who left azovstal under the guarantees of our partners and were actually ready for exchange, but the enemy instead destroyed them unfortunately, heroes do not die the guilty will be punished the 156th day of the war is coming to an end take care, be careful of air alarms, they forgive you and wish you now attention news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian service in the spring news good evening we are from ukraine strike on the colony in donetsk region the latest preparations for the export of grain from odesa region about the main events of the day we tell the bbc news broadcast live from london and yevgenia shidlovska ukraine accuses russia of killing captured volhynians kherson

partisans bbc spoke with members of the resistance movement against the russian occupation and the black sea movement the first trial of us with ukrainian grain ready to leave the sports industry ukrainian authorities accuse russia of killing ukrainian prisoners of war in a colony in donetsk region cynical mass murder yes a representative of president zelenskyi's office said that it is known that the militants of the declared dpr declared that the colony of volynyv residents was where prisoners were kept fired by the ukrainian military, possibly from hypercars, and i will remind you that the target weapon was named the number of victims 40 dead 130 wounded later the militants changed the number of victims to 53 dead 75

wounded it is currently impossible to verify these data at the same time the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine declares that the russians shelled the prison with artillery in order to hide torture of captives and executions sbu released an intercepted conversation of militants, which, according to the security forces, shows that the russians could have arranged an explosion in the colony main the intelligence department declares that the explosion in the colony was carried out by mercenaries from the wagner pvc, and now ukraine is demanding that representatives of it and the red cross be sent to the deer park, we will talk about this in more detail with our correspondent later in the program, and now there are reports about kherson region that russian soldiers patrolling the streets are stopping buses and check all passengers, the russians are desperately trying to suppress the ukrainian resistance, there are numerous reports of kidnappings, torture, and the killing of civilians on in the occupied territories, the slightest hint of support for the ukrainian authorities, even a message. can

a photo on a phone lead to arrest? at the same time, the bbc managed to find out how the ukrainian underground works from a wide network of agents and informants operating behind enemy lines. on the front line, he helps the ukrainian military to liberate the region . they arrive here by bus every day, mainly women and children who are fleeing the russian occupation in the south of ukraine, and i still do scared after a long and exhausting trip from a place where you can be arrested even for a simple message in support of ukraine oleksandra says it is difficult in kherson everywhere you look, russians are everywhere when russian troops invaded kherson, local residents protested, they demanded that

the armed military return home, they struck back but this did not stop the resistance against stood up hidden we arranged a meeting with several people of this hidden army they ask not to divulge the meeting place and not to show their faces, the resistance movement is huge, this is total resistance, this is the same person, well, in kherson they know this man tells how partisans operate behind enemy lines, look, someone is driving, people know that there is a military base that was captured by the occupiers, so people pass by and film everything in this way we will find out what weapons the russians have, then this information is passed on to the ukrainian military, another group uses drones, they launch them on the front line, they track additional targets - they are

civilians, not military, they joined the fight in order to stop the occupation of kherson so that it would not be like this forever, but the resistance is dangerous. denis myronov was caught while he was collecting intelligence and weapons for the partisans, he was kept in custody and beaten to death by the constitution. denis's mother has evidence that her son was tortured by russian fsb employees simply to death they beat him to death, they tied him to the door, wrapped his head with tape and beat my son so badly that from the first blow his ribs were broken, his ribs were punctured , his lungs were punctured, he could not move, he could not

no lying down no even standing i sent a request to the fsb with a request to provide information on how denis died and did not receive an answer it seems that the struggle for kherson has begun ukraine announces the destruction of russian warehouses with ammunition and also strikes on key bridges with the aim of destroying the supply routes of ammunition, the situation here significantly changes western weapons this is what the resistance looks like, says this fighter, he was forced to leave kherson to avoid arrest for his own activities, says the russians they have very little support among the local the population, of course, people were physically and psychologically intimidated, and i will tell you that people still want to live in ukraine and not in russia, they want to return to the peaceful life that was before february 24, many residents

are just waiting for kherson to be liberated, for it to be ukraine again, the partisans say that if this war takes of other scales, they are ready to come out of the shadows and let's go back to the event of the people of volyn, the ukrainian authorities accuse russia of killing prisoners of war in a colony in donetsk region, and now there is a joint statement of the ukrainian law enforcement agencies in which they ask to send representatives of the un and the red cross to olynivka to find out what is happening there for the purpose of an inspection mission, and now my colleague zhanna bezpyachuk zhanna vitayu is in direct contact with us. and what did you , as journalists, manage to find out during the day, well

actually during the day from the ukrainian authorities we heard several different versions regarding different versions of what exactly happened, the main question is where exactly on the territory of this colony this tragedy happened and what what actually caused the death was the mass death of people, was it an explosion inside the premises of this colony or artillery shelling of some other shelling of the colony, yes. at first, on hot tracks , the ukrainian army said where it was about the shelling of the colony , then we already heard from the sbu that after all, they they believe there was an explosion in the middle of the premises , and after that the main intelligence directorate of the ministry of defense of ukraine generally blamed what happened on the mercenaries of the private military campaign wagner today bbc compared satellite images of this colony with the testimonies of those people who were in this colony before and also , uh, with the video that was distributed today by russian

propaganda tv channels, it follows that the following is probably not about these barracks that were previously used to receive ukrainian prisoners of war in this 120th colony deer appears hangar is a large hangar in another part of the colony, and even before, ex-prisoners and prisoners were never mentioned about it, this coincides with the version of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine about the fact that either an explosion or shelling took place in a building that had not been used before as brak, so they say that it is a newly built barrack. we saw on satellite images of colony number 120 that all the main buildings of this colony well they already exist there for e-e years, the colony was built for e you first, i.e. the first to arrive at the scene well, then the case must be considered in the international criminal court well, it was

just the office of the prosecutor general he started the investigation on the article of violation of the laws of the customs of war is already a statement to send representatives of the red cross to this territory not under the control of ukraine, and speaking of the colony of the volynites, what kind of colony was it? yes, the topic was clearly prisoners of war from azov steel, that is, when the russian side took prisoners of war under its control, that is, those ukrainian soldiers who left the azov steel plant in mariupol, then most of them were transferred to the 120th colony, and most of the ukrainians who are there are the military and the border police, it is known that the leaders of the azov regiment

, and even more incredible from what i personally know from their families, were transferred to the territory of russia in the lefortov prison in this territory not under the control of ukraine. in the deer park, mostly ordinary military men remained there. also, at least until recently, there were definitely ukrainian civilians who did not pass the filtering. these are residents of mariupol and just recently, out of 20 colonies, 30 were replaced by two ukrainians, one of them is a woman, the rest are men , they are drivers who took the civilian population out of mariupol, when hostilities began there, they were detained at filtering points, there were different questions for each of each of them has an individual story, in the end they were released just recently and with wild ones i managed to communicate and from them i also managed to

find out that, for example, the hmm premises that appeared today in the materials of the russian propaganda media. these are not the barracks where held both civilians and prisoners of war, what else? it is known that in this colony, according to ukrainian human rights defenders, there may be more than 3,000 people, and one of the leaders of the pro-russian forces in donbas said today that 193 people are being held there . according to the data of ukrainian human rights defenders, nor according to the data of international human rights organizations, therefore, in fact, odesa about the prison, thousands of people are most likely to be here zhanna thank you zhanna bezpidchuk, bbc correspondent from kyiv and from in detail, what is known about the shelling of the colony in donetsk region, where ukrainian prisoners were kept, ukraine

accuses russia of killing prisoners. pandemics after the russian invasion of ukraine plunge into an ever deeper crisis these are the disappointing forecasts of the international monetary fund, by the way, their new report has the eloquent name of gloom and more uncertainty, and for ukraine there is an extremely disappointing forecast because it is about the economies of countries that are slowing down and from which aid is coming, and europe and america are suffering from the consequences of rising energy prices, high inflation and an increase in the cost of living, one of the key reasons is the war in ukraine this week, prices for gas in european countries rose sharply again after russia tightened

the nord stream even more, will the unity of the western countries hold in support of ukraine, that's what i'm talking about colleague iryna taraniuk asked the british publicist and columnist edward lucas edwards russia has twisted the supply of gas to europe and in general can arrange a so-called cold winter for the europeans by completely cutting off the gas supply, this is not a hidden use of gas as a tool of pressure. what do you think where is russia trying to do with this? is moving hello, thanks for the invitation, and russia uses energy as a weapon and does it only because the west was lazy, complacent and greedy in recent decades, no one did we are all dependent on russian gas, we have done this to ourselves. the goal of the current russian energy policy is to break the unity of the west so that

western countries will put pressure on ukraine and force it to make concessions so that russia, which is unable to win on the battlefield in ukraine, will win on the energy battlefield in europe. you know eastern europe well. you know russia, ukraine, ukraine, the baltics, and your book, the new cold war, was one of the first in the west to warn that the kremlin uses gas as a tool of political pressure on its neighbors. the situation now in ukraine is he is moving and in general was it inevitable in your opinion and he says that they are a female race first of all this war was not inevitable, it was the result of complacency of the west and now we are receiving an accelerated geopolitical education at the cost of tens of thousands of lives of hundreds of ukrainians thousands of ukrainians suffering from physical and psychological injuries and millions of broken lives, all this

finally opened our eyes to what we should have known back in the 1990s, namely what happened with the collapse of the planned economy and a one-party state, russian or soviet imperialism did not stop, russia continued to be an empire in the 90s, all these problems with neighbors and subjugated peoples inside russia began long before putin and will survive him, and i am very angry with the countries of the old west that it took them so long to in order to realize this, they had signals and what putin has said and what he has done over the past more than twenty years, how this war will end largely depends on whether putin is ready to accept the advice of his generals meni it seems that russia is close to being exhausted militarily, this is a very dangerous position for the army because it can not only effectively attack , but also defend itself. as the soviet and russian

military doctrine teaches, the army can not stay in its current state for long. and it must stop hostilities and restore supply lines rearm , replenish military units, rebuild morale , etc. and do this within a few months, the generals will convince putin of such a need and that he will obey them but if he does it, then russia may take a pause in its approach in a few months. start all over again, then there will be a threat that russia can advance further, it will be difficult for the ukrainians to concentrate their forces in such a way as to effectively launch an offensive against a well- organized opponent. economic and financial difficulties faced by ukraine, and i am also worried about the consequences of the cost of living crisis and

the energy crisis and the unity of the countries of the west, but if putin does not do this, then there is a real the chance that the russians will suffer major military defeats, especially on the southern front where the supply lines are longer and more difficult, and even better destroyed by the khaymas, suggests that we may see significant ukrainian territorial gains there, then putin will have a choice either to go for a greater escalation or to be ready to negotiate a peace and here is the western approach, which consists in helping the ukrainians to gain the greatest advantage on the battlefield so that they have the strongest positions at the negotiating table, then this approach is the winner the content of the association and warnings because he does not communicate enough with russia and china,

moreover, the risk of an uncontrolled conflict increases , british national security advisor stephen love grow said about this, he gave a speech at a think tank in washington, what exactly do such warnings mean, the viewer ed arnold from of the analytical center for defense research in great britain. in his speech, the adviser on national security of great britain talked about the possibility of scenarios he believes that there is a potential threat of a nuclear war because the collective west does not negotiate with either russia or china. while from the point of view of russia, since the cold war, there have been many opportunities for dialogue, even through agreements and agreements on arms control however , it is russia that has repeatedly violated its own commitments. thus, it is now impossible to predict exactly what russia is trying to achieve. while china is building up its nuclear capabilities and showing disdain for arms control, so now additional efforts are needed to expand the dialogue

with china, and this is needed first of all to understand what consequences this may have for the pacific region, and by the way, this week the president of the united states of america spoke with the leader of china sledzempin, and now there is information that today is the first time since the beginning of the war the us secretary of state anthony blinken had a conversation with the russian minister of foreign affairs in sergey lavrov and this week it was important to watch africa, it seems that a geopolitical battle for sympathies has begun lavrov visited egypt, congo, ethiopia, ghana, convinced that the west is to blame for the food crisis that threatens the continent, and not russia, then went to the countries of west africa. french president menol macron, secretary of state shablicken plans to visit the democratic republic of the congo in august. - the african republic and rwanda, and the us ambassador will go to reprimand and reprimand uganda, what is happening and

why it is important to monitor these diplomatic visits, my colleague and i are talking about this with us on connection georgy ermanov, africanist i congratulate you , let's first summarize the results of lavrov's visit, whether russia actually achieved what it wanted. principle was achieved because the russian minister of foreign affairs was welcomed by african countries, even the minister of foreign affairs of the congo, who studied at one time in the soviet union, read a russian poem by alexander pushkin for russian journalists and lavrouh were allowed to say everything he wanted to say about the conflict about the

special military operation. ukraine is bad because it has conducted bad policies since 2014, and also when, for example, the speech of lavrov with the president of uganda, who directly said that he was with africans for 100 years, fought for the decolonization of this continent, and how can uganda to oppose russia as the west wants from african countries. this is if russia was on the side of the colonization of the continent, but this is what the russian media presented, but there are nuances. first, in the same uganda, there is a rather powerful solidarity committee with ukraine and in the country there is a confrontation between the democratic position and the president of musovyn, and just when lavrov came to uganda and the powerful opposition media deleted the statement of this ukrainian

solidarity committee, which said that if africa did not need handouts from russia these promises of food aid that russia is currently promoting, and instead of promising these taxes to russia, it is simply necessary to stop the war against ukraine. and this opinion is, in fact, directly rubbish. it has quite a lot of popularity because the leading opposition candidate, who is a singer, who obeys yuriy musovei and the president. has huge popularity among the youth in this country and this is this statement, she was not in africa for the second time, e.e. lavrov was concluding his visit to ethiopia a and e russian changes noticed almost tov nuance that lavrov's talks with the prime minister of this country, ahmed, who is essentially the main main politician in ukraine, were supposed to be

held instead of these talks, instead there were symbolic talks with the president and with the minister of foreign affairs, it was also expected that lavrov would speak in the african parliament, but this speech did not take place, instead the speech of the prophet at the russian embassy in ethiopia came there, those representatives of the african union who wanted to attend this speech, that is, there was no such warm reception as, for example, the square on sunday in liga it was very important for the arab states union and russia to show that these representatives of the african union hear the position of russia or crete of ukraine. this did not happen, which means that ethiopia, which is one of the largest states, for example, in this region, does not want to to take sides at least with russia in this conflict. somehow it is to present the world, that is,

ethiopia values ​​relations with the west despite all the difficulties in relations with the usa and i want to preserve these relations if it is ethiopia. but let's talk about what ukraine is doing in this conditional battle or does it take part in it at all? ukraine intensified its politics in africa directly during this conflict. president zelenskyy is holding talks with the leaders of several countries . and during this conflict, as you know, half of the african countries abstained or did not vote during the vote for the resolution condemning russia's aggression in the un, and this is the task of convincing these countries to support the ukrainian position, now the ukrainian leadership is trying to do it quite difficult because ukraine was weakly represented, especially

in sub-sykharan africa, and the number of diplomats in the region is very few, there are very few information panels , and in fact, ukraine's economic ties with africa are now severed and now sets himself the goal of making up for lost years and doing something about the position of africa. thank you, george herman. values, can africa become an ally of ukraine in the fight against russia, a very interesting analytical material. thank you for being with us. the ukrainian authorities expect the grain agreement to work soon. 10 loaded vessels are ready to depart from odesa as soon as the un and turkey confirm a safe route, ukrainian government representatives say this in total, 17 ships were loaded in two ports - this is the data of the ministry of infrastructure that you will see the unblocking

of exports from the ukrainian coast to odesa today, the ambassadors of the group of seven countries brought to ukraine the president zelenskyi said that ukraine is ready to implement the grain agreement - this is actually the agreement with turkey that was concluded by the representatives of ukraine and russia in istanbul last friday, the next day russia fired at the odesa port, the grain agreement provides for the unblocking of the export of ukrainian grain from one of the three ports of odessa, spirits will come out of the black sea and south will follow the green corridor to turkey, a coordination center has been created in istanbul, in which representatives will monitor compliance with the agreement in this center the un of turkey, russia, ukraine, ships entering and leaving the black sea will be checked for contraband or weapons, and importantly, according to the agreement, russia has agreed not to attack ports and ships during transit . faction will

i think the appearance of the president is primarily a reflection of the political will to restore grain exports from these shores, this is a friendly seascape, but these waters are littered with mines, and this is exactly the course on which i will leave chornomorsk will sail to the court on a certain route in the black sea service why nothing asicated to black she there are practical problems that ion admits, such as insurance, how to provide it for potentially dozens of ships that will go on a route that can be filled with mines to the line in the black sea, which since the beginning of the war means the russian naval blockade, there are ships of the russian naval forces on the raid, from which they launch missiles over the entire territory of ukraine. so there are still many questions, but there is a will

the way is open for grain export, if this movement starts, it will initially be more than likely a symbolic step to restore the supply of food from ukraine, will the grain agreement work, we should end our release with this, read more news on our website bbc.ua next time, watch the release on the air on monday good evening we are from ukraine big air of vasyl winter my name is two hours of air time and my colleagues with you until 21:00 two hours of your time we will talk about the most important two hours to to find out about the war, it turns out to be on our air serhiy

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