the time when every day we have the opportunity to pay our respects and remember all those who died because of the russian occupiers on our ukrainian land. national moment of silence. we will observe a moment of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war. that it was unleashed by russia.

the ninth has passed in ukraine, for your attention, a news release on the espresso tv channel. khrystyna porobiy works in the studio. congratulations. at night, the russians fired two kh-59 guided air missiles and four shahedis over ukraine. our defenders the sky was shot down by three drones in the sumy region. one shahed and two rockets did not reach their goals due to the work of the rep, the air force of ukraine reported. the number of victims due to

the russian attack on zaporozhye has increased to 16. four women are in a moderate condition in hospital. others are treated at home. among the injured is a 15-year-old boy, the head of the regional military administration, ivan fedorov, said. the occupiers shelled the city of kabami for the first time. the enemy attacked late yesterday evening, having previously struck seven blows. zaharniki hit the objects of the cybil. infrastructure. 13 high-rise buildings, private houses, educational institutions, cars and garages were damaged. rescuers evacuated the residents, extinguished the fire in one of the apartments and extinguished the car. five wounded in kramatorsk, donetsk region, among them a 16-year-old girl. she is in serious condition. vadym filashkin, the head of the regional military administration, informed. the russians shelled the city. from the

tornado jet system. during the attack, the victims were outside. four houses and two cars were damaged. and in chernihiv oblast, russians from mortars attacked a village in semenivska hromada. two men aged 60 and 55 were wounded. they were hospitalized. in addition, the building was on fire as a result of the shelling, - said the head of the region vyacheslav chaus. and the russians. injured four people in kharkiv region, the enemy attacked the village of sheykivka with a kabo in the evening. a 76-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman were injured. a farm building was on fire. the occupiers also shelled the village of kupyansk-vuzlovy several times a day. two women, 64 and 68 years old, were injured. a private house was destroyed, farm buildings were vandalized - he said oleg syniguv, head of the region. what. 1,330

invaders closed their eyes forever on the indomitable ukrainian land, and since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, our defenders have already destroyed almost 644,000 russian grief-soldiers. also, during the past day, the enemy lost 16 tanks and 30 armored fighting vehicles. the ukrainian military turned 81 russian artillery systems, two self-propelled guns and almost 80 vehicles into scrap metal. defenders of the sky landed 71 drones. the general staff reminds that the data are indicative. and to operational information from the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. 162 combat clashes took place at the front during the day. the hottest is in donetsk region. in the pokrov direction, the russians attacked the positions of our troops 35 times. another 28 assaults took place in the kurakhiv direction, 13 in the lymansky direction, 12

in the kramatorsk direction, and nine in the turetsky direction. kharkiv region is also restless. 16 combat clashes took place in the kupyansk direction and seven in the vovcha area. and tycho. twice the russians tried to knock out the positions of our troops near the robot without success. our aviation, rocket launchers and gunners made eight strikes on areas of concentration of personnel of the occupiers, two artillery systems, one anti-aircraft system and the point of the muscovite administration. and we ask you to join our gathering. needed. funds for drones and a charging station for the reconnaissance of the third regiment of the sso, which destroys the enemy in the area of ​​chasovoy yar in donetsk region. the russians constantly attack and try to capture the city, because it is a commanding height from which it is easier to shell other settlements. our

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ammunition plants. ukraine will present a victory plan to the united states, it will be the first to see it. fully the president of america, of course, will present the victory plan to all the leaders of the partner countries, who, just as president biden is the world leader, can become leaders of peace by helping us with the victory plan. we will also present him at the congress to both parties, to both candidates presidents of the united states. un secretary general antonio guterres stated the importance of reforms in the council without... un security. during the summit in new york, he called for international organizations to be more fair, efficient, and meet modern challenges. in his opinion, current institutions cannot effectively respond to political, economic, environmental and technological problems, because they were created for

a different time. the security council is outdated, and its authority will be undermined if its composition and working methods are not. reformed, she in will eventually lose all credibility. democratic candidate kamala harris leads her republican rival donald trump by 5%. this is evidenced by the results of an nbc news survey. according to the poll, respondents have become more favorable to the vice president since she became the democratic presidential candidate. surveys have also shown. that harris leads trump by 4%. overall, these results are consistent with other national surveys. at the same time , donald trump announced that he will not run for office in 2028 year if he loses the election in november. and kamala garis calls her competitor to

another debate. in the american city of birmingham , alabama, as a result of the shooting , four people died, at least. 17 wounded, according to the police, unknown people drove up to the club in the entertainment district and started shooting at people on the street. law enforcement officers assume that only one person was the target, and others were injured by accident. the police found about 100 worms at the scene, so they suspect that it was a contract killing. they are currently investigating who was the target. israel inflicts large-scale strikes on southern lebanon. the israeli army announced that they had destroyed terrorists who were preparing to launch a rocket at israel. alarm signals sounded in the border towns. lebanese media reports heavy airstrikes in the south and in the bekaa valley. israel announced strikes on terrorist targets throughout

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putin is looking for new methods of pressure instead of nuclear threats, writes the washington

post newspaper. at the same time, ukrainian intelligence has already warned. the russian army plans to target nuclear power plants, or rather, their distribution substations, on the eve of this winter. and energy experts ask whether, during the years of full-scale war, official kyiv and relevant authorities have built the necessary protection. does ukraine have anything to protect the as, and what could be the consequences of these attacks? what should ukrainians prepare for? this is svoboda ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, join us, we're getting started. the ukrainian authorities warn that the russian army is preparing a series of strikes on nuclear power plants before winter. the new minister of foreign affairs, andrii sybiga, was the first to announce this. he is followed by the head of the presidential office andriy yermak and the ministry of energy of ukraine. as sebiga writes. allegedly based on ukrainian intelligence data, it is said. about strikes on open nuclear distribution devices stations and transmission substations. damage

to these objects creates a high risk of a nuclear incident that will have global consequences. the relevant information has already been passed on to partners by the ukrainian special services, and the magathe has also been informed. the world must respond to the russian federation's preparations for strikes on critical nuclear energy facilities of ukraine on the eve of winter, open distribution devices of nuclear power plants. and transmission substations. this is preparation for a possible nuclear disaster scenario. russia is a terrorist, they must be stopped here and now. russian attacks on a substation critical for as threaten the radiation safety of the entire european continent. we call on the magathe to speed up the deployment of monitoring missions to substations that are key to the functioning of the as. a former adviser to the minister of energy and an ex-advisor reacted to these warnings from the authorities. lana zerkal, director of naftogaz company. she accuses the ministry of energy of ukraine and the state

company energaatom, which manages all nuclear power plants in ukraine, of inaction. like, they should take care of building fortifications around the substation and prepare equipment for repairs that may be required due to these attacks. i don't know how for whom, but for me it sounds like a guilty plea and leads to treason, because there is a huge question about what... the relevant ministry and energoatom have been doing for two years, why these distribution stations are not protected, or equipment has been ordered for repair and replacement in case of attacks, and also why the leadership of the ministry and the power plant are still sitting in their chairs, and now they are scaring their partners, preparing society for the perception of innocence a catastrophic winter or a peace plan, or is it finally a recognition of the inability to manage processes, instead, the mirrors in power were busy organizing the resignation of the head of the national energy company ukrenergo

volodymyr kudrytskyi, ironically, he was fired for insufficiently fortified energy facilities, although experts say that on the contrary, the strengthening of ukrenergo is the best, he himself, and here i will quote the material of the bbc, the most adequate person in the field of energy. two independent members of the ukrenegro council, by the way, resigned after dismissal of kudrytsky and called this dismissal politically in... it is interesting, by the way, that even in the summer of this year, one of the managers of the avtostrada company, which deals in particular with the construction of shelters at power facilities, businessman maksym shkil, stated that the government... is not enough finances the construction of these shelters, and showed a photo, according to him, the protection for the distribution substation of the second level, that is, against strike drones, which they were building, was financed by only 15%, and the protective structure of the third level of protection against missiles was financed by 8% and so on funding was stopped. the businessman blames

the head of the government, denys shmyhal, for this. i repeat that this is the situation described as of july this year on... and now we do not know the stage of construction of these fortifications. and of course we wanted to ask if it would be possible to protect these distribution stations from attacks even before these warnings from ukrainian intelligence appeared, and what is the general situation with the fortifications? i would like to note that during the preparation of this issue, we contacted the ministry of energy of ukraine, the energoatom company, the ukrenergo company, state nuclear regulation. they could not participate in today's broadcast, or... they refused, but we will continue to ask these questions and will definitely tell you about the result. and now i would like to remind you of the nuclear power plants in ukraine that produce approximately half of the country's electricity. there are five of them in total, but now they generate energy for the needs of ukraine, only three of them, the khmelnytskyi es, currently

have two power units operating there. rivne as with four power units, there is also southern ukraine. as in the mykolaiv region. here three power units are operating. the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the city of energodar with six power units is now occupied by russian troops, and from the very beginning, let me remind you, it was a full-scale invasion. the chernobyl nuclear power plant in the kyiv region completely stopped its work in 2000. we will continue to analyze all these news. the guest of freedom morning is olga kosharna, an independent expert on nuclear safety, a candidate of chemical sciences and the founder of the non-governmental organization anti-crisis expert nuclear center of ukraine. welcome to our broadcast, thank you to you who joined. good morning. how do you assess such threats, statements that russia is preparing strikes on critical nuclear energy facilities of ukraine on the eve of winter. do you think they are realistic or are they aimed purely at western partners? well, first of all, they were

realistic, after the start of these attacks, missile-combined shahed attacks. dreams of this year, as far as i know, of its sources, energoatom was not going to build protective structures of the second level, these bitons that ukrenergo built, ukrenergo built around about 60 such structures of their facilities, and energoatom and the minister believed that the russians would not hit open switchgear, they did not do energoatom... even stocks of transformers in case of hitting transformers on open switchgear and so on, and this is evidenced by the situation with the operational event, as they called the ministry, when two transformers on the southern ukrainian one burned down, i saw on the procurement

transparent that they announced a tender for the purchase of transformers, then... then energoatom, instead of making the necessary stock of transformers and other such equipment, as was done by ukrenergo, the system operator, which has more such transformer substations, he was engaged in the promotion of the draft law on the addition of x3 x4, he is reconstructing a construction crane on the site. the cs for 250 million and so on, overalls are purchased, so preparatory work on the site of the cs for the construction of x3, x4, without the presence of an adopted law, which will not be adopted, as people's deputies i know tell me, because there is not enough votes, that is, i believe that this is a criminal act of inaction, and the fact that the ek-energoatom has been on since

the spring, this can be monitored by prose purchases. even if there are no estimates for these construction facilities of the second level, and this is such, well, such an agreement, well, such announcements are always in the transparent, i did not see this, and kudrytskyi said about this, by the way, in his interviews after his dismissal, but, the most dangerous thing is the failure to open distribution devices, as the minister of foreign affairs says, for some reason instead of the minister of energy... such non-stationary transitional difficult processes took place in at nuclear power plants, when

an open switchgear is hit, other nodal key transformers of the substation are hit, and this is the most dangerous, why, because when an open switchgear is hit in the transformers, which are next to the as, they are activated automatically according to the regular schedule. the net protection system of the reactor stops, what did we have on the 26th? on the 26th, when key substations connected to open switchgear were hit, but so of the second echelon, so to speak, frequency fluctuations began, and the reactors automatically the protection systems did not know how to erect, this was not a regular situation, and we were the father. on the verge of a radiation accident, i.e., at the south ukrainian npp, such key safety systems failed, these are the main circulation

pumps and so on, what i see from the investigation, yes, it is necessary to conduct an honest investigation, not to blame ukrenergo for the fact that they are due to the fact that the purity dropped to 49 hz, and not 50, as the norm, with common in one. the team to analyze, conduct an honest investigation and develop an algorithm of joint actions. for such cases. as for this magate missions, magate missions are on every ac site, and they are next to the distribution devices, but for example, there are more than 200 key substations around the country, and as the minister of foreign affairs, or there is a deshat regulation, as they generally calculate. that experts of the magat mission will live at all 200 or more substations or - they say it can be some kind of guarantee, but we understand that you also say that such a number is

unlikely, olga, you mentioned, immediately answered several important questions, which obviously bother ukrainians today, we will continue let's talk, i hope with a representative of the authorities, who will be able to answer us and these accusations in... two holes in the mirror that we quoted, including, you say that there should be an honest investigation, what and how, but at the moment, what risks can be involved, you say that there is no necessary protection, you say that there is not even some kind of organization, and how to respond to such strikes, what to do with nuclear power plants like theirs to stop or not, that is , there is no mechanism of action, and this is real may threaten the fact that... there may be a certain nuclear emission, i understand correctly, well, you understand that after the attacks of 22-23 years

, energoatom together with ukranerg developed an algorithm for preparing nuclear power units for missile attacks, because there is time after the announcement that there will be missile attack, but in this new situation , for the first time, well, there were such cases of non-stationary operation of the unified energy system, which must be taken into account, this is a challenge, a challenge, but a common challenge for energy engineers who manage networks and dispatchers and, well, navinergaat, which operates au, but i don't see cooperation, you understand, before the investigation , energoatom accused ukrenergo, in fact. and it happened at the pond, and the second of september happened at the pond, the minister said that ukrenergo was to be blamed and the fifth

kudrytskyi was fired, in reality it is not so, in reality it is not so, and now the task is not to look for the culprit, but to work together to produce, prevent unfortunately, we only have a minute and a half left, but what and how can ukrainians understand this situation. what can be threats to the population, first of all it can be a threat to the population that lives near these nuclear power plants, how can you write it, what could be the consequences, well, we discussed this with my colleagues from the public organization, who were engaged in the operation of nuclear power plants, and this threatens us with an accident like trim my island in the usa in 1979, so. .. then there was a meltdown of the active zone of the reactor, but without the release of significant radioactivity, that is, even in the usa they were able to

manage this accident. difficult, that they did not resettle the population even near saeg, well, that is, it is clear that there is a sanitary protection zone, and this can be dangerous for the population, as will happen, but we will lose the reactors and then, forever, you know, if it happens, that is why we need to act on the warning and act together, and involve experts, you know, we talked about this and said that opening the distribution devices is... not a red line, even the geneva convention, article 56 of the additional protocol for russia, you understand, they are combined attacks, here are zaporizhzhia today, guided aerial bombs, that is, the next stage will be, the energy system will be combined, not only missiles, ballistic missiles, but also guided aerial bombs, the loss of reactors is an absolutely absolute blackout, i understand correctly, but if there is a blackout,

we have... why was the algorithm developed, because at that time, on november 22, all seven reactors from the unified power system stopped, all of them, and that is why the breakdown was energy systems, the consequences, the consequences are as negative as possible, mrs. olga, thank you for joining, olga koshar, independent expert on nuclear safety, was a guest, freedom of the morning and beyond, i hope we will be able to ask the representative of the government a question to the people's deputy about these all sharp corners in this topic, thank you olga. i will remind you that in the preparation of this program we appealed to energaatom, to the relevant ministry, and received negative answers so far, but of course we will try to knock on this door. andrii gerus, head of the committee on energy and housing and communal services of the verkhovna rada, is now joining our broadcast. i welcome you, mr. andriy, to our broadcast, thank you for joining , please tell me the answers to the main questions that lana zerkal and olga asked kosharna is just on the air, that an honest

investigation is needed, that it's energy. did not prepare, did not protect the as from combined or direct attacks of the russian forces with missiles or rockets, and now ukraine is completely unprepared for these attacks, whether you agree with such assessments of independent experts, good morning, i think that it is always possible to prepare better, this is such a question if there are always opportunities to do better and but... in this case certain works were carried out, there is first-level protection, so the fact that no work was carried out at all, i i think this is not quite, not quite correct information, moreover, and now, as far as i know, at least last week there was a meeting of the prime minister, and there was announced the information that even now it is being prepared and the construction of defenses on the relevant objects,

that's why i think that... more details here can certainly be given by energoata, because mr. andriy, by what percentage, by 7%, by 8% is readiness now? i do not know, because the informant did not provide such information, and he provides quite little information, due to objective and subjective reasons, but you are the chairman the verkhovna rada committee on energy issues, and energoatom also did not provide you with more information, you have no understanding of how protected nuclear power plants are today? no, there is no such information in terms of percentages, well... in general, at least roughly, the work started only now, after mr. sebiga and mr. yurmak received information from ukrainian intelligence officers, or when did this work begin? look, i can repeat, let's hear each other like this, uh, the facilities have level one protection, it's been building for a long time, it also does some protective function, and from what was announced

at the meeting, construction is underway. according to the protection of the second level, it did not start today, but today this process is going on, but there is no protection from missiles, and there is no protection from missiles at all in the os? look, well, if we have such a professional conversation, then i will tell you that, in principle, the second level does not include all concrete shelters, it is not protection against missiles, it is protection against shaheeds, moreover, we currently have in ukraine er... there is no defense against missiles, especially against ballistic missiles as such, because it is impossible against ballistic missiles missiles to protect such objects, that's why even when we had them, there were shelling of trypilska theses very often, and what about our defense, why wasn't there, well, for example, the power plant - it's tens of hectares of land there, impossible, 30 seconds unfortunately, it remains, but i thank you for joining, first of all, but still, are you concerned, or are you going to demand the presence

of the energy atom now? in the committee in order that all these questions.