well, following rafael grossi's visit to the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, a message from lenta information agency, this message is from our ministry of defense, russian sappers recorded explosive ordnance discovered... shelling from the ukrainian

side near the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. and here's another message: magate specialists and the head of magate grossi confirmed that the source of ignition at the base of the cooling tower of the zaporizhzhya npp is unlikely, that is, we are talking about shelling by a ukrainian drone. let me remind you, then there was a strong fire at the cooling tower of the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. now to other news on the fields of the eastern economic. vladimir putin today got acquainted with an interactive presentation of the results of the development of the far east, and also took part in the opening of new enterprises via videoconference. the residence of the territories of advanced development joined the presentation and told about the launch of their production. i congratulate all colleagues who have achieved a specific result at the important stage of launching enterprises on today events, i wish you... further success and

special words of gratitude to the heads of financial organizations that provided the necessary amount of financing to achieve the goals that were achieved by the work collectives in preparation for the launch of enterprises, i wish you success, thank you very much, all the best, good luck, briefly about what kind of facilities the ozerny mining and processing plant, a modern enterprise for the extraction and processing of ores based on the deposit, was put into operation today polymetallic ores. this is the largest investment project in the republic of buryatia. the plant's capacity for the production of zinc lead concentrates is up to 6 million tons of ore per year. when reaching production capacity , approximately 1,200 jobs will be created ; it is planned that the enterprise will produce about 4.5% of the world's zinc concentrate. the project was implemented by ozernaya.

in addition, the port of sukhodol, a specialized marine complex in the south of primorsky krai for the reception, storage loading of coal onto seagoing vessels, with additional capacities, the cargo turnover will be 12 million tons of coal per year and will grow to 20 million tons in the future. the project was implemented , among other things, to facilitate access to the port infrastructure of small and medium-sized coal mining enterprises. investments. in the project amounted to about 52 billion rubles. about a thousand new jobs were created. the first stage of production of the primorsky plant of plastic pipes for water and gas supply was launched. it is noted that these products are characterized by a long service life operation, more than 100 years, will be in demand for the implementation of gasification and housing and communal services modernization programs. well , within the framework of the first stage, four high-tech lines were created.

the situation in different areas of the front line, yes, greetings, the ukrainian command, when it was devastating the defense on the main fronts, transferring the elite and reserves to the kursk borderland, obviously did not assume that it would come to this, because the idea was different, as a result, tactical miscalculations play against them every day, in a day under russian control crossed two more important settlements: karlovka and prichistovka. the loss of karlovka for the ukrainian armed forces is... a complete collapse in the ovdeevka

direction, 13 km from it is already selidova in a straight line, no settlements to gain a foothold and organize defense, time to build something from scratch. no, and therefore the path to selidova for the russian military can be practically unhindered, at least, having captured karlovka, the artillerymen take the next important line in the ssu by fire. the ukrainian command set the task of reinforcing selidova, they had to take unit from under the coal mine, are already reaping the fruits. the vostok group took advantage of the moment and took control of the cleanup. these shots are from there, a unit of the fifty-eighth separate motorized infantry brigade of the armed forces of ukraine. are fleeing in a chaotic flight, having abandoned their weapons and ammunition at the forward positions, our marines' drones in the vostok group are watching everything from the air, these shots show the combat work of the center group, it is they who have been knocking out

militants from the memory points of the armed forces of ukraine on avdiyevsky kilometer after kilometer for a month direction, including these guys cleared the approaches to karlovka, the most difficult thing is, they say, moving to the area to complete the task. the vsu soldiers are covering themselves with drones, shooting cluster munitions at the places where our attack aircraft are supposed to land, so military ingenuity and cunning are important, where can we leave failures? we completed the task, completed it in full, you could say we went into the rear and surrounded. we had a task near the arkhangelsk mulsopalas, we cleared it nearby.

units of the western group of forces improved the tactical position, inflicted defeat of manpower and equipment, the forty-fourth and sixty-sixth mechanized, sixty-third motorized infantry brigades of the armed forces of ukraine, the first brigade of the national guard, repelled a counterattack in the formation of the third assault brigade of the armed forces of ukraine, the enemy's losses amounted to 480 servicemen, five field ammunition depots were destroyed, this is destruction. on an important crossing for the armed forces of ukraine in the area of ​​the settlement of kupinsk uzlovaya, it has already flown in more than once, the ukrainian military is patching it up, our pilots are putting it out of action again. and the bridge very important, it leads to the railway junction, from where the ukrainian armed forces send reinforcements and ammunition to the front line. in the area

of ​​responsibility of the southern group , two counterattacks of assault groups in the ssu were repelled, the enemy here lost almost 700 people per day, this is not a small amount, and such a record... the insignificance has been holding for several weeks now, our military is consolidating new lines, in the northern direction. well, in kiev , meanwhile, there is a series of resignations. ukrainian foreign minister dmytro kuleba submitted a letter of resignation. this was reported by the head of the verkhovna rada ruslan stefanchuk. well, the day before he decided to resign, as well as the vice-premier and several ministers. natalia solovieva found out the reason for such a... radical renewal of the ukrainian cabinet. this wave of political resignations in ukraine has become the largest in recent years. one after another, the verkhovna rada receives mass applications for resignation. minus four ministers of foreign affairs dmytro kuleba, justice denis malyusko strategic

industries, oleksandr kamyshin, environmental protection, ruslan strelets, two vice prime minister iryna verishchuk and olha stefanishyna and the head of the state property fund vitaliy koval. kyivkhorast calls this a reboot, promising to change the government by half, but the verkhovna rada, which dismisses and appoints members of the cabinet, has long ceased to be the center of decision-making, the issue of any reshuffles is under the jurisdiction of ukraine's western partners. i think both are due to internal reasons, this is what the people say, beat your own so that strangers are afraid, and this shows the people, the people always love. all sorts of reshuffles, dismissals, when ministers are removed there, especially prime ministers, vice-premiers, people like it, here are simple things, management through the presidential administration, through yarmak and through american representatives, everything

should be simple and calm in their opinion. at another time, kuleeb's resignation could have become a sensation, during his 4 years in office he actually shook the foundation of diplomacy, but in the end. achieved nothing, failed the so-called peace summit in switzerland, put the brakes on the advancement of interests ukraine in africa, endlessly scandalized with western partners, it was he who actually declared. "borscht is being cooked in my apartment in the ambassador's residence, you invite the people you need, a bottle of vodka, borscht, bread, lard, worked flawlessly

to solve any issues, but for kiev, and even more so for its overseas patrons, such frankness brought, perhaps , a headache, what was it worth to hush up the scandal after a sincere confession, on the very first day of the special operation kuleba took his entire family and beloved dogs out of ukraine, and how else could his wife could calmly drink champagne, hung with rollers, cartier and bulgare"?

or raise it, then makes such substitutions, but to say that this policy will change, the administration cannot, i think that it will remain the same, apparently, from those who come to the vacant places, they probably expect more aggression, more political declamations of greater russophobia. a number of ukrainian officials fear that zelensky's position will be stronger after the reshuffle. dismissals in the cabinet of ministers, however, they will not have an impact on kiev's foreign policy. in

there is even less interest in this news in the inner circle. the public attention to the purges of high offices is riveted much less than to the missile attacks and the difficult situation at the front. natalia solovieva, natalia uvarova, and anna pogonina. vesti. russia will achieve its goals as a result of the conflict in ukraine. this opinion was expressed by british military analyst simon diggins. boris ivanin will tell you more about how the west assesses the course of military operations. the poltava military communications institute, which was hit precision strike is not just an educational institution, a joint training center where, in the conditions of the conflict, kiev trained specialists in electronic warfare and drone operators for the armed forces of ukraine, that is , a military facility, which even the french lemont admits in the title. the ages of the victims vary, because during the fighting, the institute, founded in the 1960s for training.

there were many more dead, 215 and 340 wounded, where did the numbers 41 and

180 come from, where exactly are they, where will they write down all the rest? the question is rhetorical: unaccounted for the mercenaries will probably be quietly sent home, like cargo-200, this has already happened, but western publications are silent about this, but they are advertising kiev's need for western military equipment supplies. the attack in poltava demonstrated how the lack of air defense systems is making ukraine.

this is another very tense night for the entire polish air defense system due to the observed activity of long-range aviation of the russian federation, striking at targets located, among other places , in western ukraine. meanwhile , not only the front and military facilities are crumbling in ukraine in the rear.

a friendly football tournament, in which the russian national football team will play against the national teams of vietnam and thailand. on the eve of the first match, the team held a pre-game training session, which was attended by our special correspondent stas ridikultsev. details in his article. even after entering the capital of vietnam, the temperature is incredible 32°, humidity 75%. in such an atmosphere, under the sight of several dozen lenses , the russian national team begins its training.

georgy vyacheslavovich, hello, good afternoon. official statistics of the central bank tells us about the slowdown in the growth rate of consumer lending. is vtb really recording this slowdown, how strong is it and is it primarily connected with the curtailment of the preferential mortgage program? indeed, we see a slight slowdown, although within consumer lending in different products the dynamics are multidirectional. explained - for the current year we predict that only about 14.7, consider, almost exactly 15 trillion rubles of retail loans will be issued.

deferred demand and with the presence of a large the number of chinese car brands, and the growth of the credit card portfolio for the first time in many years will outpace the growth of the portfolio. mortgage programs with state support. how long will such super-high mortgage rates last and what mortgage programs are in the greatest demand? of course, mortgage programs with state support were in the greatest demand.

we are writing history because last year was a record year, last year the population's savings in banks grew by almost 25% by a quarter, this year we predict comparable growth of about 24%. the rates were lower, and the record is the same, this year we also forecast growth of about 24%, we believe that the retail savings market will reach about 56 trillion rubles, this is both the ruble portfolio and the currency portfolio, while only ruble savings will be 52 trillion, this is a colossal amount, what are the drivers here, what are the reasons for such

active growth, this is not only new money that comes to the market, which clients bring, but it is also interest that banks pay clients at these very high rates, we calculated that by the end of the current year depositors will receive up to 4 trillion rubles in payments. of which only 800 billion will come from vtb bank, a colossal amount for us, but we really try to be the leader in attracting, so 4 trillion rubles will come to the savings market, by the way, just now at the investment breakfast we assumed that it is quite possible that next year part of this interest income will be transferred to the stock market, because clients there will also begin to react to ipo russian companies. btb is completing the integration of otkrytie, and you also have. rnkb is planned, then the merger of pochta bank, tell us how these projects are going, i would like to announce the completion dates of the programs. in general, the transfer of business

from otkrytie bank to... btb is going super successfully, and almost 2 million otkrytie clients have already begun to be served by vtb, with the exception of those clients whose transition is already planned for the second half of the year, and this transition will also take place. it should be said that otkrytie clients, according to customer surveys from this win, it is a wider product shelf, and it is the most generous loyalty program that exists, clients receive it as:

the bank has a general agreement that such integration will take place, the final documents have not yet been signed, however, it is obvious to us that the otb group should not only maintain, but increase the availability of basic financial products, including in rural areas, so this is certainly a positive trend. it turns out that you acquire or receive such a large number of clients, perhaps offices, regional network, you estimated the volumes of the group. vtb banking business upon completion of all these integrations, of course, when we announced, including together with you, the new retail strategy of vtb, we said that we want to ensure the availability of vtb infrastructure for approximately 100 million citizens of the russian federation, by the way, now according to the results of the third quarter of the twenty-fourth year, we have already achieved availability for 90 million citizens, that is, in a significant part of the initiative

, we have fulfilled the scale. well, of course, we voiced the target is 35 million active retail clients by the end of 2026, and i think we will increase this target, because, for example, the growth of the client base in 2024 is going at a two-fold acceleration compared to 2023, that is, we have learned to attract and serve twice as many new clients as last year. does vtb have plans to expand. servicing foreign clients in the far east? not only in the far east, but throughout the country, this concerns payment corridors, and this also concerns e service standards. the far east is very interesting because there is a really high proportion of foreign workers who come to the far east to work at local enterprises, here we launched a pilot where artificial intelligence.

built into the employees' tablets, allows our employees to communicate with clients in 13 foreign languages, this is speech analytics and artificial intelligence that simultaneously translates the client's speech or the employee's speech into their native language, and there is also chinese, and korean language, and the languages ​​of the cis countries, this is a very interesting pilot and it is already working. georgy vyacheslavich, thank you very much for this interview, thank you very much.

international negotiations, a meeting with moderators of key sessions, the launch of new enterprises, as i announced, in the kremlin the president has an extensive program within the eastern economic forum. today vladimir putin also held a meeting on the development of the far east. details from dmitry marokko, he joins us live. dmitry, so what, what topics discussed? i welcome, first of all , the issues of energy and transport development. significantly exceed the all-russian ones. at a meeting devoted to the situation in the macroregion, the president today paid attention to the energy transport sector. generation volumes in the far eastern regions need to be increased with accelerated dynamics - the head of state emphasized, until 2030 , electricity consumption will increase by an average of about 5% per year, which is twice as high as in the country. taking into account their specifics.