cuba was in translation, this film will be, i think it will be very interesting to watch and understand that the war was a surprise not only for us, well for most of the citizens, but also in europe. everyone wanted to look into putin's eyes until the last . it's all a sneeze, we have to win. thank you for being with us during this time and i'm saying goodbye to you already until sunday, until the 19th. watch espresso. thank you once again for collecting signatures in support of our tv channel and the fifth and direct watch out for air alarms right now is not an easy time, but just now , i offer you a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news, let's watch it together ukraine my name is hryhoriy zhagalov today in the program about such a historical moment in the verkhovna rada , the flag of the european union was raised, the president, the prime minister, the

speaker signed a statement on unity around european integration, russia hit a resort near the bay, rockets hit a nine-story building and a recreation center, and the russian army focused its main efforts on encircling ukrainian troops in the lysychansk region the assault was repulsed, the number of people killed as a result of a russian missile strike in the village of serhiyivka in odesa region has increased to 20. the regional administration reports that 16 people were killed in a residential building and four people were killed at a recreation center. at night, the russian army fired

rockets at a nine-story building, one section was practically destroyed, and another rocket was also hit a recreation center nearby, but there is still no information about the destruction caused by this strike. this is the village of serhiyivka, a well-known resort near the bay, the missile strike was carried out by russia around one in the morning, as reported adviser to the head of odesa, serhiy bratchuk, the strikes were carried out by soviet-made x22 missiles, the warhead of such a missile weighs almost a ton with the same missile. russia also hit a shopping center in kremenchuk this week, where dozens of people died in odesa. i am joined by my colleague lida lida zharikh, who works in odesa, lizo, well, i will start with the latest updates, is there any new information about the victims and destruction from this strike? well, 17 more have been achieved

one dead it is known that 21 people died as a result of a rocket attack on serhiivka, among the dead at the recreation centers is a ten-year-old boy, the mayor of odesa, gennadiy trukhanov, said that he believes that the russians purposefully fired rockets at civilian infrastructure and called it a terrorist act, and today this is what happened. uh, i called the recreation center and asked if they accept people and the first phone i dialed and asked if this uh recreation center is working now, then a man's voice answered me on the phone, we are not working, we were bombed yesterday and after which he quickly hung up the phone, how does the security situation in odesa region look now in general, because well,

it would seem that after the russians were kicked out of the snake island, the situation should have calmed down, well, the first deputy minister of internal affairs of ukraine, yevgeny yenin, he noted that the missile strike could have been revenge for the release of the snake and the people, they feel anxious because as a result of missile strikes in odesa region, the most civilians died since the beginning of the invasion, and this is not the first blow that the russians inflicted on the recreation base on there was an attack on odesa on may 9 and there was an attack on may 16 and it is already known for sure that, for example, the beaches in odesa will not open, said the spokeswoman of the main department of the state emergency service in the odesa region, marina martynenko, because it is actually dangerous to rest on the beach the line is a line of defense, although, despite this, a part of odessans ignores this ban and bathes in the sea, although it is

not necessary to do this exact thing, and today i spoke with emigrants from the kherson region, who say that they will definitely never leave there on the sea to the beach because they know that three people were blown up by a mine in lazurny and they understand very well that the same situation can happen in odesa. including a ten-year-old boy, let's see what is happening in kyiv for a long time. they added to the verkhovna rada a ceremonial flag of the

european union, which will now remain there forever, this extremely symbolic event reminded many of the state flag after the announcement of ukraine's independence, according to zelenskyi, ukraine went to apply for membership in the european union for 115 days, he also insists that ukraine's path to the european union does not take decades or years the president of the european commission ursula von deryan, she was present at the session of the ukrainian parliament via video link, stressed that ukraine's path to membership in the european union will require time and of hard work, she emphasized that today ukraine is a candidate country for joining the eu, which always seemed almost unimaginable five months ago. well, i am joined by my colleague , the correspondent of ovki zhanna bezpyachuk from kyiv. i congratulate

zhanna. he separately warned the verkhovna rada to adopt the laws necessary for joining the european union , including those laws that may not be very popular . laws or change the laws that are already in force in seven different areas in general, if we talk in more detail, there are as many as 35 directions in which ukraine should change its legislation, on average, other countries that joined the european union needed 7-8 years to fulfill all these requirements, we see that the ukrainian president is targeting the turbo regime this time, let's listen to what exactly he said today during the signing of this very joint declaration with the leaders of other his contributions to ukraine, we went to the candidate for 115 days and

our path to membership does not take decades , we have to overcome this path quickly, we have created an extremely strong foundation that no one can destroy and on which we can make our european future our present, in general, the optimism of the ukrainian president that ukraine can quickly adopt all these changes and to introduce them to life is to some extent justified and it is not only a matter of war. the fact is that ukraine is already engaged in the implementation of the strengthened association agreement the practice of its implementation means that if everything written there is done 100%, then ukraine will be

90% ready for joining the european union. that is, it remains to complete a very small part of this homework and it will be possible to talk about the fact that the country, the state, ukraine can already be considered directly as a country that can be a member of the european union. that institution of the european union that will be next year evaluate how exactly ukraine copes with this task the people, we representatives of european institutions worked day and night to support you however, we achieved such a result only thanks to your efforts, you rallied not only all branches of government, but also everyone in the best efforts of your country, you attracted a thousand experts and scientists to demonstrate everything that ukraine has achieved after the revolution of dignity, and it is thanks to these efforts that you

have gained the recognition and respect of all eu member states, this is a great sign of trust, now in ukraine it is very clear perspective also, ukraine is a candidate country for joining the european union, your european path and the reconstruction of the country will go hand in hand. ukraine will be ahead and will receive significant investments, however, in order to maximize their influence and strengthen business areas, investments will need to be combined with new reforms. your agenda and without a doubt have made significant progress in this direction, start working on corruption since the time of the revolution of dignity, it was the fight against corruption that was a particularly important point in your agenda, you have created an impressive anti-corruption system, and now this system needs to show its teeth and appoint the right people to leadership positions. so, ursula's rollline foundation

says that in ukraine you need to work hard. it was the laws that volodymyr zelenskyy had in mind when he said that it would be so easy to do, it is possible to single out several really difficult tasks, first of all , we are talking about the need to restart the constitutional court of ukraine, we all saw the crisis in this court in october 2020, which in practice actually consisted in the fact that certain decisions, in particular, the decision to cancel the declaration of online assets of the rulers of officials and judges in ukraine, were adopted by the judges and the crisis with provoked by the judges themselves, but the judges of the constitutional court of ukraine can be dismissed only by this court itself, that is, in fact, in ukraine, the concept of functioning and formation, in particular

, the formation of this court in ukraine, needs to be changed as soon as possible, this is the first moment the second one is the actual completion of the new reform in ukraine, another painful issue, and first of all it is about the restarting of the governing bodies of judges . the decision to dismiss judges, corruption in the courts is such a very painful topic for ukrainians, and ukraine undertakes to change and from the middle of the systems to complete the reforms started earlier, again in a short time frame in the conditions of the turbo regime and the war, another issue is changes to laws that protect the rights of indigenous peoples and national tires in ukraine

expect two things from ukraine, in particular, that it will either reduce or completely cancel fines for repeated violations of the law on the state language when in restaurants, hotels , cafes, etc. they have to serve in ukrainian , the state language, but they violate this the norm has repeatedly been proposed in ukraine not to punish for it or to punish the minimum and one more important point is that it is actually expected that ukraine should abandon the distinction in its legislation e-e languages ​​of national machines of indigenous peoples according to this principle, whether they are official or not in the european union, in practice equalize the linguistic rights of absolutely all national minorities and the languages ​​of russian -romanian hungarian-polish, etc. ahead of ukraine well, how can i not add here that there are also tasks that, from the point of view of many in the west, do not seem difficult, such as appointing the head of the special

anti-corruption prosecutor's office or something, but yes, it is in kyiv has not yet done a genre. please tell me more about the declaration that was signed by zelenskyy stefanchuk and shmagal, does it have any significance more than just a symbolic one? this declaration also demonstrates the practical unity of the three branches of the judicial, executive, legislative and presidential powers in the matter of adopting all these changes in the new laws of ukraine and he swears to do it again in a turbo mode until the end of this year, to adopt most of the necessary changes and we are talking about dozens of legislative acts, as well as this the declaration, well, in fact, it says that ukraine considers the fulfillment of all these requirements in no case as such post-conditions of application,

they say we need to prove that we did not get the status of a candidate for eu accession for nothing so quickly, even though there is a war in the yard, not all of these homework is specifically the conditions for joining the european union, and in the coming years thank you very much bb correspondent zhanna bezpiichuk live from kyiv thank you colleague the russian army focused its main efforts on encircling ukrainian troops in the lysychansk district and from the south and west and establishing full control over the luhansk region, this is stated in the joint general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, and in the morning there was an assault here with the aim of blocking the logistical support of the units of the armed forces of ukraine in the lysychansk direction, the russians are shelling the positions with barrel and rocket artillery they are trying to take control of the section of the akhmed lysychansk highway, but without success. later, the general staff added that the

ukrainian military repulsed the reconnaissance attempt with combat at the same time, the enemy became more active in the direction of kramatorsk and in the direction of bakhmut, the russian military is shelling the area of ​​the ughledar tpp and i am joined by military expert oleksandr kovalenko e hm i congratulate you oleksandr so the general staff is talking about an attempt by the russians to surround the ukrainian military e-e and lysychansk do you see such a threat there greetings so really now near lysichansky we can observe quite a really threatening situation because either he has concentrated a very large number of his personnel units equipment and others. this directly refers to no less than 15 battalions of tactical groups from the south and about 10 battalions of tactical groups that are currently stationed in the temporarily occupied territory of

north donetsk, and also from north donetsk they constantly fire at the territory of lysychansk barrel and rocket artillery and now they are really trying to sharpen lysychansk from the rooster in the south and west direction, and therefore the situation is threatening the resource for today of the russian occupiers in this area of ​​the fighting actions, it cannot be said that they do not have the resources there, and in the near future, indeed, if they continue such a dense fire-dense fire damage to lysychansk and advance in the southwest direction and try to force siverskyi donets, and i do not rule out a situation when the encirclement of lysychansk can really arise. the scale of this situation that is developing there is that we are seeing a repetition of severodonetsk. is there a resource in the

ukrainian army? in fact, there is an opportunity for a retreat. and i wouldn’t compare it specifically with north donetsk. why? because from north donetsk, our defenders always had the option, namely, to withdraw from the fate of sichansk. and now for lysychansk, provided that the enemy is the closest to the implementation of the encirclement must be carefully evaluated. it is precisely these risks that the encirclement may end, and firstly, if it is possible today to support the defenders of lysychansk with a permanent logistical artery with the supply of ammunition and personnel e for defense support, and then it is a completely different matter if there is no possibility to block the encirclement and block the advance of the russian occupation

units, and then, in my opinion, the withdrawal of our armed forces from vysochansk - this is a matter of time, but the strategic importance of how important is lysychansk, well, apart from the political look, we know that russia has defined as one of its goals to establish complete control over the donetsk and luhansk regions, does this create additional threats to and then the armed forces of ukraine, and on the right is that almost every place, the city every settlement and almost every village what and now on the donbas bridgehead and are defending themselves against the russian offensive it plays the very role of a-a let's say blocking the brakes so it slows down the onslaught of the russian occupiers and e thanks to each of these villages and populated areas we can

counter-attack on others directions. that is, this is again the blocking of the main resource of the main potential, which the russian occupiers have now concentrated precisely on the donbas bridgehead. then they can not use it, for example, on a full scale, but in the kherson region or in the zaporizhia region, and it is there that we can carry out contour offensive actions. and we still need to understand that when the counter-offensive actions in the kherson region and the zaporizhia region are completely liberated and these bridgeheads are bridgeheads, we will be able to focus on the liberation of luhansk and a donetsk oblasts and but again, this is a matter of time and the role of the bloc in blocking the offensive actions of the russian occupiers - this is the donbas bridgehead , nothing else. well, you have already started talking about it ah, i would like to take a closer look at

what is happening in the kherson region in zaporizhzhia , but today i saw a report that the armed forces of ukraine have taken control of a number of villages in the kherson region. is there a general prerequisite for a large -scale counteroffensive there? creeping counteroffensive is happening what is going on there yes yes yes first of all it is very when it was spotted exactly what is happening first of all creeping counteroffensive it can't be uh some kind of full-scale because ah it can to end with great losses, and the armed forces of ukraine are primarily focused on reducing as much as possible losses among military personnel and the civilian population of civil infrastructure, etc. that is, this is our territory - this is our land, we do not destroy it, as the

russian occupiers do, for example when they capture a city or a settlement, they completely destroy it with a barrage of fire, first of all , that is why it will not be quick, it will be a gradual liberation of the kherson region. and i believe that if continues at exactly this pace, then already in august we will be right next to kherson itself, and to the zaporizhzhia region, there will be a little different a-a let's put it this way, the results of the control of offensive operations thank you military expert oleksandr kovalenko thank you once again for finding the time to talk with us about the situation in the city of kremenchuk, which was hit by a russian missile attack this week, rescuers discovered more fragments of the bodies of the dead at the site of the destroyed shopping center where the russians actually targeted rescuers continue sorting out the rubble dozens of people are still considered missing from

kremenchuk bbc correspondent nick brutal the power of the russian strike a cruise missile fired from an airplane hundreds of kilometers away hits ukrainian families shopping in a shopping center since then 18-year-old daria is looking for her mother larisa kolkonovska worked as a cleaner in an electronics store and was on shift. i, maksym, am as restrained as possible in my feelings, not because i don't feel anything, but because it turns out that way, i have to support my loved ones, they support me, so it’s easier for me , my words, i can say that it’s empty, and while everything in my eyes was looking for relatives, much more families, four days before the shelling, the management of the shopping center informed the employees that they would no longer be evacuated during air raids, now a criminal investigation is being conducted into this decision and this is coming to my pipe simple

inter-style that a lot of people here simply did not have a chance now the rescuers are proceeding to the dismantling of the rest of the building the impact on the family here in kremenchuk will be felt for months and years meanwhile russia continues to kill civilians across the country the value or cells country but russia released this footage from another part of the city and claims to have destroyed a training base for foreign fighters your heart that does not beat on civilian objects and what does not kill civilians what do you say about that i can i can refute it give my own arguments but i think it doesn't matter because i won't get my mother back the ministry of defense of great britain says that it is possible russian

the missile was supposed to hit another object nearby, but it didn't work and moscow will have to live with the consequences of this, according to the american non-profit group that collects data on military conflicts, at the beginning of the full-scale war of russia against ukraine , 10,000 people died, the largest number of dead was in mariupol, kharkiv and belgorovka in the east it is important to consider that these data include only deaths that are a direct consequence of the war and not for other reasons such as hunger or lack of medical care, at the same time experts say the number confirmed deaths are obviously far fewer than the real numbers, and the further the details of the war crimes of the russians are revealed, our correspondents have returned from chernihiv oblast, which in the first weeks of the war became the front line of defense in the north. the bbc investigation conducted by journalists

gathered evidence of numerous shelling of chernihiv with cluster munitions. these weapons were banned in more than 100 of the world because of the damage it causes to civilians , but neither russia nor ukraine signed this international convention against cluster weapons victoria shugan tells how the patients and the doctors of chernihiv learned to survive after these deadly shellings like this booths in the sky are going clapping in the sky and where clouds of white smoke and suddenly everything around begins to explode alexander's family ran out of drinking water their city of chernihiv has been under russian siege for the third week now i didn't have time to get out of the entrance. how did i come under fire? we were just innovating. because i was in excruciating pain, i felt as if my

leg had just been torn off. then i shouted to my son, daniil, you whole daniil, on march 17, they were among dozens of victims of the cluster bombardment of the residential quarters of chernihiv cluster munitions destroy limbs and vital organs at the same time, shrapnel instantly pierces the bone, cuts muscles and arteries sergey, the surgeon who operated on oleksandr, were er torn, one was a through wound on the lower leg with this is how we did not escape with such injuries we encountered for the first time many of us these civilian medics had only one explanation for such injuries cluster munitions and at the scene of the events near another hospital, we found evidence of explosive devices, they showed us a timer on a cluster munition that they found in the private sector in chernihiv,

we found this fragment not far from the hospital, and when we showed it to the explosive devices, they said that it was probably a similar timer on a similar weapon, all the mountains of ammunition flew out to the explosive device in in chernihiv and around the city, at least one of them was found at the site of the shelling on march 17 from a 220 mm rocket. of armored vehicles, what kind of damage do they cause? those ammunitions leave typical small marks on the asphalt and small holes on buildings, we found these characteristic marks all over chernihiv, official kyiv is investigating criminal proceedings against moscow, but the russian authorities deny that they use kasek weapons in ukraine, and the media accused ukraine as well at least once in a

bbc commentary, the armed forces of ukraine rejected these accusations and it turns out that the three of us were lying in different hospitals. in different hospitals for 16 days, the first four days we had no contact at all, we didn't know if they were alive, what were the injuries, nobody knew anything, the family was reunited in kyiv okhmatdyt, but they will have scars from that shelling for life viktoriya jugan bbc news chernihiv that this investigation lasted for several months, journalists , together with experts, carefully checked all the collected facts and that's all for today, we are on the air again on monday at 9:00 p.m. take care,

greetings, friends, i am vitaliy portnikov and we continue the informational broadcast of the express tv channel. i wanted to start our today's conversation with the results of the meetings that took place at the highest level within the group of seven and within the framework of the tonato in madrid, especially since these important meetings have their continuation in the ukrainian context in the form of today's speeches by the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi and the head of the european commission they broke the foundation in the verkhovna rada of ukraine, but i had to start from another place. peaceful people died again from the shelling of odesa. this is, of course, a huge tragedy. i want to once again express my condolences to everyone.