💥 RUSSIANS ARE HIDING IN TOILETS! Drones ATTACKED Ryazan refinery | NEWS

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At least three wounded in Dnipropetrovsk region. Overnight, the enemy attacked Dnipro and Samara with drones. Fires broke out at critical infrastructure objects. A private house also burned as a result of strikes in part of Samara, and there are power and water outages in the suburbs of the regional center. Russians struck private houses in Yasnohirka with two aerial bombs.

In Donetsk region, two women died, and another was wounded. In Slovyansk, the enemy carried out an airstrike on a historical building. The occupiers dropped a 250-kilogram bomb on a hospital, hitting the old building of the medical facility, which is an architectural monument and which they had bombed previously.

Occupiers attacked the Potivl community with drones. This is now Sumy region. An elderly woman died as a result of a direct hit on a residential house. Her husband was extricated from the rubble by emergency responders and handed over to medics. And another drone exploded near a store. A woman was wounded. Sumy and its suburbs were under attacks by KABs. Infrastructure objects were damaged. Five settlements were left without gas.

A Russian drone killed a man in the suburbs of Kherson. Four more people were wounded in the regional center and in neighboring Komyshany. These settlements were under artillery shelling. Three people died. Another man needed medical help in Zaporizhzhia region. There, Russians apparently attacked Vilniansk with Shaheds, targeting the residential sector. An apartment building caught fire from the hit.

And in Kyiv region, as a result of a Russian attack, a building caught fire in the Bucha district; the enemy targeted logistical infrastructure. According to preliminary information, there are no dead. One man was injured. Local rescuers and firefighters from other districts arrived at the scene. Additional forces were involved. The fire has now been localized. Rescuers are dousing the hotspots and dismantling the destroyed structures. Earlier, the head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration wrote that a fire broke out on the territory of a warehouse in the Bucha district as a result of enemy shelling.

"Educational work" of the Security Forces of Ukraine in the Russian city of Ryazan. This is about half a thousand kilometers from the state border of our state. Overnight, drones visited the local oil refinery. In the dead of night, locals witnessed numerous explosions. These were the sounds of a battle between the local air defense and our drones. The Ryazan refinery processes about 17 million tons of oil per year. This is one of the largest such enterprises of the Rosneft corporation. In addition to fuel for civilian needs, it also supplies aviation fuel and diesel for the army of the terrorist country. And the local population, as usual, reacts emotionally to everything they see and also, as usual, does not point to the sole culprit of this.

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One shot and a Russian cannon goes silent. Another accurate strike and an ammunition depot takes flight. A combat hamster is behind this hunt for the occupiers. Yes, the soldiers of the 148th Artillery Brigade of the Air Assault Forces nicknamed their "HIMARS". In the Oleksandrivka direction, it tracks the highest-priority targets, often it is enough only

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one missile, so that the enemy lost all its ammunition and equipment.

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How 20 tons of steel were transformed into high-precision weapons, TSN correspondent Darya Nazarova witnessed the path to revenge.

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Precision, mobility and a minimum of unnecessary words

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HIMARS does not need loud statements; the result speaks for itself.

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This "HIMARS" operates in the Oleksandrivka direction, serving the soldiers of the 148th Artillery Brigade of the Air Assault Forces. The call sign of the combat vehicle is Unexpected Hamster. In the cabin, there is also a fluffy team of mascots. Glory to Ukraine!

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Glory to the heroes!

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Under this name is a high-precision weapon weighing over 20 tons. Despite its size, on the battlefield the hamster is fast and maneuverable; to take a position in time, operate, and disappear is its job.

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Turned on divine rap, everyone crossed themselves and drove off quietly. Nobody thinks about it. There is a mission order, somehow it's done on autopilot. Came quickly, entered the coordinates, it positioned itself, fired, as they say, that's it, packed up quickly and drove out.

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All the soldiers of the HIMARS crew previously operated the Soviet "Grad" MLRS. For the last six months, they have been dealing with weapons of a completely different level and say the difference is noticeable.

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In this machine, everything is automated, the difference is very great, because the "Grad" system was adopted into service a very long time ago.

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She

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more focused on a precision strike of the target, but with a much more powerful charge.

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Enemy cannons, an ammunition depot, take-off sites, Russian pilots – "Khomyak" had quite a few targets to his credit, but the most interesting—confident fighters—are still ahead.

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I would really like to hit an MLRS "Uragan", or some fuel truck, so that, if it hit—if it were a fuel truck—I'd be pleased; it blows up very beautifully.

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"HIMARS" is capable of striking at a distance of 70 kilometers, so it operates far from the line of contact in a protected city. During one combat sortie, the crew usually launches one or two rockets. Here, it is not about the number of shots, but about their accuracy.

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Only high-value targets are given for the "Hamster," only priority ones. And among the most high-value targets are long-range guns, as well as UAV launch points, including "Moni" UAV launch points, and we already have many significant guns on our record, as well as UAV launch points.

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The automated system allows for lightning-fast action. About a minute is enough to deploy and aim the unit at the target. Among the latest results are Russian ammunition depots.

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Here, our rocket has hit; you can see the scale of how large the fire is immediately, because there are so many flashes.

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The era of drones has changed the battlefield, but the need for artillery has not disappeared. "Khomyak" continues to go hunting to inflict losses on the enemy with a single precise salvo, the recovery from which will require great resources.

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"HIMARS" will do this with greater efficiency and more effectively. And it carries a larger payload than any drone can carry. I'd also like some EW. Some EW that interferes with us, some expensive, serious ones. And it would be desirable if the whole crew were standing there near the antennas. And we hit right there.

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Every day, with just one shot, "Khomyak" fires nearly 100 kilograms of explosives at the enemies and hits the target accurately. Daria Nazarova, Andriy Khupovka. Zaporizhzhia TSN. 1 plus 1. Marathon. United News.

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Coordination before negotiations in Abu Dhabi. Before the trilateral meeting, Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks with Donald Trump's emissaries, including Kufomi Kushner. The phone conversation lasted an hour and a half. Parallelly in Brussels on Wednesday, consultations of delegations from the USA, France, Great Britain, Germany, NATO, and the World Bank regarding the post-war recovery of Ukraine took place. And already today in Brussels, they will talk about the future of European security. Air defense remains an important priority. The president spoke about this with the American team, because it is the White House that approves the shipment of every missile to Ukraine. And how to speed up the delivery of interceptors in Berlin? Zelenskyy discussed this with the Minister of Defense of Germany. The team also worked through the possibility of supplying IRIS-T and ammunition for F-16s.

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And today

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The President of Ukraine is in Madrid. Negotiations with the country's prime minister Pedro Sánchez are planned there. Also, for the first time, Ukraine will take part in events within the framework of the 30th Ibero-American Summit. This is a regular format that gathers leaders of countries from Latin, Central and South America and other countries. Around five o'clock Kyiv time. Volodymyr Zelenskyy will speak at a special panel dedicated to our state. On the sidelines of the summit, there will also be bilateral negotiations with the presidents of Portugal, the gondorazovym Vatymale, and the prime minister of Andorra. They will discuss cooperation within the framework of the drone-deal initiative. Kyiv is ready to share technologies that can be used for border protection. This is a relevant issue for Latin American countries, where the problem is. Drug trafficking, Ihor Zhovko, Deputy Head of the Office of the President, said in a comment to TSN.

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This is the first such unique opportunity to sit down together and discuss how Ukraine, however difficult it may be for us, can also help the Latin American region. We will speak with each of these countries that needs it about, for example, the possibility of concluding drone deals and providing corresponding services. This is just one of the topics. Ukraine is ready to provide its services in the field of e-governance. Our Diia system is quite interesting for the countries of this region. Therefore, there will be much to talk about. And, of course, it is very important that the President of Ukraine will simultaneously meet with two dozen leaders or representatives of these countries. And we hope that this will be the initiation of such a good tradition of Ukraine's participation in such a format.

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A historic defeat for the Republicans in the congressional elections. President Donald Trump promised to accept the results. Votes are still being counted, but nothing encouraging is promised for the head of state's party. In the lower House of Representatives, Democrats have already obtained 240 seats, although 218 is sufficient for a majority. And they have the potential to further increase the gap, as 48 seats have not yet been counted. In the Senate, the situation is similar—Democrats are leading with a 10-vote advantage, but the gap here could also grow, and specifically in their favor, as counting continues in two states, Mississippi and Alaska. And there too, the leaders are Trump's opponents. TSN special correspondent in the United States Olga Koshelenko summarizes the election results.

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At pre-election campaign rallies, Donald Trump liked to repeat, "Vote as if I am on the ballot." And it seems Americans did exactly that. The United States had never seen such a high blue wave—this is the traditional party color of the Democrats. This is no longer a wave, they say here. This is a tsunami. The rout of the Republicans occurred in both houses of Congress. The figures exceeded the boldest forecasts. In the House of Representatives, the Democrats will have a majority that the States had not seen since 2008. In the struggle for the Senate, they took from the Republicans those states in which Trump had won by a significant margin just two years ago. The difficult morning after the elections for the Republican elite began with the search for those to blame. Consequently, Vice President JD Vance wrote a lengthy post in which he admitted they lost because of the war in Iran. And thereby distanced himself from President Trump, who does not acknowledge his guilt in getting dragged into a losing and endless war.

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The reason for our defeat is the war. The president himself stated this yesterday evening. If you want to argue that it was worth it, that the loss in the Senate for the next six years was justified, please argue that it was an acceptable price. Whether one agrees with this or not is another matter, but at least it would be honest. However, everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about what to do next must start precisely with this.

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Donald Trump, on a day that was not the best for his political career, decided to inspect the construction of the White House ballroom. To reporters' questions about whether he agrees with Vice President Vance's statement that the reason for the loss was the war in Iran, Trump answered affirmatively, although he did not admit it was his mistake.

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I believe this is largely true, as in the short term it somewhat increased gasoline prices. That is probably the case. But at the same time, if I had to act again, I would do the same. After all, in the long term, this is the right decision. It cannot be allowed for Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.

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Previously, Trump blamed the President of Ukraine for the rise in diesel prices due to attacks on Russian oil refineries. Now, a search for new responsible parties has begun; rumors have appeared in the press that allegedly on Wednesday the president consulted with his inner circle about whether to dismiss Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, placing the blame for the inability to win the war in the gulf on him. Trump publicly denied the fact that such discussions took place. Meanwhile, the Democrats are preparing to take control of Congress.

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The days when the House of Representatives functioned as a subsidiary wholly owned by the Trump administration are over. Democrats in the House of Representatives will lead Congress, which will serve as a check and balance against an executive branch that has gone out of control.

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Such rampant corruption prevailed that investigations must be conducted. But we will not lose sight of the main goal – reducing the cost of living and eradicating corruption.

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The new Congress will begin its work only at noon on January 3 of next year. But in the United States, the period when the president will be called a lame duck has essentially already begun. Donald Trump not only lost part of his political influence, but he also led to a crushing defeat for the party. And now, Republicans who want to preserve their chances for their own political future must develop a strategy of behavior and their relationship with the current president. And think about what to do with the party. From Washington, United States, Olga Koshelenko, Maksym Shinkarenko. TSN 1.5. Marathon. United News. Serhiy Khlepan, hello.

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Good evening.

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How beautifully "network constraints" are formulated; for those of us living in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, we use slightly different words. We are more like catching those few minutes of power—for the lucky ones, hours—in order to live. And the reason for this, obviously, is the Russians. But without power and without water. Kyiv and the Kyiv region are already in a situation where one has to not just catch the power, but catch both power and water, preferably simultaneously, and winter hasn't even begun yet. What is the forecast and what alternative options are there to ensure the viability of the capital?

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You say, indeed, that Kyivans, residents of Kyiv and the Kyiv region, are already catching "happy hours" with light, and since yesterday, "happy hours" with water. This is indeed a problem. And there is no specific answer here as to what to do. Things should have been done before this. Now we have to work with what we already have and try to save what is left. And do everything possible so that the distribution system facilities of the Ukrenergo substations are restored as quickly as possible. And at least where the construction of protective structures can still be quickly completed, where additional transformers can be protected, where an additional busbar can be protected, do this in the shortest possible time. At least where the degree of readiness is sufficiently high. And such facilities exist. And here an inspection is needed, first and foremost, by Ukrenergo itself, the Ministry of Energy, and the Government Commission, to inspect them. Because in reality, many facilities are being built today, and there is something to work on, something to accelerate. So that we would have electrical energy. Because today both the Rivne and Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plants, unfortunately, provide less to the grid than they could, for the reason that we cannot physically transmit this electrical energy from the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions to Kyiv, to the eastern and central regions. And here, again, the responsibility, first and foremost, in my opinion, lies with the Government. The Government should have taken care of this in advance and ensured that 100% of the transformers at these substations were protected. To date, only a third, slightly more than a third, are protected by reinforced concrete sarcophagi. The Russians, of course, do not try to break reinforced concrete. They aim for those two-thirds that remained unprotected or had first-level protection. And of course, we face such challenges today and we have such prolonged outages today.

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In our previous joint broadcast, you personally told me that you had prepared a report for the prime minister, that you would submit it. At the beginning of the week, you said it would be by the end of the week. The following week. What did the prime minister say about your report? What decisions? What shocks?

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Four appeals have been prepared for each of the substations that I inspected. These substations belong to NEC Ukrenergo. And additionally, for the substations, or rather the thermal power plants Kyivska, TPP-5, TPP-6, I fully described the situation in the dispatch to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister referred the matters, accordingly, to Shmyhal, to Ukrenergo, and to the Ministry of Finance. I am expecting full responses from those government officials to whom the Prime Minister referred the matters. Of course, not all government officials are satisfied with this inspection, not all participants in the energy sector are satisfied with this inspection. Because everyone was comfortable in this warm bath, telling tall tales at the headquarters that everything is fine, everything is ready. And few people want to show the real picture, unfortunately. And the real picture is not such a warm bath, as we can see. And we see today that we no longer have anything to fill that bath with.

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And a question about heat will also arise. We obviously already understand where we are heading. The heating season—it is already here, essentially. But I will ask you about the distributed generation system. This was talked about, as well as additional capacities. This has been discussed, since April of last year, specifically, because I am tracking this very topic; given that the transmission capacities of the Ukrainian grid are damaged, where is the distributed generation system? I will emphasize once again: safety first. The geography can be mentioned abstractly. What does the distributed generation system look like? To what extent and in how many regions, or districts, will it be able to cover the minimum needs of the residents? I am not even bringing up business right now, that is a separate large topic, but the residents?

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In Zhashkiv, in Mankivka, in Zvenyhorodka, in Popilnia, it can cover the need. In the city of Kyiv, in order for us, like those, to have enough generation of both electrical energy and heat, we need to build for years. And, in my opinion, we must involve specifically private structures, private business, and offer them market conditions. There could be some state incentives in the form of military risks; the state could take on preferential lending. Then this system could get going in Kyiv and in large cities. We remember how for three years in a row everyone praised how everything was fine in Zhytomyr, that everything there was distributed generation, and this morning everyone saw how Zhytomyr was left without light. That is, all this praising is only up to a certain point; as soon as the enemy begins to actively attack a specific city, we see that everyone inflates like balloons and then it all comes to nothing. That is, all that praising, just like that of the mayor of Kharkiv, just like that of the mayor of Zhytomyr, that everything is fine there and they have done everything, that they are all great. But, as yesterday's practice showed, far from everyone is great, and we have far too little distributed generation for such large cities to provide the city with its own generation of electrical energy, its own generation of heat, in order to have, say, plenty of backup power. We need to work on this, but it is a matter of years and a matter of large investments. The state, actually, is unlikely to be able to invest such funds at its own expense. Here it is necessary to attract private investors, but first and foremost, it must be transparent. There must be smart rules of the game for everyone. So that there are more participants in the process, then, in my personal opinion, we will be able to have more distributed generation, including in the city of Kyiv.

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You yourself state that this is a matter of years and certainly not for tomorrow, but we must live now and survive until this spring. Therefore, it is obvious that we must be ready for the so-called cascade scenario. And these documents that reach you in the specialized committee—journalists who are interested in this topic also have access to them. And it is obvious that a cascade scenario—electricity, water, heating—is quite realistic for large cities. So let's state what solutions exist as of now for large cities, for high-rise buildings, especially regarding sewage at sub-zero temperatures, and what the worst-case prognosis is and the best, and, essentially, the optimal one in the middle: how long large cities—I'll put it broadly—can remain without power. Of course, it depends, but please disclose what you can from those documents.

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You know, I would gladly share my thoughts or some forecasts, but as of today, if I give any forecasts, I could absolutely be wrong. And I do not want Kyivans or residents of other Ukrainian cities to rely on the information I provide as a member of the committee. It may be completely unobjective for the reason that I do not fully understand the overall picture: how many means of destruction the enemy has, how many means we have to repel these attacks, and what we will manage to restore. Because, for example, if in past years energy workers expected that after each attack they had, well, at least a week or two weeks' time for restoration, why is the situation so difficult now? Because, besides the fact that the enemy strikes unprotected targets—the enemy did the same thing back then—but then there was a break of two weeks to enter the substation, pull out the burnt-out transformer, install a new one in its place, and start its operation, and we restored the objects and the transmission system operator quite quickly. As of today, a situation has arisen where specialists, electricians, and electric welders can sometimes enter the substation for 45 minutes within a 24-hour period. And in 45 minutes, you can do absolutely nothing. And the enemy constantly trains us in this process, so to speak, in quotation marks, in brackets. He constantly sends jet Shaheds, a military officer sits with a tablet and tells the specialists at Kyivenergo that you cannot enter the substation now because a Shahed is flying again, a Shahed is flying again. And this process is incessant. And because of this, it is very difficult to give any forecasts now. Energy and heating workers will do everything within their power. Regarding security aspects, meaning they must take this into account as well. And as soon as the security situation allows them, they will enter their facilities again and restore the power supply, including for the residents of the city of Kyiv, as well as the heat supply. But we as a state must care for these people who work today in the transmission system operator, at Kyivenergo, at TPP-5, TPP-6, because the financial reward from the state for them is too low. People who actually work under constant fire receive salaries from 18 to 28 thousand hryvnias. Ballistics fly at them, and jet Shaheds fly at them. And the state must care for them. In my personal opinion, we must urgently now—companies must review, including at Kyivenergo for their employees, the salary, so that people, at least when they are repairing something, do not have to think about how their family will survive on this money.

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Mr. Sergiov, as an MP and a member of the relevant committee, you understand what alternative solutions currently exist in the capital and beyond, but let's focus on the capital, in the event of cascading losses – electricity, water, and heat.

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The simplest solution – Kyiv has tens or hundreds of thousands of generators that they received over the last year from various donors. It is important that these generators do not sit in warehouses. They need to be distributed to the residents of apartment buildings where it is possible to power some infrastructure. These need to be distributed to additional schools, hospitals, and medical infrastructure, so that more facilities could have more power in the event of power outages. Because if these generators sit in warehouses, they will save no one, but they also need to be connected and provided with fuel. These are quite large generators with capacities from 50 to 200 to 300 kW. An ordinary person who does not have the appropriate expertise cannot connect them on their own. They need to be connected; this also takes a certain amount of time, a day or two, to connect such generators and provide them with fuel. This is the simplest thing that can be done quite quickly, given that this resource is already available.

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Heard. Serhiy Nahorniak was with us, thank you for joining.