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Kramarovsky evening news 9 Nov 2026: Iran, Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi, Europe and Putin
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Leans that way — check · agenda: US-Russia talks decide Ukraine's fate
Belief the Pravda network pushes: Russia and the United States should negotiate Ukraine's future without Europe, while Ukraine and the West block peace and threaten Russia.
A sarcastic news digest that mostly covers Iran, Krakow, Moldova and France; the Ukraine and Abu Dhabi segment, which is the part closest to the agenda, is only teased in the headlines and is missing from the transcript.
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“Tomorrow in Abu Dhabi, the Europeans can go take a hike.”
Tomorrow in Abu Dhabi, the Europeans can go take a hike.
The headline teaser leans toward the 'US and Russia decide Ukraine without Europe' framing, but the transcript cuts off before the Ukraine segment, and the Stubb/Støre/Merz part reports Politico and Merz's own words fairly accurately, so there is not enough to say it distorts facts.
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Transcript (en, 979 lines)
0:02 Iran. What to do? Three teams, three
0:05 options. The Krakow terrorist finally
0:07 kicked the bucket. Russians, Jews, and
0:09 Americans are bashing France, but it's
0:11 just not the same. The bald worm has
0:13 gotten bold and is ready to talk to
0:16 Putin. Scandinavian psychiatrists have
0:18 split the EU with a single phone call.
0:21 Trump confirms a meeting for three is
0:23 happening. There is no catching up to
0:25 Russia on missiles anymore. A different
0:27 shape for Ukraine, what will be cut off
0:29 on the map—that is what Trump is talking
0:31 about. Tomorrow in Abu Dhabi, the
0:33 Europeans can go take a hike. Ukraine is
0:35 attacking an oil refinery in the
0:36 Leningrad region. Ten days of holidays
0:39 again. What are you going to do about
0:41 that?
0:44 Hello. I'm Ilya Kramarovsky in the
0:46 studio, and we're starting the evening
0:48 news for Monday, November 9th. Iran,
0:50 what to do with it? Yes, I think Trump
0:52 has already regretted 1,000 times
0:54 getting involved in this mess.
0:56 Ultimately, Donald Trump is currently
0:58 being given three completely different
1:00 answers to this question. The Wall
1:02 Street Journal writes that the dispute
1:04 is taking place among the very people
1:06 the president works with every day. And
1:08 while some advise him to give the
1:09 mediators a little more time, others are
1:11 already explaining which targets should
1:14 be struck. Let's start with those who
1:15 suggest negotiating. That's Vice
1:17 President JD Vance, Special Envoy Steve
1:20 Witkoff, and a number of Persian Gulf
1:22 leaders. Representatives of these
1:24 countries believe that both Washington
1:25 and Tehran are looking for a way out of
1:27 the crisis. Mediators from Qatar are
1:29 handling the remaining disagreements.
1:31 Moreover, very little time—only 2 days—
1:33 is being allotted for the preliminary
1:35 part of the proposed deal. After that,
1:37 it is intended to move on to the main
1:39 subject of the dispute: the Iranian
1:41 nuclear program.
1:43 Secretary of State Marco Rubio and
1:44 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also
1:46 want to see the Iranians at the
1:47 negotiating table, but they imagine a
1:49 different path to get there.
1:51 Their proposal to Trump is to maintain
1:52 the blockades and strengthen sanctions.
1:54 The calculation is that economic
1:55 pressure will prove more significant to
1:57 Tehran than the arguments of mediators.
1:59 Finally, Secretary Pete Hegseth, U.S.
2:01 Central Command Commander Brad Cooper,
2:04 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
2:06 Netanyahu are advocating for a return to
2:08 large-scale military action.
2:11 Hegseth and Cooper, according to the
2:13 paper, told Trump that they see no other
2:15 way to force Iran to abandon its nuclear
2:17 program. The list of targets includes
2:19 energy and nuclear facilities, as well
2:20 as stockpiles of missiles and drones.
2:21 Since the election, hardline supporters
2:23 outside the administration have also
2:25 joined this dispute.
2:27 They are making it personal, convincing
2:29 the president that it is precisely by
2:30 the fate of the Iranian nuclear program
2:32 that his own legacy will be judged in
2:33 the future.
2:35 What decision Trump will ultimately make
2:37 is not yet known to anyone. Meanwhile, a
2:39 Russian Ministry of Defense plane has
2:41 been spotted at Israel's Ben Gurion
2:43 Airport. On Sunday at approximately 7:00
2:47 PM, at 19:01, a Tu-154M with
2:49 registration number RA-85042 landed
2:52 there. According to flight tracking data
2:54 , it departed from the Chkalovsky
2:56 airfield. The aircraft belongs to the
2:58 223rd Flight Detachment of the Russian
3:00 military and is under U.S. sanctions.
3:03 The route was successfully tracked, but
3:05 the passengers on board likely cannot be
3:06 identified. Neither the names of those
3:08 on board nor the purpose of the visit
3:10 has been disclosed yet. A theory has
3:12 already emerged that the plane arrived
3:14 to pick up Russian diplomats and their
3:16 families.
3:17 There is no confirmation of this version
3:18 . So far, not a single source has linked
3:21 the arrival to an evacuation.
3:23 A brief update on oil. On Monday, the
3:25 price of a barrel of Brent crude fell to
3:28 97 dollars and 72 cents. Following the
3:30 collapse that ended last week, oil
3:32 continues to get cheaper, though the
3:34 decline is now much more moderate.
3:36 Reports from Turkey indicate an
3:38 explosion at a metallurgical plant in
3:40 Izmir province. As NTV channel reports,
3:42 a fire broke out at the plant following
3:44 the explosion.
3:46 There are dead and wounded. Many people
3:47 were trapped under the rubble. The TV
3:49 channel does not provide exact figures
3:50 on their number. Returning to Iran.
3:54 Tehran has reacted to a New York Times
3:55 article about the alleged possible use
3:57 of chemical weapons against Persian Gulf
3:59 countries.
4:01 Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman
4:02 Baghaei stated that he considers the
4:04 very suggestion so absurd that he sees
4:06 no point in responding to it in detail.
4:08 And regarding the U.S., he commented as
4:09 follows.
4:11 They are used to lying again and again.
4:13 Today, by the way, November 9th, Trump
4:15 is scheduled to meet with the Prime
4:17 Minister of Qatar, who also heads the
4:19 country's foreign policy department. For
4:21 negotiations with Iran, he is an
4:23 important interlocutor. It is the
4:24 Qataris who are currently relaying
4:26 proposals to the parties and trying to
4:28 reconcile their responses. In Cuba,
4:30 meanwhile, they are also listening to
4:31 statements from Washington. The
4:33 country's Permanent Representative to
4:35 the UN, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, said
4:37 that every Friday on the island is
4:39 dedicated to defense preparation.
4:42 The goal, according to him, is for the
4:44 entire nation to be ready to defend its
4:46 sovereignty. Guzmán explained why such a
4:48 scenario is being discussed in Havana at
4:50 all. American officials have publicly
4:52 admitted the possibility of using force
4:54 .
4:55 Cuban authorities believe they cannot
4:56 afford to rule out a military operation
4:58 as a possible option.
5:00 How difficult things are for the island
5:01 right now can be judged by a single
5:03 figure.
5:04 In Astana, at the EAEU council, Cuban
5:06 Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa
5:07 reported that since the beginning of the
5:09 year, only one oil tanker has arrived in
5:11 the country. There were about 100,000
5:13 tons on board. He specifically thanked
5:15 Russia for this delivery. According to
5:17 him, without its help, the oil would not
5:19 have arrived.
5:20 I would like to add something myself.
5:21 Cubans, be careful there with Guzmán. It
5:23 is quite possible that, like Russia, he
5:25 is working for Azerbaijan.
5:27 Just joking.
5:29 Trump himself was asked if he intends to
5:31 pardon himself before leaving the White
5:34 House. The president called the question
5:36 not unfounded. He is convinced he has
5:39 the right to take such a step, but he
5:41 does not plan to use it. But for the
5:43 people who worked with him, the answer
5:45 is quite different. By the end of his
5:47 second term, Trump promised to issue a
5:49 huge number of pardons. He explains this
5:51 by a desire to protect his associates
5:53 from persecution by the Democrats. He
5:55 had previously hinted at taking such a
5:56 step, but now he is speaking about it
5:58 much more definitively. And the scale
6:00 here is worth keeping in mind.
6:02 Since January 2025, Trump has pardoned
6:04 or commuted the sentences of more than
6:06 1,800 people.
6:08 For the most part, these are
6:10 participants in the events at the
6:12 Capitol on January 6, 2021.
6:14 Now to the shooting in Krakow.
6:16 In Poland, the man who shot six people
6:18 in the center of Krakow has died. Here
6:20 is a statement from the Lesser Poland
6:21 Voivodeship police. We report that the
6:23 perpetrator of the tragic events passed
6:25 away early this morning in the hospital
6:27 . And do you remember how quickly they
6:29 tried to label the Krakow shooter as an
6:32 ultra-right fanatic? Later, however, his
6:34 social media account under the name
6:36 Mikhail Aksensky was found, featuring
6:38 statements in support of LGBT and
6:40 mockery of Christianity.
6:42 The account itself, of course, does not
6:43 explain the motive for the murder, but
6:45 for those who had already rushed to
6:46 explain everything through the shooter's
6:47 political views, the details turned out
6:49 to be, to put it mildly, quite
6:50 inconvenient.
6:51 It makes you want to say oops, turns out
6:53 he wasn't an ultra-rightist after all.
6:55 Oh my, oh my, oh my. How will Tusk blame
6:57 everything on them now? In Moldova, a
6:59 high-voltage line has gone into
7:01 operation, connecting the country to the
7:03 European power grid via Romania. As
7:05 EADaily reports, the unique feature of
7:07 the new route is that it bypasses
7:08 Transnistria.
7:10 Maia Sandu views this as an opportunity
7:12 to reduce the country's dependence on
7:13 Russian energy pressure.
7:16 No one will be able to blackmail us
7:17 anymore, cut off our electricity, or
7:19 turn off our heat. Every time Moldova
7:21 decided to choose something other than
7:23 what Moscow wanted, we were threatened
7:24 with being left without power and heat.
7:26 It is not even about who is selling the
7:29 electricity. Previously, a significant
7:31 share of Moldova's energy was provided
7:32 by the Moldavian GRES power plant in the
7:34 territory of unrecognized Transnistria.
7:36 But even when Romania or Ukraine acts as
7:37 the supplier, the question remains as to
7:39 which wires the current reaches the
7:41 consumer through. Almost all routes
7:43 converge at the same place, at the
7:45 Moldavian GRES.
7:46 A direct connection with Romania allows
7:48 bypassing this hub, and Chisinau expects
7:50 to build two more such lines.
7:53 In France, following the riots, they are
7:56 now analyzing not just what is happening
7:58 on the streets, but also how it is being
8:00 reported online.
8:02 Reuters writes about a covert Russian
8:04 propaganda network.
8:06 According to the agency, it uses footage
8:09 and reports of the riots to portray
8:11 European governments as helpless
8:14 bureaucrats who are losing control of
8:16 the situation.
8:17 The French Foreign Ministry concluded
8:19 that it was not only Russian social
8:21 media spreading negativity about the
8:23 riots by linking them to radical
8:25 Islamism and migrants.
8:27 Oh the horror, you won't believe it, but
8:29 accounts on social media linked to
8:31 Israel and the American MAGA movement
8:33 were writing about it too.
8:35 You all know perfectly well that there
8:38 are no radical Islamists in France, just
8:40 as there are no migrants in France, and
8:42 if there are migrants, they are all
8:44 white, fluffy like rabbits, and polite
8:46 to a fault.
8:48 And Macron is an excellent president,
8:49 the best on earth, just a good guy and
8:51 certainly not henpecked, unlike everyone
8:53 else in the EU government.
8:55 But Russia is bad. It sees the riots and
8:58 asks the French: Why did you let
9:00 Islamists and radicals in? And you're
9:03 not allowed to ask that. In Berlin, the
9:05 Chancellor was asked about a very
9:06 specific opportunity for a conversation
9:08 with Moscow.
9:10 Friedrich Merz replied that he is ready
9:12 to speak personally with Vladimir Putin
9:14 at the G20 leaders 'meeting in Miami.
9:16 But first, both of them have to be there
9:19 The German Chancellor also needs to talk
9:21 to Putin sometime. As far as we know,
9:23 President Trump has invited him to the
9:25 summit.
9:27 He has not yet confirmed his
9:28 participation, but if he is there, I
9:29 will not shy away from the opportunity
9:31 to talk, said the Chancellor.
9:33 I'm just wondering, why would Putin even
9:35 need that? Unless, perhaps, just to look
9:38 Merz in the face and tell him he's an
9:40 idiot. Yes. The summit, as you recall,
9:42 will take place on December 14th and
9:43 15th.
9:44 The invitation that Merz referred to and
9:46 the consent to attend are two completely
9:48 different things, as the saying goes.
9:51 The Russian side has not yet confirmed
9:53 Putin's participation.
9:55 Unbelievable. An interesting story came
9:57 out about two psychiatrists from
9:59 Scandinavian countries. The task was to
10:01 assess Putin's mental state. Just like
10:04 that. The Russian president turned out
10:06 to be rational.
10:07 That is how one can describe the story
10:09 that Politico reports, citing its
10:11 interlocutors.
10:12 While Merz speculates about a possible
10:14 meeting, Finnish President Alexander
10:16 Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas
10:18 Gahr Støre have been quietly exploring
10:20 for months whether a conversation with
10:22 the Russian president could be
10:24 established.
10:25 Neither was satisfied that the Americans
10:27 remain the only interlocutor for the
10:29 Kremlin in this direction. This is how
10:31 the Norwegian prime minister explained
10:33 his position.
10:34 We work closely with our European
10:36 partners in providing support to Ukraine
10:38 , but the only voice reaching Moscow
10:40 comes from Washington.
10:42 And you know, we have good, open
10:44 relations with American negotiators,
10:46 with the American administration, but
10:48 this war is happening in Europe.
10:51 And living month to month, believing
10:53 that this entire war will end because
10:55 Europe will not negotiate with Moscow—
10:57 that, in my view, is an illusion.
10:59 There was another reason for such a call
11:02 . The publication's sources formulate it
11:04 this way: to assess Putin's mental state
11:07 . In Støre's opinion, the Russian
11:09 president was rational and professional
11:12 during the phone call. Here is exactly
11:14 what the Norwegian prime minister and
11:15 psychiatrist took away from this
11:17 conversation. His arguments were
11:19 conveyed quite clearly.
11:21 The fact that he picks up the phone,
11:22 that we have, you know, other ways of
11:24 communicating, I think, signals, at the
11:25 very least, a willingness to sit at the
11:27 negotiating table.
11:29 Agreeing to pick up the phone, however,
11:31 does not yet mean agreeing to a deal.
11:33 Yet even after this, Støre was still not
11:36 sure that Putin was truly ready to reach
11:39 an agreement.
11:41 Despite their efforts, the Norwegian and
11:43 Finnish delegations do not expect any
11:45 significant breakthrough in Abu Dhabi,
11:47 Politico reports.
11:49 In private conversations, however,
11:51 European officials, according to the
11:52 publication, are increasingly returning
11:54 to the same question.
11:56 It was best formulated by a government
11:58 representative from one of the EU
12:01 We in Europe need to ask ourselves
12:03 whether we believe someone else should
12:05 maintain contacts and negotiate on our
12:07 behalf.
12:09 Even the exact way of speaking on the
12:10 phone was agreed upon in advance by
12:12 Stubb and Støre with the Kremlin. Each
12:14 side has its own prepared statement.
12:17 While one speaks, the other listens to
12:19 the end without interrupting.
12:21 It would seem that they only agreed to
12:23 listen to one another in the "New Europe
12:24 ," yet this move was met with hostility
12:26 by many.
12:29 According to Politico, the call sparked
12:31 the biggest rift among Scandinavian
12:33 allies since Putin’s full-scale invasion
12:36 of Ukraine and revealed a broader
12:38 discord in Europe over how to deal with
12:40 Moscow at a crucial moment in the push
12:42 for peace.
12:44 And judging by the criticism directed at
12:46 both leaders, the debate there is now
12:47 about the very right to such contact. In
12:49 short, Europeans cannot agree among
12:50 themselves on who should call, what to
12:52 talk about, or whether they should be
12:54 calling at all.
12:55 It is a gathering of incomprehensible
12:57 people.
12:59 And what was actually on Trump's desk
13:02 when he spoke last week about a major
13:04 security deal for Europe being close?
13:08 If you listen carefully to Secretary of
13:10 State Rubio, the American president had
13:11 only received the first proposal by that
13:13 moment and had already blurted something
13:15 out.
13:16 Guarantees for Ukraine, how the country
13:18 will be organized after the war, and the
13:20 broader issue of European security are
13:22 all being discussed, but nothing is
13:24 definitively agreed upon yet.
13:27 Perhaps some progress can be made
13:29 tomorrow in Abu Dhabi when Jared Kushner
13:31 and Steve Witkoff arrive, Rubio said.
13:34 Pay attention to the sequence. The
13:36 Secretary of State believes that it is
13:38 first necessary to overcome the conflict
13:40 itself in order to move on to the stage
13:42 of post-war architecture. Moscow,
13:43 however, proposes a strictly defined
13:45 order, and it is the reverse.
13:47 First, agree on security guarantees for
13:49 all parties, and only then cease fire.
13:53 In other words, what some propose to
13:54 leave for later, others want to resolve
13:56 even before stopping the hostilities.
14:00 In an interview with Ross Douthat, the
14:02 conversation with Trump turned to the
14:03 personal relationship between Putin and
14:05 Zelensky. The journalist asked if the
14:07 Ukrainian president's position could be
14:09 understood, given that Russia invaded
14:11 his country.
14:13 Trump responded by talking about the
14:14 disrespect that, in his opinion, the
14:16 Ukrainian side showed toward Russia at
14:17 their first meeting. Well, that is how
14:19 it is. But during their first meeting,
14:22 Russia was shown great disrespect, so I
14:24 am not going to say anything. The
14:27 personal meeting in question took place
14:29 in Paris in 2019. Putin and Zelensky
14:31 were then discussing the implementation
14:33 of the Minsk agreements. There has been
14:35 no other such meeting since then. Daulet
14:37 also asked a direct question about which
14:39 of these two interlocutors the American
14:40 president trusts more. Trump refused to
14:43 choose one of them in front of the
14:44 microphone. I’d rather not say, but I
14:47 have good relationships with both. I
14:49 believe this war will end, and it will
14:51 end soon. And the only reason it will
14:53 end is because of me. For Kyiv,
14:55 meanwhile, the question of when new
14:57 interceptor missiles for Patriot systems
15:00 will start arriving remains practically
15:02 open. According to Bloomberg’s
15:03 assessment, a noticeable improvement is
15:05 possible only in about a year, when the
15:07 first batches ordered in Europe arrive.
15:09 Between 2027 and 2028, Ukraine is set to
15:12 receive 600 German-made PAC-2 missiles.
15:15 For the other version, the PAC-3, a deal
15:17 to organize production in Poland was
15:19 announced late last month.
15:22 But announcing future production and
15:23 handing over missiles that can be used
15:25 today—as they say in Odesa—are two very
15:26 different things.
15:29 European countries' own stockpiles, the
15:31 agency writes, have reached a minimum,
15:33 so the military is in no hurry to give
15:34 away remaining interceptors without a
15:36 firm promise from the US to supply new
15:38 ones in return.
15:41 While they wait for guarantees, Russia,
15:43 according to a Bloomberg source, is
15:44 producing ballistic missiles faster than
15:46 all Patriot interceptor manufacturers in
15:48 the world can produce theirs.
15:51 Another solution was discussed:
15:53 transferring a US license so that
15:54 interceptors could be made in Ukraine
15:56 itself.
15:57 Naturally, it never reached the
15:58 implementation stage. The program
16:00 announced in February by five European
16:02 countries with the largest defense
16:03 budgets has not started working yet
16:05 either. They intended to create a more
16:07 affordable air defense asset.
16:10 Zelenskyy’s advisor Serhii Beskrestnov,
16:11 known as "Flash," explains the
16:13 difficulty by how many participants the
16:14 final result depends on.
16:16 "We can produce engines, we can produce
16:18 missiles, we can produce launchers, but
16:21 that doesn't mean it will all work in
16:23 the end, because we still depend on
16:25 components produced in other countries,
16:28 " he says. The next possible venue for a
16:30 conversation between the leaders is the
16:31 APEC summit in China. Trump confirmed
16:33 that he expects to meet there
16:35 simultaneously with Putin and Xi Jinping
16:37 , and in his response mentioned a topic
16:39 that goes far beyond the war in Ukraine
16:41 . I am planning to go to China. One of
16:43 the meetings, I think, will be with
16:44 President Putin and President Xi.
16:46 And it will be interesting. We will
16:48 discuss a multitude of issues, including
16:50 denuclearization. The very idea of such
16:51 a meeting is already being criticized in
16:53 the European press. Zelenskyy has also
16:55 spoken out against it. Kyiv, as a result
16:57 , is looking toward this meeting with
16:59 general anxiety and fear. We talked
17:01 about this in the morning news. Well,
17:02 and as for the future of Ukraine itself
17:04 , Trump expressed it this way. Following
17:06 the war, the country will take on a
17:08 somewhat different shape. He did not
17:10 name specific borders, although the hint
17:12 concerned exactly that. Here are his
17:14 words in full. I think it will happen,
17:16 that is, a deal to end the war.
17:18 Ultimately, Ukraine will have a somewhat
17:20 different shape. Apparently, some piece
17:22 is being carved off after all. Dmitry
17:24 Peskov was asked to comment on this
17:26 statement about Ukraine taking on a
17:27 different shape. While Trump speaks of a
17:30 moment when negotiations conclude, the
17:31 Kremlin replies in the present tense.
17:34 According to Peskov, geographically,
17:36 Ukraine has already become a different
17:38 country.
17:40 Now, regarding Abu Dhabi.
17:42 Who exactly will sit at the table, and
17:44 who will have the opportunity to join at
17:45 least individual discussions?
17:47 The Financial Times, citing sources,
17:49 writes that national security advisers
17:51 from France, Germany, and the UK will
17:52 participate in some segments of the
17:54 talks.
17:55 The publication also names the Chief of
17:57 Staff of the European Commission
17:59 President and the NATO Secretary General
18:01 , with their purpose for participating
18:03 formulated quite frankly: to thwart
18:04 Russia's attempts to use US-led
18:06 negotiations to revise Europe's security
18:08 architecture.
18:10 First and foremost, Europeans are
18:11 concerned about whether Moscow will gain
18:13 a say on sovereign issues like NATO
18:14 exercises and the deployment of troops
18:16 and weapons in Eastern Europe.
18:18 According to the newspaper, such a
18:20 prospect faces sharp rejection in
18:22 European capitals.
18:24 European representatives say that
18:25 Washington has not discussed with them
18:27 the new security concept mentioned by
18:29 Jared Kushner.
18:30 Moreover, they believe the conversation
18:32 itself should be postponed until the
18:33 negotiations on Ukraine are completed.
18:35 Versions regarding the list of
18:36 participants also diverge.
18:38 Peskov says the meeting was planned
18:40 between Russia and Ukraine, mediated by
18:41 the US, without Europeans.
18:43 The French Foreign Ministry, conversely
18:45 , previously stated that Europe would be
18:47 represented in Abu Dhabi. Now, let's
18:48 move on to the military summary.
18:50 Yesterday, during the day and night,
18:52 Russian Aerospace Forces and missile
18:53 troops struck targets in the Donbas, as
18:56 well as in the Sumy, Kharkiv,
18:57 Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and
18:59 Kherson regions. Strikes were also
19:01 reported in the Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Odesa,
19:03 Poltava, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy,
19:05 and Chernihiv regions. The Russian
19:07 Ministry of Defense reported separately
19:09 on three specific targets. According to
19:11 the agency, a traction substation in the
19:13 Vinnytsia region and two other
19:15 electrical substations near Cherkasy and
19:17 Kryvyi Rih were hit overnight.
19:20 In Kryvyi Rih itself, local authorities
19:22 confirmed a hit on an infrastructure
19:23 facility.
19:25 According to them, part of the city was
19:26 left without electricity.
19:29 In the Poltava region, the Russian
19:30 Ministry of Defense announced a strike
19:32 on a plant in Hlobine. According to the
19:34 ministry, long-range drones were being
19:35 assembled there. The name of the
19:37 enterprise is not mentioned in the
19:38 report. And this is a very significant
19:40 detail, because several large
19:41 manufacturing plants operate in the city
19:43 . Among them are even the Hlobine meat
19:45 processing plant, a butter and cheese
19:46 factory, and a sugar refinery.
19:49 So, it is currently impossible to
19:50 determine exactly what was hit based
19:51 solely on the name of the settlement.
19:54 In the north of the Odesa region, the
19:56 DTEK company reported damage to one of
19:58 its major energy facilities.
20:00 According to their data, after the
20:02 Russian attack, some residents were left
20:04 without power. In Kyiv, the consequences
20:06 of the recent strike are visible on the
20:07 approaches to the bridges. According to
20:09 city social media pages, the Northern
20:11 Bridge remains closed, and a huge queue
20:13 of cars has formed before the Paton
20:14 Bridge. For those who need to get from
20:16 one bank to the other, the detour itself
20:19 has become a problem. In the Bucha
20:21 community near Kyiv, school schedules
20:23 have been changed due to prolonged power
20:25 outages.
20:26 Local authorities reported that lesson
20:28 lengths have been reduced to thirty-five
20:29 minutes.
20:31 If Kyiv residents spend a long time
20:32 without heat, light, and water and
20:34 survive, they will sweep away the
20:36 central government, the parliament, and
20:38 the executive branch—everyone—because
20:40 Kyiv residents deserve respect, and they
20:42 need light and heat, stated MP Serhiy
20:44 Nahorniak. I highly doubt that. They
20:46 have been beaten down to such an extent
20:48 that they are afraid to even grunt. Guys
20:50 without identification marks will arrive
20:51 immediately and start beating them with
20:53 sticks like dogs. Vitali Klitschko has
20:55 his own questions for the central
20:56 government.
20:58 Zelenskyy ordered that free travel be
21:00 provided on Kyiv's public transport, but
21:01 the mayor suggested the government first
21:03 look at how much it already owes the
21:05 city for transporting those who already
21:07 ride for free.
21:09 Perhaps the government, before finding
21:11 money for a new idea, should first
21:13 return the subsidy owed to Kyiv for 11
21:15 years for transporting privileged
21:16 passengers, which amounts to over 8
21:18 billion hryvnias. In short, the central
21:20 authorities have handled Kyiv's
21:22 resilience plan by successfully blocking
21:24 it for half a year. Now they have taken
21:26 on public transport as well, he wrote.
21:29 The second question is: who will sit
21:31 behind the wheel?
21:32 According to the mayor, there are
21:33 working buses in reserve, but there is
21:35 currently no one to put them on the
21:36 routes.
21:37 And even if drivers can be found, one
21:39 more problem remains.
21:41 The bus travels along the same streets
21:43 where there are traffic jams. This is
21:45 how Klitschko himself explained it.
21:47 There are buses in Kyiv to add, but
21:48 there are no drivers. Perhaps the police
21:50 will round them up just like they did
21:52 with the electricians. This was likely a
21:54 response to Zelenskyy's criticism
21:55 regarding the small number of people
21:57 employed at energy facilities. You
21:58 remember, back then they caught everyone
22:00 they could and reduced the number of
22:02 exemptions.
22:03 At the moment, the Kyivpastrans
22:05 municipal enterprise has the capacity to
22:07 increase the number of buses by an
22:09 additional 25 units. To do this, at
22:11 least 50 category D drivers must be
22:13 hired.
22:14 In addition to the fact that they must
22:16 undergo training on the routes, the
22:18 company cannot grant deferments to new
22:19 drivers due to established limits.
22:22 I will also note that to fully replace
22:24 subway operations in terms of the number
22:25 of passengers transported, up to 1,020
22:27 buses would be needed. But it is obvious
22:30 that surface transport cannot ensure the
22:32 regularity of subway traffic, as it
22:34 moves along the street and road network
22:36 in traffic flow alongside private
22:38 vehicles, the mayor states. Now for the
22:40 overnight attack on the Leningrad region
22:42 . Governor Alexander Drozdenko reported
22:44 that more than 100 Ukrainian drones were
22:46 shot down over the region.
22:48 A woman died as a result of the attack.
22:51 In the Kirishi district, a hit was
22:52 recorded at the KINEF enterprise; a fire
22:54 broke out there, and equipment that the
22:56 heat supply of Kirishi itself depends on
22:57 was also damaged.
22:59 By the time of the update, the governor
23:01 reported that both heat and electricity
23:03 in the city were being restored.
23:06 And here is the total figure for the
23:07 night, according to the Russian Defense
23:09 Ministry's report. On-duty air defense
23:11 forces intercepted and destroyed 430
23:13 Ukrainian drones.
23:15 This data covers several regions at once
23:17 , including the Leningrad Region.
23:19 According to the agency, drones were
23:20 shot down over the Belgorod, Bryansk,
23:22 Voronezh, Kaluga, and Kursk regions.
23:25 The report also lists the Lipetsk, Oryol
23:27 , Pskov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, and
23:29 Tula regions, the Moscow region, and
23:31 Crimea.
23:32 Another report from the Russian Defense
23:34 Ministry came from the Zaporozhye
23:36 direction. According to its data,
23:38 Russian troops have taken control of
23:40 Vasilkovka, a settlement located north
23:42 of the city of Orekhov. In the US, the
23:44 Washington Post has been investigating
23:46 what Trump supporter Laura Loomer
23:48 received money for. The publication
23:50 counted four payments that went to
23:52 Loomer and her company, King Break Media
23:54 , since May 2025. In total, this amounts
23:57 to more than 60,000 dollars. According
23:58 to the newspaper's sources, a single
24:01 political post could cost a client three
24:03 to five thousand dollars, or even more.
24:05 Loomer herself disagrees with the claim
24:07 that she was selling posts. According to
24:09 her, payments were for research and
24:11 consulting work. Why did Ukraine come up
24:13 in this story? In July 2026, Loomer
24:15 visited there and interviewed Zelensky.
24:18 Before the trip, she opposed aid to Kiev
24:20 , but later began urging Washington to
24:22 increase military support. As the same
24:25 newspaper previously wrote, part of the
24:27 security costs for this trip was covered
24:29 by American donors, whose names were not
24:31 disclosed.
24:32 Loomer denies receiving money due to her
24:37 change in position.
24:41 Her former observer, Benoît Parre,
24:45 worked in Donbass and Ukraine from 2015
24:50 to 2022.
24:52 According to him, Kiev exerted serious
24:53 pressure on both the organization and
24:55 Alexander Hug personally.
24:57 Especially when it came to contacts with
24:59 the "bad guys" from Donbass. Parre
25:01 claims that Hug himself spoke about the
25:03 Ukrainian side's categorical ban on such
25:05 conversations, but someone still had to
25:07 fulfill the mandate.
25:09 Therefore, he said that he had to send
25:11 his deputy, a much more discreet person
25:13 , to do this work.
25:15 So it was the deputy head of the mission
25:17 who carried out our part of the mandate
25:19 It was like talking to the bad guys, you
25:21 see, but the head of the mission would
25:23 never have done that, recalls Parre.
25:26 News has come from France regarding an
25:28 investigation into an armed raid on a
25:30 jewelry factory. According to AFP,
25:32 citing the prosecutor's office, law
25:35 enforcement officers found the stolen
25:37 gold, valued at 6 million euros. The
25:39 suspects have been detained. The raid
25:41 itself took place on November 3.
25:43 Armed individuals burst into the
25:45 facility, struck at least one employee,
25:47 and made off with several dozen
25:48 kilograms of gold and precious metal
25:50 items.
25:51 Yes. At the St. Petersburg airport, the
25:54 contents of a suitcase drew attention.
25:56 About half a kilogram of stones, which a
25:58 43-year-old passenger brought from
26:00 Africa via Istanbul. He explained that
26:02 he is studying in Saint Petersburg and
26:04 needs the minerals for a new project.
26:06 However, the radiation control system
26:08 showed that the radiation was several
26:09 times above the permissible level.
26:12 Radium-226 was detected in the samples.
26:14 The stones were confiscated from the
26:16 student and sent for disposal. An
26:18 administrative case was opened against
26:20 him. Now he is facing a fine. Let’s stay
26:22 in St. Pete.
26:24 There, they are proposing changes to the
26:26 tax for small businesses. Entrepreneurs
26:29 working under the simplified tax system
26:30 who chose the "income minus expenses"
26:32 option can currently enjoy a
26:34 preferential rate of 7%.
26:36 As Fontanka reports, starting January 1
26:37 , 2027, they want to abolish this rate
26:39 for the majority of them.
26:42 That is when the difference between
26:43 income and expenses will be taxed at 15
26:45 %—a bit more than double the current
26:47 preferential rate.
26:49 Of course, the benefit will be kept for
26:51 accredited IT companies and small tech
26:53 enterprises.
26:55 They decided to delay the fines for
26:57 placing ads in Telegram for a little
26:59 while. Previously, the FAS mentioned a
27:01 postponement until January; now, it
27:02 might be extended. The reason cited is
27:04 problems with Telegram.
27:06 The app disappeared from the App Store,
27:08 and the story involving fake
27:09 notifications on behalf of the
27:10 Emergencies Ministry raised questions
27:12 about the messenger's security.
27:14 For now, one thing is clear from this
27:16 report: there will be a deadline
27:17 extension. No final date for this
27:20 postponement has been named yet, so we
27:22 are waiting. To be honest, I don't know
27:25 , someone must be placing ads in
27:26 Telegram.
27:27 I guess, maybe. Apparently, it is
27:29 relevant for someone.
27:31 In short, there is no specific date in
27:34 the end. But property taxes do have a
27:36 date, and it is quite specific. You need
27:39 to pay by December 1st, inclusive.
27:41 Starting December 2nd, daily interest
27:43 will begin to accrue on the unpaid debt
27:45 . The calculation is roughly like this:
27:47 47 kopecks per day for every 1,000
27:49 rubles. of debt. It sounds like a small
27:52 amount, but for someone who owes 10,000
27:53 , it comes out to 4 rubles. 70 kopecks
27:55 every day. And they will count it for
27:58 every day of delay. The state cares
28:00 about you so that you don't forget and
28:02 keep training your memory. Now, about
28:04 how we take our breaks. According to the
28:07 head of VCIOM, Valery Fedorov, Russians
28:09 would prefer long, continuous holidays
28:11 in January and May.
28:14 That is, the proposal to take several
28:15 days off from January and move them to
28:17 May is not what people would want at all
28:19 In 2027, there will be one long break in
28:22 winter—11 days from December 31st to
28:25 January 10th. And in May, the first
28:28 breather will be May 1st-3rd, and the
28:30 second from May 8th-10th. There are four
28:32 working days between them. Actually, let
28:34 me know in the comments how it would be
28:35 more convenient for you.
28:36 Personally, these ten-or eleven-day
28:38 holidays have always driven me crazy.
28:40 I mean, I have to work, guys. I mean, no
28:42 matter what I was doing, I was always at
28:44 work starting January 2nd.
28:46 And very often, on December 31st, I’d be
28:49 doing something in the office until
28:50 mid-day.
28:51 I mean, I never understood why a country
28:54 trying to crawl out of a deep hole and
28:56 make money would throw constant holidays
28:58 . Take the Japanese, for instance—only
29:00 two days off a year.
29:01 New Year’s and, I believe, the Emperor's
29:03 birthday. All other holidays are by
29:05 agreement. Meaning, if you want to work
29:06 , you go in; if you don't, you don't.
29:07 But here, they shut down the banks
29:09 entirely, and there's nothing you can do
29:10 about it. Especially knowing our
29:11 mentality. "Well, let’s just start after
29:13 New Year's, and then again after the May
29:14 holidays." Well, pretty much, yes.
29:16 Since we’re talking about work and
29:18 working days, a little bit about Finland
29:20 It turns out management came up with
29:22 their own way to check if an employee is
29:23 actually working.
29:25 They counted how many times they clicked
29:27 their computer mouse.
29:28 According to an investigative journalism
29:30 program, this system was used by the
29:32 Finnish agency Kela.
29:34 Managers were interested in how much
29:36 time employees spent processing
29:37 applications, when they took breaks, and
29:39 what they did throughout the day.
29:41 If a person didn't click their mouse for
29:43 more than half an hour, they could
29:45 receive a warning. This was followed by
29:47 reprimands and disciplinary action, and
29:49 in some cases, it even led to dismissal
29:51 . Imagine what kind of metrics
29:52 management actually got from this.
29:54 They knew how long a person hadn't
29:56 clicked the mouse.
29:57 But what they managed to think about or
29:59 read during that half hour—you can't
30:01 count that by clicks. Maybe they were
30:02 browsing some unknown website, or maybe
30:04 they were playing Minesweeper. Who the
30:06 hell knows. Yes, for that, you need to
30:08 watch the screen. Although, that’s
30:10 exactly what system administrators do.
30:11 They can access your screen and see what
30:14 you are doing on your computer.
30:16 However, it's not just system
30:18 administrators who can do this; various
30:20 useful state services can connect to
30:22 your phone, computer, or laptop without
30:24 much trouble at all.
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30:47 Write your thoughts.
30:49 Write what you think about having 10-11
30:50 days of holidays.
30:52 How convenient would such long holidays
30:54 be for you, because often people return
30:56 from these breaks, as they say, without
30:58 a penny to their name.
31:00 They’ve blown everything in those 10
31:02 days because the whole family is at home
31:03 , nobody goes anywhere, and there’s only
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