seconds eh donbas and eh help from the point of view of artillery is also extremely important what kind of help to strengthen our air defenses thank you very much mr. sergiu sergiu zgurets expert defense express was with us we worked out this alarming air take care stay covered i am with you goodbye until tomorrow. well, here we are on bbc news ukraine. watch and be with us. good evening . we are from ukraine. of ukraine tells the most important things about this day, the russians are trying to break through to azovstal, the last stronghold of the resistance of the ukrainian forces in mariupol, hundreds of civilians may still be in the dungeon of the plant, british prime minister johnson spoke before the verkhovna rada of ukraine,

london sends missiles to armored vehicles, radars and drones, fear of sunset putin can officially announce to ukraine the war on may 9, what is being planned in moscow and what can break their plans , we begin with an urgent message russia launched missile strikes on the lviv region in lviv interruptions from electricity supply, the townspeople confirm in the comments that explosions are heard in the city, uh, now everyone is ordered to hide in bomb shelters, we will try to contact our correspondents so that they will break through in lviv during the release, and until the other topic of the day, the russian military has resumed the assault on

azov, stalin continues to defend himself on the territory of the plant at the weekend, the ukrainian military evacuated part of the civilians from the territory, after which russia resumed massive shelling, the plant was bombed almost to the point of god as a result of the bombing of the territory of the plant, the russians had about 10 people two women were wounded and killed as of 4:15 p.m. a powerful assault on the plant continued, this information is from the ukrainian military, now the russians are trying to break through in several places, the military has defenses at 4:15 p.m., the deputy commander of the azov regiment svyatoslav palamar released this video, let's watch it glory to ukraine today, may 3 at night, enemy naval artillery was operating on the territory of the azovstal plant, heavy aerial bombs were dropped , and two civilian women were killed as a result of these criminal actions. about 10 civilians were injured of various

degrees, as of this moment, a powerful assault on the territory of the azovstal plant is underway with the support of the armored vehicles of the tanks e-e with attempts to land a landing with the help of boats and a large number of infantry. we will do everything possible to repel this assault but we urge you to take immediate measures to evacuate civilians who are on the territory of the plant and bring them safely to zaporizhzhia and to the ukrainian-controlled territory of mariupol - this is ukraine even before russia restored the steel stormtrooper the united nations red cross hoped to evacuate people from the metallurgical plant today, but these plans were foiled, only 100 civilians managed to be evacuated on sunday today, tired after more than a day on the road, exhausted people arrived in zaporizhia and here are the shots of zaporizhia 's buses they had been waiting the day before. they arrived at

the refugee assistance center under the auspices of the un. the un representative office reported that the evacuation of more than a hundred people was successful, and i will quote and confirm that 101 peaceful residents of the successful evacuated from the territory of mariupol and other areas as part of the safe passage operation coordinated by the un and the international committee of the red cross, this is stated in the statement of the un coordinator in ukraine, another 58 people joined the convoy in the mangushe village on the outskirts of mariupol, people are now being given medical and psychological assistance about their condition people who haven't seen the light of day for two months, a bbc correspondent, a local rakker, such long- forgotten emotions to feel the grass under your feet."

think i'm the one of course i didn't judge this is what mariupol looks like after two months of war, houses, parks coffee shops were all turned into solid ruins. during all this time, thousands of people died in the city, and those who managed to survive came here to the azovstal metallurgical plant. when mariupol was attacked, turning it into ashes, ukrainian fighters used the underground tunnels of the plant as a shelter . there were five super-powerful bomb shelters that were built according to soviet architectural standards, all people who came under shelling could come to us. we

thought there were only shellings. we thought there would only be such a genocide, and not a human war for weeks women and children lived in these labyrinthine tunnels they used them as a shelter calls to get them all out of here were ignored all the time until last sunday for the first time in over 60 days underground they came out of their dark hideout people were pulled from the rubble they say lived through hell, people arrive here, some are only at the entrance, they left mariupol the day before because they were looking for spare parts for their crushed car, daniel lived on a tugboat, well, they brought products from a boxer а где есть for 10 days, the russians took port and we took shelter in boxers. well, they couldn’t raise their heads either after weeks of terror and chaos. here is help and the city

that these people knew before, as well as their former lives, no longer exist in the bunkers of the azovstal plant . hundreds of wounded remain. bbc sources report about 500 wounded soldiers, 200 of them in a critical condition. my colleagues managed to communicate with the sister of a soldier of the azov regiment. anna does not name her brother for security reasons. some testimonies may shock what is known about your brother. well, we try to keep in touch with him, although a little bit, but he is with us. as the partizan's mother says and does not give out information, he just keeps like a strong nut, all he can say is that everything is fine, but we are very, very much waiting for help. when was the last time you managed to talk to your brother and what he said ? yesterday i talked with my brother, i dropped my photo there, where he lost weight, i don’t

know, by 30 kilograms, they all go up to 60 kg , how do we weigh women, they weighed 90, they now weigh 50-60 kg, in which is the last fighter, god of old, there are no eh these guys don't have modern weapons who dream just about a piece of some concrete, uh, we heard a conversation of azov fighters where they just dreamed about that and a piece about a piece of food, you know, food can still be endured somehow. and what about the soldiers who have severe wounds, who have wounded, who are rotting, these are wounds that are rotting and people in direct sandy, these words are rotting in these basements, how should they wait, how should they wait, the fact

that they are military does not mean that they do not have the right to help, now the evacuation of civilians is taking place, but we also call for the evacuation of the military and if people have severed limbs and they need er and they need surgery and it can’t be done there because there is no unsanitary conditions there elementary clean water if someone there is talking about the regime of silence today, then he said to bomb them where the wounded people were lying, a bomb fell there like a doctor this is all sewn up when there is not even clean water, this is gangrene that rots, people need professional

, modern surgical assistance, that is, to bring them to normal conditions and operate on them, so when girls call their to the guys, someone is screaming just from pain, people are dying from pain, that is, it is not, well, imagine what kind of death it is, the countdown is not at the bottom, not in place, but for hours, minutes, we need help immediately, and the ukrainian is fine, one time, ah, she was talking about the possibility of unblocking mariupol now no let's look at the acceleration to the south of the country to the area of ​​the city of mykolaiv there ukrainian troops are strengthening their positions preparing to break the plans of the kremlin as they have already done , heavy battles took place in this region but the armed forces of ukraine did not allowed the russians to seize key port areas

on the black sea coast, while at the same time in mykolaiv itself , which is 30 km from the front line, rocket fire almost every day many residents left the city but not all of them and some of them our correspondents talked to birds singing in mykolaiv spring has come but there are no signs of the beginning of a new life we are now in the south of the city with the snow bomb squad they came on a call when they heard about several missile strikes and have to see if they can make the area safe in the suburbs is what was left of valeria's living room there was such a loud explosion when the rocket hit here there was a powerful shock wave of books my things are all damaged i will clean the next room and we will stay there the unit goes from home to home removes the fragments of the rocket from the room and the unexploded

bomb from the driveway the city is less than 30 km from the front line, it is difficult, there are many applications, many addresses, we simply do not have enough time, we do not have time to do everything, this children's hospital was shelled more than three weeks ago, it was very scary, really broken there are many windows, fortunately, neither the hospital employees nor the patients were hurt. we are already used to the situation and it is scary not knowing what will happen tomorrow, what will happen in an hour, what can happen to your relatives and patients in the ward of premature babies, the care of babies does not stop. the windows were damaged and the block moved to the center of the building because the shelling is usually cluster bombs, so it is important to have two walls for protection, the children are in special boxes protected from light and noise. we cannot evacuate children who need artificial lung ventilation we can't close the department

because there are other children who may need our help all over the city people are standing in lines to fill bottles with water from stankers or natural springs mykolaiv was left without water after the russian shelling of the water supply system more than two weeks ago here is our bathtub room there is no water - it's terrible i like to take a shower every day but now it's impossible tatyana decided to stay in the city despite the shelling and the lack of water it's not easy but what can we do i tried to go to teroboronu, but they told me that first of all, they won't take me because i'm too old, and the other problem is that i'm almost blind. i said that i might not be able to see, but i smell a russian tank well, i 'm not going to leave anywhere, i'll stay here if

necessary, when the russians come here, i'll leave to fight as usual after months of life on the edge of battles mykolaiv found a way to continue living, but on the horizon there is a constant threat from russia russian president vladimir putin may officially declare war on ukraine on may 9, westerners are writing about it referring to western officials, in their opinion , putin can use the symbolic meaning of victory day to announce either military achievements in ukraine or the escalation of hostilities, or both , they consider the scenario of an official declaration of war to be the most likely. now in moscow, they insist that what is happening in ukraine only a special military operation, as they call it , the words war and invasion under the prohibition of a-a and as it is assumed in the west, an official declaration of war can strengthen public support for the authorities and also

to allow the russian authorities to announce mobilization , mobilization without which russia is actually no longer able to continue a large-scale ground offensive, but ukraine has already proven more than once that it is capable of disrupting moscow's plans. ammunition that can significantly affect the course of battles in the south and east of ukraine on increasing the arsenal of the ukrainian army correspondent bbc-albishundri spoke with the military review of zhirov and ukraine in the heavenly schools and the training of artillery personnel, she was always ukrainian by origin, she was always very powerful, in addition, in 8 years, ukrainian artillerymen gained experience. well, we all

understand that even when ukraine spoke that it does not use artillery in donbas, it was used as a--that what is called counter-artillery combat and therefore ukrainian artillerymen have every reason to very quickly a-- master western weapons actually there it will be necessary to er tables of arrows used by artillerymen, now they already er exist in the form of computer programs, there are artillerymen, well, well, know from which side the projectile and well, how to use it correctly, and everything else is there, preparation for firing is actually there some uh, some coordinates, this is all worked out, and uh, what, for example, it is stated that artillery calculations can be prepared in six days. i believe that

this is real, and ukrainian artillerymen can go to lunch in uh, a week. well, the cherry on the cake excalibur projectiles what can you say about them, very expensive weapons, secondly, not all howitzers are three sevens that are transferred to ukraine, they will be able to use these excaliburs, actually use excaliburs can only be howitzers m-7 e-e three sevens and two e-e and they will be to be used only for purposes that are worth the use of such expensive weapons. that is, what could be the purposes for which such expensive projectiles are intended, for example , a command post, for example, a radio electronic warfare station or a station radio-electronic interception or a navigation station or even i would say er airfield of the base of the russian aviation how the supply of weapons in

ukraine affects the russian army i think they are nervous i must say that russia er is changing its tactics it is in ukraine and it is changing and it is under the influence the fact that we are getting better weapons with better characteristics than the weapons we had at the beginning of the war, and that is why the russians have now completely changed their tactics from using a massed tank fist to break through the defenses they switched to the use of artillery to the use of aviation, we now have fewer opportunities, and i think that supply means that the supply of anti-tank weapons by the west led to the fact that they changed tactics, that is, for every russian

tank, there is now a large number of anti-tank weapons and this anti-tank grenade launchers from all over europe, these are javelins, these are anti-port mines, well, a very huge amount of what we can use against tanks. therefore, now tanks have taken a back seat , now artillery, as soon as we have them in a sufficient number of western samples and prepared calculations. i think they will change the tactics, what tactics they were, i cannot say, but there are not many options, it looks like this. that the rear of ukraine is now abroad, it became a surprise for the russians, how does it affect the course of hostilities, they did not tell you that when they will completely destroy our tank repair capabilities tank repair factories they will completely destroy the ukrainian army and completely destroy its capabilities in order to repair it

the use of border countries such as poland and the czech republic to restore the capabilities of the ukrainian army and to supply foreign weapons came as a surprise to the russians, and they do not have an adequate response to this kind of non-trivial decision on the part of ukraine's western allies. well, let's talk more about a-a arms supply to ukraine british prime minister fighter johnson today he spoke before the verkhovna rada of ukraine, he made himself a video link, but despite this he became the first world leader to speak before the ukrainian parliament since the beginning of the victorious full-scale invasion of ukraine well, johnson said that ukraine, in its fight against the russian troops that invaded it, dispelled the invincibility of putin, expressed his belief that ukraine would win, ukraine would be free and announced a new package of military support, which includes, among

other things, anti-ship missile systems armored cars radars and drones day after day rockets and bombs continue to fall on the innocent people of ukraine and in the south and east of your wonderful country putin continues his ugly and illegal campaign with with the aim of capturing and obtaining ukrainian land and its soldiers can no longer say that they do not know what they are doing, they are committing war crimes, their atrocities are manifested everywhere they were forced to retreat, as we saw in buch, irpen, gostomel and other places, we in the united kingdom will do everything it is possible to bring them to justice for war crimes committed in this moment of uncertainty of constant fear and doubt about the future i have one message for you today ukraine will win ukraine will be free i

i can specify the new package of military aid from britain will be worth 300 million pounds. well , in our country, london believes in the victory of ukraine. britain reopens its embassy in the ukrainian capital. ambassador melinda simmons has already returned to kyiv in an interview with a bbc correspondent. brown, she admitted that this return was very emotional and added that it was in kyiv that she and all the other diplomats were supposed to be now. for two and a half years, it was my home. i came to this country from north to south, from east to west and got to know her extremely well. i know many people who are fighting now and i know their wives and children. at the same time, you think we have

come to these places. if you get in a car and drive through the kyiv region, you will see how intently russia sought to seize kyiv and how quickly it began to beat civilians and attack it is the civilian population that is shock after shock. we drove through bombed-out playgrounds of schools and hospitals on the way to the capital, burned trees are cut to pieces in the fields, so it is obvious that from the very beginning it was about an attack on the ukrainian nations and not only on the military infrastructure, and i believe that this shock is an incentive, you just need to cry out to ensure that proper justice will become the subject of our conversation. soon you believe that a fair trial will be held regarding alleged war crimes. i see that ukrainian partners will work and in fact are already doing it together and we will help ukraine to collect evidence to ensure justice and since the beginning of the full-scale war

mindlessness millions of children have remained in ukraine , the fate of some orphans in the occupied territories has become particularly difficult, the russian authorities forcefully send them to russia and then their fate is often unknown some can be evacuated to safer regions of ukraine, one orphanage on the eastern front line was forced to bring all its children hundreds of kilometers to lviv, where our correspondent dan johnson note the flash of panic on angelina's face but the girl knows what to do she has survived more air raids than any other eleven-year-old child life for these orphans is running from war and hiding from the attacks angelina you are scared angelina tells us to

duck and don't go near the windows, she became a veteran even before she became a teenager , messages on her smartphone warn of air raids all over the country, and one of the messages brings her back home in her mind. angelina reads about lysychansk, the city from which she was evacuated and the girl says she longs for home and the more often the russians shoot, the more she wants to return, you see such cards, there is nothing waiting for her there, her mother could not take care of her, their divorce before the pandemic so she ended up in an orphanage, and the last message from her relatives was a call to her uncle a month ago angelina continues to

read her notes and adds that she wants to be with her family. they fled in the first days of the invasion, according to the un , almost 5 million ukrainian children became refugees. vova tells me that every morning when the invasion began, he heard shooting and explosions.

not far from love, people would have seen it explode, it was burning in me, there is a video, and a splinter flew into it, another reminder that the people who care for and protect these children are also vulnerable . olga saved vova angelina and other children from lysychansk, but she left her own family and her own son there and now does not find a place for himself what are the different threats to life? how would you like a moment? for example, marina mykolaivna, who brought her children with me, the children were in the house and with them . and i continue to read my notes in the

diary, in which he writes that he wants to live with his family, but how he loves his mother and his loved ones and dreams that the war will end and then they will be able to rebuild lysychansk and the country. we return to the division of the last literally hours ago, an air alert was issued almost throughout ukraine. russia launched missile strikes on a number of regions after the explosions in lviv. power outages. missile strikes damaged two power stations in the city. trains are delayed . asks to follow the official reports and the russians are also receiving reports that the russians shelled the kirovohrad region and that the ukrainian air defense shot down russian missiles near kyiv and

anton gerashchenko, the advisor to the minister of internal affairs, informs vinnytsia about this, for example, cruise missiles on vinnytsia, another missile that was flying to kyiv was shot down near the city in the odesa highway area, i will once again remind the air of anxiety in these minutes almost throughout ukraine, we are ending the broadcast with this i want to remind you that on our website bbc.ua and also on our pages in social networks, you can always find the most relevant updates, the most important messages, we will be on the air again tomorrow at 21:00, take care, see you, good evening dear friends, matvia is already in the studio in polish, let's first agree on the technical one, let's agree on what we have here, so you know the explosions in lviv, and here i opened

ukrainian pravda, there are explosions in lviv that can be heard in the city, well, that is, there was no place in the comments of ukrainian pravda, they claim that in explosions can be heard in lviv, at least five are known according to reports from the gardener in the city, two electrical substations were damaged in a part of the place, power outages began, which means, uh, other details are still unknown, so look, we have it in order uh, when there is an air raid warning, we have to go and be in a bomb shelter. and this is the first story so far, here it is, something was heard now in lviv, and my daughter yaka is calling