hello, the evening news is on the air, ekaterina berezovskaya is in the studio, here are the main topics. the presidential elections are on day two, the turnout in the country as a whole is already above 51%. our correspondents have all the latest information. in moscow, you have another 2 hours to get to the polling stations.

a comprehensive fire strike on terrorists and equipment, the next attempts of ukrainian saboteurs to penetrate our territory were stopped and in one air strike they destroyed 300 militants of the national formation, a report on the devastating operation to the minister of defense. common history, common values ​​and common future forever. exactly 10 years ago , a referendum on reunification with our country was held in crimea. beijing. skushchonka. for the first time in the celestial empire , shrovetide is celebrated so widely. russian flavor is literally in everything. so, presidential elections in our country. second day. almost 4 million people have already voted in moscow with help. this was reported to the mostgorizberkom.

there are over 2,200 sites open in the capital and there is still time to get there. they are open until 8:00 pm. despite the difficult situation in the belgorod region, people also vote and admit, they cannot be intimidated. now is the time when the country chooses its future. many well-known politicians also voted on the second day of elections. more details about everything, anatoly lazarev. hello. hello. the passport is also ours. on the second day of voting , polling stations are no less crowded than on the first. during my three-year practice as chairman, it was actually quite such a first active day, a large flow of people, mostly pensioners in the morning, they came at 8 am, most importantly, the very first, joyful ones came to vote, to vote individually and as whole families, this is our duty, to be aware of the responsibility for what is happening in the country, so it is very important to come and vote and i...

i hope that a good future awaits us, as he grows up, well, this is the conscious position of everyone of us, a responsible approach , to express our opinion, we hope for a strong russia , we believe in it, we love it, so you must vote , of course, and we are for a strong president, at polling stations in moscow you can vote on a regular ballot, or you can electronic sergei petrovich, you can vote electronically through a crime, or on a paper ballot, whichever you prefer, we are interested in paper ballots. to show this, prime minister mikhail mishustin chose the third option, he voted electronically, but remotely at his workplace. i would like to thank everyone who has already marked their electronic or paper ballot for participating in such a significant event for the country. and appeal to those who have not yet made a decision with a request to vote. it's about the future russia, about the new opportunities that will appear for each of you and us, for our children. for the next generations, make your

choice for the sake of your loved ones and for the sake of the development of the country. the official representative of mitrossia , maria zakharova, voted at one of the sites on leningradskoye shosse; the head of the ministry of construction, iraq faizulin , immediately held a meeting on the spot in the building of the presidium of the russian academy of sciences on the overhaul of the building. health minister mikhail murashko voted online in his office. in recent years, our country has received colossal development and... the field of healthcare, including, i vote for stability, for the development of our state, for the development of the industry. i urge each of you to make your choice, to vote for the development of our country. voting is often a family event, the ldpr presidential candidate leonid slutsky, for example, came to the polling station with his mother, and the governor of the moscow region with his sons, the presidential election is a special date, today i came with my sons. i want to thank everyone who

votes, everyone who comes to the polls polling stations who work at polling stations. violinist pyotr luntser game sergei koryakin came to liberated avdeevka and sinovataya, visited... in difficult conditions we have to vote these days and the residents of the belgorod region are struck by the armed forces of ukraine, but this is the other way around, it only motivates people more to go to the polling stations, shelling by shelling, well we must stand and endure all this and, as it were, with the strength to enter into

a new life. now the situation is such that everyone needs to somehow unite and support. their defenders, all people need to rally in order somehow it was good, nothing can scare us anymore , god grant that our country prospers. this is the mood in the zaporozhye region, which is not far from the front line. it is not for nothing that the constitution of the russian federation says that everyone has the right to be elected and vote, so i urge everyone to come to the polling station, vote, not be afraid of anything, everything will be russia. for the first time , voters from new territories are participating in the presidential elections in russia; then, international observers are monitoring how the process goes; for example, they visit a polling station in zaporozhye, here in dagestan they are studying with interest the work of kaibs, apparatus for processing ballots, such machines exist only in russia; in total, more than 700 foreign

specialists from 106 countries are accredited. we see that young people can vote on the internet on platforms provided by the state, and older people who are technically not so... voting, for example, via telephone, at 19:59 the system will still issue digital ballots, and after that there are 15 minutes to make your choice. anatoly lazarev, dmitry belov, olga gerosimenko, ilya zhurovlev. first channel. russian presidential elections are taking place abroad, with polling stations organized in several dozen

countries. in thailand , a mobile voting took place in the resort of pattaya, there was a huge queue there, and they even had to extend the work of the polling station. the election commission of our embassy sent. a point of additional employees with a supply of ballots, our compatriots who are in india at the polling stations there are also busy doing their civic duty, the main election day abroad is sunday. but all data on the progress of voting in the presidential election continues to flow into the central election commission, the second day is ending. the turnout across the country, according to the latest data, was almost 52%. among the leaders in voter activity.

using electronic voting terminals, turnout in the capital was more than 48%, in st. petersburg more than 43%. among the leaders now are the kemerovo region, tyva, chukotka, the jewish autonomous region, the chechen republic, the belgorod region, yamala, nenets autonomous okrug, high activity in new

regions, presidential elections are being held there for the first time, as usual, companies tried to interfere from abroad, the start of voting was blocked. 160 thousand attacks on remote electronic voting resources, the main attack was carried out directly by the voting portal.

i visited a polling station in the moscow region, chose the traditional method, and filled out a paper ballot. my dear fellow citizens, donate, somewhere an hour, somewhere two, and somewhere 10 minutes, who vote remotely, and vote, there is a choice, and most importantly, our choice is a strong, independent, powerful russia.

area of ​​15 shells that militants fired from czech multiple launch rocket systems at vampire. kiev's attempts to strike again were thwarted. previously, three massive attacks were recorded in belgorod itself. according to authorities, two people were killed, the driver of the truck that was hit by the shell and a woman. at the time of the shooting she was on the street. several people were injured. the surveillance camera recorded how one of the ammunition hit a car parked in the parking lot. she exploded. in total, more than 150 were damaged. russian units stopped

attempts by ukrainian saboteurs to enter our territory from popovka in the sumy region. as our ministry of defense said, groups of militants were heading towards the villages of spodaryushina and kazinka , belgorod region. comprehensive fire damage was inflicted on terrorists and equipment. the enemy was identified using aerial reconnaissance. the blows were inflicted including using drones. as a result of air strikes and fire. after the reconnaissance report , we seemed to try to complete everything as quickly as possible, as if without delay, because they could also fly in response, we left, turned around, started working on them, and eventually hit the target. well, as for the work of our military personnel in the special operation zone in the donetsk direction, as a result of active

actions, the units destroyed the manpower of several brigades of the ukrainian armed forces at once. the enemy's weapons were disabled, including a british howitzer, an american gun, in the avdeevsky sector, the group center improved the situation. a self-propelled gun made in great britain and an artillery system from the usa were eliminated. in addition, joint strikes hit a drone assembly shop in the sumy region and temporary deployment points for militants. four control points for drones of the armed forces of ukraine. enemy losses in all directions amount to over 900 militants. about the current situation in all areas of the special operation, to the minister of defense sergei. shaig was told during his visit to the headquarters of the joint groupings of troops. the head of the defense department heard reports from commanders on the nature of the enemy’s actions and what tasks our units were performing. particular attention to the effectiveness of counter-battery warfare. the minister was shown how enemy targets are hit. here is the building where up to 300 militants were located at the krakin

fuel and lubricants warehouse. this means that while we were flying over we did some additional reconnaissance, and it’s still burning. the fuel warehouse is on fire. sent to our country, on instructions from kiev he was supposed to lay down the railway along special homemade devices to prevent the movement of trains with cargo for the air defense system. the criminal confessed to his crime, we are cooperating with the investigation. a historical choice to be with russia forever, a choice for the sake of yourself, your children and grandchildren, for the sake of a common, happy and prosperous future, for the sake

of our memory, culture and values. today is exactly 10 years since the event. referendum, during which the majority of residents of crimea and sevastopol voted for reunification with our country, and already on march 18, 2014 an agreement was signed on the admission of the republic of crimea and sevastopol to russia. it would seem that 10 years is what it is in the scale of history, but the changes on the peninsula are colossal, as the residents themselves say. report by vitaly katchenko. crimea, russia. ten-year-old boys and girls, the same age as that same crimean woman.

we move forward with confidence. there were lines at the polling stations even before the opening, people were afraid they wouldn’t have time to vote. they went to the referendum with their families, young people and old people, great patriotic war veteran anatoly mikhailovich sotnikov, who recently celebrated its centenary, calls the spring of 2014 the second most important, after the victorious spring of 1945. the crimean spring is the joy of the soul, it is the living blood of our people.

for my boys it was some kind of balm , some of them were afraid of it all, and how they lived , how they insulted everything, and when i was already after that. forgiveness went to ipatoria, and my people called, they say we will put sand on the windows, because threats were pouring in, and the goal is to return us to the maidan, to bring us to our knees, we had to protect our guys, protect our families, and today, abesov’s grandson andrei has been defending russia at the front since the first day of the special operation. the main task is to protect our

sovereignty, our state, all peoples. legendary, polite people played a decisive role in the defense of crimea. on february 27, they took the government building under guard, did not allow armed radicals from ukraine to enter crimea, and ensured peaceful reunification. the crimean spring, as chairman of the federation council valentina matvienko noted in her congratulations, became the assembly point of the new russia. in 2014 our society has indeed acquired a new quality, the quality of spiritual unity, a new degree of strength, cohesion and... russia's success today in resisting western aggression, our invincibility, both in the broad sense and on the battlefields of the northern military district, is a clear... confirmation of this. this decade was a time of rapid development of crimea. i think you and i have something to be proud of.