but even there he promises them different legs. i just want to say that even in russia, authoritative thieves are really authoritative, they say that those who go to war with ukraine are, well, they have their own terminology . - that's not possible. well, you see, everything is possible for this government, even if you already take it away. he said that russia is waging a hopeless battle, a hopeless battle, we have to finish our armed forces. thank you for being with us. take care of yourself, of course well, now for your attention i offer a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news. good evening. we from ukraine welcome you to the broadcast of bbc new with ukraine from london. olga

palamarchuk is working in the studio today. pictures of torture of local residents special report by bbc correspondents the president of the european commission addressed the european parliament with an annual message special guest the first lady of ukraine with military honors in london farewell has begun with queen elizaveta ii, the ukrainian military struck a concentration of russians and russian equipment in the area of ​​the city of gola prystan and the village of duchany in the kherson region. this is reported by the operational command of the south in luchany, which is located near the border with the

dnipropetrovsk region. convoys of russian vehicles in other areas of the region along the kakhov bridge and the pontoon crossing in the antoniv bridge area, and today president volodymyr zelenskyi arrived in de-occupied izyum of the kharkiv region, and he took part in the ceremonial raising of the ukrainian flag . also during the trip, zelensky presented state awards to ukrainian military personnel and talked with the mayor of izyum, what we see is shocking, although we have already seen it in buch on the first de-occupied territories, zelenskyi said, he emphasized that residents all temporarily occupied territories of ukraine, in particular crimea, should know that ukraine will definitely return there with it and a full life from the beginning of the counter-offensive ukraine regained 8.5 thousand square kilometers of territory in the kharkiv region in the process , deputy minister of defense hanna malyar said today - this is 388 settlements with 150,000 people,

the liberated territories need additional security measures in order to live there safely, malyar wrote on her page remnants of subversive groups are still being discovered in populated areas and collaborators are being detained. and specialists are being exposed to creepy pictures of brutality and murders committed by the russian military, so in released balaklia, the russians used the police station as a center of torture and interrogations, they kept about 40 people in prison, bbc correspondent orla-herrin talked to the victims of russian aggression, we warn you, the following footage may shock you, ukrainian policemen are taking us to the crime scene, we are now in the middle of the former police station in balaklia for six months the russians ruled here, the

local population depended entirely on their will, a former russian prisoner told us how men and women were tortured with electric shocks, when the russians seized the chattel in this police station, they set up their headquarters, prisoners were kept here in these cells, and we were told that in such a cramped room they imprisoned as many as eight people , here you can see how someone scratched a prayer on the wall and someone marked the days, the police say that the locals were so terrified of this place that they were even afraid to pass by lest the russians grab them, now investigators are working here trying to establish what exactly happened behind these walls, evidence they are collecting testimonies of people artem, one of them, they

kept him here for more than 40 days let him go he says let him fuck you and-he starts to ask something where his own where who when well someone stayed like these very former servicemen well here like in balaklee during such tortures the russians deliberately turned off the loud ventilation system so that all the other prisoners heard the criticism, but now freedom has come here, this is a moment, the holy victory of ukraine was lightning fast. in the neighboring village, people can meet again and finally take a deep breath after six long months of occupation. vasyl also feels relieved, but he still cannot comprehend everything that happened the projectiles were flying, they were

boiled, they were beaten, the rockets were sticking out of the children's houses, we had nowhere to live we are from russia, for one thing i was in moscow, i served, i worked in moscow, and now we are ahead, the next battle is to rebuild the destroyed to restore electricity and water supply and keep the enemy at bay, they were pushed out of there only last thursday, one of the last ones here, they destroyed this school, now ukraine has regained control, this success is not just a military victory, it is a psychological victory and a kind of message to the allies in the west, we can defeat the russians, just

keep us going support the lives of many local people now it's a struggle for survival to protect her granddaughter from harm, a four-year-old child says that she spent a month in fear, she was very scared of the ostriches and screamed, she could not even sleep properly, but they took care of her as best they could. some stories can be told. he says that he was killed by the russians. i want to ask putin why he shot and killed my son, why who asked him to come here with such a terrible weapon, he destroyed, he killed, he killed

not only our children, he killed our mothers, i want to days i don't live i'm dying on my feet i'm dying i want to appeal to all the mothers of the world rise up against this murder petro was her only son and for his sake she promises to continue to fight for justice meanwhile the liberation of kharkiv region from russian troops in kupyansk and vovchansk is still going on fighting continues in some border villages, russian forces continue to fire almost continuously with heavy artillery, but they will no longer be able to reach kharkiv, our correspondents visited recently liberated settlements in the north of kharkiv oblast, the villages there are in ruins, my colleague zhanna bezpiachok will tell more about one of them, large passages, on september 11, it was liberated by the 127th brigade of the armed forces of ukraine, this is a recently

liberated village in kharkiv oblast. here, very close to the border with russia, we constantly hear the sounds of heavy shelling artillery from the territory of russia, the territory of ukraine, what is the price of a six-month occupation of such a village in the kharkiv region, for example, a destroyed dispensary of family medicine, further significant damage, parts of the village were destroyed people's homes, multi-apartment buildings on this street, every house, every house is mined , most are seriously damaged, some are simply destroyed by shelling . dead animals

remain among them, which simply starved and died on the outskirts of the village. now there are still buried ukrainian soldiers. this is the price of the occupation and this war for ukraine, in particular for the kharkiv region, local people say that for six months they felt like slaves, many of them were forced to work for the russian military . village, only one tenth of the people left here who are now in these others have left the head of the european commission, ursula von derlijen, is going to kyiv for a meeting with volodymyr zelenskyi and this morning she spoke in the european parliament with the annual

message on the state of the european union to the parliamentary complex in strasbourg. she arrived together with the special guest of the first lady of ukraine olena zelenska. they were met by the president of the european parliament roberta metzola with a small yellow and blue ribbon on her jacket ursula von der lain in yellow-blue and also with a ribbon in the colors of the ukrainian flag. by the way, the colors of the european union on the lapel are precisely on the topic of ukraine and the extraordinary circumstances that the entire the continent of russian aggression began her speech . let's listen to her first words. never before has this parliament discussed the state of affairs when war is raging on european soil, and we all remember that fateful morning. at the end of february, europeans from all over our union woke up in horror and shock.

rebirth and the merciless face of evil haunted by the sound of sirens and the brutality of war but from that very moment the entire continent rose in solid during fonderline's speech repeatedly raised the topic of the war in ukraine, because one of the consequences of russian aggression and the crisis in which europe itself found itself today is the energy crisis and the cost of living crisis. brussels offers a whole series of solutions to survive moscow's energy blackmail , resist russian pressure, promises to stand side by side with ukraine and strengthen sanctions against russia, which, according to the funders, has already caused enormous damage to ukraine, ukrainians promise support and concrete steps, one of which is ukraine's joining the european roaming area in the near future, what else have they heard from the president of the european commission, what should be paid

special attention to, the speech was watched by my colleague hryhoriy zhigalov, who joins me with the political capital of the ss hryhoriy vitay, so let's start with the topic of war and the price that europe itself pays for supporting ukraine the european commission proposes to overcome or at least mitigate the problems that russia is creating in this continent. did these answers really sound like the topic of war and the price that ukraine and the whole of europe is paying, as well as conclusions and lessons that they must be done. to get europe out of this difficult situation. this is what was the leitmotif of this annual message of the president of the european commission. deep modernization in order to become energetically independent from

russia, now is the time to get rid of dependence on russian energy resources has come for all of europe, see what russia is doing, says the rian foundation as it burns gas only so as not to sell it to europe, so here they switch to other reliable suppliers. the united states, norway , algeria. europe takes the path of strict economy. it reports that it gave an example of how in italy one of the factories changed its working hours very early in the morning when electricity is cheaper, says that others should follow the example together however, the key is also in solidarity to support those who need this support, to ask those who will now receive excess profits to share, the commission offers special taxes for energy companies, those companies that earn money that they could not even dream of under normal conditions, and once again solidarity was

simply heard during this speech again and again and with a reminder of the solidarity that the european union has shown in supporting ukraine and the same solidarity that it must show now in overcoming the difficulties today, oh, what they were moods of meps so we repeatedly talked on our air about the fact that in the european parliament of this convocation there are many radical political forces and a number of politicians from the camp that can conventionally be called friends of moscow, but how unanimous the support of kyiv was quite unanimous, so the wunderlyans were criticized, they mentioned the mistakes first of all, the same mistakes that the fonderlyan herself spoke about, sometimes they criticized the lack of determination in the proposals for how to solve internal problems, but you know, just to feel the atmosphere in the hall, let's watch one fragment, that defonderlyan turned to elena of zelenska, who, i will remind you, was

the guest of honor at today's event, when addressing her, she actually addressed all ukrainians, and after that, well, just pay attention to the reaction of my hall dear olena zelenska, it took a lot of courage to stand up to putin's brutality, but you found this courage and rose up, a nation of heroes today ukraine is strong because the whole country fought together with the street, home with home, and you gave hope to all of us. so today we want to thank you and all ukrainians glory to the country of european heroes glory to ukraine reminded that from the first day europe has steadfastly supported ukraine with weapons, money, hospitality to refugees, the toughest sanctions against russia ever applied in the world president

the european commission promises to support ukraine now and in the future. do you remember the day before, we talked on the air about the export of electricity from ukraine? so fonderlyan mentioned this export in her speech as an example of how it is to do business with ukraine, the synchronization of electricity grids was planned in general for 2024, but everything was done this spring in just two weeks, and now ukraine sells electricity to europe, and now the european commission wants to significantly expand mutually beneficial trade, the next step is accession of ukraine to the european roaming space, what does this mean, it means that in any country of the european union you will be able to use a mobile phone at the same rates as at home, and komi wants to go even further and introduce unhindered access to the eu single market, and this is exactly what fundareline plans to discuss in kyiv and with president zelensky, what conclusions can be drawn from fenderline's speech to those who

hope for a quick accession of ukraine to the european union after the end of the war ? the government has a plan to hold negotiations on joining the eu in two years, what impression did the people of fonder make, are they ready in brussels for such a fast pace, you know, i will not gather the courage to talk about any deadlines now, but i paid attention to one more fragment of the speech of the president of the european commission seven months ago, it was impossible to imagine the sound of a eurofan of this rank in brussels very cautiously talking about ukraine's european prospects, and listen to what they are saying now. i want the people of the western balkans ukraine, moldova and georgia knew, and i think i am speaking on behalf of this honorable hall, you are part of our family, you are the future of our union and in our union, and our union is

incomplete without you. this should be the message. e.e. of the european union. along with the fact that, as you can see, the response of the rylian fund is even wider and it generally spoke about the new europe, gonorrhea also spoke about the need to reform and about its own, but this is a separate , very big topic, the short answer is now on the european prospects of ukraine. yes, ukraine in brussels sees olya as part of a large european family thanks to bbc correspondent hryhoriy zhigalov and ukraine is preparing for the heating season in gas storages at the beginning of september a little more than 13 billion cubic meters of gas have been accumulated and by mid-october the reserve will increase to 14.5 billion for comparison in pre-war ukraine consumed about 30 billion cubic meters of gas. therefore, in some regions

, various scenarios of the event are being considered and alternative energy supply systems are being prepared. in lviv, for example, they are actively and centrally purchasing firewood, coal and small stoves, how to survive the winter in wartime, in a period of high risks of attacks on the energy infrastructure, bbc economic correspondent anastasia zunda analyzes already during the summer, commentators stated that how ukrainians will survive this winter will primarily depend not only on how much gas or coal they manage accumulate, but from the extent to which it will be possible to protect critical infrastructure from russian owners, starting from the generation of tpps and nuclear power plants and thermal power plants of pre-building networks if the first accumulation of coal gas under the current conditions and prices is extremely difficult, but it is still possible, with the second infrastructure everything can change literally in a matter of minutes and the vulnerability

of the infrastructure is called the main risk of the heating season this year in general and the authorities and observers call on ukrainians to just sit down and think how can they provide themselves with at least hot food, how can something be prepared in case there is no gas or electricity, relatively speaking, uh, have an electric kettle in case your gas is cut off or to have dry alcohol in case there is already no electricity as for coal gas, which is more familiar to us, here, according to the preparation experts, it is about the same as in previous years, but there are, of course, its nuances. it is very difficult, but there are already more than 2 million tons in warehouses, it is obvious that by the beginning of the heating season it will be possible to increase these

reserves a little, but ukraine has had problems with coal since 2014 due to the loss of a large number of mines in the donbas, so this problem is not new for ukraine in more frosty weather, this is recognized and the government will have to work from the wheels, as they say, and this is also not news for ukraine because, for example, last winter, when there were problems with gas reserves and coal imports, all 15 units at nuclear power plants had to be turned on. which obviously succeeded this time as well, but here it is worth mentioning not what is uncertain, but the extremely dangerous situation at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is controlled by the russian military and which before the war provided up to a quarter of ukrainian current. in addition, in

in the case of emergency situations, you can again switch to fuel oil, you can turn to europe and import electricity from there instead of exporting it, as is happening now, and again, another backup option is to switch heating stations to gas, and here, speaking in general, about gas and regarding electricity, it is worth noting one more factor that is directly related to the war and can play, if we say cynically, both in plus and minus. the fact is that, in general, energy consumption in ukraine has fallen by approximately 40%, the destruction and the shutdown of large enterprises reduced the demand from industry for electricity by 64%, and a large part of the demand from the population either moved to the

safer western regions of ukraine or left the country altogether, so the demand from the population decreased by a quarter . as we would like, but in view of the demand and the tasks that will be faced during this winter, we may well live through the winter under normal circumstances, depending on the extent to which the armed forces of ukraine will be able to protect the energy infrastructure, as well as depending on what the financial and political assistance from ukraine's western partners will be, because without it, finding additional gas , additional electricity at the most critical moment, it seems absolutely impossible in london, the

public farewell to queen elizabeth ii has begun, trains with the monarch's body were transported from buckingham to the palace of westminster, where everyone can come and say goodbye to the queen 13 will remain in this hall until the day of the funeral, this is the moment when the funeral procession began, the throne was transported from from buckingham palace to spring st. on a carriage, this is a support for a cannon that is used during a ceremonial funeral. the carriage was drawn by black horses and from the royal horse artillery . king charles iii followed the coffin with his sister anne and his brothers princes andrew and edward, followed by the sons of king charles, prince william and harry, the ceremony lasted 38 minutes and every minute there was a cannon shot from nearby

hyde park, thousands of people lined the route of the procession to pay their respects to the queen and are expected to come say goodbye to elizabeth the second to the vosministersk hall, where the coffin will be exhibited, hundreds of thousands of people can, and my colleague evgeniya shidlovska is in direct contact with us, she is now near the buckingham class of zhenya, how will the farewell in the vosministersk field take place » open to the public from five o'clock in the afternoon, that is, more than two hours and will be open 24/7 until monday, a state funeral will take place on this day why westminster hop is the oldest part of the palace of westminster the houses of parliament hall of the 11th century where the most important events take place state events inside westminster cold

the coffin with the body of queen elizabeth ii stands on the dais it is a closed coffin during all ceremonies the coffin is closed on it the royal standard the royal standard on which the symbols of scotland england lions the symbol of ireland and a wreath of white flowers these are flowers from the royal residence of belmore de queen died from windsor castle, where the queen will be buried, this is next to the rose, white dahlias and, of course, the symbols of royal power, a frog with a cross, a scepter and a crown, a crown of the british empire, and by the way, during the first public farewell that took place in scotland , where the queen died, there was the crown of scotland, and then in edinburgh, the public farewell lasted less than a day, and tens of thousands of people came to say goodbye to the queen here in london, because it will last four days and hundreds of thousands of people are expected queues can stretch for 7 km all the way to the

tower and the one further and some already spent the night near westminster yesterday in order to be the first to get into the westminster hall and pay tribute to the queen actually, after getting to the vestry hall, people can pass from both sides of the uprising, but there are certain rules: you can’t stop, you can’t take pictures , you can’t take pictures, and you can’t bring flowers, flowers are asked to be brought to the royal residences, such as to buckingham palace, here in the park near buckingham palace there is an unlimited number of flowers and when i passed i saw several small ukrainian flags, so ukrainians in london come here to pay their respects to queen elizabeth the queen's body was brought from buckingham palace to the eight-story hall as it actually happened, all the ceremonies that are taking place now, they are carefully

thought out, thought out in detail and planned even during the life of queen elizabeth ii, therefore the ceremony began right here in buckingham palace at exactly 2:22 in order to in 38 minutes to reach the palace of westminster and when the coffin was taken out on a carriage from buckingham palace, silence reigned here on the square, only mournful music was heard, the throne was brought past the mall and this is exactly the place where in the summer there were celebrations of the platinum jubilee of queen elizabeth ii, 70 years of her reign, now mournful music reigned here, and along the entire procession people stood and escorted the queen on her last journey, and later there was a sound of restrained applause . it is important that the

military participate in these ceremonies, an important component of the military who swore an oath to the queen is their opportunity to pay respect to the monarch pay respect to the monarch who ruled the country for 70 years thank you, zhenya yevgenia shadlovska was in direct contact with us. and now i suggest you look at the live queue that passes by the royal hearse. let me remind you that the farewell will last until the day of the funeral on monday, september 19, then we will have time to tell. today, look for the poems of the story on our website bbc.ua and on our pages in social networks and turn on our program tomorrow at exactly 9:00 pm take care