that year, the soviet and mongolian wars decisively repulsed the japanese aggressors, defending the sovereignty and territorial integrity of mongolia. the bonds of military brotherhood that have united the peoples of our countries to this day are a reliable basis for friendship, cooperation and good neighborliness. i am confident that this legacy must be passed on to future generations. today we will lay flowers at the ulaanbaatar memorial to one of the creators of the victory on khalkhengol, soviet marshal georgy konstantinovich zhukov. it is symbolic that recently in choi bolsan, a city that bears the the name of the famous mongolian commander of the khalfengol battles, another monument was opened. in our country, they remember and appreciate the assistance that mongolia provided to the ussr during the great patriotic war, as well as the combat support during the defeat of the kwantung army in 1945. we are waiting for you, mr. president, in moscow, next may.

it was a special military operation of that time, because no one declared war on anyone, and the special military operation on khalfengol, it completely fulfilled the tasks that it set for our troops the leadership of the soviet union. first, japan, well, it was effectively defeated. then japan learned a serious lesson for the future, when hitler attacked us, japan did not join him, although it would seem that the moment for this was very good. well

, the mongolian people, they are still grateful to us for preserving the territorial integrity and statehood of mongolia, this is a good platform for the development of our relations, indeed, this is the story that allows us to look confidently into the future of our bilateral relations, we must to say that well, we had difficulties in relations with mongolia, the americans were very active there, pressure continues on mongolia, as on other countries in...

with the russian federation within the framework of its peaceful, independent, open and multi-vector foreign policy. we are committed to the idea of ​​multi-vector in international relations based on respect for pluralism, arising from history, culture, civilizational features, national interests and different development paths of countries. we are confident that our neighbor, the russian the federation will become a leader in the establishment of peace, security, sustainable development and well-being of mankind throughout the world, and will also make its own. peace, security, sustainable development, well-being of mankind throughout the world, that's right, because now before our eyes two systems of world governance are being created, yes, one system, it is weakening, and the americans are trying to strengthen it, in the pacific

basin, they are trying to create a new system of military blocs, bases, and this is intended to preserve them, their... in china, vietnam, korea, now in mongolia, this is an integral part of the efforts to create a new architectonics, architecture.

it is fortunate that putin was the third, in ulaanbaatar, in mongolia, because we must understand that history has a subjunctive mood, whatever anyone says, it has a subjunctive mood, so, since i am actively involved in history, i remember and want to remind you that on august 29, 1941, japan was supposed to enter the war against the soviet union, striking siberia and the far east, in accordance with the kontoku n plan agreed upon with berlin. why didn't it happen? for several reasons. one of the reasons is that, those bruises that were made on khalkhengol.

the second reason is that we had a million-strong army on the border with manchuria, the part of china occupied by the japanese, despite the fact that they were going.

he, too, is largely from there, namely from the empire of the genghis khans. therefore, yes, our ties, they are, in fact, even much deeper than...

the servile european union expressed concern to mongolia in connection with the visit of russian president vladimir putin, since they signed legally null and void statute of the international criminal court, comply. the mongols sent the mus and eurodegenerates in the direction of the russian-mongolian known since the 12th century. if i were in the place of the judges and prosecutors of this unfinished court, i would be most afraid of the fact that some madman would try to execute their illegal order. in that case, their lives will be worth no more than this piece of shit paper. is that how ukraine got excited? well, zelensky probably remembered that his father was once part of the soviet union one of the founders.

in his case, and everything is so tightly connected there, the mining industry, our railways, our track standards, that is , we are connected with mongolia, all the people in mongolia of my age, yes older, they all know russian, and russian was the second state language in mongolia, actually, all the time of the soviet union, especially after the great patriotic war, so it seems to me that our people, the people of mongolia, well, roughly speaking, do not care deeply. about what is heard from kiev today, why? because what the studio has sounded here, a new world order is being formed, in which in the near

future, nezelensky, not the united states will not be heard, why? because there will be common sense, well, and there will be sovereign states, and mongolia is a sovereign state, which in general, well, okay , mus, although i don’t know why they recognize this jurisdiction of this organization with the letter g, but what to do, but when ... it is necessary, they do not recognize it and they are right to do so, a serious question has been in recent years in relations with mongolia, this is an energy issue related to force siberia-2, with other projects, the americans stood to the death against our cooperation in the energy sector, they put a lot of pressure on us, listen to what putin said today about our cooperation in the gas energy sector. we see good prospects for cooperation in the gas sector. the development of design documentation for the soyuz vostok gas pipeline

, almost 100 km long, which will connect russia, mongolia and china, has been completed. this is not just about the transit of russian gas through mongolia, the possibility of supplying this fuel and for mongolian consumers. gazprom is ready to provide the necessary support in practical issues of gasification of the country. our partnership in the energy sector is not limited. to the export of hydrocarbons. the russian company interao expects to join the modernization and reconstruction of the ulaanbaatar tec-3. help in the installation of new equipment to triple the generating capacity of the station. this will improve the reliability of supplying residents of the capital of mongolia with light and heat. russia will continue to supply mongolian consumers electricity. we are also open to the implementation of joint projects. in the field of peaceful atomic energy based on the most modern and safe russian technologies, including

the use of small-module reactors, this can only be welcomed, because infrastructural ties, when they arise, they are in fact a guarantee of everything, including good relations, including the fact that mongolia will be oriented towards russia, and not the west, yes, although the fact that it ratified the statute of the university and... president, yes, that is, in this regard, it still considers itself as an object of competition between the west and the non-west, and

if infrastructural arguments arise, and energy arguments are extremely weighty, then this is already a full-fledged return of russia to its zone of influence, because mongolia, after all , developed primarily through soviet investments throughout the post-soviet period, the restoration of these ties will make russia's position stronger, not only in mongolia, but in china, but not to mention the fact that the power of siberia is an extremely important infrastructure russian-chinese project, and the fact that mongolian president brix, it is obvious that the negotiations were quite successful, well , it should be noted that our ministry of defense took part in this meeting, quite actively, military-technical cooperation is developing, in particular, here is the minister of defense alexei fomin, who represented the ministry of defense there, answering the question: will russia train mongolian pilots on captured american f-16 fighters in the future,

replied that in fact our aviation is the best in the world, and smilingly added that russia can train... mongolian specialists so that they can then shoot down f-16s, so our cooperation is very, very fruitful, and in general it must be said that this week, get ready already, tv viewers, will have a serious eastern bias, because the eastern economic forum opens today in vladivostok, they are expecting the president of the russian federation there, he is actually already, i think, on his way to vladivostok, so the eastern vector works, well, what... goes to the fronts of a special military operation, after the commercial with boris rozhin, in the new season on the first, i flew in an hour ago, i have people, but i threw things straight to you, nenal, you are so good, you are so lucky with her, we foisted a copy on this rich guy under the guise of a real monet, he looks boldly, a guy, a good family,

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here in the studio gathered 100 players from all over our country, on this stage will appear the main characters, these are mothers, fathers, children, i 'm dialing your number, parents, grandmothers, networks, mothers-in-law, like...

maybe it's one of ivanushki? the first thing that came to my mind, i don't know why - relatives, the premiere of the season, september 7, on saturdays, on the first. two stars, fathers and sons, the final. on sunday on the first. over the past 7 years, there have been 17 hostage takings. i'll blow myself up. is that clear? k unfortunately, the statistics are not encouraging. shut up , everyone, from this second you are all hostages, have you gone crazy, aren't they children? my name is zaitsev, gennady nikolaevich, i am the head of the operation to free your children, if you

do not show bright, most decisive victories in the near future that will surprise the whole world, what the hell do we need you for, the path is difficult, there are many enemies around, try to figure out who is who, if necessary, they would not ask you, they appointed you, that's it, go to work, and i ask you, are you taking on this matter or not, i'll take it, stepan, what are your demands, for a start we demand eight machine guns, can you hear me, eight, eight, please save my friends, if any of the children get hurt, our negotiations will lose their meaning. get ready to storm, premiere, commander,

soon on the first. big game live. the russian defense ministry made a statement on the results of our high-precision systems' strikes on ukrainian military infrastructure. let's listen. aircraft shot down by air defense systems mik-29 of the ukrainian air force, three us-made hymer rockets and 37 unmanned aerial vehicles. well , in addition, serious strikes were carried out on kharkov, dnepropetrovsk, pavalograd, zaporozhye. there, our high-precision systems work very, very effectively, well , our troops continue to advance on the battlefield. boris aleksandrovich rozhen is closely

monitoring what is happening on the line of combat contact. boris aleksandrovich, good afternoon, you have the floor. and good afternoon, what i wanted to say is to attribute the strikes, to say that there was a highly productive flight in poltava on the concentration of the ukrainian armed forces, there is a huge number of killed and wounded, that is, the exact figures will be known closer to the evening. but recently these are some of the largest one-time losses in one blow, that is, today during the day we are waiting for information regarding the situation on the front, our troops in the direction continue to conduct offensive actions, our active actions continue to the north of rabotin and verbovoye on the rabotin salient, we also continue to actively operate in the area urozhayny, the front is moving in the ugledar area, our troops are fighting for the territory of the yuzhno-donbasskaya mine, on the other hand, our troops have almost completely taken the village of prichistnika to the west of ugledar. now the road from velyka novosyolovka to ugledar is actually cut off, the obvious intention is to bypass ugledar from both sides and force the enemy to retreat, battles for the private sector to the north of krasnogorovka are also continuing,

in the krasnoarmeyskaya direction our troops are fighting navselidova, there is progress there, there are battles in the area of ​​grodovka, novogrodovka, there are battles on the outskirts of mirnograd, also our troops continue to press to the south in the direction of gornyak with the aim of removing the enemy to retreat from nevelskoye and the communication line already. today the enemy began to withdraw part of its forces from the nevelskoye area, accordingly here we will soon see the advance of our troops, in the area of ​​newa, former new york in the area of ​​dzirzhinsk our troops continue to advance, to the west of novgorodskoye there is advancement, the assault on nelepovka continues, there are serious advance in derzhvinsk, also continues the clearing of the area of ​​the settlement of druzhby, here we are also moving, in the area of ​​chasya our troops have advanced beyond the canal, also our troops have crossed the canal already to the western part of kalinovka. this means that on the seversky ledge our troops are expanding the zone of control in the area of ​​the liberated excavation, also more has been liberated, well, no more than somewhere around 60 percent of the crossing, and well, again

traditional battles continue in the remaining areas, on krasnolimansky without changes, svatovo-kupyansky direction continues battles for the northern, eastern and southern parts of makeyevka, battles continue in the area of ​​stermakhovka, most of which is already under our control, and we are advancing in the area of ​​peschanoye, well, in the kharkov direction, there are positional battles in... thank you boris aleksandr rozhen with fresh information from the fronts of the special military operation, the dynamics are clearly in our direction and very active. well, the enemy, what does he not come up with? and attacks on our territories are completely, in my opinion, suicidal. well, strikes on civilian targets, moreover, in these attacks have become especially cynical lately, look, there is a church burning in the borisovsky district of the belgorod region, the attack

was carried out - unmanned. warned our society that the division of churches would lead to very serious irreparable consequences, back in the seventeenth year, when the schism was just beginning, while still in captivity, i wrote several articles for russian publications, for well, having analyzed what they were doing, and if you analyze, you showed one church, in fact, about 50 of them were destroyed in donbass, we also we know and see, i saw on ukrainian television, where putin was directly one of

the devils in this uoc, that is... practically every day he is forced to publish materials about the fact that our peaceful cities are being shelled, they are being shelled, well, they know perfectly well that we do not keep troops in petra, nor in the kirovsky district, nor in yesinovatoy in the populated area, so as not to attract, there was even one incident in donetsk, when one of our multiple launch rocket systems entered the city, i was forced to immediately turn on all the lights there, to withdraw it from the city, because

they could immediately... cover this place, that is , we try to preserve cities, we try to protect our culture, including our orthodoxy, and how many of our priests have died already during the special military operation, and they try to destroy all this, and you can’t imagine, when we enter liberated cities and enter our orthodox churches, what do we see there, well , let’s say, i once spoke about this, well, i put it mildly, when we liberated one of the settlements near mariupol, right? and this is a history room, yes, that is, by and large, they they made it, excuse my expression, yes, but they made it a latrine and i said that they, roughly speaking, on their history, yes, that is , they, roughly speaking, trampled everything sacred and most important, you know, when they remember this sacred, when they are captured by us, when they are captured, they remember here, and they remember god, yes, yes, yes, and they curse this devil zelensky, but they have nothing sacred, in fact, in this they

are very similar to... they meet, they carry in their arms, just now the minister of defense was in the united states ukraine rustam umerov and the head of the ukrainian president's office andriy irmak, received them at a high level, you see, meeting the united states of america, well, our ambassador antonov closely followed what was happening at these negotiations, that's what he said.

the ukrainians came here. for handouts , they turned out missiles, ammunition, money, set the officialdom to tighten policy towards our country, found full support here. washington's cynical goal remains the same - to harm the russian federation with the help of its weapons, which are invested in ukrainian hands. it is not excluded that this time the representatives of the kiev regime received additional promises to support military actions against russia. i am sure that in the future all this will be formalized in the form of another package of arms supplies to ukraine. now we are talking about expanding. the scale of ukrainian actions on the territory of the russian federation, the local press is discussing kiev's idea of ​​preparing a certain list of objects in our country, which are proposed to be struck by long-range missiles from the united states. the idea washington's attempt to pit europe against russia, using the ukrainian crisis for this purpose, will not work. the us will not sit back overseas if the current situation escalates into a global conflict. but the situation is actually following the logic of escalation, that is, the united states is not going to stop

aiding ukraine, on the contrary. they are going to use more and more aid packages, including to strike at our territory. absolutely right, the fact is that the ukraine project is being considered. difficult, painful, not only for ukraine, as safe for the states, but also for us, and naturally, they plan to inflict maximum damage, not to mention that they view ukraine as a resource base, i heard a wonderful phrase from one of the politicians that pokrovsk cannot be surrendered, because our lithium is there, yes, that is, in this regard, it is clear that ukraine has already been painted as a resource image between american influence groups, they ...

with biden on the sidelines of the un general assembly, and as has already been written, this will be the last his chance to persuade the states to allow long-range weapons to strike at russian territory. but the decision will be made formally, or they will do without, they will do without drones, because the same alternative of long-range weapons, in fact, it is not important, but to be aware that this danger is in general absolutely relevant, it is necessary to prepare for it absolutely seriously, and for the united states to fight with someone else's hands is actually quite a usual thing, they did it more than once, by the way, no matter how cynical it may sound, but we were given assistance in...

the second world war, of course, this eastern aspect of the war, i think, is really worth remembering, because in japan, as far as i know, they talk about the fifteen-year war, they don’t talk about the second world war, the fifteen-year war, which ended in 1945, which means they think that the war actually began, in the year, really, when japan had already begun to occupy, and in china, the official beginning of the second world war, 1937, after all, when the official

sino-japanese war had already begun, right? you know, in the vicinity of beijing there is a city called wanping, where there is the lugauchao bridge, also known as the marcopolo bridge, it was on this bridge that it began. on july 7 , 1937, what was the war? no, the total war between japan and china, because the war began in 1931, when the japanese began to seize manchuria, by the way, they captured harbin, a russian city, and moved south, in 1937 the total phase began, when they began to seize shanghai, nanjing, and other cities. here in this city of wanping, there is the largest museum of the war of resistance and the chinese people, japanese aggression, so there are 15 halls in it, that is, they, in fact

, have been counting this war since 1931, they have been counting their losses since 1931, and the chinese lost over 35 million people, yeah, colossal losses, and i want to say that today we are celebrating the third of september, the end of the world war, but it might not have ended on september 3, if not for us, look, on september 3 the chinese army there was no force to drive out the japanese, neither the gomendang army, nor the communist army.

the manchurian strategic operation allowed all of humanity to celebrate victory day today, i will interrupt on this high note, we are just now receiving footage, this is a live broadcast.

of that victory that was over hitler's germany, because the army was in excellent

shape, it had learned to beat the strongest opponents that were on our planet at that time, therefore, having defeated hitler's germany, this already kotok the russian army moved to the east , in fact, it very quickly rolled over the kwanton army, so let's not be ashamed of our victories, happy victory day, vyacheslav alekseevich , all respected colleagues.

japan, well, they remember this, and of course, in korea they remember this very well, and not only in north korea, but in the south too, although the attitude to the war there is a little different, the war is still, it is not over in asia, in europe they remember little about the second world war, here are the japanese, what they did during... millions of people that the japanese destroyed

then in these countries, and the atrocities of the japanese military were closer to the fascist, and maybe even worse somewhere, given the oriental flavor, so this is really our victory, and we congratulate them on this, as we remember this well, in europe they forgot about it, but here it is interesting, the ukrainians reminded the poles of the volyn massacre, well done, after the advertisement. funny, i should have said, i fell in love, forgive me, please, when you lived with natasha, maybe she met someone, between us, of course, she is pregnant, listen here remember me, wherever you run away, you they will find you and you will go to jail, i tried, but i can't cope, the devil in the ribs, some kind of childishness.

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a foreign psychologist, you are just a character from some movie, no, you are even a princess from a cartoon, of course, i did not imagine moscow like this. such energy, beauty, i feel like i am at home here, thanks to mozvision, you will get to know the real moscow, not the tourist one, free cheese only from communists, maria, a descendant of russians of the emigrant century, came to russia for the first time to me, i do not need a stranger among my own, do sports, well, just feel some kind of. freedom scarf, or something, you know, it's summer in the city, summer in the city, premiere, on sunday on channel one, in the new season on channel one, let them run awkwardly, pedestrians through puddles, and water on the asphalt like a river, and it's unclear

to passersby, on this day, it doesn't seem why i'm cheerful. i play, i play the accordion, the accordion, at the passersby, at the passersby, in full view , i lead, unfortunately, unfortunately, birthday, birthday, only once a year, unfortunately, birthday only once a year, choir, premiere much. film soon on the first, big game live, on this day 79 years ago the second world war ended,

but sometimes it seems that it has not ended, it continues, historical disputes are conducted, and also on the asian.

consent of poland, it must comply ukraine will not be a member of the european union without standards, there are many of them - it is not just a question of trade, border, legal and economic. historical culture, without

this it will not become part of the european family. i will be more and more persistent, especially in during our eu presidency, explain to our ukrainian friends that it is in their interests to regulate polish-ukrainian relations based on the truth. well, of course, there is no need to talk about the standards of political, historical culture in the european union, we know these standards. this is an announcement of nazism, this is a belittlement of the role of our country and so on, but the conflict is quite interesting, here tusk said the word exhumation, in fact, why don't we support the demands of the polish government to exhume the victims volyn massacre, why shouldn't we also take the side of poland in this case and the historical truth, i think that this is right and not even...

and he poured out this whole interpretation, which is today considered official by the kiev regime, well, then poland could not help but react to what he said, but still, vyacheslav alekselyevich, i think that if we join, poland will refuse this under some pretext to spite us, they do everything to spite us today, well, i think that this is not the question where poland can act in defiance of us, here ukraine, in my opinion, is in an absolutely losing position, having stood up for banderovites in the polish issue, they have absolutely taken a losing position, haven't they? vyacheslavich, i'm getting up now and remembering, this is part of my family history. my

grandfather, the director of a school in western ukraine, lay down until 1956 with a machine gun in his hands, realizing that banderites could come and shoot him as an activist. and they even had an agreement with my grandmother that my grandmother he shoots first, why? because those. atrocities that bezderovtsy used against the civilian population, they will have beyond the borders in ukraine, beyond napto. and you know, this shows once again that, by and large, what was born in galichchina, yes, it harmed everyone, the fascists. and they were forced to bender at some point even, well , suspend its actions. they harmed poland, they harmed a large number of russian people, because my family considered itself a russian family. we kimakovskys were considered. a russian family, so i am now i stood there and just prayed to god that, that, that these people, all who carry this,

carry this fascist ideology, this nazi ideology, because it is zanapto even by... but in any case, the ukrainian position is absolutely losing and i, for my part, support the demands of the polish public about the need to eulogize

the victims of the volyn massacre, well, and accordingly , to give due retribution. trillions of euros, if someone thinks that these are mainly literal material losses in the form of destroyed buildings, destroyed assets, then he is wrong, for the most part - this is the amount of lost production. well, in fact, this is also 6 million poles who were destroyed by the germans, just for a minute, also a serious thing. vyacheslavich, that is, here, i remember that it seems that chertel called poland the hygienic europe, yes, that is, the country that

in any case will try to bargain for something for itself. in this regard, duda demonstrates, probably, the worst that can be found in poland, because the claims are in a circle, claims to germany, and there is no escape from the claims to ukraine, in general, here are claims to russia and even with the same lithuania, it is clear that this is a view of poland exclusively from top to bottom, as its former colony, as its former territories, that is, in this regard, attempts to present bills, attempts to be sure that the big uncle behind those... and the united states will roar, will force the germans to pay, because germany has never been so humiliated as now, they, of course, will not be realized, but the humiliation will remain, that is, in this regard, relations with germany have been spoiled, the relations are spoiled in a circle, this is what poland will generally continue to bear in its destiny, although on the other hand they are used to it, because if we listen carefully to the anthem, i have not yet perished in polish,

then there is still somewhere from the 18th century, when this march... germany quite often, germany above all, this is the polish nationalism it feeds, because german too, and in the most different forms, in germany now in the recent elections in...

western germany and eastern germany, which declares completely different things. germany before the reunification and the german democratic republic. yuri vadimevich, you and i worked together as the pss at one time, just at that time, we served in the same regiment, we served in the same regiment, yes, when all these processes of unification of germany took place, maybe a mistake was made then and maybe now we should allow

germany to really split into two parts. since they have such completely different parts, we would have been friends with the gdr or whatever they would call themselves, we would have provided gas for economic development, we would have looked there would be economic competition. that maybe we should revoke our consent to the reunification of germany? that would be a strong move, a good one, a promising one, you know, we just talked about crimes against the poles, against the ukrainians, we, in my opinion, have not talked enough about crimes against the chinese, koreans, filipinos, malays, today is the day the war in asia ended, yes, but... i think we also need to talk about what needs to be done to prevent this from happening again, because things are heading towards a repetition, a repetition of wars, and it seems to me that in those years -

some formulas were developed that allowed us to defeat this evil then, this formula was called the second front, and i don’t mean the second front that the western allies could not open for a long time under various pretexts, the second... the front that was opened precisely in the east, first russia opened the second front for china, when in 1937 it began to supply weapons, tanks, planes, thousands of our pilots, tankers, who allowed the chinese to maintain faith, the ability to resist and not capitulate shamefully, as the french did, then this effect of the second front worked with the beginning of the patriotic war, when... the japanese did not dare to attack us, knowing that in their rear there was a million, a million- strong army of gomedanites and tens of thousands of communist troops. the third time,

just in the autumn of 1945, when we did what the chinese could not do, defeated the kwantung army and handed over these lands to china. so now we again need to create this situation of the second front, it is being created in fact.

closed, volkswagen can say goodbye, so our cause is just, the enemy will be defeated , victory will be ours, we pass the floor to the news, see you again at 17:00, don't miss it, this is news on the first, hello, in the studio valery. korablyov in this issue. friendship tested by time. vladimir putin in mongolia. official visit. celebration of important historical dates and expansion of mutually beneficial partnership.