in the target soon these men will go to the combat zone to help other defenders of ukraine to expel the russian occupiers from our land khrystyna parubilah polimar tv channel espresso well, what a wonderful story of success for our people who are preparing on the battlefield to give the enemy a break. i will tell you a few new things very briefly. come on i will say even one thing, i finally understood what putin is afraid of. he said that putin is afraid that the spark of democracy will reach russia. putin's regime bbc news ukraine now for your attention espresso good evening we are from ukraine shelling of odesa and strikes on mining platforms in crimea - this is the 117th day of the russian war on air bbc news ukraine in the studio in london for you this

week olga melchevska fierce fighting in luhansk region russians ukrainian forces are advancing slowly. ukrainian forces are holding on to the defense of north donetsk, more than 100 dead per day. such losses are heard by ukrainian government officials. correspondents of the bbc from the front line under a raisin and after the parliamentary elections in france, macron loses the majority in the national assembly, what will be the position of paris regarding the russian aggression, the russians shelled odesa, a food warehouse burned down, the speaker of the odesa regional military administration serhii bratchuk reported this, according to

him, there were no victims or victims in total, during the last hours in the south of ukraine, the russians launched 14 missile strikes on the danube, which had apparently burned down, in the belgorod-dniester region of odesa and in odesa itself, this is stated in the message of the operational command of the south. earlier, the armed forces of ukraine reported that russia fired cruise missiles at odesa from the territory of occupied crimea during the night and morning of monday. in both cases, air defenses shot down the missiles in the air. the president of ukraine predicts that russia will intensify its attacks in the coming days . volodymyr zelenskyi believes that the likely reaction of the kremlin is that this week the european union is considering the candidate status for ukraine, while president zelensky believes that we should wait for russia to increase its activity not only against ukraine against other european countries, let's talk about it in more detail with the bbc correspondent on military affairs, and lviv, shundera albi, now we are in

direct contact with ukraine albi, when politicians talk about increasing activity, what are the military preparing for, president zelensky said that this is a historic week, the process of joining the formally, russia is not against ukraine's membership in the european union, but these are the words of russian politicians, and let's recall the usual generatives of the mind that clearly reproduce the movements of the kremlin. europe is tired of ukraine economy of ukraine is not working in ukraine corruption and now, especially about nazism and militarization, russia turned on everything to put ukraine in front of europe in a negative light and keep it in its orbit . meets the requirements for joining the european union, although it seemed that it belongs to the european union, what does it have to do with this union? he considers it a part of the west, which he hates

. others continue to create negative news about ukraine with obligatory mentions of the nazis, this is about politics and information manipulation. and there are also hostilities and there is a reason to expect special activity from russia on the front. in the russian army continues its attempts to surround groups of ukrainian troops in the donbass, fierce battles continue in north donets, another part of the russian troops is trying to advance on the slavic ones from the north the enemy has a significant significant advantage in aviation artillery and he uses this, but the ukrainian army is slowing down this russian offensive, in addition , according to the report, ukrainian forces made unexpected strikes on the warehouses of the enemy's weapons, for example, on thursday, the artillery was even informed that ukraine is

using this too intensively artillery and american howitzers can no longer withstand such a pace, the barrels of some guns already need to be replaced, but the russian side reported about the ukrainian fire strikes on one or more gas production platforms in the black sea, if they are called boyka's ears, according to the ukrainian command , russian military personnel were stationed there, what can such hostilities testify to, the authorities in crimea admit that the ukrainian forces struck the drilling platforms for the first time. at first, it was one strike and language according to the russian side, there are more than a dozen people who were then evacuated or searched for, then strikes on two more platforms, little is known about the destruction, but they exist, these platforms extracted gas for of the ukrainian economy, but in 2014, when russia seized crimea, it seized these platforms, and then russia did not even allow

ukrainian vessels to access these platforms, which were trying to document for international courts the actions of the russians at the captured objects. the platforms were also occupied by the military, these platforms are now artificial islands on which units with reconnaissance equipment could be located, there are helicopter landing pads the ukrainian side had previously struck a snake, where the russians had air defense installations, there were strikes on boats and ships that bring fuel, food , ammunition to the island, and now strikes on drilling platforms. ukraine receives long-range weapons from the west , including missiles. russian targets and the russians force to pay more and more attention to risk and change tactics. but it was a bbc correspondent on military issues

. 200 military personnel. such statistics were previously voiced by the advisor to the head of the president's office, mykhailo podolyak, in an interview with the bbc. however, the real numbers may be higher. one of the main reasons for such a large number of casualties is the lack of parity between ukrainian and russian military capabilities, podolyak believes in the positions of the troops trying to restrain the russians . in donbas, near the asium, our correspondent , orlegeri, visited the place where the probit rest, each flag marks the fresh grave of the lord who rested on war for ukraine another father, husband or son , and here is denys gordiev, once a lawyer, a public figure , who is now mourned by his fellow citizens, that under the

rays of the summer sun, the bitter harvest continues, this farmer points to the sky and warns us about a russian drone that clearly heads in the trenches not far from donbas fighter, nickname, old friend, watching the enemy and looking at everything he lost, yes, i look at this field, and i say to myself, my heart is bleeding because i was engaged in farming, cultivated such land, sowed, harvested a now it comes, that is, her so that well, everything will be fine and i hope that we will soon return, we will be

a little further in the trench we meet artem, who was also trapped in this war, it is very difficult because i do not see my family, mother, sister, brother, offal, i am very i'm scared because i have to kill people, the russians are next to them some 6-7 kilometers away . ukrainian forces were able to get this position, they blocked the advance of the russians, but they say that in order to push them back, they need much more heavy weapons and ammunition, so far the troops are waiting next battle they have to fight the enemy at which time there may be 20 times more big

guns, so in the trenches, many have come to terms with the idea of ​​a long war this week in ukraine, they expect the european union to take a step to meet the historic decision on the status of a candidate for eu accession, they have it to approve or not at the summit of the european council on june 23-24 there will be a meeting of the heads of state and government of the eu countries in order for ukraine to receive this status none of the 27 members should vote against at the same time the european heads have their challenges the president of france, manuel macron, is losing his majority in the parliament, this is important because now macron's influence on politics will be limited, and the support of ukraine during the

russian aggression largely depends on the position of paris. france can influence the events in ukraine hello, well, let me start with the details, what is the current schedule after this sunday's parliamentary elections, macron loses the majority in the national assembly, the coalition together his coalition becomes the winner, but at the same time the president will no longer fully control the lower house, this means that the second term of macron's presidency will be very different from the first, and it is also interesting who is in the second and third places in the second alliance, led by the ultra-left leader a genrik mélenchon the third far-right party, marine lippen, about the dramatic aftermath of the election tube, the bbc correspondent in paris , lucy williamson, loving emmanuel macron's presidential tasks will be more difficult from now on the centrist coalition has just lost a third of its seats in the parliament you only look at the

mood here the situation is unprecedented the national assembly has never seen a coalition in this configuration in the fifth republic this poses a risk to our country and the challenges we will have to face now in opposition to the president macron's new alliance of greens and the left dominated by far-left parliamentarians , preliminary estimates confirm their new status as france's main opposition party the presidential party no longer has a majority, we have achieved the political goal we set ourselves to defeat the man who, with his characteristic arrogance, twisted the hand of the old country in order to be elected, but the big surprise of the election night was that the far-right party marine lepen national association increased its positions with a small number seats to almost 9 dozen, the opposition to the

president has increased with all of us will continue to unite the french as part of the great patriotic movement, which unites people of the right and macron's left-wing political views are stronger than ever, but they are also divided between one bloc led by jean-luc mélenchon on the far left and marine le pen on the far right. french politics is being restructured around these three political groups. some believe that president macron will have to negotiate with opponents are good, others are convinced that the loss of the majority by the government can only lead to stagnation, president macron will face a new era of political opposition, which some see as a positive development of events for democracy and negative for france, i want

to add to the conversation paris journalist maria yeshchenko has been following french politics for many years maria i congratulate you and let's start with mélenchon and olepen how much they have increased well, by influence and not mathematically and how far the views of the ultra-left and ultra- right on the war in ukraine differ from the views of macron. congratulations, the views are very different historically. i already have lud melanchon and marin lopen very close to russia. it was the loan she took in 2014 from the first russian-czech bank for the amount of 9 million euros, it is so easy not to write off such an amount from the resume, this stain remains on her biography, and before the war, from the lips of lopen, from the lips of melanchon, compliments were very often heard towards the russian president, initially a full-scale after the invasion, there was such an unspoken consensus in the french political community -

ukraine is supported and russia is condemned, but tons of this support and condemnation are very different, and for example, the issue of sanctions is very, very acutely annoying, you can even say the molded melancholia in particular, they did not agree with the latest package of sanctions adopted. they are against the embargo on russian oil and gas, they say that it will lead to trophic consequences for french consumers. that prices will rise drastically. malanchon also disagrees with macron's policy on another issue, namely with the supply of weapons to ukraine he said this directly from the rostrum of the national assembly. at the beginning of march, his position has not changed since that time , that is, very, very different views and the only thing that all three agree on is both lopen and so melan-show and the french president is that it is necessary to talk with putin. and you and i already understood this, because macron regularly calls the russian president, only recently he stopped a little bit,

took a break in these conversations. force macron to weaken his support for kyiv, the good news for ukraine is that , according to the political tradition in france, international politics is directly handled by the president, his prerogative, and not the prerogative of the parliament, so for example, the decision to provide weapons to ukraine or to provide any other type of support is adopted at closed meetings of the security council, which is chaired directly by macron and which includes his prime minister and several ministers of leading departments - this is such a loyal team - these are loyal ministers macron and since his party may have lost an absolute majority but remains the most numerous, the government must remain for macron, it will be a minority government, but it will be the government of the president, that is, the cohabitation of which everyone was so afraid in particular, i was afraid of the crown, that is, the coexistence of a

president from one party and a government from a completely different party. this is not currently planned in france, and it is not very often that you hear in various european countries about whether the war is felt in paris, especially on the in the background of the fact that the prices of food and fuel are rising , it is felt that for this you just need to turn on the television or pass by a newsstand and it is noticeable that ukraine appears less on the front pages. it appears less in the prime time of tv channels. the results of the parliamentary elections and it is also very interesting that in the polls that are traditionally conducted before the elections, the issue of the war in ukraine worries the french less and less. it was the second position in the list of concerns of the french before the presidential election, and now the war in ukraine has dropped to the eighth place in the list of concerns the french, that is, what worries them the first place is traditionally the

purchasing power. the connection between the fact that a quick victory of ukraine will allow them to return to normal life faster, the only good news is that it may not be the only good news, but the good news is that protests in solidarity with ukraine take place every week, this has already become a tradition of the french capital and this the support is very gratifying. thank you, journalist maria yeschenko from paris, and i want to briefly summarize what happened after the elections. on sunday in france, president macron lost the parliamentary majority, the recently formed alliance of left forces and the far right parties won a decisive victory in the elections and put under attack the reform plans that macron planned to carry out during his second term , so macron does everything that can form a coalition or lead a minority government, in which case the government

will have to start negotiations with opponents regarding each draft law parliament. thus, the main conclusion is that macron's second term will be very different from the first , and this may have consequences for ukraine. studio thank you grigoriy this was a bbc correspondent grigoriy zhigalov live from paris and a from brussels and maria yeshchenko from paris the minister of foreign affairs of the eu countries gathered today in luxembourg, in particular, to discuss the unblocking of ukrainian grain in the european union, they support the un's attempts to agree on the creation of corridors for its export, high representatives jose borel actually put russia in charge of the creation of a food crisis and the use of grain as a weapon i am sure that the united nations will eventually reach an agreement this is not possible we cannot imagine this is impossible imagine that millions of tons of wheat remain blocked in ukraine when at the end of the world people

are suffering from hunger. this is a real war crime, so i can't imagine that this will last long, otherwise there will be something for which russia will be responsible . you can't use people's hunger as a weapon in the war. blocked, burned, shelled . ukrainian grain, such a fate befell ukrainian grain exports that currently, in the warehouses and elevators of the southern part of the country, ukraine exported more than 40 million tons of grain - this is one tenth of the world's needs this amount of grain is enough to satisfy the export needs of two continents such as africa , today more than 25 million tons of grain cannot be exported to ukraine due to the russian blockade of the black sea, it is mined and currently dangerous for commercial shipping, moreover, even the leaders of the eu drew attention to the fact that the russian troops granaries are too often targeted what

is the price of this grain crisis for farmers ukraine and the world more in the report of bbc correspondent zhanna bezpyachuk from mykolaiv and odesa these fields in the south ukrainians were on the front line when the war started, now they are ready for a new harvest, but this year the farmers do not know what fate awaits this grain, the golden grains of barley are drowning in the stench of obscurity, the sea ports, the main export routes of ukrainian grains are blocked, and the granaries are already full, well, we still have 3 months let's hold on. well, i think that many people somehow hold on for three months so that it happens, at least this year, it hurts. but you know, i, uh, it's been a while, that's all, well, i missed it because of myself. it really hurts, and today i put a cross on many, i understand that it defeated the economy not

decades ago, ukraine is one of the largest producers of grain in the world, millions of lives inside the country and hundreds of millions of people around the world depend on the supply of this grain, this grain was ready for export still in the spring, but because of that, the granary is stuck, this is only a small part of the 25 million tons of ukrainian grain that is currently in granaries and elevators, if the world does not manage to find a solution to this problem in the near future, hundreds of millions of people around the world will be affected 25 km from the fields of nadiya, hostilities continue here russian troops targeted the second largest grain terminal in ukraine and destroyed four warehouses in peacetime mykolayiv ports transported about a quarter of

ukrainian grain exports while mykolaivsk warehouses and terminals are under fire from russian troops, neighboring odessa is literally overflowing with grain peacetime odesa international port - exported about five million tons of grain every month, this is enough for to feed a country the size of denmark for almost a whole year now. as you can see here, everything has stopped warning about sea mines instead of silhouettes of ships on the horizon, this is the new reality of odessa, commercial ships cannot sail through the black sea because there are mines in its waters, the ukrainian authorities are wary that russia can use mor roads after their demining to attack odesa, farmers do not want to take risks and take their grain to port elevators to critical infrastructure facilities, therefore for today an additional technology is being considered, this is grain storage, outdoor storage in sleeves under awnings

under the open sky right in the field and what can happen in three months and this is what ah even if a decision is made today to unblock the ports eh implement it during three months is not real, meanwhile, in these boundless mykolaiv lands, nadiya is counting the losses caused by the war , she has already lost almost one and a half million dollars due to the export blockade, as well as due to the shelling of her enterprise, nadiya lost part of her equipment ukrainian grain exporters hope that the world will not leave them alone in the battle on yet another agrarian front zhanna bezpiychuk bbc news mykolaiv odesa according to the latest available statistics, 400,000 tons of ukrainian grain was sent to russia by the beginning of may from the occupied territories of two

southern regions as well as self-proclaimed dpr and lpr these data were voiced by deputy minister of agrarian policy and food taras vysotskyi . the un assures that the russian invasion of ukraine may lead to an increase in the number of those starving in the world by 18 million about the losses for ukraine let's talk with the professor of the kyiv school of economics and the coordinator of the uaful twitch research project oleg nevyevskyi olezhe thank you for taking the time to join us for us please tell me that the kyiv school of economics jointly with the ministry of agricultural policy has developed report on russia's embezzlement of ukrainian grain do you have approximate figures for the assessment of damage to the agro-industrial complex of ukraine from the russian war to fields , granaries and infrastructure? yes, we, together with the ministry of people's policy and food of ukraine has launched a regular analytical product that will regularly update once a month data on the damage caused by

russia's aggression in the agriculture of ukraine, the agricultural sector of ukraine and economic losses, and if we talk about the damage directly, it is the infrastructure, mainly the fields yes, that is, in general, we have currently calculated about 4.3 billion us dollars in losses, total losses, this is approximately 15% of all accumulated capital in agriculture , and that is, we can say roughly, yes, with it is a stretch that 15% of ukraine's agriculture simply needs full restoration, again this is a stretch, but to roughly understand the scale of the tragedy, so to speak, different categories by which we counted it, for example, the lost harvest of the winter crops and which were sown in the

fall, and now it is simply impossible to collect them because of the fact that there are active hostilities there and the territory is occupied, and this is the largest component of approximately half of the losses - this is precisely because of the incomplete harvest that cannot be collected and, of course, there is also a plus fields that need to be recultivated, leveled from sinkholes, well, where did the projectiles hit, and so on, and then, such a thing as just agricultural machines, er, tractors, and so on, that is, about a billion dollars, that’s right, the total losses of power storage are also about 270 million dollars, of course, many animals died yes, in some cases, it is calculated in hundreds of thousands. if you look at it like this, for example , it is about 100,000 head of cattle, 260,000 pigs and

about five million five thousand. i apologize for these heads of chickens, yes. that is, you mentioned a very good aspect about which i was supposed to talk. it is actually about the loss of livestock. and please tell me, of course, it is very difficult to talk about what ukraine can do in this situation, but still we understand that the war, unfortunately, will not end tomorrow yes, and is there anything that ukraine can do now in order to somehow reorient its production, or what in principle can be talked about in such conditions, what ways out can be looked for now? to unblock the ports, no matter how difficult it is there, it didn't happen, but it needs to be done because there is a lot of grain and again and again and again and again it will be in our country, this year we expect

about 30 million tons of grain for export this season, even in such a season this is a lot, it is even more than what we currently have in our warehouses, that is, what can be done, that is, what are the possibilities, we can talk about it theoretically, because, the more grain, the cheaper it is now, it is, in principle, an opportunity for expansion processing within the country or there priority when focusing on products that are less dependent on ports well, in principle, now, er, farmers do a little, for example, they sowed a lot of grain crops or grain crops there in the spring, for example, these bald ones yes, which is not so much behind sea trade and more can be used inside the country but again, this all requires large investments , namely the increase of processing there or the production of products there will increase one not the cost and now i apologize for interrupting you, unfortunately we have

limited time on the air with analysis was oleg onevieski and that's all the news for today turn on for tomorrow and have a good evening as much as possible glory to ukraine this is a program verdict my name is serhiy rudenko good day and good health to all today is the 117th day of ukrainian resistance to russia occupation occupiers