thank you, the defense express project expert is here, vasyl zima, we will say goodbye until thursday , on thursday, we will talk about the most important thing, you will work under stress. take care and take care of yourself, and now for your attention a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office let's watch bbc news together . good evening. we are from ukraine. ukraine is experiencing the greatest tension at the beginning of the war. bbc news from ukraine tells us what you need to know about the 91st day of russia's great war

against ukraine. kryvyi rih ukraine remains in the center of attention of the meetings of the world economic forum succeeded political business elites are looking for ways to stop the war and three months that changed ukraine and ukrainians what happened to all of us during the great war we explore the new ukrainian identity may 25 across ukraine began to the sound of sirens russia launched massive rocket attacks on zaporozhye, kryvyi rih and other cities, there is already

information about the dead and wounded, as well as about large-scale destruction, the situation in the controlled the ukrainian part of the luhansk region has significantly worsened in recent weeks, the russians approached and began an assault on the regional center of severodonetsk and have already almost surrounded it, and we will immediately join the broadcast of my colleague albia shudru albia, what is known about the course of hostilities, the situation around severodonetsk is alarming to many ukrainians, military journalist yuriy botusov, who is in that area, reported that russian troops have entered the road to bakhmut, this creates serious problems not only with the supply of ukrainian troops, the situation everyone can see of course this should not become the second mariupol, the journalist warned, however, the head of the luhansk military administration, serhii gaidai , wrote on the telegram channel that luhansk region is not cut off, but as for the road, it is being shot

at, but today it was possible to start humanitarian aid along it, according to various reports, russian troops are trying to surround severodonetsk, arranging intensive artillery shelling and repeated attempts to storm the defensive positions of the ukrainian troops. the ukrainian army is under the greatest pressure since the beginning of the russian invasion, fierce or ongoing around north donetsk and lysychansk, something that has not been heard in the fighting area, thousands of civilians are still arriving from the front line. cities and kills ukrainian soldiers, one unit went into battle with 240 soldiers and returned after losing a hundred killed

, wounded and captured. here is the city of bakhmut, the war is slowly eating away this week, the distance from there to the russians, it was only 5 km, there is a threat that it will become even shorter next time, civilians who had nowhere to go have already left here in the ruins of donbass, it is already difficult to remember the spirit of victory, the euphoria of glory and sacrifice that was felt in kyiv in march, some here want a ceasefire even if it would be possible at the expense of the territory, well, alive, the main thing is to stay alive. this is only the beginning , there is still ahead if you live. let's see how everything will turn out at a dangerous distance from the lee front. for evacuation, most of them were too weak or too old to leave their hometown before the war touched it, now they also wounded lidia rescued from the destroyed

severodonetsk, almost completely surrounded by the russians, there are still thousands of peaceful citizens of ukraine there. doctors without borders turned this train into a department ambulance and intensive care due to the intense fighting, the train is running almost at full capacity, medics run in it continuously, while the road to relative safety in lviv takes 20 hours this is an escape capsule from the war, which is so difficult to predict that the medical teams sometimes do not know until the end who to hit. they felt me. well , they immediately called for a forceps. they soon sent me to bakhmut. in short, they saved me, and even those who manage to save themselves realize their whole peaceful life. now completely destroyed by my husband , we lived in harmony and peace for 50 years. and now everything is

ending so badly, nowadays it is coming to an end, i have a heart, dean coordinates the evacuation trains for the removal of wounded ukrainians from the extreme east it is important now, when the war intensifies, hospitals that are closer to the front line are extremely overloaded, they constantly receive a large number of patients, it is difficult for them to cope, therefore for us, for the ministry of health in ukraine , it is very important to take care that the hospital was always ready to receive more patients, this is war much more organized than in february and not only in the sense of medical evacuation, although what is being done on this train is really amazingly organized, it is also at the level of decision-making by generals and presidents all this creates the feeling that they are preparing for a long, difficult and exhausting struggle. ukraine does not

talk much about its own victims, but the cemetery in the east is filling up, and president zelensky admits that up to a hundred soldiers die in donbas every day . the usa and great britain want to permanently weaken putin's russia, their critics note, however , that they will fight to the last ukrainian , blood remains the only currency of war, but what the more it is spilled, the more ukrainians will question the bloody price they are paying and ask how much the ceasefire will cost ukraine in the end, and vladimir putin signed a decree on the simplified admission of residents of the kherson and zaporozhye regions to russian citizenship when russia occupied almost the entire kherson region and the occupying authorities installed most of zaporozhye there, introduced the

ruble, transferred education to russian textbooks, let's take a closer look at what is happening there before me my colleague liza zharikh, who monitors the situation in kherson oblast, joins me. liza, thank you for taking the time, and the question is about putin's decision to issue passports. this is a kind of request that russia is not going to simply give up the captured lands. and how did the residents take this news? kherson oblast, well, on the one hand, this application is possible that they are not going to give up these territories, but it is known that the russians take a lot of things out of kherson oblast . there is also equipment and grain and food for if you are going to stay here, that is, it is also about the fact that they can start taking away art objects in kherson, as was the case in

melitopol, for example, and the story with russian passports seems to me to be a bit of a farce on the part of the russians because they announce a lot of things, but in practice this does not happen, as was the case with rubles, none of my acquaintances in kherson were paid in rubles, and moreover, the russian military themselves pay in hryvnias if they buy something from local entrepreneurs and even countering disinformation, he also wrote about the fact that the story about the circulation of the ruble in parallel with the ukrainian mushroom, well, this is manipulative information , and i think that passports will probably also be a story, because here is the first deputy head of the kherson regional council, yuriy sablelevskyi you wrote about the fact that this is one of the evidences of the inability of the russians to gain the sympathy of the population of the region, and it is about the fact that the russians simply do not know what to do, and the residents of the kherson region will

not actually lead to this, most likely i i agree with him because the residents of our region are wonderful. they saw the crimeans who came to kherson region to make documents because russian passports did not give them any rights. there was information that the occupation authorities of kherson region are preparing to ban the ukrainian language in documents. how are people ready to accept such a decision? i think that it will be taken very badly and very harshly because as you know on perhaps you know that the russians began to bring journalists to kherson with people and even under pressure, local people say that they do not want to live in russia, there are two very vivid examples, the first is this story, the story of franz 24, where the trolleybus driver literally tells

journalists that if they want to kill, let them kill, what is she for ukraine that she lives in ukraine , she is ukrainian, she lives on her land and i want kherson to be free and for everything to be as it was before the arrival of the russians, and this is despite the fact that she is obviously backed by the russian military there, and the second example is my grandfather who was chosen to be interviewed also this time i already understand russian journalists uh and grandfather told them that he was actually born in russia and when the woman asked the journalist what he wants he told her i want to live in ukraine very bright examples thank you for them and i have one more question, you already mentioned melitopol, the day before we had a material from our colleague about the resistance movement, in fact , the partisan movement that was born there. and what is the situation in kherson oblast? well, today it became known

that in kostyantynivka the head of the community of kostyantynivska wrote a post about the fact that the locals need to return the spare parts from the russian tanks, otherwise they will be patrolling the yard. that is, they just need to be brought to a separate place and put in order for the russians to take their spare parts, and again, recently, over the occupied kherson over at the station, someone hung a ukrainian flag, that is, ukrainian flags appear in various places and such stories all the time. thank you very much to lisa for such important information. let me remind you that putin signed a decree on the simplified admission of residents of the kherson and zaporozhye regions to russian citizenship, and let's move on to the international context in davos, where the meeting of the

economic forum is taking place. will not lead the troops to the line on february 24 and also that putin lives in his information world, his entourage should help him get out of this state so that it is possible to move on diplomatically what is happening on the sidelines of the meeting of the most influential leaders , nataliya skopenko learned about business politics. on the agenda of the world economic forum , russia's war in ukraine and its already tangible consequences are the harbingers of the global economic, energy and food crisis, the current crisis, its founder laudschwab called it the most important of all in 50 years, because according to him the destructive force of the war derailed the course of recovery, how can the world help the troubles in ukraine, this was asked of president zelensky, who addressed the participants of the forum for the second time this week

confidence should and they should know that ukraine is part of their world then they united not just from ukraine but around the same state that is equal to it and so far we do not feel this until the end , we did not feel it when ukraine did not join nato now the issue of the european union please tell me there is dignity in the european continent regarding ukraine that in the future of ukraine is there this unity i do not see so far in davos more than 2.5 thousand guests and delegations of many countries except russia the forum condemned its war in ukraine but to switzerland a ukrainian delegation arrived, including the klitschko brothers, mayor of kyiv vitaliy klitschko met with ukrainian refugees sheltered in switzerland, please don't forget that we protect not only our

cities and country, our families and our children. we protect everyone in the european union. of course , this is a very painful issue for of the economy, but we pay to stop the war in davus during the forum, the ukrainian house is open, where presentations are held, and the minister of foreign affairs, dmytro kulebashen, yuriy special of his stative i want that every politician, regardless of rank and position on the international arena or in his own country, before speaking out in favor of lifting sanctions to save children from hunger in the world, would come to ukraine to see the dead bodies of ukrainian children, to talk to parents about whether their children were raped by russians soldiers buy russians time to place glory to ukraine hero glory to ukraine they say that they

realize that they themselves cannot defeat those who attacked them and cannot win without the support and help of the world, this gratitude was expressed by volodymyr klitschko match i want to deeply thank you for the support that was provided at the beginning of the war and not only in words, this financial side, military equipment, help to the refugees who were sheltered and many, many other things, we feel it and it is very important for us, please don't stop at this please don't stop and a short addendum about davos the minister of foreign affairs, dmytro kuleba, in a speech there, managed to say that the situation in donbas - quote is extremely bad and, according to him, it could become even worse if the united states does not transfer as soon as possible he noted that if the ukrainians do not receive self-propelled missile launchers for ukraine, they will not be able to liberate kherson, if russia stays there in kherson, it will create a threat to central

ukraine, it will also continue to steal grain, and we will also talk about what ukraine is already facing when restoring its lands after the deoccupation of buch, which has become a symbol of russian brutality is gradually becoming a symbol of the renaissance, the city was once cozy and picturesque, now it is disfigured by the scars of war, but the ukrainian government is determined to restore it and rebuild and in direct contact deputy mayor of buchi mykhaila na skorikh shkarivska mykhailynu e i congratulate you, you were recently appointed deputy mayor of buchi, the mayor of the city, what is being done now to restore the infrastructure and life there a-a good evening i would, with your permission, come back for a little while to davos, which we have just looked at because, in addition to everything that has been said, the house of war crimes of russia has also been opened there, and this is very important for

buchi. we see the crimes of the russians in ukraine, it was buchanka kseniya who selected the small ones, that is, bucha, she not only became such an international symbol of the crimes of the russians, but also the epicenter of the world's attention to what is happening and the main thing is that we managed to do in two months this is actually to fulfill the main task of the mayor, who, er, set, formulated, yes, yes, let's remove all the russian garbage from our streets, that is, if you go to bucha now, you won't see those terrible pictures that are in the photo that everyone saw world politicians who flew around all the world media because bucha is really now a blossoming spring city we have finally restored the infrastructure in most of the houses there is electricity supply to one

street of vokzalnaya where it was destroyed, the private sector has been completely destroyed water supply infrastructure so we are trying to do everything to revive the city and make it safe and comfortable for our residents as it was before the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine, and what is missing a lot for such a small city like anything because, well, the budget there was a billion hryvnias last year, that is, we can compare and now there is no such budget because, accordingly, the company did not work, they do not pay taxes, we are now encouraging entrepreneurs to return and, er, at least somehow resume their activities, because the main er, our taxpayers are like that there as large trade networks, large industrial enterprises are destroyed, there is not enough money, there is not enough human hands, there are not enough organizers, who can cope with such a scale of destruction, and that is why we are very happy when they come and

international volunteers to help and especially when the local population gets involved and decides on its own by involving friends of acquaintances from abroad and in order to restore what was literally destroyed in four weeks a-a hmm completely and do you already feel the help that is coming in well in particular from abroad from from foreign partners of ukraine from international organizations we received very powerful short-term aid, that is, for a month the city lived on humanitarian aid on those things food that was brought to us outside the borders of the city and the country because the shops were not working, there was nothing and people received food at the humanitarian headquarters , now the trade networks are working, the markets are working and that is, normal trade is appearing and we

understand that for in order for bucha to once again become a comfortable suburb where it is pleasant to live and work, we need long-term support because we have almost 2,000 destroyed homes, that is, it is impossible to restore them quickly, and the people who return want to to go back to the tube or what it was like before the attack of the russians and this is the most important task that we have to perform and in fact with the lack of resources we really need long-term support and we are now cooperating with such organizations as the red cross and international e-e medical korg and e -e others eh we will submit negotiations with the european commission with another one of their ex projects here with big e donors in order to get this long-term support for recovery because we understand that it will take at least two years to equalize our needs to be brought to the basic level to

which the local population is accustomed. thank you very much. i actually have a lot of questions for you. - that soon we will see her as blooming as she was. thank you, deputy mayor of buchi, mykhailyna skoryk shkarivska, and on another important topic , russian-speaking ukrainians switch to ukrainian in everyday life, thousands of immigrants sign up for courses in lviv and kharkiv are renaming streets, districts that were associated with the aggressor country, ukrainians are even renaming borodinskyi bread to chornobayivskyi, sociologists are explaining not just a surge of patriotism, ukrainians are becoming more confident in their identity, journalists hear people's stories every day about how they in a new way looked at their future, their past, what they are and what they

want to pass on to their children, my colleague zhanna bezpyachuk investigated how another important battle of this war is taking place not over the territory, but over own identity does not want to wait for the end of the war, the lives of tens of millions of ukrainians were divided into before and after the russian invasion , i don't remember this, this war encourages many to look at the past and the future of the ukrainian nation in a new way, you see, in russia there has always been a strategy of erasing this memory my name is zhanna bezpidchuk, as a bbc correspondent since the beginning of this war, i have been collecting people's opinions about how exactly the war waged with russia and against ukraine affects the identity of ukrainians today, a wedding in newlyweds of lviv embrace under the shrill sounds of sirens that day the city came under two rocket

attacks alyona from transcarpathia, her husband bohdan and zaporizhzhia i have a lot of friends what are you wearing boots what what are you hanging over there well during the war i answered the same saying what to fear what to expect well, this is life and life goes on. the war changed the lives of bohdan and alyon, as well as tens of millions of other ukrainians, but in addition to losses and grief, the war also prompts people to look at their own identity in a new way, in addition to the struggle for the lives of people for the infrastructure of this country for the cultural heritage, ukrainians are waging another battle, this is a struggle for values, in particular, for the value of freedom, and this courageous struggle has already become a legend in itself. lviv is now the largest hub for trade, a refuge for about two hundred thousand people forced to flee from war in other regions of ukraine and the people here are already

preparing for the new ukraine. in normal times, the concert schedule of the lviv national philharmonic orchestra is written on the moon ahead, but during the war, the musicians come to the regional children's libraries to teach the little ones ukrainian culture, this time they help to remember the names of animals in ukrainian. karina's family was forced to be interesting from kyiv. their native town of vasylkiv was almost in a war zone . dad, i say dad, but we taught andriy to say dad, and in general, we nail all-ukrainian. we try to speak to him only in ukrainian. they spoke even better ukrainian than we speak, we watched ukraine survived communist and

nazi terror in the 20th century bloody lands is what historians call this part of europe after the collapse of the soviet union ukraine has already passed the path of huge changes this is the place of commemoration of the heroes of the heavenly hundred in lviv the shooting of protesters on the maidan the annexation of crimea by me in donbas initiated the changes that russia's war against ukraine made irreversible every day of russia's war against ukraine brings hope and despair for it is clear to many that in this war, ukrainians are fighting not only for their territories, according to the definition of the american historian timati snyder, the ideology of the russian world is based on imperialism and the denial of the existence of the ukrainian nation and state

, you could always find signs of patriotism in ukraine, but from now on, it is everywhere, even in this lviv bakery mill where on the pekar mannequin you can see the russian kalashnikov and the ukrainian flag hliborodynsky e-e we immediately renamed kyiv chornobayivsky we want to exclude everything from the lexicon that of the russian language and russian culture or russian history, but are ukrainians really changing or becoming more nationalistic ? i decided to talk about it with iryna klichkovskaya, who devoted her whole life to the study of the ukrainian language and its influence on people's identity. we are now actually creating a political nation. you know i don't know when there was such a united and strong nation, but i still

wanted to ask the young couple how exactly they see their future, creating a family in the most not certain dangerous times for ukraine, countries will rebuild and such patriots will return, but even in these darkest times, ukrainians continue to look optimistically at their future and at their struggle for their home and their values ​​zhanna bezpidchuk marik palashevskyi bbc lviv and i am glad to welcome the author of this material to studio zhanna bezpyashchuk zhanna i understand that in order to understand what is happening now it takes decades, but what is important now is to tell us journalists so that later in history in sociologists had a material with which they could work, so really identity in itself is a question that is understood, studied and researched by scientists. it is obvious, but journalists - these are the people

who have strengthened their profession every day almost now. e testimonies of stories about war crimes about the atrocities of the russian army in ukraine, in addition to stories about how people escaped from mariupol, kharkiv, how they left russian occupation, there is another conditionally very important type informed stories are actually what people say about how they change, how they begin to perceive themselves differently and how, in particular, among other things, they switch from the russian language of communication to ukrainian in everyday life. for example, i noted this for myself . they are people leaving. yes, thank you, thank you very much. we have to say goodbye. see you all tomorrow at 21:00. take care .

glory to ukraine, this is a verdi program. my name is serhiy rudenko. have a good day and good health. today is the 91st day of the great resistance of the ukrainian people