can go to the counteroffensive and win back the territory occupied by russia. these were donbas realities . my name is igor loginov. see you on bbcineus from ukraine. my name is olga palamaryuk and today in the kharkiv program, the russians struck a residential area under shelling. at least three people were killed. 36.60 dollars each the national bank changed the official exchange rate of the hryvnia and introduced restrictions on payments abroad and on transfers. nord stream 1 is working again after a break. the

kremlin has resumed the supply of russian gas to europe. but for how long? i did not fire again kharkiv at least three people were killed 23 people were injured this is reported by the regional prosecutor's office according to the preliminary information of the local authorities, they fired from multiple rocket launchers, the hurricane was a restless night in mykolaiv oblast, and we are talking more about this with my colleague viktoria zhugan. she is with us directly communication from kyiv, so vito, congratulations, let's start with kharkov, what is the current situation in the city and the regions in general, and have the details of the morning shelling appeared, it is known that there is one child among the wounded and in the morning reported that four people were in a serious condition about the

dead. you have already spoken, and to understand the scale of the consequences of this shelling, i will say that 14 teams of expert aid were working there today, and the local authorities represent that one team resuscitated the injured man after clinical death, the authorities inform that only civilian objects were affected by this shelling, such as car trade pavilions, residential buildings and public transport in general, the areas that came under shelling this morning kyiv and saltiv - these are typical sleeping areas of kharkiv, in which sometimes it seems that the whole world is only made of high-rise buildings and shopping stalls, and this is the second strike in a row on this parkov massif.

among them is a 13-year-old boy, yes, vito , we know that there is unrest now in the north and south of donbas, and please tell me more about how this day went there, in fact, yes, we received information today. what happened in the last day? 65 shellings were carried out in mykolaiv oblast, and 8 of them were cruise missiles and, just like in kharkiv, civilian objects were damaged, for example , the gasogin gas station and the humanitarian aid warehouse, which stored goods for the most vulnerable, and it was really restless during the last day and in the east, the general staff reports on airstrikes and artillery fire in the direction of dozens of settlements in the donbas, and at the same time we have information that the armed forces of ukraine repelled an attempted russian assault in the direction of lysichansk

of the ivan darivka oil refinery, and also that in france, ukrainian aviation struck twice at the concentrations of russian forces and equipment and in the kherson region. well, i can’t help but ask about lavrov’s statement about the change of geographical coordinates, how he expressed himself in the war, how exactly did the ukrainian authorities react to taku statement, is it known that already today there was a reaction from the ukrainian intelligence, in particular , at the briefing, vadym skibytskyi said that the ukrainian intelligence considers this statement to be an attempt to prepare the international community for the of further annexation and pseudo-referendums, in particular , in zaporizhzhia and kherson oblast, it is said that russia is planning to carry out such things as handing out passports, preparing for pseudo-referendums in order to later either announce the accession to the

south of the russian federation or to leave these territories in such pseudo uncertain state thank you vito, my colleague viktoria zhugan was on the phone and for economic news, the national bank has changed the official rate of the hryvnia, now it is not 29 hryvnias, 29 kopecks per dollar, this rate was set from the first the day of the war and 360 in addition, the regulator introduced new limits on transactions abroad, how will the new restrictions affect ukrainians and what will happen to the prices of imported goods, according to the bbc columnist on economics, anastasia zunad, a month and a half ago, the national bank very sharply raised the discount rate by 15% at once and now, just as sharply , by 25%, he immediately lowered the official exchange rate of the hryvnia to the

dollar. 29.25 hryvnias per dollar lasted until today, as of today, the official exchange rate of the dollar is 36.6. why was this done? the national bank itself says that it will reduce the demand for cash currency, preserve e-e currency reserves and curb inflation by approximately exactly what was calculated a month and a half ago when they raised the discount rate, but unfortunately it did not work, inflation in ukraine continues to gain momentum, now the national bank expects that by the end of this year, prices in ukraine will rise no less than by 30%."

on the unblocking of the black sea ports and the restoration of ukrainian grain exports in the national bank, although they deny such a connection, there is also another assumption that it is necessary to increase the exchange rate of the dollar, to bring the official rate as close as possible to the market rate, in order not to

spend foreign exchange reserves on curbing the demand for currency from the population and businesses who have, to put it mildly , not very optimistic expectations, and also to close the problem that arises when the national bank is forced to finance the budget deficit and in fact, he was the main a-a donor in covering the budget deficit, he prints the hryvnia, and here it is worth reminding that the day before, it became known that the ministry of finance will offer the auditor to wait and postpone the payment of debts due to ukrainian eurobonds and state governments, and there is already an obvious connection here if we explain this chain of events, it will become obvious that the destruction of the

ukrainian economy leads to the fact that the budget receives much less, and defense expenditures and social expenditures are much larger funds from international partners, unfortunately, in the first months of the war, especially, did not come in so rhythmically, therefore the national bank is forced to print the hryvnia in order to cover the lack of funds, this will also mean a default, as some media write so far of course not , because so far these are only negotiations on the postponement of payments, i.e. in fact, this negotiations on debt restructuring, in addition, the ukrainian government emphasizes that if the creditors do not agree to this postponement, the debts will be paid according to the previous schedule, if the creditors still agree to the postponement - this, of course, will ease the burden on the state budget and the ministry of finance will have more

funds to finance priority needs, i will remind you that primarily defense and social expenditures for the support of the civilian population of ukraine, but this by no means solves the extremely large-scale problem of the ukrainian budget with the ukrainian economy , president zelenskyi said that ukraine needs at least 5 billion dollars every month to cover this gap in the budget, some miss that this figure could be even higher international partners of ukraine promised that this year ukraine will receive about 27 billion dollars, so far, according to the national bank, ukraine has received 12.7 billion dollars, but there is good news that 6 billion

of this amount came in june and july, that is, the provision of this assistance significantly accelerated the european union agreed on a new package of sanctions against russia, the president of the european commission, ursula von der leylein, informed about this, this package is the seventh , but it is called the sixth and a half, it closes the loopholes and loopholes of the previous six restrictions will include a partial pledge on gold, the freezing of zberbank's assets will also introduce personal sanctions against fifty people, including the mayor of moscow, serhiyanin, and actor serhiy bezrukov. president zelenskyi reacted to the new sanctions . at the moment, such restrictions are not enough, and russia - quote should feel a much higher price for the war so that it forces it to seek peace in the meantime, the european union is very worried about a possible gas blockade by the kremlin, the european commission recognized that the eu cannot survive without russian gas and offers

to save prepared recommendations at 7:20 for seven eu countries to start reducing consumption already three months before the heating season in order to avoid wind shutdowns in winter today russia restored gas supplies to germany nord stream 1 started working again this happened after ten days of repair work gazprom explained the reduction of gas supplies as technical during maintenance of one of the turbines, it was repaired in canada, it was during this maintenance that it fell under eu sanctions, later at the request of germany, the turbine was returned, but gas supply by the first northern stream has resumed in germany, still fears problems. more about it, an expert from berlin, sudha david, after the planned equipment maintenance work, berlin feared that putin would stop the gas supply, and although it has been restored in

volumes reduced by approximately 30%, this issue seems to remain a constant game between moscow and berlin, as putin uses natural resources as a kind of weapon to apparently destabilize germany, influence on german electorates put pressure on the government not to pursue policies directed against russia, although germany has nuclear power plants, they are planned to be decommissioned, and the infrastructure of new renewable energy sources is only at the stage of development, and although the latest public opinion polls show that the germans still want to help ukraine and fight against russia german government worries at home it can count on this support when energy prices rise and inflation exceeds 8% , unless president putin stops gas supply through the nord stream alone , large-scale reductions in the workforce are expected and the imf

predicts a drop in the country's gdp by almost 3%... it is already looking for alternative energy sources in case the kremlin does close the gas tap forever , says bbc correspondent jani hills germany thought that this fuel was a thing of the past, but now coal keeps the country afloat as russia restricts gas supply germany is looking for other energy sources, including reviving old coal-fired power plants she sees the damage caused by putin's gas war moment. it's good that we transport so much coal, she says, but there is a fine line here, if the

gas runs out, the local industry may soon stop here. few people believe in russia. germany depended on russian gas, and now it hurts her. russian gas live in the economy of this country , industry leaders warn that its absence can lead to catastrophic consequences. it may even trigger a recession, and usually if germany is experiencing economic difficulties, then the euro is also here thought it couldn't get any worse this hotel is still recovering from covid closure now electricity bills have skyrocketed and if there is no gas supply germany may face rationing if we don't get gas anymore we won't be able to cook kitchen will close we won't be able to provide heating either i don't believe it will come to that, but we must act now, otherwise it will lead to the death of our industry, despite the fact that europe is hot, experts are already thinking about

winter, germany hopes to import liquefied petroleum gas gas to increase reserves now in the country there is not enough to survive the cold months the situation may be quite difficult there may be a shortage of gas because we are not preparing enough then we will have to import gas from other sources we also need to diversify imports even more we must fill the storages as much as possible we need to reduce demand on gas as well as increase the number of renewable energy sources vladimir putin has forced the climate conscious german government to switch back to coal at least in the short term putin wants to cause political and economic chaos in the west, but he can also speed up european efforts aimed at giving up russian energy and perhaps even fossil fuels forever no more prime ministers italian

prime minister mario draghi has resigned from the position he stayed in for a year and a half the politician was called the main lawyer of ukraine in the italian government because of his position and assistance in granting ukraine the status of a candidate for eu membership, the italian president not only accepted his resignation but also signed a decree on the dissolution of the parliament, which means that there will be early elections and the voting date is already known on september 25. why are brussels worried about these elections and moscow seems to be rejoicing from rome? world war ii, it is politically stormy, but mario draghi was perceived as a colossus of the european union, he was often seen as the most reliable prime minister among those that italy had in recent years, he had support the majority of italians, as the polls testified, but in the end, the

italian political parties, widely known for their disunity, simply could not reach a common opinion during the confidence vote, and you can see here on the pages of this newspaper that this is how these people perceive lara, the public of the center-left newspaper writes that italy was betrayed here another las tampa , another national newspaper with the headline shame - this gives a feeling of a certain kind of disappointment and surprise that many italians feel if mario drage could not get the italians together politicians who will be able to? the most likely option now is an extraordinary election that should be held instead of may next year in september or october of this year and if you believe the polls, they can be won by the alliance of right-wing parties under the leadership of the far-right party brothers of italy or the leader can become the first far-right italian prime minister this will cause shock waves among the political elite here but also of course in brussels italy a key member of

the european union the founders of the european union could potentially get a far right the prime minister and some of his allies, giorgi milloni , the leadership of the party, some of her allies are close to vladimir putin, meteo salvinia, the leader of the far-right league party, a sympathizer of vladimir putin, silvia brelosconi, do you remember his former prime minister, he is also close to putin, so if there is a person who she rubs her hands, she is sitting in the kremlin and the news from the united states of the american president was diagnosed with the coronavirus . 79-year-old joe biden received a positive test result in the white house, the president was reported to have very mild symptoms of the disease and is currently on the isolation itself notes that not so long ago they met with the american leader olena zelenska , the first lady of ukraine is currently in the united states, and the day before she spoke in the american congress, i will also add that the test of the first lady of the united states, joe

biden, gave a negative result, the press secretary of the white house announced that president biden received tested positive for covid this morning at the moment this is a statement that is very reassuring they report that biden has very mild symptoms that he is fully vaccinated has two boosters and is now receiving an antiviral drug but really no reason to worry this is the main message they also report that he is isolated in the white house but will continue to carry out his duties in full force president baidu the day before visited masa chuset where he made a statement about his policy on combating climate change and as you can see in the video, he behaves as he always did when he met with officials, representatives of the public, shook people's hands, and you know this is a reminder that covid is a major threat to the security system the health of the united states - 130,000 infected per day, president biden is not the only high-ranking official who received a positive

test for covid this week, given the president's schedule and his meetings this week, one can only speculate where he could have caught covid, but the doctor's letter states that the president's symptoms from appeared yesterday biden is receiving any possible medical support that may be needed at this time statements are very direct linear white house sees no reason for concern biden continues to work although on isolation and if we remember the 20th and positive test of the then president trump, then this is a problem that the american political system still has to face. well, after this message from the white house, joe biden wrote on twitter that he feels fine, everything is fine, he continues his work at the same time regarding the health of the russian american intelligence considers the president to be too healthy cia chief william byrne stated that there is no intelligence information that president putin is in an unstable condition

or in poor health earlier there were reports in the media the assumption that the russian leader who turns 70 this year may have health problems were unconfirmed reports that he may have cancer american intelligence knows more about this and we will talk about it in the next article putin was wrong in his assumptions about ukraine's ability to resist invasion and regarding the western support that ukraine has before the war, and he is also wrong, now the director of the cia stated this at the security forum behind you, putin insists that ukraine is not a real country, real countries fight back and this is what the ukrainians did - said william burns, they believed that ukraine was weak and divided, the russian army would quickly fall to such an extent that, in his opinion, it would be able to win quickly and decisively with minimal costs. while the european leaders, in his opinion, were distracted by their own political changes such as elections in france in the spring that

could lead to political changes and he believed that his economy with large foreign exchange reserves was protected from sanctions according to the director of the cia there is no sign that the russian leader poor health or mental instability , but then finds himself in a state that the cia director called a combustible mixture of ambition and insecurity. william burns also said that china was cautious about military support for russia. the leadership of the deceased was concerned about russia 's first military failures in ukraine. is keen to learn lessons for its own ambitions for taiwan, one of which is that any drowning will require a major force advantage in addition to gas blackmail which we talked about earlier, putin has another tool of pressure: nuclear blackmail, can he use tactical nuclear weapons in the war against

ukraine? we asked the russian publicist andriy piontkovsky about this. criticizing the actions of the current russian government, his article entitled putinism as above and the final stage of gangster capitalism in russia was published in january 2000 with patrushev developed a strategy where is the escalation through nuclear escalation, they understand that the russian army is inferior at the conventional level to the nato army, so russia itself is inferior to the west in everything in the economy, the technologies of the army, we are now seeing this on the battlefield, but russia has one advantage, which is the readiness to use nuclear weapons. the west is not ready to use nuclear weapons weapons, because it will cause the death of hundreds of thousands of people both in russia and in the west. for putin, his own population is an instrument of his great battle with the damned west, this is how

he thinks. by the way, the state of the russian army is deplorable in all conventional directions artillery tanks army is inferior to nato this is due to the fact that putin as an idiot lost a colossal part of the military budget on all these nuclear toys sarmatians poseidon daggers nuclear the balance between the usa and the soviet union is now russia based on the fact that america and russia can destroy each other 10 times he released so many weapons that russia can destroy the usa not 10 times and 15 he does not think of the question of why this sarmatian advantage can be used only in one mutual scenario the destruction of the united states, everyone and the whole world. i think that this scenario will simply not be allowed to be implemented by him. by the way, this is a metaphor. the nuclear button is not on his desk. he does not have a nuclear button on his desk that he will press and a nuclear war will begin. the use of

nuclear weapons is a very complex process that involves dozens of people first, the agreement of the supreme commander-in-chief, the minister of defense, the chief of the general staff is necessary, then the system of orders that follow the line of troops, preparation in the context of this war, all conversations are only about the hypothetical use of tactical nuclear weapons tactical nuclear weapons are stored in warehouses, they have their own transport system, all these processes are controlled by foreign intelligence, the americans so far very clearly state that the movement of tactical nuclear weapons is not noticed , their data is accurate, you could verify this at the moment of the attack on ukraine, that is why putin used nuclear weapons tactically it will not work, not everyone is so crazy, but the participation of many people with andrii piontkovskyi is needed here, read on our website bbc.ua and watch on our youtube channel and

finally great britain will give ukraine another batch of aid this was announced by the minister of defense ben volis, the package will include more than 20 self-propelled artillery units m-109 36 artillery units lv 119 more than one and a half thousand units of anti-tank weapons radar systems artillery ammunition hundreds of drones and combat drones according to the british ministry of defense have already arrived in ukraine almost 7,000 units of anti-tank weapons 16,000 artillery shells six vehicles with anti-aircraft missile launchers a hundred missiles and armored machines and that's all for today, look for more stories on our website bbc.ua and on our pages in social networks. see you tomorrow at 21:00. good luck and take care. battle of poltava

in sweden while our defenders defend their homeland . football players will represent ukraine at the international arena in poltava . vorskla will play the first match of the uefa conference league in stockholm on july 21 against the 12-time champion of sweden, the aik team's debut viktor skrypnyk, the first official match of the poltava players during the war, we need a victory like all in ukraine, the live broadcast of the match from stockholm arena , as well as the pre-match and post-match analytical studio, will be shown for you by youtube espresso and youtube project football format, turn on youtube from the press and football format on thursday, july 21 at 8:00 p.m. and

cheer for ukraine like this it consists of several layers of materials due to the difference in material, the cartridge is extinguished, the impact of the bullet is extinguished, here are how many vlars and a metal plate and ceramics , five cartridges from a 20 m cartridge hit this point 5.45 kalashnikov machine gun, when to help financially to purchase ammunition for the military from her specifically, what exactly did we want body armor to deliver and manufactured, they were manufactured at a factory in america, they are american quality, they are light, they are mobile,

you can both drive and wear them for a long time as showed testing, it withstands bullets that are used in the combat zone. that is, these are reliable , high-quality body armor, and today we handed them over to the military unit that defends our borders in different parts of our country. we thank our to the american donors e we thank our military to victory together