this is russia 24. right now the main facts of this day. the initiative is behind russia, production is being increased, all targets will be the ministry of defense. the peculiar results of the year and the main topic are, of course, the progress of the special military operation. the president called 2023 a busy year and expressed to those who. fighting on

the front line, special words of gratitude. according to vladimir putin, russia is not going to give up its goals. moreover, the troops have the initiative; all attempts by kiev , with massive western support, to inflict russia is defeated, the president noted that the west continues to wage a hybrid war against russia, the north atlantic alliance is aggressively approaching our territory, but the special operation itself showed that it is improving, although, of course, there is still a lot to be done. the minister of defense spoke about specific figures; according to sergei shaigu, losses in the ukrainian armed forces during the so-called summer, summer-autumn offensive contour amounted to 159 military personnel, 121 aircraft (760). six tanks, including 37

leopards, 2348 armored vehicles, of which 50 bradleys. the total losses of the ukrainian army during the entire special operation exceeded 383,000 people killed and wounded. shaigui said that the west supplied kiev with more than 5.00 tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, dozens of aircraft, plus $200 billion in direct aid, which exceeds the entire gdp of ukraine. at the same time russian.

it was a busy year for the armed forces; soldiers and officers solved all problems during a special military operation, courageously and professionally. the assessment that the president gave while speaking at an extended meeting of the board of the ministry of defense. chapter the state noted that the fighters on the front line today ensure the sovereignty of the country at the global level, thanked everyone, the leadership and personnel, and honored the memory of those who gave their lives for their homeland with a minute of silence. people. support for the defenders of the fatherland, the patriotic spirit of the absolute majority of the country's citizens, the unity and cohesion of people of different nationalities and religions, this is a reliable, indestructible support for our army and navy, we will always be faithful to the cause for which our comrades in arms gave their lives, i ask you to honor them memory. it was thanks to the courage of the russian

soldier that the myth of the invulnerability of western technology collapsed, and this soldier, no matter whether he was a contract soldier or a mobilized one, should not need anything, neither shells, nor money, nor the necessary assistance. all participants in the special operation, military personnel, contract soldiers, volunteers, mobilized citizens, fighters of individual formations, militias. whose military path began back in 2014, i repeat, all defenders of russia, the families of our fallen heroes, our comrades, must receive equal guarantees, this is the principle of justice and military brotherhood. this fully applies to obtaining milestone status, including for the families of our fighters. the ministry of defense, together with other departments and regions, must be resolved quickly. the problem that arises here

is to ensure that payments are made on time in full. in general, the system of benefits, compensation, and additional payments in the armed forces itself will have to. continue to improve. this concerns our work on housing and social programs for military personnel to improve the military towns and garrisons. we will definitely continue to work in this direction. the supreme commander-in-chief formulated a number of priority tasks that must be solved first. among them are equipping with the most modern weapons and equipment and timely supply of troops participating in the northern military district and number one on the list. maintaining the combat readiness of strategic forces at the highest level. this year, thanks to the consistent implementation of the state armament program, the efficient work of defense enterprises, the level of modern weapons and equipment in the strategic nuclear forces, in

general increased to 95%. and the marine components are almost 100%. strategists will be on combat duty in the missile forces until the end of the year. 15 launchers will be delivered , four submarines have received bulava ballistic missiles, the aviation component is being modernized, in particular, four tu-160m missile launchers have arrived. we must continue to maintain the combat readiness of strategic forces at the highest level; all plans approved in this area will certainly be implemented. here vladimir putin reminded once again, returning to the causes of the current conflict. now it is obvious that the west has been preparing for it for decades, relying on ukraine on ukrainian nationalists who were striving for power, and who were hampered by the russian-speaking southeast, so the bloody maidan

was unleashed ; the foreign curators simply could not tolerate the donbass, which did not want to submit, any longer. the west, with an emphasis on...

as if with the best intentions, is scaring europe and russia, saying that if it wins in ukraine, your devil will come. united leadership the states say: if nato is there, if it’s in ukraine now, then russia will win, the next nato countries, but why do we need these nato countries? we never need them, they say, to induce them to pay money, that’s why. united states. having solved these problems of the current plan, which means, having, as it were, torn off, as they believe, ukraine, severed russia’s relations with europe, in this regard they achieved what they wanted, unfortunately, we simply could no longer behave differently, or it was necessary to hand over everything

to watch them slurp, eating everything, ours is originally russian, we couldn’t do that, they understood that we were... russia and europe. however, the interests of europe are the business of europe itself. russia will continue to defend its own and will not allow anyone to neglect them. in the political consciousness of many.

in ukraine, in fact, they deprived us of the chance to build relations with this country in a normal political way, they... acted and went, as our people say, sorry for the maviton, in lawlessness, simply, in the fourteenth year they committed everything , let's go, and further go through this chaos, well they simply forced us to respond to this chaos, but kiev’s own interest, according to historical and geopolitical logic, should have been connected with russia, because it was our country that could have been the guarantor of the sovereignty and integrity of ukraine, but they accepted it. another decision, when the soviet union was created, was transferred just like that, along with the population

, huge historical territories to russia, huge potential invested colossal resources in this entire territory, only russia could be the guarantor of the territorial integrity of ukraine, they don’t want it, don’t, history will put everything in its place, we won’t interfere. but we won’t give up ours, that’s what everyone should understand, in ukraine, those who are aggressive towards russia and in europe, in the united states, want to negotiate, let them negotiate, but only based on, we will do this based on our interests, russia he will continue to proceed only from his own interests, he will not be able to do this, i quote the president who made the appeal. to the military, you now have everything, and your homeland expects return from you. yes, thank you, it

was anastasia efimova, about the main words vladimir putin at an extended meeting of the board of the ministry of defense. well, now in more detail about what sergei shaigu told his colleagues, stanislav vasilchenko, who listened attentively to the statement of the minister of defense of our country, will stand before the department next year. hello, i’ll tell you about everything in order. sergei shaigu began the extended meeting of the board of the ministry of defense with a short summary of the successes of the military special operation. the minister recalled that during its holding, four new regions became part of the russian federation, lpr, dpr, zaporozhye and kherson region, and this total population is about 5 million people, about 3 million more refugees returned to their native lands and met relatives whom they had not seen since 2014. in addition, railway traffic from donbass, which was, among other things, destroyed

by the armed forces of ukraine, has been stopped; we are talking about thousands of kilometers of railway tracks. now, according to the russian minister of defense, russia continues to increase its combat power, so the aerospace forces, for example, are receiving new combat vehicles, ships, and enterprises of the ministry of defense today work around the clock, the production of military equipment has been increased fourfold. in order to meet the needs of the armed forces , enterprises of the military-industrial complex have grown fourfold, increased their capacity and switched to round-the-clock operation. since february 2022, that is, since the beginning of the special military operation , armored personnel carriers have been withdrawn 3.6 times, 3.5 times unmanned aerial vehicles, 16.8 times, artillery ammunition, which...

specialties, today, by the way, are popular it is precisely unmanned aviation that is used, including the control of fpv copters. in general, interest is growing, new military schools are opening, including those russians who were not associated with a military career. well, what else did sergei shaikov say about this desire? every day more than one and a half thousand people apply for military service. this year alone , about 490 thousand

contract and volunteer military personnel were recruited. more than 400 russian students voluntarily took academic leave to perform combat missions. the number of foreign volunteers willing to fight on the side of truth has increased 7 times. the minister of defense paid special attention to military medicine. she is today. is also making great progress, that’s exactly what the minister of defense said. high results have been achieved in medical support. first aid on the battlefield is provided as close to the line as possible.

as for 2024, the russian military will continue to conduct a military special operation, special attention today will also be paid to the patriotic education of youth, there will be attention is focused on training the military and the coherence of their work in military units, the volume of production of military equipment and military equipment will continue to increase, and of course military exercises such as ocean will be held. these are the results of the meeting natalia, yes, stanislav, thank you, stanislav vasilchenko spoke about the data of the ministry of defense on the course of the special military operation and about the priorities for the next year. to avoid spending too much,

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russian prime minister mikhail mishustin , prime minister of the state council of the kanr letyan, today we signed a joint agreement on which we managed to agree with the chinese country, we learn from our own correspondent alexander baletsky. he comes into direct contact with the facts. alexander, hello, so, what details of the negotiations, details of the agreements do you know? well, an impressive package of agreements was signed today following a meeting between russian prime minister mishustin and his chinese colleague, premier of the state council kenr litsyan, 10 documents, and many, of course , are of such a framework nature, but they determine the direction of the work of russian and chinese ministries and departments, this is also a document on interaction between the ministries of finance. and customs services, and an agreement on the development of such investment cooperation and general work in the field of energy, and it is clear, of course, that a lot of work, simply colossal, has been

done since the previous meeting of the heads of government of russia and china, here in beijing they met in may, then there was a synchronization of watches in bishkeki, but today there is this kind of summing up of the work that essentially became the implementation of large political agreements between the leaders of our countries. russian-chinese relations. are experiencing the best period in their history, their further strengthening meets the long-term interests of both countries. we have developed a special model of interstate cooperation, based on mutually respectful, equal, trusting dialogue. collaboration on in such significant areas is being carried out under the strategic leadership of the leaders of our countries. in the context of tectonic changes in the modern world, chinese-russian relations are able to withstand. tested by international turbulence, this became possible due to the fact that we have taken the right path of building interstate relations and are creating an example of a new type of relations between world powers,

characterized by mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and mutual benefit. but it is clear that the highest simply, of course today the level of trust between our countries, this is also possible, thanks to the same highest trust between the leaders already, and... today i conveyed greetings from president putin to my chinese colleague, and of course condolences to all the chinese people at night in the provinces of ganzu and qinghai, as you know, unless, of course, the chinese country deems it necessary, but in general moscow and beijing always support each other in the international arena and in the economic field, but the result of such mutual support is, of course, a colossal increase in trade turnover, for the first time crossed the 200 billion dollar mark, almost 220 billion already, and earlier than planned, we completed the task ahead of schedule...

joint initiatives with chinese partners, we are also launching new projects in the automotive industry in the gas and chemical mining sectors. well, you see, probably, even how steamy the russian delegation is, beijing greeted it today as simply anomalous for here. places and frost for this time of year, it immediately became clear that - the next indicator is also the power of siberia 2, it is now planned through mongolia, but also returning to the documents signed today, an important issue concerns agriculture: for the first time in 15 years, it was possible to agree on the supply of russian pork to china, which will begin next year, but given the appetites, of course, the chinese, well, after all, almost one and a half billion people for russian suppliers , this, of course, will be a real golden klandike, well , tomorrow the russian prime minister, the head of the russian government michal mishustin will have a program here... in beijing it will continue, it is the relationship between our countries and how trusting dialogue is now possible between moscow and beijing. yes, alexander, the weather itself suggests that

we can’t do without russian energy resources. my colleague alexander baletsky is following the russian-chinese negotiations. in other topics: paris is working with allies to stop yemen's houthis from attacking commercial ships in the red sea. the minister stated this. our special correspondent in the middle east, stanislav bernwald, stanislav, hello, the operation in the red sea is taking place on the initiative of the united states, is there already some information about how exactly the americans intend to fight the houthi threat. yes, hello, well, while we are talking about joint patrols, about any specific military operations, nothing has been announced yet. ministry of defense military operation. spain, canada, the netherlands, norway, seychelles and france, that's

what the minister said. defense of the united states. this morning we launched operation prosperity guardian, which involves international maritime forces. this operation brought together more than a dozen countries from around the world. they will conduct joint patrols in the red sea and the gulf of adon. i know that you all remember the motto of our forces and are ready to act together. and it is in this spirit that all our countries, including mine, work. states, as well as france and great britain, according to information received from the satellite, the american ismeniki are located 188 nautical miles southeast of the entrance to the bepalmandep strait, connecting the gulf of anden with the red sea south of yemen, in addition to all this the netherlands.

informs that they are ready to provide military officers for the us operation guardian of prosperity to ensure security in the red sea, this was stated by the minister of defense of this state, this is what she said: attacks on ships in the red sea undermine freedom of navigation and pose a great danger to ships' crews. led by the united states, the netherlands and many other like-minded countries are joining forces to ensure freedom and safety of navigation. guardian of prosperity. well, maybe also to coalition ships soon.