agricultural products will also have something to eat, thank you very much, i say goodbye to you see you tomorrow until 19:00 take care of yourself, don't forget that during an emergency, you should at least use the rule of two walls, but six people arrived in lviv region today, by the way, six people were injured a child among them and ternopil oblast also suffered, therefore do not despise, do not neglect the enemy continues to be stupid as before and wants to kill us and we want to survive and defeat him now for your attention i offer a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian bbc news editors are watching together good evening we are from ukraine missile strikes on western ukraine from northern donetsk lysichansk are the last outpost of luhansk region - this is the 111th day of russia's war against ukraine about the main events we tell the bbc news broadcast live from london kolsychansk under constant shelling civilians are trying to escape from the

city that is being destroyed by the russian army, you will see a special report on the bbc, pilots of nato countries take part in the largest exercises since the end of the cold war and say russian military planes are nearby and what ukrainian books are read in the west, we talk about it while the english translation of serhiy zhadana 's novel won an award while in severodonetsk, the hottest point of the front on the other side of the seversky donets, the city of lysychansk also suffers from russian shelling, a city where approximately 100,000 people once lived now it is deserted, but civilians are still leaving from there, what is happening in

lysychansk was seen by bbc correspondent orla gerin and cameraman kolo moli from there, their special report on the open road to lysychanska, they tell us to go as fast as possible. in the distance, a horizon shrouded in smoke opens up, shelling begins and local people pray for their lives. russia is leveling everything here tanya, run here . in a panic, they pile into an armored truck

, the locals take the opportunity to leave while this is still possible, but they understand that it can be a one-way trip if the russians they are taking over this territory and they are getting closer and closer, these people may never return to their city and their homes, the situation is critical, these rescuers say, because in the distance, cannonade can be heard so slowly it is emptying. and another city of luhansk oblast, those who remained are waiting for their turn to be evacuated, hoping to escape before the lines the front will come closer among those who are waiting vladimir, the man is sick , he needs to go to the hospital and everything here was a peaceful life until the war destroyed everything , volodymyr tells us about the lysychansk war left a terrible memory of itself once it

was a palace of culture now it is a reminder of what the russian army is capable of president zelensky called lysychansk a dead city just like the neighboring severodonetsk now it is a ghost town of odessa with this is a vivid example of the destruction that russia has caused here, it destroys not only residential buildings and apartments and homes, it destroys history. it destroys the face of cities. it is a deliberate tactic to bomb, shell, and burn, leaving nothing but scorched earth. those who stayed in the city for a short time they come out of the basements to cook food in the yard in the city. there has been no electricity and water for a long time,

but despite the threat, elena cannot leave her native home. do you think the russians will soon take over the city? it looks like they are coming closer. i don't know anything. for the best, however , time is playing against this city, it is already an artillery war, the ukrainians do not have enough large weapons and ammunition, the military is begging for help until it is too late, we have priests, i and all of us ukrainians want to say that we we need victory we need peace and we will not be able to win and achieve peace without the help of our partners, in my opinion, without ammunition for our artillery, we will not be able to win this terrible war while we were talking, the war came very close over

our heads, a russian shell flew in the distance, a neighboring one is burning the city of severodonetsk is holding on with the last strength, but there are still pockets of resistance here, the ukrainian military is fighting fierce battles, but all the bridges to the city have now been destroyed . inflicts deadly blows in the battles here, the ukrainians are resolutely fighting back, but how does it look like the latest weapons promised by britain and the usa can arrive here. when it will be too late here in

donbas, everything points to the fact that ukraine will lose this battle so far with the scorched earth in lysychansk . lysychanska is among fifty britons against whom russia imposed sanctions today, and the director general of the bbc and those journalists of the corporation who at different times covered the war in ukraine were also blacklisted representatives of other british media, in particular editors-in -chief and journalists of hazet gardin, times-daily, telegraph, dailymail, independen , in general, the russian ministry of foreign affairs imposed sanctions against 49 people, everyone is prohibited from entering russia, and in addition to journalists, representatives of the defense sector were affected by the restrictions. moscow says this is a response to western sanctions and returning to the battles in donbas,

president zelenskyi called lysychansk and severodonetsk dead cities in severodonetsk, where there were approximately 120,000 people before the war and still remain several thousand civilians and they survive under artillery shelling, while the russians destroyed the city's infrastructure and we are in direct contact with elina morgunova, who comes from north donetsk, iryna good evening do you have relatives in north donetsk, do you manage to communicate with them and what do they say about the situation in good evening. unfortunately , since may 7, we have completely lost contact with our relatives from the donbass from the city of severodonetsk. there is no mobile connection in the city. it has been more than 40 days since it is impossible to contact the city. the situation remains extremely difficult, we know that there is no means of communication in the city, there is no electricity, there is no

gas supply, and the situation in the city is simply extremely difficult, because yesterday the last place that connected all the classes of verdonetsk to it's a pity that there is a huge humanitarian disaster in the city right now, and the people who are there are more than 10,000 people who currently remain without water, without food, without any possibility to receive humanitarian aid, so it is very important pay attention to this and call on our international partners to do everything possible in order to restore any method of communication with the city. well, the head of the region of fairy tales with the city is and there is an opportunity to take the wounded to serhiy gaidai said that you ca n't evacuate but all the same, the city, that is, the meaning remains the connection according to his words, and that's actually when was the last time you were in

north donetsk and what was the last time you remembered this city the last time i was 40 it was january 2020, on the 22nd of the year together with his family in the warm christmas in the family circle, and i remember those from severodonetsk - i wo n't always remember because and that second floor in the building on druzhba narodiv street, there is nothing better and what is it for, but not at the moment the city is simply in the great great word pop and smoke from the city of restrictions, there is nothing left, 95% of the housing stock is completely destroyed and is not subject to restoration, severodonetsk is a hero city, a lot of people say that, er, severodonetsk is the second mariupol, but in fact it is not like that the fate of all donetsk determines the fate of donbas a which accordingly, the fate of ukraine is determined, and

severodonetsk is a city, the pearl of donbass, it is a key industrial city of the region, and in fact there are a lot of children, a lot of guests, not only from different parts of ukraine, even from all parts of the world, they came to the city of severodonetsk to celebrate key events in the summer ward which was completely destroyed by the russian troops , and verdonetska is the city that gave me life. severodonets is the city that gave me my first life in europe and taught me life. this is the city that gave me life. i have the opportunity to become the kind of person that i am now. i am proud that severodonetsk is now at the front line for the independence of our entire region, and i sincerely believe that the place of churnetsk is a city, a city that has the character of a city that has er

protect er the entire region of donbass and the future er will determine the future of ukraine because directly er what the russians did they took the lives normal life of more than 110,000 people and in fact these 10,000 people who now need to stay in the city they ah they symbolize the indomitability and steadfastness of the ukrainian people. they symbolize the look to victory, the will to independence, the will to the european path and despite elina. thank you, thank you for sharing your feelings about severodonetsk .

of the west of ukraine, according to reports, the air defense forces shot down four missiles in the lviv region due to falling debris, there are injured people , and my colleague and i are talking about the latest events zhanna bezpyachuk, she is in direct contact from kyiv. zhanna, let's actually start with the missile attacks on western ukraine that took place on the day . what is the official information? rockets were also shot down in khmelnytskyi region, it is known that 23 people were injured in ternopil region in total, and the repression lasted for 10 years, people remain in hospitals, among the victims there is a child, until now ternopil region itself was considered one of the relatively safest places in ukraine, but here are these rocket strikes, four rockets that hit the

territory of the region proved that there is no absolutely safe place anywhere in ukraine today regarding zolochiv, e. it is known that four people were injured there, again, among them there is a child, russian troops hit a brickyard in zolochiv, it is also worth to understand that, most likely , these missile attacks on the west of the country have certain contexts and deeper reasons, it is actually the fact that right now this part of the country plays a key role in order to, on the one hand, export grain from ukraine to export through poland, therefore western railway - it is really in the full sense of the word a critical object of the infrastructure of ukraine, in addition, this railway is very important in order to deliver to ukraine all these weapons

and shells that the countries of the european union and the united states of america promised to ukraine to deliver in the coming weeks and why it can be so important for russia, as military experts now explain, and because there is a real threat that when ukraine receives these new weapons, it will receive additional artillery armored tires and she will have enough cover from the sky, she will be able to go on a counteroffensive in zaporizhzhia, zaporizhia oblast , and also in kherson oblast and even in the east of ukraine, and in fact, this is what the largest russia can hypothetically fear in order to secure these captured territories on which it advanced in february, march, and partly in april. these are the other sides in this war who need

to act in advance, and that is why such missile attacks could occur in the west of ukraine and the ukrainian military as well they reported that in the morning there was a missile attack on odesa region, and there were two missiles over the sea actually regarding the situation in the south, zhanna, you just returned from mykolaiv. and what are your impressions of this region ? a combat zone of active operations, and in addition, this region now, in addition to what it has to give to the council , with this threat of war, found itself in a situation where a new crop will arrive in a week, and many fields there were able to be sown after demining, and that in itself is such a sum of money feat of local agrarians that actually this harvest is not even stored anywhere, and it is

impossible to take it out, and with part of the mykolaiv region, at least parts of it are even limited by the railway, it is impossible to take out the grain consignments, all the bridges over which the railway tracks are adjacent are blown up. mykolaiv oblast was added, this one can say that until now at least two districts are being shelled on the spot, but people are gradually returning to the city, missing their homes, and finding such a certain balance between the threats that persist and some improvement in the security situation in this part of ukraine and zhanna, at the beginning of the program we already talked about the situation in lysychansk in severodonetsk, because russia has concentrated its main forces in donbas and is trying to completely seize luhansk region and here the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine informs severodonetsk fighting continues, what is known about the situation in this place? what are the latest updates? what

is known for sure is that today for the ukrainian army, the positions it holds in north donetsk have tactical significance themselves in itself, that is, those threats of danger that existed in mariupol and eventually came to life - this is the encirclement of a part of the ukrainian troops, it is possible, well, the full blockade of severodonetsk, such a thing is unlikely to happen again, since the ukrainian army currently controls the retreat routes to a better extent and the key strategic importance now is in donbas, other locations and other areas of the territory, first of all, the lysichansk-bakhmut highway, where, as military experts predict, fierce battles will continue for the control of the

highway in general, in particular, battles in the area belohorivka is another belohorivka in the donbass . what is the technical significance of the master next to the seversky don, and there is a threat that the russian troops will try to cross the river again, and that's exactly what strategic locations are, and besides all that, sloviansk is already under attack there almost regularly, rocket attacks and strikes occur in the city, and this may be the next hottest places in this part of ukraine. but again, the supply of new weapons, armored vehicles, artillery and cover from the sky thank you zhanna zhanna bezpyachuk bbc correspondent in kyiv tomorrow an important meeting for ukraine will begin in brussels, the defense ministers of the nato countries will gather there, they will talk about both helping ukraine

and strengthening the eastern flank of their bloc, nine countries of central and eastern europe called the alliance is worried about russia's aggression. in the meantime, bbc correspondents have seen nato videos showing dangerous incidents when russian military planes approached the region close to planes in nato says that this is the biggest maneuver since the end of the cold war. 50 planes are testing the air defense of the allies in eastern europe. the past always makes itself felt. the main threat remains russia. the czech pilot michal danik is playing his role . he is ready for filming and it looks like a frame from a movie. top -gang, but the matter is serious, this

training suddenly turned into a real mission, an unknown plane approached nato airspace, and now the planes that intercepted it are returning here, which country was it with, it was not a military one nato plane russians don't ask later nato declassified the incident for the bbc it was a russian plane video taken from the cockpit of the czech pilot shows how close he had to approach the russian plane to restrain it one wrong step and the situation can escalate especially since relations between moscow and nato are recent crisis demonstration of military equipment however, not everyone is reassured and as part of nato exercises, lithuanian soldiers are also testing ground air defense this baltic country

on russia's doorstep is an advanced member of the alliance vala presents inter-presence is not enough to restrain russia and from the first minute to respond to a possible escalation that may occur not only in ukraine but also outside its borders in lithuania and in our region, lithuanian civilians do not wait for an order from nato, they themselves united to do camouflage nets are part of a fragile balance to remind russia that the airspace of the allies is closed to it due to the war, interest in ukrainian culture is growing in the west, and for the first time the literary prize of the european bank for reconstruction and development was won by a ukrainian the author serhiy zhadan was recognized for his novel

boarding school in english translation and we talk about this award and about ukrainian culture abroad with a representative of the ebr includes the best works of art from the countries in which he invests, and while in previous years it was turkish, uzbek, lithuanian, polish writers, this year ukrainian writers were awarded the writer serhii zhadana is a gesture of support for ukraine while the war is going on . well, that's what zhadan himself said when he was receiving this award in this video. it's an appeal that we 'll watch later. i'm clarifying, i helped to establish this award, but i didn’t actually deal with it, so er, so carefully, like, let’s say , the bbc book of the year award, in which he is still a member of the jury, er, but of course, the translation from the ukrainian language was the first to receive this literary award, this award was founded by me, yes i imagined how to mark translations from these languages ​​that have not yet been translated into english, uh, from those countries where the bank invests, of course, uh, not

many translated languages, but we have been working in this region, including ukraine, uh, for a couple of years that's why andriy kurkov was a member of three finalists, but this is the first translation from the ukrainian language by a ukrainian author. i think that it is very worth celebrating, of course, the war now has raised attention to ukraine, to the ukrainian word, this is a factor, but the book was definitely published. it was previously published last year. press well, we are british. well, there is a representation here, that is, if it were not for this work of these translations and the great work of many people, then this book would not have shot during although i think that it well, as the head of the jury says to you, lifting, it was simply not better i.e. the war here, the war is basically useless here , but uh, i think that we are that a lot of people will learn about it now from talking and

will read it hmm that's of course that's that well the war increased interest but i think that the jury would choose her in any case even if there was not this new invasion and right here i will clarify that last year it was published in english , that is, it was already read in english, while in ukraine it was published even earlier and by the way, the internet was already on dana 's short list books annual bbc but then he never won the main prize in 2017, in fact, you already mentioned what zhadan said, this is a sign of solidarity and support, let's listen to how he reacted to the ebr prize, it is clear that all of us who live in ukraine accept any sign of attention from the other side of the world as a sign of our country's support for our efforts, it is very important to us today that the world's attention is very important to us, your support is very important , your solidarity is very important, therefore it is clear that this award is an award, in principle, to all

ukrainians who are on the air today in the rear, they are fighting against the occupier, they are fighting against russian aggression. this is an occupied territory , there are russian occupiers, russian invaders there today. unfortunately, i cannot go back to look at my school, the school where i studied, just as i cannot look at the dozens of schools that my friends and volunteers supported during for the last eight years, in addition to the fact that we worked with educators and schools, we supported libraries, we supported the sphere of culture, the sphere, the sphere of education . a prize is a prize, and interest is growing, and now at the moment when it is necessary to translate, promote, sell

ukrainian literature, and there is still not enough of it zhadan is here on amazon, you can buy it relatively not expensive for 9-10 to 11 pounds, several books in translation, including vorushilovgrad, which won both the bbc book of the year and the bbc book of the decade , uh, but we need more, uh, we need more authors, this is interest, you know what human attention is, he is not will be eternal and uh if he wasn't eternal because of the fact that 100% peace will come, it's one thing and he can simply uh disappear, the war will continue. that's why it's necessary right now while they're still talking about it, while people are discovering for themselves what such a thing is. how ukrainian literature is like ukrainian culture or in the west there is russian culture and people do not understand that there are some other cultures, but in fact there is no such writer as zhadan in modern and russian literature and he cannot be in principle because there is no freedom and he is not in many other countries because there is no there is no poetry of that pain. so, dante is unique, that is, there is not much that is desired. it should be translated into all the languages ​​of the

world. i think, but there are many other books and there is a lot of mass literature, uh, zhadan is such that he is on the verge of being read by everyone, but we have genre literature, there are various fantasy detective stories, there are women's novels, there is everything you need in modern full-fledged great literature, everything in ukrainian literature is simply there, no one in the west has read it yet, eh. i hope that zhadan will be the first and a whole wave will follow him and ukrainian literature will become fashionable all over the world. well, it is linguistic, at least part of it in the english-speaking part. thank you svitlana. it was svitlana snorting about the award of the hebrew literary prize for the book boarding school serhiy zhadana - this is the award that the english translation received of this book, why should we conclude our news release on the 111th day of the war between russia and ukraine, about the main things. look, you have been reading for two days on our website bbc.ua, i say goodbye to you, see you tomorrow