Transcripts For ESPRESO 20240703

A 39yearold man was taken to the hospital with a mineexplosive injury. In zaporozhye the Russian Military carried out more than a hundred strikes, dropped three aerial bombs on walnut trees, targeted novodarivka, chervony, robotyn, small cherbaky and lobkovo with drones. Another 16 settlements were shelled by artillery and rocket launchers. More than three dozen residential buildings were gutted. The russians fired 300 rockets at night. And in kostyantynivka in donetsk region, in total four rockets were fired and one of the schools in the city was completely destroyed , the ceiling collapsed there, the sports hall was damaged, in addition, six surrounding buildings were damaged houses fortunately, there were no injuries. In the morning, school employees, parents and teachers tried to save at least something from the property of the Educational Institution and the personal belongings of the children, which were kept there, even though the school was not being taught. We are taking what has been preserved, because we hope that the children will return to keep these desks, their personal things , well, right now we are taking them out of our class, it is more or less preserved, you see, this is a sincere ukrainian, he persevered, a cossack ukrainian, kherson a city that is shelled by the russians every day, visited today Volodymyr Zelenskyi held several important meetings there, what was discussed and with whom they met, we will ask the correspondent of tsn about this. Who is currently working in the kherson region, alechko, i congratulate you, and i will tell you what happened in kherson today and, as we know, in mykolaiv, where the president also managed to visit. Yes, congratulations, hello, today Volodymyr Zelenskyi visited both kherson and mykolaiv, and first of all he came to kherson, because the last few weeks there is an extremely tense situation in this place, Russian Troops are working around the clock every day both the city and the region are shelled. From various types of weapons, in particular they also use guided aerial bombs that are dropped on civilian infrastructure, and in particular in kherson, Volodymyr Zelenskyi had a meeting with the commanderinchief of the armed forces of ukraine valery zaluzhny, as well as the chief of the general staff and other commanders, and they discussed the situation at the front , first of all, they talked about the situation in the avdiyiv region and kherson region, and so far. What about these reports that are heard from time to time in the press that the armed forces of ukraine moved to the left bank of the dnieper, the president does not comment, but he adds that in general there are such positive steps on the battlefield, i ask for a direct speech, i would like us to get a result on the battlefield, or on one or another bank of our river , and after the corresponding results i already communicated, we had very powerful steps in avdiivka, i believe that few people know about them, very powerful, many offensive, massive actions, and operations russia tried to conduct in that direction, and could not, and many lost everything, in mykolaiv the president also. With the city government, discussed preparing for the heating season, and also had a phone call with german chancellor scholz, he primarily thanked him for the recent large military aid package and also discussed the importance of protecting critical infrastructure, and between these constant meeting, president zelenskyi also awarded Border Guards and Intelligence Officers on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the intelligence department, and he awarded the 21st military man with the order of marriage, as well as danylo halytskyi, and also subsequently the president he also visited a military hospital, one of which is located in this region, he also awarded and honored the medics there and came to the military wounded who were in this hospital to also award them with honorary awards, and it was precisely these soldiers who protected and defend kherson oblast. A splinter of the leg, jaw, contusion, injured a little, also a grenade was thrown near us. A grenade exploded and they shot us with small arms, then we just got out of the drone, they dropped the grenade and all the shrapnel went into the hands of fpv drones, drones that they just fly, i have a lot of them in that direction, they are like flies, its hard, its hard to fly, in principle, but well change it now, well go forward, the award was a prize for the military and, in addition, it was not without such a curious moment of a funny soldiers daughter, who just spoke, a fouryearold daughter , she slept through her dads awarding and didnt even wake up at that moment when her mom and the president wanted to take a picture with her, and she slept the whole time, and it kind of diluted the atmosphere, studio, thank you. When our children they are sleeping soundly, this is very good, this is exactly what our soldiers are fighting for, this is what they are fighting for, thank you, tsn correspondent, allatsinivska with details of the current trip of president Volodymyr Zelenskyi to the frontline areas, kherson and mykolaiv, and the city of fortetsia, which protects ukraine from the sea, it is about ochakiv in the mykolaiv region. The russians could not capture it, but they shell it almost every day. Before fullscale war, it was an inexpensive resort, a sea route to protected areas, a Gathering Place for creative people, and an important strategic base, as the city lives now and what secrets he still survives, tsn correspondent natalya nagorna, who remembers the ochaks well from her childhood, will tell. If youve ever been to ochakov, you most likely remember this city like this full beaches, catamarans on high waves, honey baklava and hot pies. For me personally, ochakiv has always been associated with. Childhood and the sea, i remember this very sea as my first, we came here with my mother and brother, and then i felt for myself how hospitable ochakiv can be. The sea i look at is now empty, mined and under constant shelling. What it can be, we remember only thanks to old photos and archival footage. For the second summer in a row , there are no tourists here, and there is a threat of shelling. Before the fullscale invasion of this city , the naval forces had big plans, it was here that the main base of the ukrainian black sea fleet was to appear, this was announced a couple of months before the invasion. We received almost 27 hectares for the construction of the Main Naval Base near ochakov, because the number of ships that we will be planning it will increase many times over. A city in the mykolayiv region opposite the only occupied part of the region, the reserve. Kosa, thats where the russians drove the equipment to fire at the ochaks. On the right side, everything is being fired at in some chaotic, incomprehensible order. The city itself, the civil infrastructure in the city is suffering, mainly the houses of civilians, even near, as we can assume, ochak, in the words of erefia, the city of the military, why they cannot find it. Military on such a small piece of land is incomprehensible, and they are constantly aiming at local residents and civil infrastructure objects , we drive through ochakovo, houses are battered and destroyed , vacationers used to rent housing here for 100 hryvnias per day, local resident vyacheslav shows me his battered house and warns me, it only seems , what is quiet, here we are standing with you now, and what will fly now, you dont know, his and mrs. Halynas house for two owners was damaged so once a guy flew to chop smaller firewood that he is now frightened and everything flew there a second time it flew in the door, but the locals complain most of all not about property, but about the sea. We fed from the sea, but now we do not take a step. The russians tried to enter the closed sea a year before the fullscale invasion and captured and transported to the crimea fishermen who legally left on boats with all documents. Then it was perceived as a misunderstanding or confusion, fishermen had to search and return. Currently, it is risky to go not only to the sea, but also to the street, but they are already used to constant shelling and ignore air alarms. As always, we were shaken by anxieties here, well, thats all, in short, as usual, and what caused the anxiety . Well, what is buzzing, there are shelters here and there. There is now an air alert in ochakov, but the local shelter is empty, people are waiting nearby on the street until the local supermarket opens. A missile has already arrived near this place, the locals explain, they are already dealing with the alarms, a missile, its not, not an mlrs, well, its not known where it will fly, no, yes, the shelter wont help, if it doesnt help, of course, and even during such a threat do not lose optimism, we are waiting, while they are chasing the goat from ukraine, we too, oh, people, oh, here we are, and what will it be like in ochekov then, strangely, the path to. The new actually started from here, already in adulthood, it was from here that the adventures began, we traveled from ochakovo rest on the kinbron spit, which we cannot even show you now, because it is occupied, although it used to be one of the best reserves of ukraine and one of the best places for recreation. Now we are not even allowed to shoot the kinbron spit, but before it was possible to get there in less than an hour, along the island of maisko, it was once called pervomaiskyi. And it was always closed to tourists. It could only be seen from afar, and it was talked about in secret, it is where combat divers are trained. This was the place where, during the exercises , sibritz, together with the American Military , prepared for the landing of the enemy. Then he was called a conditional enemy. How to properly leave the base, how to repel it. Maisky island is one of those places that was worked out for the resistance both day and night. A patch of land in the sea between the free coast and the occupied spit, which manages to hold the ukrainian military, which is the most powerful here. Maiskyi island is bombarded daily, with the help of barrel artillery, with the help of mortars, with the help of fpividrons and all the arsenal that the Occupying Forces can use, they, unfortunately, have the opportunity to use it. Kindbrun spit was occupied in the spring of the 22nd, a place that was famous. Birds, untouched nature, a difficult road on the island itself and silence, which was broken only by the noise of the sea and the voices of birds. And a place that in summer on the 22nd, the russians burned it. At present , you can also hear the voices of birds from the slopes of ochakov, and the sea looks calm and boundless, but this is a deceptive feeling. Last month , a guy blew himself up here, who, despite the ban , decided that he could swim and die. These places will soon become the way we used to see and love them. Natalya nagorna, volodymyr cherrenkov, vadym orekhva, Iryna Kryvenko and ihor kalynyuk, tsn, 1. 1. Marathon, only news. The president of the United States, joe biden, submitted to congress a request for additional funding for ukraine, israel and others security needs. We are talking about more than 105 billion dollars, of which 61 billion and 400 million are in ukraine. On the eve. Dinner on american time, late at night ukrainian time, the us president addressed the americans with explanations of why the financing of ukraine and israel is important for the United States, we will talk about this with our own correspondent of tsn in the United States, olga koshelenko. Olchko, congratulations, why does biden have to explain what seems to have already been said many times, and what possible new arguments did he make . And not israel was also demanded from the president by a part of the republicans and their voters, who are increasingly aggressively asking why we have been paying for ukraine for so long and where is our money going . The white house chose 8 00 p. M. For the president s speech, which is the evening prime time, when traditionally many people watch tv, and the president spoke from his office in a crowded cabinet, and the arguments presented by biden were of an emotional nature, we are. A nation, a great state, they hope for us, they look up to us, and they are quite pragmatic about the money and the benefit of the United States, as biden said, from this investment, and he answered all the antitheses thrown by prorussian or russian propaganda, for example, that ukraine has exhausted its potential for victory, the president said that putin, on the contrary, continues to suffer defeats in ukraine , and ukraine recaptured more than 50 of the occupied territories. Since the 22nd year. The next thing is that this war is not about the United States and they should focus on their own problems instead. No says biden, the encouragement of dictators and terrorists always ended badly, apart from the fact that its a direct hint to others, to iran , to north korea, that they can do the same, its also a pragmatic interest of the United States, and thats that they dont want to send their people, their soldiers to war with russia, and it is already directly threatening the states neighboring ukraine, and if in relation to kyivwashington does not have legal obligations, then in relation to nato partners it does, and they will have to be protected. He has already threatened that, i quote, he will remind poland that the western lands of this country were allegedly donated by russia, and one of his main advisers, the former president of russia, called estonia, latvia and lithuania the baltic provinces of russia. All of these are nato partners. So if putin attacks an ally, we will defend every inch. Of nato land, as required and called for by the north atlantic treaty, and the republicans favorite argument about money, here the United States is to some extent hostage to its own rhetoric, because it has previously said and often repeated that it is the largest donor to ukraine and allocates the most funds to help us, and this is the pure truth if taken in absolute numbers, but if we count the percentage of the budget. How much do you give in relation to what you have, then the United States is not the leader on this scale, justifying the actual importance for america to make this investment in ukraine, the president said that the money that the United States allocates to ukraine actually works on the american economy, old weapons are removed from warehouses, but they are still replaced by new ones, that is, the National Economy and the National Manufacturer are stimulated weapons let me be clear to you we are currently sending equipment to ukraine that is stored in our warehouses, and the money appropriated by congress, we are using it to replenish our own military warehouses with newer weapons that will protect america, weapons that are manufactured and made in america, yes patriot missiles are made in arizona, artillery shells in 12 states, in pennsylvania, ohio and the request to congress for funding has already been sent by the white house today, but when it will be considered, this is really a big question, because the work of congress is still paralyzed due to the fact that the republicans cannot elect a speaker of the house of representatives, today their candidate, jim jordan, failed for the third time during the vote, hello, so lets follow the events from now on. Laskor tn in the United States. Olga koshelenko about the prospects of aid that Joe Bidens Administration wants to provide to ukraine and the arguments that the us president makes for his compatriots. A new aid package from germany berlin handed our state antiaircraft guns, drones and weight carriers as the german side reported, among the new aid, in particular, three cheetah installations, a bridgebuilder and several dozen reconnaissance drones. And all this just 10 days after the previous aid package. For a billion euros, which included air defense, weapons and ground equipment. Berlin promises to provide military aid to ukraine in the future. New israeli strikes on the gas sector and procedures for identifying victims, hamas attacks in israel, which lead to the deaths of those who are still considered missing. On in the middle east, the number of casualties on both sides continues to rise. 18 ukrainians died in israel, one ukrainian woman in the gas sector. These are verified numbers. Embassy of ukraine and it asks not to distribute others. Ktsn correspondent Yana Slisarchuk on the latest development of the conflict. Until recently, the picturesque kibbutz niroz was a pearl of modern Landscape Design in the negev desert. Now every house here is a witness of horror. Four hundred people lived here, 100 disappeared, one out of four is not with us. Some 200 militants stormed here and opened it fire on everything alive, on everyone who tried to stick out of the bunker, to see the burning of the house, they burned them with the people inside. Missing persons may mean that the bodies were burned beyond recognition, because the bunker here, as in other fibuts, survived the attack by hamas on october 7 in every house, because the locals got used to rocket attacks, the carnage that happened here, no one could have imagined. They went from house to house and stole everything they saw, they took my childrens toys, took money, even took bicycles, but most importantly, now on the territory gas sector and more than 200. Hostages, their fate has been under intense negotiations for two weeks, relatives are appealing to Hamas Terrorists and the israeli military, begging them to return their loved ones. Carmela, an 80yearold hadalderon mother, and her 12yearold daughter, noah, were found murdered under the fence that separates the gaza strip from israel. Two more of her children, 12yearold rress and 16yearold sahar, are being held hostage. Every night i hear my son screaming at me, mommy, take me home, mommy. I am begging you, save our child. Thousands of people are going to demand the release of hostages in the middle of the cities of Different Countries of the world, in new york , senators and the ambassador of israel, who, among other things , are outraged by the attention to two million palestinians cut off from water, electricity and medicine, turn to them. Friends, the un secretary general went to visit the rafah checkpoint, unfortunately, his main priority right now is to help the terrorists who captured our relatives, shame. The rafah checkpoint on the border between the gaza strip and egypt is still closed. Gensekoon holds a press conference just under the fence. We saw a lot of trucks with water, with with fuel, with medicines, with provisions, exactly what the people on the other side of the wall need, its not just trucks, its vitally necessary rescue. For everyone on the other side of the fence, these trucks arent exactly what theyve been waiting for. Dont put food in the gas, it doesnt help, stop bombing us. Stop the israeli gas strikes. The israeli army announced that it struck more than 100 hamas targets per day, due to the dense construction of the gaza strip, each such strike increases the number of civilian casualties. Before that, they were forced to evacuate to the south of the sector more than 5000 people. In one of the hastily erected tent cities, children complain about the heat during the day, the cold at night and the truth. Water in the gas sector is rapidly running out. My children and i walked for hours under the hot sun , under shelling, it was worth sitting down somewhere, we immediately said it will come here now, too, as if history had gone back 50 years ago, as if we had a disaster again. Palestinians call the consequences of the war with israel a disaster, which forced more than 7,000 palestinians to change their place of residence. The israelis say thats the case have not been done to them since the holocaust, and that now they will not stop until they have completely destroyed hamas. To the border of the gas sector. Tanks drawn up, the israeli army prepares for a ground operation. The American State Department reports on the danger for american travelers around the world, due to numerous protests, the security of american embassies has been increased. A United States warship was fired at from yemen with missiles and drones, but all of them were shot down. The Israeli Government has allowed restrictions on the work of foreign media. Now qatar will be closed there aljazeera, which is accused of propaganda , has no doubt that russia supports hamas and retribution for this is inevitable. Listen to me carefully, we will deal with these nazis , we will win this war, it will take time, but we will win, and we will not forget what you are doing now, we will not forget, and we will do everything for ukraine to win , we will do everything for the palestinians themselves have no doubts about whom russia is currently supporting. However, the kremlin was outraged by the fact that first the president of the United States, and then the president of the european commission, compared hamas with russia and declared that this is completely unacceptable. Yanachuk, tsn, 1. 1. Marathon, only news. As it has just become known, hamas released. The first hostages are citizens of the United States of america, in total two hundred people remain hostages of hamas. And again to the ukrainian front in the tokmat direction, now, according to tsn correspondents, real drone races are taking place. There is not a minute that drones are not circling in the sky, reconnaissance, strike, they direct the artillery and help stop enemy assaults. How do they work around the clock in mortars and aerial scouts of the 65th mechanized unit were seen by the camera crew of the tsn soldier oleksandr motorny, everything was mowed down, mowed down, and here was a landing, where the muscovite artillery shells reach, usually nothing remains, neither alive nor survived, here, yonder ot kopani, yes , its yonder yonder on that hill there is such a one, here is a shout, you see how the road goes there, this is the road on kopani, on kopani, this is the eastern flag. Strike group of the Ukrainian Army in the tokmat direction and mortars of the 65th there is now a lot of mechanized work both during the day and at dusk. The front has now become hotter, much hotter, we have regular flights, we give it luck, in the last days of work it has become much more, that during the day, at night, even at night, there is no silence in the fields in the south of zaporozhye, it is more difficult to shoot at night, of course, it is difficult to hit, but nothing, we hit it, the car from bc was hit, the occupiers regrouped. Forces and it happens many times, they try to attack their former lost positions, approach too much in the dark, almost in close proximity, 10 meters from you, and when their group is large, two or three of our guys need to be helped, precisely to lay this mine carefully, and this is very important for us, because this is our job, our main task, to cover the guys and help them on time, mortar, the ukrainian infantry really hopes for them, and the mortars of the 65th know this, and at the same time, these men realize that they are fiercely hated by the muscovites, they do not like us, we cover in groups, enemy reconnaissance and attack drones, here they organize a roundtheclock hunt for ukrainian mortars and artillery calculations. At the moment, drones sometimes fly there thermally. To understand whether it is a strike, or it is just, well, not always, not always, the most effective protection against unmanned aerial threats, how to hide and camouflage more reliably, and it often happens that at that very moment the infantry needs support, there are such days, well, so many difficult days night, which is not necessary, one is gone, plus one, they are able to shoot very quickly and from exact coordinates, then there will only be a waste of ammunition. There is aerial reconnaissance, it flies if it sees any movement there, or any attempts, gives us the coordinates. Currently , a real race of unmanned weapons is going on all over the front, according to the aerial scouts of the 65th brigade. Even one small drone can stop an entire offensive, both equipment and infantry. On their account, no exaggeration. Hundreds of successful and reconnaissance and strike sorties, and without eyes in the sky, the brigade aerial scouts admit, its just trouble, too much during the offensive. When there is an offensive, drones, with their help we destroy the enemys manpower, so that our infantry can move on. The only problem is the life of the drones in modern warfare is very fleeting. The life of a reconnaissance drone, this, if he is very happy, we notice them there, call them, it is a month somewhere, and a day can live like that. In contrast to grenades and cartridges, the lions share of drones, at least for the time being, appears in combat units, thanks to volunteers and the help of the dedicated 65th, which is currently fighting at the tip of the main strike of the armed forces of ukraine in the tokmat direction in front of novoprokopivka, such help is now very much needed. This is a war, and drones, unfortunately, are an expendable tool, just like weapons, the same cartridges. Stokmatsky vittinka of the front, which is in zaporizhzhia. Oleksandr motorny, danylo lysenko and serhiy shportylo. Tsn 1. 1. Only news marathon. And an injury that is not talked about out loud. A group of urological surgeons from the United States arrived in ukraine. They will operate on ukrainian soldiers who injured their genitals in battle. Several thousand ukrainian soldiers received such wounds. Why are these wounds called the most serious, even if they are not lifethreatening, and can everything really be restored . Tsn correspondent nelya kovalska will tell you that these are the last minutes preparation for the operation and the last instructions, you cant swim, you know, sit in the pool, then you cant, youre stuck. Petro is joking with the american doctors , an hour earlier he was telling me how he got his wound, it was just a fight, i didnt even hear it at first, then it got hot, then they tied up and fought. He is from luhansk, in the 14th he escaped from the occupation, in the 15th he went to fight, i left because i was fed up that my family was taken from me, as it were, luhansk region, donetsk region, this is ukraine, i grew up there. For eight years in the war, he had two concussions, two serious wounds, a bullet in the stomach and a shrapnel in the groin, after the last day he was unconscious, he regained consciousness in the intensive care unit, he wanted to strangle russky