yes, she raised the excise tax in order to allegedly fill the budget when she saw the incapacity and in fact the brink of bankruptcy of gas-producing ukrainian gas-producing companies. until the winter well, of course the winter will be difficult and it is clear that putin is doing everything possible to make the winter difficult for ukraine and the european union, so in technological repair nord stream one - this is direct blackmail the european trinity in kyiv promises ukraine the status of a candidate for eu membership and new heavy weapons - this is the 113th day of russia's war against ukraine

we tell the main events of the bbc news broadcast live and from london the leaders of france, germany , italy they came to kyiv because of a certain zelenskyi, the support quotes verbatim ukraine will be supported as long as it is needed, the room where the weapons are issued, the bbc got into the military command center, the western powers are coordinating efforts to supply arms to ukraine and left to fend for themselves, the sister of a moroccan man sentenced to death in the so-called dpr told the bbc that no one cares about his fate, the leaders of france, germany, italy, romania came to kyiv, met with president zelenskyi , assured of support for solidarity with the ukrainian

people and declared that they support the grant ukraine 's status as a candidate for membership of the european union we will talk about this in detail later. mario of italy, dear chancellor of germany olafsholz and president of romania klaus, the conscience of conscience, the list of distinguished guests whom the ukrainian president received in the mariinsky palace. the german chancellor and the visit of european leaders in kyiv were monitored by my colleague zhanna bezpyachuk zhanna one of the key aspects of this visit is the perspective of ukraine get the status of a candidate for joining the eu, macron drager scholz said they support this decision, they welcome ukraine to the european family, actually. does this mean that in the next two weeks ukraine

will receive this status ? of the commission of the european union, according to the executive body of this association, regarding the readiness of ukraine to obtain the same status as a candidate country for eu accession, and this is undoubtedly a victory in itself because until recently in the european union , even against the backdrop of the war, there were countries that offered to grant ukraine not the immediate full status of a candidate for membership in the eu, but the status of a potential candidate, and putting forward certain conditions in practice means that the country would be rejected again for years, if not decades of reforms, and this is despite what ukraine is currently experiencing, but

in the end we see that this approach has won, first of all, even for reforms there are certain time frames and limits, and ukraine has succeeded in recent years to carry out some successful reforms and will do some work in the coming years, and secondly, in the end, the very context of the consideration of the application for candidacy to join the european union, the current ukraine is unique and unprecedented, and it is obvious that the leaders of the countries of the european union did take let's pay attention to what french president emmanuel macron said on this occasion, all four of us support the status of an immediate candidate for membership of the european union for ukraine, this status as we together will declare today to be accompanied by a road map and the situation in the western balkans and in the region, namely in moldova, therefore, that is how schols brought up

directly said that ukraine is part of the european family. by the way, moldova is also an important point because political experts admit that moldova is directly in the danger zone and is potentially another target could be russian aggression and de facto is already unrecognized transnistria , which is part of this country and today is a place where the russian military actually owns a russian genu graly says that they would like to add to the temporarily occupied territories, as they call the crimean corridor in the south of ukraine, transnistria in moldova. therefore, we can expect that this country receives a positive opinion from the european commission, although we will see in the end, and then in a week we will sit on at the highest

political level, the european council of the eu and it will make this very political decision on whether to grant ukraine and moldova the status of candidate countries for joining the eu, marry zhanna not only about the european integration of ukraine was expected to be heard from european leaders, it was also expected that this visit would bring clarity to the politicians of france , germany, and italy regarding ukraine during the war, because in kyiv these leaders were criticized for insufficient support and now, let's listen to what the correspondents of the forests of these european countries talked about the circumstances of these visits and expectations from them to france, many newspapers point out with irony that a new word macron has appeared in ukrainian and russian, which means to talk a lot to promise and not fulfill what was promised, this shows the degree to which macron's star has fallen. over the horizon in ukraine, a significant part of these trips

is dedicated to restoring his reputation in this country. lument publication, through the mouth of its kyiv correspondent, says that in four months, macron has slipped from the position of one of the most popular world leaders in ukraine to the most unpopular because on horseback, many many believe that he is flirting with vladimir putin, seeking some kind of compromise in order not to humiliate putin, in addition to causing distrust macron's words about some common european security structure that does not include eu membership google in germany support for ukraine prevails, this follows from the op and also from the warm welcome that the germans gave to the refugees , almost a million arrived in germany from ukraine, but when it comes to the supply of tanks to ukraine with heavy weapons, this issue is extremely controversial, it divided the voters, and the complexity of this situation was added by the fact that chancellor offsholz himself can not decide how many and what weapons to send to

ukraine especially tanks because he found himself under strong pressure in his homeland to make up his mind and do more to help ukraine. at one time, he said that he would not go to ukraine during the war just to take a picture, but would go when he had something to offer, so expectations from a visit to germany are high in italy the war in ukraine revealed internal divisions and fractures, the public supports ukraine in the face of russian aggression, especially if you take into account that there was already an established ukrainian community here even before the war, but italy is one of the countries the eu, which is most dependent on russian gas, in addition, italian entrepreneurs have deep business ties with russia, so at the beginning of the war, they did not willingly support sanctions against russia, in addition, right-wing policies such as silviobralos coni and matteo salvini are known for their closeness to vladimir putin. in combination with how positively

some russian figures have been portrayed in the media in recent weeks has led to the emergence of a situation where the majority of italians are against the supply of weapons to ukrainians in the bloc where putin uses any signs of discord continues to look like a weak link, has macron's rhetoric changed, it's also the drags in kyiv, so we can say that it has changed, and specifically the french president. well, let's say it took some time to clarify his messages regarding ukraine. but he really, really, earlier said that it is important to help vladimir putin save face, that is, in other words, not to humiliate russia because of the war it started in ukraine, because it is necessary for that to continue negotiating at the negotiating table. and this

time, during his visit to ukraine, the french president was not talking about that at all, not about how to save the face of vladimir putin, but about how to help ukraine, firstly, to resist and secondly, to win, and he admitted that this is exactly what is key. emanuel macron tried to convince putin even before the war that he would not dissolve it, and then already during the russian aggression in ukraine, he tried to have such a conversation with vladimir putin and bring it up. there are probably some arguments for him that we need to stop this war as soon as possible , obviously all these attempts were unsuccessful, we can see that and that is why emmanuel macron, let's say, expressed himself more harshly this time and in the end supported the immediate granting of ukraine the status of a candidate for accession to the european union, moreover, his

statements included these specifics he promised to provide ukraine with an additional six installations of the most worthy artillery, which is called caesar, it is 155 mm artillery exactly and that meets nato standards, and france is going to buy 100 for itself of such installations in the coming years. this is how he brought news and proposals to ukraine. this time actually military support and the provision of weapons to ukraine - this is one of the important issues of this visit. weapons to ukraine in kyiv, he did not make any new promises regarding weapons, at least publicly, but only said that germany will continue to provide ukraine with financial and military support, and in such formulations is actually an important issue

sanctions against russia president zelenskyi, we have heard. he said that the more weapons ukraine receives from western countries, the faster it will be able to liberate its occupied lands, and also zelenskyi said that this is russian aggression against the whole of europe, actually sanctions as an element of diplomatic pressure against russia, this is what sanctions kyiv is seeking what this is known, it is known that kyiv is extracting gas specifically for russia, which could hypothetically introduce the european union. it is certain that this is the toughest of all possible sanctions against russia, because natural gas trade abroad, its export , is the main source of income for russia, and it is interesting to note that just before the visit of the leaders of germany, france, italy, romania, and ukraine,

russia reduced its gas supplies to europe via the northern stream 1 of key asogins by 40%." the german company allegedly failed to repair the turbines in time for the coordinated operation of the gas pipeline . thus, german politicians also recognize this. this is an example of how russia can use gas trade and its export as a tool of political pressure and as a result, ukraine receives yet another argument why, at least, a limited gas embargo makes sense not only for the ukrainian side, but also for the future of the

european union. by the country which, because of the war in ukraine, introduced sanctions against the head of the russian orthodox church, patriarch kirill, sanctions against him were planned to be introduced by the eu in the sixth package of sanctions against russia, however, according to media reports, against this was announced by hungary, britain blacklisted patriarch kirill for his public support of russian military aggression in ukraine , the russian children's ombudsman maria lvova bilova was also sanctioned for the forcible transfer and adoption of ukrainian children, in addition, sanctions were introduced against four russian colonels of the 64th motorized rifle brigade, which considered to be involved in the murders of civilians in buch against the head of a russian freight company are also against several citizens of ukraine who cooperate with the russian occupation forces in the captured territories of ukraine and also about the

supply of weapons to ukraine. britain bought more than 20 m-109 self-propelled artillery units for ukraine, they were purchased repaired from a belgian arms company. offensive."

that if you were putin and were sitting in your home in moscow, you would ask yourself and what exactly did you get for all these sacrifices, all these losses of international reputation? i think the advantage is that everything is on the side of ukraine, they are defending themselves. they have this moral component, a vital moral component, and now the west is supplying more and more heavy weapons and they are starting to arrive . they assemble them they throw massive forces which as an infantryman i have never seen and they usually assemble for huge objectives but they assemble artillery to capture crossroads without any particular benefit i think the problems with they clash they spend huge forces not miniature advances although they can do it they are very large as a military force but of course they

lose western supplies they have evolved convenient practically infantry type weapons from anti-tank weapons to short-range hand-held anti-aircraft weapons this is where this journey began of the west and now came to the long-range artillery to the institution of the 155 rszv caliber, we saw that some countries even supply helicopters, so there was an important change during the last one or two months, this is mainly the result of a brutal russian attack on ukraine with signs of war crimes. ben vulis spoke at the nato headquarters in brussels, but if yesterday in brussels the attention was focused on military aid to ukraine, a group of countries led by the united states met there in the so-called rammstein format, which spoke about it was washington who announced that it was providing military aid to kyiv worth a billion dollars, but today in brussels they are still focused on internal nato issues,

namely on the defense of the eastern flank of the alliance, this is the second the day of the meeting of the defense ministers of the nato countries and this meeting is followed by the bbc defense correspondent jonathan bills, today more attention is focused on the internal issues of nato and on their own defense, they have to decide what the defense scheme of the alliance will be, how many troops they will have in the baltic countries and in eastern europe in a long-term sense. it is precisely because of russia's invasion of ukraine that you remember that before this war, president putin made it clear that he wanted less nato near his borders, but they will become larger. to be discussed at the summit in madrid at the end of the month, for which, in fact, the presidents are preparing here, zelensky was invited to the summit, at which he can appear in person or virtually, but he will address the leaders of nato countries, and the message that they will try to convey to him from here we support ukraine i would call it is a

constant flow of weapons, but not in large quantities. i have visited the city before. western countries are coordinating their efforts to supply ukraine with weapons and ammunition. a secret room at an american military base in germany 66,000 tons of weapons have already been sent to stuttgart from there to the ukrainian military, according to one british officer, this is approximately like five thousand london double-decker buses. just imagine this amount of weapons supplies to ukraine . dozens of military personnel from 16 countries work around the clock in this center. already a small team from ukraine which at the beginning of each day determines what is most needed western weapons are coming to ukraine and are being used with deadly results recently the west is sending heavy equipment such as these artillery guns but

ukraine claims that this is still not enough, and russia has much more weapons, but at this us military base in stuttgart, germany, western countries are working hard to ensure the arrival of weapons. the american commander with this secret mission insists that ukraine receives everything it needs. coordinate it with them on a daily basis we have a liaison officer here a three-star general who sets priorities and shares that with us with our allies in daily meetings we can very quickly adjust the supplies provided by the allies do you think ukraine will not run out of weapons and ammunition we will make sure that they do not run out in this austere building they are

working round the clock to prevent russia from winning this war the attic of this barracks behind my back has now become the center for coordinating the supply of the western weapons to ukraine, we were not allowed to take them inside the premises for security reasons, there are 26 military personnel there who are trying to ensure that ukraine receives ammunition and the necessary weapons that will become the salvation for ukraine is the first photos from the middle, which were approved by the american troops, currently dozens of soldiers from dozens of countries have already helped deliver 66,000 tons of military equipment to ukraine worth almost 8 billion dollars, and they believe that this is only the beginning, they are preparing for a very long war, they say not about months and how long i think we spend here a few years they are already

preparing to send american and british rocket launcher systems they say that after the weapons arrive at secret locations in in eastern europe, it can reach the front line within 48 hours. ukraine still says that this is not enough, but from stuttgart they assure that they will provide it with everything necessary. the case of three men whom the so-called dnr sentenced to death caused international condemnation. and they are called mercenaries, the ukrainian authorities declare that all three servicemen of the armed forces of ukraine should be treated as prisoners of war, the families of these captured men are demanding of their release, however, the sisters from roka told the bbc that her brother's story was not given due attention and he was left to fend for himself. this is

the beginning of a journey that will lead him to the death sentence. the 21-year-old boy studied in ukraine and volunteered to defend mariupol. later, when he surrendered, he was tried not as a soldier. as a mercenary, together with two britons , he was sentenced to death by the so-called supreme court of the dpr , the case caused an international response, but his sister believes that brahim's case was ignored at first, when they were all captured, there were different news about each person. my brother did not pay much attention, he remained as if on the sidelines . maybe it was because my government did not do so much. only silence remains and no one needs him. three men have the right to submit on appeal, but the militants stated that they saw no reason why the men should be left alive, there is a lot of support from his friends, true friends, they started more than one

company to support him. i want him to know that they love him so much. the people did the same but the others didn't and they are doing everything they can iman says she was a little girl with her brother nelyjyvoda but since he was detained she hasn't had a chance to talk to him i just want to say being afraid is normal he is my younger brother and that's what i had to do would do as a big sister but i can't do that i feel like i'm just going to live without meaning until i get him back because he 's a part of me how does this affect your family it's terrible especially for my mom he's her little baby seeing her baby behind bars and even hear that his sentenced to death it's scary, and even worse, you understand, he feels that he does not receive any support and is simply left to die. how to live

after the atrocities of the russian occupation. victoria kovalenko was among those whom the russians received for three weeks in the basement of the school in the village of jagidnomo in chernihiv oblast. the woman survived the captivity together with a baby after her daughter and husband were killed by russian shelling in front of her eyes, now victoria is trying to rebuild her life, she told about this on the air of the ukraine cast program on the bbc on in these shots, victoria and her husband are happy and carefree, and their life was destroyed by the war. the family lived in chernihiv on the ninth day of the russian invasion. victoria petro and their two children decided to leave on the road . the baby was kidnapped by the russians and thrown into the basement of the school there. they stayed there for more than three weeks and with three hundred of the same

captive ukrainians without light, toilets and ventilation. after a week, it became very, very hot there, well, quite a young person, i felt sick, and people who were already 80 years old, they simply die here, thousands of people, 130,000 troops were issued by the british government, and although this figure is compared with other european countries, relatively a small program of support for ukrainian refugees in the united kingdom has already been called the largest and the process of issuing documents the fastest in british history, this is the story of victoria kovalenko, who told about the russian occupation of chernihiv oblast.

let me remind you that the main news of this day is that the european leaders, the leaders of france, germany, and italy came to ukraine and promised that ukraine will receive the status of a candidate for membership in the european union tomorrow. what exactly did he say, for example, macron said that four countries, france , germany, italy, romania, support granting ukraine the status of a candidate for eu membership, the president in france, manel macron said that this status will be accompanied by a road monkey , the situation in the balkans and in neighboring countries, particularly in moldova, will be taken into account, as well as

pretenfrancia . germany supports a positive decision regarding the eu candidate status for ukraine and moldova as well. prime minister of italy mario drive said vitaliy wants to see ukraine in the the eu will support ukraine's entry into the european union, he also said that he supports the achievement of long-term peace on the terms that ukraine and romanian president klaus yunist, who also came to kyiv today, said ukraine's entry into the eu of moldova will meet the security interests of romania, an important day for diplomacy and this is the end of our issue. this is the 113th day of russia's war against ukraine. read more on our website bbc.ua. i'll say goodbye to you. see you tomorrow.

glory to ukraine. this is a program called verdict. serhiy rudenko good day and good health to all today is the 113th day of the heroic resistance of the ukrainian people against the russian occupiers the russians continue to storm severodonetsk and break through to slavyansk fighting is fierce in donbas today kharkiv once again came under regular shelling in addition to that