in addition, it became known about a letter with possible traces of the plague, which unknown criminals sent to the head of the french ministry of internal affairs, gerald de mardenau, along with threats. french investigators are leaning towards the version that left-wing extremists are behind the sabotage. more on all this in our story. in france , acts of vandalism are arranged during the olympic games. thus, in nine departments of the country, unknown persons cut fiber optic cables that provide broadband services throughout france. this was reported to bloomberg on july 29. a row of fibers fiber optic cables carrying broadband across france were cut overnight in the latest attack on the country's olympic infrastructure . the french telecommunications federation reported that fiber...electrical cables

were cut in nine departments in total, including rdèche, hauts, boujduron, drôme, erevoux cluj, marne, meuse and oaaza. it said the provider was using alternative routes to service customers, although the rerouting of traffic may have resulted in slower speeds. others operators also said their networks were affected. they also work on redirecting traffic. the representative of the prosecutor's office of poryza noted that the law enforcement officers are analyzing. situation with regional colleagues. and although the olympic games were not affected by the damage to the cables, this is the second sabotage of french infrastructure in the last few days. on july 26, saboteurs cut and set fire to specialized fiber-optic cables necessary for the safe operation of the railway network. as reported in reuters, 100,000 people were unable to board their trains that day. and another 150,000 faced delays but eventually got there. to

the destination. the pre-dawn attacks on friday damaged infrastructure along lines connecting paris to cities such as lille in the north, bordeaux in the west and strasbourg in the east. another attack on the paris-marseille line was foiled. on july 29, all trains resumed service, and french interior minister gérald darmanen said france was leaning toward the possibility that far-left extremists were on the loose. for railroad sabotage on the eve of the opening ceremony of the olympic games, reuters reported. we identified the profiles of several people, dermanin told a french tv channel, adding that the sabotage had the characteristics of far-left groups. large-scale sabotage, which literally chained france after the opening of the paris olympics, also testifies to the failure of french counterintelligence. although

a russian agent was detained the day before, who worked under the cover of a chef in a michelin chain restaurant, with the surname gryazno, in the french counter-report it was not possible to prevent actions of sabotage and sabotage. whether the french leftists participated in them independently is a question to which the french investigation must give an answer. however, it cannot be ruled out that they acted under the leadership. russian special services, well, so far the summer olympics in paris have firmly earned the reputation of the most scandalous, starting from the opening ceremony, which upset many christians around the world, and ending with the general background on security issues, many olympians were robbed, including members of the ukrainian national team . july 28 in

another presidential election was held in venezuela, after the announcement of nicolás maduro as the winner, mass protests began in the country's capital, caracas. the police and military opened fire, there are wounded and dead. according to the local cec, maduro allegedly received 51% of the vote. instead, his main challenger edmundo gonzalez and... opposition leader maría corina machado said they had received voting results showing that gonzalez has more than half the votes and is the real winner of the election. it is interesting that these elections exist part of the arrangements between the united states and the ruling regime. last october, maduro's government and the opposition, brokered by the united states, concluded the so-called barbados agreement. according to her, from venezuela. part of the sanctions were lifted, in particular

on the export of oil to the united states. instead, maduro pledged to hold democratic elections. sanctions were indeed lifted, but... later, the president of the vnsl began to trick. on the one hand, with the help of administrative resources, he prevented the leaders of the opposition coalition one from the elections platform, maria corina machado and corina joris. and he also tried to mobilize his own electorate with the help of hooray for patriotism, declaring claims to the territory of neighboring guyana. such actions almost led to an open armed conflict between. between the two countries, many democratic countries in latin america expressed doubts about the fairness and transparency of the elections and called on the venezuelan authorities to provide written confirmation of the results of the vote counting. what maduro never did. it is not surprising that

the election results were immediately recognized by the old maduro's allies, russia, china, iran, serbia, as well as the socialist regimes of bolivia and. nicaragua. according to analysts of the institute for the study of war, the united states of america, russia is trying in every way to demonstrate its success in creating an anti-western military coalition allegedly led by it. this time, the celebration of the navy day was used for a more militant effect. how it was, further in our story. russia has used navy day to showcase relations with a number of non-western nations as part of efforts to create an alleged of a group of states led by russia to unite against the west. this was reported at the institute for the study of war. ships of the navy, china, algeria and

india took part in the main naval parade in st. petersburg, and representatives of the 31st state, in particular. venezuela, vietnam, cuba, libya, myanmar, syria, qatar, uae and south africa took part in the events in st. petersburg. analysts also draw attention to the fact that russian deputy defense minister oleksandr fomin met with the commander of the chinese navy huzhong ming and the commander of the myanmar navy vinh thein to discuss further naval cooperation between these countries and the russian federation, and the minister of foreign affairs of russia sergey lavrov. on july 28, he met with the minister of foreign affairs of malaysia, mohamed hassan, and agreed on the expansion of russian-malaysian diplomatic contacts. it is also noted that the russian federation has recently intensified its cooperation with a number of these countries, including venezuela, cuba, india and vietnam. as

noted by the russian service of the bbc , there were no damaged ships in the parade until navy day in the russian federation or the destruction of which ukraine claimed during the last year of the full-scale invasion. during the broadcast of the main naval parade in honor of the navy day, only two ships of the black sea fleet were shown, they were the corvette mercury, which from 2024 performs tasks at the russian military base in tartus, syria, and the frigate admiral hryhorovych. but the black sea fleet itself was mentioned twice during the reports of the commanders of the fleets to the commander-in-chief of the navy. according to the announcer of the broadcast, servicemen of units and units of the black sea fleet at present were on combat duty to protect the southern borders of russia and performed tasks during a special military operation. at the same time, none of the ships that, according to the ukrainian side, were damaged

or destroyed in the black sea last year, including forces from other navies, were demonstrated. according to journalists' calculations, from 2022, the ukrainian military will have more than 20 russian ships and auxiliary ships of the russian federation. at the same time , the british ministry of defense confirmed that since the beginning of the war, ukraine has damaged or destroyed 26 ships of the black sea fleet of the russian federation. also in april 2024 , dmytro platenchuk, the spokesman for the naval forces of the ukrainian armed forces, reported that during the full-scale invasion , the russian black sea fleet lost about a third of its ships. if we speak in the language of numbers, then it is possible. talk about a third, but the qualitative indicator is also important, so there is a lot to work on. first of all, this concerns cruise missile carriers, which the russians have in a dozen areas of the black sea.

naval exercises conducted by russia have become the largest since 1970. that's when the soviet union held dedicated to the centenary. on the birthday of the leader of the world proletariat, vladimir ulyanov lenin , large-scale naval exercises called ocean-70. however, the difference between training then and now... is also striking. at that time, the naval forces of the ussr used about 100 warships. now their number has increased to 300. however, the main difference between this year's exercises and the previous ones is that the black sea fleet of the russian federation does not participate in them. and it happens for obvious reasons. more than a third of the combat part of the black sea fleet of russia was withdrawn from the composition by the ukrainian defense forces. in addition, the black sea fleet of russia was forced to completely leave the harbors of the occupied crimea and

move to novorossiysk. satellites also recorded the beginning of the construction of a large russian naval base on the territory of occupied abkhazia in ochamchir, where the russians plan to build a huge naval port that will be protected from attacks by ukrainian naval drones. dictator putin's main ambition is that. to to demonstrate the ability of russia's naval forces to counter the combined fleet of the united states and allies, primarily in the pacific region, precisely where russia has its two largest allies, china and north korea. by the way, the russian and chinese fleets recently held a joint naval parade in st. petersburg, and also took part in a joint patrol off the coast of the philippines. which is the united states' largest ally in the region, after japan and south korea. this program for

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is the verdict with serhii rudenko. creeping attack russian continues. zelensky says that the troops are tired and need rotation, but there is a lack of weapons for the new brigades. how long can a war of attrition last when russia has an industrial advantage. a budget hole of 500 billion. the government plans to close the deficit of public funds at the expense of domestic borrowing and a significant increase in taxes. or. will withstand the business, the additional burden during the war. the great coordinator andriy yarmak denies the growth of his influence on state decisions, but confirms the coordinating role in the office the president why are international partners worried about the system of government in ukraine? glory to

ukraine. this is the verdict program, my name is serhiy rudenko, i greet everyone and wish everyone good health. for the next two hours, we will talk about ukraine, the world, the war, and our victory. in the first part of our program, our guests will be, in particular , ihor lapin, special officer, officer of the armed forces of ukraine, yevhen magda, executive director of the institute of educational policy and economist, member of the council of the national bank of ukraine. vasyl furman, b in the second part of our program, which will start in an hour, we will have the traditional journalist club of kateryna nykrecha and olga musafirova. however, before starting our big conversation, i suggest you watch the video of how the second corvette built for the ukrainian fleet was launched today in turkey, it was named hetman ivan vyhovskyi,

the first lady of ukraine olena zelenska took part in the solemn ceremony. let's see. korveta, hetman, ivan vyhovskyi. long and successful life to you. be steady and reliable on protect the people who trusted you with their lives. bring and embody the best of both countries. of ukraine and turkey in defense of justice and peace.

to the ukrainian navy and death to the russian invaders. friends, we conduct polls throughout our broadcast. today we ask you the following question: do you expect gold medals from ukrainian olympians? yes, no, everything is quite simple on youtube, either yes or no, if you have your own separate opinion, please write it in the comments below this video. if you're watching us on tv, pick up your smartphone or phones and vote by numbers. if you expect gold medals from ukrainian olympians, 0.8 211 381 no 0800 211 382 all calls to these numbers are free, vote, at the end of the program we will sum up the results of this vote. i would like to introduce today's first guest, ihor lapin, major of the armed forces of ukraine, special officer, people's deputy of ukraine of the eighth convocation. mr. major, i welcome you,

thank you for joining our broadcast. glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. so, sir. major, let's start our conversation gradually russian advance in donetsk region. it has been going on for a long time that the russians are trying to advance in the east. the head of the pentagon, lloyd austin, said that the united states of america is concerned about the progress of russian troops in ukraine, but he is encouraged by ukraine's ability to attract more people to replenish the army. let's listen to what the secretary of defense of the united states of america said. we are concerned about any advance from russia, but i applaud what the ukrainians are continuing to do to make sure they can hold their own. i think you will continue to see that the russians and ukrainians are advancing somewhere, and retreating somewhere, but the ukrainians are very determined people, they have demonstrated this from the very beginning of this

conflict. mr. major, how do you assess the situation at the front today? well, let's be honest, we see serious risks of cutting off the logistics route pokrovsk -kostyantynivka, it's not a secret for anyone, russians, partly this wedge of theirs turns to the side, more to the side of pokrovsk, what you and i have talked about more than once, in parallel we see serious situations which looms over chasiv yar, it hasn't gone anywhere and it continues to be there, which worries me the most today, i do n't see anything that is comforting. after, let's say this, after the krynka bridgehead ceased to fulfill the function it was performing, it drew a colossal number of russian troops on itself, somewhere these vii'. which were stretched to the krynyk, somewhere they are now concentrating, according to my information, this is zaporizhzhia, the zaporizhia direction, and i would like to

see colossal fortifications, yermak's line and zelensky's line, at least the first and second line precisely in the zaporozhye direction. unfortunately, apart from the allocated millions of hryvnias for these lines, i do not hear such information that, relatively speaking, a normal fortification is being built there. i want to remind the audience that from the front line to zaporozhye there are several tens of kilometers, if i am not mistaken, 46 or 47 km, it is not so far, and if we recall the demands of the russian so-called svo, then it has already turned into the demands of war. and to the donetsk and luhansk regions, the russians still want to add zaporozhye and kherson regions, for they need this, of course zaporizhzhia too, well kherson of course, just there the river won’t let them cross like that now, and the antoniv bridge is not very close to... it looks good as a crossing to the right bank, but nevertheless this story exists, so i am observing such things, then the statement of the secretary of defense of the united states,

of course it is good that they are worried, but we do not have enough, we do not have enough cluster shells, we do not have enough anti-personnel mines, by the way, maybe there is a secret or not a secret for the audience , ukraine is a signatory to the convention regarding the non-use of anti-personnel mines, especially not on... but, as they say, radio judges, this is a very fig story, if we are talking about the front line, today's meat assaults of the russians could just be in our hands, as they say, these anti-personnel mines, and not only should we not use them, we should have disposed of them to the lion's share, it's not very good, so the meat assaults of the russians can be shot down with anti-personnel mines, they can be shot down with cluster munitions and, of course, fpv drones. it's a shame i can't see you today at the forefront of the still unified and scaled production of fpv drones like the first million of president zelenskyi. we

continue to release drones in garages, in kitchens, everyone releases what they can with software, as they say, that they found. and then the problem begins, the problem of the fact that the advanced drones have to solder something, flash it, but the most terrible thing for us today. it is the death of many brothers and sisters who make explosive shells for the same drones. there is no unified product and the state does not work in this direction at all, but you understand, right? that is, what is attached to the drones, it is all self-propelled. by this time, the production workers could have launched it, if there was, as they say, a state order from the ministry of defense and the will, the will to do exactly that. i don't know for whom. this, what can you call it, besides destroying the flower of the nation with your inaction, that's it, these are the problems with which, well, about which i talk every day, we continue to collect, volunteers

they collect what they can, although in principle it would be possible to do this, there are drone manufacturers who can scale production up to certain points, please make them a competition at the training ground, choose the five best examples, make, as they say, allowed... their scaling and let everyone work in the same algorithms, then the drone operator of one brigade will not think of working with drones when he gets to another place, or if the volunteer changes, or if the drone model changes, he will have understanding that they all work in the same sense, and of course ammunition, ammunition must be universal, on the one hand, it must perform cumulative functions in relation to russian armor, on the other hand, it must contain fragmentation elements, as they say, in order to hit live strength of the opponent. well, let's talk briefly, i will literally say one more thesis: there are half a million or so how many russian armies there are,

how many are there now on the territory of ukraine, well , they say 600 thousand, somewhere more or less, if if there were a million drones, that's two drones for one muscovite, we would have already, probably would have ended the war, but apart from the pr campaign by the president and apart from the loud statement about these million drones, i have not yet observed the supply of exactly drones from the side. in the state, i don’t know such units, maybe you have information about which unit is fully provided at the expense of the state, i don’t know such units, by the way, fedorov, the minister of digital transformation, he says that there will be be conducted transparently, some auctions, not auctions, and lots will be put up for the fact that... well, the state ordered these drones, that this should be a certain procedure, but it's been happening for so long, it's just not clear why,

why exactly this is happening, mr. major, in your opinion , what is missing in order for it to be a large production, since the russians very quickly took there and started to clip these drones? well, let's be honest, let's say how you can calculate the best manufacturers of combat drones in ukraine while lying on the couch, but how can you calculate all this? well, of course you are you can't count it, but if for the russian agents, they can, sitting on the sofa, calculate such manufacturers, which federo proposes to highlight now, i'll tell you, it will happen very simply, we with... go to transparent, look at what was announced by the stupid authorities tender, which is praised by fedorov's ministry of statistics, and then we go to the register of enterprises, and there are addresses there, then we find geolocation, we hammer this geolocation into the head of the next iskander and he flies there, we have already been there, we have already seen it, when the contractors were published the other day, who work with kb luch, and on december 29, if i'm not mistaken, a massive rocket attack destroyed a bunch of

enterprises that... were directly contractors of our design bureau of the luch design bureau. today, they want to make it clear that july is our month. zelenskyi said that there should be a million drones this year. july ended, august began, that is, by today we should already have, well, at least half a million finished products, which we should simply take to the military units. and they are going to some more tenders. a unified product is needed for the tender. there must be an order for specific parameters and characteristics, then it will be clear, but in addition to the laser itself, there is also software, there is also the firmware of this drone, these are also serious things, you will put them up for tender, or should some structure personally deal with this, which will be those drones , which are collected from shit and sticks in garages by people, then they should be stitched and done as it should be centrally, well , you know, this is if everyone has their own walkie-talkie

that will work... on their own frequency to some algorithms, well, that’s complete, complete nonsense, that’s why there must be production and the state must scale it, that is, if there is some kulibin, for example, i ’m talking with a guy there, he made a trench rap, and a reb to protect the equipment, reviews about he has very good ones, and what's the point, he even has this government already approved, and what's the point, they need to be scaled up, we have serious radio-electronic systems. struggles, such as bukovel or aipet, were once considered that, at their cost, $40 million would be enough for to close the entire front line, well , precisely where they are already needed, to close the donetsk luhansk direction there, if it is necessary to close the russian-ukrainian border completely, it means to buy more, but there are some products that are already in principles have a name, and they have this name earned in military operations, well, such should

be scaled. we see the russians have launched lancets, the russians are producing a bunch of geraniums there and so on, they actually increased the production of kha-101 missiles by eight times, and we announce a tender, well, we agree that there will be a tender later, only there will be no one to shoot from that tender, and the fact that the americans say that they are glad that we have the opportunity to involve more people in the war, we people will not drag out the war. we need wunderwaffle, because russians have more pig-dogs living on the territory of russia, 140 million. we cannot fight people against people, we will not leave here. oh yeah. well, by the way, mr. major, deputy chairman of the national defense strategy commission of the united states of america, eric eidelman, said during a senate hearing that america and its allies now produce fewer weapons than

russia, china, iran and north korea combined. muzyati, let's listen to what he said. our defense-industrial base is in a very bad state, the european defense-industrial base is in an even worse state. we need our industrial base, and their industrial base, and our allies in the pacific region. australia, japan, south korea, taiwan, they all need to step up their efforts. because what... russia, china, iran and north korea are beyond what we are capable of. mr. major, the conventional message of evil prevails over the conventional message of civilization. why can't our western partners compete with the axis of evil in the current conditions? well, democracy in general, it is regulated by any procedures.