in the state of the enemy, these guys did not receive the solder, they do not comply with the nevsky convention, of course. well, we believe that specialists are working for this, or to return them. well, in the end, i will say that the president of indonesia jokovidov, who visited kyiv today, offered president zelensky to convey a message to putin. i think that there is nothing to convey to him. no one will because everything is already clear we have to win this war thank you for being with us about something with you until the day after tomorrow at 19:00 stay espresso and now for your attention i offer his news release from my colleagues from of the ukrainian edition of bbc news, let's watch together good evening we are from ukraine, a large exchange of prisoners, nato recognizes russia as a strategic threat, i will adopt a comprehensive aid package for ukraine, we sum up the results of the day together on bbcineus ukraine, baidynov announced the expansion of the us military presence in europe, zelensky

addressed the leaders of the alliance countries, russia is trying to drag belarus into the war, promises lukashenko nuclear weapons that are behind the plans of moscow and minsk russia fired 10 missiles at mykolaiv in half an hour the rescue operation continues under people remain as rubble, all your leaders have settled in madrid for the nato summit, where the topic of the war in ukraine will dominate, although the agenda is much broader, the future of the military alliance after russia's invasion of ukraine, the expansion of the alliance, turkey has already agreed to the joining of finland and sweden to the organization, these countries have already been invited to the alliance by the president us joe biden

announced the expansion of the military presence of american forces throughout europe in response to russia's invasion of ukraine, speaking at the nato summit in madrid, he said that us forces will strengthened on land, in the air and at sea, because the president of russia putin, i will quote, destroyed the peace and the leaders of the ato countries also addressed the president of ukraine zelenskyi, he emphasized that he should support ukraine itself and right now with weapons, finances, political decisions, sanctions - this is absolutely necessary. a strategic concept where russia is defined as a strategic threat. so, once again during the madrid nato summit , us president joe biden officially announced the expansion of the american military contingent in europe. in response to attack on ukraine this is also the largest restructuring of european security since the end of the cold war, in fact, together with the future accession of

sweden and finland to nato, the consequences of russian aggression did not lead to the results that vladimir putin was counting on . the bbc's katya adler has been in talks for weeks but sweden and finland are now on track to join nato after the two countries signed a counter-threat deal with turkey each other's security, but the focus here is of course ukraine as well as the wider security threat from russia. nato is increasing its rapid response forces from 40,000 to 300,000, among them are these french paratroopers who are preparing to support nato countries bordering russia and especially acutely now they feel a potential threat we cannot defend ourselves we can never be strong alone we must have friends and allies and

sweden agrees with this just look at finland's long border with russia moscow's aggression against finland shocked change. we understood that the necessary changes are emerging. russia is ready to try to invade a neighboring sovereign country. does this worry you, because president putin directly warned you not to join nato, because otherwise there will be consequences. yes, but we are not afraid . not at all. according to him, the alliance and ukraine's support will only prolong kyiv's agony. here they are trying to find a balance. all nato countries agree that russia is the aggressor in ukraine. to provide military aid, but to what extent there are disagreements on this very issue, is it worth

breaking russia's nose so that it thinks twice in the future before starting aggression, or is there a risk that vladimir putin will become even more angry if he feels that he has been cornered, and will even justify the threat the use of nuclear weapons is trying to keep nato allies on a common position us president joe biden vladimir putin has put the security of the whole of europe at risk, but the only thing that has not changed is when this continent is undergoing a crisis, he still relies heavily on washington, well, and once again i emphasize the main conclusions of the first day, that's too much. i think it's important. russia is the number one threat. finland and sweden have been officially invited to join nato. the united states is increasing its presence in europe and on communications director a-a military expert director

new geopolite express network mykhailo samus a i congratulate you mr. mykhailo so the new complex package of nato aid was approved for ukraine, have you had time to review it yet or do you know what there and to what extent it will help the armed forces of ukraine well, in fact, this is the very bottom, this is not a summit about ukraine, although we would like to say that, really, the russian aggression against ukraine has shaped us, it has modeled this very thing, you in general the strategic concept of development is too much for the future years, but on the other hand, we must understand that on the one hand this is an alliance that is designed to protect and protect its members, and there is ukraine, which is not a member of this alliance, and i believe that those geopolitical sums are geopolitical transformations which are taking place now in europe, and even in the real

sense, they have been the consequences for a long time, and from my point of view, i know that nato countries . putin's threat was moving and it was not enough to provide an action plan regarding the membership of ukraine and georgia. putin realized that he could not ban him as much as he wanted in the soudian area, and therefore, if we did not say that it was about ukraine, in fact, all of this still more concern precisely the awareness of nato as an organization that, after all, must be responsible for the development of events not only inside the alliance, but also outside the alliance, but i'm just curious to what extent this will be realized on this site, what we will have in the approved

aid package, i just want to emphasize too much, it does not sell or sell weapons, and their nato organization does not deal with the affairs, so all this will be transferred on a bilateral basis, and more important for us is the rammstein format that exists, and i think that this is good because there will be no trade or blocking imposing upward on some decision-making, i.e. rammstein in order to avoid certain bureaucratic and political problems that may arise inside na well, yes, i certainly want to remind here that in response to criticism that nato does not help nato enough, nato as an organization does not help aa ukraine enough militarily in brussels, they repeatedly talked about the fact that from kyiv it is necessary to look in general at what the nato organization is doing as an organization, as well as the

nato countries as members of the alliance. at the same time, if speaking about one of the main ones let's say the pace of this meeting nato's strategic concept and a few years ago french president macron talked about the death of nato's brain here is this concept, will it help breathe new life into the alliance now or will it update it let's say the main threats again, everything will depend on how the transformation of nato's self-awareness will take place, i will explain why i think so, because despite the fact that, for example, we in ukraine constantly asked nato on february 24 of this year before a large-scale offensive russia against ukraine will still understand that nato must take us epoch-making responsibility, the development of the

situation, for example, concerns the black sea there and the opinion that the alliance did not do everything that depends on it in order to restrain russia. moreover, you have always demonstrated the determination of the alliance to oppose russia, that russia will dare to attack a member of nato, but there was no clear demonstration that the alliance is a match to restrain russia and the creation of the imminent in the black sea now it can be called russian signs now russia completely completely sea if not to take into account the control of the reasons for the straits and uh, certain neighboring romania of bulgaria as a nato country, but i do not see opportunities in bulgaria, so far , to act on this tournament of russia, and so uh, in many areas, so many documents that say well, i think that strategic concept, it

is now necessary to see if this strategic concept is simply declared, or if russia is a threat and nato will simply be asked to respond to this threat by design. techniques, algorithms, how to restrain them in the position in which this country - this international tourist - is actually a country under martial law should be in that place. that is, it should be in modern civilization. because it is very strange that today's agenda is dictated for some reason, the country is a war criminal, but this is not fixed countries that also share western values, thank you very much, the director of the nude xxition

network, mykhailo samus, well, in the coming days and weeks, we will see who will dictate the terms ah, to nato countries and regarding security on the european continent, and now i am joined from madrid by abc correspondent sviatoslav khomenko, who works at the nato summit. i congratulate sviatoslav, and let's start again with ukraine, although we all understand that this is not about ukraine, but zelensky is already traditionally asking for weapons. nato has approved an aid package for ukraine. i want to ask you if you know what is in this package. hello , the nato summit is definitely not the place to ask for weapons, and zelensky knows this very well, rich. in the fact that specific modifications of weapons and specific types of a specific number of these things are decided in other formats, they are decided either in a bilateral format, that is, ukraine's relations with

specific countries, or, for example, in the rammstein format on behalf of the american military base in germany, where for the first time representatives of dozens gathered the countries that help ukraine with specific modifications of nato weapons, and this was agreed on the shore , and nato member countries and ukraine help ukraine non-lethal, that is, it is about helping ukraine too much, for example, with fuel for its military vehicles , helping with medical equipment and, in particular, medical kits for the ukrainian military, or helping with equipment that helps shoot down drones . at the summit in madrid, which officially began today, a decision was made to expand the security of this assistance which nato provides to ukraine and today we managed to find out about its parameters, so it is said that aid has already been provided or is in the process of providing assistance for 22 million approved but not yet implemented for 40 million euros and in the process of developing a program for more than 300

million euros, that is, as we see the volume of these programs, it is constantly constantly constantly growing, as i already said, the nato summit is not the place to ask for weapons, but on the other hand, no one can forbid specific countries and their specific leaders to announce such assistance to ukraine , for example, today at a press conference , nato secretary general jens stoltenberg said that today about assistance to ukraine in specific difficult three countries have declared weapons at once, we are talking about holland, norway and germany, and according to our data , the united states of america should make a similar statement about providing ukraine with another batch of heavy weapons tomorrow. well, at the same time, the nato summit is the place where the strategic concept of nato, the new russia, was approved there identified as the number one threat, what will this mean in practice, are we talking about a real return to the cold war, and this is no longer a

metaphor. if you are talking about a threat, i would even clarify. it is not just a threat. it is about nato's most serious direct threat to peace and stability. first of all, it is about the fact that nato is coming back to life and shows by its behavior that it is adequately responding to the situation that has developed in the world. the fact that calling russia a strategic partner as it was before this in the founding documents of nato is now simply impossible. if we are talking about escalation, then this escalation, this escalation has already begun, millions of ukrainian refugees who they are knocking on the doors of the europeans, the footage of the destroyed ukrainian cities is an escalation that is seen and needs to be responded to, on the other hand , it must be admitted that nato is not giving up. today i read this newly adopted strategic concept of nato and

it says that nato does not seek confrontation and does not pose a threat to russia, is too responsive to the threat posed by russia, and in a responsible manner; moreover, this document states that nato does not close communication channels with moscow and agrees to resolve these the problems facing the world now, that is, nato 's actions, on the one hand, are not bringing the third world war closer, but on the other hand, they are showing russia that it will not just stand silently and watch what it is doing and the threats it creates for the euro-atlantic space. is nato revising its defense strategies? a few days ago, many industries did a--a revealed concepts in previous concepts, for example, which allowed in the event of aggression to occupy the baltic countries for six months and then further liberation. these are the approaches now are being revised or is it possible to revise already? the thing

is that such defense concepts are closed documents about which, by definition, we know little about what or whether he revises his defense concerts . of the united states of america on the radical increase of its military presence in europe. and this is also extremely important, for example today the president of poland angel duda spoke a lot about this at his briefing, this is a radical increase in the number servicemen in the so-called rapid response forces. if before this moment their number reached 40,000 people, now it will reach more than 300,000 people. what is a rapid response force? in fact, we are talking about the baltic countries, poland

, this does not mean that all these 300,000 will sit in these countries and wait for russia to attack. no, they will be based in their countries, for example, in germany there i do not know in other countries of western europe, but it is about the fact that very soon nato will have enough power to deploy 300,000 people in the shortest possible time, which is about a third of the entire number of the armed forces of the russian federation, precisely in those territories where an attack is as possible as possible if we are already talking about defense strategies, then here we must mention one more very important thing that may not directly relate to the military aspect of defense, it is about what, in principle, nato countries should spend on their defense expenses at least 2% of their gdp and until recently, many countries ignored these rules and today i was at the table, now he said that this situation has completely changed and as of now 9 countries have 30 2% and more and another 19 countries the alliance

will reach this number in 2024, that is, the alliance is becoming more and more capable of defense, and here it is also worth adding that very soon there will be two more countries in nato, and russia's neighbors, by the way, thank you very much bbc correspondent sviatoslav khomenko well, and let's talk more about geopolitical or the military and political schedules that are now emerging in general across europe, let's look at the threat from the north and the communication by an expert of the analytical center ukrainian institute for the future ihor tyshkevich greetings igor and let's look at belarus, we see putin's attempts to drag lukashenko into the war lukashenko has already finally surrendered to the kremlin is he still trying to balance and trick, well, as of today,

i don't see any reason to say that the situation has changed radically compared to what was a month or two months ago, that is, well, at the same time we have seen statements that russia can provide belarus with missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, but here we have to pay attention to the visible influence and communication, that is, among others, in front of nato right there, the traditions of russian diplomacy - to try it before each round or consultation or before each escalation, to raise the stakes and as a result also through the negotiations between putin and lukashenko, there were words that it could be granted, but almost immediately, well, something from authorities in certain corners, so this is rather about

russia's policy of creating another point of tension regarding the threat of the destruction of the system of nuclear arms control treaties, but this is rather blackmail by the kremlin. well, let's talk about one more possible potential point tensions, let's talk . and the baltic countries and i have been reading a lot of analysts in recent days about the fact that putin may dare to break through a corridor from belarus to the kaliningrad region. there are different opinions that russia does not have the strength for this now, and there, on the other hand, if not now, then because nato is getting stronger, what is your opinion about what is happening there now, what can russia theoretically dare to do with the help of belarus? well, in the event of the

third world war, of course, the sliding corridor is a weak point of the nato defense system, and the officers of the alliance themselves they have been saying for the past 15 years, if i am wrong, but the question is, is such action possible if the third world war begins? to complete this task because the question is not only to reach or run to the border from the kamian region, the question is to keep this corridor because ah something how much russia is concentrating equipment in the war from ukraine and just compare to receive from the north-western operational command that

part of the belarusian army that is in dirty areas and is simply not enough to do this, and i do not see signs of a sharp strengthening of this group. after all, in kaliningrad, the kamingrad group of the russian army is a-a 30-4 times more than the entire belarusian army, the question about belarusian society is how much it is pumped up with propaganda and supports hostilities, including the provision of its territory to belarus for strikes on ukraine, as of today usd a few in favor of sociological data - although there is chaos, it is somehow out of the question large cities or it does not cover sixths of the population and the belarusian analytical workshop that makes the phone did not interview her focus groups e in the college of technologies of the terminal and state law enforcement

for example sociology all four dynamo well the last well, it’s not inaccessible, it’s not publicly available to certain people, but all four massive engineers are talking about the fact that the hypothetical participation of belarusian troops in the war against ukraine is 10 to 11% of the population at most. and if to talk about the provision of territory and the use of documents of the territory of the russian federation for strikes in ukraine, the support for such a concept is about 25-30%."

of freed ukrainians have severe injuries, gunshot wounds, explosive injuries, burns, fractures, all of them receive appropriate emergency care medical and psychological assistance is stated in the statement. and we also continue to monitor what is happening in the city of kremenchuk after the brutal russian missile strike, according to the latest information , 22 people died as a result of the shelling, 59 were injured and 36 reports of missing persons were received from relatives. russia indirectly took responsibility for according to the version of the ministry of defense of russia, this devastating attack on a civilian object and

their rockets apparently hit a factory nearby, according to the kremlin, western weapons and ammunition were stored there, as if in warehouses, residents of the city from you are confused by russia's outright lies, looking at these ruins and you can't tell that it was a shopping center, and when you get closer, some signs are still visible. russia admits that it launched a missile attack, but assures that they fired at a place nearby, and the fire spread, according to their claim, to the devastated premises and all of us here they met, they say it's a lie, i saw a fire and many people who ran from here to there, this guy, an air alarm, rescuers continue to work, and the townspeople are looking for shelter wherever they can

nearby is the bunker inside we are meeting the minister of internal affairs of ukraine russia has been shelling for four months now and we are now talking in an underground shelter on the street when will it stop how will it stop i think it will be the death of putin by our efforts or by the efforts of the russians do you think putin will die soon i hope they came for this yesterday and today i will come. maksym worked as a salesman in a shopping center, he says that at the time of the attack, there were about a hundred customers in his store, but what happened after the shelling he does not remember his wife viktoria, she tells us everything, russia claims that rockets hit the factory

nearby, where they say military aid from america and europe was stored, we ask the rescuers to show us this place, the russians say that there were weapons here that were transferred to ukraine by the west, this is true, no , it was not at all it's from road machinery. that is, it's for the production of equipment to uh, to make substance, that is, for the construction of roads. we return to the shopping center and go inside to see the effects of the destruction . we were told that there used to be many different stores here, a pet store, a pharmacy, a toy store, and in this place they found the most dead 11

ukraine declares that the attack on the shopping center is terrorism, while russia continues to convince that it does not fire on the civilian population, and regarding what happened on the day of the shelling, the company who owns the destroyed shopping center, stated that during the air raid until the moment of the explosion, the center was operating only in exit mode and the central entrance was open to avoid crowding through the evacuation exits and that's all for today we are on the air traditionally 21st round-the-clock news on our website take care and see you later

glory to ukraine this is a verdict program my name is serhiy rudenko good day and good health to all today is the 126th day of the heroic resistance of the ukrainian people against of the russian occupation, a nato summit will be held today in madrid, where plans to increase the number of troops are expected to be approved