sunday july russia celebrates navy day. in accordance with the decision of the president of the russian federation , the main naval parade will be held . congratulations.

happy navy day solemn parade on navy day on sunday on channel one hello on channel one news release in maxim sharafutdinov studio st. petersburg, today there is the main international political event the start of the main day of the economic summit and forum of russia africa topics for discussion of mass and food security issues of trade and cooperation in educational sports areas, perhaps, the most anticipated today will be a big speech by vladimir putin more than 2,000 journalists among them have received accreditation for the forum, and my colleague ivan prozorov is now broadcasting live from st. petersburg, we will try to find out everything from him details ivan good afternoon are you on the air? maxim good afternoon. well, out of these two thousand journalists, 500 people are guests from the african continent . the african press, what can we say about the number of participants. e about the number of delegates who came from almost fifty countries very soon, as reported by the organizers inform us. how many people flew to st. petersburg, but we can understand this, and here on the main transport arteries proper, and on the st. petersburg expocenter,

which is just a river of participants. uh, such a seething flow of business contacts. and, of course, everyone is now rushing to the hall of culinary plenary sessions, where vladimir putin is expected to speak. follow closely. but, and the forum, which is worth noting, it just started this morning, and the first agreements have already been signed. so as if in the morning the state corporation rosatom signed an agreement with burundi on the use, but of the peaceful atom. it is reported that this will greatly improve the energy situation in the rune , since, while there, electrification is only 20% and there is a shortage of energy. just in the country. well, what about the actual situation on the forum here? uh, a lot is left, like even a stand at the st. petersburg economic forum regions, probably, some of them have remained the same. there are also booths of the co-corporation, where key russian projects are presented, for example, rostec. well, this, of course , is weapons, and some kind of protective systems are anti-hell guns. this is understandable, because we have long established military-technical cooperation with african countries since the soviet

era. there are, of course, stands of russian railways, and there is also a stand of rospotrebnadzor, and this is probably worth paying special attention to. and here are mobile bacteriological laboratories at the base. kamaz trucks that the russian federation will transfer to the ministry of health of uganda, this is necessary for the study of infectious diseases, the development of diagnostic and therapeutic drugs themselves. but as for the work program of russian president vladimir putin this morning, he has already held talks with the head of the african union , this is the key organization that unites all the countries of the continents and also the head of the african union , who is also the president of the comoros. he was about a month ago with other african states with the proposal of the actual peaceful settlement of the conflict in ukraine, the so -called african plan, and he emphasized that here in st. petersburg they intend to discuss them with vladimir putin from an alias. actually. this same question. and this is what we talked about at this meeting and we are creating the conditions . we consider the african union as a leading

regional organization that forms a modern security structure on the continent and creates conditions for ensuring a worthy place for africa in the system of global economic relations. we support disconnecting the union from the work of leading international associations and let me remind you that russia was one of the first to respond positively to the nomination last year by your predecessors in office. the president of senegal on the initiative to grant the african union an authorized membership in the g20, we expect this decision to be taken as early as september during the g20 summit in new delhi. as before. russia is ready to contribute globally to the strengthening of the sovereignty of african states

, to help africa become one one of the key partners in the new system of a multipolar world order. dj jolie. they say to the loop of russia that a friend is known in trouble and just in difficult times. russia has always been close to africa. the investments of the russian federation in african countries have allowed many of our states to embark on the path of development, and we are sincerely grateful to you for this. of course, we are concerned about the problems between russia and ukraine, the negative consequences of conflicts are reflected throughout the world, including in africa. try to find some solution to the crisis that has arisen. the russian federation remains an important partner for africa, in particular in terms of personnel training, thousands of our citizens have been educated in your country. now they are dealing with issues of economic social and cultural development on our continent and we want the partnership to develop further, but in fact this

meeting was attended not only by the president of the african union, but also by the chairman of the african union commission, and, as reported, together with them, vladimir putin and go to the plenary session. now the meeting itself is coming to an end, and now, of course, we are expecting the beginning of this plenary session any minute, but vladimir putin’s work schedule today also includes a meeting with the leaders of mozambek burundi, zimbabwe, uganda and eretrain. in addition, more working breakfasts are planned. uh, the head of state with the leaders of african regional organizations that unite all the political and economic forces of the continent. in general, all , as it were, the central movements of the african continent who are interested in cooperating with russia but in terms of time, of course, this working breakfast will begin. it's getting closer to mid-afternoon. these are probably indicators here, if breakfasts are working, if lunches, then business and meeting names in a sense, well, normal actually. this is the main opportunity to use every free minute to achieve very important agreements for russia and for the countries of the african continent, but the day should end today

with a solemn meeting of leaders states where vladimir putin will meet his own leaders and then receive a solemn reception. uh, in honor of former african heads of state. we will follow this maxim and share the details as they become available. thank you my colleague ivan prozorov live from st. petersburg and in continuation of the topic, as the press secretary of the president dmitry peskov said , the participants of the russia africa summit are very likely to affect the situation vera is military there, the rebels staged a coup , it is reported that they seized the residence heads of state and announced the removal of mohammed bazum from power, the rebels also announced the closure of the borders of the republic of the introduction of curfew. i will add that this african country is one of the leaders in uranium mining, it depends on it, including the nuclear power industry of france, just as almost all of niger's uranium is exported there. another foreign dry cargo ship with traces of explosives in the hold was found in the kerch strait, as

reported by the fsb, it went from turkey to rostov-on-don, and before that, twice in june and in july visited the ukrainian park reni in the odessa region . as a result , the gifts of the roman bridge were forbidden to pass and they were ordered to leave our territorial waters. at the end of last week. to remind the fsb deployed another ship with traces of explosives. it followed the same route and also recently called at one of the ukrainian ports. impressive footage from the zone of his enemy suffers huge losses for a failed series of counterattacks one of the hottest spots remain work on the fighters repelled another attack from the militants. in the orekhov direction, fire from the air and on the ground destroyed the tanks and infantry of the army. here is just the new footage of the battle. part-time armored group. vsu, a column of seven tanks and an infantry fighting vehicle, an excellent chain for our loitering munitions lancet, an accurate hit among the destroyed tanks. leopard, one of the wrecked

cars has lost its course and blocked the road, the others are going to ram. and here's another armored car trying to clear the way ahead, burning, the tank fire is spreading, it is clear that panic has begun, all attempts to hide in the forest are in vain. as a result, the militants abandoned their equipment and turned to flight. as a result of the battle, according to military correspondents , more than half of the eighty tanks and armored cars that participated in the assault were destroyed. after such a failure, under the work of a ukrainian military leader. i had to urgently correct it. plans, according to the head of the zaporozhye movement, together with russia vladimir rogov surfaced trying to rotate and transfer a new group of militants on the orekhovskaya direction, but all attempts are thwarted by russian artillerymen covering enemy columns with fire and holding positions. today we remember the children of donbass who became victims of ukrainian attacks for 9 years, that the nationalists shelled peaceful areas and died. about three hundred small residents, about seven hundred more, were seriously injured. actions of memory throughout the country in

moscow, representatives of the united russia young guard held an event near the building of western embassies. they came out with portraits of the dead children so that the us and their allies know against. whom the kyiv regime uses their weapons. so the boy was 8 years old. and that is, he could still live a lot to achieve all sorts of e. any opportunity of any value uh to do something important for this world, but his life ended so uh suddenly right here. today we are at the british embassy because the british embassy is the vanguard in the supply of lethal weapons. i want to clarify lethal weapons, which, unfortunately, ruin the fate of children and our people in donbass only in the luhansk people's republic , 58 babies died and 182 received serious injuries earlier, and this is a crime without a statute of limitations. today we are holding this action so

that those who gave these criminal orders. here someone is guilty of tragedies looked into the eyes of this. holy toys today they bring memorials to their own republics of donbass remembering children. whose life for the shelling of ukrainian militants, cut short on the threshold of the house or on the way to school , it is impossible to forget this and forgive. it's a pain in the soul out of time. july 27 is bloody sunday our gorlovka it was the first such hard shelling, when a lot of people died, and up to 20 civilians died there, and among them children exactly 9 years ago. gorlovka was subjected to powerful shelling, the ukrainian military fired from hailstones. sighting in the city center. horror christina beetle her ten-month-old daughter, kira, as usual, went out for a walk around the sphere. heroes, baby. this is where i took my first steps. she came here to her mother. we were here just like on vacation resting. i was supposed

to leave the other day and it so happened that it came out with a child for a walk and such a hard shelling one of the shells exploded next to the mother and daughter, trauma incompatible with life, 22 people became victims of the first large-scale shelling of gorlovka. four of which are children it would seem that so much time has passed, but in the city of memory of the events of bloody sunday, it is impossible to erase elena and natalya work in a local hospital, and then they helped. the wounded stroller yes, they saw it all, they saw it was little kira no, she was in the hands of her mother, but things were the same when they collected all the things that were next to people brought them. well, they should have been handed over to relatives, who, of course, we see all this, the big bag was not going to leave, we are talking against the backdrop of loud explosions. fighters. shelling gorlovka every day. in fact, a lot. and

you never know. now it can be in the nikitovsky district. in a second. in a minute, it is always in the central city when you walk along this square. here he is so handsome. he is like this, but always fear fear and horror seven years ago , a monument was erected at the site of the death of christina and kira. every element of this monument to grief and sorrow. deeply symbolic. for example, two half-arches are like the hands of parents who are trying to protect their children from shelling and the horrors of war. the black bell is a memory of all civilians who died as a result of hostilities. these are flowers that grow from exploding shells, a symbol of the continuation of life and the unbending spirit of the inhabitants of gorlovka, who have been living for 9 years with unceasing shelling from ukraine to zero to the front line. how far from here from the hill not at all they stand on the territory of the city, so

talk about how much of the front line. well, now we are here. here is the front line. here, tell me how many kilometers we have here , no more than two and a half three kilometers, of course, wounded civilians to the city hospital, they often bring children among them. danil arrived in a serious condition , a shell exploded in the yard, where a teenager was walking early on his hands on his feet to his head and neck , he heard a sharp whistle and all the shell shock. and nothing else changes, i don’t hear a sharp one. yes, i ran somewhere near the operation on the finger calls only yesterday the stitches were removed and the hand during the years of the armed conflict in the donbass, ukrainian militants crippled hundreds of children, more than 220 died, guys, the youngest girl was not even a month old today, on the day of remembrance of children and victims of the war in donbass, every child is remembered toys and flowers on the alley of angels in in donetsk victory park and near the monument to the children of donbass, two figures of a boy with his body

protecting the girl are really a story of a feat. 9 years ago in the village of butkevich, luhansk republic, during the shelling, kyrylo sidorek covered his little sister. the boy died on the spot, the girl survived. they left with their family. there, for bread, a mortar shelling not far from us, kilometers away, was ukrainian. i don't know where the position of the heroes considers it here. oh well, well done, he defended a memorial not far from the place of kirill's death, one of the elements of the remnant of a ukrainian rocket projectile. metal from ammunition was also used for the new gorlovskaya monument. it was made to madonna by a well-deserved blacksmith from donetsk , viktor mikhalev falls noha. she explodes the fragments scattered, she gave a pen to close it in the composition, there are also real fragments of shells that the nazis shelled every day in the cities of the republic, the place and date of the installation of the sculpture. bye.