gaz obgyrya, a people's deputy and a permanent representative of the verkhovna rada of ukraine in the constitutional court, since 2010 has held the position of assistant professor of the department of constitutional law of the faculty of law of taras shevchenko national university as a scientist - in fact, she did not support the integration of ukrainian science into the world. i welcome the russian fleet to crimea on bbc news ukraine live from london, olga palamaryuk still works in the studio today in the release, the attack on the russian air base in saki, which was shown by satellite images, weapons for ukraine , the defense ministers met in copenhagen, as they promise to help, and hundreds of bodies of russian soldiers still remain in ukraine, the bbc film crew

visited security sites in the kharkiv region , and we start from zaporizhzhia, russian troops fired again the territory of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant this was reported in energoatom , first they hit the commandant's office directly next to the welding station and the source storage radiation later five more shots were fired at the fire station near the npp , at the same time due to the strikes at the station it was not possible to carry out a shift in time but the situation is currently under control, they say in energoatom and urge not to believe fakes that the personnel in panivka are leaving the npp meanwhile, details of the explosions at

airfield in saki, satellite images taken by the american leps planetary laboratory showed significant damage to the russian air base and several destroyed military aircraft, what is known so far let's ask my colleague zhanna bezpiachok, she is in direct contact with us. congratulations, zhanna, the experts who studied satellite images before and after the explosions at the airfield in novofadorivka call their consequences, i quote, the most destructive for russian military aviation in more than 70 years, and the operation itself unique what are the latest data known at the moment and have official statements of ukrainian representatives already appeared? first of all, if we rely on these satellite images released by various world agencies, today we can say that at least the destruction of nine military

aircraft is confirmed - these are fighters and bombers of the russian army that were based in saki . from the buildings, probably a warehouse with ammunition, more likely from bombs, they are used by such bombers and fighters, and this is what caused the fire. and then this fire spread beyond the boundaries of these buildings and how as a result of the fact that there are also weapons , ammunition and refueled airplanes in other parts of the airfield, the fire spread, there were

explosions and detonation of ammunition. large-scale explosions and equipment was destroyed, what exactly caused it, does the ukrainian side confirm that it is a shelling, or a targeted hit , there is no such confirmation, but the international media , in particular, the washington post, refer to their sources among the ukrainian military and officials, and they say that they confirm that the ukrainian special operations forces were involved in these explosions. well, i can't help but ask about the zaporizhzhia npp and what is known about the situation there and whether the ukrainian side confirms what russia is claiming that there was an explosion there the fire is so, first of all, energoatom is

currently the main official source of information about what is actually happening at the largest nuclear power plants in europe does not confirm the information about the fire. this is probably the most important information because the fire determined a real potential nuclear disaster, this is the first moment, the second . i personally managed to talk to them from eyewitnesses of what happened today at the military base in the epicenter of these events, and the eyewitness says that there really were shelling and they were from the side where the russian army is stationed. this is the information, and also at the moment, the ukrainian side of energoatom says that the radiation levels remain normal, as they should normally be, but there is really a great danger enormous risks are currently arising in connection with these

shellings and they are still occurring, and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyi clearly said that if all this leads to the fact that some kind of accident will actually occur at this nuclear power plant, then it will be possible to talk about the fact that de facto russia used nuclear weapons against ukraine, but without a nuclear strike as such and e megathem e international atomic e-e organization for atomic energy access currently there are no doses well and zhanna i ca n’t ask you don’t ask about belarus at night there are there the social network was informed about the explosion at the zyabrivka airfield in the gomel region. later, the belarusian ministry of defense issued a statement that the explosions there were connected with the ignition of the equipment and tell me more about it. airplanes or helicopters, then they

tested this plane and the new engine caught fire. this is their version of events. the ukrainian side says that it cannot confirm its own involvement in what happened at this airfield. it is known that zabrivka indeed, this is one of the key e-e airfields for basing the air forces of the russian army in belarus, it was from this airfield that russian planes took off to carry out guided missile attacks on ukrainian territory not so long ago, it was in july, this airfield was used from the very beginning of the russian large-scale invasion to ukraine, but at the moment all we can say is that the local residents, the civilian population, say yes, there were explosions, yes there were outbreaks, the ukrainian

army is talking about what a-a i would like to talk about such achievements as, well, conditionally, such as hitting such an airfield, but they cannot confirm anything like that, and of course, expert journalists draw attention to the fact that this is such a noteworthy coincidence of the circumstances of the event when the explosions and the destruction of part of the equipment first took place the crimean airfield and now there is another airfield near gomel, and it is strategically important for russia. thank you zhanna. it was the bbc correspondent zhanna bezpyachuk, and the conference of northern european allies of ukraine has started in copenhagen. a number of ukraine's allies expressed their support of states, in particular, denmark announced that it is increasing aid to ukraine by more than 100 million euros and

is joining the training of ukrainian troops. britain announced that it is sending additional missile launch systems . ukrainian cities from russian missiles, the ukrainians have such systems , but not in the quantity they need, and we actually hear this not for the first time. regarding this conference in which is attended by ministers of defense and official representatives of more than 20 countries , certain obligations have already been announced at it, for example, great britain has promised three more units of missile launch systems similar to the american gamers, which are used for targets at a distance of up to 80 km, as well as for destruction of bridges and weapons depots, etc., three

such british systems are already in ukraine in addition to 10-18 heimers, the host of the conference, denmark announced that it will join the initiative to train the ukrainian military, which it initiated and led by britain, denmark allocates 130 soldiers to train ten thousand ukrainian soldiers who are currently on training in britain. this is an important help in training the ukrainian army in this war, which, according to analysts, is unlikely to end by the end of this year, regardless of operations by both sides and despite to ukrainian counteroffensive attempts, this conference is a demonstration of long-term support for ukraine, which has been in a state of major war for almost six months, and we will talk more about western aid with pavel lakichuk, head of security programs at the strategy 21 center for global studies. i congratulate you. official

representatives of ukraine constantly emphasize that the armed forces need more weapons, what is currently in service, do you know this and what the armed forces lack? actually, like any state that defends itself, we always need weapons. it is not enough and we need more, well, our partners know our needs, they are in constant contact with the ministry of defense and the general staff, and at the technical level, all needs are agreed. after all, it is necessary not just needs to know. we need to know the needs to know the capabilities of those who provide weapons and the ways and methods of providing them. so, such a planned and long-term process is now one of the greatest needs of ukraine, which are definitely the means of air defense, the means of defeating the

enemy by artillery and rockets long- range radio systems of referees and anti-ship missile systems, well, of course, we are talking about the fact that it would be very good for us to have aviation, including attack aircraft, but our partners are not ready to talk about this yet, although the americans, for example will be introduced in 2023, uh, ukrainian pilots are being trained, but this may already indicate the possibility of providing an aviation component. heimers and modifications, tracked and british and german, so the total number of combat vehicles

is almost 18 units, even up to 20, so their efficiency turned out to be very good, in fact , their use itself led to a break in a specific change in the tactics of the armed forces of ukraine, which now consists in striking the enemy's logistical chains, control points, ammunition depots to the full depth of their construction, thus, with the aim of destroying the management system, destroying their logistics networks and causing their troops to lose combat capability now british we are very grateful and have promised to provide three more additional complexes as well as missiles to them, a significant number of missiles are included in the new package of the

united states of america. therefore, the use of this weapons will continue and this is very hmm, this is a good message for the coming months, yes, and actually, if we talked about western weapons, to what extent has it already changed the situation on the front, according to your estimates, well, for this, it is enough to compare the situation in the east in may, june and july actually, when the dominance of the enemy in the first months of those months was about ten times the advantage, if we were to use barrels, it was a tenfold advantage. destroyed

with a volley of fire, well, actually speaking, not only soldiers were destroyed, entire settlements were wiped off the face of the earth after receiving long-range artillery, and especially high-mars, the ukrainian armed forces, the general staff decided to use them primarily for the destruction of front-line so-called ammunition, that is, ammunition depots which provide connections and groupings and are located at a distance of more than uh-uh 70-80 km. well, we heard different versions of what caused the explosions in the novofaders, here we are literally in front of you spoke with our correspondent, which of the versions do you lean towards, and what is the significance of these explosions in the wider context of the war? actually, if we talk about the noafeder kinstadt, the ukrainian armed forces

confirmed the version of the russian federation that the explosion occurred as a result of russian pilots smoking, they are in the right places, actually russian pilots smoke a lot more than their sailors and the example of the moscow cruiser is quite satisfactory to them, if we talk seriously about it, then i do not have my own version, because from those cadres who have in general access, we can only talk about the consequences of these explosions, however, among our environment there are three main versions, in addition to the fact that the explosions were definitely not accidental, the first version is the use of ukraine's own modified ballistic weapons, and it is assumed that this is the use of an experimental green-two complex, such us operational-tactical complex

was developed both for the armed forces of ukraine and for export until 2018, the possibility of using an unannounced transfer of e-e was at the final stage missiles to highmars that have a range of more than 300 km, and the second version is the use of cruise missiles, it must also be modified, it is very easy to modify neptune, it is a ukrainian development, or the harpoon missiles that will be launched were launched from the sea direction, and the third option, in which i give more the advantage is the use of special operations forces, in particular, the implementation of either pension detonation or directly

using the capabilities of our special forces, well , an example of this is actually, a week before explosions of all sorts on the day of the fleet of the russian federation in sevastopol there was an explosion of an unknown explosive device in front of the headquarters of the black sea fleet, this is the main base of the city council, we know about it and we talked about it, thank you, forgive me, forgive me for interrupting you. thank you for your analysis, it was head of security programs of the center for global studies strategy 21 pavlo lekchuk, it is difficult to calculate how many people have been killed since the beginning of the russian invasion of ukraine, the dead from both sides are difficult to identify, according to the ukrainian government, only about four bodies were returned home hundreds of fighters, the bbc correspondent vera davis visited kharkiv region, talks about the efforts to find

the dead carefully. this story contains footage that may shock. this video was taken at the very beginning of the war. russian troops enter the suburbs of kharkiv in this eastern ukrainian city, and the fiercest battles took place around it, and when the attack the russian infantry finally managed to recapture kharkiv found itself under a continuous barrage of russian rockets, later some occupied villages between kharkiv and the russian border were liberated right in the middle of the road and the land was sticking out on a torn rocket hail, the road to momotov is strewn with war debris and it is still too dangerous for the residents to return here, so before life here dies down again, an important task must be done momo, you need to clean up this village from the bodies, many of which have been hastily buried in shallow graves was deep inside the territory occupied by russia and it is still

a hot zone, you can be sure of this by the sounds on the plan what these local guys are doing now they are digging up the bodies of the killed russians the remains have been found they will give a dna examination and only after that they will send the bodies of russian soldiers back to russia piled up one on top of another. yuriy the gravedigger takes his grim work calmly and even though these people came to kill ukrainians, he still sympathizes with their families . difficult but also unpleasant work of these men, there are probably people waiting for them at home, mothers, fathers, children. i understand this because i myself once served in the soviet army, it belonged to the national guard of the russian militia, a russian, small objects. this is how this icon

the unit is helped to identify the body, this is dirty and dangerous work, and the more bodies are discovered, the more reminders that this is a zone of active hostilities. ukraine claims that it is carefully trying to identify the bodies of the dead, but so far their resting place is a freight railway station. i already said that the corpses of russians are being found, lieutenant colonel oleksandr kostenko from the repatriation unit says a lot, recently in the south they exchanged the dead 160 for 160 and most of them were the bodies found here in the kharkiv region, which we dug up here, have already been returned to the motherland, but

there is no end in sight to this war, so the number of dead will continue to grow and even more families from both sides will wait in vain for their relatives at home with their latvians recognized russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, the corresponding decision was made at today's session of the parliament, deputies called on eu countries to urgently stop issuing tourist visas for citizens of russia and belarus. earlier, this initiative was also supported by estonia and finland, while the chancellor of germany offsholsy stated, quoting this is putin's war, that's why i have a hard time accepting this idea, and the european commission reported that they will not be able to introduce a complete ban on issuing visas because such a step does not comply with the eu's visa policy. does such a restriction play into the hands of the kremlin leadership ? the issuance of tourist visas for russians was limited

by several european countries, among them estonia, latvia, poland, the czech republic, russians can apply for visas to denmark only from outside the borders of the russian federation, but at the same time, many countries accept documents for tourist visas inside russia, it is not a fact that they issue visas, but still accept them. our journalists recently spoke with the candidate of legal sciences of the yale law school, sara grantii, and she explained that neither the european commission nor the schengen agreements currently allow entry for citizens of a specific country, this would contradict the main principle of the schengen agreement that visas are issued on the basis of an individual assessment of each candidate, even if we imagine that such agreements will be introduced from them, there will always be exceptions for the relatives of human rights defenders, journalists, and so on. it is worth noting that these calls caused a negative reaction both from putin and the invasion of ukraine, and

from opponents, for example, the representative of the ministry of foreign affairs, maria zakharova, called it nonsense bordering on nationalism, the telegram channels of the state media and the words nazism and russophobia are used indiscriminately on state television, and the opposition also opposes a blanket ban on the issuance of schengen visas, the press secretary of navalny kiir yarmash believe that this will only play into the hands of the russian leadership and russian propaganda, because they will blame the west for the prevailing russophobia. it should also not be forgotten that due to the drop in russian incomes, due to the fact that ticket prices have risen, due to the fact that russia will no longer be able to afford a direct connection with europe much fewer people will be able to go to europe, but hungary remains a country and is still loyal to the kremlin, the latest poll shows that only a little more than half of hungarians consider putin a war criminal and 38%

did not agree with this statement at all, the leadership of the country systematically inhibits sanctions against russia, and the scandalous statements of viktor orban inflame it, the already tense relations between budapest and kyiv, and although the russian attack on ukraine , the local government condemned the military aid for the armed forces, they are in no hurry to transfer it, so why is orban so friendly with russia, we will ask my colleague, the bbc correspondent georgy erman, about this. i congratulate you , georgiy. you studied the topic of relations between hungary and kyiv. what is your opinion, is it possible to change the political vector of budapest regarding ukraine good evening in the near future the coming years - this is unlikely to be possible because hungary depends on russia in terms of energy, i.e. 85% of gas 60 five 80% of oil the country will receive

directly from russia and also the nuclear power industry of hungary is essentially now being managed by a project that will be implemented with the help of a dewy a-and for viktor urban, all these projects and this energy cooperation with russia are very important because uh, these cheap russian energy resources give him the opportunity to maintain a certain social state in the country, certain rates for households , for industry, and to win the vote of voters, the favor of business during elections , that is, to retain power, which he has been doing successfully for more than 12 years, and also that a-a in terms of relations a-a with ukraine, of course, should mention the hungarian minority, and there are interests and the situation in hungary directly, the urban government also uses it for certain domestic political purposes, that is, all

criticism of the ukrainian authorities regarding educational of the law on the rights of the national minority in ukraine, it is directed more directly at ukraine than at, for example, slovakia or romania. there are even larger ukrainian communities, hungarian communities than in ukraine, in order to win certain a-a votes of hungarians living abroad and that is, in the same slovakia romania to show them that the orbán government is concerned about the rights of the citizens of hungary and the rights of the citizens of ethnic hungarians living in other countries. that is, these are the electoral dividends that orbán will receive for a powerful four years during parliamentary elections and it is in his interests to keep this dividend and what can reduce hungary's dependence on russia what are the options to get rid of such a large percentage of russian energy sources in that country unfortunately, hungary has been dependent

on russia in terms of energy carriers since the 70s, since the times of communism er, the hungarian communist government in principle built up the entire energy dependence on russia, and by the way, viktor orban until these thousand years, when he was in the opposition, he criticized this policy of energy dependence on he told russia that hungary would not be the happiest barrack of gazprom, this is a verbatim quote, but when he came to power, he successfully continued this cooperation on demand, and in 2021, in september, he signed his government signed a new 15-year contract on the supply of gas on demand, i.e. to to get out of this dependence of hungary, first of all, it is necessary to develop atomic energy, which urban is again trying to do with the participation of ros atom, that is, it is necessary to change the contract to some western company, and now, so far, no one is talking about this he also talks about developing the energy sector,

hungarian experts say that orbán is just er pursuing a policy that is hostile to, for example, wind power plants, that is, er. so far, there are not even any signs that there will be any way out of this situation for hungary. thank you and i advise you to read more the full article by george on our website bbc.ua and that's all the news for today, more stories can be found on our website bbc.ua and on our pages in social networks, in particular, and the story of our correspondent's article see you tomorrow at 21:00 have a peaceful evening and take care of yourself

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