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Peter Burgess
RUSSIA IN PANIC: TROOPS SURROUNDED, NATO MOVES IN, AND NUCLEAR THREAT LOOMS! | HOT SPOT

UKRAINE TODAY

Jun 9, 2025

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In a dramatic turn of events, Russian forces have been encircled in a devastating Ukrainian operation — and reports say Putin was not ready for this. NATO is stepping in, and the Kremlin's propagandists are spiraling.

Is the threat of a nuclear strike now real? The front near Sumy is heating up at an unprecedented level, and while Russia pushes into Ukrainian territory, it’s now reportedly losing its own land in the process.

The occupiers are enraged, but the tide is turning — and this could be a game-changer. Full frontline updates, military insight, and NATO’s possible role — all in this episode.

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Transcript
  • 0:00
  • at this very moment the Russians have
  • been trapped in a cauldron This
  • operation left Putin's jaw on the floor
  • NATO has entered the game The
  • propagandists are losing it The
  • occupiers are raging at the front
  • Costantinovka is under siege and Sunumi
  • is on the brink Could the nuclear strike
  • become a reality All this in our episode
  • Hellpoint Shocking footage from the
  • front lines Sunumi is one step away from
  • a Russian trap The offensive has gained
  • momentum The Ukrainian armed forces are
  • stopping the occupiers and dragging them
  • back by the scruff of the neck This has
  • never happened before While they're
  • pushing into the Sunumi region they're
  • losing their own territories Explosion
  • after explosion What will put in
  • soldiers face as a result of this brazen
  • breakthrough We'll tell you in just a
  • moment Russia continues its offensive in
  • the Sunumi region The occupiers are
  • trying to break through certain sections
  • of the front

  • 1:00
  • According to statements from the
  • spokesperson of the state border guard
  • service Andre Demenko the situation in
  • the region is tense especially in the
  • Cotin and Yunakifa districts However
  • there is no evidence of a large-scale
  • offensive by Russia The enemy is
  • advancing in small assault groups losing
  • hundreds of soldiers every day including
  • due to the bridge head held by the
  • Ukrainian armed forces in the Korsk
  • region
  • The enemy is trying by any means to push
  • us out of Russian territory But we have
  • good operational positions and most
  • importantly we are using them to destroy
  • large enemy forces And it's very
  • important to note that uh these are
  • professional forces As a rule in other
  • sectors most of the troops are
  • conscripts other words what we call
  • cannon foderbat Here we're facing
  • airborne troops naval infantry air
  • assault units parachute regiments In
  • other words those who have been trained
  • for a long time to carry out such
  • operations Also according to the

  • 2:01
  • military the enemy likely assessing its
  • own prospects is hardly using any
  • armored vehicles at all in the Sunumi
  • direction At most the command is
  • deploying light motor vehicles This
  • allows them to move somewhat faster
  • across open terrain but it does not have
  • any decisive significance The Russians
  • continue their strategic offensive
  • operation When analysts talk about the
  • enemy's advance whether it has increased
  • decreased or increased again what is it
  • due to You have to look right away at
  • what it's due to Show us which sectors
  • which sectors specifically In fact over
  • the past few weeks the Russians have
  • achieved only one such nonstrategic but
  • operational success This is a
  • breakthrough of our defense a tactical
  • breakthrough by division level forces
  • between Pocroska and Costantinfka
  • reaching the Pocros Costantinfka highway
  • However having pushed into our defenses
  • the Russian Federation is constantly

  • 3:01
  • subjected to flank attacks which allows
  • us to effectively destroy the enemy and
  • regularly replenish our exchange fund
  • For example over the past day the armed
  • forces of Ukraine repelled more than 50
  • assaults in this area He said that this
  • is a major offensive but it is certainly
  • enough to draw serious attention from
  • the Ukrainian defense The Russians have
  • assembled what they call the northern
  • group of forces in this area Essentially
  • they have moved in from the Kusk region
  • To minimize civilian casualties Ukraine
  • was forced to announce an evacuation
  • from areas near the border The
  • authorities explained to locals 'This
  • does not mean your home will be occupied
  • It's just becoming too dangerous there.'
  • At present there are 213 such
  • settlements
  • Just get over there Sit down and explain
  • Slow down
  • By the way Ukraine is thwarting the

  • 4:01
  • Russian offensive not only through
  • 4:02
  • actions on the front line but also in
  • 4:04
  • the rear Yesterday's blowing up of a
  • 4:06
  • railway bridge in the Kursk region and
  • 4:08
  • the derailment of a train in Donbas are
  • 4:10
  • proof of that so that uh the enemy
  • 4:14
  • doesn't relax near occupied uh melopol
  • 4:18
  • Ukrainian special services specifically
  • 4:21
  • Ukrainian intelligence uh the main
  • 4:23
  • intelligence directorate of the ministry
  • 4:25
  • of defense of Ukraine derailed and
  • 4:29
  • destroyed freight train carrying shells
  • 4:32
  • and ammunition a Russian train on the
  • 4:35
  • occupied territories strikes continue to
  • 4:38
  • be carried out over the past day strikes
  • 4:40
  • were carried out on Luov on the Kusk
  • 4:44
  • area and on Russian territory by
  • 4:46
  • Ukrainian forces in order to uh prevent
  • 4:49
  • the enemy from regrouping and uh let's
  • 4:52
  • say supporting their own logistics
  • 4:55
  • delivering ammunition and personnel to
  • 4:57
  • continue offensive actions in the Sunumi
  • 4:59
  • region At the same time the bravado of

  • 5:01
  • Russian war correspondents claiming that
  • 5:03
  • troops are advancing on Sunumi looks
  • 5:05
  • completely absurd According to experts
  • 5:07
  • despite minor successes in the Sunumi
  • 5:09
  • region the likely outcome of all these
  • 5:12
  • actions by the occupiers will be
  • 5:14
  • temporary control over a narrow strip of
  • 5:16
  • forest belts along the border Voice over
  • 5:20
  • Again overall this is quite a um slow
  • 5:24
  • not very um how should I put it
  • 5:26
  • Consistent not very wellcoordinated
  • 5:29
  • offensive
  • 5:31
  • The point of which as I understand it is
  • 5:34
  • to carry out Putin's order and create in
  • 5:37
  • the Sunumi region what he called a
  • 5:39
  • buffer
  • 5:40
  • zone The Ukrainian site also predicts
  • 5:43
  • that the Russians will not be able to
  • 5:45
  • reach Sunumi Currently about 50,000
  • 5:48
  • enemy troops are concentrated in this
  • 5:50
  • direction And for such grand plans these
  • 5:53
  • forces are clearly insufficient
  • 5:56
  • This happened right under Putin's nose
  • 5:58
  • the Crimean operation It's hard to

  • 6:01
  • believe something like this Lightning
  • 6:03
  • strikes hit the bridge directly The
  • 6:05
  • whining has reached an unprecedented
  • 6:07
  • scale Russians are urgently leaving
  • 6:09
  • Crimea Ukraine hints this is not the end
  • 6:11
  • yet What shocking details about the
  • 6:14
  • explosion of Putin's crossing have
  • 6:16
  • become known And will the occupiers
  • 6:18
  • remain cut off from Russia after this
  • 6:20
  • We'll talk about this in just a moment
  • 6:22
  • One of the supports of the Crimean
  • 6:24
  • Bridge exploded at 4:44 a.m on June 3rd
  • 6:27
  • The video of what happened was released
  • 6:28
  • by the security service of Ukraine which
  • 6:30
  • carried out this special operation 1,100
  • 6:33
  • kg of explosives in TNT equivalent
  • 6:36
  • detonated underwater The maneuvers were
  • 6:38
  • personally overseen by the head of the
  • 6:39
  • security service Vasil Maluk God loves
  • 6:42
  • the Trinity and the Security Service of
  • 6:44
  • Ukraine always sees its plans through to
  • 6:46
  • the end and never repeats itself
  • 6:48
  • Previously we struck the Crimean bridge
  • 6:50
  • twice in 2022 and 2023 Though today we
  • 6:54
  • continued this tradition this time
  • 6:55
  • underwater The explosion severely
  • 6:57
  • damaged the underwater supports of the
  • 6:59
  • road section of the crossing So from

  • 7:01
  • 6:00 to 9:00 in the morning the roads
  • 7:02
  • here were completely closed And in the
  • 7:04
  • afternoon news of an alleged second
  • 7:06
  • strike began to spread on Telegram Smoke
  • 7:09
  • rose above the bridge Russian social
  • 7:10
  • media channels started reporting about a
  • 7:12
  • drone attack in Seasto The operation of
  • 7:14
  • passenger seat transport was suspended
  • 7:17
  • This is what Russian Taman looked like
  • 7:18
  • after the new incident
  • 7:21
  • 150 cars were counted in the line for
  • 7:22
  • the bridge and even more 250 cares to
  • 7:26
  • leave the peninsula and head to mainland
  • 7:31
  • Russia Later Moscow would claim the
  • 7:33
  • traffic across the crossing had been
  • 7:35
  • fully restored and that in fact there
  • 7:37
  • was no serious damage Meanwhile global
  • 7:39
  • media are filled with headlines about at
  • 7:40
  • least a PR victory for Keev Ukrainians
  • 7:43
  • are showing that they can cause problems
  • 7:45
  • for their enemy and this bridge is
  • 7:46
  • symbolic for Russians While for
  • 7:48
  • Ukrainians it is also a key logistical
  • 7:50
  • route used by the occupiers to bring
  • 7:52
  • reinforcements into Ukrainian territory
  • 7:55
  • Journalists from the Wall Street Journal
  • 7:56
  • called the attack on the Crimean bridge
  • 7:58
  • a new stage in the protracted war They

  • 8:00
  • say that both sides are set on
  • 8:02
  • escalation and a peace agreement
  • 8:04
  • brokered by the US is becoming less and
  • 8:06
  • less likely However the White House
  • 8:08
  • remains silent about this as well as
  • 8:10
  • about everything else
  • 8:12
  • President Trump wants both leaders and
  • 8:14
  • both sides in general to sit down at the
  • 8:16
  • negotiating table As for how he feels
  • 8:18
  • about the dialogue and everything that
  • 8:19
  • happened there I'll let him speak for
  • 8:21
  • himself on that matter And while
  • 8:23
  • Washington refrains from commenting
  • 8:25
  • military analysts are at a loss as to
  • 8:27
  • what exactly struck the Crimean bridge
  • 8:29
  • this time According to one version the
  • 8:32
  • underwater drone tooka may have been
  • 8:33
  • used specifically its TLK 1000 variant
  • 8:36
  • This model is capable of carrying up to
  • 8:38
  • 5 tons of payload According to another
  • 8:41
  • version it could be the 6 m long Maritka
  • 8:43
  • drone whose capabilities were publicly
  • 8:44
  • demonstrated back in 2023 Moreover it is
  • 8:48
  • equipped with systems that provide
  • 8:50
  • satellite navigation and even allow
  • 8:52
  • communication with a live operator As
  • 8:54
  • for the second strike during the day it
  • 8:56
  • was most likely carried out by the Mura
  • 8:58
  • Maritime drone which was equipped with
  • 8:59
  • anti-aircraft missiles As usual Russian

  • 9:02
  • public channels released a video of its
  • 9:04
  • interception and immobilization
  • 9:06
  • Ukraine first attacked the Crimean
  • 9:08
  • bridge on October 8
  • 9:09
  • 2022 An explosive device went off in the
  • 9:12
  • middle of the crossing causing part of
  • 9:14
  • the automobile section to partially
  • 9:16
  • collapse The second time this happened
  • 9:18
  • was less than a year later In July 2023
  • 9:21
  • one of the spans was brought down by SPU
  • 9:23
  • naval drones Anna Basovva details
  • 9:25
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  • 9:36
  • now Costian is on the verge of complete
  • 9:39
  • encirclement The Russian command is
  • 9:41
  • throwing waves of mercenaries into
  • 9:42
  • battle The attacks do not stop neither
  • 9:45
  • day nor night But our forces are holding
  • 9:47
  • on repelling assaults and preparing a
  • 9:49
  • foothold for the infantry Every minute
  • 9:52
  • is worth its weight in gold How a new
  • 9:54
  • page of our history is being written
  • 9:55
  • right now in Donet's regency More in the
  • 9:57
  • following
  • 9:59
  • report Good afternoon

  • 10:06
  • From the northeast from Shassify from
  • 10:08
  • the south through Tetsk and from the
  • 10:09
  • southwest along the Pokov Bakmut highway
  • 10:12
  • from three directions at once forces
  • 10:14
  • from at least three Russian combined
  • 10:15
  • arms armies are currently pressing
  • 10:17
  • toward Costantinifka They are always
  • 10:19
  • assaulting always attacking and they
  • 10:20
  • always have forces And basically they
  • 10:22
  • attack along the entire front Wherever
  • 10:24
  • something works out for them that's
  • 10:25
  • where they throw in more troops Here at
  • 10:27
  • Chassar things aren't really working out
  • 10:28
  • for them You see it's holding The main
  • 10:30
  • thing they're using against us is tube
  • 10:32
  • artillery They really don't spare any
  • 10:34
  • shells when it comes to us At a distance
  • 10:35
  • of 12 to 16 km from Costantinoka the
  • 10:38
  • Russians have concentrated a very large
  • 10:39
  • group of troops in a semicircle And
  • 10:41
  • every day they drive forward a huge
  • 10:43
  • number of ultimately expendable
  • 10:44
  • individuals with assault rifles And
  • 10:46
  • that's not even counting the remote air
  • 10:48
  • support Kabs explode around Costinfa and
  • 10:52
  • in the city itself by the dozens every
  • 10:54
  • day
  • 10:56
  • Do you hear those
  • 10:58
  • Kabs Attention K

  • 11:01
  • pilots on Costantin 20 20 km Boom We
  • 11:05
  • can't hear a damn thing But the main
  • 11:06
  • problem is really drones
  • 11:12
  • Enemy FPVs penetrate up to 20 km into
  • 11:14
  • the rear though in reality sometimes
  • 11:16
  • even deeper
  • 11:24
  • Well there's plenty of that stuff Strike
  • 11:25
  • drones can fly up to 50 kilometers and
  • 11:27
  • often at altitudes unreachable by small
  • 11:29
  • arms It flies high Yeah it flew at about
  • 11:31
  • 700 meters altitude and the range of
  • 11:33
  • about 700 to 500 as well Is that
  • 11:35
  • somewhere in the direction of Consta
  • 11:37
  • Also to Consta and from Consta they can
  • 11:39
  • even reach Rushka They're already flying
  • 11:41
  • further out that way Since the beginning
  • 11:42
  • of spring enemy Kamikaza UAVs using
  • 11:44
  • fiber optics have become a real problem
  • 11:46
  • all along the front line The only way to
  • 11:48
  • counter them is by physically destroying
  • 11:49
  • them because no electronic warfare
  • 11:51
  • system can jam these drones But there
  • 11:52
  • are some truly incredible exceptions
  • 11:54
  • Ashkitri a former reconnaissance officer
  • 11:56
  • and now a member of the ground robotic
  • 11:58
  • systems crew of the 93year mechanized

  • 12:00
  • brigade Our guys were coming out waiting
  • 12:02
  • for a vehicle and an FPV drone flew
  • 12:04
  • right over them about 2 m above the
  • 12:06
  • ground One of the guys jumped out and
  • 12:08
  • broke our fiber optically tore it with
  • 12:09
  • his hands Yeah it was at an angle He
  • 12:11
  • grabbed it with his gloves yanked it and
  • 12:12
  • broke it and uh the drone fell If they
  • 12:15
  • hadn't done that there wouldn't have
  • 12:16
  • been an evacuation vehicle Yeah that's
  • 12:18
  • all there is to it Of course as you know
  • 12:19
  • our soldiers also use various types of
  • 12:21
  • drones including reconnaissance FPV and
  • 12:23
  • quite a large number of heavy knight
  • 12:25
  • bombers Dear friends thank you so much
  • 12:32
  • Launched stabilized the bomb is on its
  • 12:35
  • way Go right on the plate It will be
  • 12:38
  • cast Just what we needed Everything's
  • 12:40
  • just fine plain and simple It's
  • 12:41
  • precisely with the help of drones that
  • 12:43
  • Ukrainians stop enemy assaults mine
  • 12:45
  • potential enemy advanced routes and fly
  • 12:47
  • into the rear destroying depot
  • 12:48
  • camouflaged equipment and occupiers
  • 12:50
  • hideouts
  • 12:52
  • They all die as usual They all die as
  • 12:54
  • always Well uh it's the usual story like
  • 12:56
  • when uh for example nine motorcycles go
  • 12:58
  • out or 10 motorcycles and those things

  • 13:00
  • go they all one after another first
  • 13:02
  • second third and that's it But obviously
  • 13:04
  • the enemy has managed to make at least a
  • 13:06
  • quantitative leap in the use of
  • 13:07
  • frontline UAVs After all the Russians
  • 13:09
  • are attacking both the front line and
  • 13:10
  • the near rear with drones around the
  • 13:12
  • clock non-stop All of Costantinfka
  • 13:14
  • especially the southeastern part is now
  • 13:16
  • wrapped in enemy fiber optic cables like
  • 13:18
  • a web Around Costantinoka the Russians
  • 13:20
  • um have essentially created a continuous
  • 13:23
  • highly dangerous red zone about 13 km
  • 13:25
  • wide where any movement no matter how
  • 13:27
  • small is a game of roulette with a 50/50
  • 13:30
  • chance of survival The main target of
  • 13:32
  • the Kremlin forces is probably not so
  • 13:33
  • much residential buildings and civilians
  • 13:35
  • Although both glide bombs drones and
  • 13:37
  • artillery are pounding the city non-stop
  • 13:38
  • but rather logistics meaning the roots
  • 13:40
  • connecting the rear with the front lines
  • 13:42
  • Under these circumstances it is aerial
  • 13:44
  • drones and ground robots that become the
  • 13:46
  • main tools of war Right now it really is
  • 13:48
  • a drone war Drones are shooting down
  • 13:50
  • other drones Drones are taking out
  • 13:52
  • equipment both ground drones and FPV
  • 13:55
  • drones basically everything that flies
  • 13:57
  • or moves remotely Now however without
  • 13:59
  • infantry on the front line it is still

  • 14:01
  • impossible to hold the front At least
  • 14:02
  • for now Ukrainian UAV operators admit On
  • 14:05
  • the other hand making things easier for
  • 14:07
  • their fellow infantrymen with the help
  • 14:08
  • of drones is entirely realistic Uh the
  • 14:11
  • main task is to reduce the presence of
  • 14:13
  • infantrymen and to engage them only when
  • 14:15
  • necessary This paradigm that close
  • 14:17
  • quarters combat is the normest scandal
  • 14:20
  • Well that's the right approach Um with
  • 14:22
  • UAVs and ground robotic systems we need
  • 14:25
  • to make it so that infantrymen don't
  • 14:27
  • have to engage in close quarters combat
  • 14:29
  • at all
  • 14:33
  • Reporting from the Costantinfka
  • 14:34
  • direction in Donetsk region Alexander
  • 14:37
  • Mtori Alexio Safuk and Serish Portillo
  • 14:40
  • TSN1 plus1 United News Marathon Putin's
  • 14:43
  • nuclear scare tactics The West is
  • 14:45
  • shouting about a new strike The SPU
  • 14:47
  • operation has finally broken the
  • 14:49
  • dictator He's on his knees but continues
  • 14:51
  • to spit venom towards Ukraine He
  • 14:54
  • urgently puts everyone on alert Once
  • 14:56
  • again there are threats to strike with
  • 14:58
  • the Orishnik The unexpected has happened

  • 15:00
  • More details about this in the following
  • 15:02
  • report With its special operation web
  • 15:04
  • Ukraine has demonstrated that it is
  • 15:06
  • capable of striking Russian targets deep
  • 15:08
  • within Russian territory This was stated
  • 15:10
  • in an interview with the American TV
  • 15:12
  • channel Fox News by Keith Kellogg the US
  • 15:15
  • president's special representative for
  • 15:17
  • Ukraine At the same time he's concerned
  • 15:19
  • that such attacks could increase the
  • 15:21
  • risk of escalation When you target a
  • 15:23
  • part of the adversar's national survival
  • 15:25
  • system namely its triad its nuclear
  • 15:28
  • triad it means the level of risk
  • 15:30
  • increases because you don't know how the
  • 15:32
  • other side will react It's a very bold
  • 15:34
  • attack but when you do this it's quite
  • 15:36
  • clear that all other levels will
  • 15:38
  • escalate I think this is exactly what
  • 15:40
  • we're trying to avoid The use of drones
  • 15:43
  • is a sign of modern warfare which
  • 15:45
  • everyone needs to adapt to But in this
  • 15:47
  • case according to Kellogg it's more
  • 15:48
  • about the psychological impact on the
  • 15:50
  • Russian leadership and military At the
  • 15:52
  • same time the special operation has
  • 15:54
  • shown that Ukraine has no intention of
  • 15:56
  • giving up Every time you attack the
  • 15:59
  • nuclear triad it's not so much about the

  • 16:01
  • damage you inflict on the triad itself
  • 16:03
  • or the bombers but about the
  • 16:04
  • psychological impact Essentially Ukraine
  • 16:07
  • is saying that it knows how to play this
  • 16:09
  • game too and that they can raise the
  • 16:11
  • level of risk to unacceptable heights
  • 16:13
  • Colonel Richard Kemp warns Ukraine of
  • 16:16
  • Putin's inevitable retaliation for the
  • 16:18
  • destroyed Russian aircraft The former
  • 16:20
  • commander of British forces in
  • 16:22
  • Afghanistan shared his perspective on
  • 16:24
  • the consequences in one of the tabloids
  • 16:26
  • He suggests that Russia might launch a
  • 16:28
  • nuclear strike against the concentration
  • 16:30
  • of Ukrainian troops or one of the
  • 16:32
  • airfields
  • 16:34
  • An even more horrifying scenario would
  • 16:35
  • be a nuclear attack on a nuclear power
  • 16:37
  • plant Although the radiation from the
  • 16:39
  • tactical weapon itself would not pose a
  • 16:41
  • threat to Western Europe radioactive
  • 16:43
  • fallout from a destroyed reactor would
  • 16:46
  • cause significant environmental damage
  • 16:48
  • The consequences could overshadow the
  • 16:50
  • Chernobyl disaster The latter
  • 16:52
  • possibility is almost unthinkable A
  • 16:54
  • nuclear bomb dropped on a Ukrainian city
  • 16:56
  • such as Odessa or Kev The Kremlin has
  • 16:59
  • constantly threatened Western societies

  • 17:01
  • in order to achieve its goals Therefore
  • 17:04
  • there is no need to fear Russian nuclear
  • 17:05
  • intimidation The Ukrainian Center for
  • 17:07
  • Countering Disinformation of the
  • 17:08
  • National Security and Defense Council is
  • 17:10
  • convinced
  • 17:12
  • Right now all the talk in Western media
  • 17:14
  • about the nuclear threat only benefits
  • 17:16
  • Russia because nuclear scare tactics are
  • 17:19
  • part of the fear propaganda they have
  • 17:21
  • always used to intimidate Western
  • 17:22
  • societies in order to achieve their
  • 17:24
  • goals without war Publications about a
  • 17:27
  • Russian nuclear strike serve only to
  • 17:29
  • instill fear Moreover this kind of
  • 17:32
  • nuclear saber rattling is harmful first
  • 17:34
  • and foremost to the aggressor country
  • 17:36
  • itself
  • 17:37
  • It's important to always remember that
  • 17:39
  • even the mere theoretical intention to
  • 17:41
  • carry out a nuclear strike would harm
  • 17:43
  • Russia much more because today the
  • 17:45
  • entire world stands against the use of
  • 17:47
  • nuclear weapons and Russia survives
  • 17:49
  • solely on energy resources that are
  • 17:51
  • still being purchased from it Meanwhile
  • 17:53
  • Wimir Zalinski once again called on the
  • 17:56
  • West to increase pressure on Russia so
  • 17:58
  • that the aggressor pays the highest

  • 18:00
  • price for the war it has unleashed in
  • 18:02
  • Ukraine Sophia Jallesnak Katrina Kravitz
  • 18:05
  • Propnosti in TV channel United News
  • 18:08
  • Marathon Right now the sky is on fire
  • 18:10
  • The anti-aircraft gunners are making new
  • 18:12
  • history without unnecessary noise
  • 18:14
  • swiftly and accurately Silent hunters
  • 18:17
  • The enemy calls them ghosts They take
  • 18:19
  • down everything that flies and inflict
  • 18:21
  • millions in damages Lancets fall one
  • 18:23
  • after another even halfway to their
  • 18:25
  • target For about the broad shoulder
  • 18:27
  • guardians who keep watch over the skies
  • 18:30
  • in the following story They hide behind
  • 18:32
  • the clouds descending toward the horizon
  • 18:34
  • This is the time for the night hunters
  • 18:35
  • of enemy UAVs to get to work First as
  • 18:37
  • usual comes the commander briefing Guys
  • 18:39
  • we are about to go on duty now Our task
  • 18:41
  • is to detect shads and similar ones
  • 18:44
  • Those are our parodies greetings
  • 18:47
  • We'll detect them and we'll destroy them
  • 18:51
  • The more drones we destroy here now the
  • 18:53
  • less our ear will suffer Let's go In a
  • 18:56
  • nearby grove a truck with an
  • 18:57
  • anti-aircraft gun is hidden under a
  • 18:58
  • camouflage net A ZU232 system mounted on

  • 19:02
  • a Zil 131 chassis
  • 19:06
  • The anti-aircraft gunners of the 118th
  • 19:09
  • Brigade moved to combat positions along
  • 19:10
  • the dusty dirt roads of the Zapriia
  • 19:12
  • steps
  • 19:16
  • The air defense crew hides their
  • 19:17
  • anti-aircraft gun among the trees Enemy
  • 19:19
  • scouts for example the Zala drones are
  • 19:21
  • constantly prowling around here In fact
  • 19:23
  • says 42-year-old Alexander from Venitzia
  • 19:25
  • they try to shoot those down as well
  • 19:27
  • Zala Zalas and there was a super lancet
  • 19:30
  • It's important to know his distance and
  • 19:32
  • and speed and then uh set new well lead
  • 19:35
  • corrections Uh we shot down both super
  • 19:37
  • cam and lancet Shahits have also been
  • 19:39
  • shot down But the biggest threat says
  • 19:41
  • the 25-year-old officer the one that
  • 19:43
  • really matters is of course the Shahits
  • 19:45
  • There are more of them now and they're
  • 19:46
  • flying too high We are fighting back
  • 19:48
  • firing at them If before they could fly
  • 19:51
  • at about 1 and a half to 2 km we could
  • 19:54
  • see the same bursts from the
  • 19:55
  • anti-aircraft guns and adjust our aim
  • 19:57
  • properly But now it's hard even to
  • 19:59
  • detect them They've climbed to almost 5

  • 20:01
  • km This is another concealed position on
  • 20:03
  • the first line of air defense equipped
  • 20:05
  • with an anti-shucket anti-aircraft gun
  • 20:08
  • Previously it was used to fire at
  • 20:09
  • infantry but now the direction of the
  • 20:11
  • war has changed They gave us all the
  • 20:13
  • necessary sights That's the only way
  • 20:14
  • Here together with his comrade is a 56
  • 20:16
  • year old man from Venitzia with the
  • 20:18
  • cosign shaman He says their shift is
  • 20:19
  • around the clock So the question of when
  • 20:21
  • they manage to rest brings a genuine
  • 20:23
  • smile That's how we keep going Somewhere
  • 20:27
  • where there's no alert you need to go
  • 20:29
  • wash up buy something and that's it Well
  • 20:31
  • sometimes here there are half days when
  • 20:34
  • you know there's nothing going on It's
  • 20:36
  • quiet and calm Then we try to go
  • 20:38
  • somewhere to get some sleep
  • 20:42
  • Two comrades with the call signs Murik
  • 20:44
  • and Sanic are also setting up their
  • 20:46
  • anti-aircraft gun getting ready for a
  • 20:47
  • night hunt The anti-aircraft gunners say
  • 20:49
  • they have a columator site but for
  • 20:50
  • better effectiveness they need something
  • 20:52
  • more Uh we try to shoot down Shahit but
  • 20:54
  • we still need to upgrade the
  • 20:56
  • anti-aircraft gun to make things easier
  • 20:57
  • for us

  • 21:00
  • Sonic from Keron shows us the site the
  • 21:02
  • anti-aircraft gunners of the 118th
  • 21:04
  • Brigade need a mount for And not only
  • 21:06
  • that we need a mount a tablet for it And
  • 21:09
  • of course the software as well The
  • 21:12
  • spotlight no longer reaches them They
  • 21:13
  • fly very high now at least 2 and a half
  • 21:14
  • thousand meters We simply can't reach
  • 21:17
  • them with the spotlight But the site is
  • 21:18
  • much better We can actually see them So
  • 21:20
  • the anti-aircraft gunners of the 118s
  • 21:23
  • have launched a fundraiser for mounting
  • 21:24
  • systems sights and tablets to more
  • 21:26
  • effectively shoot down Russian shahits
  • 21:28
  • This will greatly speed up our ability
  • 21:30
  • to detect the enemy and to accurately
  • 21:32
  • target them that is to see them on the
  • 21:35
  • tablet and track them and they are
  • 21:36
  • asking for support from anyone who cares
  • 21:42
  • Andre Poked Art Dejenko Faki ICTV United
  • 21:45
  • News This is a first on the front line A
  • 21:48
  • next generation sniper rifle is already
  • 21:50
  • in the hands of our defenders Once
  • 21:52
  • shoten the enemy is thrown into a panic
  • 21:55
  • Neither trenches nor armor nor
  • 21:57
  • experience can save them The skilled
  • 21:59
  • hands of our soldiers turn this weapon

  • 22:01
  • into a true instrument of wonder It hits
  • 22:04
  • its target precisely and makes its
  • 22:06
  • presence known even when operating in
  • 22:08
  • silence More details about how it works
  • 22:10
  • in the following report
  • 22:13
  • From the so-called assembly of
  • 22:14
  • components to full-scale domestic
  • 22:16
  • production in less than a year In
  • 22:19
  • November 2024 the Ukrainian state
  • 22:22
  • company Ukroar Prom announced the start
  • 22:25
  • of licensed assembly of the Czech arms
  • 22:27
  • manufacturers brand two assault rifles
  • 22:30
  • And now 6 months later the domestic
  • 22:33
  • factory is already capable not only of
  • 22:35
  • assembling the western model of the
  • 22:36
  • weapon but also of independently
  • 22:38
  • producing all the necessary components
  • 22:40
  • for it This is already up and running
  • 22:43
  • The first step is the installation and
  • 22:45
  • production of small parts The next step
  • 22:47
  • is fullscale production meaning the
  • 22:49
  • complete transfer of the technology to
  • 22:51
  • Ukraine The brand new assault rifle as
  • 22:54
  • Western arms manufacturers assure is a
  • 22:56
  • new generation automatic weapon It is a
  • 22:59
  • modern firearm system developed based on

  • 23:01
  • the American AR rifle and the Soviet AK
  • As a result the checks took the best
  • features from both models and combined
  • them into an entirely new weapon in
  • terms of design and internal components
  • In terms of um quality and resistance to
  • dirt it seems to me that the Kalash now
  • has a worthy competitor Resistance to
  • dust and dirt is not the only advantage
  • of the Czech brand too Due to its design
  • differences this assault rifle
  • immediately won over Ukrainian defenders
  • Today it is quite popular on the front
  • lines It works great We haven't tested
  • it for grouping Um the weapon isn't
  • highly accurate but uh the automatic
  • mechanism works excellently The barrels
  • are durable and intuitively designed At
  • the same time the Czech rifles assembled
  • in Ukraine have a high level of
  • modularity which allows the weapon to be
  • quickly adapted for specific tasks What
  • do we see on top Undoubtedly this is an
  • advantage of the Scarits and extruded
  • upper receiver Picatini rail and it's

  • 24:01
  • uniform along the entire length You can
  • mount your aiming devices and any optics
  • along the entire length of the upper
  • receiver on the Bren In the Czech
  • Republic the Bren 2 is in service with
  • both army and police units In Indonesia
  • and Mexico the rifle is mainly used by
  • police and the special forces while in
  • France it is used by Jean Darmmarie
  • special units As for Ukraine the Brent
  • two is most widely used by special units
  • of the main intelligence directorate
  • Most often you can see it in the hands
  • of Kraken fighters and members of the
  • international legion Uh of course this
  • weapon is not highly accurate But what
  • can be noted is that uh this carbon has
  • a rather high rate of automatic fire and
  • that and that that's actually uh quite
  • nice Um you do need to learn how to
  • control it a bit as practice has shown
  • Not everyone manages to do it right away
  • especially with the short barrel Today

  • 25:00
  • the Ukrainian factory producing Czech
  • assault rifles is confidently reaching a
  • capacity of up to 400 rifles per day
  • However by the end of 2025 both domestic
  • and western arms manufacturers are sure
  • that our country will be able to
  • independently produce tens of thousands
  • of brand two
  • units That's all for me for now This was
  • me Darina Hutakalo Even more scorching
  • news from the front lines in our next
  • episode And in the meantime don't forget
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