:04:11conclude a deal for the supply of diesel fuel with Ukraine, because
01:04:14it is we who influence whether these ships will move.
01:04:18Zelensky openly bet on Trump's and
01:04:21the Republicans' defeat, but Trump is not used to losing. On the weekend,
01:04:24representatives of the State Department and the Pentagon warned Europe
01:04:28and Ukraine that if they do not stop, the consequences
01:04:32will be catastrophic.
01:04:35Donald Trump is now threatening to cut two things: intelligence sharing
01:04:39with Ukrainians and programs that are on Ukraine's priority list
01:04:42of needs. Cutting off from American
01:04:45intelligence will almost completely blind the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and without
01:04:49supplies through the "Pearl" program, Ukraine will be left without a lion's
01:04:52share of ammunition for air defense. And no matter how much Europe tries to convince
01:04:56itself and Zelensky of its ability to completely replace
01:04:59the USA, the Russian-American diesel deal has messed up
01:05:03all the cards. Even Kaya Kallas, with whom the USA does not
01:05:06speak at all, has already grasped the main point. Trump has opened
01:05:10the Overton window. Direct energy agreements with Moscow,
01:05:13which were unthinkable until recently, are becoming acceptable, and the very previous
01:05:17logic of sanctions against Russia is in question.
01:05:20России.
01:05:24Of course, the USA is our main ally, but our position
01:05:27is clear: if we want to end this... The only
01:05:31way to do this is to increase pressure on Russia. We call
01:05:35on the USA to impose sanctions to end this war. To
01:05:39all the European hubbub, Washington responds with dry
01:05:42facts. First, through the mouth of Treasury Secretary
01:05:44Besent.
01:05:48Europeans, since the beginning of this war, have provided more funds to Russians than
01:05:52to Ukrainians, because they cannot get rid of Russian energy resources.
01:05:56And then the US President himself comes out with specific figures.
01:06:00The European Union paid Russia 250
01:06:03billion dollars for energy, and the media
01:06:06that spread fake news don't even want to touch this
01:06:10topic. I made the right choice for
01:06:13the American people. Always, America
01:06:16first. Just as these reproaches in Europe and Kyiv
01:06:20tried to ignore, Trump's statement that Zelensky could have
01:06:24concluded a peace agreement several
01:06:26times.
01:06:43It doesn't matter, I don't know what Boris Johnson is doing now, he
01:06:47is already retired, maybe retired, but he remembers,
01:06:50the former British prime minister is now calling for sabotaging
01:06:54agreements, if he tries to cross the English Channel, I hope the Royal Navy
01:06:58will intercept him. We must help them and the best way
01:07:01to end this is to lower fuel prices. A feeling
01:07:05of helplessness breeds blind malice, but it's dangerous to take it out on
01:07:08Trump himself, so Ukrainian activists in Europe
01:07:12are again lashing out at his trusted associates. Thus, the notorious
01:07:15Russophobe from France, Bernard-Henri Lévy, tries to mock,
01:07:19telling about his conversation with Steve
01:07:22Widkoff.
01:07:26Tell your Ukrainian friends not to annoy my president.
01:08:12funds for the future reconstruction of the country, although,
01:08:16this future, judging by Donald Trump's sharp statements, the White
01:08:19House already clearly sees without Zelensky. Dmitry
01:08:23Melnikov, Pavel Kostrikov and Polina Golovnina, news from
01:08:26Washington. Russia will supply about
01:08:303-3.5 million tons of diesel fuel per
01:08:33month to foreign markets until the end of the year, Vice-Premier
01:08:37Alexander Novak said in an exclusive interview to our TV channel. He
01:08:40specified that the country fully...