Those killed and injured as a result of the belgor Ukrainian Armed forces drone attack, members of the same family, when a drone hit a private house, the wounded are in intensive care. An employee of the Sputnik News Agency and his wife, a university teacher. Their fouryearold daughter, her elderly parents, died. Report by alexander korbov. Heavy equipment is working at the emergency site on the outskirts of belgorod, rescuers are clearing away the rubble. A night explosion destroyed several houses, and the resulting fire lit up an entire neighborhood. The noise of the drone is audible. Well that is there was an explosion not only in the sky but on the ground, probably, i cant say that, there were two, one strong, the other quieter, maybe just the second one, and what hit the house, all operational personnel were brought to the scene of the emergency services, the police sealed off the area, and firefighters began extinguishing the fire. Fire crews promptly extinguished the open fire; now the structure is being spilled and the rubble is being cleared; the house may still be under the rubble. Almost immediately , two seriously wounded local residents were found at the scene of the incident; they were promptly taken to the hospital. Later , three dead were found under the rubble of the destroyed house. The governor visited the scene of the tragedy this morning. Its been a difficult morning for all of us; during the previous night, as a result of the fall of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on a belgorod village, two residential buildings were actually destroyed and several houses were damaged. As a result of the explosion, several cars were damaged, but most importantly, three people were killed, one of them was a small child and two people were in Critical Condition in intensive care. During daylight hours, the territory was once again checked by sappers, rescuers, Utility Services began to eliminate the consequences of the explosion, and a tour of the territory continues to record in detail the amount of damage caused. Alexander korobov, evgeny krovtsovsky, vesti belgorod. The Russian Military destroyed warehouses of aviation equipment to defeat the Ukrainian Armed forces at ukrainian airfields in the poltava and dnepropetrovsk regions. This was reported to the ministry of defense. Also, according to the department , six missiles from the system were intercepted by air Defense Systems during the day. Salvo fire from khaimars. About the progress of the special operation. Margarita semenyuk. The russian hera is approaching. A few seconds and the kamikaze drone accurately hits the port of izmail. Odessa region is on fire, the loading terminal and the territory of the cannery. This is not the first attack on the port of izmail ; the enemy uses the facility as one of the alternative shipping routes through romania, since the black sea waters have been blocked for this purpose and with light and heat. Irina efremova, alexey pavlyuk, vesti donetsk, mariupol. And lets return to vladimirs visit putin to kyrgyzstan. There, the russian president is also meeting at this moment with the president of azerbaijan, ilham aliyev. Im very glad to see you, we talked on the phone last time, of course, question number one, this is a situation of such karabakh that it must be said directly, but we also have another agenda, it is quite extensive, i propose to structure our work as follows then maybe we ll start with the second part and give our colleagues the opportunity to speak out, talk, and then well also get in touch with the people and lets talk, talk about the entire complex, including socalled sensitive issues. Thank you, vladimir vladimirovich, im glad to see you again, as you noted, we recently talked with you and its very gratifying that you found time, as part of your state visit to kyrgyzstan, for a meeting; in fact , there are a lot of questions, and i believe that your the proposal is quite reasonable, my colleagues and i will talk about the bilateral agenda especially since we have something to talk about, the results of this year are very impressive and trade turnover, industrial cooperation, cooperation in the transport sector, there are a lot of new projects, and then we will go over the regional topic of security issues, so once again, thank you for the meeting, thank you, the Intergovernmental Commission of russia and saudi arabia was held the day before. There is a russiachina summit ahead with the participation of heads of state, what joint projects are a priority and how much companies from asia and the middle east are ready to invest in the economy of our country. The head of the private equity fund, Kiril Dmitriev , told artyom yamshchukov. Kinovich, thank you thank you very much for the interview. Just the day before , the Intergovernmental Commission between russia and saudi arabia ended. How do you evaluate its results . Well, of course, relations with saudi arabia, with the middle east, with the countries of the global south are a very important direction, and investments are a very important track of this movement, because when you implement joint projects, you practically become friends, because for example, saudi arabia and we have 40 joint investments, 10 years ago there was not a single investment from saudi arabia in russia, and we were able to build a dialogue, the opportunity to work with saudi partners in such a way that they entrusted their money, including russia, and recently we opened a duplicate of tuzovsky prospekt, the saudi partners took part, invested, the pension fund of the gas fund also participates there, and the saudi partners. Accordingly, here is the investment track this is very important, because not only do we have good relations with saudi arabia in the Energy Sector, and not only in stabilizing markets, but there are investments in equipment for Energy Sector and many joint projects, but of course , investments in infrastructure, technology, together with saudi partners are extremely promising, including many. Russian Companies Want to enter the saudi market and see the saudi market as a platform for all development in the middle east, therefore, there is certainly a constructive bilateral movement between saudi arabia and russia, this is extremely important and extremely promising. We are recording our interview, on the eve of the russia china summit, the fund is working with chinese colleagues for more than 10 years, this is probably not enough to sum up the results, taking into account our strategic, so to speak, prospects and. But nevertheless , we can already talk about something, this is how you assess the intermediate, so to speak the results of ten years of work of the Russian Direct Investment Fund with chinese colleagues, of course, we have very good results, we have invested with chinese partners in more than 40 companies, and every third rfpi project is an investment, including with chinese coinvestors, in total we invested 750 billion rubles in russia, this is a very significant amount, this money went into the sector, that is , a large number of sectors, here is an important figure, for example, 25 million russians, every year use the element of infrastructure that we created together with chinese investors include airports , ports, railways, including toll roads, so this is a very Important Foundation that it shows that russia and china can make many profitable, highquality investments in various areas. Leverage meaningful synergies between us, our economies, now we see enormous prospects for increasing the number and volume of investments by several times due to investments in National Currencies, so i think that we have come, i recently said about the golden age of investments from china to russia, from russia to china, because that it is an investment in National Currencies that will allow us to multiply the already existing successful investments between our countries, well, in part you have already said about large. Investments in the road network in russia, what other interests do you feel the chinese have . Colleagues in terms of projects, well, of course, there is a very big interest in the Agricultural Sector, and we will announce investments together with the largest Agricultural Holding in china next week, which will invest in the processing of Agricultural Products in the far east, in Port Infrastructure in the far east, so there will certainly be interaction in the Agricultural Sector this is extremely important for the future, and for us, the Chinese Market is also very promising in terms of the supply of Agricultural Products to the Chinese Market. We have already touched on infrastructure. Another example is me i wanted to bring this up, of course. The bridge between russia and china, where rfp invested and together with chinese partners we invested 70 , we own 70 of the bridge between russia and china, through which 2. 5 million tons of cargo have already passed, this interaction, logistics interaction, infrastructure, is also certainly extremely important, and also technological interaction, we are partners with a leading Chinese Holding Company in the russian market in the field of ecommerce and there are very great prospects in technology, because we see that russia is actively developing the technology sector, including artificial intelligence, china is actively developing it, so technology is also an extremely promising vector , we have a Technology Fund with china, and , accordingly, a common fund with china, and we will even announce the fund next week in the Aviation Industry with china, which will also invest in rubles in yuan in joint projects, so we have a very wide range of tools, with china and a wide range of industries where these investments will come, you have already partly mentioned, that mutual settlements with china are carried out in National Currencies, are there estimates, they definitely exist , what are these estimates of mutual investments in National Currencies in yuan, i think we can say, yes, well, we see that the percentage of settlements is increasing sharply, i think that again, it will be absolutely dominant this year, these are settlements in National Currencies, and even if. For trade turnover, it somehow sounds a little short in dollars 120 billion dollars, but its a trillion yuan. Accordingly, we have a trillion yuan of trade turnover between our countries, accordingly, trillion is also in yuan those projects that are being discussed at the Intergovernmental Commission on investments between russia and china, this is 50 more than last year, these are in fact the largest projects in russia that. For investment with china, and rfp, together with our chinese partners, we head this business part, the investment part of this council, which helps select the most promising projects between russia and china, so of course, here is a trillion yuan, a trillion joint projects, these are those ambitious and the correct numbers, which will continue to increase in the future, sound impressive, beautiful, there are probably some peculiarities among chinese investors, because there is a lot of talk about the fact that the chinese are very cautious people, yes, maybe some kind of signal should be given to our colleagues , investors, how to work with chinese investors, what is important to them when they discuss investments in russia . Yes, well, of course, in any country we very deeply understand the culture of this country, because it is very important how Chinese Culture has been formed over thousands of years, and accordingly, what lies at the core, at the core is really a kind of unhurriedness, thoughtfulness, and this allows them to make more. Correct longterm decisions, they have a longterm planning horizon, so we always build very friendly and comradely relations with our chinese partners, this is for us it helps a lot, because for example, when the coronavirus epidemic began, our friends from bgii, this is the largest genetic holding in china, they warned us that they are in wuhan, they see this epidemic, its really necessary we are very actively involved in this, this became the impetus for the rfpi to invest in diagnostic tests and drugs. For the treatment of coronavirus and the sputnik vaccine, which has become a key tool, so building friendly camaraderie with all investors, but especially with investors from china, is certainly important, understanding respect for a culture that plans for 20, 30, 40 years ahead, and thinks accordingly very longterm and thinks very strategically, but well talk about pharmaceuticals a little later later, for now the topic is china and through china. I want to talk about another topic, the broader topic of brix, taking into account the expansion, in general, how the partnership with the brix countries is developing, and what is the role of china here, and in order in order to reach other countries with these joint investments, well, of course, brix is the most important association, we see simply the most powerful interest in this association from all the global countries of the south and it is no coincidence that a number of new members, such as the united arab emirates, saudi arabia joined brix this year and there will be many more countries that want to join brix and brix will accept them. China is undoubtedly the most important partner, russia initially came up with the idea of the brix countries of this association, and accordingly it has shown its success, including in resolving issues not biased, in planning various systems, including Payment Systems between our countries, in resolving strategic issues, like the climate agenda. And here russia, china, and other brix countries have very similar approaches lets Work Together to solve global problems in a friendly , positive atmosphere, and we believe that russias chairmanship. In brix next year, this will not only give such a powerful impetus to increasing investment between the brix countries, not only will it provide the opportunity to implement a lot joint projects like the brix payment system, brix arbitration, and we proposed these tools several years ago, when we headed the finance group in the brix association, but this is definitely a climate agenda, because we all know that climate is something that worries the whole world, russia is the lungs of the planet, we, they actually absorb the bulk of Carbon Dioxide throughout the world, so blix climate projects, investments in blix climate projects, this is what is extremely important and russia can play a leading role as chairman next year. What does the rfp portfolio look like today and how do you see its changes over time, taking into account what you literally just said . The portfolio shows very good profitability, we have invested in more than 100 Different Companies in russia. The turnover of our companies is about 7 of russian gdp, that is, these are Significant Companies in virtually all significant sectors of the russian economy, and accordingly, what is very important, is both investments in infrastructure, investments in technology, and investments in social infrastructure , that is, investments aimed at peoples lives, while we also see more and more interest in investing with russian coinvestors, here we mainly previously invested in only with foreign coinvestors, literally this year we have already invested more than 80 billion rubles only with russian coinvestors, in leading companies in the agricultural industry, a pipe manufacturer, in many other projects, including technological ones, so we also see an opportunity for those russian funds that were previously placed abroad are now returning to the country is to invest with us in various projects with good returns in key sectors of the economy, large. Projects are certainly important, but i would also like to draw attention to the fact that investments are also going into cultural classes , into tourism clusters, and of course, and briefly about this , several cultural clusters are actually being created in the far east, in kalining, and we will invest in infrastructure, including hotels for tourists around this, again this is an example of rfpi investment in social infrastructure. What is the volume of investment by russian investors today . Well, weve invested literally since the beginning of this year, together with them , 80 billion rubles. We are now finalizing projects worth about 300 billion rubles together with russian coinvestors, so these are certainly significant amounts of funds that will be allocated to very important promising projects, and we see that russia is showing good results in terms of macroeconomics, this is growth gdp, these are correspondingly good macroeconomic indicators, and growth in many industries, this growth, it certainly gives investors confidence in good profitability, in understanding the fact that by investing in russia, you get good returns, but you also invest at home, invest in promising areas that are growing and developing, not all Foreign Companies have left, and of course they are working, in connection with this the question is, what other besides the already discussed international directions, so to speak, are you considering for yourself where you would like to go, so to speak, to a greater extent in the future . Yes, well, firstly, this is certainly a partnership with the countries of the middle east, asia, latin america, latin america is extremely promising, again, it is important