and only a thousand bags were the people looking for when they attacked ukraine, they bought tens of thousands of these plastic bags. we hope that belarus will understand that it is better to have living soldiers on their land who will defend their land or dead soldiers in an aggressive war unleashed by putin here in the fields and forests ukraine, so i think it's time for the belarusians and the belarusian authorities to think about it. well, i don't have time anymore. thank you for being with us. during this time, i say goodbye to you until tomorrow. tomorrow at 11:15 in the world view stream with you take care myself and now for your attention, a news release is offered by my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news. let's watch together. good evening. we are from ukraine . the sixth month of the war between russia and ukraine has begun. watch today we are talking on the air from ukraine live from london in the studio of yevgenia shilovska. will the grain agreement work after

russia shelled the port of odesa, moscow is trying to win the support of africa, will kyiv lose in the fight for the favor of african countries, and the organizers have decided the eurovision song contest will take place in britain, not in ukraine , but here they promise to preserve the ukrainian spirit of the competition. russia has struck and feels it. in kharkiv oblast, wounded , the school was destroyed. targets, such missiles do not have high accuracy when firing at ground objects in volyn due to the links of a downed drone

, one person died and several others were injured by sometimes british intelligence, i will remind you, assesses the situation at the front every day and writes about the dilemma of russian commanders: either to ensure an offensive in the east and deploy reserves in the donbas, or to strengthen the defense in the south and defend against the ukrainians in the kherson direction, while the armed forces of ukraine continue to block the russian army from supplying ammunition to the occupied kherson region and to destroy warehouses in the occupied territories on president zelenskyi said at the weekend that the ukrainian armed forces step by step advances in the kherson region, the regions occupied since the beginning of the war well, here is another important statement of the minister of defense oleksiy ray llc reported that with the help of heimers, the ukrainian military has already destroyed approximately half a hundred russian warehouses with ammunition, and in such conditions, when the logistics chains are practically cut off, the russians are unable to conduct active hostilities and with us in direct contact mykhailo herself from the director of

the nud-kolich-network analytical center mr. mykhailo welcomes your opinion on what is needed for a successful counterattack on congratulations to the kherson region, in fact, the contrast has already begun, many expect that the ukrainian troops will advance in the same way as the russians according to the tactics of the second world war. when will there be a volley of fire from artillery, when will the cities to which the ukrainian troops are approaching be destroyed, that kherson will be destroyed, well, in any case, this is what the russian army, if we recall mariupol, the city and settlements of kyiv, chernihiv region, or lysychansk, north donetsk, in fact, the ukrainian army acts according to the principles and tactics of the xxi century, that is, you are absolutely right that you said that logistics are being destroyed, ammunition delivery routes are being destroyed , warehouses with ammunition are being destroyed , and that the air defense system is important so that the ukrainian aviation can help the ukrainian troops in the counteroffensive, so the

counteroffensive is going on, we just don't see it in the same way as russian offensive, but in any network, cutting off russian troops from supplies from the left bank of the dnieper, in fact, russian troops are now already surrounded and with each of with every step of the ukrainian army, the time is approaching when they have to make a decision or surrender or die, the armed forces now in the kherson region have absolutely are under the constant fire of ukrainian troops and do not have ammunition to fight, they do not have the

strength to replenish personnel and equipment they will simply be forced to surrender, or it is possible to continue to fight, but it will not be long, in fact, the paradox of the russian physics is that they obviously do not receive a command to withdraw and will be forced to remain far in the depth of ukrainian positions, and this will give the ukrainian troops the opportunity to conduct successful counter-attack offensive actions, you talked about targeted strikes by the ukrainian army. yes, we saw the ukrainian army hitting the bridges in the kherson region, but tell me about these strikes on the russian warehouses with ammunition in the occupied territories, how does this change the situation on the front, in particular in the donbas , did it stop the russian barrage of fire, the fact that they used such non-stop artillery fire absolutely if we compare the nature

of the fighting in may in june and now especially the last two or three week, we will see that the nature of the actions of the russian troops has changed significantly, instead of a volley of fire and destruction in front of them, the entire living erasure of populated areas, as was the case in lysychansk, north donetsk, and other populated areas points in this area, now the russian army is trying with much less intensive use of artillery, because it is simply banal that there is no ammunition to storm the ukrainian troops and they do not succeed in anything, in fact, if we compare what happened two weeks ago, on which lines the russian army stood ukrainian, then in fact at this time, these are the same boundaries, that is, the russian army cannot advance without e-munitions, and this is logical, and this is exactly what the ukrainian army was counting on when it began to methodically destroy warehouses with ammunition, well, in your opinion, how many heimers do ukraine need? what other western weapons does ukraine need? we can talk about that. about the number, of

course, the ukrainian command can determine on its own. that, of course, a few tens, that is, with a front of more than a thousand kilometers, units of even the most modern weapons, it is difficult to influence the change in the nature of hostilities, the change in the theater of military operations, but if there is a few dozen e and e, of course, with full supply of ammunition and 80 km and 120, then i think that it is possible in this way even now you will see the results . will be able to dominate in the air well, and here is another question about western weapons, today the minister of defense oleksiy reznikov announced that ukraine already has the first german and cheetah anti-aircraft tanks. that's why they are important, what kind of weapons are they

anti-aircraft missile complexes and air defense systems are critically important for ukraine and for the ukrainian armed forces. these are tactical complexes, that is, they cannot be said to protect cities or critical infrastructure. about the donbass and the kherson region. these machines can destroy russian planes and helicopters, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles that try to operate in this area. well, in fact , information appeared today that slovakia can to provide ukraine with 11 mig-29 fighter jets by the end of august, this is again according to the minister of defense of slovakia, but this is a possibility, not yet a final decision. as reported by the washington post newspaper, how can ukraine strengthen air defense against missile defense, and planes, this is very important because ukrainian aviation after all, it comes from the

soviet union, all ukrainian planes are planes that were built since soviet times and they are more than 30 years old. therefore, any help to us, especially uh, immediate help, that is this august looks very cool and very effective from the point of view of strengthening the capabilities of our aviation in terms of air defense, because mig-29 fighters can shoot down cruise missiles, for example, in addition to countering helicopters or drones or attack aircraft of the enemy, as for anti-missile defense, we we are waiting for the provision of a-a anti-missile systems and anti-invasion systems, and we are also waiting for the german state-of-the-art iris tsn complex, which can also strengthen ukrainian anti-missile defense. that every day there are missile strikes, these terrorist missile strikes by russian troops on civilians and on civilian cities, on civilian infrastructure, it is necessary to protect ukrainian cities, that

russia uses this tactic of terrorizing civilians and activists in cities. arthur was with you, we talked about western weapons that are needed by the ukrainian armed forces. and now briefly about the changes in the national security and defense council. of defense, the decree was published on the website of the president, the representative of the entire president said that demchenko was fired due to health problems. demchenko had been in this position at the national security council since the middle of 2020. let me remind you that in november of last year, a number of snakes spread information about demchenko's alleged involvement in lobbying in 2010 for the so-called of the kharkiv agreements with russia, representatives of the authorities denied this at the time , and in addition, demchenko's name was mentioned in connection with the scandal regarding the allegedly fraudulent large-scale operation of the ukrainian special services to detain the so-called wagnerites and the operation, according to the media, because it

helped to break with you the head of the president's office andrii yarmak and demchenko in power, all these accusations were rejected. now let's talk about the grain agreement signed in istanbul. at the same time, representatives of russia state that the grain agreement does not provide for the cessation of hostilities, so on the weekend, the day after the signing of the agreement, russia struck odesa porto and today the russian minister of foreign affairs sergey lavrov stated that there is nothing in the commitments that russia has undertaken that would prohibit moscow from continuing the so-called special military operation by destroying its military infrastructure and military targets. this is how russia explained the attack on odesa, they say it was a military facility. president zelenskyy called the attack barbaric and cynical . further details. while the population around the world is starving, this ukrainian grain is spoiling

. volodymyr talks about the problem with exports. of grain, 20 million tons of grain remain in ukraine today, including volodymyr's reserves - this is the odesa region, about 4,000 farmers grow their own grain in their fields. this is more than in other regions, and the farmers here are literally fighting for survival. не сегодня 72 года i'm 72 years old, i don't remember such a difficult year as this year, here they hope that after the recently signed grain agreement in istanbul , 5 million tons will be sent through the black sea every month, this is a pre-war indicator it is for farmers like volodymyr that a grain agreement is needed to make a living. ukraine needs such farmers to make the economy work, and tens of millions of people around the world need grain to work and live. thanks to these needs, the grain

agreement became possible, but this agreement is fragile. moscow released this video and admitted last saturday that it was russian troops who fired at the port of odessa not the next day after the agreement, the kremlin's message says that the target was a warship and a warehouse with western weapons, and they say they did not violate the agreement. the minister of foreign affairs of russia lavrov went to egypt , a country that is one of the largest consumers of ukrainian grain, he is trying to enlist the support of african countries and this while sanctions are imposed against russia itself because of the war in ukraine, lavrov here has his own version of the food crisis they say it started not yesterday and not in february, but with the beginning of the pandemic due to the mistakes of western countries in matters of food and energy, meanwhile, farmer volodymyr is worried because if he does not it will be possible to sell this year's harvest, the next one

may not actually be about lavrov's statements during his visit to africa, let's talk a little later about why russia is trying to get the support of african countries, what ukraine is doing in this direction and now more about the grain agreement, the ukrainian authorities expect that already this week the movement of students will begin. within the framework of the agreement, the first of the three ports that will work for the export of ukrainian grain will be the port of chornomorsk, minister of infrastructure oleksandr kubrakov announced this according to his words in istanbul, within the next two days , the internal technical documents of the coordination center created as part of this agreement will be developed. ukraine expects to be able to export millions of tons of grain and make room for the new harvest, now we are in touch with kyiv as a colleague zhanna bezpechuk zhanna vitayu so we heard russia declares that the strike on odesa formally did not violate the agreements. kyiv condemns such actions .

spoke about the beacon of hope on the black sea. congratulations zhenya, well, we can talk about the fact that this beacon of hope on the black sea did not go out, but in fact it was covered by black clouds from the missile attack on the odesa international port. he demonstrated that ukraine, in particular the ukrainian south, remains a dangerous place for commercial shipping even if agreements and analysts are reached in istanbul, experts suggest that it is precisely such a message that should be read here of these actions by the russian army, it is also worth considering that the process of grain export from one country to another involves many players, we are

talking about the company that owns the ship, we are talking about insurance companies that provide insurance for both the cargo and the ship about the grain traders that they need to find the ship and make sure that there is an insurance company ready to actually provide such services and that the odesa port is key to restoring exports for the blockade of this process from ukraine missile attack, of course, significantly lowers this er well, this indicator of the likely foreseeable security in the south of ukraine and in the black sea area in the near future, in addition. erdoğan told the president of turkey and the secretary general of the un antonio

guterres. thus, the russian president could say that the main thing in this process is him and his military power, his high-precision missiles of the caliber not diplomacy, its nuances, all those efforts personally made by the turkish precedent in order to agree on the restoration of grain exports from ukraine, and it is no coincidence that the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, dmytro kuleba, emphasized that antonio goteresh must personally respond, that is, react to what happened and director ertogan since there may be an encrypted message from their diplomacy, well, when we say the grain agreement, we are actually talking about two agreements, and we have already published the text of the agreement under which was signed by ukraine, but what was signed by russia, it is known for certain which this agreement is, it is known that it is by

design, so we need erdogan, he also has mediators in this process, the agreement is a document, more precisely, we will call it that, since it is an initiative with the consent of the parties, this is a separate legal issue, is it possible call it an agreement signed by the relevant russia with intermediaries on the one hand, on the other side of ukraine with intermediaries , these are mirror documents, that is, they should be identical on the one hand, but on the other hand e which is also very important to take into account that such a package of agreements also uh-uh hm and russia emphasizes on this, it was also about easing restrictions and even lifting some sanctions on russian exports, in particular the export of food products and fertilizers from the actual grain itself but this is also a message from the russian side,

russian propaganda is talking about it, however, this is not the point, and in fact, it did not quite happen that way. how come there were no such sanctions regarding the export of grain from russia and the export of the same fertilizers? sanctions have been imposed on e-e trans-actions from abroad , that is, from other countries to russia, sanctions on settlements with food companies with agrarians from russia, and now these sanctions have been removed from the permission for me to transfer e-e funds to the accounts of these russian companies in russian banks under sanctions, that's what it was actually about, but today it's presented as part of such a package of agreements, and russia says that the main thing, look, it was about sanctions and not about the war in ukraine, which is very important for the ukrainian side and for western partners it is very important for ukraine to emphasize that the first cause

of this whole situation and the food crisis in serhiy lies in aggression against ukraine. thank you zhanna bezpyachuk , bbc correspondent from kyiv, about the grain deals and another topic related to the crisis, let's talk in more detail about how russia is trying to get support african countries in the war against ukraine, african countries that can actually suffer the most due to the lack of ukrainian grain, as we have already mentioned, lavrov went on an african tour, his first stop was egypt in cairo lavrov spoke before the permanent representatives of the league of arab states, where he stated that russia will help ukrainians to get rid of the anti-people and anti-historical regime. he immediately noted that representatives of the ukrainian authorities called such statements, and i quote again, classic russian schizophrenia. this is how you can see that lavrov was happily welcomed in the republic of congo, then uganda and ethiopia and i am joined by my colleague georgy erman, an

africanist who has been following the relations of ukraine and russia with african countries for a long time. to these four countries. and what does the kremlin want to achieve with this? good evening, well, judging by lavrov's speech before the representatives of the league of arab states, the main purpose of this visit is to spoil the image of ukraine as much as possible, that is, to blame the government of ukraine and the ukrainian authorities for what happened food crisis and his speech at the league of arab states was devoted to historical topics and all the accusations leveled at the ukrainian authorities in 2014. that is, his speech there was devoted not so much to the russian-african relations are so bad because the ukrainian government is bad. and what if it oppresses the russian-speaking population? how is it connected with neo-nazis and others? if they send the usual

messages of russian foreign policy rhetoric. because, first of all, egypt is the largest trading partner in africa for both russia and ukraine. war because it lost not only the supply of grain - this affected the prices in this country, but also lost ukrainian russian tourists who, for obvious reasons, will not come to egypt this year. that is, it was a double blow to the egyptian economy, and that is, lavrov came to egypt to make up for all these would be sharp corners and at the same time convince the egyptian authorities and representatives of the arab states who are also in cairo that ukraine and the west are to blame for this situation ethiopia - this is

a country where in addition to the fact that there is a government that is has very strained relations with western countries , it is also the headquarters of the african union, where he lavrok can meet with representatives of completely different countries of the african union, and again convince them that ukraine has somehow done badly in itself and in relations with russia and the congo is a country where the president is denis himself , he is essentially one of the african presidents because he first came to power in 1979 and visited brezhnev in moscow, that is, he understands african very well politics on all these internal connections, and this is actually a way for russia, somehow through the head of the congo, to try to reach out to other heads of africa, to convince them of the correctness of the russian policy. well , finally, uganda, the president of which, in fact

, human rights defenders have recently accused of certain violations of democracy, the establishment of an authoritarian regime and to him it is er if this visit is an attempt to establish such communication in the future well and in general if we talk about the countries of africa, then they are heterogeneous in their attitude to the russian war against ukraine, and we saw it at the voting of the resolution at the un general assembly back then in march, here you can briefly tell what the camps are , that is, who supports ukraine, who is received, who leans towards the age of russia, the vast majority of countries that then supported the resolution condemning aggression by russia, these are democratic regimes and the vast majority of countries that did not support this resolution either they abstained or they simply did not attend the vote, some of them are countries that were once governed by parties of former anti-colonial movements, such as the

african national congress of the south african republic. this country abstained during the vote, for example, and there are enough countries. that is, there are angels and namibia and mozambique. there are other countries that are essentially governed by military juntas. these are small, and burkina faso is among them . well, if they are accused of suppressing democracy, there is eritrea, which was the only country that did not support this resolution at all, voted against it, that is, in fact, supported the aggression against ukraine, and the established there has existed for quite a long time authoritarian regime georgiy thank you, we can still talk a lot about this topic - it is a broad topic and thank you and who wants to know more, read the article on our website georgy germana grain weapons and values ​​can africa become an ally of ukraine in the fight against russia and finally, to another topic , great britain will host the next eurovision song contest

instead of ukraine, and we are talking about this with my colleague olha malchevska olya. so, the organizers of the contest have announced that the eurovision song contest will take place in britain. in which place, it has not yet been determined what will be determined. but at the same time, the representatives of both the british and european broadcasters declare that there will be a ukrainian presence at the contest. that's exactly what it is. that's exactly how he has and not only a ukrainian presence, ukrainian colors and talents. to hold the competition in ukraine is exclusively dictated by the fact that russia is waging its terrible war in ukraine and the details are still unknown, but two fundamental things are known, the first is that ukraine gets to the finals by rights the winner together with the so-called big five,

which includes great britain, france, germany, italy and spain, these countries reach the final regardless of the result of participation in the competition and on the basis of their financial contributions, i would like to remind you that the ukrainian side first expressed concern, let's say, and upset about that ukraine will not accept the contest, that ukraine won, and i will remind you that the kalush orchestra in turin won this may with their stefania, they received the highest score of 631 votes there the british performer some rider came second, and despite that, of course, it must be said that britain was quite happy with such a decision, but we will talk about it further, but here it is important to say that everyone assures us in britain and emphasizes that, first of all, they will try to add ukrainian

flavor here as well the second important point that is definitely known is that the british television and radio broadcasting corporation, which will work on the organization of the festival together with the ukrainian public broadcaster , will work on introducing not just the ukrainian presence and that there were elements of ukrainian elements of this show and they will be developed together with a ukrainian broadcaster in support of ukraine, the head of the special festival emphasized, i ask for direct language, someone can argue whether it is about politics or about values, i want to talk about values, as for me, the values ​​of the underground of the festival are at the heart of everything we do and they are about uniting about diversity about supporting each other and that is exactly what we are trying to do, our ukrainian partners need of help and our work to support them

also emphasized the date of the contest and now english british cities are fighting for the holding of this contest, their long list should be announced by the end of the summer and voting for them will begin this week zhenya thank you olya for what eurovision will be like in great britain and not in ukraine, and i will remind you that this will be the ninth eurovision for britain, the largest country of all others hosted this song contest and four of these nine times hosted eurovision instead of other countries, so what about that we have to finish our broadcast, read more news on our website bbc.ua and on our pages in social networks if suddenly you did not have time to watch this news broadcast, you can watch it at any other time on our youtube channel bbc news ukraine see you tomorrow

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