republic there is a school of drones, it was also opened by us, its technical organizer, my colleague, yuri leonovent there from different departments fighters who are 2 weeks from morning to evening they learn to fly, the school at first glance is nothing special at all, just a basement and the hymers have already flown there twice. and we even joke that we shouldn’t put our eggs in one basket, by eggs we mean our teachers, operators, and drones bought with public money, and the school has already been operating for more than a year, it has saved, i think, hundreds of lives, the guys are coming back prepared for their unit, they can protect themselves and can protect their comrades, and about a year ago, i met here in moscow a woman. she is from the lipetsk region and she looked very upset, her eyes were constantly watering, i asked her what happened, she said that her mobilized brother had died. i then asked her, after the death of your brother, weren’t you disappointed in the special military operation? and she , she said that after the death of her brother, all her brothers went to volunteer,

yuri sherbakov, victor averin, andrey goldarev, evgeny leonov, channel one. commission for... communist deputy nikolai kharitonov submitted his participation in the presidential elections today; the decision on his nomination was made by the congress of the communist party of the russian federation last weekend. recently , ldpr leader leonid slutsky and state duma deputy speaker vyacheslav dvankov also submitted documents to the cec. he is running for election from the new people party and the growth party. let me remind nominees from political forces represented in parliament that they do not need to collect signatures. yekaterinburg is stuck in traffic jams today due to heavy snowfall. there has not been such heavy rainfall in the region for more than a century. snowy drifts, ice, poor visibility as a result of many accidents. the footage shows people, anastasia slobodenyuk, igor agafonov, channel one. we met father frost in moscow today. hundreds of residents came to the belarusian station, where the new year's train from velikiy usterk arrived. passengers

leonov, sergey kozlov, victor averin, alexey simonov, channel one tver. the electoral commission center today registered a list of vladimir putin's proxies for the upcoming presidential elections. it included, in particular, conductor yuriet, actor sergei bezrukov, director nikita mikhalkov, president of the all-russian federation of rhythmic gymnastics irina winner, singers nikolai rastarguev and shaman. yaroslav dronov, also on the list are famous doctors, leonid rashal and leonid bakeria, many famous athletes and artists, a total of 346 people. vladimir putin is running for elections as a self-nominated candidate; the head of state has previously submitted the relevant documents to the central election commission, and signatures are now being collected in his support. documents were submitted to the cec by five more self-nominated candidates and nine candidates from the party; the presidential elections, let me remind you, are scheduled for march 17, voting will take place within 3 days and starts on march 15th. now about how the special operation is going: our fighters continue to gradually improve their positions along the entire front line, so in the krasnolimansk direction russian units are pushing back the enemy