[000:00:00;00] groups, and he lasted, to be honest, longer than i expected, he lasted 9 months, being constantly under blackmail and under the threat of resignation, in the end, as you correctly said, on the third day they removed him. mccarthy, probably, if we had given him freedom , he would have supported ukraine, but since he was in such a hostage position, he constantly changed his position, that is, somewhere he tried to say that i want to help ukraine, and somewhere he said that ukraine should not receive... endless help and when they removed him, i am not sure that he had any separate agreement, well , in principle, there were talks about the fact that yes, they asked to give money to ukraine by a separate bill, that was the case, but i don't think that it was somehow secret or something, he secretly tried to do it with someone , they removed him and there was, after him they tried to nominate scalise, who probably also wanted to help ukraine, and then there was

jordan, here already rebelled against jordan. centrists, it was very general, i was in excited, what happened, because they worked out a plan to remove him, that is, in general, from the nomination , they agreed that with each subsequent vote, they would increase the number of votes against him, that is, so that he could not even ask there, nominate yourself 15 times, that is, with each new vote, he lost three or four votes, fortunately, they had to defeat him, which will be very difficult to predict in the future, because of the process. they meet behind closed doors and by secret ballot nominate the next speaker, who will get more votes? after that they have to approve it, that is, on monday we will find out again who they nominated, again from the more extreme side of the extremists or maybe there will be a more centrist candidate, there are good candidates, including, as what you are interested in, i i am sure that they would like to continue to help ukraine, and even criticized president biden for

insufficient help, we will find out who they nominate, then on tuesday they should vote for confirmation, they have 221 chair, the democrats, as a rule, do not help in such a situation, that is, they need 217 votes to approve it, any candidate who is not nominated, can lose only four votes, if this candidate makes some kind of compromise with the democrats, then he may receive additional support from the democrats, but today it looks very unlikely, we have a split in society, we have... between parties, it is possible, but this is a very unlikely scenario, so we will see what happens on monday and tuesday , a tell me, it's a secret behind these locks, who is the favorite for the nomination from the republicans, what can we find out already tomorrow , the 23rd, are there any preliminary forecasts, real, you know, i can somehow ask

to follow, some congressmen make an application for whom they are going to vote, you can ask to count it, but there are several candidates in my opinion and predict , you know, when there are one or two, it is also somehow clear when there are four or five, i did not check, to be honest for the last time, how many are already there who want them, and that is difficult i will imagine how exactly this secret voting will take place, and maybe there will be several rounds, and therefore i would not do what was predicted, but there is, well, what i call adequate among them, and i really hope that someone from they are still being nominated, well then, i hope they will be approved, and the chances are that on the 23rd there will also be a failure, let’s say, the vote, so internal, as high as they are, so far they could not come to an agreement, so this очень высоко, this is the whole problem and the whole crisis, that it is not clear what kind of republican he can unite his entire coalition and lose only four votes out of 221, or who among them

can somehow attract the democrats to him... some concessions, he must offer them at least something, maybe the continuation of government financing, financing of aid to ukraine, some positions in some key committees, but he must offer them something, so we are in a situation when all scenarios are unlikely, but somehow this should be resolved, so i can't help but make any predictions for you, at the moment, we will really wait to see. well, we have already talked about the possibility of a shutdown, but globally, if there is no vote on monday, then what happens next, and how long can it last? this can happen very long, they have indeed, so to speak, on november 17, the american government will simply stop working if they cannot pass either the next fiscal year's budget, or at least

will extend the existing budget, i am sure that they know about it, but unfortunately, there have been situations in history not so long ago when the american government stopped working, precisely because the house of representatives could not pass the next budget, so there may be such a scenario, that they will bring this to... so say november 17 and later, and maybe the government will not be part of it, that is , what kind of system is there, people are sent home, they are not paid, key people who work there in the security system, and so on , their they are forced to work for free until this issue is resolved, this was already in the past, it can unfortunately happen now, and the problem for ukraine is that the money that is still in the budget now is running out, and the program: pda, which allows ukraine to transfer weapons from the pentagon's warehouses, that is, the existing weapons, it has some left, it has a limitation, it has a lot left, five, somewhere around 5.5 billion dollars, the problem is that the pentagon can

then buy it for itself weapons only somewhere by 15 billion, and this very much limits what they can agree to transfer to ukraine, if they cannot replenish their reserves, there is nothing left, if they cannot replenish their reserves, otherwise it will be very difficult for them to make a decision on the transfer to the executive weapons to ukraine, and the second program, which is called security assistance, which, okay, which allows you to buy from the military-industrial complex, has no money in it at all. dmitry, thank you for these clarifications, in particular, the express analysis regarding the house of representatives, dmytro abramson, blogger and political commentator of the usa, was just in touch with us, well, more, more about the russians, who continue to poke around ukraine with ballistics, just in the last few days they released the least. six iskander ballistic missiles are fired at front-line cities from s-300 systems. this primarily concerns the east and south of our country, zaporizhzhia, dnipropetrovsk region, and mykolaiv region are particularly affected. why

are expensive iskanders taken from stocks, and will all this be enough for regular massive attacks, here will tell in more detail daryna dobrovolska. zaporozhye at two o'clock in the morning, a russian s-300 hits an apartment building, there is nothing left of the upper floors, in one moment the terrorists kill five ukrainians who were just sleeping in their apartments. the impact was so strong that it damaged another 30 houses around. s300, they have a supersonic speed of more than 2000 km/h. if you are 50 km from the launch site, then this is already a big problem to. to respond to this threat in a timely manner, they are used at a distance of up to 70 km, therefore they are mainly used to strike the front-line zone, anti-aircraft

s300 missiles are considered ballistic due to their flight path, according to our intelligence, at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, there were about 700 of them in the enemy’s arsenal, so these weapons are not called scarce, the missiles are more than 30 years old, they are short-range and inaccurate, the deviation radius is up to 100 m. extremely dangerous, they fly to the goal in a matter of minutes, and sometimes even seconds. and these are already the consequences of the iskander strikes, the russians struck the suburbs of dnipro on the same day as zaporozhye, killing a 31-year-old woman and smashing a private house and mutilated 20 others. there is also an arrival in mykolaiv, according to the air force of that time, the enemy launched five ballistic missiles at ukraine. iskander m. can fly up to a distance of 500 km there, such missiles, ballistic trajectory, they are high-speed, it is, well, it is difficult to shoot down such missiles. the iskander m ballistic missile flies to the target at a speed of more than 2000 km/h,

the range of its impact is up to 500 km. therefore, if it is launched from the east or south, it can fly to the central regions of our country and even to the north, with little time to hide in in the best case, up to 10 minutes, if it is kyiv. an average of five, these weapons are worth about 3 million dollars each. at the beginning of the war, the russians had 900 iskanders, this is iskander m, iskander k is a winged ballistic missile, this is a system complex, even a dagger is also an iskander that only flies, since the beginning of the war, they produced almost 40 such missiles, because they used more than 800, that is, in they can now be approximately oriented, about 120 such missiles. according to the experts interviewed by us, due to the lack of production capacity and components of the russians they are not able to ... and launch the iskanders on a massive scale, they say they are forced to save this weapon and will most likely use it

in combined attacks. recently, we associate the use of ballistics with the fact that it is not possible to use massive missile strikes now, which have always given them inspiration and victories, and they are trying to continue the pressure, the situation is really threatening, because ballistic...strikes are actually those which are very difficult to counter. about a month ago, intelligence reported that the russians had placed 46 iskander operational-tactical complexes along the front line and nato. occupied territories, from where these weapons fly. however , the tagur air force assured that the russians would not be able to supply all the iskandars with missiles, and yet every ballistic missile launched by the enemy carries great threats. that is, ballistics needs means which, unfortunately, we have run aground, we need a patriot , which you see, how it copes with both daggers and iskanders, in particular, this was clearly demonstrated in the kyiv region, we need more of these systems that can protect us precisely from ballistics. threatened in addition to petrio and ballistics, sumpty can also knock down.

however , we do not have enough of these means of air defense, so every message, even about the threat of using ballistic weapons, requires a quick reaction. daryna dobrovolska we are ukraine marathon only news. europe is teeming with russian spies, and a fifth of the kremlin's spies have settled in switzerland. at a time when the eu states are actively opposing the russian intelligence network , employees of russian embassies federation since the beginning of the russian full-scale invasion, switzerland, due to its tradition of neutrality, has not been able to take this step, but the presence of putin's agents in the country has already become a matter of internal security, in more detail, anna grishina from brussels. switzerland is known as a small and quiet country, and it is in this cozy state, it turns out, that the largest spy hive of russians in europe is lurking. according to federal intelligence, about eight dozen kremlin

azures are now in ukraine, mostly in bern and geneva, working under the cover of diplomatic and consular missions of the russian federation. switzerland due to the fact that there is a large presence of diplomatic personnel and a lot of organizations that are interesting for the russian special services. the main goal is not to collect intelligence, but to carry out sabotage, usually to poison or kill. enemies of the kremlin. in 2018, switzerland was already at the center of the espionage scandal related to the alleged attempts of the russian special services. they were supposed to collect classified information about the federal laboratory of radiological and biochemical analysis in the city of spitz as part of the so-called violinist poisoning case. but it is not so easy to catch diplomats-spies by the hand, because they are protected by the vienna convention and cannot be arrested, only deported. home, so after the start

of the full-scale invasion of ukraine, eu countries expelled more than 700 employees of russian embassies, a third of them, as the french publication losuach writes, personnel officers of the main intelligence agency of the russian federation, the foreign intelligence service and the fifth service the fsb, which is responsible for international relations, and as the media admitted, did not know about such a failure, nor did the soviet, nor even more so the russian intelligence. however, the kremlin does not stop trying to send its spies to the eu. today the rotterdam court considered the first sanctions case concerning, in particular, the export of prohibited goods to russia since the beginning of the full-scale war between russia and ukraine at the end of february 2022. a russian man who systematically sent microchips and drones to russia is under investigation. at the same time , he and his family lived inconspicuously in to one of the dutch forces. when the prosecutor's office took him up, he quickly fled to moscow. they are now judging in absentia. the local media suspect the citizen of the russian federation not just of

violation of sanctions, but of espionage for the benefit of russia. and this is not new for muscovites , bulgarian investigative journalist hristo groziv said in an exclusive interview with we ukraine and gives an example of how the kremlin's henchmen used to work in the west. in france, in the center of paris, there was another headquarters, classified by the gru under the guise of a sports company that was engaged in by organizing sports rally villages, from there they could control and organize, logistically support many of their projects in western europe. according to the journalist, there are similar conspiracy apartments in greece, bulgaria, and spain. swiss politicians in the local press admit that russian spies are a threat to the country's internal and external security, and note that it is easy to identify an agent. for example, when an ordinary russian attaché drives an expensive car with diplomatic license plates. but no measures against them are neutral

switzerland does not use it. the country's government does not impose any sanctions in the form of expelling diplomats, because communication channels with russia must be preserved. a representative of the swiss department of foreign affairs in the comments of noi tsuhitzeitung. such a liberal attitude of switzerland towards the kremlin's actions is not entirely understandable, because the activities of foreign intelligence services are prohibited in ukraine. however, from the beginning full-scale. in ukraine, none of the russians from bern were expelled by officials. from brussels, anna grishina, we are ukraine. only news marathon. chevrons, that the victory is approaching, our ukraine

is fighting, the forest holds the shield of the north, severshchyna heroically stands under constant fire, at the black sea, the outpost of the south and the sea front. transnistria defends the humanitarian rear. podniprovya provides first aid. poltava heals, podillia cares and feeds, halychyna rehabilitates and protects, bukovyna volunteers and gives a sense of home. bessarabia protects our bread. volyn works for food. transcarpathia is developing business and partnership with europe. the carpathians became a reliable and safe rear. tavria endured and will return his later. priazovya has not obeyed and will not obey. slobozhanshchyna fights to the blood

and to victory. donetsk region and luhansk region are holding on to the last ground. kyiv region. the heart beats in unison with the whole country, each region, each city, each village, and each of us, united for the sake of victory, independence, we prove every day, have witnessed corrupt acts in the central and local bodies of executive power, don't you know, where to go specifically, call at 3:45 p.m., or through the chat, be in telegram or choose your the appeal will fall into the right hands. they will help you register it, process it and send it to the authorities for consideration. there is

a problem, we are looking for a solution. and now to important questions, such as: will we all have light and heat, do we need to buy power banks, generators, flashlights, what is happening today at the zaporizhia nuclear power plant occupied by the russians, about all this and not only about this, further on the air exclusive interview of minister of energy herman galushchenko. this year's heating season, the probability of blackouts and the surrounding situation zas, we will talk about all this and not only with the minister of energy of ukraine herman galushchenko. mr. herman, we welcome you. good day it has already started in ukraine. heating season, which was the key difficulty of preparation and the difference from last year, because both last year and this year, the authorities constantly emphasize and warn that there will be blows to the energy infrastructure, well, the difference in preparation is definitely dramatic, i would say, because after

last winter they really struck at of energy every day since october 10, and uh, this is damage, this is destruction... of energy and electricity generation and transmission facilities, and therefore this is the scale of the repair campaign, which was implemented and is still ongoing, but the key thing is that just on at the beginning of the season, we reached those indicators of electricity generation and transmission , respectively, which make it possible to provide consumers, that is, this is the key. in which regions is the most difficult situation regarding light, heat and, in general , the front-line situation? districts, what is the situation there, well, you see, you are exactly answering the question, unfortunately, these are the regions where hostilities are close, firstly, secondly, these are the regions that border the state, the terrorist, and accordingly, where

constant shelling takes place, unfortunately, we see a situation where the russians are targeting our energy brigades who are trying to restore electricity supply in certain populated areas, and they are waiting for our specialists to come out, start work and use artillery, drones, basically everything in there are arsenal to kill energy workers, despite the fact that they clearly see that these are not military personnel, these are people who are simply restoring electricity supply, certainly this is donetsk, certainly this is sumy. chernihiv, kherson, well, that is, in fact, well, unfortunately, kharkiv, there are many such regions, and unfortunately, in principle, the actions of terrorists are the same in all these regions, that is, there are deliberate attacks, our specialists, repairs of energy objects, when

they started, how long they lasted and whether we correctly understand that right now they are under repair the additional protection of energy facilities is understood, of course, that is, well, we had several tracks, the first one is repairs after attacks , yes, that is, these are repairs, and we planned to add to the system, this meant additional power that was destroyed under time, during the attacks , or fundamentally damaged, that is, we had a plan of 1.7 g, we have already implemented 1.6 and in the near future we will implement this figure , even i think that we will have more than planned, secondly - these are scheduled repairs, this is at those substations, this is also at generation plants, generating stations. it was also necessary to conduct them and ensure their appropriate

conduct before the beginning of the heated season, and this is also, well, this is also a key issue, well, and definitely again, the scale, the scale of this company, he, for the entire history, i can say the independence of such a campaign, we are not were implemented, and the second, third, more precisely, this is definitely protection, that is, in parallel with repair and restoration, essential... works were carried out and they are currently being carried out regarding the protection of high-energy, and there are completely different approaches, both to passive protection and to active protection, and here again, well, you know, ukraine, how is ukraine implementing its experience, which there is no one to borrow from, so here we are too, we do such global things, and of course, this is also important, active and passive. the protection that you said, if you can be a little more detailed, what it is, well , look, let's go too, i always say about this

that the best protection is an air defense system, that is , of course, on the level of protection by air defense systems, and stability will depend in many, many cases, and what here it can be noted that, in fact, the president is working on this around the clock, working with the party. and if you compare today's technical level, so to speak, the level of pppo, which we have today, which we had in the past, today we are much stronger, and this, this is also important, it is certainly the best level, then we talk about protection systems that are already being installed on specific objects, i will not go into detail due to the specifics of such works and the specifics of these systems, but they, too, played and will play an important role, and the repair he

if since the last disgraceful season, he hadn't stopped, that's right, i understand, repairs, well, we did it constantly, yes, the only thing i'm saying is that if you compare, even, even, if you take, compare last year, the preparation and the repair itself company and this year, well, it 's just their scale, well, it's completely different, let's stop now, is there enough electricity and is there a planned blackout, the situation we have today? well, look, no shutdowns are planned, it was very interesting, by the way, we are watching the time here from time to time such, russian information campaigns, from time to time on various issues, when there, for example, we first loaded american fuel onto the ukrainian block and thereby killed rosatom's monopoly, there was a huge copper campaign in ukraine, about that. what ah-ah, this is happening there, they loaded it, but the unit does not start, and the fuel is bad, and now they are waiting for specialists from america, ukraine does not know what to do with it, ah-ah,

the campaign was the same just recently after that , that's all, the season has begun, people are getting ready for blackouts, i want to officially say once again that the power line is absolutely ready to pass the earth, the only thing that can really affect blackouts or blackouts is the consequences. strikes and the scale of the strikes and corresponding destruction in the system, you yourself have already stated that the russians launched, launched such an information campaign, does the ministry of energy actually have a plan, how to counter this, well, it is not only the ministry, many other relevant special services are also engaged in this including, and therefore there is certainly opposition, and certainly i will tell you that during the last winter we saw such. quite creative, the campaigns

that the russians conducted when they were disconnected, i remember very well one such company, you can talk about it already, when there were really problems with electricity supply in odessa and in the chats of local residents such things started there were some residents there who began to incite and say that look, you have no light, all your light, it is now given to lviv, to western ukraine, and your light is now being used in lviv, so, look, well, it is absolutely obvious that the very system of propaganda in russia and all kinds of special operations in the information sphere works in them, so it is very important here that like us, we always immediately come out officially, so i always urge you not to trust those

to the publications that sometimes someone spreads there or there simply even without any ... deliberate desire, but people start to spread certain information there, immediately go to the official resources of the ministry of energy, you will be able to read it, we immediately highlight it and say that it fake, so you have to be very careful now, who in general in the ministry of energy see a scenario of the development of events, which can be the worst, the best, look, well, i cannot predict now what the development will be, because well, predict again the scale of the attacks, and even the key is not the scale of the attacks, but the scale of the impact of these attacks on the system, that is, the scale of damage, what damage will be, what objects will be damaged or not, so i know very well, well, i always say that it is impossible to predict now, no one can predict for you now, how will be, because we are

don't really know what to expect. terrorists, well, we will react as we go, but is it possible that there will be a blackout for five, 10 days, or after all, well, look, this, in principle, they sought this, and last winter they lost, i i am absolutely sure that they will lose this winter as well, your advice for ukrainians, what to do, how to prepare, what to stock up on, do we need generators, batteries and everything else, or not and that too, i always say that if there is an opportunity. must have, must have and generators and must to be able to operate there, let's say, autonomously for a certain period of time, so it's important, it's just for even , i think, for peace of mind, and for the fact that if, if indeed, certain systemic things are going to happen, then it will be necessary, but

again, the fact that we, on our part, do everything so that it is not needed. actually, regarding the situation at the zzs, what can we say as of today and how the ukrainian representative office of the magat can influence the de-occupation of the station, because this decision essentially remains in the hands of kremlin criminals , well, look, it's an important event that we were elected to the governing council of the magathe, because it is really the highest body in this system, it holds the relevant meetings, they are on duty, they can be absent. in the case of certain events, so this is a very important tool that we will use, moreover , i think i am sure that our direct voice is right there, it will add an opportunity to raise the level of discussion around the liberation of the zaporizhzhia station and lead to concrete actions , the question is, what is happening at the station, well

you know what can happen when a station is controlled by terrorists, well, any object, the situation becomes... worse and worse, and these are also objective things, and the question here is not even now, we are not talking about people who are our they work there, about psychological pressure, about everything that happens there, the station has not been working for more than a year, and what's more, we supply electricity there to ukraine in order to ensure the operation of security systems, but this, a nuclear generation facility, for this high-tech about and there, respectively, it is necessary carry out appropriate work to maintain the condition of the equipment, these works are not carried out, and the situation is called, if they are characterized professionally, it is the degradation of the equipment, and every day it will be worse and worse, and it is not only us, this is also confirmed by magate specialists, who are