i will remind you once again that these large-scale military exercises are being conducted, and you know, i really don't want another leader to fly off the rails. we are talking about the leader of the people's republic of china, because hey, come on. and that's how you get this war. i think that no one has enough rivets . do not do anything like that. because as we can see now, a quick war will not succeed in this world, but a motivated state. thank you for being with us, goodbye until tomorrow. now for your attention, a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bvc news. good evening. we are from ukraine, ukrainian military hit the antoniv bridge in istanbul, the grain coordination center about the main events became operational. today we are talking about the bbc news broadcast live from london . yevgenia shadlovskaya, until next. in the kherson region , the ukrainian military is hitting the key antoniv bridge. kostin instead of the benedictine bridge, what is known about the new prosecutor general of ukraine,

how close it is to yarmak and the unblocking of grain exports through the black sea, a coordination center was opened in istanbul, the ukrainian military fired at antonivsk at night a bridge in the kherson region, the local russian occupation administration admitted that there were strikes on the bridge and blocked traffic, the antonov bridge is of strategic importance, in particular, because the russian military receives supplies from it at night and in the morning, several videos of explosions on the bridge and destruction appeared on social networks, journalists of bvc investigators were able to independently verify some footage of the destruction after the shelling on the video they say that the

strikes were made at the same points as before the ukrainian army is shelling the antonov bridge with high-precision american missiles and from heimer installations since july, the power of these missiles is not enough to bring down a large bridge, but it is enough to severely damage it, and the head of the press center of the south defense force, nataliya humenyuk , said about the antonov bridge that the ukrainian military carried out, quote, filigree strikes, that these strikes are aimed at demoralizing the russian army therefore, the damage to the bridges is the advantage that the ukrainian military will use for a counteroffensive in the kherson region, and in general, what is the strategy of the ukrainian forces in the south, my colleague olga palamaryuk asked about this from the military spectator oleg zhdanov. greetings to oleg. on the eve of the attack on the antoniv bridge, a video appeared on the network, and later the kherson military administration confirmed this, but clarified that the bridge was not

destroyed, but damaged. tell me if it is known in which the current state of the crossing. well, as far as i understand, the antonov bridge could have turned into a road bridge. it is no longer possible to drive over it. on this bridge is a railway bridge, because as far as is known. at the moment, it has been hit by two shells , it is damaged and the railway track is damaged , therefore the movement of trains on this bridge is also impossible without restoring its efficiency, why is the antonov bridge so important and whether this kind of shelling can change the plans of the enemy, the plans of the enemy and our plans will change radically, the fact is that these are almost not the only ways of supplying that group under to support and ensure the vital activities of that

groups of russian troops located on the right bank of the dnipro river. that's why he destroyed these bridges or, having made them out of order in the plan of the impossibility of using them as intended, we actually put the russian group in the position of an operational encirclement. and then we have a single the way is planned destruction with the aim of forcing russian russian troops to either surrender or die under the fire of our bridges the fact is that in the world today i know only one air defense system which is capable of intercepting reactive munitions, this is an iron dome system, and it only works at short distances, and such munitions as heimers cannot be intercepted by russian air defense means, none

of these means are not intended, uh, from the very beginning of their production and development, it was not intended to capture rockets, they constantly confuse the himers projectile with a rocket and say that we destroyed all these centers, this is a reactive outfit, the russian side declares that i quote, the destruction of the bridge will make life difficult for ordinary residents, but it will not affect the development of hostilities, so please tell me whether this is so and whether penton crossings are able to replace the bridge. antony crossed will not solve this situation, and for the civilian population, it may become a complication in terms of food supply, although here on this on this bank of the dnipro river, there are enough agricultural farms that can supply food to the city of kherson, the first is the second -

pontoon crossings from the rules in that in this in these areas, the dnipro river has either steep banks or a very fast current, a fast current is very difficult to guide, but even if they guide a pontoon crossing, we already have a lot of experience in breaking the breaking of pontoon crossings in the belogory mountains. we only need to mention the luhansk region and more one peculiarity, if it is to damage the antonov wax, we released well, somewhere around 20 ammunition to destroy the pontoon crossing, one is enough to tear the pontoon crossing further, the current does the work eh independently carrying it down under the river along the river this is absolutely not an option for children, especially if we take into account that the ammunition from the himax system and its

analogues at 75 km deviates by only 3 m, then hitting the pontoon is not a problem for us the shelling of bridges, the destruction of strongholds in the kherson region, can we say that such actions are a counteroffensive of the u.s. armed forces and exactly the one that zelenskyi claimed is a counteroffensive? it's just that you and i are used to watching movies and books. we are used to thinking with the templates of the second when are the world wars going on? to attack, when there are tanks, infantry, the flag is in front and everything else. today, war is a modern war. it consists in completely different ways of destroying the enemy . the war, the war for the garden, and the war of remote fire impact, so it

can really be called such a combined counterattack oleg zhdanov about the strikes on the antoniv bridge antoniv bridge is one of the three crossings dnipro is in the occupied kherson region and it is of strategic importance for the supply of the russian group in kherson. and this is how the british military observer jonathan marcos person morse russian forces commented on the situation in the south. kherson was the first city captured by the russians during the war, so its return is extremely important . moreover, it is a strategically important region of the dnieper delta, a busy port, an economic and trade center. over the past few weeks, we have been watching how the ukrainian armed forces they are gradually recapturing small areas of the territory occupied by the russians, and now it seems that they are resorting to a larger-scale counter-offensive, during this operation they are cutting off bridges with the intention of isolating several thousand

non-russian troops to the west of the river , there are obviously plans to bombard the russian forces, who will either retreat or be forced to surrender now, the ukrainians have the ability to attack with a precise sight, as far as is known, this bridge was damaged by the hymars missile system supplied by the americans, now the question arises whether the ukrainians have on this front, there are enough forces to go into a large-scale offensive, the armed forces of ukraine suffered losses in the east, but the new replenishment is less trained and experienced. so, we will see if the ukrainians will be able to return the occupied territories in the south as a result of a powerful counteroffensive. now let's move on to political events in ukraine, the new prosecutor general andriy kostin today, the verkhovna rada approved him in this position after 299 deputies voted. until now, kosti headed the parliamentary committee on legal issues.

a politician to the verkhovna rada was on the list of the servant of the people party, he was in the second hundred, he already tried to open prosecutorial bodies in 2021. kostin applied for the position of head of the specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office, but he did not pass the so-called integrity filter, as public organizations call it, before becoming a member of parliament kostyn practiced law , was one of the leaders of the odesa bar association, and my colleague zhanna is talking about kostyn's appointment as prosecutor general bezpyachuk, she is on a direct line from kyiv. first of all, why are the changes called yarmak's bone man, or is the new prosecutor connected to the head of the president's office, and that's why the head of the president's office andriy yarmak called andriy kostin from among those people in the faction servants of the people, whom he knows well. and he emphasized that for

him this human connection, the relationship is the most important, not to mention the most important , in particular, when recommending people for certain positions, as well as andriy kostin worked in to the ukrainian delegation within the framework of the 300-ruth contact group in minsk, in the subgroup on political issues, and this is also a certain indicator of trust in him on the part of andriy yarmak and a special, probably special influence within the party within the parliamentary faction of the servants of the people of zhenya well, the nomination of the prosecutor general to the parliament is submitted by the president of russia, as the president's office explains this choice, why kostin, and the choice of this particular candidate for such an important position during the war was explained by the adviser to the head of the office of president mykhailo podolyak, he directly said that

, first of all, it is andriy kostin's impeccable professional reputation, and secondly, he does not actually have excessive toxicity, literally voluminous toxicity in the parliament, that is, he knows how to coordinate the work of his subordinates the work of other deputies in the parliament, and this is very important . kostin is a lawyer by education. before coming to the parliament, he practiced law, and since 2019, what has he been doing in the verkhovna rada? as a deputy, he headed the committee on legal policy and dealt with issues of judicial reform in particular, and ukrainian independent anti-corruption experts criticized andriy kostin for the fact that, in their opinion, he essentially blocked the judicial reform in ukraine, namely and he, in particular, reworked the law he and

i rewrote the law related to the restart of - and the restart of the higher qualification commission of judges in ukraine is one of the key bodies of judicial self-government in ukraine and it is directly the institution responsible for selecting candidates for the positions of judges in ukraine and determines who is being appointed to these positions for the first time, and actually what kind of draft law did the deputies under the leadership of andriy kostin rewrite at the time? bodies that influence the formation of courts in ukraine, international experts, because, well, let's say that in the

judicial system of ukraine, there are huge problems with corruption accumulated, and such systemic ones are significant loopholes and this is exactly what was expected from ukraine at the time. andriy kostin was criticized for not at least contributing to it. and now it is possible that this question remains open as to why he did so. he will also comment on one more point for which the deputies and the head of the committee on legal policy were criticized andriy kostin is that for more than a year, he did not put on the agenda of the parliament the consideration of an urgent presidential bill that was being prepared for the liquidation of the district administrative court of kyiv, the very court that in people called him a crazy court printer and he is known for controversial decisions regarding the actions of public officials, in particular, one of the last such high-profile decisions of this court is that he took into

consideration viktor yanukovych's lawsuit regarding the illegality of removing his powers as a fugitive ex-president in 2014 and literally in on the eve of the war, the administrative district court in kyiv was ready to consider this issue; in the end , the parliament waited until june, during the war, and the head of this court and part the judges received suspicions, and after that, the special anti-corruption prosecutor's office already had time to send a constructive verdict to the court regarding betrayal and participation in a criminal organization. this is also an incomplete list of those accusations that will be considered against the judges already in court, that's why. that 's what andria is for kosin was criticized, however, again in the office of the president, they emphasize that he is an experienced lawyer, an experienced lawyer, and he

has an impeccable professional reputation among swiss women zhanna the verkhovna rada approved the new prosecutor general for the sixth a month of war, in general, how different is the work of the office of the prosecutor general in peacetime and during war, what are the expectations from kostian in this, so it is undeniable that it is the prosecutor general's office of ukraine that bears additional responsibility in times of war, because this law enforcement body is responsible for what is called the language of lawyers from the professional procedural management of the war crimes investigations of iryna, they are children, you criticized in particular for the fact that she did not fully comply with the laws of ukraine regarding how exactly this should be done in order for ukraine to be able to collect evidence, so to speak, impeccable, they were recognized, then it

sent its prosecutors to international authorities to collect evidence, instead, it is not the prosecutors’ business, it is the business of the sbu dbr police, and the general prosecutor’s office should already systematize this evidence, check it, etc. that andriy kostin will be able to establish this work determines his task to further cooperate with the international criminal court and, in addition, the general prosecutor's office is responsible for the investigation of high treason and there is collaborationism in the ranks of the law enforcement officers in particular, and to all this we must add that in the ranks of the prosecutor's office itself there are people who went to cooperate with the russian occupation administrations to zhenya zhanna and the last question , in short, this is what legacy they leave in the office of the prosecutor general, dictating to iryna venediktov , the main question was as of now, this is exactly what she called, probably according to the sources in the president's office with whom i managed to

communicate . in principle, the prosecutor general's office is capable of investigating the general prosecutor's office. she called the figure over 20,000. this is a lot for each person . for this and therefore, in essence, for ukraine at this stage, it is important to realistically assess the ability of its general prosecutor's office to cope with this task of war crimes and to do it as professionally as possible as professionally as possible as systematically as evidence facts laws for what in order that in the international criminal court and in the international tribunal, if such will be established, in other international

judicial bodies and all its evidence all the information that prosecutors from ukraine will provide regarding the war crimes of the russian the armies really had reliable support and could be used in order to hold not only the executors but also the customers accountable at the international level and organizers of war crimes zhanna thank you zhanna bezpyachuk of the new prosecutor general andriy kostin approved by the verkhovna rada russia is increasing pressure on europe and looking for allies outside its borders is looking for allies outside its borders gazprom has further reduced the supply of gas through the nord stream - this is unpleasant for the expected eyes for its reduction russian the party turned off one more turbine for repairs without starting the other one, which was supposed to return from canada through germany, despite the sanctions, in july, the gas pipeline was closed for preventive repairs after that supply was restored at the level of 40% of the design

capacity, now approximately 20%. razovin, that is, the gas pipeline operates at one-fifth of its capacity. gazprom explains that it is decommissioning another gas turbine engine, but the eu believes that the real reason is political. the kremlin uses the nord stream alone as an energy weapon, so the european union is preparing for a difficult winter when russia can at any time what is the moment to cut off gas completely, the euro country has agreed to voluntarily save gas in order to accumulate reserves and reduce them consumption by 15% at least at the same time russia is trying to find allies where china can iran recently putin personally visited tehran there he met with the leaders early with the leader of turkey and now on august 5 the meeting of turkish president erdogan with putin in sochi may take place and

this is where the last statement of erdogan is interesting regarding the bayraktars, erdoğan said that russia is interested in the production of turkish drones, and we are talking about all this with an expert with us in direct communication, a professor of the kyiv institute of international relations yuriy poloniev p. yuriy i congratulate you, let's start with gas, screwing gas to the european union. what is russia trying to achieve? russia is trying to create problems in order to divert europe's attention from the war in ukraine. they have been preparing for this war for at least 10 years, and this preparation was not only military , it also included commercial economic and geopolitical preparation. therefore, now that the war has entered the second decisive phase, russia has fully included a hybrid war in the economic,

foreign, foreign, economic, and geopolitical spheres, and today it uses russia, in particular, gas supplies to europe, as if using the english term, execute yes, that is, selling them the nature of weapons, first of all, in order to split the state of the allies in order to split off from the allies in germany first of all, which is the most vulnerable from russian gas supplies, then france for and thus, the pressure of the allies on economic energy will be eased. thus, russia plans that germany in general can, in general , move from inactive support to ukraine to a more passive, uh, look for various kinds of palliatives compromises and, together with france, to put pressure, for example

, on the leadership of ukraine in order to end the war or find some compromises with the aggressor . from the very beginning of the war and before the war it was so controversial because hungary was always criticized by the european union for violating various kinds of democratic norms for spreading various kinds of propaganda also russian narratives and fakes, it can be said that hungary is to some extent even a satellite of russia in the european union, and therefore it

is not at all surprising that today hungary is calling on the european union to stop supporting ukraine, because i think that it is most likely acting for moscow's scenario if we talk about sanctions, the kremlin is trying to lift sanctions. can western countries ease this sanctions pressure on russia? do you know about the sanctions? russia has also prepared for this aspect of the war. i think and i'm sure that analysts who planned the active phase of the war also took into account the economic aspect of the war, and russia was ready for economic sanctions, so today we can say that there are especially successes on this front, but there is no turning point in the economic turning point , what would the allies have to achieve due to sanctions, the

ukrainian military machine is fully financed russia receives even more income than it received before the war, and therefore the sanctions should be deeper and more qualitative and definitely include the main positions on which russia is today makes money in the world, and we know that it is precisely those positions that cause enough contradictions in the european union, which are not easy to resolve, so russia is counting on this and playing the long game, and it is playing the long game primarily with the expectation that you know ishak will get tired and stop going er or er something will change, i.e. she is primarily counting

on a split in the ranks of the european union. war in ukraine how today is the most serious geopolitical problem of the most serious threat to peace and security in this world, and another important player is turkey, which has become such an intermediary between ukraine and russia. in your opinion, turkey has neutrality or is there no nitratite in this war and and we have literally wait a minute, you know, i read somewhere that when russia is defeated in this war, the country that will gain the most from this will be turkey, no, turkey is not an ally of russia, but it is conducting its very, very cunning political political game and is very careful about its relations with the west, because

today its possible closer relations with russia will be extremely toxic and turkey understands that. to tell more about turkey, a coordination center was opened in istanbul, which will monitor the transportation of grain through the black sea, an important step within the framework of the grain agreement is the agreement that was signed last week in to istanbul regarding the safe transportation of grain from three black sea ports, these ports have already started working, the representatives of ukraine said, despite the fact that russia shelled the odesa port the day after signing these agreements, the odesa port is shelling the south of ukraine, the ukrainian authorities expect the agreement to work and quite quickly ukraine says that the first trial of a vital grain for export can leave the black sea ports for several days,

so now everyone is watching whether russia keeps its word, despite the sign of refusal, that it should provide the passage of ships, many in the west are still not sure whether they will be successful, the russian missiles that hit the port city of odesa have not reduced these fears, there is also a lot of skepticism in ukraine regarding the long-term agreement, but farmers see only one option to continue harvesting despite the danger. for us, it seems that we have financial problems, we have a lack of resources that well, we could invest in cultivation, we are impressed by the future however, a lot depends on this agreement, the russian blockade led to the rapid increase in world food prices and shortages in some of the world's poorest countries, all of this threatens millions of lives, this is because before the full-scale invasion, russia and ukraine together produced 30% of the world's

wheat supply, 20% of corn and 80% of sunflower oil, which is why ukraine was often called the granary of the world in ukraine itself, the government also hopes that this agreement will help restore the economy destroyed by the war. so we expect that the country can export 5 million tons per month. so this means approximately 5 billion dollars until the end of the year, but for now, 20 million tons of grain remain blocked in ukrainian ports, and representatives of turkey said that the first ships can leave the ukrainian consignments already this week, as a high-ranking turkish official told reuters, the main details of the movement have already been agreed to is a safe route for it will not be demined by the coastal waters. actually, this joint center in istanbul will

coordinate the movement of the student will check them during the entry and exit from the black sea according to how this movement of grain ships will take place. keep an eye on our website bbc.ua and there are the latest details, the latest news about this and we have to finish our release more news on the website bbc.ua and we will see each other tomorrow glory to ukraine is a program verdict my name is serhiy rudenko good day to everyone and good health today 154 days of heroic ukrainian resistance to the russian occupation, the defense forces of the south reported the partial destruction of the antoniv bridge across the dnipro in kherson last night