well, let 's smoothly approach the end of today's big broadcast. the next time i'll meet with you is on sunday, too. our team will prepare for you the latest information about what happened. well , it's already obvious that it will happen on sunday in ukraine, as well as what will happen in the world, how the world reacts to what is happening in our country, how it helps us, and how we, together with the world and the armed forces of ukraine, fight against the influx. from my colleagues from the ukrainian service of bbc ukraine , congratulations on the broadcast of bbc news ukraine live from london olga palamaryuk is working in the studio and today in the program nuclear blackmail what is happening now at the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant britain

promised britain fulfilled ukraine received a batch of rocket systems of salvo wildebeest m-270 minister of defense will say that the support of the armed forces will last as long as it is needed and the battles for the black sea as ukraine breaks the plans of the russians and let's start with the latest news this day the military the state of emergency and mobilization in ukraine will be extended for another three months. the corresponding draft laws were submitted to the verkhovna rada. president volodymyr zelenskyy proposes to extend the period of martial law for 90 acts starting from august 23

. on the morning of february 24. after that, martial law continued in march-april and may. also today, the russian mass media published information about explosions near of the kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the sounds of blows were apparently heard and billows of smoke were visible in the so-called administration of the occupied kherson region claim that the ukrainian troops struck nova kakhovka using heimers , there is no official information from the ukrainian side at the moment, a few days ago the armed forces of ukraine stated that the targeted strikes made it unfit for use by military equipment meanwhile, a critical situation remains at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the day before there were recorded five arrivals near the site welding and storage of radiation sources , un secretary general antonia teresh called on all military personnel and military

equipment to be withdrawn from the station and to create a demilitarized zone around it, but the russian side refused to do this, the permanent representative of the kremlin to the un vasyl stated, quote, russia protects the nuclear power plant, in particular, from possible terrorist attacks, on the other hand, the staff of the occupied nuclear power plant told bbc that people are being held at gunpoint and russian troops are using a nuclear power plant as a military base more in the story james waterhouse, this is the closest position of the ukrainian military to the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the dnipro is now the water front line, the other bank of the river is already controlled by russia, the probability that 6 reactors will be in the crossfire is very high. we contacted two employees of the station, they describe how the russians kidnapped their colleagues and they worry about a possible nuclear disaster, my working day is constant stress, the russians fired at a nitrogen-oxygen plant and

it caused a fire, by some miracle the people who worked inside survived, weapons are everywhere soldiers and are actually holding everyone at gunpoint. the words of the employee are confirmed by these shots. they show that the russian troops use the station buildings as a base and daily shell both the station itself and the city of energodar where it is located . how dangerous is the situation now? what do you know? what is your assessment of three three days ? the occupiers are shelling with mortars, shelling the territory of the nuclear plant and the territory of the city, there is damaged infrastructure, there are cases of lack of electricity supply, i.e. failures of electricity supply in the city, water supply there was no water supply for several hours, there are victims and even serious victims after these

mortar attacks at the meeting of the un security council, they are repeating themselves again, let in international inspectors, there were also calls for russian troops to leave the station, moscow rejected them. therefore , there is a danger of disasters at the largest nuclear power plant in europe, there is still official information regarding the bullying of the military of the russian federation at the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant facility, the kidnapping of key employees , e.e., blackmail, therefore, as an expert, i am concerned the psychological state of these specialists, these operational personnel, because these people make very important security decisions, e.e., during the management of the nuclear power unit, in recent weeks , there have been more intense battles in this area, but

there have been no developments so far, which means that the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is slipping out of ukraine 's control and i was joined in the studio by the host of the bbc ukraine cast podcast vitaliy shevchenko. vitaliy , in your program there were also testimonies of people or relatives still working at the zaporizhia npp and you i myself have friends there, so what do they say about the situation? that was my acquaintance in zaporizhzhia. every time i come to our place, we have such a tradition . at my acquaintance 's relatives work there, in fact, they have worked all their lives, now she can't get in touch with them. it's very difficult, it's very rare. it's the last time. well, they are there

and told about the explosion that happened. well, actually, a week ago last friday uh, according to their data, it is of course, it is very difficult to check, but they say that one rocket hit the administrative building where one of the relatives works, and another one hit a tent city, which was actually not on the territory of the nuclear plant, a little further away, the city where the russian military was stationed, and the third rocket she ended up in a sanatorium where russian military personnel were also treated. that is, we can definitely conclude that these missiles were fired by the ukrainian side at least. it benefits ukraine if russian troops were injured. well, if

to analyze what is being written about the zaporizhzhia npp in the russian information space, i will remind our viewers that you are the editor of the russia department with the bbc monitoring service, this is part of your duties, so what are the main conclusions that can be drawn? russia says that it protects ukraine and the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant from the zelenskyi regime i literally just watched a news program on the first russian channel and they say that only because russian anti-aircraft missiles intercepted ukrainian missiles, critical infrastructure was not damaged the missiles are american, and that is why i am quoting the defense - the west became complicit in the crimes of the zelenskyi regime, russia came to defend it, well, we have been hearing this for six months. well, today president zelenskyi submitted to the parliament two bills

on the extension of the general mobilization of martial law for three months, in fact until the end of autumn on your opinion, what does this indicate? it seems to me that this is a confirmation of the fact that we all know that the war will not end right now, right this month, and therefore it is only a statement of the obvious on i'm sorry, i understand. thanks to vitaly for the meaningful answer. my colleague vitaliy shevchenko was also with us, and the russians continue to attack donetsk region. kramatorsk was targeted. 11 rockets were fired at the city, according to the mayor of the city, oleksandr honcharenko. private houses were damaged. one projectile hit the yard. leaving a four-meter gap, kramatorsk is called the main target of the russians in the region, the life of local people there is very difficult, the city is constantly shelled by the russians, and there is a lack of food and medicine,

the ukrainian authorities are trying to evacuate the region but not everyone can go, says my colleague roman lebed kramatorsk, donetsk region, the city is not far from the front line, the russians fired 11 rockets here at night, it was night, i was sleeping , it boomed, i woke up, it stopped puffing in the morning , i went out to look, it’s amazing, such a thing rained down here, the shelling was frequent here, the day before, the city also rockets arrived, very powerful, one, one, very

powerful , expensive, a little less. humanitarian problems volunteers are forced to bring food to the local people artemka scallops oatmeal pasta we have several two kramatorsk and sloviansk are called the main targets of the russians in the donbass, in order to approach here they constantly attack the neighboring bakhmut ukrainian authorities prefer that two -thirds of the civilians living in the region left by the winter here, those who remain

are under constant threat of a possible new assault . we cannot leave, and kharkiv has come under rocket fire again, as reported by the head of the kharkiv military administration, oleg synogubov. this night , an educational institution, the facade of the administrative building, was hit by rockets. do the rescuers already have a complete picture of the losses from the latest series of rocket attacks in the region greetings from kharkiv not only the rescuers all emergency response services communal services

the prosecutor's office and the police, it sometimes happens that if a fire does not start after a missile strike and there are no people under the rubble, rescuers may not be called to the scene of the accident at all. there are also cases when the city hears a powerful explosion, but the exact place of impact is found later and even after a few days in those cases when the missile fell or may have been aimed there, for example, in the forest park area. today we have a little confusing statistics . four rocket hits, the mayor of kharkiv, terekhov, about five, i also heard about five at night - five powerful explosions, but it is officially reported about the local volcano, four of them hit a higher

educational institution, the building was destroyed there, and one more suffered significant destruction, and the third rocket hit a residential building the quarter is a so-called low- rise building. it hit between the houses on the street. there was a hole several meters deep in the surrounding houses, windows and doors were broken, and also the quarter was destroyed by oblenergo. reported that about 400 subscribers were left without electricity, but they had electricity for several hours already until noon, and we only know about the place where the fourth rocket hit the area without specification, without details, this happens or in cases where the place is insignificant, such as a forest park, or when it

is not disclosed for reasons of military censorship and in the region closer to the border with russia to the north or to the donetsk region to the east along the front line, population centers are being hit indiscriminately by rockets, there are airstrikes e-e artillery with jet artillery and mortars tanks today, in particular, the prosecutor's office reported on the shelling of two settlements in the bogodukhov district by hurricanes and there a woman died and two men and a 13-year-old boy were wounded . we understand that people are under constant stress and tension, so tell me how the local residents are coping or not leaving the region, uh, these

shellings have been happening every night for quite a long time, with very, very rare exceptions, rockets residents of the northern districts of kharkiv are released from the belgorod region and from the upper floors and see and record these exits, they sometimes even manage to warn kharkiv residents about it in public places , and the air alarm also goes off, but hmm , because of the distance from kharkiv to these places of these launches are very small, it is 40-50 km, and the rocket overcomes them in one or two minutes, and people do not have time to reach the storage facility. at most, they will have time to go out into the corridor . if we talk about the rules of two walls, those are the ones who respond to these messages on the air alarm two

opinions dominate about the purpose of these shellings in kharkiv, two versions, the first is terror, is there a task, horror, despondency and demotivation, and the second is a scorched earth tactic, total, not selective destruction, kill as many people as possible, cause as much damage as possible, and literally the last question is very short, almost six months since the beginning of the invasion of the russians, the city near the border with russia has changed the perception of the neighboring state among the citizens. value beliefs, war annoys them because it spoils their comfort, but they are not active in public space, they do not collect money for drones on cars for the armed forces, they do not prepare dinners

for military doctors, accordingly, they do not affect the general mood and general attitude and the general mood is belligerent and the attitude towards russia is openly hostile. thanks for the conversation. it was a journalist from kharkiv, hanna silaeva , and another batch of weapons arrived in ukraine. oleksiy reznikov of ukraine wrote on twitter: " great britain promised great britain fulfilled , and mr. reznikov thanked the british minister of defense for his benevolence and all the british people and added that soon even more gifts will not arrive in ukraine. the mlrs m270 system is a close relative of hymers. it can use missiles with a range of 32 45 and 70 km, and the most powerful attack missile

will create up to 300 km, however, their supply to ukraine has not yet been discussed, our defense correspondent at the conference in copenhagen i would like to ask if the weapons provided by the british are enough and how long britain is ready to support ukraine. in your opinion, did this conference achieve its goal? yes, it seems to me that it lacked two things. it confirmed that the international community is moving in the matter of helping ukraine. we gathered in the middle of august in some countries . vacations continue but we are showing our solidarity on this issue we are giving more monetary aid we are not giving more arms and military aid we are also fulfilling our promises about military training norway for example promised to send its instructors to britain to help train ukrainians so everything is moving in the right direction it helps now but also lays the groundwork for

the future so that ukraine can support itself also it sends a very serious message to president putin do you think we will get bored or we are tired no it's not about us actually we are still here after six months and we are ready for next year or the year after - 500 million euros were promised today but if you look at the price war for ukraine is 5 billion every month right 5 billion is the monthly impact on their economy i.e. this money is not so much enough i think it will help them now because you can buy a lot of projectiles and weapon systems with this money ua trainings are also important for that to make sure that these systems will be used correctly and effectively and we also have to remember that this is only part of the money the us provides billions and also the new tranches of military aid that they announced this week

britain allocated 2.3 billion pounds of aid which by the end of the year, in general, the eu has a special fund for compensation, which is approximately 5 billion, there is also a huge amount of equipment that will be provided by the ukrainian, now all this is showing its effectiveness, because russia has to change its tactics, it has lost thousands of pieces of equipment, it is now in a rather difficult position and we are sending a strong message to president putin stop it before it's too late you should really look at what you've done and walk away regarding the attack on the crimean air base do you understand what happened there and how much damage there was we already know exactly what happened there. you, as well as i, have seen the same materials in open sources as well as commercial satellite images of the damage that was caused, but at the

moment i cannot say with certainty what exactly led to this or whether there was any attack at all that led to this, what i know for sure is that our western weapons, which we provided for him, the radius was too remote, so it was an incident, i am not an expert in such incidents. it could have been an incident with an airbase that was used for attacks on ukraine could not have been russia has been trying to cut off ukraine from the black sea since the first days of the invasion, before which we assembled a large force of russian ships, cruise missile attacks continue battles , however, in this unprecedented campaign, russia failed to conduct successful naval amphibious operations, the summer brigades of marines fought against the stiff resistance of ukrainian forces, the russian fleet lost warships and boats, ukraine was able to

strengthen its combat capabilities, the weapons provided by the defense forced the black sea fleet to stay away . my colleague, the bbc correspondent albi and shundrya , discussed the situation in the region with the expert of the center for defense strategies, andriy ryzhenko. to completely cut off ukraine from the sea, mariupol, kherson, the struggle for zmiiny island, the bombing of mykolaiv and odesa - these are episodes of the difficult and exhausting battle for the south, which has already continues for years russia has been preparing for the creation of a strategic corridor and the so-called kremlin-controlled dnr lnr in the donbass donclave in the west of transnistria how is ukraine resisting the russian threat from the black sea? by the way, on february 24, the

first thing i saw was when i woke up, and i found out early in the morning about the attack on ukraine. there were already reports that russia had landed a landing force in odessa and mariupol, well, it was a fake, they made three such landing attempts, the first was on march 1, uh, the second landing was attempted to land inside in march, at the end of march, and everything after that, and they refused it because well, the first one was because mykolaiv takes its defensive positions very seriously, it will actually save odesa just like that, it is impossible to take odesa only from the sea direction, secondly, we have additional forces and means against ship missiles, they found out about it, and on april 14, we destroyed the kaiser moscow and now if

they will do this classic amphibious landing somewhere on the equipped coast, then of course a significant number of their landing ships will be destroyed on the sea crossing, that is, now they well, i think that they did not remove this task, and because of this , they now see that they a- and they are hunting for a possible position of our missile complexes, and they are carrying out raids in the waters of the northwestern part of the black sea, they are constantly attacking mykolaiv ochakiv, they are keeping amphibious ships in readiness, they are are now mainly in the ports of sevastopol, novorossiysk, the russian fleet is staying in the zone of cover of coastal air defense systems and is shelling ukrainian objects with cruise missiles

, so whether these ships are out of reach or the fate of moscow may befall them, they really are now using the terrain of the crimean peninsula, especially the crimean mountains, and withdraw first, it is not very easy to detect there. and secondly, it is already beyond the range of the use of the complexes that are in the mms of ukraine, but i think that as soon as they reach the range shooting, yes, you can shoot, in principle, repeat the fate of moscow, it is very simple, what to do with russian submarines, which are used as invisible platforms for launching calibers, well , look at the submarines, they are estimated, they operate mainly at depths of more than 200 m, and these are depths to the south from the crimean peninsula. and we have naval anti-cheno aviation, but now its

use there is uh, impossible, because simply the aim of our helicopters and planes will shoot them down immediately, both planes and russian systems there are very strong the system, that is, unfortunately, we cannot use them, there are no ships against drafts. well, frankly speaking, this task was related to the second , third stage in the development of the navy, because the main one is carried out on well, in fact, it is significantly distant from ukraine now. well, what can we do, how can we fight we can fight the consequences of the strikes, that is, we can destroy these e-caliber missiles with air defense systems about the russian cruiser ship. moscow said a lot about how the loss of this ship forced the russians to change the tactics of the war at sea, first of all, this the ship was used for its intended purpose, and they had already

kept time, it actually served as the headquarters ship of the kaiu tanostya after they lost even such a ship. i think that they, first of all, took their ships to a safe distance from our coast, and secondly, they began to pay attention to the issue of air defense, we know that they even put bulls on these patrol ships of the vasyl type, and these ot s- land-based anti-aircraft missiles and rm -2 launched installations on helipads frigate hetman sahaidachny, the legendary name is the ship was sunk and it seems that it happened in mykolaiv. the ship is very famous - it is part of the history of the naval forces of ukraine, something personally connects you with this ship, the influence on the sagaidachny frigate in 1994 and 1996, i was the senior assistant commander of the ship, before that i

served unfortunately, he remained in the crimea on the ship slavutych, but this ship was actually sunk , the circumstances of this are unknown to me, but if there was any danger there, i can say that the ship did not undergo normal repairs for a very long time four years ago they started modernization work, but frankly speaking, the main position of installing a shock missile weapon on it was not there. and here we are, in fact, the whole ship is patrol and patrol. well, as it was planned as part of the border troops of the naval units of the border troops of the ussr. finally, the bbc published a list of british cities where the next eurovision song contest may take place. they decided to move it from ukraine to britain for

security reasons, and seven cities were selected from 17 cities: birmingham, glasgow, liverpool-manchester, newcastle and sheffield of merlondon believed that the host of the eurovision song contest should have been the capital, where more than half of the ukrainian population of britain now lives, and that's all the news for today. for more history, search on our website bbc.ua and on our pages in social networks, and turn on our program on monday. take care that ukrainians don't think about not talking about the first place still comes out war war and our victory seven days a week from monday to monday seven different spheres of human activity sports culture politics eight presenters espresso journalists are experts