cossacks near it in 1827, the construction of prystan began, and less than 15 years later the settlement was declared a city and renamed berdyansk. during the second world war, nazi troops entered berdyansk and ruthlessly destroyed its inhabitants and infrastructure. and we know that the ukrainians cannot defeat berdyansk. shelling of sumy oblast and the fate of ukrainian fighters evacuated from azovstal, this is the 83rd day of ukrainian resistance, this is how it will be remembered. moscow released these footage of the ukrainian soldiers who were the last to be taken to the territory controlled by the russians, what is known about the last defenders of mariupol, fighting in the east, together

with territorial defense units near the front line, our film crew came under fire from the russians, a bbc special report and an order to save their own lives, 264 ukrainian soldiers were taken to the territory occupied by russia as well as the latest updates from the front live from kharkiv the defenders of mariupol have fulfilled the order of the state leadership to save lives, they have already arrived in ukraine and beyond the borders of the legend, the azovians, like those 300 spartans, defended the last cell of ukrainian resistance in mariupol azovstal 82 days last night, due to the

increase, the russians took 264 ukrainian fighters , all of them to the territory controlled by them, and already today the reuters news agency reported that at least seven more buses left the territory of the azovstal plant in mariupol the ukrainian fighters, the fighters who were accompanied by the pro-russian forces, were not wounded, a witness told the agency earlier , the ukrainian government stated that it was working on the following during the stages of evacuation of the people who remained in azovstal , president zelenskyy called them heroes and added that ukraine needs heroes alive if this is the end of the battle for mariupol, then it is not as many imagined ukrainian fighters who are being searched by russian soldiers fought bloody battles for more than 80 days, some of these men are seriously wounded reported that without treatment they will die, this video was released by the

russian ministry of defense, the whole process was carried out in coordination with the red cross and the united nations, with one goal: we we hope that it will be possible to save the lives of our guys, among them there are seriously wounded, they are being helped, i want to emphasize that ukraine needs a ukrainian hero alive, this is our principle, they think that every adequate person will understand these words, the most seriously wounded were taken to the hospital, more than 200 were taken to another place on the territory controlled by russia it is believed that the soldiers are exchanged for prisoners, but it seems that some fighters remained. kateryna spent two months in the bomb shelter with her husband, in fact, it hurts me especially my husband is still there somewhere in uniform and my husband is there. and

i know many guys, many people who are still there, and how much, how heroically they behave under the ongoing shelling, the fact that they are not released is terrible, although moscow can finally claim a certain result in mariupol on in the north of the country, the picture is completely different, the ukrainian military announced that they reached the russian border, the process of liberating cities and villages near kharkiv is in full swing, because it is behind mariupol, kharkiv is possible . in the history of this war, an important page has been turned before our eyes, the territory of the azovstal metallurgical plant remained the last refuge for ukrainian servicemen in that place , even in the first days of the russian invasion, it was surrounded from almost all sides, about a thousand civilians and soldiers were blocked in the territory of the

azovstal plant, which has a large area and an extensive system of underground bunkers, the evacuation of civilians , in particular women, children and the elderly, who were sitting in shelters, took place at the beginning of may the ukrainian side reported at the time that it was possible to evacuate about 300 people after the evacuation of civilians on the territory of australia, mostly ukrainian security forces, soldiers of the azov national guard regiment, soldiers of the 36th marine brigade, border guards, policemen and others remained in australia there are 82 days for the russians - this is the first victory they wanted very much for mariupol to fall by may 9, victory day, they were preparing to hold a parade in mariupol this became impossible due to the fact that the ukrainian soldiers were holding on there, if it were not for the defenders of mariupol, zaporizhzhia would have been attacked much

earlier. in the end, they did not win, but they did not intend to do it, but by holding off the russians, they held off the whole war. a pyrrhic victory, according to john simpson, but mariupol stopped the resistance about what is known now about the fate of the fighters from azovstal who were taken to the territory controlled by the russians , we will talk with our correspondent in the east of ukraine, olga melchevska. she is in touch with us oh, it's been almost a day since the evacuation of the ab- or the removal of the seriously injured, many of whom were stabbed, what is known about where they are now, how have they heard anything? i congratulate you early. actually, this is a question that i am sure now worries many people because there are quite a lot of them. this topic is speculative, but it is quite difficult to verify the information and it is very difficult to say. probably what is happening to them, but today andriy biletsky, the first leader of the azov regiment, recorded a video message in which he

urged not to harm the soldiers. he said that now this is the most important thing, and in two or three days the fighters themselves will tell about what is happening. he added that the fighters are armed with weapons. he knows what is happening to them, but the most important thing now is not to harm iran. president zelenskyi , vice prime minister vereshchuk insist on because as biletskyi said, in a few days they will be exchanged, the main task now is to save the lives of the defenders of azovstali, what signals in this regard can be heard from both sides, but for starters, olya, let's listen to what the representative of the president's office, mykhailo, says podolyak is the main thing, well, the main thing is that we understand what mariupol is in general. for 82 days, the garrison of mariupol practically brought down on itself the huge forces of the russian federation, thereby disrupting the key operation to seize the eastern part of the south

. something else. that is, it changed the course of the war and we have to evaluate it correctly. we had the 36th brigade of marines there, there was the 12th brigade of the national guard, territorial border guards. by the way, the defense of mariupol is the azov regiment, yes, these are all the guys essentially changed the course of the war and gave ukraine the opportunity on the battlefield to prove that the army of ukraine is a powerful force, and as for the release of the boys and the exchange and other things that are being said, let's talk about it just right and let's talk carefully so as not to break this the negotiation process is fragile, i.e. 82 days guys defenders of mariupol the defenders of azovstal kept almost 20,000 soldiers on the front line in the city of mariupol, what are the assessments of the russians - these are the soldiers who did not go to kyiv to kharkiv, if they are heroes for ukraine, of course, for russia. they, uh, are also heroes

whose heroes they respect, what signals are heard from both sides, we actually heard that the minister of defense of ukraine, oleksiy greznikov, told journalists that now our soldiers have a new order to preserve life, and before that they were fulfilling he executed the orders with the dignity of a truly heroic one - this is to hold back more than 20,000 russian soldiers so that, as you correctly noted, they did not go to kyiv, and thanks to this, he also said that we can now be calm in kyiv. and actually it was about the fact that since the ukrainian soldiers fulfilled this order, the next order was for them to preserve their own lives, and now, according to reznikov, there are difficult negotiations to embrace

the ukrainian military. ukrainian nazis and said that in such a case they are not subject to exchange, but of course the ukrainian side does not lose hope that it will be possible to agree on the possibility to exchange ukrainian fighters iryna i don't think olya that the optimism of those who say that in a few days the fighters themselves will tell about their fate is justified, the truth is, at least not all of them are being talked about uh-uh almost at the same time as the evacuation of the ukrainian defenders started last night russian forces inflicted a number of powerful strikes against various targets in ukraine in the north, it was sumy and chernihiv oblast, in the west lviv oblast, what is the situation now in ukraine, the situation remains unstable and ukrainians are really one we know that there was heavy shelling in the area of ​​desna , the state emergency service reports

eight dead and 11 wounded, and according to the state emergency service, the 169th was located there. now i am clarifying the training the desna center named after prince yaroslav the wise, we also know that there were heavy strikes on the sumy region, there were actually almost 70 strikes, but there were also reports that there were attempts to break through the russian border in the sumy region, but later there was confirmation that the russian army failed to do this and there were again shellings in donetsk region and luhansk region. in donetsk region, we heard that there were also victims. and in luhansk region it was possible to evacuate 32 people from a mountain community, including seven children and one wounded here in kharkiv oblast, the situation also remains

quite tense, we literally just heard an air alarm before the broadcast, we also heard several explosions , it is quite difficult to estimate how far away they are from us, but i hope that they are quite far away we can't estimate uh actually. is this uh an explosion due to the shelling of the russian army or is it the ukrainian air defense system? fertilizers, but according to the local administration, no chemicals were leaked . iryna. thank you olya, take care with the film crew. kharkiv oblast and drove russian forces across the

border, the armed forces of ukraine reports that these successes on the battlefield can partly be explained by the fact that russian troops concentrated their main strike force further south of kharkiv in order to strike at donbas and try to surround the most combat-capable group of the armed forces of ukraine, the city of izyum in kharkiv oblast called the gate to the donbas, and there the bbc correspondent quentin somervy and cameraman daryn conway accompanied the soldiers of the territorial defense on patrol, the war defines the rules of life on the eastern front, people can be in bunkers, but they are not hiding in them. in the last month, the russians attacked this base three times with infantry and tanks, and three times the russians were forced to retreat. russian tanks fired directly at us from these positions. here they are waiting

, vladimir putin turned their days into nights , separated them from their loved ones, and for the fighters of this territorial defense unit, now this is their home, and a constant threat hangs over their heads the city under which they paid off is almost abandoned, people have fled, so they are looking for shelter among the fighters and abandoned pets, the commander tells me there are many more of them than us, but we are ukrainians, we are on our own land, so it does not matter, since the enemy is well prepared, he does not have the support that these fighters have here these men you see are volunteers many of them do not even have military training and they are here on the front lines and not at checkpoints far from the front they are here in the thick of things on the outskirts of the raisin near the gate to the donbass and they are learning quite quickly because they are facing the russian army. and this makes it clear how

much ukraine is devoted to the struggle, giving everything it has on the surface, the shells are starting to explode , the russians have started artillery training, it's time to get to work outside these walls, everything. the line of fire is the daily routine to which they are accustomed here no one needs to be reminded, the main forces of the russians are located in the north, in the south, mainly the rear is covered by ukrainian comrades, patrols and the defense of this line keep the forces at a distance, the shells fall closer while the russians are setting up their

artillery you can feel what the russian artillery and tanks can do to the ukrainian houses it is brutal but the reason why the fighters hold on to these defensive positions so strongly is that they simply cannot let the russians in here unless they keep them here even more ukrainian soldiers in the south in donbas will be under threat, so for the sake of life they are standing here to the death, there is no bunker ahead, but the fighters are armed to the teeth, this is a volunteer battalion, these people did ordinary work before the war now they stand against russian tanks and russian artillery constantly under fire. how do you manage to hold back the russians, our people, they go to fight

, they go to run, they fight under this fire, you yourself see because we believe that all democratic ukraine, the whole world will help us when they give us modern weapons these brave people will be able to completely destroy the russian army and we will free all of ukraine and the whole world from this russian gangster regime the day is running out time to speed up the topic in the open nowhere to hide safely almost a trap, the way back is cut off by fire, then through the gardens and the yard, the fighters are looking for how to save themselves, leave, the children, as soon as possible, on what. and this is where we meet natasha, asking for the necessary help to

help you leave, but she is defiantly against , she did not choose this war, and now she refuses to obey even if russian shells fly overhead a woman invites us to her home very close to us very close and this is our road why didn't you go i already sold my whole life he is buried above education we try one more time you can why don't you go from here what happened to me where he had nowhere to go already yuriy is trying to convince her to go with us but the woman is ready to risk her life she is used to everything to

help you let's see guys she agreed we have to go but natasha is being told to pack the suitcases fighters they will come back for her when the shelling stops despite the danger men are moving forward this is what the dead end sounds like on the eastern front this is what it means to keep the gates to donbas firmly closed bbc news these days in eastern ukraine it is especially difficult for doctors who save lives of soldiers we managed to communicate with one of them, an anesthesiologist who works in the popasnya area, the other day his fellow medics

, volodymyr, whose last name we call him, died due to a direct hit by a projectile, says that wounded soldiers of various degrees of severity are delivered to his medical company, and depending on the intensity of the battles per day in in unsuitable conditions, it is necessary to save the lives of five to ten soldiers in their 50s and 60s, at the same time, doctors and civilians help, because according to volodymyr, the russian military continues the tactics of land, and the level of their brutality amazes even those who came to the most terrible battles in 2014 and 2015. my colleague tetyana kharchenko spoke with volodymyr. well, such a fragment was received on saturday as a gift nearby. to evacuate because because a dead

medic will not help anyone 14-15 on the 16th, well, this is the acute phase, with the exception of the boilers of debaltsivsk, ilovaisk, well, ilovaiskyi asked if there was a shooting. let’s say yes, debaltsevskyi boiler, well, these are the same hot spots and the airport , but compared to this unprincipled full-scale war, even the guys who came to these hot spots will say, well, there is no comparison, neither in terms of scale nor in terms of the number of wounded, nor in terms of the intensity of military actions in terms of application different types of weapons were used as much as possible, cruise missiles, such rockets, e.e. anti-aircraft missiles, to the soviets, hurricanes, tanks, cannons, and well, phosphorous bombs were very often used that i

only so why well, i see at least 15 times phosphorous bombs were used, which are prohibited as a result of the war, well, occupying the territory even if this territory will be completely burned out, life and peace with equals, mariupol is now liberated from rubizhne, it is also being destroyed there, because i only hear about the times of gradonetsk-grebischi in the city of bakhmut, it is being bombarded with rockets, well, i guess so what if we can’t to defeat the willpower of the people of the fighters, you just have to burn the ground, show everyone, not only who was there, i don't know from which units, but the guys who were already in the final position on azov well, they are heroes, they are already alive

heroes and god will give diplomacy to the world and we have all our strength so that they return home alive, how the side will behave is unknown, considering that i think we have someone to exchange them for, the number of prisoners is enough, this is a war and every life lost, as always, the doctor says this there is value, let's hope that soon we will see them on the territory of ukraine, who is wounded will already receive a course of rehabilitation treatment, everyone else will be here, then they will say their opinion about everything they experienced, how they experienced it , they still have a long time to go this was an anesthesiologist named volodymyr and a few words about the humanitarian

consequences of the war. as of mid-may, the number of refugees from the war in ukraine, according to the united nations, reached 13 million, of which more than 6 million ukrainians were forced to leave for border and another six and a half million became internally displaced persons, but according to each dry figure, destinies are broken, lives are turned upside down, and for children new countries, new schools in britain, currently there are only a few hundreds of such children, not thousands, hundreds of thousands here new ukrainian students are welcomed, but they say that they need accelerated learning of the english language and emotional support, but how does it happen in the story from the english county of norfolk from ukraine from ukraine margarita came to

manchester a month ago with her family, she could not speak english but wants to learn how many children she had to leave behind so much of what she loved in school it hurt because she was a star at school she participated in sports competitions played chess danced she was knitting all the time, she was doing something, she wants to say hello to her friends from lviv, margarita was just offered a place at school, the war affected the lives of the children

. what did the ukrainian children see? i don't believe that it will be without trauma. this is what childhood should be like. nine-year-old alisa comes from a city in the south of ukraine where there were fierce battles. she started going to school in norfolk. alisa is still learning english, but her new friend popi is determined that she felt as best as possible you understand each other sometimes i just give a thumbs up i wrote a poem for alice it was about the war and at the end i said we are your friends and you are safe it was nice to have

alice here it was very good for the class for the children to unite we are starting to see smiles hear laughter they chat and joke of course we didn't see it at first and it says she is doing well and enjoying her time at school the department for education says it is working with local authorities to determine costs to support children from ukraine, many local councils offer additional help with english, and children who come here under the home for ukraine scheme receive school uniforms on a grant, but one of the biggest problems is emotional support. we feel better when we see alice shining , that's the only consolation. alice and her mother stay with her aunt but alice's father is forced to stay in ukraine to fight what can

everyone do it's good but we still don't know how long it will last and what to expect we don't think about the future we just hold our breath and live - day by day come back earth margarita attends saturday school at the ukrainian center in manchester the war has taken so much away but margarita still has her own dream sixty mom told my mom i will have to do very well in school because i i want to be a doctor. i said that it is not so difficult if it is your dream, and at the very end, how many personnel put a symbolic full stop to a bright and fateful life in kyiv with great state celebrations said goodbye to the first president of independent

ukraine, leonid makarovych kravchuk, he died on may 10 after a long illness. leonid kravchuk was the last of the trio of politicians from russia and belarus and ukraine, who were named the belovezhskaya trinity for the adoption in december 1991 of the agreement on the dissolution of the soviet union, to say goodbye to leonid makarovy the current president zelensky and all his successors in the post of president came, with the exception of one who was deprived of this status, the ceremony came in a ukrainian house and was buried of the first president at the legendary cemetery in kyiv , as christians and non- christians say in such cases rest with god leonid makarovych, the first president of independent ukraine, and that's all we have time to tell you today, more history, in particular, current information about events at the front, can be found

on our website bbc.ua this is the 83rd day of the russian invasion of ukraine, on the day when the azov residents stopped their resistance and fulfilled the order of the command to save lives, the russians took the evacuees from the azov village to the occupied territory of the so-called dpr and lpr, among them 53 seriously wounded, who were taken to the field hospital in azovsk, another 211 fighters were sent to the filtration camp in olenivka yesterday, listen and watch our next program tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. take care of yourself