i am not released, creating a kind of human shield in case of something, and we will track it tomorrow on the espresso tv channel. watch these events, it is very important. what will happen tomorrow at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant every half day of our country and the general staff asks our troops not to say anything about it are on their way to their goal, we pray for them, we will support them and we will do everything so that the ukrainian army frees and cleanses our land from the cursed orcs who came here to kill and rob. i thank you for being with us. i say goodbye to tomorrow and i now bring to your attention a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news good evening we are from ukraine new tragic shelling by the russians in kharkiv oblast as ukrainian troops are hanging in the south this is the 188th day of open russian war in

ukraine good evening on the air of bisinis ukraine in the studio olha melchevska counteroffensive in the south, what is the difference between the tactics of the russians and the armed forces of ukraine and what strategies will ukraine need to win back kherson ? for the first time , a ship with ukrainian wheat arrived in the european union and in east africa. it was shipped by the un world food program. the ukrainian

grain is intended for a figure covered with a staff. seven hits in the city center and this morning, shells hit a preschool educational institution in one of the markets of kharkiv, next to a five-story residential building, and in the recreation park is spreading the video on social networks, we don’t show it, we don’t show it for reasons of concern after lunch, the city was shelled for the second time, mayor ihor terekhov said , the kyiv district of the city came under artillery fire due to the shelling, a fire broke out in a high-rise building , the office of the president of ukraine also reports about heavy shelling in the east of ukraine and the south, the russians hit on the maternity library and residential buildings and shelled the base of the red cross in slavyansky, according to the data of the vimstvo itself, at the same time in the kherson region they report new explosions, the operational command of the south confirmed 220 fire missions, in particular, on the antoniv railway and

tadariv bridges until they were disabled, what is officially known about the situation in the south from kyiv, bbc correspondent hugo vechegata cafe is quite difficult to confirm reports and statements about intense fighting in that region the day before ukrainian the army announced that it had launched an operation to destroy the areas around kherson , ukrainians have been attacking russian supply lines and infrastructure deep in the russian rear is far from the front line and all this became possible only thanks to the modern weapons supplied by western countries. therefore, for some time there have been talks about whether the ukrainians will launch a large offensive operation to return the patrol over kherson. operation, what are the first results, what exactly is happening there,

but kherson is a city that was under russian occupation from the very beginning of the war - it is one of the largest ukrainian cities that is in russian hands the russians have already confirmed that the ukrainians have moved forward, but they also said that they failed stryskyi. it is interesting that the previous night, president zelensky did not speak directly about the operation that is happening in kherson, he said that ukraine is returning its territories, and he also voiced a message to the russian soldiers. if you want to live, it's time to run. life actually the russian ministry of defense announced the evening before that the ukrainian counteroffensive in the kherson region was unsuccessful, thus the russian military set the tone for further discussion in the russian media about this it is stated in the daily report of the american institute for the study of war, in particular, the defense of russia claims that the ukrainian forces suffered heavy losses after , according to them, an unsuccessful offensive attempt in the kherson region in three directions that they do not

name. however, the american institute for the study of war itself believes that these disparaging statements indicate the fact that the kremlin seeks to preserve the appearance of great military successes in russia in ukraine also, russian and western sources claim that the ukrainian troops freed five populated points during the first day with a counteroffensive on at least one of the areas of the front advanced 5-6 km what is known about the situation in the south let's talk about it with my colleague zhanna bezpiychuk zhanna is now with us in direct communication from kyiv zhanna counteroffensive - in the south and liberation kherson has been discussed for almost two months, from time to time we have heard news about the liberation of certain villages by the ukrainian army in the kherson region, what to do, the statements of the last few days are different from what happened before. i congratulate olya, first of all, the command of the ukrainian army says that

now the ukrainian army is trying to attack the kherson region from different directions in different places, from open sources, also from the military, from the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, it is known that liberation operations are ongoing, and according to the information that is available right now the liberation of villages is happening to the west and north-west of kherson. i managed to talk literally before our broadcast with a volunteer from the village of novovorontsovka - this is not this part of the kherson region, it is just east of kherson that he told us that in the last in the past few days, the shelling of the occupied part of kherson oblast in the direction of novovorontsovka has increased significantly. from their own experience, people can determine the types of weapons from which they are being

fired at, and artillery, and artillery. they also say that they probably use cluster munitions of russian troops, but check now this information independently and really with certainty it is difficult to say what kind of munitions you use so far until kherson region has not been liberated but this is the first such moment eh the second moment eh today they shared a video on social networks of black smoke rising over kherson itself, and again, in the conditions of war, in conditions of active hostilities, it is difficult to check what exactly caused it, but this is the first time we have seen such a video, which probably confirms the proximity of hostilities to the city itself, people who remain in kherson, which is occupied by citizens , they say that they often hear the sounds of sirens, this was

completely unusual for them before. and now the sirens are working, well, and one more interesting example. we see that the leaders of the occupying russian administration from kherson, at least one of them is kyryll stramousov, a well- known public figure, from now on i will record the address not from kherson, but from voronezh, and the bbc managed to verify the video of his address to the residents of kherson, where he says that there is really no threat from the ukrainian army and that kherson will remain according to him, russia remains there. in the background of this video, you can see the cathedral of voronezh, it is not kherson. this is how the ukrainian armed forces of ukraine says that a counteroffensive in the south will be difficult and

the thing is that, unfortunately, during this war, at the beginning of the war, the ukrainians already had a certain idea of ​​what an army offensive might be like. when the russian army was destroying the target, ukrainian towns and villages, they killed the civilian population in order to take over ukraine , as they planned at that time it didn't work very quickly. that's what it is . well, let's say that the offensive is happening quickly . the ukrainian army is acting differently. let's actually talk about how the tactics of the ukrainian army differ. you yourself filmed in the populated areas. points that survived the occupation and we saw it, even from its own stories. how does the russian army attack? it acts according to the principles of a barrage of fire and scorched earth. it actually erases entire cities. how is the counterattack of the ukrainian army different? yes, what can we talk about for sure? that the

ukrainian army is really actively not just learning, but doing it every day, relying on modern technologies, gathering on high-precision long-range weapons and on the intelligence of the ukrainian military, how can you learn from them about communication? freedom of action in the conditions of specific tactical operational circumstances is enough for decision -making, this is very important in order to again effectively use all that i listed intelligence, modern technologies, modern weapons , and here we see that there is a combination of several e-e means of promotion forward, particularly in the kherson region, the first is the operations of the special forces, in general, special operations in the deep rear of the enemy, one of the goals of the work is the destruction of ammunition depots of other military bases, as well as command

points of the russian army, and the ukrainian military manages to do this, more than fifty such ammunition depots are either destroyed in this and the deepest body - this is crimea - this is the kherson region - this is donbas, or they are significantly damaged, and according to this information, which is already public today, the russian army is forced to redeploy its ammunition warehouses are even deeper in the rear of their own rear in order to secure them as much as possible, this is the first factor. and the second, in parallel, the ukrainian army uses, as already mentioned, high-precision highly mobile weapons in order to destroy the logistics of the russian army literally today , according to the information of the command of the armed forces, there were strikes again in three cities of the kherson region and in total more than 200 of the new tasks the ukrainian army completed in the south thus, this is the

second factor and the third factor - this is actually state-of-the -art technology, yes olya, thank you very much, and for more operational information about the situation in the south, read it while it is still live in the text broadcast on the bbc.ua website, there are already analytical materials from leading commentators and other topics the president of ukraine met with the head of megate volodymyr zelenskyi emphasized that ukraine expects from the visit of the mission not only an analysis of the situation at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, but also requirements for the demilitarization of the zone around and inside the plant, the president of ukraine said this during a meeting with the director general of the agater grosz zelenskyi thanked for the arrival of the mgt mission in ukraine and emphasized that due to the occupation of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant by the russian military, there are great risks of explosions disrupting the operation of nuclear reactor units of the zaporizhzhia npp from the ukrainian network, at the same time, the adviser to the head of the president's office,

mykhailo podalyak, wrote on his twitter that russia is shelling the routes by which the hero mission inspectors are supposed to go to the zaporizhia nuclear power plant , according to him, they are doing this in order to offer a passage through crimea or the so-called dpr and lpr of any specific steps are expected from the hero in the disaster of ukraine, minister of energy herman galushchynko told bvc, try to go away, we hope this will at least somehow affect the russians and they will stop shelling the station is also likely to be some final solution that can be widely discussed in the world and press russia to leave the station but they have repeatedly rejected this proposal why do you think they will change their view and their position now i am not sure what the russians after this mission or during this mission, they will lay down their weapons and leave the station, but this

visit is also very important for our employees who work at the station under pressure from the russians. they should see that there are some other channels of communication, especially with international experts they are physically and morally exhausted. it is important that they see that in addition to armed russian soldiers there are people with whom they can communicate. this visit will lead to a reduction in tensions i am not sure that this will lead to an escalation this visit should emphasize the importance of nuclear security and for the russians to understand that they cannot play any games with this close

the head of the ukrainian foreign ministry, dmytro kuleba, called to open the door for russian tourists. he believes that the simplification of the visa regime by the eu for russians in 2007 had zero effect on the transformation of russia. discuss this issue. to russian tourists , the vice president of the european commission, jose borel, emphasizes that this will be an informal eu council at which no decisions will be made, but today, prague is hosting eu foreign affairs and defense ministers who also gathered here for an informal meeting besides the weasley russians on the agenda and military aid of the eu to ukraine according to the events in prague, tell the editor of the ukrainian service of radio svoboda rostyslav hoten who is now on the direct line with us rostislav greetings good evening, thank you for

finding time for us tell me, please, to sum up the results, because the negotiations are two days long. but first, how does the eu respond to the most urgent needs of the ukrainian army, what initiatives are there, and in particular, regarding the training mission for the armed forces we are talking about a training mission for the armed forces of ukraine, but so far there are no details on where it will be or whether it will be on the territory of ukraine, but the eu members are mostly nato members, and nato would not want its soldiers and you, its soldiers, to be on the territory of ukraine further or it can be somewhere in the territory of western europe or in ukrainian neighbors, such as poland or the words of the readers, the czech republic, that is, so far, what is known today is interesting, why is the european union interested? well, firstly, it wants to strengthen its defense, identity, and secondly, how said jose borel, if the european union has training missions, a training mission in africa, why can't it have one for ukraine, which is fighting now? you promise russian aggression, thirdly, if ukraine is fighting not

only for itself, but for europe, for european values , then it is necessary to help them, why is ukraine interested? to be in such a mission, well, first of all, it is a european army, very powerful, very modern , modern. to the future member of the european union, please tell me what is the position regarding the visa ban for russian citizens and is there a consensus in the european union at the moment there is no consensus regarding the visa ban for russian citizens, there is a position of the baltic states, the scandinavian countries, the netherlands also support poland, the czech republic, some other countries, but also opponents are very loud portugal italy greece cyprus hungary well hungary is such a lawyer against russia in the european union, but it is the biggest argument and the biggest minus for full visa protection for russians is germany and

france, they just came out today with a joint statement, a joint document, and it says, i will quote, that they are visa-free regime or visa-facilitated visa regime with russia, it is such a good transformational resource for russian society because of which the russians are said to be facing and studying the european democratic experience against the complete ban on visas for russians , he also spoke in european diplomacy that this is burel in an interview with radio svoboda, he said i think that we should be more selective. we cannot say that we are banning all russians from the territory of the eu. many people want to leave russia. more than 300,000 have already left since the beginning of the war, and most of them are highly professional and educated people who do not want to stay in russia anymore. to go to war, they don't support it, they don't want to live under putin's regime and they are leaving, so i don't think we should close the door to these people,

this discussion within the european union is closely monitored, of course, separate moscow. it is clear that opposes visa restrictions, kremlin spokesman dmytro piskovets said that such a decision would be irrational on the part of the european union and that moscow would respond with mirror-identical measures in response. in the eu itself, there are opponents of a complete ban, so to speak, and they often use such an argument that what i said is bad putin is bad cream and there are good, poor russians who suffer from this kremlin and what do we say, the russian people should not bear collective responsibility for the actions of their leadership but we do not see in russia no of mass protests against the war, the russian intelligentsia is silent, and with rare exceptions, we russians , according to polls, public opinion supports the so -called special military operation in ukraine , or, in fact, the war against ukraine, the thesis about bad putin and good christians was answered in an interview with radio svoboda by the minister of foreign affairs dmytro kuleba of ukraine and this one narrated that this is

putin's war. this is just self-deception. is it russian soldiers who kill and rape? participation in the war and inspire them and say they say well done come on pee khokhlov and this is what putin is doing. specific citizens of russia are doing this to me. i think it is most important that european countries and politicians who still have certain illusions about russian policy of russian society should get rid of them that is why the head of ukrainian diplomacy is in favor of a complete visa ban for russians, except for real opponents of the putin regime. it was a quote by olya. it is sensitive for diplomacy, but what compromises are being offered? some czech republic is offering it. supports a complete ban but i understand that there is no consensus, that is why it offers such a compromise

option to cancel the simplified visa regime for russia, by the way, germany already supports the position and romania, for example, and other countries, that is, this simplified visa regime for russians was introduced i will remind you that the european union in 2007 provides for a smaller number of documents that russians must submit in order to obtain a schengen visa, a shorter period of consideration of their visa applications and a price of not 80 euros for a visa is 35 euros, so now, if this compromise option really passes, the russians can return to the situation before 2015, that is, such a strict visa regime, but entry is allowed, but strict without any relief. what is the argument of the ukrainian side? what is kuleba? he says that already 15 this simplified visit and visa regime has been in effect for years. russians are already looking at europe and traveling. but what do we have? in 2008 , russia attacked georgia in 2014. it annexed the

ukrainian crimea and started a war in donbas . that is why kyiv insists on a complete ban. if there is not a complete ban now, and it will obviously not be, there will be some compromise option, then there is still a chance that by the end of the year, ukraine and its partners, the closest allies of the european union, will continue to pressurize to raise such a thing there or not in the eighth package of sanctions or in the ninth, but by the end of the year to go for a complete ban in order to really punish the russians for that support of aggression against ukraine, ukrainian diplomacy also believes that in parallel the citizens of the russian federation should be punished for the war , the citizens of belarus and belarus should also be punished because they are complicit in the russian aggression against ukraine. thank you very much, rostyslav. we will keep an eye on how the events will unfold further. this was the editor of the ukrainian service of radio svoboda, rostyslav khotyn, live, thirsty . the first

shipment of grain after russia's invasion of ukraine arrived in djibouti, a ship on which 23,000 tons of ukrainian wheat was unloaded and delivered to ethiopia the war in ukraine led to shortage of food and contributed to the increase in prices for it in africa, and some african countries were on the verge of starvation in general, the recent agreement between russia and ukraine and with the support of the un allowed more than five dozen ships to deliver supplies from ukraine to different parts of the world, the bbc correspondent is in africa, catherine biryuhanga reports from djibouti this ship arrived from the war-torn south of ukraine, its cargo will be used to help people facing a humanitarian crisis to reach this port on the red sea in djibouti commander emma breiv took two weeks the ship is full of wheat that will feed one and a half million people in ethiopia

for a month we will unload it anyway we will load a truck with grain and send it to ethiopia from there we will support northern ethiopia refugees and then of course the drought affected this the cargo became a lifesaver for more than a million people in ethiopia who are currently suffering from food shortages but there is not enough of it, the region is experiencing the worst drought in the last 40 years, he hopes that private carriers inspired by the delivery of this cargo will bring even more after almost two years of drought in all of east africa, more than 20 million people are finding it increasingly difficult to find food in some parts of somalia, famine may be declared in ethiopia, at the beginning of the year, more than 2 million cattle died even camels are dying shabane ismail they are trying to save the last one i am

a herdsman actually i was one of the most successful scooters i had 15 camels 14 of them died one by one and i was left with only this it is also very sick i don't know if he will die will this first shipment of grain from ukraine survive a symbolic step and gives some relief but for now what is unclear is whether other ships will follow in its wake and then we will have gamer wars before a full-scale invasion of russia ukraine was considered a leader in the field of esports but this success was largely ensured by the invitation of players from russia, now the former partners have become enemies, some of the ukrainian players look at the russians through the sights of a not virtual, quite real machine gun and i am joined by my colleague oleg chernysh who researched the topic of esports oleg good evening please tell me first of all gamers are a very specific audience often teenagers and who

position themselves outside of politics so how is the interaction between a gamer and ukraine and russia different before the full-scale invasion of russia now eh hello olya, good evening, uh, really. this is quite such a specific uh, subculture, a specific environment, it is quite closed, uh, before the war, before the full-scale autogenerator of russia, uh, it was very the widespread practice of mixed teams, i.e. russian players played in ukrainian teams, ukrainian in russian teams, and this in principle did not surprise anyone and did not raise many questions there about the ethics of this or any other moments, such a certain motto was indeed among gamers the phrase esports outside of politics, i.e. they said that they are only interested in these games and they do not particularly follow and do not try to intervene in any way to influence political events. but uh, of course,

full-scale aggression changed this situation somewhat but unfortunately, it cannot be said that it has radically changed because the practice of inviting russian players and using russian players in ukrainian teams has remained and for now and no one can say when it can be got rid of and there is a problem with, as they say cyber ​​players themselves with the quality of ukrainian athletes, that is, it is difficult to find suitable strong players for teams . and there are also problems with sponsorship contracts, because a lot of sponsors were from russia, so we can say that esports is currently one of the fields where ukraine and russia, even in spite of the war, are interacting and most of the time they will be able to hunt down all the connections that will be transferred from the virtual world to the real world, so how

does this affect the course of the war at the front well, in fact , i think that this has a minimal effect on the front. i know several ukrainian players who, after february 24, were either mobilized or voluntarily joined the ukrainian formation, but this is not a common practice, in fact. these guys and girls. they stay in this. to his closed they prepare for the games, for example, they have the opportunity to go abroad all day sometimes to participate in the championships, it is necessary to understand that this is enough, such a financially expensive industry and the honorarium of the best players can be counted in the millions, that is, in fact, the war affected but i can't say that it influenced very much here. please tell me the last question, if possible, how uniform is the reaction of the

global cyber community to players with russia. there are also difficulties here, because e-sports it is young enough and it is not a classic sport in my sense of the word, there is no federation here, such as in football or in international athletics, which could issue its sanctions and its bans for all teams, here, here, the situation is regulated by the sponsors or the producers of the games and whether to allow russians to participate in the championships or not depends on their position, and it actually depends on what the sanctions are, how serious they are, and so on. well, there are no centralized sanctions, there are only certain individual situations when russian players banned or banned him from participating in individual tournaments, but there are no general sanctions. thank you very much oleg. this was a fight for him. it was my colleague oleg chernysh. about how russia's war against ukraine changed e-sports and this is 188 day

of ukrainian resistance. you can find more stories on our website bbcamway. and on our pages in social networks, you can turn on our program tomorrow exactly at 9:00 a.m. kyiv time, as always, stay safe , dear ukraine, you know that in us everything will be the way we want it together, everything will be everywhere, everything will work everything will be blue and yellow everything all will be our ukraine will be at home, you will blossom and