let's return to the news that we have been waiting for a very long time and finally arrived in moscow in the next few hours, viktor bout will return. the russian businessman was released from an american prison, where he spent an endlessly long 14 years on a far-fetched sentence, he was exchanged for a us citizen britney griner it happened on the territory of the united arab emirates in conditions of high secrecy. so the exchange was an absolute surprise even for the closest relatives of the buta, with whom she brought today or because of this khromtsova. she's on the straight again connection or for it, well, the family will be reunited, as far as i understand, very soon. aleksey hello viktor bout, already in russia, we can

talk about this with confidence, moreover, he has even already visited the russian territory. on the ground just some time ago, the plane flying from behind there without made a refueling in makhachkala and now, just to get out of the minute, victor will call his mother and his wife. we were close at that moment so that i would not talk about this scene now. it will all be redundant. let's just listen. are you there hit? here, well, it's okay. i love you very much. well, listen to everything, how are you in general, how is the flight? how do you not freeze at all? at the meeting, everything is fine with you today , you see the call, on tuesday we talked, and apparently, then it's all, but it started spinning like this, well, well, well, that's all then. we meet you. we are now working in the

state duma, and this scene took place in the office of deputy maria butina. she, like no one else, felt for herself what american justice is all three years that she has been working here in russia, after his return, he conducts human rights activities. she, of course, invested great efforts, including the return of the bot vector today. she stressed that in many respects a businessman would have to wait until today. the support of his family helped. these are the strength of his wife, who saved the family, and also raised his mother’s daughter, who, fortunately, was able to wait for her son to meet him in the next few hours, because i remind you that, for example , konstantin yaroshenko, a pilot who returned to april. so that's a lot of bad luck. there, my mother, unfortunately, could not wait for her son, who was also illegally taken to the united states, and now maria butina says that, of course, today's personal event will become very important for her. no, i'm

just incredibly happy for the family now, and i talked with my father, mother, and grandmother, and they all say hello, but in the family, so they say that this is the same happiness in scale in size as we had when three years ago around this time, they met me at the airport. earlier today we visited the house of the bud family, there is now being renovated; they did not have time to complete it by the return of the owner, but victor will remember this house very well. he lived there for seven years before his arrest. everything was saved, of course. with love, they are now trying to preserve the atmosphere that reigned in the house, and from 2001 to 2008, when the entrepreneur lived there, his library was preserved there, very rich in dictionaries, books in foreign languages ​​of his record libraries, which are a very rich collection, for example, traditional african motifs and e souvenirs that the

entrepreneur brought from all over the world. and also for the years that victor will spend in an american prison. he got into graphics. and there are houses in boxes. now, again, due to repairs, his graphic works are stored - these are drawings of posts that have already, by the way, been exhibited in the federation council and of the future they will be exhibited in st. petersburg unfortunately, the last and last, probably 5 years. he was not able to draw because he was transferred back to a strict regime of detention, and he i could no longer do anything, then all these works were all done before the eighteenth year, the idea came up to make an exhibition, but i can say that in april the exhibition is already planned with free admission in st. petersburg in the mansion. uh, bryullova on the makarov slava embankment. god the author is present to open his exhibition himself. wife and daughter victor seem to have met him in person for the last time in 2019

, then with great difficulty. they were able to get an american visa. and now the family is very grateful to those people who supported businessman all these years and helped to carry out this important exchange procedure. thanks to such a president, i think vladimir vladimirovich putin i am so grateful to the low maternal bow, the ministry of foreign affairs headed by sergei viktorovich lavrov why because their diplomats? well, their employees, despite that time they showed it a couple more times somewhere in new york, they went to see him, that is, they do not let them lose hope, lose hope. no, they give hope that the motherland is for them, that their motherland has not forgotten, low bow to the seven staff some kind of hope always. well, let's say remained in the shower. yes, the work will

continue. these are probably the most difficult years, when there was already some kind of hopelessness and depression, and in general, when there was complete silence, the situation was absolutely incomprehensible. and of course, here are the last ones. well, let's say six months. yes, when well , some information began to appear. e, there was, of course, a great hope that victor would finally have the opportunity to return home, and we are immensely, in general, grateful to everyone here. butas are waiting ahead of victor long holidays this is the first new year in a decade and a half, surrounded by the closest people, and also on january 13 for the old new year. his birthday is also no less long-awaited and today the commissioners for human rights. prices moskalkova, said that victor's return home is like a holiday. for 13 years, our state has been fighting for the release of viktor anatolyevich . the ministry of foreign affairs, the special services and, of course,

the president of the russian federation have repeatedly raised questions that they are legally unfounded and an unjust accusation, then a condemnation of our cordiality. to add that the daughter of the returned russian, elizaveta, is now on a business trip, but is already in a hurry to go home in order to hug her father alexei and thanks to elizaveta khramtsova for the long-awaited release. victor bout, now we are waiting for him in moscow well, as for the united states, the reaction there is very ambiguous. joe biden thus improve your rating. however, yastrebov from among the republicans, the release of viktor bout in exchange for one grainer is categorically not satisfied, they say, washington cheapened and had to keep a man in prison even longer,

whose guilt is essentially not proven from the united states, a report by our correspondent valentin bogdanov an atmosphere of complete secrecy, as well as negotiations that went through closed channels, but the main thing was done by viktor bout at large. he finally began to fly home to russia we get urgent messages from the white house. here's what the president tells us, biden, intends to trade britney grainer. on victor, butane good news, russia gave the go-ahead for the exchange, concluded by the united states at the highest level by the government of both countries, never relations between countries are tense to the limit for the americans , new by itself in that they exchanged for buto their prisoner sentenced to 9 years for importation into russia drug basketball player. britney griner for her sake, even biden became early, and

brian's wife was invited to the white house, they are lesbians. good morning friends. yes it's good morning. britney griner on board the plane on the way home, this required painstaking, intense negotiations. however, there are those in america who definitely have nothing to thank biden for. this is the family of the floor of a former marine who was spying for the united states, because of this convict in russia, it was worth biden to speak. as sprinkled from twitter from angry republicans. so the basketball star is released, we can celebrate, but what about the half-whelan, where the celebrity us marine half-whilan is more important an exchange of veterans as if for a grayer is not an exchange. this is the capitulation of america, none of them, of course, remembered that the verdict on paul was passed 2 years ago, abritney kreir spent several months behind bars. viktor bout, on the other hand, has 14 years behind him in dungeons and in a foreign land in inhuman

conditions, often without medical care and with poor food. as it seemed. without any hope of a successful outcome in 2008, agents of the us drug enforcement administration, under the guise of colombian rebels, lured a russian businessman, engaged in air transportation to the bank, allegedly to conclude a deal for the supply of weapons on march 6, 2008, right at the hotel, was detained by the thai police. no one talks, you don't call wheelbarrows to prison for more than a month, an arrest warrant has been issued by a thai court on charges of aiding colombian terrorists who were posed as those very american agents. this is the best bullshit. i have never dealt with the supply of weapons, i have never dealt with sarkayda, provocative recordings made on a dictaphone will then turn into alleged evidence already in american court. why do

americans need you so much? go ahead and ask them mrs. obama bush administration. clinton why do they need me? i have no idea in 2011 in new york the case of the united states against bud began to be heard, a year later a russian citizen was sentenced to 25 years in prison and all subsequent appeals were rejected as if they were turned into a criminal and now they are happy to adhere to the same version of the russian, deliberately demonizing him are still compared to the hollywood gun lord and exploit this image even when everything it would seem that double standards are already behind us, as always in sinanchik, it doesn’t even occur to me that they will, in fact, he ended up in america unified, he only ended up in an american prison, where he spent 10 years. recent years it's been super max i.e. the marion high security prison in illinois, the site of a grim and ruthless penitentiary. marion the successor to the infamous

alcatraz institution in illinois was transferred to 63 after closing in san francisco's super maximum safety from punishment. persons convicted of armed crimes, drugs and terrorism across the ocean are serving here. the united states then flew with the family of viktor bout to see off his wife alla and their daughter elizaveta to sheremetyevo, many caring people came to sheremetyevo. alla bout brought hundreds of video messages from russians across the ocean to victor, but the most important of course, there was a message from his mother. we love. we hope for the best. please, i want to wait for you in two years, raisa will turn to the leaders of russia and the united states, vladimir putin and joe biden, with a request negotiate the release of her son and return him to his homeland. but then the son did not hear the words, the prison authorities forbade victor to transfer the disc to show the video during the first meeting. alla also failed to even hug her wife.

after seven years of separation really no further. we have to sit across from a friend. uh, opposite each other, there , half a meter by the hands, do not touch each other there. there, do not transmit into the water, do not communicate, do not touch there. and when lisa is still there. well, maybe a minute. she sat next to me. sat down we were asked to transfer in prison next to us victor became a real celebrity while he met with his wife and daughter, the officers over and over again found an excuse to look at them conditions in the meeting room spartan plastic chairs vending machines with simple and expensive food and very cold, and we sat in sweaters and well, as it were, they were icy and lisa and dad were doing exercises there live just from yoga, they stood there, i understand that there was a guard sitting there , it was she who looked with round eyes. it was very strange. victor according to alla in prison respected, because they will behave like a free person behind bars. i read a lot, drew, sang voice, russian songs, collected herbs to diversify my diet with vitamins. an excellent

example for an already adult daughter, it was exciting and had not seen him physically for a very long time, how dad looks young. yes, he is, well, in good physical shape, he will pull her up, he constantly exercises. this powerful core did not allow victor to go through such difficult years , our ambassador to washington anatoly drew attention to this antonov recently. he, too, was like in prison he understands the situation. he really wants to return to his homeland. he misses his mother's family. and he is very worried about what is happening here in russia and how successful the special military operation is going with us. he asked to hand over our military to who? he is fighting on the fronts, success, all the best , the main thing is the victory and the plane with

viktor bout came out. now approaching the moscow airport. vnukovo is already the second good news. it takes a lot of effort this year to organize something similar, but most importantly, the fact that president putin, the russian foreign ministry never stopped trying to return viktor, as if we were all home, and i, in particular, incredibly grateful, in april, our pilot konstantin yaroshenko managed to get out of prison in the united states, he was also exchanged for americans. reed, our authorities are our intelligence agencies. our world is our president. they defeated the americans, that they returned not only me, and i believe that this is a victory, uh, on our authorities and political and other victory and our authorities follow the same course, as it was in relation, they don’t leave me . according to the russian embassy in the united states, about a hundred of our fellow citizens continue to be in american dungeons alexander vinnik and roman

seleznev, perhaps the most famous of them, but russian diplomats are trying to help, of course, not only those whose names are well-known valentina ukrainian troops, but if a missile strike on may day in the luhansk republic, footage of the consequences was published by the head of the city administration, as reportedly, the shelling was carried out from american exzu systems on according to preliminary data, several apartment buildings were damaged, power lines were refueled, the information of those affected is being specified, and in the dpr, only in the last hour , a recorded strike by ukrainian artillery on a scruffy panteleymonovka and donetsk residential areas is being hit from heavy nato -caliber guns. during one of today's attacks , a resident of the kiev region was killed. donetsk situation in the rear and on the front line of the donetsk republic report by grigory vdovin donetsk continues to be shelled daily constantly and one could say methodically, if there would be a methodology in these actions, but peaceful houses and streets suffer from it - this is the

kuibyshev region. and if they were at home, i would immediately lay down as far as here, well, about five meters, and just methodically the war crimes of the ukrainian side are fixed by the employees of the investigative committee of russia, the type of ammunition of the firing direction. examinations will be established. the commanders who gave criminal orders were held accountable in the private sector, the house was damaged, the glazing and the private building were broken by a hit, damaged houses around the city come across already everywhere , completely entire areas, where nothing fell, there is no new reality that donetsk now lives in - these are open doors to the entrances. people turn off the intercoms, prop up the doors with various objects. the shelling could start at any moment. the next entrance door is also open, now there are simply no areas invulnerable to the ukrainian artillery in donetsk. on the outskirts of donetsk , the combat work of a tanker of a separate

tank battalion of the first army corps in perfectly mastered shooting from closed positions in conjunction with the operator of the copter hit. it can be accurate both standing and moving, working in the direction, at the moment it works on annual points and on enemy concentration up to 12 km. we can just correct even the dugout of the tank normally , the chimney of the industrial building in krasnohorivka, which the ukrainian military used, is being destroyed by the artillery fire of the 100th brigade. as a mother, what to place surveillance cameras anton communications and equipment electronic warfare. but the reflection of a fairly serious counter-offensive on our positions in the water area is beyond the sands of 15 armored combat vehicles and infantry. all movements of the enemy are recorded from drones by

the unexpectedness of the action. the enemy did not. although this attack turned out to be the result, the tankers and artillerymen, corrected by the operators, were probably prepared. enemy drones. they stopped and forced to hide in a grove that had lost its leaves, where drones were already looking for individual ukrainian soldiers. the rest of the shock with losses retreated slowly, but it is true that the enemy grouping in avdiyevo is depleted and meter by meter of territory passes under our control and is important here. first of all, control over the enemy's communications at the moment when they are, finally, they will definitely be cut off. it is he who is waiting for the whole city of grigor, the widow of ruslan babeker andrey rudenko and oleg bondarenko to lead from the donetsk people's republic. kherson region, restoration work began at the kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. earlier, the station stopped generating electricity due to damage received in as a result of shelling by ukrainian militants, despite the fact that the armed forces do not stop strikes on the territory of the hydroelectric power station, employees continue to fulfill their duties are engaged in maintenance of equipment strategically for

the region of the facility protect the russian armed forces about a kilometer is the first line of defense. on the other side of the division of ukrainian nationalists. it's better here for a long time because the fighting amount, how to open fire at any second, the territory of the elevator of the enterprise does not work due to constant shelling, a good example of how the ukrainian military is hitting civilian infrastructure, the roof of the technical buildings of the grain dryer is completely destroyed, the employees’ car, installation, heavy, you can see for yourself what we are also fighting the consequences of the raid on civilians. and what kind of weapons are long-range long-range artistic installations mortars. in confirmation of the words of the projectile, directly above their heads. looks like we've been noticed.

you need to leave the firing zone as quickly as possible. x farther from the coast into the depths of residential areas it is relatively safe, low cloudiness, so there is no threat from the air from the copter, the functionalists hang grenades from such weather. all the same , you won’t see anything from the locals. a short respite to go out at least for groceries is very scary, that’s all. what to tell you. everything is fine, they are already used to shooting, yes, but for the mines and shells that the ukrainian soldiers release from the other side. this is wrong. the weather is not a hindrance, another hit into the garden of a private house, a facade dedicated to fragments, a fence torn out. residents did not suffer

regular shelling of the coast again, mostly mortar and arrivals periodically in parts along the coastal zone arrivals are regular every night, mainly at night during the dark hours of the day and such tactics of night shelling, the kiev security forces use specifically to further intimidate the civilian population mikhail fedotov alexander malyshev news from kakhovka, kherson region. the russian military destroyed 7 kerative launchers hall of fire systems, which were delivered to ukraine from abroad. including two american highmars, she repulsed the attack of the apu in the southern direction of lenin in the latest data on the progress of the special operation near denis alekseev footage of the battle for one of the villages in the dpr as part of a group is already successfully working, mobilized in the fall, military personnel after a full training course. they

strengthened the operating unit in the entire south-donetsk direction. now they are actively pushing the nationalists away from the capital of the people's republic about the successes in other areas of the special operation, the ministry of defense reported in the red lemon direction, russian units continued to conduct offensive operations with assault and army aviation strikes with artillery fire, more than 60 ukrainian military personnel were destroyed in a day, three infantry fighting vehicles and two vehicles on the kupyansky direction to as a result of assault and army aviation strikes, as well as artillery fire. the armed forces of ukraine destroyed more than 70 ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles and three vehicles, attack aircraft support the attack of the allied forces from the air. rooks su-25. after all, this is, in fact, a flying tank, and therefore the task of the pilots is to strike at fortified positions with a warehouse, a concrete shelter , dugouts of the command, the flight conditions are far from

ideal, but the crew knows their job, how to observe. this is unstable weather conditions. and when flying on a combat course. we often have to make corrections directly. although already from the lower border. this, accordingly, we have to recalculate the range of launches in order not to enter the area of ​​\u200b\u200bligation with artillery. such work gives the desired results, where it is necessary to enter high-precision weapons as a result of the strike of high-precision weapons of the russian aerospace forces in the regions. shevchenkivska or gurivska settlements in zaporizhzhya region destroyed five launchers of multiple launch rocket systems mlrs, made in the usa and mars is two productions of germany in the area of ​​​​the populated area , but we return to one of the main or rather the main topic of tonight - this is the exchange of victor butane by american britney plays. we

have the opportunity now to show how it happened. mm. we see that this is abu dhabi. we are showing these video frames for the first time. actually, we see viktor but, who is walking on the runway . as noted in the russian foreign ministry of this exchange? it was possible to achieve thanks to a long and very difficult. american side practically to the last refused a constructive dialogue. they kept it, of course. uh. as a result, as we see the agreement was nevertheless reached. here viktor bout is in the cabin of a private jet, and

we measure the temperature, he looks quite thinner. and what can i say enough, aged compared to those video cameras that we periodically showed archival video frames. yes, definitely here to measure the pressure temperature. this is the first thing to do after he was released from american prison. and see that i'm fine.

it tells me that now he will probably have his conversation with his family on the phone, which so far we have heard, that from the side of the wife in direct connection it is impossible to go to church, everyone met. it would be fine, don't worry, everything is fine. i love you very much. don't worry, everything is fine. i'll tell you when we meet. everything is fine. we saw the first video footage of a shot from abu dhabi released by viktor bout, he was talking to his family, he was

examined by doctors for possible problems with health. but judging by the cameras. he is quite cheerful. uh, and, in principle, he is already ready to meet with his family, but it tells me that now we will have the opportunity to show. video footage associated with american britney grander. here she is, in fact, a prisoner of the russian colony is preparing to leave the place of detention. let me remind you that britney greiner was convicted in russia on the case of smuggling and possession of drugs. in february of this year, the athlete got caught at the stolichnaya airport sheremetyev, she tried to carry hash oil in her luggage according to russian laws. it is forbidden to do this, wine, of course. at first they denied it, but, however, the violation of russian

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