chasing the russians well, literally in 20 seconds, please tell me how much of a symbolic call it is that moscow agreed to the conversation. i thought that this was actually a symbolic call because previously the ministry of defense and the general staff generally shied away from any negotiations with the spectagon. this is a sign that in fact they want to start negotiations but i'm not sure we are ready to start negotiations under these conditions thank you very much once again e serhii zgurets my name is rezema no i'm saying goodbye until tomorrow take care and all the best to you in the future bbc news ukraine, for your attention, the russians were defeated at the crossing over siverskyi donetsk, the kremlin has new ambitions , now they are against ukraine's accession to the eu - it is the 79th day of the war and we are talking about the main events in the bbc news broadcast live from london, a risky maneuver, british intelligence considers, despite the loss of russians are slowly advancing in donbas and

ukrainian troops are advancing in kharkiv oblast russian in luhansk oblast the ministry of defense of ukraine announced the beginning of the long-term phase of the war and ukraine's path to the eurovision song contest from war- ravaged irpen to the stage in turin an exclusive interview with the participants of the kalush orchestra ukrainian military destroyed a russian armored column that tried to cross the siverskyi donetsk in donbass and declare that the enemy suffered significant losses at the same time as the british ministry of defense notes that the pontoon crossing of the river in the conditions of the conflict is considered an extremely risky maneuver, this shows that the russian command comes under pressure, they

need to make progress in eastern ukraine, but despite the loss of russian troops at the crossing are moving forward russia is concentrating its main forces in izyum and north donets, the russians are trying to break through to slavyansk and kramatorsk this is how the british intelligence assesses the situation details of the situation at the front from bbc correspondents more it was a risky attempt which, as it seems, turned into a spectacular failure a column of russian equipment tried to cross the siversky river donets , bypassing the ukrainian positions. and apparently they were waiting for her here, powerful artillery fire destroyed a whole battalion, a tactical group of more than 70 tanks of armored personnel carriers and trucks not to mention the panned brigades this video was released by the ukrainian military and this is the footage of the russians taken on the same day they claim a successful military operation this war is also a propaganda battle for whoever controls this

narrative and both sides are trying to win not only in a physical war, in response to the statement of the british foreign minister that putin is humiliating himself with his actions, he himself declared that international sanctions do not work, their authors so moscow is affected by the event not only the sanctioned ukrainians are provided with heavy weapons and such actions are obviously working, the russians tried in every way to stop the supply of weapons by shelling cities such as lviv, now the ukrainian minister of foreign affairs is asking for even more help and hope that these weapons will be delivered to mariupol , the place where the fighters they are still holding a meager defense, the military showed these shots showing how they are counterattacking the russian positions. the russian military will fire at azovstal

, this is stated in the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, and the ukrainian authorities are negotiating the evacuation of people from the plant, as vice prime minister iryna vereshchuk said, they will be the first to try to evacuate the seriously wounded, and my colleague olga is in direct contact with us from the dnipro malchevska olya, what is known about the evacuation from azov, are there any changes in the arrangements? greetings, zhenya, well, the situation is quite tense and not much is known, in fact, at the moment, a message appeared late yesterday evening that a new round of negotiations has now begun, it is being mediated by turkey, and representatives of the red cross are conducting negotiations with the russian side in order for this evacuation to actually begin, vice-prime minister of ukraine iryna iryna vereshchuk spoke about this and quoted her to the ministry reintegration. and actually, according to her, this will be a special operation that will take place in several stages. and actually the first stage

should be the evacuation of seriously wounded fighters. according to ms. varishchuk, this is actually what is known at the moment, olya, what is the situation in donbas in general, what is the situation at the front, what is known from official sources, from official sources, there is news that the ukrainian military destroyed a pontoon crossing, and uh, from official sources, there were also well, in fact , such numbers were called that ah-ah it was probably eh that the russians lost at least one tactical battalion brigade and out of approximately 70 military units of military equipment, they lost about 50 units, but the bbc cannot quickly verify this information in the conditions of the war. we also saw

an official report that it happened in the area of ​​the village of bilogurivka in the luhansk region, and actually this is the biggest news today and from donbas in the kharkiv region. we hear from official ukrainian sources that the ukrainian troops are advancing and they are succeeding to liberate the following villages, there was a message that the village of pytomnyk was liberated, but today, closer to the evening, information was received that active fighting was going on there and the ukrainian military is still fighting the situation remains quite unstable thanks to olya it was olga malchevska from the dnipro in ukraine the trial of the first russian soldier accused of killing a civilian has begun the prosecutor's office says 22-year-old vadym shishimarin killed an unarmed man in sumy oblast in the first days of the war by fleeing in a car together with

other russian soldiers he shot with a kalashnikov assault rifle a local resident who was walking with a bicycle along the roadside and was talking on the phone, the prosecutor died on the spot, according to the investigation, according to ukrainian media reported that the russian man admits to the murder, but the defendant's lawyer has not yet confirmed the case. the solomyan district court of kyiv is considering the case. shishimarin faces 10 to 15 years in prison or life imprisonment. the prosecutor general's office claims that it has already documented more than 10,000 war crimes. the war is felt abroad. of ukraine in azerbaijan, in the city of nevchala, where did a 20-year-old student return to husein abdulayev, he spent a month in russian captivity. he was studying at mariupol university when the russian invasion began, the boy told the bbc that his he was held captive for 25 days and brutally tortured only because the russian military considered him a volunteer who helped the defenders of the city. we

knew that there would be a war, but we did not think that such a terrible thing would happen in mariupol, so my friends and i remained. we were a 20-year-old student from azerbaijan . budulaev studied at the mariupol university before the war. after the beginning of the russian invasion , huseyin wanted to leave the city. he passed all the russian checkpoints except the last one, where he was detained. they dropped us off there, asked for a passport and something else, then we were stripped to see if we had tattoos, the driver had a tattoo on my leg, i had nothing, but the chief started to beat us all with the butt of a machine gun, after the arrest of husayn, they took him to prison, he says the russians thought he was a soldier and fighting for ukraine the guy without success tried to prove that he was a student, first the chechens checked, then the

boss came, he manages everything there. he looked at my nails and asked why they were black in the dirt, i said that i was working, delivering groceries to a civilian i told the population in the basements to the help center that i myself worked in the basement, he did not believe me, said that i would call, said that i was carrying a weapon, he saw everything, even my student card, but still did not believe that i was a student and said that i was thrown into prison huseyin was in captivity for 25 days. he says that all this time the russians tortured him. the chechens tied my hands again and lowered my head and took me to the torture chamber. on the spot, they stripped me , put me on a chair, and tied my hands. then the interrogation began, they asked why i was carrying a machine gun. to me it all seemed funny, why did they do it, i answered that i wasn't wearing anything, no weapons, nothing else, the russian soldiers started beating me, and then the chechens then asked if i would tell them the truth, i

answered again that it was true, that i was really a student , he did not believe me you need to connect to the electricity, there were cameras in the room, so i saw myself on the screen. he said that it was necessary to turn on the current so that i could talk. it was such a device. it was plugged into the outlet. it had various buttons. and it automatically increased the current, first to the thumbs were attached to the device during the torture , they said that an azerbaijani would come, i was happy, i thought that they would let me go home, but as soon as he came, he immediately started shouting at me, came up to me and said that we are dishonoring the name of our people, i looked at him without understanding what kind of people is he talking about and he started beating me, after that he started holding my knees so that i wouldn't squeeze them because the wires were disconnected, hussein says that he was freed from captivity by his friends who managed to contact the chechen soldiers in the russian army and were able to

to save him, it was early in the morning, i was still sleeping, i heard abdulaev's scream. and in general, they called me a baku boy, so i heard my surnames, as i shouted that i was in the seventh room. they came to me. the guard ordered me to get together because i was being released. jacket, i quickly got myself together and they opened the door and covered my head so that i could not see anything. they tied my hands and took me out of the prison. then i saw that chief and all the chechens. he said that they were letting me go because it was the month of ramadan. he said that my friends will be waiting for me in zaporizhzhia after the capture, huseyin was treated in a hospital in zaporizhia , from there he was able to move first to poland and then to hungary to his native country. he arrived at the end of april and immediately went to his family . the boy plans to continue his studies in mariupol, but already in azerbaijan, britain

introduces sanctions against putin's inner circle, the olympic champion alina kabaeva, who is considered the mistress and mother of several children of the russian president, was included in the sanctions list in 2014, she heads a national media group that owns almost all state media in russia . kabaeva's grandmother, anna, was also blacklisted . britain calls putin's friend gennady timchenko a business partner, and putin 's ex-wife and his relatives were sanctioned. british foreign minister lvivska said that these are sanctions against putin's wallet , that is, the family and friends of those whom he rewards with public positions and wealth in exchange for their endless loyalty, while today about the representatives of the group of seven declared their support for ukraine - these are the world's most prosperous democracies, the foreign ministers of the g7 meet in germany, and at this meeting dmytro kuleba asked to give more aid to kyiv seven countries to

adobet legends today, i asked the g7 countries to approve laws and implement the necessary mechanisms to confiscate assets of the russian state and transfer them to ukraine is not the reconstruction of our country fo- ukraine to used this money to reble country second we discost extensiley - second - we they talked a lot about the world food crisis russian aggression against ukraine is the only cause of the global food crisis reason moves unfolding global food crysis vuppens weapons the last time i met at the j7 level together with the ministers of nato countries in brussels i emphasized three things that we need weapons weapons and weapons since then the situation has improved and we are getting more and more of the weapons we need but enough weapons it will be only when we win this war and while the war continues supplies must be

continuous and today we are with the seven countries they talked about the stability of supply, how to do it in order to defeat russia on the battlefield, and at the same time , the chief diplomat is already borel, he promised that ukraine will be given an additional 500 million euros in military aid, according to him, it is necessary to put more pressure on russia with economic sanctions, work on the international isolation of russia, fight disinformation and speak out a united front in support of ukraine, and my colleague hryhoriy zhigalov joins us from brussels. so , western partners promise kyiv even more help. but at the same time, all the following did not agree a package of sanctions against russia, that is, there will be sanctions, but without an oil embargo. also, i feel frustration even here among the diplomats in brussels, but the european union bureaucratic machine works as fast as it can work, and the adoption

and approval of decisions in the european union have always required time. well, there are 27 different countries that all have to agree among themselves on one or another decision and agree on all the details, and from the very beginning it was clear that everything would be very difficult with the energy cargo, well, first of all, it would be easy with the gas cargo it will not happen because many countries of the european union are too dependent on russian gas in relation to the oil embargo. well, not everything is simple either, but even there was little faith that such a solution was even possible somewhere else, for example, at the beginning of march. now we see that it is not just on the table and on the finish line, in fact, we can see from the bridges that now a number of countries at the national level are already beginning to refuse russian energy carriers and are trying to agree on this decision on such a general european union decision

levels, we see that hungary, for example, is still refusing, explains its refusal by the fact that the entire infrastructure of the country is built in such a way that it receives energy carriers, in particular, oil, mainly from the east, in order for hungary to be able to introduce an oil barge, it needs to rebuild its infrastructure; for this , money is needed and for - now hungary is trying to extract money from the european union for this reconstruction, in any case, this decision will be made this week, diplomats, permanent employees of the countries the european union here in brussels could not agree on a package of sanctions. and now this decision will be discussed already on monday, but on monday it will be discussed at the level of foreign ministers. the eu council is meeting here. minister of ukrainian affairs dmytro kuleby is waiting for him in brussels, so if there is a final

decision on sanctions and maybe even an oil embargo, then we are waiting for this decision on monday, many here are hoping for the eloquence of the minister of foreign affairs ukraine's zhenya well, kyiv calls for the introduction of an oil barge, calls for this to be done in order to stop russian aggression. here is another statement that should be discussed already from moscow. these are the kremlin's new whims, so the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov said that the eu has turned into an aggressive player. ukraine 's accession to the eu in moscow is already causing suspicion and concern, so to speak, about what these statements mean and whether there is any reaction to them. i haven't seen any reactions yet, but in brussels, in principle, in the european the union, as well as in nato, constantly repeat that the decision on whether ukraine will be a member of

the european union, just like when it comes to nato or whether ukraine will be a member of this alliance, is a decision of the countries of the european union and ukraine, the countries of nato and ukraine and the decisions and certain wishes of moscow in this case have little effect on the politics of brussels and on the chances of ukraine to join the club of the european union or the club of nato . are paying attention to moscow's position, and for many years nato did not want to annoy moscow , that's why they unofficially closed the door to ukraine, now this issue is basically being removed well, yesterday we talked with you about the fact that finland announced that sweden would join nato as to wait, too, against to engage, that nato is not afraid to expand now, what are ukraine's chances of joining nato, well, we'll see in real life thank you, it was hryhoriy

zhigalovy from brussels, the ukrainian military is pushing russian forces out of kharkiv, so the city no longer flinches from shelling, as it was from the first days of the war, the russians caused significant destruction, in particular, they noted the museum of the philosopher and poet grigory skovoroda, it was there on the ruins that the bbc correspondent talked to the poet serhiy zhadan, who these days is engaged in volunteering. how can you justify the inhumanity of mass murders, this is the main road leading from the second largest city of ukraine, kharkiv. here we are entering the suburbs saltivka ahead warning inscription shelling we are

less than 55 km from the russian border the kremlin troops were forced to retreat but they still cut back from time to time we hear the sound of artillery shells are flying from this direction the front line is only eight kilometers from here even as we continue to retreat the russians are shelling this area and last night a shell hit here, but this is only a residential area. look here, there are apartment buildings, this is a kind of pedestrian zone, the pizzeria was completely destroyed, this is a residential area of ​​the suburbs, why in a war, to strike a residential area, to sow fear and panic, this is how dirty this war is, how to comprehend this madness, how best to convey the pain, save future generations from repeating our mistakes

among military volunteers who distribute food to displaced persons serhiy zhadan, one of the most outstanding poets of ukraine, we agreed to meet in an ideal city for a conversation about the ability of poetry to reflect the tragedy of war, there was once a museum of a respected ukrainian poet of the 18th century, the last guest here was a russian bomb really destroy our identity, they destroy our subjectivity, they simply do not recognize our right to this, for me, ukraine is the ukrainian world, the ukrainian space is to a large extent broadcasted and feeling through poetry through those poets who well, with the help of poetry, a lot can be explained therefore what concerns us, our emotions concern the heart itself, the british

national poet simon armitich understands these words well, he himself wrote a poem called resistance about the courageous struggle of ukrainians, i have such a feeling as if i was simply called to express in a poem what is currently hurting contemporaries. and now this is the biggest and most important thing in my whole life. there was a bridge. one remembered the war. the old foot patrol passes for another five hours. the evening will be dry and dead. two older people, one young man, read twilight as if i happily repeated the book to myself then even now you will sleep in your bed the moon came between the clouds listening to the melody of an insect a quiet sleeping orderly

loaded bodies into an army car quarreled with the gearbox in the first aid kit looking for the remains of poison an english-speaking observer studiedly looked at the corpses evenly tanned nervous mouth covered the eyes of the young dead man thought to himself strange people local eyes i always thought of poetry as a human icy activity this is what i saw on the news with the beginning of this war i am gone inhumane inhumane long after tanks will rust to dust and nature will win back its words poets will live on giving comfort to future warriors lifting spirits from the depths of despair to the highest stars yes, this is us on the weekend vitalia the final of the eurovision song contest ukraine will take place

are considered the favorite, so the kalusharkystra group can win this song contest by intervening with the support of the jury of the audience of russia and belarus . they were not allowed to sing on the european stage because of aggression, and my colleague viktoriya zhogan is joining us. congratulations, i watched how kalusherka stra prepared to perform at the eurovision song contest. can you tell me about it? good evening, zhenya, i'll start by saying that i feel a great responsibility to speak immediately after serhiy's poetry. and now to the kalush orchestra, their preparation for the festival was very difficult. at first, they couldn't meet er, in general, more than later, when they met on april 2. they immediately left. on april 1, maybe somewhere around the second, i met them in lviv. they immediately went to israel, already on a tour, and they said then that they did not have the opportunity to rehearse ani’s performance together. choreography, and when i said goodbye to them at the end of april, already before leaving for

turin, they were very, very tense, intensively rehearsing the choreography, trying on costumes and making final adjustments to everything. and of course , they explain that each of these seemingly simple the steps were complicated by the war, it’s not so easy in ukraine now to find a place where men can dance six, it’s not so easy to get the costume you need somewhere or to get the participant to try on the costume, congratulate them, chat with the musicians before the eurovision song contest, let’s see what mood they were leaving with ukraine this is how the video for the music video is filmed in the middle of the war zone, and all this just a few weeks after the russian forces left here . well, there is always such a feeling of stress here. you haven't been to ukraine due to the fact that we are constantly threatened by the air and it is not clear where the rocket will fly ukraine will be represented at the eurovision song contest 20-22

despite russian self-destruction and a large number of dead soloists of the band oleg psiv speaks of a determined intention to win when the war began i thought a lot about what namely, i can be useful to the country as much as possible and i have analyzed a lot and if i came to the point that i have never served in the army, i have never even fired a combat weapon, still i can be more useful in something this is how i then opened my volunteer organization that we are now representing ukraine at eurovision and this is a very big responsibility for that quiet what will remain than us but not everyone from the band went to eurovision what was the most difficult for you in the last two months i

will say the most difficult mentally this is to accept accept this position that i give my life regardless of where they are fighting on the cultural front or the military front they are doing for ukraine but will kalush of the orchestra be able to unite the vote on after the eurovision song contest, it is primarily about my mother, in which there is not a single word about the war, unfortunately, it has become a symbol of this war, many people call it a symbol of this war. and no, i think that for me , this perception of this song has also changed. now i, too, and more identify with ukraine in general and not only with your mother. even in irpen, you were also in kalush and met stefania, the mother of the band leader, who is actually mentioned in the song for the eurovision song contest. it's interesting what she said about her

son before the road. it was very exciting moment and for our film crew and for the family of the pisyuks , because it was such a reunion on easter , they don't see oleg that often, and when, well, before the war of this great one, they said that oleg was not often at home because he often toured a lot and performed now they finally saw him, but ms. stefania said that she understands what mission he is performing and also said that well, well, i don’t see him, but the main thing is that the war in ukraine ends. and of course she is very proud, she is very much looking forward to this finale and participation she is also convinced that it is she said this phrase in several versions. she is convinced that it is precisely because of the fact that oleg named the band kalush as his hometown that he previously released the album hotin, which names the neighborhood in which he grew up, and now with the

song stefania is going to represent calmly on the whole world, she thinks that it helps her son a lot from what do you think was the most difficult thing for the musicians during this preparation, when they decided to go and sing during the war zhenya, i asked them this question at every step of our long trip through ukraine, and i spent more than 10 days with this group, they told me that the hardest thing is losing people they knew, it 's about those who died at the front, they have comrades who have already died, and the second thing is the path of stress, they ... they often repeated this to all the guys because the air alarms sounded when we were trying to film an interview or when we were trying to get somewhere, the guys themselves said that nowhere in ukraine is safe and you never know where you will fly to. thank you vita this was victoria shugan about preparation

of the ukrainian band to perform at the eurovision song contest, the secondary eurovision song contest will take place this weekend. kalush will represent ukraine in the orchestras . ukraine, where the war has been going on for almost three months, good evening to all ukrainians who joined our company . interesting guests, we will discuss the current situation that is now in our country with yours. so let's immediately give a little information and join the guest whom we are very much looking forward to, the war against russia is entering a protracted phase, but a turning point is gradually taking place