different motivation when, but in principle, our commanders, especially the middle echelon, are trying to preserve ukrainian soldiers, and the motivation of the brains of their command and the soldiers themselves, who are boring and meaty and of course they kill us, it is a shame and we see that we probably still have peace from them and soon they will hold we are forced and doomed to defeat them and the strike on kremenchuk and the expansion of nato 78th day of the war between russia and ukraine we tell about the main events in the bbc news broadcast live from london immediately join nato in finland renounces neutrality due to russian aggression next sweden counteroffensive near kharkiv ukrainian

military pushes russians to the border bbc special report and shots in the back bbc received evidence how russian military killed two unarmed civilians near kyiv big owl for global security finland after several weeks of discussion announced its intention to join nato, this was jointly announced by the country's presidents, saolinists and prime minister sana marin finland remained for decades neutral mainly due to its neighborhood with russia, they believed that it would be better not to tease moscow now. as

stated in the joint statement of the country's leadership, finland should apply for membership in nato immediately . 1340 km and with us on direct communication from brussels, where is natomia's apartment, colleague hryhoriy zhigalov? this is finland's statement, it is expected after russia's invasion of ukraine, the level of support for joining the alliance has increased many times and there is already a reaction from the secretary general of nato and antonberg promised that finland's entry into the alliance will happen quickly, so finland's decision was awaited in brussels and they were waiting for it today . and this statement is an illustration of these tectonics, from the word geopolitical, from the current events taking place on the continent, which were caused precisely by the

war unleashed by russia three months ago, and the talks about the accession of finland well, nato was not even taken seriously. well, there was a discussion at the level of political romanticism, but everyone was satisfied with the neutral status of finland. and he was also forced to leave the country a few decades ago, well, 80 years ago, after the attack of the soviet union on a very similar to the current war in ukraine finland decided not to tease the bear and so felt safe, well , that was the choice, but a few weeks ago i was at one of the high-ranking finnish military briefings, they confessed their lives before and after the russian attack on ukraine and their assessments of the security situation have changed radically. and now finland believes that they will be safer inside nato than in the status of a neutral country. will be against someone we would like to

maximize our security one way or another thinking about nato membership but this is not a zero sum game if finland increases its security it does not distance itself from anyone it is interesting to see by the way how did the numbers of support for ukraine's accession to nato change, because it's not politics, but rather public opinion. that's what is driving these tectonic changes. as i said, finland was a neutral country for 80 years, almost before russia's attack on ukraine. the majority of citizens were against joining the military blocs. well, somewhere yes from 20 to 30%, but after february 24 the picture has changed dramatically now according to the last poll for joining nato 70 6% of finns against only 12 let's listen to what is being said on the streets this is good news and it is on time i am very satisfied

such a decision, which will bring greater security to finland against russian aggression, it also shows the russians the consequences of their terrorist actions , and now finland is forced to make such a decision without any attempts on the part of russia for five years, i believe that at the moment this is the best decision from the point of view of security, because russia has betrayed us so many times and now again and without a doubt we have to join nato because you know putin started and he influenced the fact that we are now joining nato what does the decision to submit an application for joining nato have to do with to pass the parliament regardless of everything, he will do it because as you have just heard, the majority of the country's population supports joining the north atlantic alliance, leading finnish politicians apparently also support the country's joining nato. this is what the head of the foreign affairs committee of the

finnish parliament told the bbc. membership in nato implementation of the fifth article of the north atlantic treaty in finland extraordinary level of national defense we are not worried that we will not be able to defend our country from russian military actions and hypothetical russian military actions and after the russian invasion of ukraine we understood in the event that russia fails to achieve rational military goals, they are quite capable of killing and destroying everything in their path, causing terrible destruction to civilian infrastructure and the civilian population, so the most important in my opinion is to prevent such attempts from the russian side and we believe that this is the most important function of nato. so, as you can see, the decision

has a lot of support in society and among politicians about the fact that this will happen, as well as about the fact that sweden will submit an application, there are almost no doubts left, and the alliance has already announced that if finland decides to submit an application, it will be warmly accepted into nato, and the accession process will go smoothly and quickly, the general secretary toltenberg about nato's response. we will talk a little later. and now there is a reaction from moscow, where they declare that nato is a threat to them, and the russian ministry of foreign affairs is already threatening. here i will quote: russia will be forced to take steps in response and of a different nature, in order to contain threats to national security, just before the war, the cream demanded nato to abandon expansion and threatened ukraine with the same military and technical measures, so now finland and nato are not afraid of russia's reaction, well, the high-ranking finnish military, during that frekus from the

briefing about which i have already talked about, they stated that they are not inclined to underestimate the power of the russian army, it is interesting that even despite the defeat of the russians in ukraine in many directions they are still they warn that the russian army is a serious and very powerful force. but at the same time, they believe that the finnish army is fully ready to ward off any potential threats to protect the country. it should be noted here that finland is a long-standing and close partner of nato, and the united kingdom, the united states, and other nato countries promise security guarantees to finland and sweden for the period from the application to the official entry into the alliance, because the whole process can last a year. and this week, the first declaration on assistance in the event of an attack was already signed with both countries and signed by the prime minister of great britain, bruce johnson. at the same time, all

moscow 's statements, all moscow's hints are heard in helsinki. secondly, if our countries join nato, this will mean political and military changes in the baltic sea area, and russia must react to these changes, and of course we understand that such a reaction on the part of russia will mean an increase in military equipment on the border. and it will the nato border, so russia will have to deal with something it did not have before, and the fourth is the statement of dmitry medvedev, the former president of russia, that the baltic sea will no longer be a nuclear-free zone. of course, we have already seen the iskander missile complex in kaliningrad, so we understand that they can use missiles thus, the nuclear risk exists for all of us, and let's go back to the statements from stoltenberg, here in nato they say in finland that the option will

be accepted quickly and it is interesting to see how quickly, but for ukraine, even before the war, the door of nato remained open open, but at the same time there was not even an action plan regarding the membership of the pdc. that is why there are such different approaches to the expansion of the u.s. well, i wouldn't say that they are so different, it's just that the approach is very pragmatic, that's what nato is - it's a defense alliance, the countries gathered together because they are together safer when there is a question about the accession of a new country, they ask themselves if it will make the alliance stronger or if it will make the security of the members of the alliance higher in the case of ukraine for many years from a number of alliance members, this answer is no was affirmative in the case of finland, sweden, well, look at the content of finland's current statement, and i will even quote nato membership, send the heat of finland as a nato member, finland will strengthen the entire

defense alliance, and this answer is the moment when the alliance will be sure that ukraine will strengthen the entire defense alliance and i can say that many in brussels were impressed by the country's ability to conduct military operations, but when there is a consensus on this matter, then ukraine will also receive an action plan regarding nato membership and nato membership itself zhenya ale at the same time, nato supports ukraine in the war with russia, but will not fight, and as they state here, their main task is to prevent the war from going beyond the borders of ukraine, and hryhoriy zhigalov , a bbc correspondent from brussels, was with us, so there can be 32 countries and finland has announced that it will apply for the introduction and expect that sweden can do the same and from the outpouring of russian troops there is more and more well-documented evidence of the killing of civilians. the bbc received a video taken by surveillance cameras near kyiv, which shows how russian soldiers killed two

civilian guards of the enterprise with shots in the back. ukrainian investigators are investigating this case as a war crime . bbc correspondent sara rensportu spoke with friends and relatives of one of the victims. these are russian soldiers who go to rob and kill, but their every step is filmed by numerous cameras. leonid the guard approaches them. the men talk, even smoke, then the soldiers go away, but suddenly two of them return and shoot leonid and another man many times in the back leonid somehow managed to survive, and his manager was killed. the guard limps to his booth and calls for help. i met leonid's friend, whom he called that day. they told me that we did not kill civilians, we promised not to kill civilians, and then you shot him. how

do i say it? on the second how can you at least bandage yourself and he says to vasya and barely until i pass here everything hurts so much i feel very bad i asked him to stay in place and started calling the teroboron and started calling our russian defense they arrived in a stolen minibus, on it is their symbol, the latin letter v, and the inscription tank special forces of russia, and this is the man who shot on the video from a cork bottle of an alcoholic drink, he does not suspect that he is being filmed, no one suspects until it gets late, all this time leonid is hiding here, bleeding. a few weeks later, we find his clothes and mattress. we throw them in a pile on the street. leonid died without waiting for help. i met the men who tried to save him. this is

sasha and kostya. before the war, they sold air conditioners. that day they rushed to help and tried to support leonid, they told him that he would survive even though they themselves were scared. were uneven, but we had to go and pick him up. they showed me what the adjacent road looked like in those days. russian tanks drove past their position. the police told us that the russians shot everything that moved here only on this road. along the road, the police found the bodies of 37 civilians, you can see not only burned houses or shops, but also such things as two russian tanks

standing in the forest on them. to kyiv, how terrified leonid must have been, who was lying there bleeding and begging for help. leonid's daughter shared this photo of her father, that's how she wants to remember him now . let the killers of her father appear before the court. he was absolutely not him. he was a pensioner. he was a pensioner. he was a pensioner. they killed a 65-year-old man. why do i feel? not so much anger as sadness and fear. these damned russians have lost control so much that i am afraid of what they can do . then leonid never returned home to his pets russian troops, known for their

cruelty , took another life they claim in the building of the general staff of the armed forces in mariupol, the russians are attacking azovstal, at the same time the ukrainian authorities say that they are negotiating the evacuation of several dozen seriously wounded soldiers from the territory of the plant, and my colleague olha malchevska olya is joining us from the dnipro. today there was an attack on kremenchuk at the oil refinery what is known about this, what is the official information. greetings, zhenya, if you can use this word, that was actually the attack on kremenchug, we heard that rockets hit the oil refinery. we also heard from the official sources that there were about 12 rockets, at first they said about 8 to 12, later there was more talk about 12 rockets and that at least four of them hit the oil refinery. the

head of the military regional military administration published such data on his telegram channel, but i to say that the victims were not reported , there was only a report that the authorities themselves called on the residents to stay in the shelters and watch zhenya, what is the situation in the dnipro, where are you and in other regions in the dnipro, everything is now calm down, this is good news. the not-so-good news is that literally half an hour before our release, the air-raid alarm went off and the city was really worried. we also heard the air-raid alarm in the afternoon when we also left for filming, but i have to say that people got used to it, if you can say so in principle, they don't run, they don't run to the shelters. they try to continue doing what they were doing, but this morning there were

shelling in dnipropetrovsk oblast. does not add optimism to those who are also in the dnipro, people are ready for anything, i have to tell you that the atmosphere here is quite different from what they were in kyiv, if in kyiv it was some kind of a rotten state but in principle, everything was revived like this, then here this the threat is quite realistic and people, even journalists , are very happy, that is, when you start somewhere, you immediately feel such tension and such pain around you, and people are very anxious, very careful, they question what we are doing here, why are you here? came and are actually very worried about the fact that the journalist should not be filmed at any infrastructure facilities, since there are several bridges in the city that are strategic facilities and, of course, many industrial facilities, you can understand their tension, but no one interferes with the work of journalists if there is the military administration, in principle, everything is fine, but i have to say that, for example

, when we were filming today, we heard an air raid alarm and here everything was calm, then when we compared it, we often realized that around this time there were just shellings in kremenchug and when you start to imagine these things, of course the threat feels very realistic and very close, and we also heard that from official sources we also heard that today there was quite heavy shelling in chernihiv oblast and there three people were killed and 12 injured zhenya, and finally let's talk about donbas, what is the situation at the front, what is known about donbas, it is the most difficult to talk about, because official sources of the ukrainian army report that russian troops continue to attack ukrainian the troops are on the defensive, in particular, they say that the ukrainian troops say that the ukrainian armed forces say that, for example

, there were no active actions in slovyansk, but from local residents and volunteers we hear that there were shelling around slovyansk, i can't say how to verify this information because the bbc does not have access right now inside this city and we cannot verify this, we can only refer to official sources, we also know that the russian army used heavy artillery in donetsk region from official ukrainian sources and also that the russian troops are trying to stop the advance of ukrainian troops in the kharkiv region, where the ukrainian army managed to liberate four settlements zhenya thank you olya, it was olga malchevska from the dnipro , and actually now we will talk about the situation in the kharkiv region counteroffensive near kharkiv ukrainian troops have almost reached the border with russia, and this is how one of the western military observers characterized the situation, not a blitz, but a slow, careful, methodical movement forward, which

depends not on official prescriptions, but on the situation this is the assessment on the ground. the russians withdrew their artillery from a distance, with which they shelled almost 1.5 million cities only recently. kharkov alone may still be threatened by shelling with weapons from a larger radio court. correspondent divya and quentin somervell and cameraman darrenko novy spent last week with ukrainian fighters. near the village of ruska lozova, it is located next to the city on the kharkiv-bilhorod road, from where the russian troops entered during the day of the invasion, and this village was important for the ukrainian counteroffensive, which it has to warn you, some shots of our special report may shock yyyy, until recently, the ghost of russian victory wrote over this city, but it is no longer there, the invaders stood on the outskirts of the city for months, and kharkiv managed to drive away the russian soldiers, pushing them back to the border, this is the road of death. there

are mines on both sides of it the russians fired at the cars here repeatedly, they are retreating but not giving up. donbas, these people say that if they managed to win back their city, the second largest in ukraine, then why don't they liberate all of ukraine for more than a week, they fought and won, but still you have to move quickly because the enemy's army is retreating and still poses a threat, so you need to be on guard they know the enemy drones

are watching their every step all the time and they are defenseless against them from this high ground russian tanks and artillery are still firing, the fighting is now more scattered and has turned into a real a deadly game of hide-and-seek in the countryside of the kharkiv region, we are moving together with the ukrainian ground defense unit, all volunteers are sedan zhenya , there is a risk of coming under fire here every second, because the russian troops are less than half a kilometer from here, the men you see are from kharkiv, they are

fighting not only for ukraine, but also for their native city, it is a close battle, but every centimeter of land, every kilometer that they managed to recapture means one respite for their city from russian guns like what you are hearing now in the third month of the war, who of course we are winning, ukraine is winning, the proof of this is that our boys are doing this in mariupol and in other cities of izyum kupyansk, all the brave deeds they do, all these are small victories in this war, they advance with each subsequent field or village that you are at home, from here the russians attacked kharkiv dozens of times a day now

only single shells fly into the city and the danger in the entire village is still great a shell whistled overhead this is a russian tank that went on a hunting trip and the fighters of this unit, among whom the economist the businessman and the mechanic are used to the tactics of the enemy, although they are not professional soldiers and did not even flinch. hello, a direct hit hits the target and knocks out the tank with light. these

men are whole and unharmed, but what about the people who are now on the surface, the temporary lull makes it possible to escape 66-year-old raisi, she grew up in the soviet union, lived in east germany, and does not understand why everything turned out like this, her house, her history in ruins, how can she forgive these wounds of russia, the woman is tormented by these questions every day, her soul will be here, it is already terrible well

lucky grandmother is not visible once in the past raisa's father and vladimir putin's father fought together against hitler, but this common memory is now nothing in the russian-speaking part of ukraine has passed, remained deep in the memory and the suffering caused to the russians can no longer be forgiven and forgotten special report of the hanging from kharkiv oblast and at the very end, as roosters from the warbled in front of the city of kyiv became a symbol of the stability of ukraine, my colleague roman lebed found out, do you recognize a rooster? this sculpture appeared in a park in the town of

berezne in rivne oblast. oleksandr serdyuk, who was evacuated from kharkov, this is an almost three-meter version of the figure, which became one of the symbols against ukrainians in the war against russia , at first there was a hat in the photo of elizaveta and servantynska, which she took at the beginning of april, in borodyanka after the retreat of russian troops, a completely destroyed apartment building and a kitchen cabinet can be seen which continued to hang on his wall unharmed, this photo instantly went viral be strong like a kitchen cabinet, they wrote in the comments how are you holding on to the kitchen cap - memes journalists said they found the owner of the apartment, nadiya dmitrivna said that she moved into the house in 1985, it had just been built, and her son had installed the wardrobe more than 10 years ago. on february 25, the woman cooked soup and then

left the house and never returned. then someone noticed that along with the neat rows of plates on the cabinet there is a decorative clay figurine of a rooster, it turned out that this is a sample of vasylkiv majolica, such roosters were produced together with organizational ukrainian tableware, according to the chief artist of the majolica factory serhii denisenko, the authors of the rooster are valery protorev and his wife, nadiya yukhymina, the rooster also became a star, especially after copies of the product were presented to volodymyr zelensky and british prime minister boris johnson during the latter's visit to kyiv on april 9. the figure of the ukrainian woman became an attribute of volodymyr zelensky's daily video messages . at home, its price on the internet now ranges from three to 20 thousand hryvnias, it

can also be bought at charity auctions, as my former colleague oksana oksana did, hello he says, look, there is such an auction where they give away roosters, but you have to give a lot of money and come on, we will participate because they are collecting for useful things for our sappers, i will do with it. i want to collect it for myself at home . the place is desirable so wonderful and thoughtful cat and i will watch and tell my children that look, when there was a war, your mother helped a sapper and in this way got a number plate in kyiv. what should we finish our issue with? see you tomorrow, friends. good evening . straight and espresso we work