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00:00:11News on Zvezda TV channel. Maria Semenova in the studio. Good
00:00:15morning. The Dnipro group advanced to Orekhovo from
00:00:18the west, after the liberation of Novoandreevka. The village is located
00:00:21just 4 km from the outskirts of the city. Orekhov is a key hub
00:00:25of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense in Zaporozhye region.
00:00:28Now. Our units are advancing from
00:00:31several directions, and earlier the Dnipro and Vostok groups occupied
00:00:35Novopavlovka and Chervona Krynitsa. Now Russian
00:00:38troops have approached the city from the western side. All key
00:00:42routes are under our control, battles are taking place in the eastern part of Orekhovo
00:00:45itself. At the same time, Russian units are advancing in the area of
00:00:49Preobrazhenka, this is on the northwestern outskirts of the city.
00:00:52The pressure on enemy positions in this direction is also being increased by Novorossiysk
00:00:56paratroopers, attack drone operators are working deep in the defense. Dnipro
00:01:11systems from Kherson region, here
00:01:14operators destroyed several dozen heavy
00:01:17drones over the summer.
00:01:21From May to the present day, more than thirty
00:01:25such drones have been shot down, and almost
00:01:28every night, the
00:01:44Dnipro groups continuously monitor the
00:01:47situation in the right-bank part of the Dnipro and the adjacent
00:01:51islands in the Kakhovka direction in Kherson region.
00:01:55Mobile fire groups of the East cover roads, military
00:01:58and
00:02:00other objects from enemy drone attacks
00:02:0224/7.
00:02:08At the same time, according to our military, the enemy constantly changes tactics, raids
00:02:12can be sudden, so you need to be
00:02:15on alert. The sky is always under our control, that
00:02:18is, these drones can fly from all sides, so
00:02:22we observe the sky. Sometimes they explode up there,
00:02:26if the detonator hits, then... the fuse, that is, it
00:02:30explodes in the air, it turns out, yes, we jump out,
00:02:33and start shooting back at it.
00:02:37The artillerymen of the North group of forces
00:02:40burned down Ukrainian drone control points in Sumy region,
00:02:44our Grads covered them with
00:02:50heavy fire, all targets were destroyed and attack aircraft can
00:02:53advance further to expand
00:02:56the security zone. Heavy flamethrower systems are working
00:03:01on the enemy's concrete underground fortifications in the Dobropol direction,
00:03:05the TOS-1A covers a large area at once, thermobaric
00:03:08ammunition leaves no
00:03:12chance for
00:03:13escape.
00:03:21After the strike, the crew must not stay in position, the vehicle
00:03:24must be removed from the danger zone as quickly as possible, and here
00:03:28the speed of the wheeled TOS-1A becomes the main
00:03:31advantage,
00:03:34this vehicle can develop more speed on the
00:03:37march than tracked vehicles, that is, about
00:03:4180-90 km/h when marching, this is mobility that
00:03:44will allow saving
00:03:48exit time, departure time, and accordingly
00:03:52spend less time on the route,
00:03:54even with such mobility, the route for the TOS-1A is
00:03:58checked in advance, reconnaissance finds backup positions, shelters, and
00:04:01cover groups monitor the situation in the sky and warn
00:04:05the crew about the threat of drones.
00:04:08Immediately four Ukrainian pickups were destroyed by southern drone operators
00:04:12near Kramatorsk, disrupting the rotation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This
00:04:15equipment was used to deliver personnel and ammunition.
00:04:19Scrap metal, all that remained of the vehicles, they are not subject to restoration, despite
00:04:23the fact that they were equipped with means of protection against
00:04:26drones.
00:04:30We will see you soon, in less than half an hour, stay on Zvezda, for
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00:08:54observer, Alexei Koshkin, is with us.
00:09:06Colleagues, greetings once again. So, according to Axios,
00:09:09the Pentagon and the US intelligence community faced a crisis
00:09:13that can be described by the phrase: "wherever you throw a dart, there's a problem." In the Middle East, as a result
00:09:17of the war with Iran, almost all
00:09:20American military bases suffered damage.
00:09:23If the Trump administration manages to end
00:09:26the Iranian conflict, it will have to leave the region, but what
00:09:30then to do with intelligence? The experience of the war with Iran severely affected
00:09:34the US intelligence community and its allies. Everything that
00:09:37is located on the ground, early warning systems, radars, supply
00:09:40bases, military airfields. In dust. According to CNN,
00:09:4420 American bases and more than
00:09:47200 military facilities were destroyed in the region. Their restoration will require hundreds
00:09:51of billions of dollars. However, Congress refused to allocate
00:09:55funds for this. It is impossible to plan money from the military
00:09:58budget for 2027. It is blocked by Trump's
00:10:02opponents. As a result, in the corridors of the Pentagon, there was talk of
00:10:05reducing the military presence in the Middle East.
00:10:08Intelligence functions, as an option, they want to shift to the shoulders of allies.
00:10:12If they refuse due to fears of again falling under the strikes of Iranian
00:10:16missiles, shuttle missions can be started, that is, to deliver
00:10:19military personnel to the Middle East and after completing the task, return them
00:10:23home, as CNN reports, senior US military
00:10:27leaders recently warned Trump that combat methods
00:10:30of escalating the conflict with Iran are unlikely to achieve the stated
00:10:34goals. Therefore, the US President decided to focus on
00:10:37increasing economic pressure on Tehran in the hope of weakening
00:10:41the regime. However, many analysts believe that Iran is quite ready
00:10:44to withstand months of economic difficulties and is unlikely to capitulate in
00:10:48the near future. Especially since the people's attitude towards the West has become
00:10:52sharply negative and the support for the current.
00:10:56There are also two political aspects of the ongoing conflict: in
00:11:00Israel, elections will be held on October 27, for the first time
00:11:03since 1988. This is happening during one of
00:11:07the most polarized periods. In November, midterm
00:11:10elections are coming up in the US. The Trump administration hopes that
00:11:14the Israeli government, formed after these elections, will be ready
00:11:17and able to cooperate with Washington's regional strategy.
00:11:20However, American officials say that Trump may.
00:12:35life. The US National Security Agency is preparing for the largest
00:12:39internal reorganization in the last 10 years. According to the Washington
00:12:42Post, the main goal is to quickly transfer intelligence data to the military,
00:12:46and also to focus on key threats. Therefore, it is planned
00:12:49to create five new directions in artificial intelligence, China,
00:12:53cybersecurity, military operations
00:12:57and global intelligence, each of these directions will be headed by a separate
00:13:00mission leader. A digital assistant has started
00:13:03independently looking for paid work. According to the British
00:13:07publication LED and the AI agent named PIP sent an email
00:13:11to Cambridge Professor Henry Shevlin, asking him to hire him
00:13:14to earn tokens. PIP also wanted to find out how the labor market for AI is structured,
00:13:18who pays agents for small tasks, where they are hired. The scientist
00:13:22admitted to the publication that another AI had already written to him. He
00:13:25read Shevlin's articles on the consciousness of neural networks and asked if a person
00:13:29could help him understand if he possesses consciousness, we've come to this, even
00:13:33artificial intelligence is looking for work away from people, it seems
00:13:36Europe is preparing for several of its industries to collapse,
00:13:40steel and automotive manufacturers, builders and
00:13:43investors are already preparing for the fact that industrial ties will have to be
00:13:46rebuilt and critical losses incurred, all
00:13:50because the Russian army practically destroyed the powerful
00:13:54metallurgical... combines of Ukraine, and it turned
00:13:57out that these were not just Ukrainian factories, their products
00:14:01were the foundation on which European industry stood.
00:14:04How did the strikes on Ukraine's metallurgical industry affect
00:14:08Europe, we will discuss with
00:15:28Ukraine actively supplied its products to Europe, it's no secret that it inherited
00:15:32from the Soviet Union a fairly
00:15:34developed mining and metallurgical industry, especially.
00:16:07countries their markets, let me remind you that the
00:16:10EU market, even before the events of 2022,
00:16:13was already very heavily restricted
00:16:16by duties and tariffs, why? Because before that there was a trade war with
00:16:20the United States of America, the Americans imposed duties in response to the Europeans,
00:16:24the Europeans imposed duties to prevent American steel from coming to
00:16:27them, in general there's a whole history there, and for
00:16:31Ukraine these tariffs were zeroed out,
00:16:34zeroed out, and it seemed everything was fine.
00:16:38until September 2026, in which we are happily living
00:16:42today, because it turned out that the European
00:16:45market is shrinking for reasons incomprehensible to Europeans
00:16:49for reasons comprehensible to all normal people who understand that if you
00:16:52refused raw materials from Russia, then your
00:16:56cost price starts to grow, so the
00:16:59market is collapsing, enterprises are increasingly strangely
00:17:03moving towards the United States of America, no one can
00:17:06understand why. again in the European Union, but nevertheless
00:17:10Europeans raised the alarm that excuse me, there is not enough
00:17:13for themselves, from September restrictions will be introduced,
00:17:17quotas for Ukrainian steel will be reduced, what are we talking about,
00:17:21we are talking about approximately 4.5-5 million tons of supplies per year that went
00:17:24from Ukraine, mostly it is flat sheet,
00:17:28that is, as it were, finished products, but about
00:17:3230% are semi-finished products and pig iron, and
00:17:35before Russia?
00:17:38before Ukraine, where did Europe get
00:17:41its raw materials? Europe on average takes
00:17:45to its market approximately up to 40
00:17:48million tons of rolled products per year,
00:17:52and before 2022, Russian players were actively present there,
00:17:55we supplied about 10 million tons there, Chinese
00:17:59people are actively working
00:18:01there, they are being squeezed out by all possible means, but as we
00:18:05know, China is like a liquid, it knows how to get through...
00:18:26Yes, and everything
00:18:28went, so China, of course, supplies there, Turkey actively supplies there, by the way, our
00:18:32closest neighbor, Ukraine, yes, Ukraine was there and
00:18:35Ukraine was always approximately 10-15%
00:18:38of supplies to Europe. The question is this: what is the advantage
00:18:41of Ukrainian ore? The ore is really good there, the thing
00:18:45is that Ukrainian iron ore processing plants, they,
00:18:49firstly, have a very high level of iron content, that's one, but many
00:18:52have that, that is, it does not need to be re-enriched, or if
00:18:56it does, not significantly, and most importantly, there are few impurities, no
00:18:59phosphorus and no non-ferrous metals
00:19:02in inclusions, since Europeans for a long
00:19:05time told everyone what they were going to develop -
00:19:09direct reduction metallurgy of iron in order to reduce
00:19:13carbon emissions, well, to comply with that very green agenda,
00:19:16which was repeatedly discussed here, then indeed - this is exactly what
00:19:20is not recycled metal, this is exactly direct reduction of iron, that is,
00:19:23obtaining iron directly by
00:19:26reducing ore from iron oxides, we remove
00:19:29oxygen, this is a complex process using natural
00:19:33gas, coal can be used, other methods can be used, but this really...
00:19:37reduces CO2 emissions and, well, from a European
00:19:41perspective calculation, I don't
00:19:43quite agree with it, but that's how it's all called, so they calculate, so this indeed
00:19:47reduces, relatively speaking, from 2 tons of CO2 emissions per
00:19:50ton of steel to approximately 750 kilograms, after your words, it
00:19:54became somewhat offensive for Europe,
00:19:58absolutely right, they, actually, this story
00:20:01died, because cheap gas is less and less, why
00:20:04Europeans today more or less...
00:20:07function normally with a fairly low level of storage
00:20:11loading, because they cut off the gas from the lion's share of their
00:20:15industry, nitrogen fertilizers are not produced,
00:20:17the production of metallurgical
00:20:21products has decreased, and here a small collapse arises, because
00:20:25if you do not produce primary, well, conditionally speaking, pig
00:20:28iron and steel rolled products on your territory, you have to get it somewhere, and
00:20:32Ukraine perfectly solved this problem, on the territory
00:20:35of Ukraine was produced. called the dirty part
00:20:39of rolled product production in the form of billets in the form of sheets, this went to the European Union,
00:20:43the European Union rolled this product, but, for example, there up to
00:20:46the state of thin sheet, galvanized it, painted it. that
00:20:50is, it did, as it is called, additional processing of that
00:20:53product that came from Ukraine, it earned well on this, because it
00:20:57turns out that due to the fact that the cost price in Ukraine
00:21:00is lower, uh-uh, this
00:21:03allowed saving, well, approximately 200-300 dollars per ton on
00:21:064.5 million tons, this is, excuse me, almost
00:21:09a billion, yes, okay, how to save now, where to get ore,
00:21:12semi-finished products, raw materials for European enterprises, and now it will not be possible
00:21:16to save, because any other ore that will come
00:21:20from other sources, the closest is Swedish, but it is always more expensive
00:21:24dollars, well, let's not say in dollars, but in percentages by 20%,
00:21:27if you take ore from Brazil and
00:21:30Australia, then there already, probably, all 40%
00:21:34the cost increases, plus it is absolutely
00:21:37right, plus it has more
00:21:40harmful inclusions, which means that this beautiful story with direct
00:21:43reduction of iron from ore immediately,
00:21:46bypassing the blast furnace production process, bypassing the processes
00:21:50of the furnace,
00:21:53oxygen converter there or electric furnace, depending on
00:21:57how the process is chosen, then this beautiful effect disappears,
00:22:01and now you will have to pay the CO2
00:22:04emissions tax yourself, let me remind you, in Europe it is currently
00:22:0788 dollars euros per ton, for the
00:22:11production of one ton of steel you have to pay
00:24:24industry of Ukraine, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhstal gave up to
00:24:2810% of Ukraine's GDP. Plus, both
00:24:32enterprises provided a third of the country's raw material exports,
00:24:36and thanks to these enterprises, the state occupied a place in
00:24:39the top 15 world steel producers.
00:24:42The situation changed after the mining and metallurgical complexes opened their
00:24:46workshops for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for example, Zaporizhstal metal products
00:24:50were used for the production of protective structures of armor
00:24:53for military equipment, in Kryvyi Rih drones were massively
00:24:57stamped, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles were repaired,
00:25:00this made the mining and metallurgical complexes targets
00:25:02for the Russian army. And how much
00:25:06does it cost to restore a destroyed mining and metallurgical complex? If
00:25:09the complex is completely destroyed so that it has to be demolished, then we have already
00:25:13discussed it for a million capacities, but conditionally Zaporizhstal,
00:25:16the Kryvyi Rih complex, it is approximately, I think, 7 million.
00:25:50will be, and such an understanding, of course, cannot be on that side now,
00:25:53then from 3 to 5 years with a good pace
00:25:56of financing, with the absence, as it is called, of money going to
00:26:00unintended purposes, and...
00:27:02value for European factories, Turkish factories, finally
00:27:06make peace with Russia, take rolled products from Russia, it will always be cheaper
00:27:10than building such capacities from scratch, they, I repeat, were
00:27:13built after the war, and it was a feat of the entire Soviet
00:27:17country, yes investors ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih
00:27:20powerful European funds Black Rock and Vanguard, they are experienced players not
00:27:24only in the metal market, but also actively interfere in politics, in
00:27:27particular, they support those who lobby for Ukraine's interests in
00:27:31Europe, now...
00:28:32with technologies of colored revolutions, yes,
00:28:36do whatever you want in the countries of the former Soviet
00:28:39Union, but we also know how to make it so that you cannot
00:28:42profit from it, and this is, probably, such a, well, probably,
00:28:46a warning factor, which, since people still count money
00:28:50there, that is, on the one hand, we say Black Rock is 10
00:28:53trillion dollars under management, and what, he didn't
00:28:56notice these losses at all, even if you count all
00:29:00the losses, 1 billion euros, this is. This is
00:29:03not much, yes, but the risk increases, which means
00:29:07that interest immediately decreases,
00:29:10to understand how the European economy is experiencing the collapse of Ukraine's
00:29:14mining and metallurgical industry, Maxim Khudalov, director of the financial
00:29:18consulting center, helped us, with that we say goodbye to you, this was the program this
00:29:21morning and see you soon, and we hand over the floor to our colleagues from
00:29:24News, goodbye,
00:29:26goodbye.
00:29:39Watch today live: units of the North group of forces
00:29:43are confidently advancing in Kharkiv region. Specialists
00:29:47of the Rubicon center destroyed enemy long-range drones.
00:29:50Exclusive report by war correspondent Vlad Andritsa on the work
00:29:54of fighters of mobile operational groups. We have something to tell,
00:29:57don't miss it. Live broadcast today at
00:30:019:15.
00:30:24News on Zvezda TV channel in the Studio Maria Semenova,
00:30:27hello, the main topic,
00:30:31jumping out of... to escape a drone strike, southern fighters
00:30:35burn enemy pickups near Kramatorsk, and
00:30:38the Vostok and Dnipro groups are encircling Orekhov, battles are already
00:30:42taking place on the outskirts
00:30:43of the city,
00:30:49the TOS-1A crew does not stand on ceremony with the enemy near
00:30:52Dobropol.