of this activity and they say that we would very much like to see sergey lavrov at the general assembly of the united nations and they don't give him a visa , says the russian ambassador to the united states of america antonov about this, and it creates certain inconveniences for lavrov and his team, well, you know, i don't know how is this question written well, it is possible that there will obviously be some diplomatic concessions from the other side. i think that we should expect certain concessions from russia too, because they are used to being insolent and always demanding something, as if they have the right to it. they are now demanding it they don't have any rights. well, the fact that there is a loud growl over there in moscow is already nice. now for your attention, i offer a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news. let's watch it together . good evening. we are from ukraine on the bbc, not from ukraine. my name is hryhoriy zhigalov. during in the next half hour we are talking about

new explosions in the russian rear, the armed forces of ukraine destroyed the russian base in the kherson region at the energoatom, they created a headquarters what is considering the threat scenario around the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, what are they preparing for, how will they react and will they rise under it belarusians are against the participation of their country in the war , we tell you what is known about the anti-war movement in the neighbors , the armed forces of ukraine destroyed the base of the russian troops in

novaya kakhovka in the kherson region. the occupied place could not resist the already traditional trolling, the footage of the destroyed base called the video a confirmation of the apt quote of smoking in an unspecified place later, the state border service clarified what is known about the death of twelve russian soldiers from the shelling and after the explosions near dzhankoy and the alleged explosions in the village of gvardiyske, which were reported by the russian mass media, the russian command is concerned about the deterioration of the security of crimea, the british military intelligence reports this, the cause of these incidents and the scale of the damage are not yet clear but the russian command will most likely be increasingly concerned about the obvious deterioration of security in crimea, which is used as a rear this is how they write in british intelligence. they note that there are important

airfields for the russian army in dzhankoy and gvardiysky, and the road and railways necessary for the provision of the russian military in the south of ukraine pass through dzhankoy during the explosions. during the explosions, the railway and the electric substation in dzhankoy could have been damaged . in british military intelligence, according to information from the american institute for the study of war, the explosions in crimea significantly disrupted the logistics of russian troops stationed in the occupied territories of kherson and zaporizhzhia regions, the russian administration reported that the explosion near dzhankoye stopped only today and in the morning and in communication with kyiv traditionally this week victoria zhugan happy summer vita please summarize everything that is known about the strikes of the armed forces of ukraine on the rear of the russians , they will be able to summarize all their lives therefore, the information is rather fragmentary and usually arrives late, and the same armed forces of ukraine do not always

report all strikes, that is, today it became known about the destruction of the base in nova kakhovka and there is a number of russian casualties, the ukrainian side is talking about 12 military personnel, and at about the same time in the first half of the day, the mayor of melitopol, ivan fedorov, reported that a loud explosion was heard in melitopol, as he said, near the command post of the russian army in occupied melitopol, but for example, there is an unknown exact the number of losses and it is impossible to independently and quickly verify such information, and why i say that it is incomplete is because the same strategist of the armed forces quite often and regularly today also publishes videos taken from a drone in who can see that the army is destroying the russian army with artillery or uavs, but it is impossible to establish exactly when this was done, that is why we have rather fragmentary such information video and what is known about

how serious the damage is to the russian supply lines in the occupied crimea, british intelligence writes that the damage can be very serious, so far official information from the ukrainian side was not so comprehensive, it was not from the russian side, so we really have to use the judgment of western intelligence, but ukrainian intelligence today made such a statement that after the strikes on janka e, ukrainian intelligence is observing, as they said, the rapid movement of russian aviation deep into the occupied crimea or back to mainland russia by russia. ukrainians say they are moving planes and helicopters now . to the reserve airfields of the russian federation. in other words, this may in a certain way indicate the consequences of these strikes. well, despite all these point and, as they

like to say in the headquarters, jewelry strikes of the armed forces of ukraine, i understand that the russians continue to advance, where are the hottest spots now, what is happening there, what is known on this account, today 's war in java, they quote, the fighting continues along the entire front line and that in the near future, very acute events, i quote, will also be on the entire front line well, a poem from the general staff today, we are in heard that russia is attacking in all directions, but it managed to advance only in two directions, the ukrainian side says that the russians had partial success in the avdiiv direction, that is, in the donbass, and also in the direction of novomykhailivka in the zaporizhzhia region. but really the whole world and the south appears in these summaries

. thank you to my colleague for the information. bbc correspondent victoria shugan works in kyiv, monitors the actions of the ukrainian military in the russian rear, more accurately sums up everything that is known in order to have a picture but not to reveal unnecessary details. thank you again, video office manager president andriy yarmak called for the introduction of sanctions against the russian nuclear industry in the last few weeks, ukraine and russia have been accusing each other of shelling the territory and objects of the zaporizhzhia npp, which increases the danger accident at the yarmak station reminded that a group of ukrainian and western experts on the development of a sanctions policy against russia, known as the mcfall and yarmak group, had previously proposed the introduction of similar sanctions, that sanctions against the russian nuclear industry had also been called for earlier by volodymyr zelenskyi and the verkhovna rada, meanwhile, about the situation on the russian-captured minister of internal affairs monastyrsky spoke about the nuclear power plant, he emphasized that as long as russia controls the nuclear power plant, the

threat of terrorist acts will remain at the nuclear power plant , and a headquarters has been created to review the possibility of scenarios for the development of the situation around the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, he is preparing plans to respond to them, he noted that in the first minutes when the russians seized the station, no one expected that tanks would hit the power units, that the seizure of this station first, that we are dealing with a terrorist state, and accordingly, all the actions that will be they will be related specifically to terrorist acts that are possible around the station or even informational terrorist attacks, so we came to the place to assess the situation on the spot communicate with the people who work in this area, the police, rescuers, get the maximum information, and most importantly, this is how we understand that as long as

russia will control the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant until this time, there will be great threats. regarding this plant, the largest nuclear power plant in europe, the zaporizhzhia npp, was captured by the russians after the battles in energodar on march 4, the buildings of the npp were damaged by russian shelling in several places, the plant workers were captured. the kremlin uses the air force to cover its military equipment, because the forces of ukraine cannot return fire in the area of ​​the power plant, the kremlin is also using it to put pressure on ukraine and the world by threatening a nuclear catastrophe in all this situation there is one point that does not fit in the head the fact is that if suddenly there is an accident with the release of radiation at the zaporizhzhia npp russia itself can be affected, the wind can easily carry radioactive substances for hundreds of kilometers, so why does moscow do this

, it puts itself in danger, including itself , i am joined by the president of the global studies center and strategy 21 mykhailo gonchar i congratulate you and let me quote what is more important to them in crimea, this power plant is not needed, it is cheap punts for one simple reason, even though crimea has always been energy-deficient, but there was no word at all for the large consumers of electricity. you also call the actions of russia nuclear. but what is the point in this if it can be a shot not even in the foot, but much worse, and i congratulate you , well, the kremlin does not think so, because it is a certain plan, a certain combination of actions, indeed, crimea has always been energy-deficient, somewhere around 85% of crimea's electricity i received it from the unified system of ukraine, but not directly to zaporizhzhia, but even if you imagine

that the highways will be connected there, then even one nuclear reactor will be enough there. such predatory goals are to appropriate such a piece of one's own as the zaporizhia npp to declare that it is usually occupied russian territory and that everything in them, including the zaporizhia npp, is the property of russia in this case seedling corporations, therefore, from here such actions and nuclear blackmail, respectively, that is, it is a kind of hybrid form when they threaten not to use tactical nuclear weapons, although it can still be on paper, namely a serious incident at the nuclear power plant under the pretext that the armed forces of ukraine are allegedly carrying out

some actions there are shelling the nuclear power plant and this can lead to undesirable consequences, the calculation is simply so that the international community demands that the parties somehow agree to fix this situation when the aggressor and the aggressor are on the same page schalke tarisiv and in this case, of course , the active position of ukraine has a role to play in order to intensify international attention to this problem, and we see that today the secretary general of nato spoke on this topic, and about the seriousness and what should be allowed inspection of the megate at the zaporizhia npp and according to me , the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine also noted that this is the mission to have bazan, welcome, but she can only arrive through the territory of ukraine and it cannot be any other way because it is an asset that was and is and will be on

of the territory of ukraine, control over it is carried out by the branch technological staff of the nuclear power plant, and accordingly, in the interests of nuclear safety , full control over the energy supply of the zaporizhzhia npp must be restored, which the aggressor does not agree with. that russia will continue blackmail, nuclear blackmail, and we see that there are streams of propaganda coming from the kremlin; now, let's talk about latvia, that they are threatening the task of solving a-a important nuclear strikes, obviously bearing in mind that in kaliningrad there are also scanders that can be carriers of tactical nuclear weapons. therefore, there is a way out of the situation. persuasion by russia will not lead to anything. appeals were not made since the beginning of march. russia

does not pay attention to this. therefore, preventive actions are needed if the secretary general of nato spoke on this topic, in principle, a lot depends on the position of the alliance and the leading member countries, in particular, the baltic sea has become a nato sea. expressed himself a lot more, er, at the beginning of the year. so it turns out that if you steal someone's mobile phone, you can be behind bars for several years. in fact, a nuclear power plant is being stolen here, and in this situation, many people are surprised at how ineffective international organizations have turned out to be, the same agate that you are talking about it has already been mentioned that the un secretary general wants to send a mission to the hare, he also supports and calls for it, but there really don’t seem to be any levers in the

megate. organization of the united nations, in principle, is dysfunctional, and this is only shown by russia's war against ukraine, respectively, specialized organizations of the un are also functional tomagates, which cannot do anything by themselves, a necessary or special mission. i would not call it a un peacekeeping mission either but there should be a special container that should be placed along the perimeter of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. but it is clear that the aggressor's goodwill will not be there. therefore, a mechanism for coercion of the aggressor is needed, and a non-standard mechanism, because the statements have no effect and just when i started talking about the fact that russia is now threatening europe through propaganda channels with the

use of tactical nuclear weapons, the kaligratian exclave should be blocked , that's what they were talking about in the european union, which even lithuania, in compliance with the decision of the european commission, tried to block partial transit to kaliningrad, now it is necessary to make a total blockade of the kaliningrad exclave in order to force russia to accept the conditions for the de-blockade and release of the zaporizhia npp, so here preventive actions are needed, not appeals from the level of the un secretary general or the mother director or anyone else, because the appeals are no longer effective and russia, feeling that the mechanisms of blackmail and threats and raising rates continue to act accordingly and behaves in this way a do you see yourself deciding to go to such a blockade well, let's say

the kaliningrad region, because, well, for now, it seems that there is a threat that the west. i am afraid of the possibility that this possible accident with new radiation pollution will put pressure on the wrong person. well, it will put pressure on anyone who can put pressure on ukraine, forget about justice and so on, that's what you were talking about, well, actually, you in the west understand that the situation at the zaporizhia npp is under the military control of russia, so pressure in this regard, there is no sense in ukraine, you need to it was not by chance that i gave an example of how the threat of blocking the transit to kaliningrad through lithuania worked, and therefore the reaction of russia just as potka suggests that it is very sensitive for it, there is another mechanism to block

the russian military naval base of kartosi in the eastern mediterranean, eh, and this can be done in the same hybrid way by announcing the holding of relevant exercises there by nato member countries, exactly as russia did in the azov sea in the black sea in the baltic, by the way, also closing those or other zones and blocking access to them e.e. and civil shipping and so on in other countries, so here if there is a set of mechanisms. alliance then it will work, but just speech and appeals. well , they are unlikely to have the same effect. actually, this has been shown since march, when the zaporizhzhia npp actually came under the control of the russians. as for the russians, yes, sanctions against the russians are necessary. as we can see on the

example of other russian state-owned companies, gazprom and rosefta also need a certain amount of time, and especially in the fact that the rescue concerns such a company involved in the nuclear industry as a seedling, that is, it is difficult to take quick actions here technologically, it is a matter of nuclear security. they require a special approach. at the same time, we see that there are such opportunities and they need to be used. russian state companies should be sanctioned first, not last. thank you very much, very interesting. i hope to see you again in the near future on our broadcast president of the center for global studies strategy 21 mykhailo gonchar once again thank you very much and in belarus the democratic political opposition collapsed and activists harshly criticized the leader of the opposition of svitlana tikhanovsky. in the last few

months, accusing her of problems with leadership and a monopoly on decision-making, then unnecessary international trips, which quotes do not solve anything. this week, a new belarus conference was held in vilnius, where the leaders of the democratic forces of ukraine tried to agree on how to proceed, one of the main complaints to the office of tykhanovskaya lack of decisive actions such politicians refused to come to the forum once again demonstrating their attitude to tykhanovskaya but despite the vague forecasts for the future , the representatives of the democratic forces managed to at least partly make sharp corners and unite at least for the next six months. meanwhile , the military leadership of ukraine expressed concern about the accumulation of a large number of missile systems by the belarusians along the border between the two countries of russian missile systems in the west experts warn about the possibility of a massive attack on targets in ukraine from the north

. in the belarusian army, my colleague natalka skorhenko talked about this with the correspondent of radio svoboda in belarus, valery kalinovsky, the commander-in -chief of the armed forces of ukraine, valery zaluzhny, in a conversation with his western colleagues , said that the location of missile systems along the border from the side of belarus causes great concern and analytics using american satellites images indicate that on the territory of the airfield, in particular, in the gomel region , and this is just 25 km from the border, a number of missile complexes have accumulated, which may indicate preparations for a massive attack on ukraine by belarus, how real is such a threat, is such a threat really real? we are talking about the

zyabrovka airfield, which recently saw some explosions and some damage there under gomel, but the russians have accumulated rare and even more of their missile weapons there, and these attacks on the territory of ukraine from belarus continue in recent months , it has not actually stopped. although there have not been such large-scale ones recently, we know that there was an impression from the territory of belarus, zhytomyr region, that the military airfield was actually damaged, so this threat remains very, very serious, but when it can happen , the experts miss the fact that preparations are already in place for a massive attack and that it can happen in the next weeks, and i would agree here that it is most likely that by the end of august, the beginning of september, when some military forces are possible actions in the south today in order to distract ukraine from these actions from the territory of

belarus, there may be missile attacks, this may be before ukraine's independence day, but it is more important for russia not to spoil the holiday ukrainians and in order to prevent their group from being surrounded by a group in the kherson region, president lukashenko is a well- known friend of putin. and some say that he is a puppet who will do whatever he orders, but the leader of the opposition svitlana tikhonovska stated and urged not to turn belarus into a springboard for an attack on ukraine, what sentiments in society will she find this call is a response and is the belarusian army ready for war, let's say well, let's assume that lukashenko is not a friend, but marina is some kind of putin's, secondly, belarus already is used as a springboard for an attack on ukraine

and this continues, the belarusian army actually supports the russians, how do you catch supplies and allows it to surrender to russia and er lithuania its own and roads or railways and so on will the army of belarus hear similar appeals, i think it will, because the army itself does not want to participate in the war against ukraine, although some ritual statements from the defense minister or the highest officers there are in support of russia, but average soldiers and officers do not want it how by the way, the belarusian people, more than 90% of belarusians, do not want the belarusian army to intervene in the war in ukraine, and further on in the program we will talk about the historical war and the historical myths that moscow has learned to use so well since the time of the soviet union, although in fact probably even earlier here's what i'm talking about the authorities of estonia

have begun to implement their decision to remove soviet -era military monuments from the public emist from narva to the military museum a t-34 tank was brought the authorities of a predominantly russian-speaking city were going to solve the issue with the monument on its own , the government of the country could not, already in the west in security, fearing possible protests and riots as in 2007 in tallinn due to both soldiers. the estonian authorities explain their actions by the fact that they want to prevent an increase in the level of hostility in society that 4 in august, the country's government decided to remove all soviet monuments from public space. the dismantling of the memorial with a machine tool and six others began on tuesday morning. it is interesting that the government of estonia dared to take such a step only a few days after that as the ban on the entry of russians with estonian schengen visas into the country was actually introduced ; in addition, the head of the country's foreign ministry proposed to introduce a ban on the issuance of schengen visas to russians until the

next package of anti-russian sanctions, as the prime minister stated that the countries of the schengen zone should stop issuing tourist visas to russians altogether. by the way, the prime minister of finland supported her by issuing tourist visas to russians, latvia, lithuania, poland, the czech republic also limited the processing of documents on the territory of russia , and more about decommunization in estonia and what provocations the country's authorities are expecting in this regard, we will talk with the head of the congress of ukrainians in estonia, a former journalist, vera konyk, who joins us from stalin. i congratulate you . almost a quarter of the population of estonia is made up of ethnic russians. how much influence do they have on the political

situation in the country? is trying to minimize the influence of this community by introducing the so-called stateless institution, which deprived ethnic russians of the opportunity to vote in parliamentary elections and to choose their parties, this greatly helped estonia to create the country which is now and which is now defending the idea of ​​dismantling soviet monuments, the prime minister of the country kayakallas at the same time stated that such actions can be used by the russian special services to incite a certain mood in society, according to which the dismantling

must be carried out as calmly as possible her words, how successful was it, well, this time, this time , unlike 2007, when there was no such experience when the monument in the center of tallinn was moved from the center of tallinn to the military cemetery, the monument the soviet soldier was very well prepared this time and managed to conduct calmly without any excesses. it is true that a week before that there were people on duty there, residents of narva and determined to protect, according to them, this monument, but the determination of the authorities was visible to dismantle the monument, that is, not to dismantle it, but to move it, which was done uh yesterday uh yesterday morning, it was moved to the military to the military museum in tallinn, uh, they think that it is

impractical to leave this monument in the narva, since it is near him some excesses may occur, so they decided to transfer it to the waist, although the authorities of narva promised to leave it in this city, but it was the authorities of local self-government in general that avoided solving this issue, thinking that what would happen to the authorities there will be reproaches and indignation on the part of the country, therefore, everything was handed over to the government. well, i want to ask one more short question about one question. estonia is a member of nato . how safe does the country feel now after the start of the full-scale invasion of russia? to ukraine in literally 30 seconds, well, estonia at one time made a very correct choice by choosing vector for nato and the european union, and with it, well, it hopes

for protection too fully because, having such an aggressive neighbor, it is always afraid of an aggressive attack on its country, and now, of course, after of a full-scale invasion, estonia is trying with all its might to help ukraine, it is trying to attract all possible forces, nato forces, to ensure security in estonia , the prime minister, who told you that now it is necessary hm to move from the deterrent forces of deterrence and tactics to defensive tactics and this is already being implemented is already e thank you very much chairman of the congress of ukrainians of estonia vera konik on this and more and more sides on our website bbc.ua see you tomorrow at 21:00 take care in the

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