goodbye, why right now, how long has russia been stockpiling missiles in order to hit ukraine so massively. we are talking about this on bbc news ukraine live from london. i am yevgenia shedlovska. russia attacked ukraine with drones and various types of missiles. lviv, kyiv, dnipro, kharkiv, zaporizhia. the courage was already under attack, dozens of civilians were killed, more than a hundred were wounded. let's start with the international reaction to this one of the biggest russian strikes on ukraine during the full-scale war. in addition to condemning russia's actions, western partners promise to strengthen ukrainian defense capabilities. this is what britain promises.

provide 200 missiles for air defense. in the united states, president biden is calling on congress to pass a major aid package. biden said this attack is a reminder to the world that putin's goal in this war has not changed - to destroy ukraine. then, as france, germany, the ministry of foreign affairs of these countries talk about russian terror directed against civilians. and separately, poland had to react to the fact that one russian missile flew into its territory. that's what we're talking about too let's talk on the air, but first about the scale of russia. attack on ukraine, it was the most massive attack from the air, according to the ukrainian military, they shot down 114 out of 158 air targets, including 27 shahed missiles and 87 cruise missiles, the air force reported this today. president volodymyr zelenskyi wrote that russia was fighting with almost everything it has in its arsenal, and it was in different cities, and the spokesman of the air force, yuriy ignats, said that there was so much.

there were no targets on air defense monitors for a long time, in fact, according to him, everything flew. and as a result of the russian attack in ukraine , at least 31 people were killed, more than 160 were injured, these are the data of the president's office and local authorities, let's stop now. next , briefly about the consequences of the night and morning shelling, as reported today on the bbc. as always, all of ukraine is under attack. but kyiv remains the most valuable goal for moscow. the anti-aircraft defense has improved here, but this drink proved to be beyond her power. well, i woke up from such a terrible sound. and that's how scary it was sound, the rocket was flying and it was just buzzing and making noise. there is no doubt that there was a direct missile hit.

the scale of the destruction, the size of the explosion zone, we are more used to seeing damage from the fall of the lamps of the intercepted missile, but here we see the scope of this russian strike, and scenes like this are repeated all over ukraine, a lucky rescue in kharkiv, this city knows well what it is missile strikes, but has not yet seen the arrival of 20 missiles in one morning, a shopping center in dnipro, as well as polog. the house was damaged from the impact, but that's not all, this is what the port city of odessa looks like, where the impact fell on a residential building. even lviv in western ukraine, which usually does not see the worst effects of the invasion, was affected this time. the ukrainian air force says it has never seen such a large number of missiles. in a war where moscow often hits cities it cannot occupy, this counts for a lot. ugh, only.

according to local authorities, the ukrainian military shot down more than three dozen aerial targets over kyiv. my colleague, zhanna bespyatchuk, will tell how it was. she is alone of the many who did not sleep that night. kyivans heard these attacks, these aerial bombardments in several waves, one after the other, there were several long air alarms, and of course the most disturbing news, both from kyiv and from other big cities for people here in the ukrainian capital. there were reports of rocket fragments hitting residential buildings, but early in the morning after an air raid, after smoke, fire, explosions, in particular in the center of the city, near the lukyanivka metro station, people returned to work, almost normal life began a working day in the ukrainian capital, and it is amazing in itself how quickly ukrainians can adapt even to...

such large-scale stress. in kyiv, according to my observations, mostly all services and companies started working, that is, people returned to work quite quickly, but nevertheless. this does not diminish the scale of the stress that ukraine experienced this time. it is obvious that we are talking about an attack that was planned in advance, again, this is evidenced by both its intensity and its unlikeness to anything that the people of kyiv have already seen and residents of other cities and towns of ukraine, and have seen a lot since the beginning of the war, and also this time, for example, the first thing i did was to check whether... electricity in the apartment, because the biggest such threat, the risk that is a consequence of these attacks, it is in the winter that there can be a blackout, i personally, like many kyivans , almost did not sleep that night, because the general

impression of the night was one solid air alarm and constant expectation of possible explosions, new shelling and danger and... regarding the tactics of such a massive shelling, tactics , which was used by russia, listen to what british security columnist patrick bury said on the bbc. i believe that this is a very well planned and coordinated attack by russia, one of the biggest in less than a year. they managed to target kyiv and six other large cities. we only hear about civilian targets being hit, but i wouldn't be surprised if military targets were also hit, but this information... during the war is not disclosed, as far as i'm concerned, this attack was coordinated in such a way as to partially suppress ukrainian air defense, blind their radars and thus create gaps in the sky defenses into which to drop various types of munitions, from iranian shah dons to air-launched cruise missiles and all the way up to

iskander missiles and even hypersonic missiles. the calculation of the russians to sow confusion among the defenders of the ukrainian sky, to make them choose which target to shoot down is more deadly, must be decided very quickly, but i also think that such attacks cannot be very frequent, because the russians need to accumulate their ammunition for a certain time, so it will be interesting to see if they can repeat such a scenario. and a military man is in touch with us columnist oleksandr kovalenko from odesa. odesa is one of the cities affected by today's russian shelling, civilians were also killed there, what kind of tactics was russia using, drones. rockets , different types of rockets from different places, these are tactics, fantas, it was intended to break through air defenses, the first wave was kamsakh 131-136 drones, whose purpose

was not only to break through air defense, but to disperse attention, immediately eight groups were in the air the expanses of ukraine, they... regulated our ppo, as well as where they could not to work out mobile groups, they were forced to spend the combat complex of small and medium-sized air defense systems, such as sams, for example, arestik, rotal, alvis stormer and others, and after that missiles, cruise missiles of the x101 555 type were sent, the calculation was that the air defense was scattered. and also the spent ammunition will enable these missiles to break through the air defense itself, another very important thing is that the missile component was of different nomenclature, there were subsonic anti- aircraft cruise missiles, there were ballistic missiles

type iskander, there were k-22 missiles, and there were even hypersonic kh-47 m2 kenzhal, each of these missiles has its own interception algorithm, and that is why when... you choose which algorithm to use, you make a very difficult choice between different types missiles, that is , the russians also emphasized this when they planned a breakthrough of our air defense. so how difficult is it for air defense to refocus on different types of missiles, switch and determine which one of them needs to be shot down? when they operate at the same time, it is very difficult to do, and that... because, for example, such missiles as x101555 intercept the majority, almost all types of missile systems that are currently in service with the defense forces of ukraine, on the other hand, when the kh22, kh47 m2

kinzhalta and ballistic 9m723, 9m728, these are iskanders, are simultaneously in the air space with them, then it is necessary to use already unique xenothoractics. it is for our air defense, for example, the patriot or smt air defense system, on the other hand, when there is not enough medium and small radio warships, we have to use the patriot as well. therefore, if we are talking about the example of the attack on kyiv, then they really elected there it was very difficult to choose between goals. in your opinion, how long has russia been preparing such an attack and why did it carry it out now? the planning itself could last two weeks, three to a month, because we saw how recently the russians sent mainly kamikaze drones over the territory of ukraine, but these drones... kazakh 131-136 almost every night, by the way, they sent them systematically , they

had strange trajectories, they used these trajectories and routes to try to find out where our air defense is weakest, where the smaller the number of anti-aircraft missile systems , and where there are gaps, namely, this was the first phase, but the general preparation of ammunition, that is , the accumulation of missiles, continued since september, for example, since september 21, they used hast-1555 missiles only once... on december 8, before that 3 months, all this period , they almost did not use them, although this is the main consumer of aviation cruise missiles, and there is another component: sea-based cruise missiles caliber, which they have not used since september 25, they have production, they accumulate them, but during this raid of a missile attack, they also did not use them, therefore... they now have a large number of them in stock. please stay in touch with us, because we still have

to talk about poland with oleksandr kovalenko. during russia's massive attack against ukraine, one russian missile briefly flew into poland. this was announced by the polish military. according to them, everything points to the fact that it was a russian missile. the incident happened near the polish town of hrubeshev on the border with ukraine. here it is marked on the map. rocket was in the air over poland for about 3 minutes. flew in 40 km deep and then returned to ukraine, this is how the head of the general staff of poland, general wieslaw kukula, described it, and what this means for poland, a nato country, this is how bbc correspondent adam easton, who works in warsaw, explained. poland has been a member of nato since the 1990s. the fifth article of the nato treaty provides that an attack on any participant will be repelled by the entire alliance. if a russian missile fell in poland, then poland could use this fifth article, appeal. to nato they say we've been attacked by a non- alliance country and we want you to protect us.

in practice, this is unlikely to happen. in this case, as in the previous two, they will probably believe that it was a random missile, and not a targeted attack against poland, a nato country. and the military observer oleksandr kovalenko is in touch with us, so what might nato's reaction to this incident be? i don't think it will be in favor. of security, i am even sure that it will not be it, but precisely the fourth article, the purpose of which is to increase attention to the problems of poland's border, ah , airspace, increased attention of air defense means, precisely on the border of poland and not only ukraine, but also belarus, we do not forget, this can also be said to be a dangerous zone for poland, that's exactly what , for this purpose can be used. the fourth article, of course, and i also do not exclude appropriate decisions in

the north atlantic alliance itself to strengthen the air defense of ukraine, attention should be paid to this issue, because we now see an imbalance of air defense in ukraine, there is districts, regions, regions where it really works effectively, for example, kyiv and the kyiv region, but there are, unfortunately, white spots, and it is precisely because of these white spots, so to speak, that the russians have the opportunity to break through our air defense and enter into the depths of physical ukraine along many regions and even reach the border with poland. thank you, oleksandr kovalenko was with us on the air. well, that's all we have to say goodbye to you, we'll see you in the next new year, on january 2, we'll be on the air again.

well, i think that everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone knows, with who am i talking about, well, it is not necessary to introduce myself, viktor andrienko has already introduced himself. yes, and he in general, once there was such a film, a man of the orchestra, a man of the orchestra, a man who can do everything on television, in children's, adult, funny. not really working here and there and where he just didn’t work, what he just didn’t do, i’m just in politics, just not in politics, i’ll say that he ’s a technical school to feed you, once he graduated, and worked in factories, which he just didn't do, этот самый stage fitter

there was, yes, there were wagon conductors, he traveled all the way to kyiv, novosibirsk, novosibirsk. oh my god , how long does it take to go from kyiv to novosibirsk, well, up to 5 days, somewhere like that , up to a week, and back here and there, i’ll tell you frankly, viktor, i’ll tell you like this that i’m an old man from time to time, it’s a big difference, especially for me like where you play muller in ode odesa style when muller... well i really love and even sometimes not that i regret but i, well i liked some moments, not all, but i liked some, how about you you say there is some kind of nostalgia, but some kind of , well, there is such a strange russian word, it’s called

annoyance, that is, it would be good if there were no eyelashes, no, no, mykola, you know, there is life, life is the same, what... hawkers, we can't, he says, and what can't you restore, i say, life has changed, everything has changed , let's go on, turn the pedal, sit all the time as a fooled clown, all the time, i 'll show you now how everything will be it's funny, that's all, why, it's necessary to change, you remember, they changed correctly, incorrectly, you can somehow argue, there should have been full water, no it is necessary, but it is for some people. even i know, i saved a life, and some did not know weevils, they watched, they grew up, they just watched mamada, then something else happened, then there was a big difference and so on, that is, you know, i think that it is normal when a person does not sit on one and that's why, go on, i 'm a weevil, you remember that they did a lot of bad things, that is, for some reason, i

sat in the same images for four years, then they didn't let me on television anymore. for some reason they thought that i would smoke, get drunk, and i throw those lines, they understood that i play such and such a character, and i am not that character, socialization, well, this is always a disease of people, i, too, have to joke on the street, in a store, in a restaurant, i have fasts, and i also love, you know what, well, you've already brought up this topic, it's very funny, people are watching tv or the computer, and there are different, different people, and... they think that there is a room where we are all going, well, yes, and there is president bush or president clinton or president obama, and they are very different to me in ukrainian, and they are always like that to me, well mr. mykola, you tell them there, well , tell them, you see them, well, something must be done, well, tell me, and it seems that we are all sitting there together somewhere, and we

are being let out one by one, so what nothing here, you had a big difference, i look at it this way. yes, it's true , it's true, listen to what i wanted to tell you , i'll finish it, and it's normal when you change, when, exactly, like that, you understand, when, exactly, mykola, i'm sorry, the most chic thing is when you are offered the fact that you've never done it, well, for example, there, well, you were an actor, then he says you will be a director of tv series, and then when he approaches he says you should become a director of a full-length film, and you know. as in zhvanetskyi , when you sew me a suit, he says, i am a surgeon, i am not even a psychiatrist, i say, sew it, i can’t walk in it, what are you, this is a hospital, he is a nanny, i am a doctor, i have diplomas, he says , send me a costume, okay, you have the material, here 's the same for me, when you should, he says, only you can make a full-length children's movie, i didn't even know that i was like that, well,

that is, then he became a director of animated scenes, too, if he also worked in animation, but not like that. er, like later, well, and so on, that is, you change, that's normal. tell me, please, you are now focused on the children 's field, you are inventing fairy tales, trying to film them, preparing, looking for money, books, books, i have written two books, there are already books, books, tell me, it is because you think there are some ideology behind this, that the future must be brought up, why were you attracted to it, or do you just not want to get into politics so much in... come on, without politics, it means for the children, if children, there is no politics there, i will calmly joke, have fun, whether children like it or not , look for heroes for children and so on. similar, what, what , have you been like this since childhood, you are like this, a splash, what will i be, i would like, i would like to write books for children, and make movies, and so on

, well, everything has become, well, you know what, everything happened as expected, that is, you answered everything for me, but i will tell you a little more specifically, first, and really, if not, it is not surprising, then i remember that when i was still at school, my mother worked in kindergarten she was an accountant, and i used to come to her place, very tasty buns , they cooked them, she, vitya, come, eat a bun, and i used to come, and then she says: oh, the teacher is not sick, go and chat with the children, i went there, started i read fairy tales, and then i began to invent fairy tales, because sometimes i, for example, was like this, do you remember the movie there, this one was a child's frost, and i only saw the teaser, teasers, how it was filmed, and i started with that teaser before... add the ending and add the beginning, i.e. to the children of the story, and they, i.e. it has probably been there since childhood it started, and when i made a children's film and

went, showed it to vytuzhgorod and sevastopol and saw the reaction, when it was already the 13th year, it was already somewhere in november, november was still a little bit left, and we showed it in a cramp. and they shouted: "we, we are kerch, we are not kerch, we are kerch." i did not understand this, there were already moscow festivals, they were held, they were all fully prepared, already prepared, they were under russia, and when we showed it to 1,300 children, we showed that film in the ukrainian language, we do not have it in the soviet language, i wanted to say in russian, in ukrainian, and even there, i am not talking about tatar children in orphanages, what we showed, you understand, and after everything, everything, everything, when 1700 children were in kherson , 600 came disabled people came

, a child without arms, without legs is sitting and is funny, laughing so much, i say, like you, she really liked this, you understand that you, when you are tight with this, and you understand that few people do anything for them , that is, you can, i will ask you how much was done in the 14th year? first something for them to do, because no one else does, come on, i will do it, firstly, secondly, you have no idea, we are already after

each, even now after each screening, i communicate with them, because the children want communication, they do not need to be shown in the cinema, well , they are small, they watch and that's all, they can't stand even 80 minutes of a movie, and now after gadgets, smadjets, they are generally fast, that's it, well, no... their imagination doesn't work anymore, and they're already the ones who, well, the fifth grade, sixth, seventh grade, they want communication, they want to talk to you, they ask such questions that you will even fall, for example, one child there asked me, well, after ivan, but this is a story - this is a story, but have you really never lifted a barbell? what is there to raise? like two sacks of wheat at the station. or there a boy came up to you, the last time, two weeks

ago i was showing, they asked me to make a presentation of books, come up, he says: why can't you make a children's film during the war? and i am silent, the child sits in the first row, says: uncle vitya, why do you do so little for us? yesterday, oh, yesterday... i wrote down the answers, if the children ask me, then i walk down the street and answer each child who asked, well, what kind of class there was, there were two grades of the seventh grade and one of the eighth grade, i answered them, and one more question, why don't you make children's films, you see, i'm not against it, but you understand, that's why i started to try already, i also have a grand prix for the best screenplay for my first film, guys... don't touch it, or what! why did you

save me for so long, and for cherinalysya, for the best scenario, i received the grand prize, the coronation of words, for four years i could not knock out that cinema, well, they fought for me, they sabotaged ivan trying to separate, well, it was under yanukovych, but then, well, i could n’t break through this cinema in four years, because i don’t share myself... this money, what did they give to ivan silo, they were completely, they were , i didn't steal a penny, well, we stole only if you fall, they gave us 2 million for ivan silo, and immediately they took 600,000, i'm telling you where, and how they took it , for taxes, wait, i say, well, this is a state cinema, and it gives and takes from itself for taxes, wait, so we are more we don't pay taxes, not for contracts

, not for actors, not for anyone, we don't pay anymore, here we are... it didn't work out, it didn't work out, and when it did work out, he found the money, you found everything, it was necessary, well, he, philip said , i can't give you everything, i can give you 40% for the film, i say, okay, give 40, we'll start while we're working, we'll find more, and while we were looking, bahka...quarantine has started, so and so i can't do anything, everyone wears masks, i can't go out and gather people, so i can't film an actor in masks, you understand, you remember what it is it was crazy, then everything , quarantine ended, everything, and i find a partner, svittv, national online cinema, everything, they give the other half of the money, we agree, we agree, what else we will do, nine cartoons for the ministry of education

asked to do shulge, who is my partner, co-author, lenska , let's sit like a fool, let's write a book, black hair, well, let's sit, now the americans will take it, steal it, then we will go through the courts, and so the book was published, you have an international bar code, which is copyright, ok started, wrote a book, in parallel , i say, listen, we have another book, i made a script for the americans, but they started drinking my blood, you know, wanted

to take it away for free, and... i did such crazy adventures of flint's parrot and as long as cherkassky was alive, i showed him , he liked it very much, based on his idea that it was treasure island, the same thing, but there were only animals, and i took it as a basis, developed, completely made this scenario, until i looked at it, said, okay, vityusha, that's great, we'll do it, and then you do you remember, david is gone, and i say, listen, let's quickly make another book, approached rodna filipovich sahaltu. this is an artist, people's artist of ukraine, who worked as a production designer in all david cherkasky's films, and i say: "rrodna filipovych", can you draw me 20 drawings for a book i want to publish for children? vityusha says: "annu, show me, i'll look, at least the script that i can imagine." i'm waiting, listen, well, i haven't read something like this for a long time, it's very cool, listen, let's make a comic, i say, wait, what are you make a comic, yes, and you understand, yes, i'm already

done. it will be fine, it’s very funny, we’ll make it funny, i say, okay, let’s go, and we started , but the quarantines are coming, and we thought that we would quickly do it in six months, but it turned out in about two years, we made this book, and right away, we they presented a book before the war and presented, you will fall right now, it was not my idea either, they called me, they said, how is the community of blind and partially sighted people, who is in lviv? the children are headed by oksana potipka, she is a professor, a teacher there, she has many international medals there, and she says: "viktor, i want us to make braille for the children." and i say, i even signed up when the book comes out, i will take it and rewrite it, why did i immediately put it in the word file, and they...