a new prisoner exchange will take place this weekend. we assume that it will be probably 200 people from each side, and this will again be the largest exchange. zelensky confirmed the fact of the exchange, but criticized the russian peace proposal. meeting to discuss aid to ukraine ramstein without the head of the pentagon. what signal is the us sending to kiev, nato assures that everything is fine. the us is completely dedicated to nato.

completely dedicated to our joint efforts regarding ukraine, please help, call the police, it's not the police, a kidnapping in the center of moscow, unknown people grabbed blogger oreg shchepikhin and put him in the trunk. the chechen authorities called it a detention. i went to put flowers, how could i know that the police would detain me for this. detention at a rally in honor of navalny's birthday, one of the detainees became ill. he has a hypertensive crisis, he can't talk now, you see, he has. this is the evening program, i am igor severgin, hello, our broadcast is on facebook and youtube, and if you watch us there, don't forget to put like, so that more viewers see the broadcast. so, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky called the russian memorandum with the terms of peace a misunderstanding, according to him, it is an ultimatum that no one will take seriously. he stated this at a briefing with journalists in kiev, which ended literally an hour ago, what else... hello

igor, indeed, volodymyr zelensky gathered journalists today and went through each point of the memorandum, which the russian side handed over in istanbul the day before. ukrainian president russian document called it an ultimatum and that it has nothing to do with what putin promised trump, and the russian side was supposed to convey, as he said. that is, something that can be implemented in practice. in addition, according to zelensky, the russian version of the memorandum was prepared, i quote, by low-level people, many points, such as, for example, the ban on nuclear weapons for ukraine, should not have been included at all, zelensky says, because ukraine's non-nuclear status is already enshrined in other international agreements, but most points - this is something that ukraine will not be able to fulfill, therefore, as zelensky said, it became clear why the russian...

even though they didn’t give us a stink, they understood, i respect that if we become public, then ukraine will have the right not to come to any party, not to what we don’t want, but because it became clear that there would be no place for the squirrels, then they lost everything, well, just like that, a thimble.

"we are ready before exchanges, whatever they need, and we are ready before exchanges, otherwise the diplomatic confederates in istanbul will continue on a level that doesn’t mean anything , i respect everything, i respect it so much, the russians are not ready for the fire, we know that the delegation is not ready to wait, and they respect, so food for leaders, they themselves told us about it, food. who

has already met with us special representative for ukraine keith. and with us special representative steve witkoff, yarmak assured that he discussed with them the situation at the front, and the results of the meetings in istanbul, the importance of strengthening sanctions against russia, defense assistance to ukraine, pointed out that russia's position is not constructive, noted that in the kremlin, as zelensky said, they are dragging out time and manipulating the negotiations, trying to avoid american sanctions, do not want to cease fire, vitkov aermak invited to ukraine, that's how it became literally. it is known recently aermak also held a meeting with rubio, us secretary of state, and as politics writes, on wednesday, that is, today, the ukrainian delegation will hold a briefing for american senators who are preparing sanctions against russia, the event was organized by democratic senator richard

blumenthal together with senator, republican lindsay graham. blumenthal stated that this is a turning point for ukraine, a decisive moment for the senate in the matter.

june 7, 8, 9, we are fully prepared for this on our part. also, mydinsky confirmed that russia and ukraine will exchange the bodies of fallen soldiers. according to his statement, moscow will unilaterally transfer 6.00 bodies to kiev. ukraine, in turn, will also transfer the bodies of fallen russians, but according to mydinsky, there are, quote, much fewer of them. also, the presidential aide spoke about the list of 339 children that ukraine demanded to be returned from russian territory. medinsky. noted that this list was taken into consideration, however, he claims that the children were not kidnapped, but were rescued from shelling. as for the meeting of the leaders of russia and ukraine, medinsky emphasized that this is possible, but, in moscow’s opinion, it is not the time yet. putin himself, in turn, once again called the

ukrainian authorities terrorists. the kiev leadership has moved on to organizing terrorist acts. and at the same time, they are asking suspend. the meeting of the ramstein defense ministers will not include the us secretary of defense for the first time in 3 years. let me remind you that it was the united states that initiated these meetings, which regularly bring together more than fifty countries. the purpose of the meetings is to help ukraine with weapons. and

our correspondent, elena abramovich, works at the headquarters, she is on the line with us. lena, hello. how does the minister comment on the absence of the pentagon chief and how has this affected assistance to ukraine? hello igor, well, the important point is that the us such are present, but not at the ambassador level, at the minister level at this meeting, the american ambassador told journalists today that the us has not yet decided whether to provide military assistance to kiev, and we also heard from other diplomats that the head of the pentagon will most likely miss the ukraine-nato council tomorrow, that is, he will be at headquarters in the morning for the main session with the alliance defense ministers, but at lunchtime he will not be at the meeting with ukraine. so, it will most likely be. the us will be present at today's meeting, the us is fully committed to nato, fully committed to our joint efforts with respect to ukraine, there is no reason to doubt that, and

whether someone participated in every meeting or not, do not forget that these meetings are mostly held in europe, so american officials will not always be able to participate in every meeting. thereby stimulating others to keep up, and today they say that the less active position of the us stimulates even more, because the eu countries understand that you have to rely on only to help ukraine more. at this meeting of romshtein-leadership, if you can say so, ukraine took over, that is, germany and britain are patronizing, but he addressed the participants via video link, and the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, asked to honor the memory of the children who died in this war with a minute of silence, who are already... and 631 and called for assistance with air defense systems, to produce weapons together,

including the nasas and ariste systems on the territory of ukraine, zelensky called for this, said that ukraine can produce twice as much as now, if partners help with money. we have no doubt that we can force russia to peace, but for this we need to continue to put pressure on russia with all possible instruments and step by step make its aggression senseless. many today also commented positively on the ukrainian operation spider web, including the nato secretary general, he emphasized that the planes that were attacked, russia used to strike innocent people in ukraine. nato , by the way, conducted its own count of exactly how many ships suffered, they say that it is 34% of missile carriers. according to a nato official, here it is considered the most successful operation.

ukraine has shown that if we continue to support them, and if our supplies remain stable, they can do wonderful things, so for me this is only an incentive to do even more. well, as for the aid packages that are traditionally provided within the framework of this ramstein meeting, some countries have already announced them, so germany will help with air defense systems, britain is increasing production by 10 times purchase of drones for ukraine, and also gives. a quarter of a billion pounds for training ukrainian military. the netherlands will present 400 million for patrol

boats and special operations ships for ukraine and so on. well, we will hear more results in an hour or half an hour at the final press conference. lina, thank you very much, it will really be very interesting to see how this meeting will go, after all , and what the results will be without the us secretary of defense, moreover, tomorrow is already a meeting. of defense ministers nato countries, we will follow, lena abramovich, thank you, our correspondent from brussels was on the line. and now peter tanev, eu policy adviser, joins us. peter, hello. good afternoon. how do you assess the fact that the us secretary of defense is skipping a meeting in the ramstein format for the first time. can this be seen as a kind of signal not only to ukraine, but also to europe?

the incredible abilities of the united states of america believed some to end the war that has been going on for t years, i think that mr. trump himself understands perfectly well that he did everything possible to, say, sabotage the process. sovereignty and independence of ukraine, but only to achieve some goal that is in no way connected with decent conditions for peace and stability in ukraine and in the region in general, and i think that trump understands, so to speak, what he got himself into, it’s one thing when you speak and tell everyone and some great peacemaker, a figure for saving the world, and who will protect. grodbomb, and another thing is when you really feel, how does the new

geopolitics work, because this is a new paradigm in which we live and that this is not the time when he was president, the first time president of the united states of america, we live in a completely different reality, but the european union has long understood its role and ambitions to protect not only ukraine, but also all the countries of the eastern partnership, including a... moldova, including armenia, and so on, so here the european union will continue, do everything possible so that we have a consensus in brissel, this is certainly not an easy task, but in general it is possible to cope and we have come out of such problems, but of course the kremlin will do everything possible to divide europe, and the united states is not very good either, at least within the framework of trump's presidency,

they would not really like to see europe in the format in which the european union now wants to be, yes, common, united, strong, it is much more profitable for them when we fragment everything here, and how is this felt in brussels, how is the very fact of the absence, the absence felt in brussels that's what you're saying, this fragmentation of the attempt, well, it's a sign, it's the last step to... one of the last steps that the american stats under trump are taking to show a different side, in contrast to the one they had, in terms of supporting ukraine, of course, the united states is distancing itself gradually, i think that they won't do it right away, in some cases we may well see

how the united states of america under trump will tell us, this war is not interesting, ourselves somehow.

let's say, i just wanted to ask you about this, because we really see the statement, in essence we see this will, but does europe have the resources to maintain the line of support for kiev, even with the reduction of us involvement , including - to think about having the resources for its own security. a very good question, the problem is that many here understand that... we have no other way out, that is, even if we do not have sufficient resources now to increase the expenditures on defense policy, their really not so much, in fact, here and how, as you know, there is talk about taking some of the funds that go to support regional

funds, or recovery and development funds that were created after the coronavirus pandemic covid-19. to take some of the money from there, then - the budget of the european union, the new budget of the european union will be adopted in 2027, if i'm not mistaken, and therefore in the means of this, since some funds have already been divided, it is very difficult even purely bureaucratically, technically to revise them, because for this too it is possible to conduct many initiatives, many hearings, but this is not a question of bureaucracy, yes, but these are... initiatives, like - rearm europe, yes, the project for the rearmament of europe, well, within the framework of this, in particular , the safe instrument, here is

an instrument that gives the opportunity to the member countries of the european union to take out loans in order to reimburse those defense expenses that they are going to carry out, well, including reductions and unfreezing this financial threshold, the funds that... the corresponding eu member country can spend on defense, that is, the european commission is trying to propose and come up with some methods, mechanisms, but honestly, from my point of view, of course, this is not quite enough, and i hope that we will see some other initiatives of a more comprehensive nature, and so that they are not only for 30 years, 20 years ahead, so that something can be done tomorrow, if something extraordinary happens and they will attack us, for example. peter, thank you very much for taking the time to come on air with us, petr taneyev, eu policy adviser, was a guest. thank you.

thank you. ukrainian intelligence officers hacked the resources of the russian tupolev design bureau. this was reported by ukrainskaya pravda and rbc ukraine, citing sources. as a result of the operation, ukrainian special services managed to obtain personal information about employees, their service addresses. ross is engaged in the design and production of missile carriers, as well as aircraft special purpose. since the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine , tupolev has been under western sanctions. and as a result of another. special operation web , at least four tu-95 bombers and one an-12 aircraft were destroyed at the oleniye airfield in the murmansk region

. this follows from satellite images published by the asint avivektor project. in the image taken the day before , three destroyed tu-95s, one an-12, and another tu-95 in the distance are visible in one part of the airfield. others also show other planes and... helicopters, which were not damaged. satellite images of another airfield, beloye, in the irkutsk region, show the destruction of at least seven strategic aviation aircraft. an investigative project by the ukrainian service radio liberty , the schemes, concludes that at least 11 russian strategic bombers and one military transport aircraft were destroyed in the attack. at the same time, the security service of ukraine claims that 41 russian aircraft were hit. today, the agency published new footage special operations. according to the sbu , drone strikes on four airfields of russia's strategic aviation were recorded on video.

the operations used both autonomous algorithms with elements of artificial intelligence and manual control. when approaching the targets, the drones automatically activated their warheads. another video shows the start of the operation. trucks with drones set off, place time s. according to its triad, nuclear triad, then the risk increases because you do not know what the other side will do. the white house previously stated that

kiev had not warned washington about the operation in advance; in total, ukrainian drones attempted to attack four airfields on russian territory. evening on the channel is currently ongoing, it's time to remind you that every like you give on youtube helps our program be seen. more viewers, your support is especially important to us now, thank you for watching, that's what we'll talk about later on the air. excuse me, tell me, why was the person kidnapped? the men who kidnapped a blogger in central moscow released, orek shchepikhin himself appeared on video, badly beaten and talking about torture. no one is allowed, but putin is. the russian president has banned officials from using western technology, but not himself. the journalists of the sistema project will tell you what kind of banned...

the case against the creators of the world of tanks game. russian researchers believe that the subsidiary company collaborated with the main one, which helped in the ssu. the story of sitting on two chairs, it ends predictably. well, no, you will fall between these chairs. so, in moscow yesterday evening, several people grabbed and took away in the trunk of a man who was calling for help and asking to call the police. he turned out to be entrepreneur and blogger orek shchepikhin. today, chechen authorities announced that they are conducting an investigation into him, and he was not kidnapped, according to them, but detained. the ministry of internal affairs announced that their department for combating extremism is conducting an investigation, but not in connection with the kidnapping of a person, but in relation to the person kidnapped because of his posts on social networks, which is known at this minute, further in the story. help, please, call the police, this is not the police, all this is happening in the center of moscow on

yaroslavsky. after this, the man is literally shoved into the trunk of a black mercedes with a flashing light. telegram channels associated with the security forces that publish these videos have blurred the numbers, but in some frames you can see that the mercedes has a license plate with the letters a, p, government cars have such license plates. according to preliminary data, the car is registered to the federal security service, passers-by react to what is happening with complete indifference, only one woman dared to come up and demand an explanation. it wasn't the police, but it wasn't the police, the police take people away in mercedes like these. while the real police were looking for this car, details about the kidnapped

man began to appear in telegram channels. from social networks, he calls himself a blogger and entrepreneur, it quickly became clear that on the eve of the kidnapping he made a harsh appeal to a certain chechen, whose name he doesn't mention, the appeal consists mainly of obscenities and insults against muslims and chechens. this the video was reposted by popular chechen blogger sahap makalov, who called for the author of the appeal to be found and held accountable. about 5 hours after the abduction, a black mercedes was stopped on the way out of moscow in the kievskoye highway area. but shchepikhin, as reported, was not in it. later, the car with the driver and passengers was brought to the scene of the incident, to the yaroslavsky railway station. according to the shot telegram channel, these people told moscow police that they were active members of the russian national guard and had been conducting the day before operational measure to detain. the police had no questions or claims against them. they were released from the department and they drove away smiling in their black mercedes. about where

the kidnapped person is and what happened to him. at this point, the public still knows nothing, already in the afternoon, the minister of the chechen republic for national police external relations of the press of information akhmet dudayev published a statement in which he said: this is not a kidnapping, but a detention, it turns out that the chechen police are investigating the actions of oreg shchepikhin. currently, law enforcement agencies are conducting a full range of relevant investigative actions against shchepikhin to qualify his crimes and bring him to criminal responsibility. according to dudayev, shchepikhin is being checked under five articles at once, including rape, espionage, incitement to hatred and public calls for terrorism. the minister did not explain why the detainee was stuffed into the trunk. telegram channels associated with the security forces published this footage during the day and reported that orega shchepikhin was released at night somewhere on the outskirts of moscow. later this video appeared. shchepikhin says that he was kidnapped by chechens, they didn’t torture him much, he says.

according to him, they took the addresses of his wife and parents, whether he is connected with the ukrainian opposition, the video was published by the baza telegram channel, we cannot quickly find out where and by whom it was filmed, whether shchepikhin was at large at that moment, or whether he was detained, pressured. the agency’s independent publication claims that among the kidnappers was a close associate of state duma deputy adam dilimkhanov, a security official named visali churchaev. according to journalists, he regularly accompanied delimkhanov on foreign trips, and also traveled with him. to the war in ukraine in september of 22. the opposition movement niiso to ramzan kadyrov also believes that churchaev took part in the kidnapping. and against this background, a large-scale survey on interethnic relations will be conducted in russia. the federal agency for nationality affairs is launching monitoring of the situation in all regions of the country, including the occupied ones. by the end of the year, it plans to survey a thousand people in each region. the goal is to identify hotbeds of...