despite the difficult current situation , several dozen commemorative events took place here, including with the participation of our embassy. well, wreath-laying traditionally took place, and at the olshansky cemetery - this is the central burial place of the red army soldiers in the city of prague, and layings also took place in other cities, including in brno, they congratulated the embassy itself. the current situation of the virtual mode. nevertheless, we managed to make personal contacts, and were congratulated. uh, all the veterans and congratulations from the president of the russian federation,

congratulatory cards from the ambassador, and our children of our employees organized a creative congratulation. this was also broadcast, and the embassy organized a broadcast of the victory parade and on the information resources of ours, and you can continue a number of events, they organized an exhibition, and on the basis of materials prepared by the russian historical, and by the society and, this photo-documentary exhibition is called victory roads and historical documents testify. i could continue the list of all these activities. but it seems to me that it was already quite saturated. and one more touch. we have such an innovation. the initiative went from the ground, it turned out that not only

st. george's ribbons were in demand this time. well, the state symbols of the russian federation requests to receive such gifts were heard from local citizens from the chekhovs. we responded with pleasure and it seems to me that this is a good. such a lively human connection. we will develop and continue this tradition alexander vladimirovich well, indeed, you are here for many european countries are probably now telling amazing things, that, uh, first of all, as you just said right now. ah, grown up. this demand for symbols of victory is real. it's amazing in the current situation. and were there any attempts to somehow russian flag and on the russian flag, of course, well, we remember what happened in poland at the same time yes, these, of course, dramatic shots should be noted, of course, the steadfastness of our wonderful ambassador to poland which well, not one muscle on the face did not pull, but it's really. uh, probably an example

of such courage, were there any attempts to somehow influence the course of actions on the course of those marches that you just planned. they came true, while in the czech republic they tried to calculate such possibilities, and therefore they acted proactively, including in close contact with the czech authorities. for which we are grateful to them, therefore, we managed to avoid such possible incidents by the czech authorities. here we met you halfway and did everything possible to yes, for this, of course, vile republic yes, for this, too, of course, they should say words of gratitude alexander vladimirovich well, look at some more of those news that, er, just in time for the ninth of may, also arrived in time. yes, that's prague, uh, deprived marshal konev of the status of an honorary citizen of the city. as i understand it, the council will still decide this at the city council before that. e valentin tereshkov. uh, the czech

buddhists were also deprived of the title of honorary citizen of the city, and these are not isolated ones. as i understand it , the case, which is also in the information space. ah, the czech republic passed. unfortunately. you're right. this is an isolated case, not the first. i fear not the last. well, as for deprivation. the city council's decision has already been made ahead of the decision of the legislative assembly of the city of prague . but what can be said here, but it's still cynical, because it was adopted on may 9th. the day of the liberation of prague is just, uh, the first troops of the first ukrainian front, commanded by ivan stepanovich horses. well, it all fits into the overall euro-atlantic narrative. and hmm here rewriting history and ousting the good memory of russia, including here in the czech republic but, as for the decision regarding valentina

vladimirovna tereshkova, well, you know, it in no way begs the planetary scale of tereshkova’s personality. high posts in the soviet era in the russian federation, valentina vladimirovna did a lot for the development of cultural and universal ties between our countries. but there are other signals. i have already said that we are now receiving a lot of congratulations, especially on the ninth of may, and letters of congratulations to the embassy with gratitude for the liberation of the czech republic czechoslovakia, uh, the nazi plague, they say they write and they say they call, simple czech republic this indicates that there is here. ah, a healthy potential that is turned to the future, based on our glorious military mutual past. well, this,

in fact, can be traced in many european ones. eh, countries. right now, this voice of a simple person from a simple citizen of the country. he is completely unheard of a simple citizen a country that has uh hmm and political pragmatism and reason, well, now there are simply no other words, but much more than politicians get this impression, i can only add. that the czechs are great pragmatists, this gives grounds for certain optimism for the future. you are now talking about a recent statement, just a cutie zemana. i am now simple chekhov about simple chekhov, i’m here to replace you with your permission. still, i'll be back. eh, recently. that's just how he was talking with the leader of bulgaria such a pan-european orientation is anti-russian. yes, but these are quite pragmatic questions. i already have a loan, too, czech and also a pragmatist about oil. that's how much. uh, now

pragmatics, in your opinion, has gained, uh, the upper hand over uh , some kind of general uh, euro-atlantic, or something, uh, anti-russian solidarity? well, pragmatism is very important for business, and business also influences politicians. let's start from this. there are also real things. there is a real economy for people, they need to live, they need to be heated. uh housing to file energy to an enterprise where thousands of people are employed. this is the main thing, that is, the very logic of life will dictate these positions here, in many respects, so to speak, influence politicians. and it is necessary to treat many statements, well, he will take his life critically enough. let's be patient and see how all this will be and not only in the czech republic yes, and such a thing as energy. eh,

here it is, just something tells me too. uh, hmm, it will dot everything economically very soon. uh, well, at least pragmatic point of view. it's count. and thank you very much. let me remind you, we are with, uh, the russian ambassador to the czech republic, alexander zmievsky. well, alexander vladimirovich was talking. thank you very much. once again, with the past victory day, there are your good wishes again in the past holidays. thank you so much. let's now see what took place in greece on may 9. andrey maslov, ambassador of the russian federation to the hellenic republic andrey mikhailovich, is in touch with us. greetings . good morning. hello, allow me again to congratulate you this time and, uh, those, uh greeks , probably, and our compatriots and those greeks who celebrated this great holiday, someone celebrated on may 8, someone on may 9th. and how did the celebrations go? please tell me in

greece, victory day was celebrated this year, as always, solemnly beautifully harmoniously and that it is important that the event took place in a calm world, of course, merit in this mainly belongs to the coordinating council of the organization of russian compatriots in greece, as well as to social activists. uh members, but of the russian-greek friendship societies, of course, in events. employees of russian foreign institutions also took part, employees of the embassy and the military atat laid wreaths at the monument to the soviet soldiers who fell for the freedom and independence of greece in the forty-first forty- fourth years. employees of the consulate general in thessaloniki honored the memory of soviet

soldiers at the allied cemetery spectators, where the graves of soviet partisan fighters of the greek anti-fascist resistance movement are located. as always, but exemplary uh, there were celebrations on the islands. uh, crete and corfu where uh our uh, compatriots employees of the honorary consulates of russia also spent. uh, a very interesting ceremony. i would like to emphasize that our employees, e, visited and congratulated three participants in the great patriotic war who live in greece and presented them with congratulations on behalf of russian president vladimir vladimirovich putin and memorable gifts. as for the action

immortal regiment, this year our compatriots for security reasons we decided to bring it online. although here, for example, in corfu, uh, the st. george ribbon action, but actually took place in full-time format. and this is what happened on may 9. by the way, i would like to say that, mm, may 9 is also celebrated in greece. e, the day of the general greek celebration of the national resistance to nazism and fascism in 1941-44. uh, all over greece there were also events organized by the public. what

has passed is only part of the holiday events, some uh are still planned, in in particular, in the coming days in athens, the russian greek dialogue club will hold an international scientific conference on the fight against falsification of history, in particular the history of the great patriotic war. here is a general picture of the events that took place. well, yes, now, of course, it sounds like a very rich agenda. i understand that in previous years, of course, this would have been a much more representative expression, but now even here, uh, the event you mentioned, they also say that, uh, well really. there was a lot of attention to this holiday. and everything went smoothly, or there were some incidents. there were no

incidents passed as quietly as in all previous years. of course, in the pre-pandemic period , the immortal regiment in greece was one of the largest among the countries of western europe only in athens. it numbered up to 5,000 participants, but this year the circumstances are such that compatriots preferred a different format, but in general, i would said that e local authority office police security ensured the favorable conduct of all activities and no excesses were noted. andrey mikhailovich once again, with the past great victory day, andrey maslov , ambassador of the russian federation to greece, was in direct contact with us and spoke about the events that were, uh, timed to coincide with may 9 and took place directly on victory day well, well,

let's uh . now, uh, let's move on to another topic, which was also uh, dated for the ninth of may, but with a different intonation. i guess i even passed uh. yes, sorry for some technical difficulties. here they arise all the same during the broadcast. and hmm i mean, of course, what happened on the island of the snake. uh, i remind you that just before may 9th. this island was uh, there was an attempt to take it by storm from the outside. ah, the kiev regime. uh, assault, this failed. here is a brief summary of the kiev regime in three days lost three bombers in the area of ​​​​the island of snakes, and 10 fighter helicopters, as well as 30 combat drones , nine, of which these are turkish beyraktars. here this result was summed up by igor kanashenkov. uh,

department of defense official. here it is, in fact, this has been the case since many experts have already said, therefore, the reason is that from a military point of view there is a military strategic one. well, from any point of view, there was an attack on this island. well , some hmm uh, meaningless. well, to put it mildly , meaningless, but then what was it, what was it? for such an attempt. well, indeed, many people died there, the ukrainian side lost a lot of equipment, and so on and so forth. of all this what they are looking for they cannot find. and now, probably, vasily prozorov is in touch from 1999 to 2018. this is an employee of the sbu. and now he is the founder of the e-project ukrlix. e, he is in touch with us now vasily nikolaevich greetings to you, i will remind our viewers that it is just 2014 . uh, you cooperated with the russian special services when you realized what happened in ukraine just, as i understand it, the main uh, an array of this material was collected during this time. let's just move on to the situation on the island

snake. so you, too, probably watched the fact that this is happening, and for sure, you also have this question. what for? of course, i watched. of course, i closely monitor everything that happens on the fronts. why is the question really important and serious, i singled out for myself three such, let's say the main reasons. what for the first is, of course it is necessary. informational. after all, the victory on the fronts of the ukrainian e, the armed forces is very good. you need some kind of informational occasion, but for your people for your internal audience for the western audience. and, of course, it would have to be timed to may 9th to show that we are looking at victory day on victory day, i think that the decision to attack is serpentine. it was even adopted not at the general staff, not at the headquarters of the armed forces a in the office of the president and was supervised, of course, uh,

including with western partners. in some way, for example, to break the naval blockade, which our black sea the fleet holds the black sea coast of ukraine well, i singled out the third point for myself. of course, i could be wrong, but the media was needed again. uh, the media economic victory is precisely here, uh, everywhere those most notorious bayraktars, because, again, compared to there with the same karabakh war, where they almost earned themselves the glory of a miracle of weapons, and now bayraktars are on the fronts. well , somehow they haven’t shown themselves much since february, and ukraine, of course, had to show it, i think under pressure from turkey what see in our arsenal there the miracle weapon of the

bayraktar. well, as our old song was sung , intelligence reported exactly. uh, our command removed from the island in advance. let's just say, objects that can be hit and ambushed the air defense forces of the black sea fleet there, and this played a role, according to my information, in the landing operation. soldiers from the 73rd marine special forces center and the 140th special forces center of the special operations forces of the armed forces were supposed to participate in the serpentine island. and here are the main losses precisely in the landing helicopters that were shot down over the island. this is, you can just say the elite special forces of the armed forces of ukraine well , just more note that how the ukrainians promoted the attacks on the snake. uh, until may 9, and as it is now, he just disappeared from the information again. uh, some kind of messengers and

the ukrainian authorities of the code of the general staff. that is, this once again confirms that they did not succeed.

so from scratch, then they initially there they were going to bomb the crimean bridge, or they had already bombed it. and then, well, you with what i take you to you i tell. you yourself are perfectly watching this stream of fakes every day, which show footage there from 1914 and from 2014 until now destroyed houses, which later turn out to have been destroyed in donetsk, and so on and so forth. similar. but look, you can sculpt fakes. uh, there, picking up some kind of video there, uh, from the fourteenth year or a video of broken ukrainian tanks, passing them off as russian ones. and you can make a real win here to capture snake island which, well, in in principle, a piece of land in the sea and portray from it

just a victory worthy of almost taking berlin in the forty-fifth year, so i would not drop this aspect, uh, from the scales. namely, that a military victory is needed at least some kind of more or less significant and which could be called significant on fakes for a long time they will not live their specificity in that they are very short-lived, but by the capture of a snake. they could advertise. oh lord, how many a week, and then maybe months. yes, an unexpected lightning victory that is not grown together. yes, here it is, please, comparing our capture of the snake and their attempt. as they say, feel the difference. feel the difference, really. in comparison, there is a need and it is known. and thank you very much. uh, vasily prozorov, uh, the founder of the ukrlix project, vasily nikolaevich is in touch with us, thank you. we also

congratulate you on the past victory day. and here is another topic that forced me the day before. well, at least in european countries, consumers of russian gas will be very nervous. this was especially evident according to uh, exchange price indicators. uh, blue fuel. i mean, uh, hmm, this is a statement that was made the day before again from ukraine regarding. uh hmm just the supply of russian gas and uh hmm this is what naftogaz told gazprom about a decrease in the volume of gas pumped from russia at the exit from the gts of ukraine and uh, the continuation of the supply of blue fuel further, that is well, uh, gas question. ukraine is here again, uh, playing the role of such a valve, or something, trying to at least play, yes, that is, well, it’s clear that on the one hand, i want to somehow influence public opinion even more, but in the west this time. e such an economic lever is a lever of pressure from the other side. well, we all

do too, well, we perfectly understand that this direction is very, uh, unreliable, let's say, yes, well, well, nord stream-2 went to europe, but uh, it has reached. eventually. here's what's next? uh , let's discuss this topic with dmitry islamov, deputy chairman of the state duma committee on energy dmitry viktorovich hello well we see just under how, uh, how the exchange will react to the cost of blue fuel. yes, what is alarmed in europe and it is not in vain that they are in it is possible, but the situation is just uh. let 's just say the ball is in their field. quite right, in my opinion, it was calculated for this, uh, so that in this case it would happen that the gas distribution station in question with the guards. it was located on the territory of which it was controlled by the troops of the ukrainian army, but our special military operation is gradually achieving all the goals

today this territory is to the luhansk people's republic and is controlled by the armies of the people's republics and the russian army, respectively, there are no technical obstacles and in order to continue transporting gas e there is no force majeure reason for this, that is, it is possible further continue to provide consumers with natural gas russian, but, nevertheless. ukraine gives such a signal, in my opinion. this is a purely political action. and it is ukraine that is showing signals to european countries that you are don't supply weapons enough, don't help enough. eh? money means that this is the result of the consequences of your inaction, that is, it adds another such factor of uncertainty. e plus. this is how i would qualify this step . now it's a step. uh, which shows that ukraine is now also a direct participant in the

economic war that the eu countries, the united states, have unleashed with russia and are gradually hitting hydrocarbons every day. we already know that, among the sanctions, an invarga on coal has been introduced, which begins to operate from august. today. uh, experts are expecting a sixth package of sanctions, which will include an oil embargo, which will come into force in nine months. well, plus, here you go, this is already such a serious blow to, uh, natural gas. it's all about the hydrocarbon market. these are energy carriers that harm all parties, that is, they are not here. well , is it just the united states? uh, what does this mean for russia for russia, this is a huge market, we supply three-quarters of all natural gas supplies to europe, uh, that means, uh from

200 billion cubic meters of gas, which we export per year. uh, european countries occupy somewhere between 150-170 billion, uh cubic meters. i mean, it's just not for long. just like you at the moat. it's just that here's a message on news agency feeds. they relate like the previous topic. here, uh, the situation, uh, of a military nature in ukraine, here air defense systems destroyed another ukrainian drone. snake island, this is reported by the ministry of defense there, even uh, in fact, but several uh unmanned aircraft that were destroyed in different e in different areas. uh, just a special operation. well, here, just again, it emphasizes. emphasizes all e, everything, what! we've talked to the previous one, just to our experts. let's just talk about energy security, but we'll continue talking to you. ah. well, uh, it's clear that this is the role that ukraine is trying to play here in terms of. uh in terms of such, but they say that

they are uh what, they consider energy security and europe yes, we all understand perfectly well that, well, this is not a shield, but this is such a saboteur, uh, most likely, and in fact it was before that. yes, even before the special operation, even before 2014. we have all repeatedly seen and repeatedly just e passed. eh, this role. uh, kiev is there with different actors, but that's exactly what this is about , yes, about the fact that these are the energy saboteurs of europe . this is all true for european countries. this is indeed a very painful issue, because 45% of all uh of all imports fall precisely on russian gas and countries have a very high dependence there 60%, for example, as in germany e, seventy some countries 100%, that is, for and today. uh, there is simply no alternative to russian gas. yes, we hear that they are negotiating with countries with algeria, norway

, azerbaijan now about entraining gas supplies or, for example, building terminals for receiving american lng, this is all understandable, but it should be replaced today. uh, russian gas is impossible and you still need to understand what natural gas is gas. it is not only an energy source for production. electro heat energy. it's warm now, maybe not. eh, europeans will be noticeable not only. the fuel that fills cars with buses, but it is also a raw material for a huge number of industries and we do it because of natural gas. we are everything now. everything that surrounds us is made, including from natural gas from russian natural gas. their industries will simply fall immediately. this is primarily the chemical industry. this is a plastic polymer. this fertilizer is the auto industry. this is radio electronics. well,

that's all pharmacy optics. all all industries. they are connected in one way or another, that is, russian natural gas has a tremendous impact on the economy of the eu countries, if that's it now. uh, what, uh, the european union already doesn’t have that colossal influence that it, in principle, should have on ukraine, which aspires to the same european union, but what does it say? although it should have this influence in this empire of lies. everyone is deceiving each other the european union, and they are deceiving ukraine, they say that we are about to turn you on, we will turn you on ourselves. er , they will never do it, and the united states is deceiving europe by saying that you have to pay, uh, your price for the situation with ukraine, and in fact, they are simply leading europe into an economic hole, and this will inevitably happen. if

we see such actions. uh, coal next oil. and now natural gas. it will be simple. e huge. e losses for the eu economy is the loss of jobs. it's a loss income for citizens. and it is very important that many industries have a continuous cycle. that is, if they are stopped, uh, the restoration of uh, the work of these enterprises in these industries will require. a lot of time and money, uh, somewhere it may already have been impossible. it's like a blast furnace dmitry viktorovich thank you dmitry islamov, deputy chairman of the state duma energy committee was in touch with us. let's have more here now are the very messages that came during our broadcast from the ministry of defense from polento news agencies came first. russian aircraft hit 93 military targets overnight . well, about the same drone, another drone that was shot down. e above the island of the

snake. uh, among this is not the only drone. uh, nine ukrainian drones.