because it moves, inspires and gives strength to believe in our victory, good, we appreciate every moment, it's wonderful, it 's still there for you to find ukrainian soldiers are pushing out the russians near kharkiv, the kremlin threatens to annex kherson oblast - this is the 77th day of russia's war against ukraine, we talk about the main events on the air bbc live from london, tens of billions of dollars for ukraine, what exactly will the new package of american aid go to,

the killing of civilians during the russian occupation, you will hear the story of those who lost their relatives in the kyiv region and how to save defenders in mariupol to withdraw the fighters from the encirclement showed requests to evacuate the wounded during the incessant bombardment the ukrainian military liberated a settlement in the kharkiv region yesterday announced the other four this is information from the assembly of the general staff of the armed forces at the same time the day before president zelenskyi said the military is gradually pushing the russian army away from kharkiv such updates on the situation at the front at the same time, putin is preparing for a long war in ukraine and will not stop at donbas, the

head of american intelligence warns key points from the speech of the us director of national intelligence in the american sonata russia can use nuclear weapons only if putin recognizes the existential threat to the country putin expects that the support of ukraine from the us and the eu will weaken, while inflation will increase, energy prices will rise and there will not be enough food and american intelligence believes that it is worth preparing for a protracted war, listen, the next 1-2 months will be decisive, as the russians will try to increase their efforts, but even if they are effective, we are not sure that they will end the war in donbas. according to our estimates, president putin is in favor of a long conflict in ukraine, during which he intends to achieve goals outside of donbas. putin obviously also believes that russia is more prepared for internal challenges than in his opponents and he is probably counting on the weakening of support from the usa and the eu due to food shortages, inflation and

energy prices, and since both russia and ukraine believe in their military progress, we do not see real power to negotiate, at least in the short term, and in the meantime, the us is giving ukraine more aid, the house of representatives of congress approved an additional aid package of $40 billion more than president biden asked for, he asked about $33 billion, that's all, we can't afford to wait, that's what she said before the vote of the speaker of the house of representatives, nancy polosi , now this aid package must go to the senate, the money, in particular, will go to weapons, for example, howitzers, howitzers, kamikaze drones, why this package aid is important analyzed by the american columnist andrew dayary. i think that it greatly influenced the course of the war in ukraine, but it still partly depends on the speed with which this aid will be distributed . the house of representatives voted for this package, but it still has to be considered by the senate, although we expect

the package to pass it will be on the table for president biden's signature it should happen very quickly but until that happens the aid package will be on the table but not signed into law i agree with the speaker of the house of representatives police what is here speed is important, aid must be quickly delivered to the donbass in the south of the country to help the ukrainian forces and replenish their supplies to defeat the russian invaders, i think that washington really soberly admits that this war will probably be long-lasting. shelling in lviv and now live in a more difficult and prolonged war in the east and in the south, the president recognizes this and most likely it is in the interests of the usa and the west to help ukraine in this struggle in my opinion the unity of the international community will be preserved , it was a pleasant surprise that the usa, together with its european

allies and other western partners, were so united, this applies not only to military aid and sanctions, but also to economic and food aid, i hope that the usa, together with its allies in europe, will unite to solve the food crisis crisis because we must remember that russia is to blame for the global food shortage , so ukraine's allies and partners in the west of north america and other countries have to unite and combine our resources to mitigate this crisis and more about western aid to ukraine, we talk with the review of the british royal institute of international relations in russia lutsevich orysia, let's start with the united states, so biden signed the landmark lend-lease law, which actually simplifies the provision of aid ukraine did this symbolically on the ninth of may, the congress allocates tens of billions for a new package, how much this aid helped, and how much this support will help ukraine in its relationship with

russia, now this aid is critical, but since it will be provided with military weapons that will be of a different category from what ukraine received in the first phase of the war, this also means that this weaponry can go much faster, because there will already be a certain procedure that will, let's say, work smoothly and will meet the time requirement depending on of how the situation at the front will develop. well, we also see that after nancy's visit, support for poles was additionally increased. this is important, because i think many people who come to kyiv understand that this is the pulse of ukrainian war and feels the importance of western aid, this aid will actually solve the state of affairs at the front , well, in the visits of high-ranking guests to kyiv, there were really many there these days, these weeks, let's talk about europe, let's talk about europe. germany has changed its policy, it also provides weapons to ukraine , heavy weapons, the european union at the same time the bruiser

cannot give up russian oil. how much? and this is the most powerful economic sanction against russia ? for russian oil in the european union, there are definitely two significant things. this is germany, as you mentioned, which is rearming itself and will actually become one of the largest armies in the world . from oil and gas and coal, it is a longer process, we see that countries can quickly abandon coal, now the process of abandoning oil has begun, and this is what the european union wants to do together in order to cause as much damage as possible a blow to russia's financial flows, we see that negotiations are underway with hungary in order to compensate them for some costs. in fact, this process of simply building a consensus may take time, but when this blow comes, it will be powerful and very

heavy for russia. well, the european union is also trying to gradually reduce the volumes of russian gas that uses, but we will return to the european union. and now to the rice, i suggest that we look together at the possible expansion of nato. the russian invasion of ukraine has alarmed all neighboring european countries so much so that finland and sweden can abandon their neutral status and join nato, meanwhile, britain offers these two countries support in case of an attack, this is such a political gesture, a promise that britain will come to the rescue at a critical time. british prime minister boris johnson signed the declaration on mutual security support first with the fitting of sweden's magdalena andersen, then with the president of finland, boris johnson visited both countries on the same day, and observers note that british support can

to play a key role in the interval between the submission of applications to join nato by these countries and the actual joining of the alliance. but again, these are not the same guarantees as the fifth article of the nato treaty, which provides for the principle of collective defense, and this is the kind of protection that sweden and finland seek in both countries, the idea to join the north atlantic alliance received more support after the russian invasion of ukraine, and let's take a closer look at finland, there the idea of ​​joining nato was supported for years by about a quarter of the population now three quarters, how can this country do what russia so aggressively opposes, explains bbc viewer alla little at first glance, finland may seem like a small country, but the army is one of the largest in europe, the defense and security of the country is not only a matter of the armed forces, it is the responsibility of the entire civil society of the country we have a clear role in society, we also have

conscription, which means that most finns are part of the national defense in one way or another, and can you explain how big the horse armory is forces, how many people could be mobilized in the event of a real threat to the country, as of now, 208 thousand out of a population of 5 million, exactly. yes, this is a lot. yes, these are mostly conscript soldiers, they serve in the army for a year, and then for the rest of their adult lives, they undergo regular professional development for men, the service necessarily, and some women go to the army voluntarily. i have two older brothers and a father, so when they were in the army, i just thought that if there is a war, i want to fight too. i don't want them to go. and i have to stay at home, that's why i also wanted to leave people. little henle. finland's approach to defense is still determined by this attempt of the soviet union to seize and occupy the country in 1939. that

finnish resistance reminds ukraine today of 1940. yes , during the winter war, anna lisa antilles lived in the city as a teenager. the elections, the soviet military captured the city , it was not possible to return the territory to finland. with my things, my mother and i were on the last bus that left the elections. it hurts you that now this is a russian city. of course, the length of finland's border with russia is almost

1,300 km. the further advance of nato on this side will be seen by russia as another evil intention of the west as a direct threat to the security of russia itself finland's army is already compatible with nato standards this british tank is already participating in joint of educational institutions on finnish soil finland was once part of the russian empire and the specter of revived russian imperialism pushed finland to fully join the western military alliance, which completely changes the security map of europe neutral finland on the way to nato sweden actually these are big changes in european security what could be the consequences of this definitely these are tectonic changes, as we have discussed changes in germany itself regarding e-security policy, the consequences will be

really important in terms of the expansion of this collective of security, which we talked about and about the approach of nato so close to the borders of the russian federation, of course, russia will threaten, i think that this can aggravate the situation on the border between russia and finland. but russia also understands that it has limited military capabilities and actually this bloc of collective security and these guarantees provided by great britain, as in the case of ukraine, we see that they still have a very important decisive role . the impression is that nato will not expand anywhere, but at the madrid summit we can see the decision of the actual expansion to these two countries, is nato actually ready to accept ukraine now, because we are really watching what happened, the war of russia against ukraine united us that this alliance was created, so what is the perspective of ukraine in this? well

, here the important question is to say once again that this is the union of collective security, if this collective union will see that the accession of ukraine will strengthen the security of all these members due to the fact that the ukrainian army capable of fighting, but here the element of ukrainian democracy is still important, because it is also a union of democracies , and here ukraine must also take a clear position regarding the strengthening of democratic governance, in particular the judicial system, and these issues will be raised, i do not think that this will be realistic in the near future, but the continuation of intensive cooperation between ukraine and nato will remain. another question regarding ukraine's aspiration is to join the european union. french president emmanuel macron said that in order for ukraine to become a member of the eu it may take years, it may take decades, and he is proposing such a new format for the eu country, ukraine, britain, what kind of idea is it, is it viable, well, it should be remembered that in france the elections are continuing, macron won the

presidential elections, but in june they have elections before the parliament and this, i think, is also a kind of playing along with its audience, because in france there is a certain sediment after the expansion of the european union, especially when romania and bulgaria were included, then it was believed that these countries were not fully ready and that actually the corruption that flourished in them poisoned the european union from the inside by dumping from the price of transportation, let's say from bulgaria, unfair competition displaced the french business because of this. it must be seen. in the european union, ukraine definitely receives how long it will take will depend on ukraine, how quickly it will carry out, in particular, judicial reform, features, please stay with us we are returning to the situation at the front the russian military is shelling gold from australia in mariupol they are conducting artillery airstrikes about this, the general staff of the armed forces is informed about this

, approximately a thousand ukrainian soldiers remain at the plant and they asked to bring out the wounded report and then bring out the others to apply the ex-filtration procedure how it works will be explained by the british retired general richard barons, the chances of ukraini militi, the chances that the ukrainian troops will be able to conduct an operation to get to azov steel to free the military from there are very unlikely i i also believe that the use of military resources for this would not be the most effective, since it is necessary to concentrate on the front in donbas and save forces for russian attacks. in other directions, therefore, i think that for the fighters who are still at the metallurgical plant, and according to my conviction, they put up and are putting up a fantastic resistance to their the situation is really very difficult they can find a way to exfiltrate but it will be difficult because they

can risk being defeated even destroyed as a result of further russian attacks or before they may have the prospect of surrendering, which means surrender in order to avoid further loss of life, life carries, but i do not think that a reliable military operation is possible to save them, in general, what are the chances that the fighters for growth will be able to be pulled out, while the russians do not stop trying to capture them. we asked a military expert about successful cases of removal of military prisoners, this is the opinion of mykhailo zhikhov, in the history of the soldiers of the last time, there are two cases, uh, cases of the second world war and during the breakup of yugoslavia during the second world war ii - this is the case when the british, french

, and belgian allied troops were able to leave the territory of great britain from europe. this is dunkirk , 1940 and 1995. who were there, both cases were under the guidance of, again, the second case is the un, and the first case was a kind of decision by hitler, who gave the order to stop the wehrmacht from continuing offensive and thus enabled the british to emerge troops a-a with e-e such a situation that developed under the on in belgium in the belgian direction therefore a-a what about e-e again in 1995 and yes there

was the auspices of the un but there were armed peacekeepers who they did so the corridor through which these civilians and soldiers left there, well, the enclave was completely blocked and but again, this is an agreement between the parties and an important condition of any such a-a in such an evacuation there is the fact that the other side is provides security and ensures, that is, the only conditions for the russians now they are storming azovstal under any conditions, this is the opinion of the military commentator larisa. president zelensky previously stated that if the murder of the defenders of mariupol will actually put an end to the

negotiations with russia . that we see that each of the parties, both ukraine and russia, believes that it can achieve its goals through military means, this is one of the reasons why the negotiations are not progressing, in particular about this letter which we talked about and the provision of weapons to ukraine, there is now a belief that ukraine can knock out russian troops from the territory it temporarily occupied, but we must also be realistic in parallel to military operations, there will always be negotiations and communication channels remain open, and i think that apart from the issue of mariupol, there will be there are other issues that need to be negotiated , the problem is that putin has not yet changed his goals regarding ukraine and in the future wants to deal a devastating blow to ukrainian statehood, therefore negotiations are not actually advancing well, as we heard at the beginning, american intelligence believes that putin will not stop at donbas, he can go further, but actually

speaking of the occupied territories, is it possible for russia to annex the occupied kherson region, but today the occupying authorities of kherson announced that they will contact putin and ask for entry to russia, in fact, without a pseudo-referendum , the kremlin spokesman said that this is possible only with the annexation of crimea. and here is ukraine's reaction. the representative of the president's office, mykhailo podalyak, said that the occupiers they can ask to join even though i want to mars, i want to go to jupiter and kherson will be liberated. what are the possible actions of russia in this direction in the occupied territories? in your opinion, the situation is definitely different now from 2014, in particular in donbas, where russia still pretended that it was some self-proclaimed republic, but we see that in this situation, since the ukrainian military is constantly going on a counteroffensive and does not allow russia to consolidate its positions, the path of annexation and joining those territories to the russian federation is for russia optimal, because in this case it will

be considered the territory of russia, this nuclear umbrella can actually extend to it, what kind of nuclear weapons vladimir putin is constantly rattling around, it will complicate the military path, it is possible to release those territories , it will raise the stakes. lying referendum, because the whole world already understands what it is and did not recognize the same annexation of crimea, that is why the risks of annexation of donbas and those occupied territories that exist remain very high, that is exactly why they supply weapons to ukraine in order for putin not to be able to gain a foothold in those territories for a long time. thank you, thank you, orysya. it was orysya lutsevich, a columnist for the british royal institute of international relations. in ukraine, the first russian military officer is being tried for the murder of a civilian. the prosecutor's office says the 21-year-old commander of the branch of vadym shishimari in sumy oblast shot an unarmed man on the road who was riding a bicycle, in general, ukrainian law enforcement officers have already

registered 10,000 cases related to war crimes , my colleague olga malchevska in the kyiv region talked with those who are seeking justice in gostomel in the kyiv region, the war ended on the very first day of the open russian invasion, on february 24, more than a month after liberation from the occupation, those who remained in the city are trying to patch up their lives despite the constant threat of new shelling. pay attention to e up there, the shells that hit right under her roof, the roof of lyceum no. 1 was completely destroyed there, it was one of the best equipped schools in the district, says volodymyr, the overwhelmed director, computer science teacher until they came the russians, that is, everything was beaten to death and the russian soldiers set up their base in the school with tanks in the yard, dozens of civilians hiding in the basement of the lyceum became a human shield from the shelling, this is how the

school looked after the russians, when they were pushed out of the city, the attackers left, but their traces will remain for a long time these pictures the students of this lyceum and their teachers painted on the walls arbitrarily, and these russian soldiers, but the vandalism did not end there, according to the level of damage to these doors, you can see that they were not projectiles, but people, and so here almost all the doors look like the russian military was in this school for about three weeks. but in order to restore everything after the damage, it will take more than three months and almost 50 million hryvnias. you can compensate the furniture, but not the people . volodymyr’s son was tortured and killed on the street. it was frost and they took him without shoes and beat him again because he was shot and took him to the garage and shot him lying down in the head and in the back

the pain of grief permeates every street of the inn and seeps from every wound of the shot houses and lives, according to the data of the national police, more than 1,200 war crimes of the russian army were documented in the kyiv region alone. yuri 15 of the worst killed his father, he himself miraculously and purposefully, we got off the bikes, so he asked in russian where are you going, dad answered that we are going to get food, at some point the father started to return towards me with clasped hands, and i heard two shots, it was a russian serviceman, then they shot me in the raised left arm when i had already fallen. i saw my father lying dead next to him, er, blood was flowing from him. that's er, when i asked b him it will be possible only with a scythe, and he shot me once more in the

hand, he also fired two control shots. and in my head, and most likely my father too, but my hood was raised and there was a mouse in the hood of the head, there was some space, well, the field did not eat the head. the more testimony about new crimes, the less chance new cases have to go to court, because no one is documenting, says the human rights defender , there simply aren't enough hands to record as many crimes as possible. even now, it has definitely exceeded a few. apparently about a hundred hours were spent on everything to form a single piece of evidence. we need groups of professionals who are engaged in collecting evidence of russian war crimes on the territory of ukraine and will be able to help in the formation of this evidence, but it is like a belt for a father who only has memories of his son. this is the tree planted by andriy and here at this place there was a tree planted with

serhiy, and the very tree that serhiy planted was hit by a projectile and there was a funnel four by nine meters in diameter, and this very tree hit volodymyr vessels will return son yury to his father, but at least they will give hope living after surviving olga melchevska andriy marshal gostomel kyiv bbc millions of people were forced to leave ukraine due to the war, in particular to israel, and everyone talked to a man who fled the war twice arkady panchenko is already fleeing for the second time war 80 years after he escaped from the nazis, they hunted, then shot all the jews for

each one caught, the jews were paid money after getting lost and losing contact with his family, he with 11 years old, joined the partisans, started fighting the nazis behind my shoulders, i had the same machine gun, like everyone else, a bag of change and grenades over my shoulder, just in case, i fully participated in combat operations on a level with adults, eight decades later, everything happened again, arcadia was turned upside down by the war this time the invaders came from the east above us every night, the sirens sounded, the shells flew here and there, and the bombs flared, it was so scary. arkady does not celebrate victory day this time. i stopped of course. there were attempts by my ukrainian

colleague. i didn’t understand what an attempt to cancel , spoil, or something else he wanted to do, including people who knew the war with the nazis and had to flee after 80 years, and now they are hurting people very much. i sincerely thank you for the question, the war against of the nazis unfortunately, it continues because it is not a war against ukraine as a state, it is not a military operation against the citizens of ukraine, it is an operation where one of the main goals is denazification, where ivanov of the voice came out of the denaseptikayshin, whose country is ruled by the nazis. what do the jews feel arkady having lived his adult life in ukraine ukraine of these countries ukraine is a quiet and peaceful country there is no fascism here it is brainwashing

and then the last word to those who think otherwise i have no words and this is how we should end the issue this is the 77th day of the war against russia ukraine read about the main thing on our website bbc.ua dear viewers evening good we continue to remind you that the joint broadcast of tv channels live and espresso is working for you today until midnight, so please join it will be interesting, there will be a lot interesting guests, we will analyze and discuss today's events, we will also make predictions for the future, because one of the main questions that i am now interested in every ukrainian