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00:00:00GRU. It is being dismantled during the training of American
00:00:03special forces. The assault claimed the lives of five
00:00:06KGB officers, two GRU intelligence officers, and eight
00:00:09paratroopers. Five participants in the operation were
00:00:13awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The operation
00:00:16involved a special forces group from the State
00:00:20Security Committee. But the planning and leadership of the entire
00:00:23operation was carried out by military intelligence officer Colonel Kolesnik. He was
00:00:26led by the head of the GRU. The operation
00:00:30took place at night with
00:00:32minimal losses, in less than an hour the task
00:00:36was solved, the palace was captured, Amin was killed,
00:00:39this storm entered all world
00:00:42textbooks of special services and special purpose units.
00:00:45The wild nineties became, perhaps,
00:00:48the most difficult period in the history of the Main Intelligence
00:00:51Directorate. State funding was
00:00:55significantly reduced, due to
00:00:58which foreign activity
00:01:00was frozen, in Yeltsin's inner circle
00:01:04the prevailing opinion was: Russia no longer has enemies, which means
00:01:07it doesn't need military intelligence. In general,
00:01:11a lot of effort was made to weaken the GRU.
00:01:15It even came down to completely absurd
00:01:18actions, for example, from the Kremlin an instruction
00:01:22was received that from now on, the head
00:01:26of the GRU should be chosen secretly.
00:01:47The first and only time, they turned out, fortunately
00:01:50for the GRU, to be very successful. The head
00:01:54of the Main Intelligence Directorate was a career intelligence officer,
00:01:57Fyodor Ivanovich Ladygin, who
00:02:00did a tremendous job to preserve
00:02:03military intelligence for Russia.
00:02:06The service was being weakened,
00:02:08stripped of its core, against the backdrop of this collapse,
00:02:12just a few years later, Russian intelligence officers and
00:02:15paratroopers conduct a special operation that will change
00:02:18all global geopolitics, for the first time
00:02:21in a long time this tactical move by Russia, in essence,
00:02:25a geopolitical slap in the face, will force
00:02:28them to
00:02:30stop.
00:02:36June 1999. Yugoslavia is
00:02:40on fire. NATO bombings have been going on for more than two
00:02:43months. The smell of burning and gunpowder hangs in the air. And
00:02:47at this moment, when it seems that the West is already celebrating victory,
00:02:51something happens that no one expected. The Russian battalion
00:02:55makes a 600 km dash and occupies
00:02:58the strategic Slatina airfield a few hours
00:03:02before the arrival of NATO troops. Without a single
00:03:05shot, without a single loss. The GRU
00:03:07is the ears, eyes, and hands
00:03:11of any state, that is, both the Soviet Union and
00:03:15the Russian Federation. The more successfully the GRU works, the stronger
00:03:19the state becomes, because security is paramount, and
00:03:23security is precisely emphasized through the work
00:03:26of the GRU, they learn about the echelons of power of other states,
00:03:30what tasks are being set there against our state, they learn about
00:03:34new models of military equipment, they also influence
00:03:37to maybe even ideologically change
00:03:41the situation in relation to our states. The Slatina
00:03:44airfield near Pristina was the only
00:03:48facility in the region capable of receiving
00:03:51heavy military transport aircraft. Whoever
00:03:54controlled Slatina, controlled the entrance to
00:03:57Kosovo. And NATO understood this perfectly well.
00:04:00The invasion of the Alliance's ground forces was scheduled for
00:04:04June 12th, they were supposed to enter from the side
00:04:07of Macedonia, and first of all to occupy this
00:04:11airfield, but Moscow had other plans: 2
00:04:14weeks before the start of the march into Kosovo, a GRU
00:04:18special forces group secretly infiltrated the airfield and held
00:04:22it until the main forces arrived. 18
00:04:25people, the commander, then still a major, Yunus-Bek
00:04:28Yevkurov. I believe that,
00:04:32in my opinion, this is Yevkurov's personal
00:04:36merit in many ways, I have the honor of knowing
00:04:39him, he is truly a brave, talented
00:04:43general, what he accomplished
00:04:46with small forces, but for me it's like
00:04:49a combined-arms operation, to capture this
00:04:53airfield with such a number of paratroopers, well, in my opinion, it was unrealistic,
00:04:56but they captured it, they held it. They showed
00:05:00that we are still strong, count on us, and
00:05:03I think that this may be one of
00:05:06such bright operations, very bright, 2 weeks later
00:05:10the main forces arrived,
00:05:13six paratroopers. By 7:00 AM on June 12,
00:05:16Russian units took full control of Slatina
00:05:20airfield, established all-round defense, and set up
00:05:23checkpoints. Around 11:00, British
00:05:26troops approached the airfield. NATO helicopters appeared
00:05:30in the sky. But it was too late. Russian
00:05:33armored vehicles blocked the runway and maneuvered,
00:05:37not allowing British pilots to land.
00:05:41NATO, accustomed to dictating conditions, for the first time encountered a situation
00:05:44where someone had anticipated them.
00:05:48Why did polite people enter
00:05:56Crimea so easily? In the name of what do modern
00:06:00heroes sacrifice their lives for the salvation of comrades?
00:06:03How do the tactical decisions of Russian military
00:06:06intelligence surprise the whole world?
00:06:09Watch today live:
00:06:21Attack aircraft of the Center group of forces practiced tactics
00:06:24to counter drones in the special military operation zone. Mortar operators
00:06:28of the East group of forces ensured the advance of assault
00:06:31groups in the Zaporozhye region. Specialists of the Rubicon center inflicted
00:06:35strikes on Ukrainian long-range UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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00:08:40Mishki-Krutyshki at Perekrestok for a purchase. In the supermarket and delivery,
00:12:52people in camouflage without distinguishing
00:12:56marks appeared on the peninsula, "polite people," as they
00:12:58would later be called. In a few days, they took control
00:13:02of key facilities: Simferopol airport,
00:13:05the military airfield in Belbek, the building
00:13:08of the Supreme Council and the Council of Ministers of Crimea.
00:13:11Simultaneously, according to Vladimir Putin, GRU
00:13:14and marine infantry units were transferred
00:13:18to Crimea to block and disarm
00:13:21the twenty-thousand-strong Ukrainian grouping. GRU
00:13:24special forces disabled the special communication system
00:13:28of Ukrainian military units, depriving them of coordination
00:13:31with Kyiv. The Ukrainian army on the peninsula
00:13:35was paralyzed, without orders, without
00:13:38communication. This was an operation in which the GRU acted not
00:13:42with weapons, but with knowledge, speed, and absolute
00:13:45precision of calculation. The main principle that the
00:13:49GRU always adheres to is to act preemptively, and
00:13:52it has become part of the DNA of military intelligence.
00:13:56The GRU doesn't wait for the enemy to make the first
00:13:59move, it makes its own earlier.
00:14:02Of course, military intelligence units
00:14:06are actively participating in the special military operation, and
00:14:09they operate not only on the line of combat
00:14:12contact, but also in the enemy's
00:14:14rear, at a depth of tens, or even
00:14:18hundreds of kilometers from the front. When
00:14:22our strikes are carried out against
00:14:26railway convoys or naval vessels transporting
00:14:29military cargo for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, when we
00:14:32attack ammunition storage sites
00:14:35and workshops where drones and missiles
00:14:38are produced in Ukraine, when we strike
00:14:42concentrations of foreign mercenaries or
00:14:45locations of meetings of the command staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
00:14:49the identification of such targets is also
00:14:52the work of military
00:14:55intelligence.
00:14:582024. Avdeevka. Ukrainian
00:15:02fortified areas that could not be taken for a long time.
00:15:05A frontal assault could have led to serious
00:15:08losses. Earlier, scouts discovered a secret collector
00:15:12that led to the rear of Ukrainian positions. In late January
00:15:162024, about 150 fighters
00:15:19secretly passed underground about 4 km into the enemy's
00:15:23rear and began to attack from below. The Armed Forces of Ukraine
00:15:27were in a panic, the command could not understand
00:15:30for almost a day where the attack was coming from.
00:15:332025, Sudzha, repeated
00:15:36use of tactics with...
00:16:08people who walked through these pipes, yes,
00:16:11they risked terribly, I can't even imagine
00:16:15such a risk, and it was not the kind of risk that probably happens in
00:16:19battle, a person gets up, goes into battle, yes, but it lasts
00:16:22for some time, these were days when people walked
00:16:26through this pipe, breathed
00:16:29gases, uh, slept, I don't
00:16:32know how, this is a real feat, in Sudzha, in
00:16:35anticipation of the command to attack... The fighters spent six days
00:16:39in the gas pipeline. On March 8th at 6 AM,
00:16:43they blew up an opening and exited into the industrial zone.
00:16:46The enemy was caught by surprise. This marked the beginning
00:16:49of the offensive, as a result of which the front was broken through by 20
00:16:53km. Participants of the stream operation were
00:16:57awarded special departmental awards, and they, in turn,
00:17:01presented a gift to the GRU leadership, which they
00:17:04brought from the special military operation zone. This.
00:17:07position was made by the scouts themselves from Donetsk
00:17:10steel fragments of ammunition. Soon
00:17:14it will take its rightful place in the GRU
00:17:17museum hall dedicated to modern operations
00:17:20of Russian intelligence. Once again, I say, now
00:17:23there is a complete revolution in intelligence. Drones, these
00:17:27UAVs, cyber intelligence, information
00:17:30wars, and so on. Now
00:17:33we are in a new world. Former CIA director John
00:17:36Brennan, speaking in Congress, reluctantly admitted
00:17:39that, unfortunately, he has respect for
00:17:42the capabilities of Russian intelligence. Perhaps
00:17:46the image in the minds of strategic partners often does not
00:17:49align with what Russian intelligence officers are capable
00:17:52of. Recently, one of the exploits of sniper Vitaly Shapovalov with
00:17:55the call sign "Ded" was declassified, in his track record, two Chechen
00:17:59companies "War in Syria, where he earned the nickname "anti-tank
00:18:03grandpa" for stopping".
00:18:05The group defended positions
00:18:37in the special military operation zone. Vitaly
00:18:41Shapovalov repelled three counterattacks, pulled
00:18:44two subordinates from under the rubble. And then, when
00:18:47an enemy drone hung over the position, he opened
00:18:50fire from his automatic rifle, distracting the drone to
00:18:53himself. He died, but saved his own.
00:18:57The title of Hero of Russia was awarded to Vitaly Shapovalov
00:19:00posthumously. The archives of military intelligence are never
00:19:04disclosed and never will be. disclosed, this is due to
00:19:07the specifics of military intelligence activities, and
00:19:10specific, as a rule, informational
00:19:13materials related to the preparation of certain
00:19:16works or historical research
00:19:19are disclosed. Iron self-control,
00:19:22heroism, and dedication are the rule
00:19:25in the GRU. This rule was followed by people who worked
00:19:28in New York in 1944,
00:19:31in Prague in 1968. Those who entered Pristina
00:19:35in 1999,
00:19:38those who walked through the pipe in Sudzha in 2025,
00:19:41and those who today look at the world from headquarters through the lenses
00:19:45of satellites and monitors of unmanned systems,
00:19:49intelligence does not like loud words, its victory is
00:19:52in silence, because if the service worked
00:19:56perfectly, the world will never know about it, it
00:19:59will simply wake up in safety, today
00:20:03we say thank you.
00:20:06Pavel Vedenyakin with
00:20:38you, please, take care of yourselves.
00:20:42No, no, I think if they do this,
00:21:15they will destroy the Democratic Party. There are no
00:21:19reasons for impeachment,
00:21:21what for impeachment, for the fact that the country
00:21:24is successful?
00:21:25Trump says somewhat timidly,
00:21:28and he stated that he is not afraid of impeachment by Democrats after
00:21:31the crushing defeat of the Republican Party in the midterm elections in
00:21:35the USA. How will the course of the United States change after Trump's
00:21:38party members lost control of the House of Representatives and
00:21:42the Senate. Today we will discuss in detail. This is a live broadcast. In
00:21:45the studio are Darina Borovik and Denis Kachanov.
00:21:48With the current news of the day: the Kremlin hopes that Donald Trump
00:21:51will not abandon efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine after
00:21:54the midterm elections in the USA. This was stated by Russian President's Press Secretary
00:21:58Dmitry Peskov. According to
00:22:00the latest data from the US elections, in the House of Representatives there are
00:22:04240 Democrats and 147 Republicans, that's
00:22:07how the seats were distributed. In the Senate, 54
00:22:10and 44. Meanwhile, the crushing failure of
00:22:14Republicans, the victory of Democrats, even in those states that always
00:22:17voted for the red. Michael Atiha Georgia, Ohio and Iowa - this
00:22:21is now the number one topic in the entire Western media space. So
00:22:24the Ratorc agency names five directions of US foreign policy
00:22:28that may change after the Democrats' loss. These are: limiting
00:22:32the military campaign against Iran, increasing aid to Ukraine, reviewing
00:22:36military support for Israel, cutting defense spending,
00:22:39restoring foreign aid programs blocked by Trump,
00:22:42as well as strengthening control over Washington's policy
00:22:45in Latin America, including actions in that the new Congress gets the opportunity to seek the return of sanctions against Russia, suspended after
00:23:02the Moscow-Washington agreement on diesel fuel. Well,
00:23:05the Washington Post writes that the failure of the Republicans may make
00:23:09Trump even less predictable in foreign
00:23:12policy. In addition, US Vice President JD Vance
00:23:14admitted, quote: "Relations with Israel are one of the reasons
00:23:18for the defeat of the Republican Party, but the main reason for our defeat was
00:23:21the war against Iran," end quote. By the way, Donald
00:23:25Trump partially agreed with this. Let's watch
00:23:28the video. In part, this is true, in the short
00:23:31term it led to some increase in gas prices. Probably
00:23:35so it is, but at the same time, if I had to make
00:23:39the decision again, I would have done exactly the same thing, because in
00:23:42the long term it is the only right
00:23:46path. In the US Senate, Chuck Schumer
00:23:50has already announced that he will seek an end to the war with Iran,
00:23:54this is what he stated: "Because of Trump's unpredictable judgments,
00:23:57the American people do not know what the hell we are fighting for in Iran."
00:24:01He never clarified it, he changes his mind day
00:24:05by day. This war must end. By the way, Donald
00:24:09Trump has already stated that he will become Mr. Veto and will begin
00:24:13to block any initiatives of Democrats with which he will not
00:24:16agree. In confirmation of his words. published a photo on his social media page
00:24:20of a baseball cap with the inscription veto. Well, American
00:24:23journalist Aker Carlson, who was once a staunch supporter
00:24:26of Trump, the Maga movement, and the Republican Party, summed up
00:24:29his results of the midterm elections in the USA.
00:24:33Let's watch. So, we can say, without
00:24:36exaggeration, without gloating, this is the end of the Trump era. After
00:24:39last night, it's all over. Everyone knew that the Republicans were facing
00:24:43a defeat because of the war in Iran. Everyone knew that, and they just
00:24:46wanted you to know that it's completely. We will discuss the US elections
00:25:10with Malik Dudakov, we ask him to the chair of the main hero
00:25:13with applause. Let's watch the material, then we'll talk.
00:25:17The Democratic
00:25:20Party, based on the results of the US congressional elections, receives more than
00:25:23250 seats in the Lower House and
00:25:2555-56 in the Senate. It wins
00:25:29literally everywhere, from North Carolina and Georgia to
00:25:33Michigan, Texas, and Kansas. In the latter
00:25:36state, Democrats win the Senate race for the first time
00:25:39in almost 100 years, since 1932.
00:25:42This is an even more serious success than the 2006
00:25:45elections, when Democrats managed to take both
00:25:48houses of Congress due to the unpopularity
00:25:51of the war, but with fewer seats than
00:25:54now. For the first time in 40 years, the state
00:25:58of Texas turned blue, and there, the Democratic Party took all the seats, both
00:26:01Senate and gubernatorial and other
00:26:04lower-level elected positions, but there is also a fly
00:26:07in the ointment in the barrel of democratic honey, immediately
00:26:10after such a triumph, their internal civil war
00:26:13will worsen, the socialists winning
00:26:16in many places, including Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan, will
00:26:20push the status quo to the left. Centrist Democrats will
00:26:24concentrate only on blanket criticism of Trump and investigations
00:26:28of corruption. The US President himself de facto acts as
00:26:32Nero, watching a burning Rome, while
00:26:35NATO bureaucracy got nervous. Bureaucrats in Brussels
00:26:39believe that Trump, after a painful defeat, may
00:26:42try to take it out on the alliance.
00:26:46Malik, well, finally the day has come, we have discussed so much in this studio
00:26:50with you, what the alignment will be, now everything is finally over, essentially,
00:26:53all our scenarios have, in some sense,
00:26:57come true, here we see the result.
00:27:01the victory of the Democrats, the other thing is that they won,
00:27:32of course, very overwhelmingly, right? That is, even I there
00:27:35gave them, say, 230 seats in the House of Representatives, in the end they take
00:27:39260 seats, that is, it is, of course, well, I don't think such a thing has happened
00:27:42since the eighties, right, such a large control, serious control over
00:27:45Congress, well, Democrats are confident that they received
00:27:49a complete carte blanche from voters to block any initiatives
00:27:52of Trump, especially of course the most unpopular ones, right, that is, what is Trump's most
00:27:56unpopular thing, the war in Iran and the provoked
00:27:59fuel crisis. The wave of inflation and trade wars, well, and in general
00:28:03the consensus opinion is that they lost all
00:28:07elections mostly because of Iran. The war was extremely popular,
00:28:10considering that your fuel prices have doubled since the beginning of this
00:28:14year, this led to an increase in inflation for everything. We understand that diesel is,
00:28:17excuse me, logistics, farmers, everything else. By the way, Trump
00:28:21lost all key American farming states, including
00:28:24Ohio, which voted for Republicans for 10 years non-stop,
00:28:28but in these elections they didn't make it, well, and of course, the defeat in
00:28:32painful, right, in Texas for half a century, in Kansas for almost 100 years,
00:28:35since 1932 there they, yes, imagine, the Great Depression, Roosevelt
00:28:39was elected for his first term, a completely different America, for the first time in 100 years, of course,
00:28:43they made history, so here, well, yes, it is worth noting that the war in Iran
00:28:46de facto buried Trump's presidency and buried the Republican Party, at
00:28:50least for the moment, this happened, now, what can the Democrats do and what will
00:28:54they do, well, look, they certainly have, I think, two main
00:28:57tricks in terms of leverage: first, everything
00:29:01that is called oversight in English, that is, control over what the
00:29:05executive branch does, the ability to initiate investigations, they
00:29:08are already, in general, this is a big clothing store, there is a fashion
00:29:12for that now, yes, and to initiate investigations against Trump in all
00:29:15directions, that is, I remind you that they still in September submitted
00:29:19for discussion eight articles of impeachment against both Trump and Defense
00:29:23Secretary Pete Hegseth, and these are articles of impeachment related to the beginning
00:29:26of military action in Iran without congressional approval, that is, violations of the constitution and Trump
00:29:30from
00:29:42power, but they de facto paralyze the work of his
00:29:48administration, right, that is, all bureaucrats will have to constantly
00:29:51attend hearings, give sworn testimony, that is, a lot
00:29:54of unpleasant things to do, yes, of course, and we understand that, you know, they
00:29:58will seize on any wrong word, that is, if you lied
00:30:02in sworn testimony, that's a criminal offense,
00:30:06it's clear that, of course, many will try to avoid this, simply resign,
00:30:09well, now we already see that Pete Hegseth, apparently, right away
00:30:13after the elections are dismissed
00:30:17will be made a scapegoat for all failures in Iran, perhaps,
00:30:21by the way, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will be the future US Secretary of War, but
00:30:25this is like a story for the future, so yes, the opportunities
00:30:28to create problems they will have a lot, well, the second point is budgets, here of course...
00:30:32the main powers are with Congress, I remind you
00:30:36that this year a historical event can also happen,
00:30:39for the first time in 65 years, Congress may not approve
00:30:43the military budget for next year, precisely because the Democrats are blocking
00:30:47tranches for the continuation of the war in Iran, this, of course, will be a story no budget, no war,
00:30:50an unprecedented story, imagine, no, formally, of course, theoretically, yes,
00:30:54Trump can still try to wage a confrontation without money, but
00:30:58when you have, excuse me, 2/3 there.