of history, which is temporarily covered by a pile, the situation on the horizon just says that there is a resistance movement, which terrifies the occupiers . i'm serhiy, we have to say goodbye somewhere in this period. bbc serhiy are walking vasyl zima. thank you, bbcineus from ukraine, for your attention, the russian is responsible a soldier pleaded guilty to the murder of a civilian man in sumy oblast in february, almost a thousand ukrainian soldiers were taken out for extradition, the kremlin says that the nato bloc received two applications to join, this is the 84th day of the russian invasion of ukraine about the most important thing in news broadcast live from london, the first

russian soldier accused of a war crime in ukraine pleaded guilty in a courtroom in sweden in the morning officially applied for nato membership, the ukrainian authorities do not comment on the russian ministry of defense flaunting that since monday, it has captured 959 ukrainian soldiers who have been in captivity for almost three months held the defense of the azovstal plant in mariupol, these shots were released by the ministry of defense of russia on them defenders of azovstal leave the plant and sit down under the escort of the russians further on the bus, the fate of hundreds of ukrainian soldiers

is unknown as an unknown test, how many of them remain at the plant itself, the ukrainian state leadership hopes to exchange azov citizens for russian prisoners of war, but at the moment the mariupol garrison is in captivity, as the russians say, and representatives of both sides declare that negotiations are not taking place, the wives of soldiers from azov are still supporting the fact that they are being taken to the territory controlled by russia and they are asking the world to monitor the development of the situation, such a request of the wife, be afraid of the azov and lyzeric regiments, placed her on her on the facebook page of the press service of the national guard, according to the information of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, attempts by the russians to break through the defenses along the entire front line in the donetsk region and in the direction of sloviansk in the east, a little south of north donetsk, continued today. russian attempts to

seize several other settlements in donetsk region, but without results. in the north, in chernihiv region and sumy region, the russians across the border shelled two villages with mortars and artillery on the front of the zaporozhye kherson and mykolaiv regions , there are no active hostilities, but shelling continues. this is reported by the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine and siberia. vadym shishimarin has become the first russian serviceman to stand trial in ukraine on charges of murdering an unarmed ukrainian civilian . the first session on the merits of the case and on may 13, the court already considered procedural issues when asked by the judge whether he pleads guilty, shishimarin answered in the affirmative this court case is demonstrative and symbolic for ukraine, because it is the

first time that ukrainian legislation is faced with such an accusation, with such a wording of violation of laws and of course war. read more our correspondent sviatoslav khomenko from the premises of the solomyansk court in kyiv today here in the solomyansk district court of the city of kyiv heard a unique case was brought to court for the first time in the case of a serviceman of the russian federation accused of murdering a civilian of ukraine, according to the case materials, a 21-year-old sergeant of the russian army, vadym shishimarin killed a 62-year-old resident of sumy region when, together with his colleagues, he was fleeing from the territory of ukraine towards the border with russia precisely because of this uniqueness of the case. the building could not withstand such an influx, it was uncomfortable for everyone both in the courtroom and outside it, nevertheless, we had time to hear today we heard

vadym shishimarin's laconic confession of his guilt he answered the judge's question whether he admits his guilt or admits the only one in the affirmative and whether he will give evidence in this case also answered in the affirmative after that the court went for a break for 15 minutes . a resident of the sumy region, then vadym shishimarin himself, then two witnesses to examine physical evidence, in general, this case should not take much time, and prosecutors and lawyers believe that it is 2-3 meetings, but that is not how it happened i thought, and the judge, taking into account the fact that work, i repeat, was extremely uncomfortable, postponed the hearing of the case to tomorrow at 12 o'clock to the kyiv court of appeal, it is a much more modern and spacious building, and that is where, obviously , the interrogation of those people who appear in this

case will begin tomorrow, and for now we offer let's see what we were told after today's meeting by the prosecutor in this case and by the defense attorney. for the first time in the history of independent ukraine, a military serviceman is being held criminally liable . er, another country of the occupying country for the murder of a civilian, an unarmed resident of a citizen of ukraine, in the future there will be more such criminal proceedings, and i am convinced that every occupier will find his responsibility on our land, if not meetings in the armed forces of ukraine, then on the dock the accused shimarin will definitely face punishment in types of life imprisonment what will you ask the court to acquit a person not in a cell i defend not a crime i defend a person regarding the conditions of his detention in a pre-trial detention center personally, he did not complain to me about these conditions, i constantly ask him about this, he is supported separately

from the citizens of ukraine, "and the next meeting due to attention to this process will be held in a larger room this morning. finland and sweden officially submitted applications to join nato, the ambassadors of both countries personally handed over the documents to the secretary general of the alliance and to insultenberg , thus the military neutrality of both countries becomes history, they clearly stated that they were motivated to abandon it and join the nato bloc the russian invasion of ukraine and i am joined live in brussels by vvc correspondent hryhoriy zhigalov grisha so, formally, the procedure has been launched by nato, despite the past decision of threats and ultimatums

of moscow, it is ready to expand further. finland and sweden have been in the nato apartment since the very morning today. they handed 100ltenberg letters in which the countries express their desire to further join the alliance. such a rather solemn moment. moreover, i would say that not so much for stoltenberg and nato, because the alliance is well acquainted with both countries, and more for diplomats, because this is the end of 80 years of military neutrality for finland. well, sweden has not joined military alliances in general for more than 200 years although it is clear from totenberg, he supported the celebration of the moment, called the applications of the two countries historic, let's listen security, this is a great

day at a critical moment for our security. every country has the right to choose its own path you made your choice after a thorough democratic process i sincerely welcome the requests of finland and sweden to join nato you are our closest partners and your nato membership will strengthen our common security the application you submitted today marks a historic step the applications must now be approved all 30 countries of the alliance before there will be 32 countries and there are already the first ones what the governments of the czech republic and germany actually started doing this has already been approved by the prime minister of the czech republic, for example, wrote on twitter now the chamber of deputies and the senate must do it, he does not expect any complications to the minister of justice of germany, he said that he is committed to a quick accession process, but if at least one country out of the 30 that is

currently a member of nato opposes joining the alliance, it will not be resolved until this disagreement with one it will not be possible to rule as a single country, and finland's and sweden's path to joining the alliance is already blocked, at least as of now, at this moment , turkey is where the country announced that it will officially block the entry of these two countries into the alliance anchors explain this with a soft attitude towards kurdish organizations, there are organizations that are terrorist in turkey, at the same time analysts are allowed behind this facade, there may also be a desire to resolve differences with washington, well, for example, start buying f-35 fighter jets from the americans, now these contracts they are blocked in any case, diplomats are now starting work, usually the approval of the application takes up to a year, and in brussels the prevailing opinion is that, well, such sentiments are that it will be possible to settle the differences even in two years, in a year there will be 32 countries in the alliance iryna grigoriyu is

there a new historic chance for ukraine to become the 33rd nato member country and aren't brussels afraid to tease putin about what to do next because finland and ukraine are russia's immediate neighbors and now russia's border with the nato alliance will be 1,300 km longer well, i 'll start with the second question, it's so striking how far russia has retreated from its aggressive rhetoric even last winter in moscow they demanded to close the entire infrastructure of the alliance by the time of 1997 and announce that the alliance never will no longer expand to the east, but when finland started the discussion about joining in moscow, they also warned about a response of a military and technical nature, so that this does not mean that now putin says that the joining of finland and sweden to the alliance does not directly threaten moscow, such a reaction to many appears to be unruly or

even a manifestation of weakness and here there are two explanations either for moscow the expansion of nato is not a geopolitical or military problem just a historical one and the kremlin gets annoyed mainly when nato countries are joining either from the former joint or from the former ussr or moscow's rhetoric may still change depending on what will happen, how will the events on the fronts in ukraine progress, well, regarding that, what chance does this give ukraine, as i once said on the air well, the main thing is that this is a confirmation that nato's doors are open, nato is ready to expand, and now, by the way , it will be especially interesting to watch the nato summit that will take place in madrid, because it seems that the agenda there will be very far from what the diplomats were prepared by the leaders from the very beginning , when the preparations for the meeting had just started, and it is also very interesting to hear what

the discussions about ukraine will be, iryna. thank you grigoriy. this was live from brussels, bbc correspondent grigoriy zhigalov. i will remind you that two countries, sweden and finland, have officially applied to join nato today, the international criminal court sent its largest team to ukraine to investigate war crimes, 42 people. this happened when a russian soldier who confessed to being tried was tried in kyiv today. himself guilty of shooting a toothless pensioner , now the accused faces life imprisonment, at the same time, the police say that on the outskirts of the capital they have already found more than 1,200 bodies of civilians, two hundred of them in boronyanka, a place that became one of the most shelled during the invasion. bbc correspondent james water house met with a person which lost everything, the war in ukraine has not yet ended, but it

took so many lives, there is nothing here that resembles ivan's house, and when you look closely, it becomes clear that this is not just a wreck with an incredible with composure and attention to detail, ivan explains to me that he lost his mother, she was dead, it turns out yes that is, we searched further, too, and here is the cellar . the whole house was filled with rubble. it was somewhere 200 meters from this place. he saw his brother who was near him. his dog saw his grandmother who his one-year-old daughter was covered with bricks, she was lying on the sofa, she was still breathing, then ivan found his wife and father, the horror of the war is very, very scary. well, you don’t understand. you hope that someone alive is hiding somewhere in the cellar. that is his wife, now all he has all that remained were memories and drawings, his daughter polina died on the same day, ivan lost six of his relatives to people. this is the police station where ivan

worked when his house was destroyed, now ivan is not interested in justice, he says he wants the russians responsible for the attack to die in ukraine so that this would be a signal, but the policemen with whom he works say that they are doing everything possible to bring the russians to justice, although it is clear that this may take a long time if it ever happens ivan works in a new police force department, he was honored by the head of the national police . courage, he helped people flee

when the russian forces were advancing, even after he had lost everything, his relatives are worried, they cry all the time, especially when they come to the cemetery, that is, they see something, the grave, yes, and you always come there, cry something like that, ivan's life has changed forever his country has also changed, the russians have retreated from kharkiv, but the shelling of the city and the region does not stop at the same time. just last day, rescuers went out 11 times to put out fires caused by russian shelling. these emergency situations happened in the chuguiv kharkiv bogoduhiv district of the region and also in the kyiv district of the city of kharkiv, the state service of of emergency situations, our film crew is working in kharkiv and now my colleague olga malchevska olga is in contact with the studio. greetings

, the front line from kharkiv has moved away from the russians retreated. we remember the terrible scenes that appeared before the eyes of the shocked world after the withdrawal of russian troops from the kyiv region. and what did you see in kharkiv? what is the situation in the city now? congratulations, iryna, despite the fact that the ukrainian troops managed to push the russians to the border with russia, the situation in the region remains ukrainian-friendly, shelling continues as the head of the regional state administration of kharkiv oleg oleg synogubov reported, there were shellings today, a russian projectile kissed a residential building in the kyiv district fortunately no one died as a result of this shelling, however, the official calls on local residents to be extremely careful and also to pay attention to mines and unexploded shells. also, we hear that massive fires burned about 10 hectares in the region, this happened because the

fire spread to the coniferous litter due to the shelling and then further into the forest and it was quite difficult to stop the fires. we also heard that the brigade of firefighters was under russian fire, in particular one of the brigades that was returning from the occupied city of raisin was also under fire and unfortunately one of rescuers were killed, the russians continue to shell the liberated villages, in particular. today we heard that the russian tyshki cherkasy little pechenegs were shelled, a nursery and a church uprising . we also managed to visit these forces. from the village of zirkuny, and after our shooting we learned that one person died in that village and two more were wounded the day before.

shelling in already liberated villages what did they experience during the russian occupation? the road from central ukraine to kharkiv is free from shelling, but oppressively empty. at the entrance to the city, you can see why, according to the local police , more than 600 civilians died in kharkiv oblast due to russian incursions. figures are updated daily , this is one of the sleeping areas on the outskirts, the only local resident we met says that it is not possible to shoot here for longer because the russians left a bomb in this house that can detonate in at any moment the road to the liberated villages is even more dangerous, we can go only accompanied by the military, as they indicate, where there are no mines , there are no traces of heavy fighting here, we are right now on the way out of kharkiv, and this territory has been liberated from russian troops for some time therefore, you can see that it is quite far from peaceful life here, here a shell kissed the

gas distribution point, they stopped, and here was a shopping center with a kindergarten, the military say that this village was liberated from the russian troops by the circuns on may 7, after two and a half months of occupation, what is the situation in the village now, it is free, it is tense. when the last shelling was fired half an hour ago, that is, it could be such a moment. before the russian occupation, there were about six thousand inhabitants in the village. now, only traces of destruction can be seen on the streets. here and people live here people live here well herd everyone so that you see someone very few of them are hiding because just in time they will listen to us because like that sound and then

it starts whistling it's a mine that flies while dangerous inaudible sounds, we are trying to find the local residents who remained in fear, sat in the cellars , we did not go out, we sat waiting for help from ukraine, no one was allowed here, it was mined, well, we keep such an estimate, when the russians were occupying, they tried to keep their ruble here, which did not happen, they still did not they had time to do nothing, they hung the flag and that's all. thank you very much, we promise not to film any more every day of arrival after five, i will cover the dog. volodymyr prokopenko lives across the street, speaks russian i survived the occupation in a cellar with my neighbors, 15 people slept here, two dogs, three cats, a nobleman, where do they go because they drive with automatic weapons , they drive like that, who is there in your head, who is there, the horror is temporary and

everything is going, and you looked, who went somewhere, i read how many cars went there how long ago , volodymyr's neighbor alla tells how a tank was placed in her yard and russian soldiers came. and i went out for a minute. they came in . they are standing by me. there was no other way out, i was in my yard, what could i do, we had pure russians, they were all children there, the conscripts were apparently afraid of a repeat of buch, but they were lucky, lucky in this case means that the village was shelled and is still shelled later, we learned that because 48 hours after shelling in this village, a 40-year-old man died and two other people were injured. the military says that we should leave immediately. once upon a time, people lived here, went to shops , even bought flowers. this is what one looks like now. from the regions in the north-east of kharkiv and when

you stand here now you can smell harry it is very hard to imagine that it was once a little more than two months ago a village in kharkiv region is being vacated but how long will it take to free this place from what was left behind at the moment, no one will say russian troops to themselves. suddenly, music can be heard near the remains of a burned-down store. this is a minister of a local church that helps drug addicts. they are recording a song where they thank god that they are alive from kharkiv oblast olga melchevska andrew marshal bbc in the meantime, we received some information about the details of yesterday's russian airstrike on a residential building in the city of bakhmut in donetsk region, as reported by the prosecutor's office of the donetsk oblast regional prosecutor's office , the bodies of a two-year-old child and a 35-year-old woman were found under the rubble of a house in bakhmut ukraine

will win this war and its second phase of the russian offensive in donbas suffered the same failure as the first blitzkrieg, which was supposed to take place on february 24, according to the assessment of western military experts, including the gassed washington institute for the study of war has the russian offensive in the east really stalled and is it possible to say that a turning point has come in this war, we talked about this with the researcher of the atlantic council analytical center mykhailo botsyurkin is it possible to say that there were pragmatic signs in the russian war against ukraine and how do we we know they are often not like that, they held on to what they captured earlier in donbass for this 30% of the region, but they want to control the entire region, their two important military goals remain the conquest of everything donbass and the cutting of the corridor in the south of ukraine

, in my opinion, another strategy of the russians to punish ukraine, i don’t even know what to call it, is to block access to the sea. this already has devastating consequences. and it may have even more. the ports of odessa are being blocked. the city itself, its tourist infrastructure, is occasionally shelled, but this is a strategy that is constantly changing , the russians can try to capture the entire coast, kharkiv will be under the control of ukraine, but the ability of the russians to strike at long distances, to shell objects in in the deep rear of ukraine, for example, with cybersonic missiles, ukraine has long begged the west to close the sky, so far to no avail, but it can still be done with the help of weapons technology, the urgency of this type of assistance is evidenced at least by the fact that the russians once again fired at objects near yavorov, ukraine has repeatedly called on nato countries to increase supplies weapons, especially the offensive weapons of the remote

radio judge, are the volumes that are already provided to ukraine enough to change the course of the war and go on the offensive, how is it done, say, in kharkiv oblast if to believe president zelensky, the supply of modern lethal weapons must be accelerated, the ammunition is running out quickly, that is why i am worried about the delays in the approval of the new american package in the senate, it is simply unbelievable that this is happening. in the current conditions, nato and the western allies should have long ago given ukraine these military capabilities that they have started to give now for defense of the sky, in my opinion, western leaders are focusing too much attention on sanctions, they have exaggerated the pain of sanctions for russia and their ability to stop putin in the longer term the ukrainian government desperately needs combat helicopters, fighters and the ability to hit sea targets. i think there has been a shift, especially in neighboring countries, and

they are already ready to provide such capabilities, because they can also be in putin's field of vision, and i think in the future . nato countries how much for their neighbors as a world community we are in a very bad situation right now if a person like putin and a country like his russia still has no reservations against bombing and wipe entire communities from the face of the earth, i was in chernihiv and saw what the russians did there, in some places nothing was left after them, it was like a combination of a forest fire, an earthquake, and on top of that, the war . nowhere have i seen two or three explosions from 200 kg bombs, and this is in a settlement, torn teddy bears, tattered toys, this is terrible, inspired by what you

saw in ukraine during humanitarian missions, taking into account what russian soldiers left behind what are the chances of a ceasefire and peace negotiations, of course, peace is the only way out of this, but let's not forget when we negotiate with an aggressor who does not do his part. and we have seen this since 2014, when i was in the osce city, the russians signed an agreement and then violated it again and again, that's why it will be difficult, i don't think that sanctions will convince them and i don't want to say it out loud, but i'm afraid that it will come to a direct armed confrontation with the russians in the west, and the consequences of this cannot be assessed, which is increasingly disturbing western leaders are more and more signs of the instability of putin's mental state and the temptation to use tactical nuclear weapons or, even more likely, chemical or biological

weapons , is increasing. they lie and deny everything, we all pray for peace i was at the funeral of some ukrainian victims and looking into the eyes of their relatives is very painful to see their grief, this is the opinion of mykhailo botsyurkiv sr. of the scientific staff of the atlantic council analytical center, all the forecasts, these forecasts, which many others tend not to come true, but nevertheless, on may 24, three months have passed since the war of the russian invasion of ukraine began, and today on the website of the verkhovna rada, a draft decree of president zelenskyi was published, which proposes to continue the general mobilization that started on february 24 for another 90 days, i.e. another three months from may 25 until the end of summer, that's all we have time for today more interesting more interesting stories about

war and not only search on our website bbc.ua - this is the 80th day of the fourth day of the russian invasion take care glory to ukraine this is a verdict program my name is serhiy rudenko good day and good health to all today is the 84th day of the heroic resistance of the ukrainian people against the russian occupation russian the invaders continue to launch missile attacks on the civilian and military infrastructure of ukraine, at the same time, the russian occupiers are shelling the positions of the armed forces of ukraine in the eastern and