i would very much like to ask everyone who is watching our program today to believe in ukraine, believe in the armed forces of ukraine and victory will definitely be for us. it is obviously important, but how secret are the meetings of the verkhovna rada while former deputies of the opposition platform for life attend them, here you know, such informers, the russians have fired dozens of missiles into ukraine relations between the usa and china are becoming more tense about the main events of the day, says bbc news live from london and evgenia shedlovska, the russians shelled kyiv oblast, chernihiv oblast , kropyvnytskyi, while ukraine celebrated

statehood day for the first time. of the occupied territories is such an assessment of british intelligence that the main thing now is to hold on olena zelenska in an exclusive interview with the bbc talked about life during the war and about the soft what power do the first ladybugs have? russians hit ukrainian cities with missiles. kropyvnytskyi killed at least five people as a result of shelling. 25 injured. dnipropetrovsk oblast. one person died. strikes in the

north . chernihiv oblast. kyiv oblast. kharkiv was hit in the central park named after gorky, the mayor of the city, ihor terekhov, reported the damage to economic buildings in the south, the russians shelled mykolaiv, in particular, they hit earlier the destroyed school, all these shellings took place while ukraine is celebrating the statehood day for the first time, and my colleague zhanna basketchuk is in direct contact with kyiv. zhanna, all these shellings have already been called such a russian greeting with the day of ukrainian statehood, you can tell about them in detail and about that where did the russians release these rockets? greetings, zhenya . well, i'll start with the kyiv region. in the kyiv region , the military attacked the infrastructure in the village of lyutizh. district in uzhhorod in this village said that they

experienced several hours of horror and fear, it is known that at least five civilians were injured by rocket fire through the site, in general, if we sum up , it is true that during the night and in the morning, on this day of ukrainian statehood, the russian army fired different ukrainian regions and from three directions from three different locations shelled ukraine from the territory of belarus - this is the zyabrivka airfield, it is not far from the border with ukraine - one of those locations where russian troops were transferred even before at the beginning of the large-scale invasion, it is located there, for this information, when ukraine has it, russian military aircraft were used in the territory of belarus as missile systems of salvo fire, and rocket missiles were fired at tesia about iskander, according to the ukrainian army, and

in general, it can be said that the ukrainian side has quite accurate data from where they fired this night and morning er ukraine er further another direction - this is the shaykivka airfield, this is already the territory of russia, kaluska region, and according to the report, they were fired with of strategic long-range aviation, this is aviation that is used as missile carriers, it fires x22 missiles, it is very dangerous, there is also the point of view that these are old soviet missiles with insufficient accuracy of hitting, they have a large margin of error and, accordingly, it is always dangerous for us, this is a double danger for ukraine. when these are used missiles and the next direction of fire is the black sea area. we are from fiolent, this is the southwestern part of the crimea annexed by russia

. and this is exactly the days when the first civilian shipment is probably being prepared of a commercial ship with grain from one of the black sea ports of ukraine. what was agreed at the highest level through the mediation of the un, from the same water area, the russian army shelled the territory of ukraine with the help of calibers, and it was in the kyiv region that night that at least six missiles hit a and more it can be said in general that these are missiles that cost 1 million dollars to produce alone. and the export value of such a missile is more than 6 million dollars according to the estimates of military experts and, accordingly, eh. well, you can skip it that the russian army recognized the expediency of using these rockets to fire at the infrastructure near kyiv on the day of ukrainian

statehood, doctrine, the day of ukrainian statehood , the holiday was started by zelensky that is why exactly today, almost a year ago, volodymyr zelenskyi introduced this holiday into the official calendar of ukraine, it essentially marks ukrainian statehood but it is timed to the day of the baptism of kyivan rus and it is this holiday that can be considered as elements of the historical policy of the memory policy of the current ukrainian president and in its in today's speech, he clearly said that it is ukraine that is the only legitimate heir of kyivan rus, and this is fundamental because uh, because in the ideology of the russian world, kyivan rus and its heritage is considered a very important component of kyiv as one of the historical centers of russian history, and that is why it

according to volodymyr zelenskyi, the holiday today is of such fundamental importance that today in ukraine, every day is the day of statehood, and today a friend of ukraine, the president of lithuania, came to kyiv to congratulate the ukrainians. in short, yes, our children, not everything, yes, he promised military aid to ukraine, in particular, 10 armored vehicles , ammunition, and also congratulated volodymyr zelenskyi, presented him with the highest state award of lithuania, the order of the great cup, which is given to those who have special merits for lithuania, the president of lithuania emphasized that the current struggle is actually a common one for ukraine and its country and lithuania will be in this struggle alongside ukraine until the end. thank you zhanna zhanna without heels, bbc correspondent from kyiv and now, before the events in the south, british intelligence

notes that the counteroffensive in the kherson region is gaining momentum, and this is how they assess the situation. ukrainian forces probably managed to regain positions south of the ingulets river with the help of long -range artillery. for the use of the russian 49th army based on the west bank of the dnieper now looks very vulnerable kherson is now effectively cut off from the rest of the occupied its loss of territory will significantly harm russia's plans to portray the occupation as its victory. this is what british intelligence believes and is now in direct communication with us from odessa - military observer oleksandr kovalenko p. oleksandr. congratulations. so british intelligence declares that the russians near kherson are now very vulnerable, that's how vulnerable they are in your opinion, first of all, this is how they lost the opportunity now to receive a sufficient amount of

ammunition, as well as to provide their units with equipment and personnel for reinforcements, namely through the antonov bridge, it was all happening now. they are trying to restore communication between the left and right banks at the expense of e pontoon crossings, but this is a completely different e cargo path. therefore, the cargo flow is quite er insignificant if compared with the capabilities of the antonov bridge, so they now have enough scarce resources, both fuel and lubricants, and with ammunition, that is, in fact, the russians near kherson are now isolated, it cannot yet be called isolation, because they still have a connection with the left coast, but in fact they lack both human resources and technical resources in order to, for example, carry out actions in the offensive, that is,

to advance towards the mykolaiv region or to carry out an offensive in general and in the circulation of those territories that have already been deoccupied by the armed forces of ukraine. the maximum they can do now yes, it is to maintain defense, but even for defense, they need to be constantly provided with ammunition and other fuel and lubricants by equipment. and they cannot have such a supply now in a 24/7 mode, it is minimized if, instead of bridges, the russians start using all pontoon crossings, what will this mean? and this is much less cargo flow, they will be able to really use them, but for example, if the antonov bridge can provide 24/7 transportation in both directions of cargo , then a pontoon crossing is not capable of this. in addition , it is much easier to damage and destroy

than the antonov bridge and considering that the armed forces of ukraine currently use enough high-precision and long-range artillery both the barrel and the jet type a can be done. it is much, much faster than it was, for example, with antonov amos, when three artillery salvos were fired at it. well, it is clear now in what condition the city of antonov is after these kinds of strikes by heimers . it can only be used as a pedestrian, and even then it is a very big risk, even i am a pedestrian, to use it anyi and goose equipment heavy armored equipment anyi transport armored transport on a wheeled chassis or even banal civilian vehicles will not be able to pass through it today, and it is very risky to use it in general, even if we say in a pedestrian format and from the south we will talk about the

east. what is your assessment of what is happening in donbas, the russians continue their offensive there, and the russian occupiers have been trying for quite a long time time to carry out offensive actions in the direction of seversk and bakhmut, they ended with er-e, let's say, with such a mediocre effect on, for example , in the direction of seversk, they did not manage to advance and to occupy this settlement, and in the area of ​​bakhmut, they have now limited themselves to only the thermal power station, which they captured. although they have been fighting for it for almost two months, that is, it is not an indicator of the effectiveness of these military operations, and the threat is very great . now it is in the direction of avdiivka. they are trying to carry out a really quite active and intense offensive actions in the direction of avdiyivka, so far they only use the tactics of a barrage of fire, but assault actions. i believe that from next week they

will significantly increase the intensity of assault actions well, if we talk again about today's shelling, how can ukraine protect itself from russian missiles , in short, and of course using high-tech and high-tech inter-missile complexes that covered the airspace of ukraine, because we are now primarily using soviet anti-aircraft missiles and soviet anti-aircraft missiles. there are enough modern models of military defense in order to counter russian shelling as effectively as possible. the conversation that was followed the conversation that was followed around the world the presidents of the usa and china spoke for the first time in several months their conversation lasted more than two hours chinese state media reported biden confirmed that they adhere to the american policy towards china taiwan asi

warned that those who play with fire can get burned by the white house has not yet published his message about the conversation itself. why the attention to taiwan? the visit has not yet been confirmed, this is immediately out of date, there will be serious consequences, even a military response has not been ruled out. china considers ivan its territory, although it does not control its power, and the united states wants to maintain unofficial relations with ivan, but it is not recognized independently as an independent state, it is taiwan, beijing considers it its province which must return to its composition even by military means if it is necessary for washington, this is the territory that the united states has promised to protect in case of a possible threat now this island a country with 20 million inhabitants found itself at the center of the struggle between the two most powerful countries in the world

when it came to taiwan, speaker of the house of representatives nancy pilosi announced that the visit of a politician of this rank to the country will be the first in the last 25 years. we have repeatedly stated our clear position that we are against the visit of the speaker i asked taiwan if the us does not give up this idea and challenge china to that and take appropriate measures and the american side will bear the responsibility to refuse the vacuum cleaner from visiting tried and in the administration of biden, the trip was supposed to take place in april, the american side, despite its support for taiwan, is wary of possible political consequences file √d in my opinion , she strongly supports democracy in taiwan and she is not alone in her beliefs, this support is growing all the time, so it was during the administration and donald trump and joe biden but i believe that there are a lot

of questions about whether this visit to nancy was right now and whether she should go there at all, the topic of taiwan is likely to be discussed by biden and silzenping during a telephone conversation, it is unlikely that this dialogue will radically improve relations between the united states and china, because neither side wants to appear weak in the eyes of its own population, at the same time, the united states is increasing its strength in the development of computer chips and is trying to supplant the chinese analogues of china at this time makes more and more severe threats and taiwan conducts military exercises and prepares for possible economic and political consequences, the first lady of ukraine, olena zelenska, told the bbc in an exclusive interview how the war changed her life and the lives of millions of ukrainians. president zelensky's wife rarely communicates with journalists. in general, she is quite closed, but now during the war she spoke in the american congress. her photo is on the cover

of wog magazine, although zelensky says she is not used to the attention, but she has a job that requires to be honest, i really felt the strength of this community from the first days of the full-scale invasion on february 24, because each of them helped not only with words of support, but also with actions, we are together blocked children with oncology patients abroad, together we take care of our forced migrants we continue to implement cultural projects because ukrainian cultural expansion should not stop and indeed, on this sentiment, they talked about it once again, we can cite, for example, the first lady of latvia who takes care of newborn babies from ukrainian mothers who were born now in the territory of latvia and there are many such projects and indeed this cooperation is effective

, it is not just a declaration of friendship or a song this are the actions that we do together, in your opinion, is there something unique in the way women help each other, we call it diplomacy, soft power? that's how it fell, and already the first book has no possibility of political influence. but we have emotional influence, and it is emotions sometimes give more to cooperation between countries than different political aspects or geopolitical aspects because when we understand each other when we feel the same book and we succeed much more and really the emotional impact of the first ladies in the world cannot be underestimated it exists and it is powerful enough, that is why we use it. does vasyl worry about how many women

left ukraine and when the country's reconstruction begins after the war, many of them will potentially not be there. this was one of the theses that we discussed at the summit. millions of people who are now abroad, and most of them are women and children. we already have them. we are not only worried about them leaving. that they would be the conditions for a normal life and development in ukraine after the end of the war, that is why there are too many tasks to solve them very quickly, but we have to start solving them even during the war, indeed, a woman in any conditions and in a war takes on a huge burden it

not only fights in our case, 38,000 female military personnel, it not only treats like our doctors, not only teaches like our teachers, but also takes care of children, er, it cares about its parents, because sometimes even about the parents of its husband and this it is really a huge work that our women carry on their shoulders to support them, it is our task every day, and wartime is especially important , don't you do everything everyday, most of us it is difficult to imagine how difficult it is to live in war conditions, they know that you pay attention to the problems of psychological injuries, which is an integral part of all this, in your opinion, how can people best cope with daily stress, you know all of ukraine now lives in constant stress, i will give an example

, tonight was at night in the morning was massed missile attack on our territory and rockets were hit in the kyiv region and in the east and in the north and we feel it all the time every ukrainian lives in constant tension starting from february 24 and this tension does not subside and therefore each of us must learn to live with this feeling to withstand it that is, it is already a long-distance job and unfortunately we do not need advice here, we really need expert help, that is why we are turning to the world health organization for their expertise and they are already helping us with psychological intervention that is, we can use the practical tools that have already been developed and are operating in the world in order to help people in ukraine, according to

the estimates of the ministry of health, 15 million ukrainians will need to seek mental and psychological help after the end of the war, and so when before uh, it was generally used, uh, if we were talking about military personnel, the war in ukraine is currently such that 70% of its weapons are used by russia against civilians . and these are children - these are women, adults, and in our a case of ptsd can also be in them, that's why we are now implementing a program of psychological health, a national program of psychological health and psychosocial support that will help us overcome the possible consequences of this tragedy, we are already working now, as i said, we are helped by

various countries, including israel, the united states , the world health organization helps us , we find the best practices in order to implement them in ukraine. we need to build such a system that every ukrainian could to receive qualified and fast e-e help in the field of mental health." to some, this seems wrong because we

understand that there is a war and our soldiers are dying every day at the front, but on the other hand, the country must survive and must maintain some kind of normality, so even our soldiers tell their friends to those who are waiting for them at home go to a cafe go to a movie walk with your children, enjoy the peace that you have, because we are here at war precisely in order to give you this peace back, to give you faith in life again, that is why this balance is so very shaky and if, er, someone who comes to kyiv, for example, now you will say that this is an absolute sea of ​​the city, it will be a pity, friends, because as i already said, the night and

morning flights do not let us forget that we are at war, but the economy must work and we we are grateful to all entrepreneurs and all industrial producers who continue to work. and the country is really working and the country should not stop because life is development without development, there is no life and we will continue to develop, no one will prevent us from doing this ms. zelenska you you are very different from your husband. everyone knows that you do not like publicity. you are a modest person, but now you are talking to us and other media. that you are now an icon. does all this make you feel uncomfortable? and do you feel that this publicity is necessary for the country? such compliments somehow make it

easier to start . i feel the need to go out in public. thank you very much and it's really so comfortable . interviews like her are not for me right now. it's pleasant for me. now in ukraine everyone is on their own front and i use every opportunity to go public and to communicate with as many people as possible to tell the truth about ukraine, so there can be no sentiments here, this is work and i have to do it. one of the most popular things you've

done is a photo session for wolf magazine. many people liked it. but there are also those who think it's a homorization of war. any opportunity to talk about ukraine. it was a huge opportunity because millions of people, tens of millions of people in the world read it. this is a very popular publication and to talk to them directly. it was mine, it was my duty, and already it was an interesting experience , even though it was a very short period, just a few hours , which we spent on this interview, it was really important for me, that's why, of course, there will always be criticism at

any moment, but i stand by the fact that it's better to do something and receive criticism than not we are not for zelenskyi. the last questions of mrs. zelenskyi. do you allow yourself to look into the future and imagine the time after the war? do you just live one day at a time ? personal future now at all, but i plan in my work, the future for ukrainians is why and we are implementing all these projects that we talked about with you today, that is why we dream of restoring ukraine from the structure of

we have a lot of things that need to be restored, our infrastructure has been destroyed, several hundred hospitals and schools have been completely destroyed, several million people have left us, everything should return to normal traffic, and yes. now we are all on military tracks, but one day we will leave these tracks on peaceful ones and this is exactly what we are planning now to interview zelena zelenskyi, see also on our youtube channel bbc news ukraine and finally russian shelling continues in mykolaiv russians hit the private sector damaging residential buildings about this was announced by the mayor of the city in donetsk region in bakhmut , three people were killed and three more injured due to shelling - these are the data of the head of the regional administration, all the latest updates, verified news, read on our website bbc.ua, i'm saying goodbye to you, see you tomorrow, we

don't know everyone's name laid stone upon stone in the walls of the tithe church. we do not know if there are hands that imprinted this sign of volodymyr the great. the walls of the ukrainian first empire preserved this symbol for us after 900 years. it becomes the coat of arms of the ukrainian state after a thousand years, a symbol of the struggle for ukrainian independence , big things begin with small steps, the next step is your state, we are in the office of the head of the national bank