anxiety let's take care of ourselves 121 war four months we are fighting but we will win thank you for being with us tomorrow we will meet eh no the day after tomorrow at 19:00 we will meet we wish you a good eh evening and now for your attention a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news let's have a look together good evening. we are from ukraine. ukraine repelled the assault. lysychansk and severodonetsk are withdrawing their troops. this is exactly four months of ukrainian resistance in the russian war on the air of bisin from ukraine in the studio in london. olga melchevska is retreating. the severodonetsk command says it's a maneuverable defense, the civilian population suffers the most from

the russian offensive in the east, we'll see how volunteers under fire take people out of lysychansk in brussels, who welcomed the historic decision of the european council in kyiv, ukraine is a candidate for membership, it's time to get to work in the morning of june 24, the head of the luhansk region, serhiy gaidai reported that the ukrainian troops received an order to withdraw from north donetsk, also during the last days the russian armed forces were able to capture a number of settlements near lysychansk, this city luhansk region is still held by ukrainian forces, no one abandons our guys, there is no point in simply being there. the defenders were

ordered to withdraw from severodonetsk to new fortified positions, this is how the head of luhansk regional administration, serhiy gaidai , commented on the decision to stay in severodonetsk . % of buildings, the commander-in-chief of the ukrainian armed forces, valery zaluzhny, called the retreat of the ukrainian military a maneuverable defense. the days of the battle for severodonetsk ukrainian troops released a video with a rock soundtrack, this is how they wanted to present it, but it seems that these soldiers of the national guard could not hold the line of defense, they received an order to retreat at the right time and the situation when it is now the situation when they are in positions that have been broken for many months just for the sake of

staying there, there is no point because every day the number of dead in the unfortified territories may increase proportionally, soon the russians will gain full control over the territory created by them a wasteland, this once important industrial city is in ruins, and it is not difficult to understand why in these shots taken and made public by the russian authorities, the thermocouple missile launcher, the firepower they were able to concentrate on the donbas and the resistance of the ukrainians who are trying to protect it are impressive. most of the luhansk region lies in ruins, although the ukrainian troops are still are holding the city of lysychansk , the situation in donetsk region remains difficult, the most critical directions are bakhmut and limansk, the head of the donetsk regional military said this administration, according to him, with artillery of all types of weapons, they are shelling many settlements , including avdiyivka and seversk , and ballistic missiles are being used. aviudars

near the coal mine captured mykolaivka. more details about the situation in the region. governor pavlo kyrylenko . in which it would be safe, taking into account the fact that uh, i understand, i have intelligence data, where which direction is dangerous, i said in theological slavonic for a reason kramatorsk because it is in this direction that the enemy will move and the situation in the bakhmut direction is very acute where the enemy is trying to seize and occupy the entire territory of the luhansk region in order to go in the direction of bakhmut and in the future also deploy its movement and active offensive actions in in the direction of slavic kramatorsk, the occupiers of the bakhmut lysychansk highway are currently firing completely and movement along it is extremely dangerous, i would even say impossible

due to the obvious and clear threat to the life and health of those who travel along it. they are approaching russian troops also to lysychansk, but there is no order to retreat from there at the moment, the head of the severodonetsk district administration, roman vlasenko, said about it, the russian army, however, is shelling from the air, the means of communication, the bridge was damaged due to russian shelling to lysychansk, it became impossible to deliver the aid that was planned for today, the head of luhansk ova said earlier to the city brought in about a thousand humanitarian kits every day , according to the local authorities, there are seven to eight thousand residents of lysychansk out of a population of one hundred thousand to the military population, the local government calls on them to evacuate urgently, our correspondent olga hering joined the volunteers who took residents on the road to war, the ukrainian military on

tanks are moving towards lysychansk. we are following a team of volunteers who are risking their lives to save others. stopping for a daily ritual praying to god that he protected them amen in the very place traces of the russian invasion destruction occurring without warning yes this projectile exploded in front of our convoy without stopping to pray we could be in its path what just arrived very close we will check what is the situation in the city explosions all day

near the police so this whole area is very dangerous katyuha pippi some documents her twelve-year-old son yaroslav becomes homeless they are leaving for almost nothing , another family like millions of ukrainians loses their home, and we understand that now we understand that there will be no happy ending here - says katya after a shell fell near their yard yesterday, they have lost all hope of saving themselves without outside help, and help comes from anton yaremchuk

, together with his friends, he founded the bas.ua aid group, they have been conducting a rescue mission on the front lines for two months, or a suspected stroke, he has been without medical care for five days, don't be afraid, everything will be okay sasha, don't be afraid - says his relative everything will be fine, but he can no longer speak. are you worried that many people will remain, that it will be too late to reach them, i know for sure that they will remain, i know that the street fights here will continue for weeks or maybe even months, it is clear that these people should not stay, but they will stay and many of them will die or simply live in terrible circumstances. and those who stayed are witnessing the death of their city. this was the city center of the arts of

lysychansk. losses descend and mourning envelops the father crying over the body his adult son who died in the garden near the house and from what looks like a russian cluster bomb who still manages to grab his things and run away with his children like nina, a mother of four children who holds the youngest katya in her arms she and her family just came out of the basement where they had been hiding for several months, her twelve-year-old lada is already old enough to help get on the road and understand the worries of adults, it's all

traumatizing, well, i decided nina says that they are trying to calm down the younger ones, making sure that everything will be fine , another family has just been arrested in the truck, another family says goodbye to their home and their usual life , it's getting dark and tonight there is not much time left to evacuate more people and the sounds of explosions are getting louder and closer at sunset, they were taken to a relatively safe place by the russians. they are approaching lysychansk. in less time, explosions rang out again in kharkiv and mykolaiv. according to preliminary data , there were no casualties in kharkiv, but two people died in the region and 10 were injured, including two children in direct contact with kharkiv is with us local

journalist oksana nechyporenko good evening oksana , are you calm now, what is known about the victims a-a yes, it is calm now in kharkiv regarding the victims i would like to note that the largest number of victims in chuguyev, i want to say that in recent days this city has been subject to increased shelling, and this area has been shelled the most since the beginning of the war, and the local government of chuguyev has said that about the victims . children are six and nine years old in relation to kharkov, now here it is at this time, somewhere around nine o'clock in the evening, in principle, they are relatively calm, and later, around ten - 11

o'clock, air alarms begin to sound around the city, and 11 can be strange explosions for example, yesterday, near the beginning of the first er, there was a very loud explosion, as a result, we learned already in the morning that two rockets hit the fallout complex of one of the higher ones , almost all of it was destroyed, and there was a large-scale fire there thank you oksana lyt for as long as i remember in kharkiv, you can often hear when donbas is being shelled and how the decision to withdraw ukrainian troops from north donetsk and continue the fight for lysychansk was perceived in the city and region. are there any fears that the russians may intensify the attack on kharkiv region after this, ah, regarding the fears of an increase in the attack on kharkiv, we are experiencing, in fact, an increase in

such massive self-strikes in the last two weeks, when the russians used high-precision weapons against us . hurricanes and, in principle, we are experiencing all this now with fears that it is necessary to leave the city or leave it . increasing the rate of self-fire, they still decided to drink the enterprises, but in our country, for example , gumy continues about this. and special such trainings for kharkiv residents regarding behavior during shelling, regarding the provision of first

aid assistance to stop bleeding. well, today this is actually the direct speech of the head of the kharkiv regional military of the administration of oleh sinogubku to you. he told you about why kharkiv is actually being shelled because the russians are dissatisfied with the successes of the ukrainian military and the front lines because we they pushed them away, despite not looking at ours, they pushed them away from the city from this, everything that should be greeted actually arrived in kharkiv earlier - this is heavy artillery and a little more palettes, they are at the beginning becoming our military, who have kharkiv thank you oksana, apologizing, i interrupt unfortunately, we have limited time on the air. i hope you are in a safe place as much as possible. it was oksana chepurenko from kharkiv. ukraine can receive 9 billion euros of macro-financial assistance from the european union

by the end of the year, the minister of finance said. at the same time, serhiy marchenko, president zelenskyi is waiting for the verkhovna rada to adopt european integration laws as a matter of priority, and the government should develop a road map for the implementation of eu legislation . the bbc correspondent hryhoriy zhigalov, who has been working in brussels all this time, is in touch with us. hryhoriy, let's talk with you today about the reaction to this decision, is he as happy as in kyiv that he was met in brussels and in other european capitals, well, the night before in many brussels pubs and in hotel lobbies , you could see representatives of the delegation raising glasses for ukraine, moldova, two countries that received candidate status, many politicians spoke in social networks, spoke in ukrainian, well, in the center, they sent greetings in ukrainian. dmytro kuleba, the minister

of foreign affairs of ukraine, and jose borel, a high-ranking representative, recorded a joint video that was distributed immediately after it became known about the decision of borel also wrote in ukrainian. ukraine will win. europe will win. today begins a long journey that we will overcome together. charles michel , the president of the european council, also wrote a historical moment in ukrainian, and he cannot help but remember the french president, macron. we are opening a new stage for ukraine, for moldova, for europe , he wrote but let's once again go back to the moment when the european leaders went to the press conference to inform the city about this decision, let's see zelenskyi i sincerely congratulate the president zelensky of ukraine, moldova sandu and the georgian president from rybishvili, these three countries are without a doubt part of our european family, and the current decision of the members of the european community is

proof of this. i am deeply convinced that our decision will strengthen us all, it will strengthen ukraine , moldova and georgia in the face of russian aggression at the same time, it strengthens the european union , of course these countries must complete certain tasks before proceeding to a new stage of the eu accession process, and i am sure they will move as soon as possible and will work as hard as possible to implement the necessary reforms and not only because they should move towards the european union, but primarily because these reforms are good for the countries for democracy. it increases the competitiveness of all three states and, in the end, it is good for the citizens themselves to him to make a decision to grant candidate status to ukraine and moldova, as well as the readiness to grant this status to georgia, this is a very powerful message, because everything

happened at a time when priorities were being reviewed and the views of all countries were taken into account to note that the european council left unchanged the conditions set by the european commission, the conditions for ukraine not to lose the chance to become a member of the european union, in accordance with these requirements, the ukrainian authorities must carry out a judicial reform, in particular, change the procedure for selecting judges of the constitutional court, complete the selection of candidates for members of the supreme council of justice, the selection of candidates to the higher qualification commission of judges of ukraine to strengthen the fight against corruption, here is a long-standing issue, to appoint new heads of the special anti-corruption prosecutor's office and to acquire legislation on the fight against the payment of money according to the standards of the anti-oligarchic law. he must implement the law on mass media according to european standards. well, the

reform of the legislation on the protection of national minorities is actually quite an unprecedented case, it was even called by the candidates with an asterisk, but at the same time, the decision is strong a signal, including to russia, of its military invasion, at least this is what french president macron said, let's listen, everything has already been said, i just wanted to emphasize how important this historic moment in the context that we are currently experiencing a war that russia started on ukrainian soil, a war against ukraine and its citizens. a week ago, i, together with chancellor olaf scholz, prime minister mario draghi and romanian president klaus iohannis, visited kyiv and undertook to work on granting the status of a candidate for joining the european union. this is the beginning of a long journey. over the past week, we have done a tremendous amount of

work, and primarily thanks to the efforts of the european commission, which proposed a procedure based on the situation in ukraine also thanks to the work of president michel and the unanimity among the members. i believe that the message is very clear and understandable, and the reaction of president zelensky is a confirmation of this. it is a very strong message that proves that europe knew what to do from the first days. the government has already been told the approximate dates of ukraine's accession to the european union, this is the expected date expected by the ukrainian government, the expected date is 2029, this was announced by the head of the government office coordination of european and euro-atlantic integration, anatalia a-a forsyuk, previously, in her opinion, it was unlikely because of and here i will quote the huge amount of legislation that needs to be adopted and implemented, and i will take literally half a minute of time because i want to tell you about another

important decision that the eu itself creates the european union a new organization or platform, the european political community, this idea of ​​french president macron is a platform for wider cooperation between the countries of the european union and other european countries in brussels emphasize this is an addition and not a replacement for the eu for new countries , and the first summit of the new organization is already known to be held in prague olya thanks to hryhoriy this was hryhoriy zhigalov live from brussels and experts also add that for ukraine this is not only a major political breakthrough and the stimulus to conduct accelerated reforms a and access to european financial funds in order to carry out these reforms further to ukrainian refugees, their number, the number of people trying to settle in other countries is growing every day only in europe already almost five million ukrainians, more than a thousand immigrants have come to wales, and the government there has

opened a sponsorship program for ukrainians separate from the nationwide one that currently operates in the united kingdom. people are sent to special support centers. a shelter for families fleeing the war in ukraine, this volunteer center usually takes care of students from local schools, and now ukrainian children live, study and rest here olena and kateryna arrived here just two weeks ago, left behind a terrible reality where their children were hiding in basements, i feel like home here, i am completely happy, my two children. they play every day, go to school every week, we travel every week, they are extremely happy and feel

safe here. into english, they have organized leisure time, so adults have the opportunity to focus on finding a job, received financial aid, and the rest understand where they should go next first ukrainian immigrants started arriving here in april, now their number is more than 220, the youngest is 8 months old, this camp is only a temporary solution to the problem, the goal is to transfer all the members of their families here to aliyah, the government has already helped more than two and a half thousand ukrainian refugees and most of these people with documents for relocation. didn't come to wales so the aid program has been suspended to allow people to move from the aid center to another location now our main focus is to make sure we can provide more space for new idps and we will spend the next few weeks in search of this balance. marta is one of those who is waiting for an answer as to how her daughter and two children will

settle further outside the center. safe and that is the most important thing right now, this shelter a thousand kilometers from their native home brought these children confidence in the future. and also the opportunity to have at least a little fun and distraction , president zelenskyy addressed the british on music festival in glastonbury by video this festival is called legendary, it unites hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world, a video with the ukrainian president was shown before the start of the performance . life, the president asked the audience to spread the truth about the war started by russia and called on those present to press

all the politicians they know to help restore peace in ukraine, this is an iconic musical festival of great britain and very long-awaited due to the pandemic, it is taking place. for the first time in the last three years, among the participants are the ukrainian band kalushorchestra, as well as dakhabrakha, who will perform permanently on the stage on sunday, and we have a connection with our colleagues glast at the vestibule and can move on to other materials and to tell you about the ukrainian band that reports in avdiivka millions of ukrainians were forced to leave their homes and their lives have completely changed and this band among them consists of teenagers who

founded a rock band from ovid when they were on the front line in eastern ukraine and the russian troops shelled their city and all the band members were evacuated to the dnipro there they are now rehearsing a song calling for peace in times of war this ukrainian rock band is playing together for the first time since the russian invasion they are from avdiyivka, a front-line city in the east of ukraine, we have a song called war, this is a metamorphosis band, because a few weeks before moscow launched a full-scale attack on ukraine, they rehearsed their song called war and they talked about the horrors of the conflict that began in 2014, they believed that no one would want to repeat it, unfortunately, it turned out to be just a dream, on february 24, russia invaded ukraine, soon their city

was under a powerful bomber, the sky hears me pavla, one explosion, another, and such that the whole house shakes i was trembling. but after march 14, i already started yelling at my parents that i needed to leave. later, all four members of the band were evacuated. this was their first meeting after they left avdiivka and they immediately went to the local the studio to rehearse the song, the war, its words now, as they say, young musicians sound completely different than before, their studio in avdiivka was badly damaged in the roof, a rocket hit the war, the war pushed them to change their views on russia, before they

spoke mostly in russian, now they carefully choose their words in ukrainian one thing when you speak the language of your mother tongue the language of your state your country and another matter when you speak felt before returning to their new homes they visit this place in downtown it's called the sphere of desires they came to make a wish they don't talk about it out loud but everyone knows what it is in the world the supreme court of five this decision overturns the so-called roe case against uid it guaranteed a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy of her own free will now it is possible to decide whether a woman can have an abortion or not will be at the legislative level in each

state separately, it is expected that partial restrictions or bans are in place in half of the american states, but they will affect more than 30 million women of reproductive age, there was talk of a possible ban on abortions in may, then a whole wave of protests swept through the country , thousands of people took to the streets, and this is exactly four months of ukrainian resistance against the russian war, the attack on lysychansk was repulsed, and ukrainian troops had to retreat from north donetsk, ukrainian officials informed them, read more about this on our website. and there is more history of analytics and videos, and watch our program on monday at exactly 9:00 a.m. kyiv time from any point to the world, thank you for being with us this week, keep it up, friends, you and i are on the air

of the espresso tv channel and we continue our program, we continue it in our traditional meetings on fridays, and i want to say right away that most of our conversation with you will be devoted to this event which we all expected what happened yesterday evening is that ukraine received the status of a candidate for membership of the european union. this is really quite an important event in the development of our country, because it is from yesterday that we can say that ukraine is determined as a part of the civilized world as a part of a united europe for many years i have been talking to you about the fact that it is unlikely to happen quickly, but the war started by russia against ukraine forced to act