use it, you will be able to convince the political and economic leaders of the eu that it is they who are interested in integrating ukraine into the european union. therefore, the interview of yuriy fisar with the apostle of the european union in ukraine in the years 16-19 of yugo-mingereli today at 22:30 and tomorrow at 15:15 we're saying goodbye to you, well, we're starting to say goodbye serhiy zgurets, a colleague of the co-presenter, an expert defense express , er, military summaries of the day today was thank you, thank you, thank you for being with us, take care, watch out for the air alert, together we'll go to victory will soon be 100 days of war let's wait and win from ukraine now for your attention good evening we are from ukraine the european union was able to refuse russian oil but not completely it is the 97th day of russia's war against ukraine and

we are talking about the main thing bbc news broadcast live from london the battle for luhansk, the russians are trying to seize severodonetsk, civilians cannot leave due to the fighting, the eu without russian oil , european leaders agreed to the sixth package of sanctions against russia, but made concessions to hungary on highway friendship is preserved and the fate of ukrainian prisoners of war you will hear the story of the defender of mariupol, who was wounded and survived in inhumane conditions in russian captivity

. he is now in direct contact with us p serhiu please tell me when this strike happened and what is known about it so at 6:45 p.m. an airstrike happened sooner than anything else that hit a bomb in a tank with the remains of a-a nitric acid in our country. this already happened near rubizhnyi. there they left 2 to 4 tanks. the acid rose into the air. in principle, the danger was only at a distance. well, up to 400 m further. it only

caused a slight irritation to people, but it does not taste like a mortal threat. how many civilians are still left in north donetsk and can they leave when there are battles up to 15 thousand people, but they cannot leave, what is the situation with the fighting, what is happening in the city in fighting is going on in the city, almost the whole city is captured, about 70-80% is controlled by the russians, but there is still fighting there, the ukrainian armed forces are also in the city of severodonetsk, the ukrainian military is still in severodonetsk and they are fighting with the russians. as you said, 70-80% of the city is already captured by the russian military yes yes what is known what is known

what is the situation in lysychansk is there also fighting going on there no when are we fighting or what is under the control of ukraine but returning to civilians is it possible to evacuate or is it possible to resume evacuation they said 15,000 remain in the city, it is possible for now because there are no corridors there, the russians do not provide a humanitarian corridor, they do not provide an opportunity to evacuate people and there was constant shelling in lysychansk due to the situation that happened yesterday with the volume of our car where a french journalist died. we have stopped the evacuation for the time being thank you thank you mr. serhiy thank you it was serhiy gaidai the head of the luhansk military administration about the latest events in severodonetsk as previously reported by the gestaff of the armed forces the russian military is

trying to establish full control over severodonetsk and surround the ukrainian units there, the ukrainian military also divided the russians tried to advance to bakhmut and slovyansk and e returning to the situation in severodonetsk while the fighting continues in severodonetsk as we have just started from serhii haid and there remain 15,000 residents and the bbc previously spoke to a volunteer who recently left north donetsk, he was wounded just during the russian shelling during the evacuation and let's listen to what he said about the situation in the city, after a while you stop worrying about the shelling and the sounds of explosions, because if the projectile didn't hit you, it exploded next to you. it seems that this will not happen a second time. so when we heard the habit of the cult, we thought that they were aiming at more than one, they flew past us, but when the others broke the window, i thought, my time has come,

all we could do it was to jump out of the car. it was very scary, i was confused at first, i didn't realize that i was injured, all we tried to do was to evacuate civilians and we ourselves are civilians. so, we shouted, we are civilians, and stop firing, but it did not stop them, even though they they heard us, my driver was seriously wounded, i was lightly wounded compared to him, but our wounds are nothing compared to the condition of the ukrainian soldiers defending severodonetsk, what i saw there is hell on earth , they don't have enough weapons. they are waiting for western weapons, which are delayed. many of them are wounded they are bleeding, they do not sleep at night. in the trenches, under constant shelling and the sounds of explosions, they dig deep trenches to save their lives and wait for a change. these are the impressions of the volunteers. what are the weapons of the ukrainian army in donbas?

we know, the representatives of the ukrainian authorities have stated that the military needs long-range artillery to deter the russian offensive. at the same time, ukraine is still asking western countries to provide reactive systems for fire, and we are talking more about this with my colleague albion shundera, he is in direct communication with us, albi, what exactly what kind of weapon is ukraine asking for in order to restrain the russian offensive, in particular in donbas, we are talking about volley fire systems that the usa is transferring to ukraine, this is a system they have a very large range of many missiles ukrainians were upset by the fact that, according to the statement of the american side, the range of these systems will be 70 km, because with the use of certain missiles, the range could reach 300 km. president biden opposed the provision of systems that can be used to strike the territory of russia, but it is unlikely that such weapons could destroy, say, a bridge through the kerch strait, because the key thing here is what is the warhead

of the missile and can it cause destruction to such an object, this bridge has become for many ukrainians a symbol of the russian occupation, like a cruiser moscow, which managed to sink to the bottom of the sea, but now, according to experts, it is more important to achieve a breakthrough in donbas there, western volley fire systems kimers or m-270, together with howitzers from nato countries, can become a counterweight to russian artillery, which means to stop the advance of russian troops . battles continue for access to what is happening in the south of kherson oblast? what is known? lily of the front is not only in the east, but it is in the south and here in the kherson region, the ukrainian army has decided to impose its plan of action on the enemy. there are very few details from official sources. it is known that ukrainian forces pushed back the russians in a certain

area where, unlike donbas, the russian troops were stretched along the line of defense, but now the enemy is densely mining the bank of the ingulets river in the area of ​​hostilities of david breed, and his aircraft struck a blow. the battles in this area force the russian army to take care not only about how to maintain a quantitative advantage in donbas, but how to prevent the advance of ukrainian troops in the south . and here, actually, it is interesting that the former us ambassador to nato, who also worked as a special agent with the us representative in to ukraine, kurt volker he said that the russian troops could make a strategic mistake by abandoning everything they have to kill severodonetsk, because after this battle, this is the opinion of kurt volker, the russians will be significantly exhausted. my colleague albi schunder was with us about the course of hostilities in ukraine at the same time as the situation in donbas bbc correspondents jeremy

bowen and tv journalist fred scott visited the city of bakhmut, a front-line city that may become one of russia's next targets, and from there they reported that life in donbas was never easy, but at least it was usual now that the war is getting closer to this home for the elderly it is time to go these women have no families that could support them one of the ukrainian volunteers admitted to me russian soldiers are worse than beasts they cannot leave the women here to their own devices they are taking them to the west away from donbas, away from the russian invasion, it's normal, this is the result of the russian strike near bakhmut, most of the residents managed to leave before this attack happened, the man who lived in this apartment left it

literally the day before, people are afraid that the russians will take control of the whole of donbas and also their city roman and maria want to stay but feel lonely in front of the destructive power of the russian army on their doorstep we have come poka takoe raschenie no koda already i don't know if it's too much too much too much попасной then i don't know then i don't know we don't want to stay here this month their daughter sonya turned 8 her school is closed due to the invasion of the russians online lessons have become part of a new life for which the parents are desperate they are trying to give the appearance of normality, even though they understand its fragility further down the road, a glimpse of the future that is approaching, the russian army is less than 10 km from here, they are already regularly shelling bakhmut, but not yet constantly, and the residents

here stubbornly cling to the usual routine affairs repentance, the routine is inevitably destroyed, the city is waiting , waiting civilians who are left here to stay or flee how to survive is also the ukrainian army they just received a few powerful american howitzers, but they are not enough to stop the russians in north donetsk ukrainian the generals have to decide how many more troops to sacrifice for both battles for this part of donbas , which they can and will not win, a controlled retreat to better defensive positions looks likely if the russian offensive does not stop, new trench networks that are close to the current front line

are already ready kramatorsk - one of the cities of donbass which should be on the list of russian targets, it's about a 15-minute drive from here, that's all it can be. just in case, an emergency plan , but if the russians make their way further all this may be needed after weeks of heavy fighting , maxim's unit was ordered to retreat closer to the bahmutation, especially in ukraine, he 11,000 ukrainian volunteers immediately after the invasion , he enlisted in the army with his friend dmytro, two students fought for victory in kyiv dmytro is still there, but here the feeling is completely others in donbas 19-year-old maksym is fighting at the limit of his strength where we defended the zorya chemical plant i think that

it is impossible to agree with putin sirens interrupt the preparations for the funeral of a 21-year-old ukrainian soldier serhiy after the invasion, this war had terrible consequences and not only in ukraine, thousands of dead in ukraine, thousands in russia, the killings here in donbas brought the major nuclear powers closer to confrontation than during the cold war, millions of refugees, but even more, the war is a constant threat, what about those more destruction, more hunger, poverty and more funerals jeremy bowin bbc sometimes the european union tries to stop russia with sanctions, so the leader of the european union at the summit in brussels was able to lead the sixth package sanctions against russia and give up russian

oil, but not completely. the eu refuses the oil that russia supplies by sea. this is two-thirds of russian oil imports to the eu. it leaves open the druzhba oil pipeline, through which oil is supplied to hungary, slovakia and the czech republic. at the same time, the eu emphasizes that this is a temporary exception, while prime minister of hungary victor roban declares an undisputed victory, he was against the embargo, he explains the meaning of such sanctions further, eu leaders gave the green light to one of the naysayers, decided on sanctions against they agreed to ban russia from the lion's share of the oil that europe receives from russia. the president of the european commission called this an extremely important step. the council will now have the opportunity to finally introduce an embargo on almost 90% of all russian oil imports by the end of the year. two-thirds of russian oil imports come to the eu by sea, but they made a temporary exception. for pipeline oil due to

opposition from hungary, which said its economy would not be able to cope with the ban germany and poland have volunteered to stop importing oil due to pipelines until the end of this year. thus, about 10% of oil from russia remains, which will go to hungary, slovakia and the czech republic. the european union is also taking measures against the largest russian bank and persons accused of crimes in ukraine. this compromise was reached. after several weeks of difficult negotiations, packages of other sanctions were adopted it used to be much faster , but the oil boom revealed differences between european countries, eu leaders say they want to get rid of not only russian oil but also gas, and this most likely, it will be much more difficult, the oil barge will mean billions in losses for russia, but with the rise in oil prices, it

will also have a negative effect on europe, but while the fighting continues in ukraine, especially in the donbass, the european union hopes that new sanctions will block the flow of huge funds to the sources which finance the russian war machine. at the same time , poland and germany promise to withdraw from russian pipeline oil by the end of the year, that is, only 10% of russian oil imports will remain, and about the consequences of such of european sanctions, we speak with orissa lutsevich from the british royal institute of international relations. congratulations, three months after the start of russia's war against ukraine, russia was able to use its powerful lever - this is the oil embargo, and the chairman of the european council char-michel said that this partial embargo will reduce a huge source of funding for the russian of the military machine industry, if it does not

stop this russian military machine, it will at least slow down such a calculation in the european union, no, definitely. this is very important that this partial oil embargo was approved by all member countries of the european union, because we know that there were proposals and it is possible to allow some countries not to join such an embargo, but still, this strength of a joint decision also demonstrates political solidarity with ukraine, and this means that this large flow funds, which will decrease, will actually weaken the russian economy, and all these sanctions that are currently there are also included in the bank, and other high-ranking russian officials are also included, and this is an oil cargo it will slow down the wheels of the russian economy until it actually stops completely over time, again, it also takes some time, it will not be an instant solution and it will not instantly affect the course of the war, in fact, until this sixth package

of european sanctions of the european union against russia which agreed in fact for a month, they could not agree on it, sanctions are included against the largest russian bank, sberbank, it is disconnected from the swift system of interbank payments, there is also a ban on three russian state broadcasters sanctions against people are responsible for the current situation in ukraine, that is, another step towards the isolation of russia. but together with the embargo, together with the oil embargo , there is still russian gas. the european union depends on russian gas, and this is actually what the european union did. so far, it has frozen the nord stream gas pipeline . -2 at the beginning of the war, russia, for its part, stops supplying gas to some european countries, for example, today it is the netherlands. and actually, under what conditions do you think the eu can go on a gas barge with gas, of course, here the story is different

because there is not such a liquid market as it is possible to buy oil by other e-e ways by sea a-a i think that the main strategy of the european union will be a gradual reduction of gas purchases, this is the transition to e-e renewable energy sources, now the european union has adopted a new big package that should to speed up and almost 40% of the energy sources in the european union must be renewable, these are of course very principled decisions and this will actually speed up the disconnection of the european market from the russian e-e energy carriers and similarly, in reality, it will not be so easy for russia to reorient these e sources of gas supply to other markets because these are pipelines, this actually has a far-reaching effect on the russian economy, because we know how dependent it is on energy carriers, the main goal of these measures is to prevent russia from rearming after all, we

see that russia is losing a large amount of equipment , tanks, planes on the battlefield in ukraine, and there is already a reaction from moscow, so russian ambassador volodymyr chizhov said that brussels has reached the limit of what is possible in terms of sanctions and threatened serious there are problems if there are attempts to implement this gas embargo, but european countries are still feeling the consequences of the sanctions they are introducing against russia, so fuel prices are rising, and this was one of the arguments of the hungarian prime minister viktor orbán, but he came out today in brussels and so triumphantly said that the hungarians can sleep peacefully because they are not threatened by rising prices, unlike those countries that will refuse russian oil. what restrictions are the europeans willing to go to in order to help ukraine in this war? a difficult question and it often depends on the internal political situation of each country. by the way, viktor orbán should also feel at ease,

because he was just re-elected and there is really little that threatens him, except that the excess profits that the hungarian oil company keeps on the price difference finance very often this conservative radical right is orbana's agenda, but this is a very important issue and i think that it is the task of both the ukrainian diplomat and ukrainian civil society to convey the risks to european society. let's put it this way russia's victories in the war with ukraine, because we see that so far public opinion is quite in solidarity with ukraine, and it is important to maintain this trend, because there will definitely be radical parties in every country who will say that this is not our war, why our payers taxes they have to pay the price, such and such risks exist and they must be taken into account, therefore there is no need to prolong this war. the sooner a solution is found, let's say, on the battlefield, the less

the price of this war will be for europe, and what exactly will it be? now this decision can be, you say the decision on the battlefield, what these decisions can be now, and in general, how long and how strongly both the european union and the united states are ready to support ukraine in this war. we must understand that the united states plays an extremely important role here great britain's measures, but definitely. this is biden's united states . there will be mid-term elections, where his party may lose the majority in the parliament. therefore, it must be done quickly . can give the ukrainian armed forces the ability to counterattack after they consolidate their positions and now in donbas and therefore the main issue is, on the one hand, the supply of weapons that will help to repel the territory temporarily

occupied by russia, and on the other hand, it is financial support for the budget of ukraine for for the ukrainian economy to stay afloat and for ukraine to be able to finance its armed forces, because this is a large expenditure of the state budget to finance the army, talking about the economy, you returned from the economic forum in davos and what what are your impressions in general, as they talk about the war in ukraine, what are the first problems they call because and in particular they talk about the food crisis, the war in ukraine threatens a food crisis, what are your impressions, well, definitely, in general, the global economy is experiencing a slowdown and many people are talking about a possible recession, and this is partly covid consequences covid is in a pandemic and now the consequences of russian aggression have superimposed on it, and this is a slowdown that is due to the increase in energy sources, the main question is how and also on

in the middle east, which depends on uh, and people are worried about global hunger, and this is how russia uses uh, blackmail, in fact, with hunger to achieve its goals. they can do for the victory of ukraine what russia uses hunger as a tool and the representatives of the ukrainian authorities declared, meanwhile, the european union introduced a partial oil embargo against russian oil about gas and have not yet started to talk about gas - let's say it now, i think there will be a certain pause in order to formulate it correctly, the disconnection from russian gas is a difficult issue, but i think it is only a matter of time because the political decision has been made, russia uses energy as a weapon and no one wants to depend on such blackmail from the energy sector. now they will think in the

european commission and in the capitals and in each country, in particular, how to disconnect from the russian pipeline. thank you orysia. it was orysia lutsevich whether from the british royal institute of international relations both civilians and prisoners of war during war should be protected under international law yes the third geneva convention stipulates that they should be treated humanely provide medical care food prohibited torture forced labor at the beginning of the invasion there were various reports of ill- treatment with prisoners of war who were captured by the russians, the bbc spoke with a ukrainian soldier who survived russian captivity, this metal frame binds the broken pelvis of hleb youth in addition, his jaw is broken and he is blind in one eye and here gleb is trying to take his first steps two months ago he defended mariupol

served in the marines watched the enemy turning his head to the right then i saw that if a tank was aimed at me i saw a bright flash i felt that if the building had collapsed once, twice, or three times, he would have survived, but he was taken prisoner. no one knew if he survived. until this video appeared on the internet, he was taken to a hospital in the territory occupied by russia. he says that he is being held captive by enemy soldiers. they threatened me with a dagger, they ran it like this along the carrier, then you know, this way to the throat, then this way, that way, to the ear and the tip. then i still couldn't sit, so they fed me, they could put food there, they could say there was boiling water, we ate, we lay without painkillers, without anything, that is, simply , that is, if faith and the understanding that i must survive

only kept me afloat, lord, have mercy, lord, have mercy, a hundred while hleb suffered in captivity the church in poltava, to which he went from childhood, did not stop praying for him from mariupol, there are two ways for our soldiers, either death or capture, in the end, all that remained was to pray, and there is such a war that brought us a lot of suffering, and a lot of families are waiting the return of their sons, a lot of people from poltava after 17 days were released from captivity as a result of the exchange of prisoners.

terribly happy, that is, i still did not believe until the end that in ukraine, that i was exchanged for something, i am here, as if in a city where you can breathe freely and speak in war, being captured is an occupational hazard for soldiers. but in this conflict, the russian side is trying to do two things with the prisoners, first use them as a bargaining chip for exchange which worked in some cases and the second is an attempt to suppress their resistance and their struggle but these attempts were unsuccessful op eu o-o-o oh well i am convinced that i continued the armed struggle in the armed forces of ukraine and i will help bring victory over russia closer to the story of gleba, a haircutter who survived russian captivity, and on this i will conclude our issue, this is the 97th day of the war between russia and ukraine. tomorrow, watch our news release at 9:00 pm. see you

. glory to ukraine - this is a program called verdict. serhiy rudenko good day and good health to all, today is the 97th day of the heroic resistance of the ukrainian people against the russian occupation. sloviansk and barvinkovo