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Russian TV panel calls Republican losses a setback for Moscow

A Ukrainian news discussion pairs Russian broadcasters' election reactions with reports of refinery damage and outages in occupied territory.

Channel: 24 Kanal ·

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Why this story? One of 24 Канал's most watched videos since yesterday, with 200,994 views.

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0:00Putin says he received a flu vaccination; Murashko discusses quality controls, followed by the presenters' speculation.
7:30NTV panelist Andrey Fyodorov characterizes Republican losses as a partial foreign-policy defeat for Russia.
22:55A Russian television excerpt shows lawmaker Alexey Zhuravlyov criticizing Trump and American political decision-making.
31:55The presenters say Russian reports repeatedly portrayed the same woman as newly evacuated.
37:25Footage identified as refinery-strike aftermath accompanies discussion of fuel queues and Ukrainian attacks.
46:26Residents of occupied Donetsk and Crimea describe blackouts, communications failures and water shortages.

A Russian television panelist describes Republican election losses as more than an American political setback: in his assessment, they also amount to a partial foreign-policy defeat for Russia.

Ukraine's 24 Kanal (24 Канал) places that admission at the center of a wide-ranging discussion between host Anastasiia Noritsyna and political blogger Anton Raev. Their program drew about 201,000 views since yesterday, combining excerpts from Russian television with commentary on Moscow's expectations of Donald Trump, diplomacy over Ukraine and the effects of attacks on Russian infrastructure.

In footage from NTV's discussion show Mesto Vstrechi, Andrey Fyodorov explicitly links the Republican defeat to Russia's foreign-policy interests. A later excerpt shows Russian state-media presenter Vladimir Solovyov responding emotionally to the result. Raev interprets these reactions as evidence that hopes of securing advantages through Trump have been frustrated. That is the program's political reading, rather than an announced change in Kremlin policy.

The opening takes a different tack. Vladimir Putin tells a meeting that he has received a flu vaccination, while Health Minister Mikhail Murashko discusses vaccine quality controls. Noritsyna and Raev question Putin's appearance and the vaccine, but the excerpt supplies no medical evidence for their speculation. They then turn to a State Duma speech describing severe population decline and problems in healthcare, connecting those domestic pressures to the continuing war against Ukraine.

The discussion subsequently examines criticism of Trump by Russian lawmaker Alexey Zhuravlyov, reported changes to Russian fuel-tanker movements and a White House meeting involving Melania Trump and Russian and Ukrainian representatives. Noritsyna and Raev also challenge Russian evacuation coverage, saying the same woman was repeatedly presented as newly evacuated in separate reports.

In its final stretch, the program presents footage it identifies as the aftermath of strikes on the Afipsky refinery and other Russian facilities, alongside queues at filling stations. An excerpt from Russian military blogger Fighterbomber acknowledges the painful impact of Ukrainian drone and missile attacks.

Videos attributed to residents of Russian-occupied Donetsk and Crimea describe electricity cuts, disrupted communications and water shortages. The presenters contrast those accounts with a Russian television segment celebrating outages in Ukraine, ending on the civilian consequences of attacks on energy infrastructure.

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