russia is always, where we stand, there is russia. hello, friday. evening, i am alexander korievsky, time to sum up some results of the outgoing week. in the border areas of the kursk region, the operation to destroy the armed forces of ukraine is currently ongoing. over the past day, the enemy has lost more than 280 people and 27 military vehicles, including four tanks, our defense ministry reported. attempts by militants to penetrate deep into russian territory have been stopped. our military carried out several powerful strikes against them at once. in the sudzhansky district, for example,

enemy positions in the forest belt were destroyed. the strikes were carried out by army aviation pilots. the artillerymen worked to finish off the damage. in this footage, the ukrainian armed forces lose another tank on the border. its location was identified from the air, it drove off the road into the forest. it was there that the lancet loitering munition was launched at it. and at the temporary deployment point of the militants and the parking lot. units of equipment in the neighboring sumy region, our su-34 fighter crew launched a three-ton aerial bomb. the ministry of defense also reported that our group in the kursk direction will be reinforced with armored vehicles, artillery systems and other strike equipment in the coming hours. miraculously survived and

did not lose his spirit even in a mortally dangerous situation, this is about our zhenya podubny. in confirmation of this, there is a video recorder recording from a car that drove past the site of the drone attack some time later and the driver who provided first aid to our colleague. the footage shows a car burning in a ditch and how the wounded war correspondent himself gets out onto the road. we are alive, hitting the road the wounded war correspondent was taken to the suburbs of kursk, where he was handed over to volunteers, later sent to a kursk hospital, where doctors stabilized his condition, well, yesterday evgeny podubny was taken to moscow, now he is under 24-hour observation by doctors of the sklifosovsky institute, his condition is assessed as serious, but

stable, all efforts are being made for a speedy recovery, at the moment the patient's condition has not changed significantly compared to yesterday, it is serious, but stable, that's what inspires optimism, it is difficult to make any predictions, because this is such an early period of severe injuries, so there is such constant treatment here. the kiev regime continues to demonstrate its terrorist essence. targeted attacks on journalists, civilians are encouraged by the kiev leadership and their western curators. well, in any case, this is the conclusion that can be made seeing the reaction of westerners to the events in the kursk region to the assassination attempt, in particular on our colleague, yevgeny podubny. about the humanitarian side.

colleagues who see the facts, cars with civilians shot up, that is, this is not even a military operation, this is a terrorist operation. firstly, a legendary war correspondent, a person who always works in hot spots and it was clear that he would appear, he would definitely appear where it is hot, because well, he always does it that way, yes, therefore trust in a journalist who sees everything with his own eyes and directly conveys

the essence of what is happening, this is three times more valuable than reasoning somewhere in the blogosphere, about some events, so here it is precisely the importance of the dispersal of the transmitted information and the fact that there was a targeted strike on his transport, of course, this says a lot, it says that the ukrainian militants, they have long ago disdained any norms at all, because , after all, according to the norms of international humanitarian law, journalists who perform

an important social function, namely, covering the conflict, who are not, in fact, military personnel, yes, they enjoy special respect and special protection from the point of view of international law. therefore, you know, in this, in this case, in addition to our excitement and concern, directly about the person, about the professional, there are many questions here, complete inaction, and well , for example, such a person who is the osce representative on freedom of the media, this is teresa ribeiro, who occupies this position, in theory over the past few days, literally there, probably from the first hours, as the assassination attempt on yevgeny podubny took place, she should have been ringing the alarm bells in everyone, but now, several days later after that, yes, that is, we do not see, you know, not that, not that any statement, comment, yes, that is, we have not heard a sigh from the person who is obliged to monitor freedom of the media, to monitor the attacks on journalists, to try in every way

to protect those standards on which western society is supposedly built, therefore to say that westerners are somehow ready to respond to the attack on our journalists, but... these approaches, and you know, we have reason to talk about this, because dozens of directed appeals from our delegation, which is in the osce permanent council, they were completely ignored, they were not interested, literally, probably more than a dozen journalists who suffered this year alone, no reaction either to the death of the cameraman and the injuries there of the ntv television company, to the death of the photographer. there are a number of other guys who suffered in the war zone, and there were well-known, clear, understandable deliberate actions against journalists, that is, at the moment we simply do not see and have not seen any reaction, yes, therefore, accordingly , we

certainly did not notice any surprises from the activities of ms. ribeiro, if we talk about the situation that is developing today in the kursk region, then this is from the point of view of international... events, yes, that is, we see quite clearly that this is such a military-political provocation, which is aimed at, well, firstly, sending certain signals to the stakeholders of these processes, who are very actively involved in the process of conflict or bloodshed on the territory of ukraine, and to try in some way to at least soften or destroy that track, which is being actively discussed in different...

approaches to settlement options, as well as the participation or indirect, secret participation of a number of states, individual states , individual intelligence services, which are interested in continuing the bloodshed, which are not interested in some kind of cessation of military action, the search for options for resolving the conflict, that is, in this case we see that such a a rather strange, diverse hodgepodge of... militants, foreign mercenaries, radical paramilitary formations,

which are nevertheless completely legal formations of ukraine, related there to the national guard, related to the armed forces of ukraine, they were the ones who were driven into this wedge, with which they tried to organize this kursk provocation, on the territory of russia, on the territory of absolutely peaceful settlements, these monsters, yes, that is, they have already committed outright crimes and simply trampled on the norms of international humanitarian law, that is, when there are attacks on civilians, houses are destroyed, massive shelling of ordinary villages is carried out, then here, you know, it somehow seems outrageous, they simply could not have pursued any military goal here, here there is a political task, on the one hand, an attempt to somehow curtail or compensate for our victories, for example, in the donbass direction, but... which is completely hopeless in this case from a military point of view, but ambassadors of signals, here in the western community,

which you see, immediately somehow very actively blessed the ukrainian ukrainian units, and the pentagon representative, and the representatives of the european union, said that, well , you know, ukraine is free to do whatever they want in this conflict, and they were not going to limit them with any norms, again the use of american weapons, that is...

the regions of radicals running around the territory of kursk are now actually engaged in catching these , establishing order there, so i really hope that this story will resolve itself quickly enough will end and can be already wrapped in a specific negative even on the international political track in relation to the ukrainian. ukrainian authorities, the ukrainian kiev regime, which is in every way ready for all sorts of

adventures against the backdrop of losses that they are already receiving directly on the battlefield, which has been going on for months and months. ardion valerievich, and can we say that this is a new stage of escalation, this is a provocation, and this was the goal in order to even disrupt possible theoretical negotiations, which, as you yourself have already said, is many interested parties. is it possible to somehow understand here what the international so-called

community will do in these conditions? or will everything be the same? now this, in this case this provocation, it is aimed at not at something new , but at prolonging the old actions in which the kiev regime continues to live, yes, that is, the kiev regime thereby demonstrates that investments, investments, so -called, military... technical in their promotion, that they are not in vain, that is, they cannot realize them in a classic battle, yes, that is, there, where in those territories where military actions have been going on for quite a long time, here...

colleagues to evgey, volunteers, because yes , a local resident found it, he is a great guy and passed it on to the volunteers, i know that representatives of your foundation are also working in the kursk region, here are a few words literally, because this is happening somewhere nearby, where such events are taking place, that is, where drones and other weapons are flying, here is a little bit, how all this is happening, what great guys, it seems to me, a charitable foundation, that we are with colleagues organized it, it's called. ours , it's a fund with a specific focus, we work very closely with military medical units, right now, right now, today, a shipment was sent to one of the military medical units that was transferred to the kursk direction, that is, any movement of a medical unit is a new arrangement, a new organization of the place where

patients are received, where they operate, where dressings are done, where, as usual, our military doctors, they work with... local residents, who found themselves in the conditions of military action, so now we have sent at least the first cargo, which has already gone in that direction, and tomorrow the guys will be meeting it in that territory, we have been sending it to the belgorod region for quite a long time and , of course, through donbass, i myself returned from there a few days ago, so i can just say that we work along the entire chain from the trench to... the trench, evacuation points, hospitals, medical companies, medical battalion, hospitals, in all these cells we try to be friends and help as much as possible, receiving signals from guys, and those who first of all need individual first aid kits, paramedic first aid kits, which, well, we really send there in hundreds, hundreds, plus - these are the things that are needed to replenish these first aid kits,

as they are spent, all this is sent by our foundation, we collect funds for it and you know, i thank. of course, the people who believe in us and give us the opportunity to provide this kind of assistance, and we work with children, that is, we now have children from frontline territories, but for now there are no questions about kursk it was, because now local authorities are very actively involved, now many regions have responded to this problem, when children need to be taken away from places where there is shelling, we are mainly engaged in the rehabilitation of children from donbass, that is, this is the lugansk people's republic, the donetsk people's republic. right now we have children in the moscow region in one of the sanatoriums of the federal medical and biological agency, with which we also cooperate, and children with various disabilities, well, let's say, really on the frontline zone does not care about children who have hearing impairments, children who suffered, well , the vast majority of them suffered from shelling and lost some functionality,

so they need to work with highly qualified professionals who they can find. right here in federal medical institutions, so we are focused on this area and now we have a huge number of requests that we provide organizationally, then we move from the ability of those volunteers who help us financially, participate in our actions, for which i am literally sincerely grateful to everyone, well, and i convey the gratitude that we are already receiving in response from military medical units, here are the residents living in the frontline territories, for whom everything is really not difficult. thank you, good luck to you in your work, all the best, thank you. the iranian topic remains on the agenda, world energy markets are under stress. a possible iranian retaliatory strike in response to the murder of ismail haniyeh, one of the leaders of the palestinian hamas movement, that there will be a retaliatory strike, no one

doubts this, the only question is its strength, and therefore, this is very important for the markets and for the situation in this region in general. we will now talk about this topic with the president of the center for middle east studies, murad. hello, murat. hello. the public is waiting for what iran will do, it is tense, and as i understand it, it is still clear that no one wants a big war in this region, and nevertheless iran needs to respond with something, how powerful do you think the response will be, it is clear that this value judgment, but nevertheless, do you expect any serious events in the near future, you know, i think it’s not worth it...

iran in syria in damascus, of course, it will be much more powerful than then, but to say that iran wants, let’s say, to... is in those very videos that are spreading through various, let’s say, social networks, there are threats, footage in which you can first see what happened before the iranian attack, then after the iranian attack, that is, the entire middle eastern segment of the media and social networks the networks are overflowing with all this, but it is clear that there is some kind of psychological attack here, and even the fact that the response is delayed from...

he found himself in a very deep, let's say, unpleasant case, when from the point of view of the eastern mentality, he could not, let 's say, save the life of his guest, and the guest was a difficult person, of a fairly high rank, in addition, he had to answer to the internal voter, because the inauguration of the new president was just taking place, the head of the intelligence service was changing, in general, renewal of the government, so it turns out that... today it is not protected, and if israel wants and can strike, then accordingly questions arise from the voter regarding, let's say, the internal authorities,

where our special services are looking and so on, that is, this factor is also there, the iranians are trying to read all this in such a way that it does not lead to a full-scale war, especially with the americans, because everyone understands perfectly well that if anything, if a war starts, it will not be with israel, namely with the americans. who in the last week have been massively increasing their military presence in the region. yes, murat, the situation is, of course, extremely, uh, complicated, to put it mildly, and we, of course, would probably also be interested in there not being any major events there, but nevertheless, you have already noticed the situation in the political life of iran, the changes after the elections, and there was a lot of talk about iran somehow looking more softly towards the west, will you divide, do you divide?

the overthrow and destruction of the iranian regime, as there would be no other way here, in principle the iranians understand this too, but perhaps yes, i would like it to be an understanding, because to be friends with the west, we also tried to be friends for 25 years somehow, and then it turned out that no one wants to be friends with us, we revealed everything in the nineties, and leaked top secret information, half of some powerful, well, that is, well, the soul was wide open, then we, excuse me, as they say in the army, got it in the soul. so, it seems to me, the same thing can happen in iran, so i think that of course iran will not allow this, and nevertheless, well , some temporary tactical improvement of these relations, do you think, the iranian authorities can go, they can of course go to new negotiations within the framework of which there will be a weakening of the sanctions regime, definitely, yes, this is the unfreezing of assets that are still frozen in western banks and so on, and these are some, let

's say, permits for conducting financial... he has stated repeatedly that this is, firstly, an improvement in the social situation of citizens, this is the fight against poverty, this is an improvement, let 's say, of social moments connected with the life of ordinary citizens of israel, i apologize to iran, and also of course. this is some kind of liberalization of life, there is a question regarding the wearing of hijabs by women, because we remember that a year ago there were active protests in connection with these problems, that is, this question will also be there, the main reason for everything, that is , what the current president wants to do is improve economic conditions, and which now it is not the best place in the country, because of internal devaluation. and it is quite

difficult from the point of view of technology, yes, we see certain progress of the iranian military-industrial complex and so on, that is, certain technologies are developing, but for the development of the civilian sphere, access to world markets is still needed, the iranians understand this, the iranians want this, so i think that from this point of view there may be partial, let's say, attempts at negotiations, but it will not be possible to change all this radically, because iran has already chosen its side, iran chose brick. iran chose the highway, iran chose an attempt to enter the new world order that will be formed. there is definitely no place for iran, yes, that is, from the point of view of western players, in the world order that was founded by them, western players, where they dominated, in principle, we see all this. and the iranians are not ready, no one, no government, neither reformers, nor conservatives, they will not agree, let's say, to act to

the detriment of their interests for the sake of. to come from the west, and it seems to me, in the region, as at least, among the arabs and even the turks, we also see today's turks, everyone has already understood what policy washington is pursuing, this is no support for allies, that is, if an ally, and washington can sell and get rid of its ally, if it is necessary to protect personal interests, yes, murat, an alliance with the west, i have already said this many times, ends badly, yes, some tactical successes. trade , exchange something and so on, of course we will have to, we live on one small planet and somehow interact or fight or trade, two options, there is no other, and murat, thank you very much, it is very interesting, i think that we will still have the opportunity to talk, after all - events will develop in any case, it will happen quite quickly, but for now thank you very much, all the best, thank you, i will remind you, we talked with the president of the center

for middle eastern studies murad. august 9 - the day of military glory of russia august 9, 1714 the gangut battle during the northern war umysa gangut peninsula khanku russian naked fleet under the command of peter i defeated the swedish squadron. peter then said that a state whose land army has one arm, and which has a navy has both arms. the battle of gongut became the first naval victory over the swedes in russian history.