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Σύμμαχοι της ΕΕ συναντώνται στις Βρυξέλλες για να καλύψουν το χρηματοδοτικό κενό της Ουκρανίας, ενώ η Ρωσία πλήττει το Κίεβο με πάνω από 120 drones. Ο Πάπας Λέων ΙΔ΄ ολοκληρώνει την επίσκεψή του στη Γαλλία, στη Μετς, επαινώντας τον πολυμερισμό και προειδοποιώντας για ηγεμονία.
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Σύμμαχοι της ΕΕ συναντώνται στις Βρυξέλλες για να καλύψουν το χρηματοδοτικό κενό της Ουκρανίας, ενώ η Ρωσία πλήττει το Κίεβο με πάνω από 120 drones. Ο Πάπας Λέων ΙΔ΄ ολοκληρώνει την επίσκεψή του στη Γαλλία, στη Μετς, επαινώντας τον πολυμερισμό και προειδοποιώντας για ηγεμονία.
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00:15Υπότιτλοι AUTHORWAVE
00:30Υπότιτλοι AUTHORWAVE
01:00The pontiff lamented a world marked by conflict, from war and hunger to deteriorating personal relations, describing an increasingly uncivilized
01:09climate.
01:10He also criticized the lies and deception, he said, were fueling growing distrust between citizens and governments.
01:17And, Euronews is hosting its Travel and Tourism Summit 2026 in Brussels today, bringing together policymakers, industry leaders and travel
01:27experts from across Europe and beyond.
01:30The summit examines the policies, technologies and investments shaping tomorrow's travel landscape, from sustainable mobility and destination management to infrastructure
01:40and tourism investment.
01:42Welcome to the program, I'm Stefan Grobe.
01:46Russia launched more than 120 drones at Ukraine on Monday, with President Zelensky saying almost 90 of them were faster
01:54jet-powered models.
01:55In Kiev, a medical center was hit while another jet-powered drone struck the National Academy of Sciences in the
02:02heart of the capital in broad daylight.
02:05And while emergency crews were still working at the academy, our team witnessed what appeared to be an attempted double
02:12-tap attack aimed at rescue workers,
02:14with another Russian drone intercepted directly above the site.
02:19Our correspondent, Sasha Vakulina, was there and joins us now from Kiev.
02:24Sasha, you were at the scene when that second drone came in. What did you see?
02:32Another night of relentless non-stop attacks here in Kiev, when Russia used both missiles and also drones, including those
02:39jet-powered drones.
02:40And I think it's important to look at what is it that Moscow is trying to target.
02:44Now, some of the targets are the sites that we have seen Moscow trying to hit throughout the war.
02:50First of all, this is, of course, energy infrastructure.
02:53On Monday, Euronews was filming at the site of an energy site of one of the recent Russia's attacks in
02:59the Kiev region.
03:00But we had to stop the filming and we had to seek shelter because there was another drone approaching the
03:06same site,
03:08probably trying to hit the crews and the people working on fixing that energy site.
03:14But also, Moscow is increasingly targeting data centers and communication infrastructure.
03:19And you can already feel this here in Kiev with the internet connection and the mobile networks going rather patchy.
03:26And this is, of course, problematic both for the people in Ukraine, but also for Ukraine's military and the air
03:32defense.
03:32But most of Russia's strikes also are hitting residential and other civilian sites.
03:39One example is National Academy of Sciences here in the very center of Kiev.
03:44Now, emergency services working here confirmed to Euronews that this was most probably directed by Russia's jet-powered drones.
03:54And that brings us to this big problem that Kiev and Ukrainian authorities are facing now, is these drones and
04:00how to counter them.
04:01Rudi Mazalenskyi said yesterday that Ukraine's interception rate when it comes to all of the drones stands at around 70%.
04:07When it comes to the jet-powered drones, those faster new ones, this is around 57%.
04:13Ukraine is indeed these days testing the new interceptors to counter them.
04:18But this is increasingly becoming a technological race.
04:21The way Russia adapts its weapons and tactics and then Ukraine is adapting and trying to intercept the new weapons
04:29and do that as quickly as it can.
04:32Because, of course, these are the attacks on the residents, on the people of Ukraine.
04:37Euronews crew were at the National Academy of Science in the immediate aftermath of Russia's attacks.
04:44And with the emergency crews still working there at the center, another Russian drone was coming towards our way.
04:51And we had to seek shelter in what was apparently Moscow's attempt to attack the rescue workers working there on
05:00the site.
05:01Take a look at what happened on Monday.
05:10We are standing right at the site of the attack here in Kyiv's city center.
05:15This here is the National Academy of Science, which was hit earlier.
05:20And as the rescue teams are working here, as you can see, there was another attempted attack right now with
05:26the air defense intercepting another drone right above the site.
05:36At around half past one, there was a direct hit.
05:39A jet-powered drone struck a three-story building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
05:45Can you confirm that this is a civilian building?
05:48That's the building.
05:49You can see it right at the entrance.
05:51That's the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
05:54Nothing else.
05:55Here, it's basically a business center and other buildings.
06:00We're standing at the site of a Russian drone attack in the very center of Kyiv.
06:06The capital's emergency service has confirmed to Euronews that this was a direct hit by jet-powered drones.
06:14Now, these are newer, faster drones that Russia has been using a lot these days.
06:19And, in fact, there are no breaks between the air raid alerts and the drone attacks in the capital these
06:25days.
06:26And you can see the rescue workers here working right behind me.
06:29The emergency services also confirmed that here in the center of Kyiv, next to this building and in the building
06:33itself, there are no military targets.
06:45All right, Sasha Vakulina, thank you very much for this update under the most stressful conditions.
06:52But it's not only the capital, Kyiv, that was pounded by Russian strikes.
06:56In rural areas, Ukraine's agricultural economy is directly targeted, including export routes in the Black Sea.
07:04Our correspondent, Merit Gwynn, spoke to the Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotsky and asked him whether the country could still
07:12rely on its main export corridor.
07:15Unfortunately, since the end of July, that's already for two months, the situation is really critical.
07:23We are not able to export agricultural commodities through our deep water ports of Odessa region.
07:31Why is it so critical?
07:33Just an example, in June 2026, 90% of agricultural commodities were exported through this channel.
07:44That means that the biggest and the main channel of export logistics has been closed since the end of July.
07:54And what can Ukraine's partners do here?
07:58Is it about providing more protection in the Black Sea?
08:00Is it about opening alternative export routes, for example, for the Baltics?
08:05Or are you at a point where you say, actually, we need a broken deal with Russia?
08:10We are currently working with our partners, including the European ones, simultaneously on a few tracks.
08:19One of them is to develop the EU solidarity lanes, that are alternative routes.
08:25And so far, we have some progress.
08:29When we look at the September numbers, we can state that around 40-45% of export is done through
08:39these EU solidarity lanes.
08:41Definitely, we keep working on protection, because we do understand the best guarantee instrument is to have enough military forces,
08:50military power to protect this route from all of these rocket efforts.
08:55And also, we are ready to create the safety conditions in the Black Sea for all of the civil goods,
09:03including Ukrainian agricultural commodities.
09:05We are open for it.
09:07And do you think that impact on pricing for consumers could be felt beyond Ukraine's borders as well, if this
09:14crisis persists in the Black Sea?
09:16Actually, it's already happening.
09:18We can already see that on average, the grain prices have increased by 25%.
09:26And this is a lot.
09:2825% it means if you multiply it for the overall grain and food consumption out of grain within a
09:38year, it could be even up to 60 billion US dollars additional costs of all of the consumers' consumers' role
09:45of the wealth.
09:45The price increase is already happening.
09:48Finally, Minister, we see that Russia is really stepping up its strikes on Ukraine.
09:55The winter is coming.
09:56How fearful are you now, both for Ukrainian farmers in terms of the impact on them, but also broader for
10:04the country going into this winter?
10:07Of course, during all of this, almost five years of full-scale invasion, we have been constantly preparing.
10:14Ukrainians are resilient, but it's very hard.
10:17Of course, the level of risks currently is the biggest since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
10:23And it's very hard, really, to prepare just for everything.
10:27So, first of all, the focus is on military air defense systems.
10:33It's very critical to have enough of military air defense systems to save all of this infrastructure.
10:42Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Taras Wisotsky speaking to Merit.
10:47As the war in Ukraine continues, Europe faces a difficult question.
10:52How far is it prepared to go to support Kiev and increase pressure on Moscow?
10:57From sanctions and financial aid to military support and the growing threat of Russian hybrid attacks across Europe,
11:04the EU is trying to balance solidarity with Ukraine against the rising costs and risks at home.
11:11To talk about this, I'm now joined by Tobias Kremer, a German Social Democrat in the European Parliament,
11:16where he's a member of the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense,
11:20and the Delegations for Relations with the U.S. and with NATO.
11:24Good morning and welcome to the set.
11:26Good morning. Thank you for having me.
11:27So, when you see and hear all these reports, what's your reaction?
11:33I mean, to me, that just shows the utter desperation of Putin,
11:39who has turned this already illegal and criminal campaign into just a campaign
11:45where he doesn't even focus his attacks on the battlefields,
11:49because he knows he can't progress on that.
11:51I think we've calculated his progress is slower than that of a snail, really.
11:56But he's now really focusing on attacking civilians.
11:59And he's not just attacking civilians in Ukraine, who are suffering every day.
12:02But what we are seeing there is that he even goes so far off saying he knows that this grain
12:09export,
12:09he's hurting the Ukrainian economy, but he's also hurting people all over the world,
12:13especially in the global south, who are so dependent on grain exports from Ukraine.
12:17And he knows that this will cause famine.
12:19He knows this will cause death in Africa, in other parts of the world.
12:22And Putin is so desperate that he just goes in there and tries to cause as much harm as possible.
12:27But that is just criminal. Let's be honest.
12:28Having said that, where does the EU stand on Ukraine right now?
12:33Is it still as long as it takes when it comes to support?
12:37Or do we already see the limits of sustained help for Ukraine?
12:43I think what we need to understand is that this war that Putin conducts in Ukraine, against Ukraine,
12:49is not purely about Ukraine.
12:51And Putin has said that very, very clearly for him.
12:53This is a war against the European order of peace.
12:57It's a war to undermine the unity of NATO,
13:01and it's a war to undermine the way we are living in our free democracies.
13:04And we see the hybrid attacks.
13:05It's not just Ukraine that's attacked.
13:07I'm from Germany.
13:08We had these attacks, and they're no longer hybrid.
13:10We had proper attacks in Leipzig, where you had drones that could have caused real damage and cost lives.
13:17And I think there is a growing understanding in Europe that we are defending here also our way of life,
13:23our liberty,
13:23and that supporting Ukraine is really necessary, not just for Ukraine, but also for our own security.
13:29And the cost of Ukraine failing would be so much higher for us than the cost of supporting Ukraine.
13:35So I think there is determination in Europe.
13:36We are the biggest supporters of Ukraine.
13:38But I also think we have to think very clearly what levers do we have now and to start thinking
13:43creatively.
13:43I still think we should use the frozen assets, for instance.
13:46That would be my next question.
13:48I mean, the EU just extended sanctions on 3,000 give or take individuals and entities after a long and
13:58arduous process, right?
14:00What should be the next step, the next action against Russia that the EU should take?
14:07I mean, I think we really should look at what hurts Putin and what does he care about.
14:12How can we use the levers we have into leverage for peace?
14:16And I think it would be poorly advised to just go into Putin's escalatory spiral where he might have an
14:23advantage.
14:23So it's not necessarily about like having hybrid attacks against Russia, but really looking where does it hurt Putin.
14:28And Putin, we see, unfortunately, he doesn't care about the life of his soldiers.
14:31He doesn't care about Russian lives.
14:32But what he does care about is his wallet.
14:35And we still have over 200 billion frozen assets in European bank accounts.
14:40And I think we really should be looking very closely of how we can turn that into a leverage for
14:45peace to show Putin, you are continuing this war.
14:48You are escalating this war.
14:50It's time you start paying for it and really using that.
14:53And I think it's especially important to do that now, because what we are seeing in the next few months,
14:57also with the G20 invitation of Putin into the United States, I think we as Europeans should go there with
15:04a plan, not just reacting, but actually saying here we have a peace plan.
15:07We worked it out with Ukraine and talk to Putin to nothing else, the G20, but Ukraine.
15:11All right, Tobias Kremer, thank you so much for coming on the show this morning.
15:16I should mention also that you will be a speaker at tomorrow's Euronews Defense Summit here in Brussels.
15:21Looking forward to that.
15:23Thank you.
15:24So, for his last public appearance of his apostolic visit to France, Pope Leo chose the border city of Metz
15:32to speak on the future of Europe, giving a distinctly political dimension to a visit to France that has sparked
15:39scenes of spiritual jubilation
15:41and stressing the importance of unity on a continent where nationalist movements are gaining strength, and Russia's war against Ukraine,
15:50now in its fifth year, shows no sign of abating.
15:54To analyze the Pope's visit to France, I'm now joined by Austin Ivory, a fellow in contemporary church history at
16:00Oxford University and author of two biographies of Pope Francis.
16:05Good morning.
16:06Great to have you on the show.
16:08Good to be with you.
16:08So, to you, what was the most surprising element about Leo's speech on Europe?
16:16Well, I wasn't wholly surprised by it, in the sense that the content, I think, was typical of him, his
16:23commitment to peace, to multilateralism.
16:25What surprised me, I think, was the passion with which he is able to challenge Europe at the moment to
16:31say, you know, are you preparing for peace or are you preparing for war?
16:35In other words, are you constructing the institutions that will lay the basis for a new world order, which will
16:42contain and prevent war, make war unthinkable?
16:44Or are you simply increasing the budgets, you know, for your military spending, assuming that there will be more war?
16:50So, I found that very, very challenging and very striking.
16:55Also, I think the return to the roots of Europe, it was a very challenging speech in terms of, you
17:00know, what are the true values that have made Europe?
17:02And he talked about the European history, but he also talked about the example of Robert Schumann.
17:07He was speaking in Metz, which was the place where Robert Schumann lived and had his work.
17:14And it's really Schumann as one of the great architects of the European Union.
17:18He focused on what made that possible after the war to build that new order.
17:23So, Leo, you know, this is a great theme of his pontificate.
17:26He sees that the world order has crumbled, is crumbling, probably has crumbled.
17:31And now is the task to build that new world order.
17:35We've seen Pope Leo receive huge public enthusiasm.
17:39Does that give him greater political and moral influence?
17:42Or should we be careful not to confuse popularity with influence?
17:47Well, I'm struck, I was struck, of course, by the popularity of him at his visit, very similar, by the
17:53way, to his visit to Spain in June.
17:56From the sort of papal point of view, what this marks, I think, is the beginning of a new mission
18:02to Europe, if I can put it that way.
18:04Under Pope Francis, it was important to rebalance the church.
18:08The church is a global missionary body.
18:10Europe is no longer, if you like, the center of Catholicism.
18:13I think what Leo is doing is he's saying, actually, yes, he agrees with that.
18:18But he's also saying we need to build in Europe on what is happening, which is that young people are
18:24returning or coming to faith,
18:27not because they were brought up in any way religious, but because they are seeking and searching for meaning.
18:32And we've had something like a 400 percent increase in new Catholics in France since Covid.
18:39And so a big part of his this trip, I think, just as it was in Spain, was to sort
18:45of take that desire for meaning,
18:47that search for for values and to just say, look, the church is here ready to receive you.
18:53And one of the things he did when he was addressing the French church was to say, look, the church
18:57itself has to change.
18:59You know, we have to be come a different kind of church if we are to walk with the seekers
19:04and the searchers among the young searches for meaning.
19:07But, yeah, his popularity was extraordinary.
19:09Just to see the streets full like that was remarkable.
19:12All right. Austin Ivory, an expert on the modern papacy at Oxford University.
19:16Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us.
19:18And that's it for today.
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19:25Thank you for watching. I'm Stefan Grobe, and I see you tomorrow.
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