and many people died there, by the way, we will just mention them at the very end and may god accept all those who died for ukraine and the civilians who died from enemy shelling only in syrodonetsk. somewhere three people died from enemy shelling. well, serhiy sgorets, my co-host and the expert defect express was with us thank you very gentlemanly channel tomorrow there will be information again just about the situation in the war name my name is vasyl zima dozatora farewell to you take care and now for your attention a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office bbc news the armed forces of ukraine reached the state border line in kharkiv oblast, russian missile strikes in odesa mykolaiv and the nato alliance predicts victory for ukraine, this is the 82nd day of resistance about the main thing in the results of the day. in a live broadcast from london, ukrainian troops announced the transition to a counteroffensive in the raisin

direction and reported to president zelenskiy about going to the border line near kharkiv, bbc journalists discovered new evidence of war crimes committed by russian troops against the civilian population near kyiv and the european union agreed on the sixth package sanctions against russia, but is ready to start work on it in brussels. the meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs ended. the ukrainian armed forces, thanks to a successful counteroffensive, reached the state border line in the kharkiv region, and president zelensky congratulated them with it. the russians lost the battle for kharkiv, the second largest city in ukraine. the conclusion

of, in particular, the united states-based think tank institute for the study of war ukrainian forces did not allow russian troops to surround it let alone capture it and then they were driven out of the city, as was the case with the russian troops near kyiv, the research of the institute about the mood and situation in kharkiv is going on in a minute, we will hear the latest from our own correspondent in the city, and first the other events of the day, the most difficult situation in donbas, at least ten people died in the battles of severodonetsk and lysychansk the head of the luhansk regional military administration, serhii gaidai, said that the number of damaged houses is still being determined. and these shots show the consequences of a missile attack on odesa this morning, as reported by the representatives of the ukrainian authorities, a cruise missile hit a tourist infrastructure facility, a fire broke out, four people were injured, a small child was seriously injured, the command of the southern

district reported that this attack was carried out by russian strategic aviation planes. the odessa authorities say that russia continues to strike the damaged bridge through dniester lyman but hits civilians in mykolaiv this morning also heard a series of strong explosions as a result of rocket the president's office and the local administration were informed of strikes and shelling by rocket launcher systems on residential areas. the explosions were heard at 5:30 a.m. and while the rescue of wounded soldiers from the dead is still ongoing, footage of how the russians used it during the shelling of this object appeared. ammunition with white phosphorus, such ammunition has a high burning temperature of up to 800°. and the fires caused by them are very difficult to extinguish, they are prohibited, i will remind you by the additional protocols to the geneva convention, meanwhile, have the wives of the azovstal forests turned to the president of turkey and its perdogan and the leader of china, all

the dolphins with a tearful plea to save the people, the wife of one of the fighters, natalya zarytska, said at a press conference in istanbul that their husbands are in hell, they have new and new wounds quote they are without legs without the hands are weak without medication, they must be rescued to a place outside the control of the ukrainian authorities and let's return to kharkiv, where our film crew works, although the russians were pushed back to the border line, they continue to be disorderly shelling of kharkiv oblast olga melchevska read more about the situation on the spot in kharkiv today two big news happy and tragic as the spokeswoman of the head of the local military administration olena shapoval told us before the broadcast one person died five more were injured due to shelling by the russian military the deceased is known to be a man 40 years from the village of zirkuny, all the victims are all five victims, also from the villages of the kharkiv region, on which the russians struck, along with the pain for the

dead and wounded here in kharkiv, they are happy with the news that the ukrainian military managed to push the russian army to the russian border , according to the ministry of defense of ukraine, the soldiers of the 227th battalion of the 127th brigade of the territorial defense of the city of kharkiv of the armed forces of ukraine managed to do this, later the soldiers themselves wrote an appeal to the president of ukraine 227th battalion of the 127th brigade of the ritual defense of ukraine went to the frontier and the border and the dividing line with the russian federation and the occupying country, we have reached, mr. president, we are here, the president of ukraine answered the soldiers in a telegram, i am very grateful from myself, from me, my gratitude is boundless, and i wish you all good health. take care. thank you to your parents. you are

well done, and to all the soldiers like you, thank you very, very much . everything will be fine. it remains tense from time to time we hear explosions quite often the air alarm goes off several times a day and at night there are very few people on the streets even here now in the central square of the city there is almost no one around us the houses are empty we saw that several cafes and restaurants have opened but they lack staff the city is starting to come back to life but slowly and cautiously this was my colleague olga malchevska in kharkiv vvc journalists found evidence of war crimes committed by russian soldiers in ukraine since the russians were pushed back from kyiv in buchansk at the end of march in the area, the bodies of more than a thousand civilians were discovered, many of whom were hastily buried in shallow

graves, as the bbc learned, more than half of them, almost 650 people, were shot according to the representative of the police of these people was executed, one such case was investigated by the bbc correspondent sarah rainsford, i warn you, her report contains details that can shock in this place, there were terrible things, russian soldiers tortured and killed civilians in a war in which they violated all the rules as if they did not know them or they they just indifferently take them to the dungeon, five men were held captive here, and then they were killed with shots to the head in the dark, it is possible to see terrible evidence, the bodies of these men were found here, their beaten hands were tied behind their backs, it's cold, damp, and

dark here, five men spent the most terrible moments of their lives, we don't have a complete picture of those events, but the evidence we found here underground shows that they were executed, we counted more than a dozen holes from the bullets , the headquarters was located there where the medical center was, and there was a torture chamber, the population was tortured and killed, everything happened in the children's camp, radiant, this name means a sunny place, when russian troops occupied bucha, they organized their base here alyona shows me photos of her brother from a happy past. volodymyr is one of those men who were found in the basement. his death broke

alyona's heart. i love you. when they last spoke, volodymyr told his sister that he loved her, but she heard that his voice was full of fear. it was very painful to hear. it's hard i hate them all i hate every cell in my body i know you can't talk like that about people but they are not people as they abused them and all those boys when the russian troops retreated from buchi and left the streets full of death in moscow , these shots are convincing, and even now , weeks later, there is evidence of civilian cars with gunshot wounds, the investigation process of these crimes is stunning and shocking, even for

law enforcement officers, buchansk district, more than half of the people killed in buchansk district were shot , not killed by bullet fragments found among the zavals, and more than 650 people were shot, this testifies to the cruelty of the russians, their crimes against humanity, such a feeling as if every house, every the yard in buchi witnessed that brutality right across from the children's camp, we learn about another man. he was also kept there in prison, the current situation in western ukraine viktor says that he was tortured in the cellar of the camp, his feet were poured with water so that he would freeze, and he was put to the head weapons for the day of the fascists, where are the troops, i say uvolsky, they asked where are the fascists, where are the nazis, where is zelensky, they say that by morning you have to remember

everything you saw, if you don’t remember, we will shoot you ещённая territory, they say viktor managed to escape when the shelling began and his kidnappers ran away from the grave of the deceased volodymyr, there is no date of death , his relatives do not know exactly when the man was shot, but what this city knows for sure is that its inhabitants became a target in this war. of ukrainian affairs of the european union tried to find a way out of the sanctions impasse and agree on a new package of sanctions against russia, which would include an embargo on the purchase of russian oil in the political capital the council of the european union met in which the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine,

dmytro kuleba, also took part. now we have the opportunity to find out how these discussions ended live from brussels. agreed well, i'll start with military aid in the european union, it was revealed what the new half a billion euros that the eu allocates to ukraine will go to, according to the head of european union diplomacy, josep borel, eh, they are for ukraine will buy heavy weapons, this includes armored vehicles and tanks and heavy artillery, and, of course, ammunition. in this way, the total military aid from the eu to ukraine will reach two billion euros. regarding the new package of sanctions, it became clear before the start of the meeting that there will be no breakthrough here. in order to agree on these new restrictions, the main one of which is the actual stumbling block - the oil embargo, restrictions on the purchase of

russian oil by europe, to convince colleagues , the minister of foreign affairs really came here in person dmytro kuleba of ukraine, who for today had another priority task, in his words, to get the status of the country from the eu, a date for ukraine, direct speech, let's listen to this jenga sandals, two big questions. on the agenda, the sixth package of sanctions, we are all interested to see how this saga will end. i would wanted to remind that every day european countries continue to pay russia millions of euros for gas and oil, and it is this money that is then used to finance the russian military machine, its aggression and atrocities are the second issue to be discussed at the eu council. granting ukraine the status of a candidate for accession, in our opinion, the moment has come. well, it must be said that kyiv's arguments regarding oil in the european union are well understood , even they themselves repeat them repeatedly

and emphasize it. so it is important to stop buying russian oil and in the future even gas, but it is precisely because of this issue that the countries have been unable to come to an agreement for a few weeks now that, well, in order to make a decision, unanimity is required, and the level of dependence on russian energy carriers in various countries are different, so the degree of support is different , the issue is now stopped, well, practically in one country, what is blocking the oil embargo, by the way, her colleague also said about this after the meeting and the foreign ministers. the conversation becomes clear. well, it is no secret for journalists that we are talking about hungary. without waiting for a general european

decision at the level of the european union in budapest, they are negotiating , they want investments, money for the modernization of their energy system and energy structure, they say about 15-18 billion euros, and some ministers today, before the start of the meeting, did not hide their irritation even with the fact that the countries of the european union can not move quickly forward with the new sanctions package, but the minister of foreign affairs of lithuania even directly stated that the entire eu is held hostage by one country, one of the questions is whether we will be remembered as a single union that is ready to move on or how the union is stuck. unfortunately, the entire union is currently held hostage by one member state that cannot help us find a consensus, it is looking for something, they are looking for ways to act as a united front on the issue of the oil embargo and pressure on russia, and now they are already saying that they

are ready to start work on this with a package of sanctions well , while the european union continues to allocate additional resources to support ukraine, in the near future, for example, a new package of financial support should be announced, and mainly these are loans to support the immediate needs of the ukrainian budget separately related to the need to restore the infrastructure of ukraine destroyed by the russians, irena, well, sanctions are a tool of economic pressure on russia and economic support for ukraine, but what about this political signal, if the status of granting ukraine the status of a candidate for membership of the ucc should be understood as the formal procedure now launched in brussels they are waiting for the answer of the european commission , i would like to remind you that kyiv filled out a special questionnaire and right now the european commission is evaluating the answer and it is called the conclusion about the country's readiness for candidate status, let me remind you that in addition to ukraine, georgia and moldova

have also submitted their applications and questionnaires in brussels, they expect the european commission to announce its decision in june, well, at the beginning or somewhere in the middle, now it is intriguing what status ukraine will receive, because there are nuances here can be the status of a candidate and can be the status of a potential candidate, there are several countries, that is, with such a status of a pension candidate, in no case, in any case, there is no question of ukraine's immediate accession to the eu, and here and now, yes, he has announced this its head of the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine, dmytro kuleba, but according to him, there are currently no rational arguments against granting ukraine the status of a candidate, they say that today is a unique moment when public opinion in ukraine and in the european union states is at a record high in favor of the further european integration of ukraine .

candidate status can be given in ukraine. ukraine can wait, but let's talk about one more topic about nato, where ukraine also wants to join and its membership , which sweden and finland has officially announced its desire to join the alliance, but before we continue , let's look at the stories from germany, where nato foreign ministers met this weekend, they claim that putin's war brought them closer and made them stronger, now the nato family will be even bigger , us secretary of state anthony blinken is back in europe says that support to ukraine will be long-term every member of the alliance wants to end this war as soon as possible, but we are equally determined to continue providing security support to ukraine to continue our sanctions, export controls and diplomatic pressure on russia as long as it will be necessary and this is historically we, this stockholm, sweden

, like neighboring finland, was neutral for decades, but now both countries want to join nato. now we are facing a fundamentally changed security situation in europe. in this new environment, the fundamental question for us is how best to protect sweden, and the kremlin has shown that they are ready to use violence to achieve their political goals of joining sweden and finland to the western of the military alliance, this not only means that two more flags will appear here, it will double the length of the land borders between russia and nato countries, and it is this expansion that vladimir putin desperately tried to avoid. but russia continues to attack ukraine from the air, land and sea, their forces

are concentrated in the donbas, although moscow accuses the west of a total war against the russian people and promises that if nato expands its borders, there will be consequences, nato secretary general jen stoltenberg told the bbc that the alliance was ready for this president putin does not understand that we are not talking about the aggressive movement of nato to the east, we are talking about the free independent decisions of the free independent democratic countries of the baltic states, poland, and now the most incredible thing is finland and sweden, and we respect these free independent decisions, the decision on the membership of finland and sweden in nato has not yet been made it must be approved by all 30 members, and turkey has already announced its disagreement, but still many allies promise to speed up the consideration of these applications in view of russian aggression, "the catch remains with us on communications in brussels, where, in addition to european

institutions, there is also the headquarters of nato grisha. so, the headquarters have already announced that both sweden and finland will be accepted into the alliance without delay and even without the so-called pdc. how can you explain such haste? the countries, long-standing and close allies of nato, have long been closely cooperating in joint training, in particular, so that an action plan for the member is not even needed among the countries of the alliance, there is a prevailing opinion that both countries are ready to join the alliance, this entry after an undeniably historic the decision of finland and sweden to renounce military neutrality is, well, just more of a formality, although we really see that not necessarily everything can go quite so smoothly. turkey, as we have just seen in the stories of my colleague , has already stated that she has questions for sweden and sweden has already sent to shake the group of diplomats out of this disagreement

. but few people doubt that it will be possible to solve it in excel, the only question is how long it will take other formal procedures, such as the ratification of this new the expansion of nato by all the countries of the alliance, experts say that it can last until the year of grigory, it is interesting, by the way, there is a new, fresh reaction of the kremlin, if last week they said in moscow that finland and sweden would be accepted into nato. isn't it, yes, it's really interesting. putin said that the accession of sweden and finland to nato does not directly pose a threat, it was practically a quote. although russia promises to deploy additional military infrastructure near new borders of the alliance and an interesting explanation of why russia is so against ukraine joining nato, they say, because

there is a territorial dispute between russia and ukraine , and there are no territorial disputes between russia and finland, for example, or sweden. this is the transformation of the position, i will remind you that in december, moscow demanded an ultimatum from nato and your washington to refuse further expansion of the alliance, even to return the entire military infrastructure at the time of 1997, in fact, with its war against ukraine, moscow wanted to stop further expansion of the alliance, but received the exact opposite of grigoriy. in this regard, how can we not mention the caricature recently posted on social networks about the fact that there is an institute number that presented the award for the best promoter of the nato alliance . vladimir about putin, there would be no aggression in ukraine, take your time so much sweden and finland to nato this was the bbc correspondent hryhoriy zhigalov live from brussels thank you not the ability of the russians to capture kharkiv

and their retreat from the outskirts of the second largest ukrainian city is a great military defeat for russia this opinion was expressed in an interview with the bbc this morning by the former commander of the british combined forces , general sir richard barons, this nut was poured for the russian forces after a strong one, said the distant general and added that russia does not have the numbers, the will, or the skills to occupy large cities in ukraine however, he added that russia's defeat in the kharkiv area does not mean the failure of the russian invasion in general . a similar opinion was expressed by the general in a conversation with my colleague natalka skopenko, who asked richard barons to evaluate the role of the alliance nato in supporting and strengthening the combat capability of the armed forces of ukraine. you have a lot of experience from serving in germany, in the balkans, in afghanistan, in iraq, and after the russian invasion of ukraine, you called for

immediate military assistance to nato. in your opinion, this can change the course of this war. i think that the position of nato has always been clear because the alliance is aware that it is involved in a serious confrontation with russia, but nato is not in the last war with russia, russia is at war with ukraine and the role of its members is to support ukraine with money, weapons and ammunition, to what extent the current western military aid is sufficient for ukraine, i think we all have to admit that nato is making up for lost time and opportunities, what we clearly see now is a transition to the supply of heavy weapons, mainly artillery, and in larger quantities and with a much larger supply of ammunition, this will allow the ukrainian military to hold its current positions and disrupt further russian attacks, but this is not enough to allow the ukrainian military to conduct large-scale offensive operations the parties believe that they can achieve military progress russia has a larger army ukraine

believes in its victory but some believe that there can be no winners in such a war in your opinion, what could be the course of this war i think in the short term it is becoming increasingly clear that russia cannot to win in the sense of seizing the entire territory, she intended to defeat ukraine as a sovereign nation that is beyond the limits of russia's current military capabilities, but ukraine did a brilliant job repelling it , overcoming the russian invasion, but it still will lose in some territories, but the success in defeating the russian offensive will not translate into the ability to completely repel the russian forces from ukraine, and therefore the most likely prospect for this spring and summer is a stalemate in the donbas. in addition, russia can spread the conflict to another territory, it has big plans for the south of ukraine and maybe even she will try to return to the kyiv region, but this

will also most likely lead to a dead end. so far , there is no reason to think that the war will end quickly, it will take some time from one and a half to two years in order to restore ukrainian military strength and ukraine could confidently go on the offensive to regain the lost territory in the east , south or southwest, which is the most important front in the russian strategy. while russia is intensifying further activity in the south with the aim of cutting off ukraine from the sea, and this would be a serious blow to ukraine as a state, a big blow to its economy, but according to the results of russia so far, i think that ukraine i am quite confident that it can prevent this if the west provides money, weapons, equipment and ammunition, is there a danger that this war can spill over into the borders of ukraine, in such a war there is no

scenario, there is no guaranteed outcome, we absolutely see the prospect of a serious failure for russia because its operation was so unsuccessful in ukraine according to the standards that they themselves set and so isolated russia from the west, at least strategically. this is a disaster by any measure, but there is always a risk of escalation when one will the other side miscalculate or will consciously decide to go for it and in fact that would mean that russia declares war on nato or nato declares war on russia and it would be a disaster for everyone including ukraine so although it cannot be guaranteed that it will not go beyond the borders of ukraine the risk of this but we must do everything possible to prevent this from happening , retired british general richard barons. and before the broadcast , a renewed statement was received from the azov regiment. the azov

national guard regiment, which maintains the defense in azovstalia, announced that it would carry out the order of the higher the command, it is related to the preservation of the lives of the soldiers, the details are not specified in this message, but earlier russian sources reported that after negotiations with the ukrainian servicemen blocked at azovstal, they apparently agreed on the evacuation of the wounded, we are monitoring the development of this situation, the details are still coming, this is all we can give you to report that today is the 82nd day since the start of the russian invasion of ukraine, the russians have increased shelling in severodnotsk and lysychansk, where ten people died today and the wife of the blocked names called on the leader of turkey and china to help save people listen and see tomorrow and we say goodbye goodbye to

ukraine glory to ukraine this is a program verdict my name is serhiy rudenko good day and good health to all today is the 82nd day of heroic ukrainian resistance to russian occupation in the morning of may 16, odesa region was bombarded by planes of the strategic aviation of russia, in addition, russia