Color screening, absorption and $\sigma_{\text{tot}}^{pp}$ at LHC

We show that a growth of the proton-proton total cross section with energy can be entirely attributed to the purely perturbative mechanism. The infrared regularization at rather short distances $R_c\simeq 0.3$ fm allows to extend the BFKL technique from deep inelastic to hadron-hadron scattering. With the account of the absorption corrections our results are in agreement with the LHC data on $\sigma_{\text{tot}}^{pp}$.