but withdrawing its troops after intense fighting that sometimes lasted for months. to outside observers , ukraine’s slow but steady retreat from the donbas region of the main theater of war today may seem like the start of engame, with moscow firmly gaining the upper hand on the battlefield, using its overwhelming advantage in manpower and firepower. but ukrainian commanders and military experts dispute this, saying a more important struggle is unfolding in the region that goes beyond mere territorial gains. losses. it is now a war of attrition, they say. each side is trying to wear the other down by inflicting maximum casualties, hoping to break the other's ability and will to continue the war. ukraine is at an inherent disadvantage in this kind of battle. it remains unclear how much territory kiev will have to give up before the russian army runs out of steam, if at all. to make matters worse, ukraine's offensive in the western kursk region in august has further depleted its resources, jeopardizing its ability to conduct and control the conflict.

russian iskander operational-tactical systems destroyed a temporary deployment point on the territory of an industrial enterprise in pavlograd in the dnipropetrovsk region, where the exhausted 72nd brigade of the ukrainian armed forces, which had fled from ugledar, was relocated. in the kursk direction, ukrainian formations lost over one hundred and fifty mercenary soldiers in a day, our defense ministry has just reported. total losses have already exceeded.

groups and the north spotted a target in a forest belt, and artillerymen carried out a pinpoint strike. crews of su-35-s fighters conducted air patrols over the border area. the pilots are covering the bomber attack aircraft while they destroy the mobile armored groups of the occupiers. the terrorist raid on the kursk region is kiev's reaction to putin's statement about a peaceful settlement of the conflict, lavrov said. today, in an interview with the magazine "look at me" on june 14, president vladimir putin listed the following conditions for a settlement: a complete withdrawal from the dpr, lpr, zaporizhzhya and kherson regions, recognition of territorial realities, enshrined in the constitution of the russian federation, a neutral, non-aligned, non-nuclear status for ukraine, its demilitarization and denazification, ensuring the rights, freedoms and interests of russian-speaking citizens. all sanctions from russia.

kiev responded to this statement with an armed invasion of the kursk region on august 6. its patrons, the united states and other nato countries , are seeking to inflict a strategic defeat on russia. under these conditions, we have no choice but to continue our special operation until the threats from ukraine are eliminated. malik. yeah, well, let's talk about the united states of america, especially since we have a lot of people here today

, yes. of course, his supporters have gathered, but still, the most unique thing about this event was that ivan musk attended it. i think that, probably, for the first time in his entire career, musk is directly and actively involved in someone's presidential election campaign, well, because we remember, yes, earlier at some point he had sympathies for obama, then he quarreled with the democrats, it seemed like he supported trump, but not until the end during his presidency, then later in 2022 he supported ron desantis, trump's competitor in the primaries, and now, in general, ivan musk, just starting around july, from the moment after the assassination attempt on trump, began to donate a lot of money to trump, there are about 50 million dollars monthly to various funds that are associated with trump, and now he even spoke at his event,

yes, the speech was a little bit humorous, humorous and so on, but still it is a really important story, yes, because musk is a very popular character, one of the richest people on the planet, if not the richest, well, they are changing now... he is officially supported in this way, musk of course has his own motivation, yes, because we see that he has a bad relationship with the democrats, his companies are currently under legal pressure, and on a variety of charges, there from discrimination due to the fact that, for example, he did not hire illegal immigrants, yes, of course, too an amazing situation, for which some of his companies are trying to... sue him, well, and to the accusations that he allegedly somehow interferes with the overall policy of the united states of america with his negative comments about what they are doing in ukraine, taiwan and in various other areas, well , that is, the point is that musk is completely involved for trump and is betting

that trump will win, so if trump wins, i think musk will be fine, if trump loses, the democrats remain in power, there will be certain musk's legal problems and more. we see that the democrats remain in a stable crisis situation related to the recent hurricane helen, which hit the east coast of the united states, and in north carolina, hundreds of thousands of americans are left without electricity, and a lot of criticism is being directed at the american emergency management agency fema, due to the fact that it is not coping with its duties, and the latest scandals indicate that agents of this very fema even tried to arrest those americans who are privately trying to provide humanitarian aid to the victims of this hurricane, that is, of course, this is complete madness, but this is what the bureaucrats in washington are doing now , and why are they doing this, well , most likely because they are afraid that this way it will somehow hit their reputation, that they are not coping, people are coming

privately, helping, as they show that this bureaucracy in washington is not good for anything in principle and is not needed, yes so most likely it is connected with this, well, and ratings in general. this is essentially an american ministry of emergency situations - this is essentially an american ministry of emergency situations, well, and of course, yes, the main scandal is connected with the fact that this department has run out of money, because they spent a lot of resources first on placing migrants in the united states, who are pouring out through this southern border and biden is accepting them, well, then part of their resources went to ukraine, now they are also going to the middle east in lebanon, that is, here the republicans are accusing the democrats of the fact that, that they put the interests of some other states first, and not the residents of the united states of america. the chance that he will defeat harris in the electoral votes, i think that this is approximately what

has to do with reality, if these crisis moments inside the us are not resolved, they most likely will not, well, foreign policy also creates a risk for them, there was already an october surprise, october. perhaps we will still see from mr. netanyahu, yes, if he nevertheless decides on this serious further escalation in confrontation with iran, and netanyahu, as we see, also generally proceeds from the logic that everything that is bad for the democrats in the us is good for him, and he obviously did not agree on anything with trump during his visit to the united states in july, and netanyahu, like ivan musk, is betting on trump, well, in general, the fact remains that october is possible, but there are already so many credits, in which the democrats are stuck, that maybe all this will hit them hard enough, that they won't be able to bypass trump in this election after all. and donald's cognitive abilities, which supposedly have declined, have sharply, noticeably, and in general the man now simply has no chance,

an old patient, well, yes, that is, like when joe biden was in the race, new york times, he was young, he was young, yes, now joe biden has been forced out of this race. and accordingly , all these accusations can now be thrown at trump, that he is now the oldest presidential candidate, which is true, yes at the moment, and that he does have some.

former president donald trump fondly recalled how the audience at his climactic debate with vice president kamela haris was on his side. except there was no audience. the debate took place in an empty hall. of course, anyone's memory can fail. trump appears confused, forgetful, inconsistent, or out of touch. in fact, it happens so often that it hardly even attracts much attention anymore. with biden out of office, presidential race seventy-eight years old. trump is the oldest major party presidential candidate in history and will be the oldest president in history,

if he wins, he will complete a term of 82 years. what a horror, with biden everything would be different, he would come and start getting younger, 70, 60, 40, please, let's not criticize trump so harshly, so to speak, in fact, only those who do not closely follow the international situation do not swear, apparently he is ... this is not a ukrainian politician, a european politics can only be rented, and as soon as the rental period ends, that's it, the service

is no longer provided, they start saying what they really think, now regarding nato itself, which he had the honor of representing until recently, you know, if nato was ready for an armed conflict with the russian federation, then believe me, they would not need to look for reasons and generally find zelensky or anyone else to start a war, that's the problem, nato is not ready for a direct conflict with ukraine, in this matter, with russia, in this matter ukraine does not even have an advisory vote, if ukraine had an advisory vote even on this matter, then i think the order of things would be different, they would first meet, probably with zelensky, and the four leaders, and then they would discuss all this at ramstadt, but we see an absolutely diametrically opposite picture, that is , you fry, and the fish will be, first we will sit down... we will feed you, we will give you everything, we will not make a decision for you, and then come over, we will give, don't worry, i even understand what

there will be a decision, but obviously the democrats are not going to fail the election campaign, what is trump doing? trump is trading in fears, well, politicians generally have two things that they can sell to voters, either some kind of dream, or fear, so trump is trading in fear and now playing along with trump in the form of, say, escalating the conflict, providing long-range weapons. taking another half step towards a major global war means playing along with trump, what is this for us, it means that in fact there are no cardinal decisions on the issue of war and peace will not be made, and zelensky will not receive any long-range weapons. it seems to me that this is absolutely obvious. in general, regarding these missiles, you know, so that no one has any illusions that, supposedly, ukraine is coming, asking the americans for some long- range missiles. let's tell the truth, and the fact that these long-range missiles, they exist in ukraine, they exist, they are attacking part of the territory with them,

literally a few days ago, attacks, the ms attack, they attacked the luhansk region, that is, they, the lpr, the territory of the lpr, they, they have these missiles, the question is different, the question is that zelensky wants to persuade western partners to take direct part in the war, that is, so that they lay down flight missions to strike at the territory of russia, and at those points,

trample on pushkin, on memory and so on, that's what to do with them, there are tens of thousands of people there, well, tens of thousands of people, it seems to me that the very idea of ​​​​membership of a certain territory in nato, ukraine, yes, probably has a place to be within the framework of the three these western regions, let them, they want to join nato, but let them go, but i want to tell those people what awaits you there, if you join the european union with three of your regions in nato, these territories will be turned into a reservation, many there, so to speak, got angry at the ukrainian sociologist, who, well, basically, spoke out on this matter about the possibility of an influx of migrants from europe to the territory of ukraine, and i want to ask you a question, why not, why not, this problem is not being solved in europe, they have tried to solve this problem more than once,

remember how they paid erdogan to keep migrants on their territory, this has already happened, yes, they paid.

people from afghanistan, why not? every year the population of ukraine decreases and after the start of the war the situation has worsened significantly. according to the latest forecasts, there may be slightly more than 25 million ukrainians left. sociologist vladimir paneotto spoke about the possible migration of people from countries to ukraine, which are less developed, namely from africa, afghanistan, however, their adaptation will require

more resources, and despite this, they will not quickly become ukrainians. in addition... not the best attitude towards africans, he noted. we do not have the same culture as, say, in other countries where they, migrants from africa, have already become accustomed to living, - said paniotto. let's move to where migrants from africa, from arab countries, are far from uncommon, germany, berlin, our european subcorrespondent, chief of the european bureau of vgtrk, mikhail antonov, is on the line with us. mikhail, hello, the most powerful material for the news of the week about the divided germany, thank you for. but we will definitely return to this, we would like to start with the news, ftti writes about some german plan for reconciliation, settlement of the situation in ukraine, according to the german scenario, allegedly a certain part of ukraine can become part of nato, what is known about this, in this context, will this

german plan be discussed at the upcoming meeting in remstein? hello, colleagues, well, in fact, to be honest, i do not quite understand, where did this concept of the german plan come from, because apparently its origin is in the interview of chancellor scholz on september 8 to the ard tv channel, when he said that we need to make efforts to end the ukrainian conflict, sooner than it seems, but actually speaking about accepting ukraine into nato, so to speak, in whole or in parts - the german chancellor did not speak then, another thing is that the press then began to sketch out some scenarios, in fact, in my opinion, so far mostly speculative, well and of course scholz... having suffered defeat in two federal states at the beginning of september in thuringia and saxony, tried to try on the mask of a peacemaker, to enter the arena where

the alternative plays, where the tsarawageng neft plays, the left, the far left, the far right opposition, which in general rises on the programs of normalization of relations with russia, and but we see that in brandenburg, at least, this did not affect, in brandenburg the social democrats won, but with a slight advantage, after all, there is no alternative and the wagening party, there actually took second and third place, and this is a very significant result for such an extreme opposition, but there is an election year ahead, elections to the bundestag, and apparently from scholz we will periodically...

who possess long-range weapons, and we remember that kiev is trying to get permission to use this kind of weapons in

the territories deep in the russian federation, so they will discuss this topic, in fact, the key decision that may follow as a result of this meeting at the ramstein base, this kind of permission to inflict strikes deep into the russian federation for western missiles, but this is unlikely to happen because of the us elections, escalation is not needed at the moment, well, let's see, in principle, now there is a greater chance that everything will end with the same fizzle that burgenstock ended with, colleagues mikhail, if politicians who historically do not like russia, and previously proceeded from the fact that it is necessary to achieve a strategic defeat of russia.

all this geopolitical exponential, because the meeting at the ramstein base simply grew out of the state visit of the us president biden, which will begin on the evening of the 10th, on the eleventh, there is an event here. in berlin and then on saturday 12 everyone moves to the ramstein base, and this certainly emphasizes

some continuity. biden, in fact , wants to ensure continuity in support for ukraine, at least to demonstrate this continuity, to fix the situation in which the united states remains, so to speak, the rear, aimed against. elections, obviously the same picture will develop by the elections federal elections in germany, but let's say, chief.

european policy, given the crises that we are facing, germany is facing. well, in general, it must be said that the term nostalgia is a product of the generally liberal-liberal press, which thus characterizes the bad heredity, the political heredity of the eastern eastern germans.

well, you know, for example, i talked to some politicians on this matter and those from the gdr, and they don't really like this term, because it doesn't reflect, it is very personal, we understand that ostalgia from nostalgia, some personal feeling of quiet sadness, but in fact, what is happening now in germany, at least, says that this is not a quiet feeling from it.

accept this term ostalgia, we can say that it is becoming a political factor in life, at least in germany, well, other countries, let's say, did not have such a historical experience of living in two states, and you know, every year - the chancellor comes out with the same thing on october 3 on the day of german unification, comes out with the same thing the same remark, statement, that you know, we are trying very hard, but the unification of germany is still not finished, and it was like that 10 years ago, 5 years ago, merkel said it, schroeder said it, paul said it, now scholz says it, well, you understand, when there is an onschluss of one country by another, especially with

completely different political systems, the more effective at that time western system, the capitalist one, it simply produced the effect of an elephant in a china shop in the gdr, it was destroyed, the industry was destroyed, science was destroyed, everything went, so to speak, under the knife, and moreover, some kind of inner self-awareness of people, it was also - thrown into the trash, these... people were simply told that guys, you were building a country that no one needs, your history is not needed, your lives are not needed by anyone, and 30 years have passed, 34 years have passed, and east germany is still very different in mentality, in standard of living from the west, this gap, it feels like no one even wants to eliminate it. because it is not

profitable from an economic point of view, therefore big capital, which now well creates, dictates, dictates the weather, dictates policy in germany, thank you, thank you very much, misha, the head of our european bureau, mikhail antonov on the direct line to berlin germany, in continuation of the conversation, amusing, can we assume? actions on the occasion of putin's birthday appeared in italy, this is of course not a general trend, but someone's personal activism, nevertheless today suddenly leaflets with a portrait of the russian president were pasted up there time in this regard reports that putin's point of view and the truth is heard, heard louder and louder, but the ukrainian version stops.