indeed, i count nuclear, but everything they had, they have already used everything against our army, and what is interesting is that ukraine is standing on the 110th day, tomorrow will be the 111th, we will be even closer to our victory, take care, i wish you a good evening, stay with the press, sign with a petition that without the press returned to the t2 network, i know your scales are gone until tomorrow bbc news ukraine good evening we are from ukraine missile attack on pryluky and battles in north donetsk 110 days the war between russia and ukraine continues about the main events this day we tell in the issue of bbc news live from london chernihiv region under attack why the russians shelled the north and how ukraine can defend itself against russian missiles indiscriminate

shelling and banned cluster munitions the human rights organization amnesty international has collected evidence that this is how the russian military killed hundreds of civilians in kharkiv and the danger in the liberated territories you will see how the surrounding areas are demined kyiv 's russian army launched a missile attack on pryluky in the chernihiv region, information about the destruction or the victims has not been made public at this time were hit by three rockets during the day, said the head of the regional administration, vyacheslav chaus , residents of several villages adjacent to pryluk are planning to evacuate due to the threat of the fire spreading, this is the statement of the head of the department of civil protection of the

regional administration. school to kindergarten, at least 11 people were hospitalized, we talk about these shellings with the military-political columnist of the information resistance group oleksandr kovalenko, he with we are in direct contact with oleksandr. good evening. missile attack on chernihiv oblast. why do you think the russians targeted the north? it was expected. because the russians are now striking first of all the cities where they think military infrastructure is located, for example such as airfields, and not only where railway hubs are located, vital logistics arteries, as well as oil refineries, factories , etc., and even where they believe that alleged warehouses are located, e.e., warehouses for

ammunition or military equipment, they also can carry out strikes a-and in most cases it is false false information in them about the fact that some objects of er-e military infrastructure are really located there, they have very weak information from their er-e intelligence structures and even before that in the volume of these rockets is very high, so we can see how quite often in their propaganda messages they talk about the fact that they destroyed some military infrastructure, a military facility or some airfield, etc. and we see that in fact, their rockets have been hitting civilian infrastructure, civilian objects, residential buildings, and missile launchers since the beginning of the war, and

quite significantly. 9m723 and 9m 828 are iskander e-e missiles , and hypersonic so-called dagger missiles, as well as x -101 and x-55 of these missiles, they are becoming fewer and fewer, therefore they cannot count on the potential of their accuracy, the potential of their e-e circumvention our anti-aircraft defense is so different, that is, they are now using increasingly pure soviet models of missile weapons that have even worse accuracy, but what is more, they are vulnerable precisely to our air defense. and when it uses these more- they are less modern. these are the same cruise missiles, caliber, they use them in

large numbers at the same time on one object , that is, they can use 3,4,5 missiles on one object or eight missiles in a package. and this is a package bombardment, it can be in shelling, for example from the side of the black sea, the use of the black sea flotilla of the russian federation, and this gives them the opportunity, one way or another, to bypass our territory, that is, if 5.6 out of eight missiles are destroyed, then one or two of them will still hit or somewhere close to the object they a-a means er-e object or hit somewhere nearby and that is, this is the tactic used now, there is also the tactic of using old soviet missiles no longer deep into the territory of ukraine, and for example , if we are talking about h22 missiles, they are old soviet missiles that were still produced in the 560s, and they

use them now mostly in the donetsk region, luhansk region, kharkiv region, and sometimes even in zaporizhzhia, but they do not use them deeper in the territory of ukraine, for example. at first, they used x-22 missiles in the territory of odesa and odesa region but now they see that a significant part of them due to defects in the fuel system generally fall somewhere in the black sea, therefore they reduce the distance of use of these missiles, that is, according to their characteristics, it is up to 600 km, but they use them for about 100-150 km in order to prevent precisely such failures, because they are quite old and defective. president zelenskyi said the day before that russia had launched 2,606 cruise missiles at ukrainian cities and villages since the beginning of the war. against, you

have already talked about the defense of the preaching defense of ukraine, in your opinion, what weapons are most needed now in order to strengthen the ukrainian anti-aircraft defense in order to defend against russian missiles? and if we if we talk about the air defense of ukraine, then we understand that it is primarily a pplo that was left to us as a legacy under the soviet union. that is, it is a complex of still soviet models s300 - this is a beech, this is again a short-medium-range missile - this is a wasp, a strela 10 e, and so on and that's why this anti-aircraft missile is more or less effective against old soviet missiles such as the h25 x22 and even the x-55 and others. in the modern russian federation they are they used a very large number of a-a elements of

electronic and bases of foreign origin , that is, they used, for example, microcircuits , which were made in the usa, which were made in japan, that is, they have here, this is modern, modern elements that provide they can bypass our anti-aircraft defense, that is why we still need elements of a modern anti-aircraft defense that protected our airspace. well, for example, such as the patriot missile defense system, but there is a very big problem with their integration and directly with activity their supply is why we are now emphasizing that there should be aid at the expense of those countries that still have soviet models of air defense

systems . meter for honey, the adviser to the minister of defense of ukraine, yuriy sak, said this on the bbc, while according to the head of the luhansk regional military administration serhiy haidai, part of the city remains under ukrainian control, however it is impossible to evacuate civilians, all the bridges leading to north donetsk have been destroyed and from lysychansk, and according to him, the evacuation is happening because of the war, ukrainian farmers cannot sell more than 20 million tons of grain to the world market, while russia has blocked the main export route, ports, my colleague zhanna bezpyachuk talked with farmers in mykolaiv and saw what was happening to their crops, this grain on the outskirts of mykolaiv had already survived the shelling. now it is also blocked in the granary and it is not known when it will be able to get of consumers, specifically this barley should already be in the countries of the european union, it should be in china, but instead the owner

of this particular grain remains here, they have already lost one and a half million dollars during the war, in addition to the losses here in ukraine, on the other side of this story, hundreds of millions of people are already suffering and according to the calculations of the ukrainian authorities, if the problem is not solved now and a real solution can be implemented in just a few months, then at least half a billion people around the world will either starve in the near future or at least undernourishment and this is the situation here in almost every granary on every granary on the canal in the south of ukraine, regular shelling , blocked ports, lack of opportunities to export grain by rail, these are now the biggest problems of the mykolaiv oblast and how it is possible to get out of the grain blockade, my colleague zhanna bezpidchuk speed ​​asked the head of the regional of the military administration of vitaliy kim, please tell me

if there is any such general estimate of how much loss and damage, namely, the mykolaiv oblast, from the blocked grain export of the blocked terminals, plus also destroyed granaries, well , look at that question, you have to answer it in general , because most exporters are payers of large taxes who are served in kyiv and are also registered in various places here. the sea is not only mykolaiv region and odesa, it is a fact that we exported 28 million tons of grain only, this is also a fact that is not happening now, according to estimates, now we are within the borders of ukraine about 30 million 100 tons of grain that we cannot export usually as planned through the sea and today

there are solutions to problems with the specific export of grain from the mykolaiv oblast, now there are only two ways. this is the military unblocking of our territories and the black sea and diplomatic weapons will be agreed on corridors and the export of our goods through the black sea, well, there are only two of them - the third way - this is, let's say , the orientation of logistics to the west, er, to the west, to europe, but it is more expensive, it is more difficult, and the capital capacity is not such that it allowed for well, everything was worked out and planned in order to to load our ports, including roads, we have the responsibilities of the bottleneck on

the railway, and so on, and not only that, we have a bridge, e. even more difficult than in odesa, it is closer, firstly - it is competitive, maybe closer , and secondly, the ports of ukraine and the ports of constance there in romania are not working, and so on, and they overload it there for raids. there is a very long queue and the throughput capacity of those ports of european countries, she is not ready to add the entire volume of ukraine's exports at the moment, and in such conditions we will be the last because odessa is closer to them , the railway works, they have closer connections and because they are, well, let's call them neighbors, so look , entrepreneurs are building now grain producers are increasing their volumes in order to minimize the risks and it was possible to export them for a longer time, we will export them because, well, over time, because the price of grain, well

, the price of products has increased a lot, and this is connected with the war with the risks of sleeping there with that's why we we will take it out a little at a time and i will somehow live, but the important thing is not that because of this crisis we need to be released faster. no , it costs people's lives more. including in the kherson region , and the victory of this shelling that took place on the territory of mykolaiv, nikateri, a warehouse for the long-term storage of grain and grain products, do you connect it with a targeted attack specifically on grain terminals, grain warehouses in ukraine, or is it after all, it is simply about the military operations in this

region and the entire infrastructure of the attack, it cannot be said about this one, whether it is directed or not, they beat the speed, let's say so, and if you believe the intelligence maps there, they have half a city there, they have permanent targets, yes. what should we shoot at? if now the blockade is ukrainian, in particular, mykolaiv is blocked, what will happen next, then he will die, what are you planning to do in six months? to live how to survive, we will take it out, the car will take it out by rail, but no one wants to bargain for our territories there, and our people say they

went to kherson in half, then we will talk to vitaly, who about the situation in mykolaiv oblast, in kharkiv, the russian military was hundreds of civilians because of indiscriminate shelling, the russians used banned cluster munitions, the following conclusions were drawn by the human rights organization amnesty international, we will talk about their report in more detail a little later. now let's look at the consequences of the russian attacks on kharkiv, bbc correspondent vera davis visited the affected areas of the city and spoke with the wounded, the russians began shelling kharkiv from the first days of the war, often these attacks are chaotic and inaccurate, this video was taken at an intersection near a large city hospital, this

is how saltivka looks now, this is the northern district of the city , here almost according to the estimates of representatives of the organization amnesty international, the constant use of unguided rockets by russian troops in the host population did not remain undamaged residential suburbs led to hundreds of victims who managed to survive after the shelling left here those who return back live in constant fear terrible terrible when they were shooting and we were sitting at that time we were being tossed on the chairs together with a friend tossed up this feeling is hard to explain kharkiv is located only 30 km from the border, and this very city in the first week of the war was the main goal of the russians to capture kharkiv, they literally threw all their forces, including prohibited weapons, which are cruel in nature

the use of this weapon is recognized as illegal throughout the world because it is extremely destructive and the most selective in its power and mainly affects the civilian population there can be no reason to use cluster munitions in ukraine or anywhere else this is what the destruction of cluster munitions looks like a large shell explodes scattering dozens of smaller bombs, and those explode into thousands of units, destroy buildings, injure people, some of such patients are currently in the kharkiv children's hospital, those with they were hit by fragments of cluster munitions and russian projectiles, now he is being treated in medical facilities, well, roughly, that’s the hole, and the exit is, well, roughly , that’s that, well, with a fist. roman tells what he had to go through, when several cluster bombs exploded around him, he fell to the ground and was

convinced that he would die for according to the director of the regional hospital, more than 600 civilians died in kharkiv alone, 1,200 were injured, the city's infrastructure was also damaged, international human rights defenders claim that all this should be qualified in no other way how war crimes and human rights defenders of the world international investigated 41 shelling of kharkiv during which at least 62 people died due to indiscriminate strikes people died in their homes on the streets on children's playgrounds in lines for food and medicine human rights defenders say so at the same time, russia denies that it uses cluster munitions in ukraine is said to be striking only for military purposes, but human rights defenders have documented the opposite, and the fact that russia uses cluster munitions shows absolute disregard for the lives of civilians. said a representative of amnesty international to natalya rover, she was among those who prepared a report

on the shelling of kharkiv and she told us how they gathered evidence, why they were brought there for two weeks in april and may, visited and examined the signs of forty -one different attacks, all for this was carried out with cluster munitions and mines which are prohibited internationally the rest with other types of missiles and unguided artillery which should never be used in residential areas areas where there are civilians because it is a weapon they cannot to hit certain buildings they are known to be imprecise in nature and therefore the strikes are indiscriminate being there in april saw and heard these indiscriminate attacks every day and immediately saw their consequences destroyed lives and livelihoods in the course of our investigation we visited facilities where the largest we found the remains of the specific ammunition that was used during the strikes on these specific buildings, often each strike

included several rockets, be it rockets with cluster belts or hail rockets, cannon rockets and other types of rockets, we found debris everywhere. we also visited patients in hospitals where doctors removed fragments of bullets from cluster munitions from their bodies. we also of course reviewed a very large amount of information available in open sources, videos taken by people immediately after the attack, as well as satellite images, are absolutely clear evidence that russian troops used these munitions aware of the devastating impact they have had on the civilian population since the first days of the russian invasion at the end of february, emnesi international and others reported on the devastating the consequences of strikes such as cluster munitions and other types of rockets and unguided artillery. thus , there is no doubt that the russian government knows what type of devastation is being inflicted. it is not

a choice of attack and these attacks are war crimes. there should be no doubt that the command of the russian troops and the russian authorities do not know this. collect evidence as soon as possible. while it is available, the path to justice in situations of armed conflict can be very long, but it is important that the guilty are punished. but the russian authorities must to know that the impudence with which they seemed to enjoy now will not last forever, however, in the territories where there is no longer shelling, where there are no longer battles, there are threats to civilians, mines, ammunition that have not detonated, such extremely dangerous remnants of war, which are called demining the territory around kyiv, was seen by the correspondent of bbc joint, ukrainians nezlamna nation, they are already returning to work in the fields. and just a few months ago, hellish

battles were fought here, the consequences of those events are still visible, all the fortifications ukrainians dug in preparation for the offensive russians, however, the trenches are far from all that is left here in the soil, anti-tank mines, as discovered by the owner of this minibus, are deadly, they are hidden in various parts of this rural area, the employees of the organization for demining the territory are starting to neutralize the projectiles, and this process will be long-term, considering the scale and nature of this military conflict, it is very difficult to say how long does demining take? there is a lot of work ahead; we are talking about years, maybe even decades , and no more. ordinary people are dying peacefully the population came to where it was all lying around the garden olena shows me the rockets that covered the ground near her surroundings, but even more dangerous are cluster bombs, they are prohibited in most

countries, and this did not prevent the russians from using them during the invasion of ukraine. olena takes me to the place where two were hit there are such things , there are fences there, mina was already behind that tree, and what they said they removed the plug and took it away during the filming, we witnessed how dangerous it is here on the way to elena's house, this the truck ran into a projectile, demining experts took everything on video, as you can see the truck ran into an anti-tank mine , there was an eruption at this place it is worth saying that roads, like all of them, are important from the point of view of the agricultural component of ukraine's economy, namely, the agricultural complex is an important problem for the whole world lies in the fact that ukraine is the world's granary, ukrainian grain is exported everywhere and if farmers cannot plant it, it will affect

the whole world. this already speaks of global the food crisis caused by the russian invasion, agriculture has always been an unstable business, and now it is also dangerous for life, and it may take years to correct the situation, and at the very end, will ukraine receive the status of the week when the european commission publishes its conclusions, it is now evaluating ukraine's application, the european parliament previously recommended to grant kyiv this status of the nac is only a recommendation of a decision after the publication of the conclusions of the european commission , all member states of the european union must make a joint decision, the ukrainian authorities will remind submitted an application to join the eu in the first days of the war about the prospects of ukrainian european integration. we asked in the former co-report of the monitoring committee of the pariah regarding ukraine and hanna severinsen that brussels should soon decide whether to grant ukraine

the status of a candidate state for membership in the european union. it was the war that prompted ukraine to apply through emergency situation , what prospects do ukraine have kevin of ukraine, in my opinion, we should have given ukraine such a prospect back in 2004. it was a mistake that we did not do this not because ukraine had to become a member immediately, but for it to see the light at the end of the tunnel already then , right after the orange revolution, even then it could contribute to the process of reforms that are really necessary both then and now ukraine is not ready for immediate membership but it must have perspective ukraine claims that joining the eu has become a geopolitical necessity, you say that it is possible already too late, were not the real reasons for putin's war exactly the euro-atlantic plans of ukraine, what is your

opinion, there are many people who are trying to understand putin. i think that maybe it was wrong, and it is good to expand nato in eastern european countries, but they say they wanted it. i think that the reason for what putin is doing is that he feels like a kind of tsar. not a few days ago, he compared himself to peter the great and i spoke about the empire before and i fully understand that the baltic countries are very, very afraid of what will happen next, and we should know that if, for example, we go now to end the war on some kind of armistice, it will mean that kherson and eastern ukraine, donbas, will be russified. they have been doing it there for 8 years and they are doing it now in kherson. it is simply terrible what is happening there, russia will regroup and what will happen next to moldova or other states, some deputies of the duma, let's say, are already saying that they want to pass a law according to which lithuania is no longer an independent state and must be returned so, what are the battles and the battle that the

ukrainians are currently waging? this is a struggle for the whole of europe. the investigator of ukraine calls you the controller of almost all ukrainian presidents. do you have any critical remarks about the current president ? war, there would be many people who would say that everything is not so good, that they expected more from him, but it is not easy for ukrainians, it is easier to get rid of the president than to get rid of the system, of course, the system is viable, he had problems, if you asked ukrainians on december 21st, they would say that not very sure that maybe they would like to re-elect him but i think he really handled this war very, very skillfully this is a strong contract with putin in this situation he really behaved well in your opinion what are the possible scenarios of the war in ukraine and events everything around it depends very much on whether ukraine has heavy weapons, because now in the east of ukraine, the russians have five or even 10 times more

weapons, which have twice the range and the other three times longer . for ukraine, we in europe really want to help ukraine without delay and heavy weapons are very important here, it is not about the difference between offensive or defensive weapons, no one is going to attack russia, does ukraine meet the copenhagen criteria, or will e-data vote for granting ukraine the status of a candidate for the eeu + yes, if you look at public opinion and i really hope for the position of our prime minister, i will also do everything possible to convince him that it is very natural that ukraine is a european state, we strive to accept as many ukrainians as possible and develop a special law on their status so that they can remain in denmark and get a job, many of them dream of returning as soon as possible, but this war looks like it will last longer than we expected. i have been following ukraine for many, many years

and i know how much it means for it to be in europe, but i have no doubt that ukraine should and will be a member of the european family. that's all for today. see you tomorrow . glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program. my name is serhiy rudenko. good day to all and