we need to figure things out, but in any case, we understand that our special operations forces are also active in kherson oblast and there is a resistance movement that does not allow the occupier to sleep. postcards and every time there or go once two three four five i go to look for you there as if to this russian occupier and there i know where you are there or something else we will come well in a word they don't let them live there peacefully and they won't live there peacefully for long sergey remains vasyl, the winter is burning, i say goodbye to you until tomorrow, mr. serhiy, see you sunday, well, now for your attention, a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news, let's watch it together . good evening. we are from ukraine. fierce battles in donetsk region. on the air of bbcinema, the russians

are trying to launch an offensive on slavyansk shelling continues along the entire front line in donetsk region, the current offensive of the occupiers on donbas can make this region uninhabited, volodymyr zelenskyi declares, bahmat lyman lysychansk they want to turn severodonetsk into a fire place, you are ours, yes, yes, forget it, a grandmother was waiting with a red flag, who was used by russian propaganda, a true story from bbc am correspondents, we begin with an urgent message, the council of the

ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate passed a resolution on independence and on the condemnation of the patriarch of moscow kirill according to the results work, the council adopted the following, condemns the war, expresses condolences to all those who suffered in the war, appeals to the authorities of ukraine and russia with with a request to continue the negotiation process, expresses disagreement with the position of the patriarch of moscow kirill regarding the war in ukraine, the council also adopted relevant additions and changes to the statute on the management of the ukrainian orthodox church, which testify to the independence and independence of the ukrainian orthodox church. we are waiting for further details as soon as they appear, they will always be available find on our website bbc.ua well, let's move on to the situation in the east of ukraine, the institute for the study of war published another daily report on the course of the war in russian troops in ukraine in heavy fighting in recent

days, they have been gradually increasing the number of captured territories in the east of ukraine, although in general the ukrainian defense remains effective under the control of the russian military, more than 95% of the territory of the luhansk region is in the coming days, all efforts will probably be aimed at the complete capture of north donetsk, at the same time, russian troops have tried unsuccessfully advance to the southeast from the raisin on the border of the kharkiv and donetsk regions, the russian troops will be extremely weakened it is difficult to replenish future losses , american analysts state, however, with something completely different. i slept here last night, only the window needs to be fixed somehow, there was no wind and it was cold at night. so, at night, she saw with her own eyes the destruction of this invasion. two people died when two people were sitting in the yard cooking when it hit the projectile immediately

wounded 8 people, someone was standing with a kettle, someone was cooking for the neighbors, this is a city where russian troops broke through the ukrainian border and began a slow and relentless attempt to surround and destroy thousands of ukrainian soldiers when he started this invasion, one of the main reasons given by president putin was to stop what he called a genocide that ukraine is supposedly committing in donbas, although there was no evidence of this, but now president zelensky says that genocide is really happening, but it is being carried out by russia in the current offensive of the occupiers in donbas can make this region a desolate wasteland bakhmut liman lysychansk - severodonetsk they want to turn it into a fire pit like volnovakha like mariupol is lysychansk one of the two cities that are now surrounded before the invasion

, many people here felt a kinship with russia, people spoke russian, received news from russian sources, but now they have been driven from their homes by russian shelling, the old man is already very strong, they said that you will not go home again, or we will make you speak russian every day military breakthrough , it is becoming more and more difficult to escape, the separatists announced that they captured the city of liman, another step in their conquest of donbas, which every day looks more and more likely. so, the assessment of the situation in the east differ, despite a huge advantage, russia has achieved only small successes in ukraine, ot such a statement was made at a briefing for journalists by a high-ranking official of the us ministry of defense, and according to him, the allies

provide ukraine with the material and technical base necessary to combat the 18 m-77 howitzers promised to ukraine 85 already on the battlefield - this was also told by an official of the pentagon, the secretary general of nato, in turn, said that the war in ukraine is all that a war of attrition and that now no one can predict when it will end and we must be ready for that that all this can last a long time. and the bbc security commentator frank gardner says that the russians have changed their tactics and are advancing in the donbass thanks to the concentration of overwhelming military power because, contrary to the mystical estimates provided daily by the british ministry of defense and various analysts, the russians are actually using their advantage in the power of artillery and missiles shelling, airstrikes in an attempt to encircle the ukrainian forces, they are relentlessly capturing

village after village, populated areas, the names of most of which we probably didn't even hear when they they are steadily surrounded by ukrainian troops who are defending them, approaching their goal of capturing the entire donbas of luhansk and donetsk regions, in fact, the russians were going to react in the same way they did with crimea. the russians tried, as they say, to bite off much more than they could live. areas, then they can announce a cease-fire proposal by keeping their forces in the region ukraine will not go for it so the war will drag on and this is not the worst scenario ukraine and let

's take a closer look at the situation in the east i am joined by mykhailo samusier, director of newjertex resort network mr. mykhailo how critical the situation around severodonetsk lysychansk what does it threaten in the future severodonetsk in the current situation and it is doomed i understand that it sounds very harsh but if you look at things in fact, the first surge of russian troops that began a few days ago with the aim of quickly taking possession of the territories that remained in the occupied luhansk region failed , that is, there was such a breakthrough of pressure on ukrainian forces with the purpose of breaching the ukrainian defense this did not happen more and more, the hostilities are dragging on, the offensive is a russian incitement, and i think that

now the hostilities will be more viscous and will already turn into a positional one, that is, the threat, of course, the encirclement of north donetsk and lysychansk remains but i agree in principle with all the assessments that are just to be heard, the only thing is that it is necessary not to forget that in the course of this intensive offensive, the russians are suffering huge losses, that is, they are suffering losses from ukrainian artillery from ukrainian strikes and this, of course, cannot affect them and fighting spirit in general, the ability to move further, that is, they tried to break through the ukrainian defense, but in fact now they have stopped , and i think that all this can actually turn into the situation that we see in izyum, they are facing with the ninth question, they also tried to break through the defenses there and go to slavyansk kramatorsk, but nothing came of it. the first such rush was stopped, and now there, in principle, the offensive has stopped. there is a more positional struggle. i

think that this is one uh, from the most likely options for the development of the situation, including in severodonetsk, uh, liman popasna can also be spelled and become positional uh, already from the point of view of advancement, all for the course of hostilities, what does this mean, uh, positional positional struggle? can you a little decipher for the ukrainian side of course this is positive since we did not allow a breakthrough in the defense explain why it is important now to break the ukrainian forces precisely in the donbas therefore it can lead to the plan of the russian generals it can lead to a strategic defeat of the armed forces er, in this region , an attack on the city of dnipro may be possible after that, er, again, the activation of forces in the north, an attack again, chernihiv, sumy, kyiv , volyn, for this, by the way, and lukashenko now

activated, he created the southern operational southern counter command and is deconserving his equipment, demonstrating to putin that he is ready in principle to join this operation, i.e. to hold back now this rush to donbas means to stop the advance of russian troops, to gain time while western weapons arrive, it is concentrated and when there will be sufficient concentration to proceed to counter-attack actions , i.e. now, in principle, such a decisive battle is going on that can decide the course of action for a few months ahead of the development of events well, some by the way, the snakes, citing sources in moscow, have already reported that the kremlin has resumed talks about the restoration of the prospects of an assault on kyiv. is there optimism in moscow, or do they have a reason for this? how do you generally assess

such a risk? well, first of all they need to take at least a few villages in the donbass, that is, if you equate the scale, for example, to take liman and kyiv, then a little . not so it is bad that we have been fighting for 90 days and yet there are some results, although, of course, this is a complete disaster and a complete failure of the russian army, the losses they are incurring are completely unique even for the soviet army, and even more so for the russian army. but putin is still trying to move on, because in principle then he lives by war and only the war will stop his er political life and physical life can stop because he er placed russia under er destruction now the economic political geopolitical ronation of russia is actually going on and if he stops

war, this rune, this will become simply irreversible, especially for his political regime, he is afraid of this, of course he will try to pump up this war for as long as possible for ukraine of course, now there is no threat of an attack on kyiv in russia, there is simply no strength for this, they can return to this and i already spoke only after breaking the ukrainian defense in donbas. if a strategic static defeat is inflicted on ukraine there, after that there will already be parking and another attempt to attack in the south and in the north. network thank you for taking the time to join us, and i will once again remind you of this date. zelenskyi, the current offensive of the occupiers on donbas

can make this region uninhabited. infrastructure, new pictures by getty photojournalists showed the terrible situation of civilians in severodonetsk and lysychansk, in some places houses were almost completely destroyed, in both cities there is no water supply and there is no electricity, there is no mobile connection and the internet, the bakhmut-lysichansk road. the road of life is becoming more and more dangerous, and zhanna bezpiashok spoke with civilians who managed to escape from the new hellish point on the map of ukraine. on may 7-5, there is no communication in the city, even e- generators don't save, there's just no connection, i have a friend there. well, it's not far from the suburbs. i haven't known her since may 5. she's alive. she's not alive, and those who stayed there, well, there are people who don't have contact with them. there are grandmothers and grandfathers who stayed. well

very, very old people, for them it is tantamount to death, moving to another place, living - they are not like that at all, but they left en masse and there were evacuation trains. my daughter left somewhere, well earlier, somewhere on a sunday from me for a week, and she traveled from the forest from lysychansk to in lviv, these were the first explosions where there were many, many high- rise buildings, many people lived there. well, after all, there were these shacks and a road, and literally, in three days, the road was gone. supermarkets all that was done to us was absolute destruction from north donetsk, well, i don't know for sure, but the field of destruction at the time when the withdrawal was already almost

50%. i think so, one district is definitely completely destroyed, it is the largest, it is a high-rise building, well, now , i guess, 70 percent here. i see that there are no roads. there is absolutely nothing left to build. i was blown up. i could not get anything out, absolutely nothing, because, well, it was impossible to do it at my meeting. it was half an hour. i didn't even know her. well, we will have the opportunity to leave the city i would like to start all over again. i would really like to, but i hope that i will return to donetsk. i really want it because i spent most of my life there. what depends, well, what does it depend ? ukraine in my opinion, that's all i want russia, i probably won't

be able to live on, we tell the story of 70-year-old anna ivanova from the kharkiv region, the woman became a popular heroine of russian propaganda, all because of the same red flag, the woman believed in the friendship of ukraine from russia went out to meet the russian military with him, but after mrs. hanna found out who was shelling her native village, she changed her mind about russia and its army. and what actually happened, why the soviet flag is here and how the woman survived her unexpected fame, further in the material of bbc correspondents svyatoslav khomenko and dmytro vlasov and love, this ukrainian grandmother from the kharkiv region became a symbol of war, but not in her native ukraine , the russian propaganda machine began to use the image of grandmother anna after that

a video taken by the ukrainian military that became viral among russians soldiers came out to meet with a red banner with a red flag with which she came out to meet the ukrainian soldiers thinking that they are russians and these eruptions right in front of this house pieces from shells and the sounds of artillery duels literally some 10 km from here these are the kind of greetings that russia sent to grandmother anya and her village. now grandmother anya treats the russian soldiers with less enthusiasm and says that the red flag with which she came out to meet this flag of the soviet union, and the flag of love is so ripe and as it flew, it fell on me, it is the least reminiscent of the actions of the russian military in ukraine, but ignoring the realities in russia, they began to compare it with the

motherland, the embodiment of the soviet union and the grandmother of all russia, grandmother ganya says that she had my reasons for rejoicing in the russian military, i advised russia that she would come and not fight with us, and that we would unite, russia, ukraine and belarus, that we would be one, as it warms itself, with a friendly hand. and when they went to such a war, they also glorified me you know it's unpleasant because in ukraine they consider me a traitor about a meeting with the ukrainian military, he says that the lord led her to come here, well , i came, it happened that way in march, when the shelling of the kharkiv suburb of northern saltivka was going on, there was one family there and the same mr.

ivanovna lived there with her grandfather, well, they asked if she had any food and what they were doing here , she answered that she was not going anywhere and she probably confused us with the russian troops, because we were talking with her in russian. well, and began to tell her own story, how she was waiting for us, and for whom she was praying, she informed that they still had a flag of the soviet union with which she was waiting for us. and forget the informative informative voice, she doesn't know where they are shooting from, who they are shooting from, when we said that it was a russian shooting, she was surprised, she said, "well, we are a

brotherly people, we wanted to show you, have you seen these pictures, this is what they did to you in russia?" now they paint on houses at bus stops, in fact, they did nothing to glorify me for the rest of history. well, i think russia will not like what i said, what they are doing wrong , they can read what is right, what they went to fight against us, even shoot children old people are shooting in that country, where are your brothers and sisters? i did not raise the flag so that there would be war, but so that there would be peace. move to russia, because here you are in the hands of the

nazis, this is my family, i love my family, the ukrainian military has already managed to make friends with the ukrainians, this is how i met these guys, and i pray for them that god gives them health and victory and this week, ukrposhta started selling a new stamp, русские корабел русский военный корпаль всё, but it is already difficult to find it at the post office, there are long queues, this is already the second stamp of the already legendary series , sales started on the internet at once on four different platforms, but you can buy stamps on none the correspondents of bbc news ukraine did not succeed, the general director of ukrposhta, ihor smilyanskyi, says that thanks to such stamps, the image of the enterprise is changing, which for many people during the war becomes a place of stability and help

. bbc news from ukraine today we deliberately came to the operating room of the head post office in order to record an interview with mr. igor smilyanskyi, the head of the good day good day organization i congratulate you, last time we also saw you here in these walls, but here there were much more people at each window, there was a long line of people willing to buy marcus with the same image that you now have on your t-shirt, at the same time, many people were dissatisfied with the way this company took place, let's start with how do you assess what happened? let's say we look strategically and tactically, strategically, we acquired a new brand of ukraine and a new image of ukraine, which became the image of the struggle against the russian federation, so from this point of view, this brand became known to all the countries of the world. i think that this is an unconditional success. and as always, when there is such a success, but

hmm, are there mistakes, of course, we expected such attention from the cyber of some russian federation, of course , and that's why. next time, all the lessons will be taken into account , and i am sure that we will we have become stronger in our system, we have become stronger eh, it is clear again i would like it to be a little different, but even from this we have learned the lessons that, to be honest the biggest problem was that it was difficult to buy a stamp online because of cyberspace, and from the russian side, what kind of libraries, on the other hand, look at everyone, you know, want to print, so print so that everyone has enough. we play by the rules, yes, that is, the circulation was announced in advance, it is 1 million copies. by the way, this is one of the record circulations, because usually stamps are issued in a circulation of 100-120,000 copies, this time it was 10 times more, but when something becomes

it is popular, it is clear that everyone wanted something for themselves somehow, er, to have this symbol for themselves, we took into account the wishes of people. it will be released very soon by the second stamp of the series, which is called the russian warship, and there the block will include three new stamps and three coupons with the first stamp and therefore, everyone who wanted to have this image for a historical memory will be able to get it, that is, there are chances, there are still chances, we are waiting for everyone online from different platforms, as now this time it will be different platforms, there will be up to five platforms so that you know when the enemy is not i was at one point in five beats much more difficult and how many copies will there be this time it will be 5 million copies, but we can agree on five and 10 there and you can print 50 the question is that hmm well, if follow the news yes already

we are talking about a new brand, whether it will be a cartridge or whether it will be a kalush with a european vision, that is, yes, people are waiting for new positive emotions, and it seems to me that we need to close one topic, well, the ship is gone, yes, we will celebrate for 40, i will be 40 days he drowned and we will celebrate it by launching a new one brands and i am sure that everyone who wants and you will be able to buy them all over the world. by the way, this will be the first time that people will be able to buy even our ukrainian ones. those who support us around the world will speed up the process, and as you know, voting for the next brand is already underway. what brand will be available, will it be a dog cartridge after the ship , everything, will it be a dog cartridge, or will it be putin, moscow is on fire, galya is waiting. good evening, we are from ukraine , that is, the brand that they take to people, that is, just as we finish selling the ship, and it will already be next brand a-a and what will definitely be a dream brand that we will release in the future eh well, ukraine has talents ukraine has victories i am pleased that this

brand has collected millions of hryvnias millions of hryvnias for the latch through a charity auction by the way, you calculated an approximate amount already more than 10 million more than 10 million hryvnias that's more than 10 million hryvnias only what i know and it's probably more than you spent to print all this time it's many times more than we spent to print the circulation and there are times when we gave opportunity to purchase to the volunteers who exchanged stamps for cars for the front, this is a lot that i don't know, and that's why the fact, returning to your first question, the fact that we created a symbol that is not only a symbol in itself, but also helps our armed forces people get positive emotions, that 's the main thing for me in cannes right now, the awarding ceremony of the winners of the special look category is underway, one of the nominees is the film by the ukrainian director maksym of the final vision of the butterfly, journalist yevgenia rudenko, the day before we talked with the director about the meaning of

the purpose of the lick in her, we see terrible scars throughout the film, but they are also physical injuries and psychological, and it is difficult to say which of them is scarier, and not only for the main character lilia, but also for her husband tokha, who also went through the ato, director maksym the final film will end before the full-scale russian aggression in ukraine on february 24, and its main idea was, in general, at the beginning to remind us that ukraine is going on in 2014, but now this is a film and its main character is the image of everything of the ukrainian people who are already suffering from aggression throughout the territory of ukraine, and when i saw tears in the eyes of the audience during the premiere, it seemed to me that they understand each in their own way. but they understand what is happening in ukraine now. before the premiere, the film crew arranged action on the red carpet, where they were called to not be ashamed and

talk about the genocide in ukraine, according to director maksym pshenychny , it was not easy to get permission to hold this action, but still, they managed to do it despite the show of solidarity with ukraine, they are very careful and they, but our message, our message, which we printed on this banner, was all the more relevant because, uh, yes, we can really seem somehow unacceptable, we can seem a little, so to speak, sharp marginal, but that's only because they are exterminating us by all possible legal and illegal methods , the special point of view section gives an opportunity to express oneself, first of all, as a young director, the winners receive not only world recognition, but also a financial component - this is 30,000 € in my personal opinion, the vision of a butterfly absolutely deserving of this people but

other strong films from morocco and from south korea, iceland and other countries also participate in the competition so today we are waiting for the jury's decision that's all for today more on our website bbc.ua take care stay safe we ​​will be on the air again on monday at 21:00 a telethon for their own why is information broadcasting during the war? the authorities provide only selected tv channels with journalists; they did not remove toxic presenters from the introduction of this telethon