and others will be able to apply the fifth point of the nato treaty or statute, which states that an attack on one member is an attack on the entire alliance, i think that russia will try to avoid this because it understands that if large-scale other actions are introduced, well, well, it can it will end badly for the world, not only for ukraine or lucy, but for the world and secondly, i have already said to the previous person that this could mean that it would speed up internal russian processes, and in another word, i will not say in the swamps of mosovsk, maybe as soon as possible. usually i am in favor of that to as soon as possible this war is over and we liberated our territories as soon as possible, then we liberated all the citizens who are there, they are eagerly

waiting for the honor of the armed forces. destroyed farms and the residence of russian officers with a jacuzzi that bbc correspondents saw in the de-occupied villages of kharkiv region today the president of the european commission ursula fondelaien arrived in kyiv, she announced her visit the day before during a speech in the european parliament on the railway station was met by the vice prime minister for european and euro-atlantic integration, olga stefanishyna fondeliaen, during the meeting with volodymyr zelenskyi, she received the order of yaroslav the wise, first degree, this is the third visit of fondeliaen to ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war, the previous trip took place in june, then the head of the european commission came to to hold negotiations

regarding ukraine's application to join the european union, it is noteworthy that at the same time as the current visit, the european parliament approved the allocation of aid to the country in the amount of 5 billion euros and what did the head of the european commission bring to kyiv ? of ukraine to the european roaming space and about the country's access to the single market, and she presented it as a big step in the rapprochement of ukraine and the eu, but tell me more about these proposals that lie behind them and why it is important from the simplest point of view, this issue has been discussed for a long time in ukraine's accession to the single roaming space, what does this mean, in fact, for your mobile phone there will be no more

borders in europe, it will be possible to use a ukrainian number, a ukrainian sim in any which country of the european union just like at home at the same tariffs and accordingly any residents of the countries of the european union in ukraine will not pay crazy money for calls or internet now it seems that some operators there reach up to two euros per minute, but it even sounds trivial against the background of other plans that are being discussed, in general, one should say wooden, and this is indeed the third visit to kyiv since the beginning of the large-scale war in norway, she was very emotional, she spoke about the fact that ukraine is not always a friend of the european union. there is no such price that could compensate ukraine and ukrainians for the fact that ukrainians stood up for the defense of democracy brought by the fund , it keeps promises of new packages of money, promises of support for new projects and one of the most ambitious without obstacles to ukraine's access to the eu single market, it must be said that

journalists drew attention to this phrase just the day before, and the intrigue lies in what kind of content this access to the single market will receive so far. in ukraine, there was more business, more profit, and for ukraine to have unimpeded access to the european single market, now we have already canceled 98% of tariffs on goods, this is good, but there are many non-tariff barriers which we can remove and the experts will work on it, at least we are talking about a radical revitalization of trade, another important issue that was discussed was preparation for winter against the background of attacks on critical infrastructure, the issue is extremely urgent and the delegation promises money to support internally displaced persons for the reconstruction of schools immediately quick reconstruction

of the destroyed schools, but just now, other support , and finally, one small but very important detail that moved many members of the european union delegation, acute in kyiv watermelon and cantaloupe, but unusual, and those that were brought from the settlements of the kherson region liberated from the russian troops, this was separately indicated on the leaflet with which the dish was served , a photo was launched on twitter by the head of the european union representation in ukraine with the signature saliva in the mouth and tears in the eyes of the color as well today, the european parliament supported the allocation of five billion euros of macro-financial assistance, tell me what this money will go for, it is very symbolic, by the way, that it happened just during the visit of the fondolians to kyiv, and 5 billion just look at the numbers. 534 meps voted for 30 against 26 abstained. let me remind

you that the european commission, after protracted negotiations, has officially proposed to allocate 5 billion euros of macro-financial assistance to the eu countries this september. then the eu council approved this macro-financial assistance. the money goes to the urgent needs of the budget, but it is not today, the european commission also confirmed a 500 million euro tranche from the european investment bank, let's listen to the video investment , the european investment bank allocated 500 million euros in ukraine, this is part of the bank 's package of emergency measures of solidarity with ukraine in the amount of 1 billion 590 million euros, that is, additional tranches will follow, this will have a real impact, the money is provided to ukraine to finance immediate needs and repair key road and railway infrastructure that was damaged by russian

attacks. so 5 billion of macrofin should arrive sometime in october, at least that is what they hope in kyiv and in brussels itself, they say that the tranche from the bank will also be available in the near future olya thank you bbc correspondent hryhoriy zhigalov, the russian military shelled kryvyi rih for the second time during the day, the head of the military administration, oleksandr vilkul, reported that an industrial enterprise was hit with destruction, serious, detailed consequences are being clarified in advance, without casualties, vilkul noted, the day before , russia struck the city with missiles and destroyed the dam, which led to the flooding of parts of the city in several districts water disappeared volodymyr zelenskyi reacted to the shelling by accusing russia of a terrorist attack against the civilian population and will try to flood kryvyi rih and promised payment, and in the afternoon russia struck two more strikes on hydrotechnical structures in kryvyi rih in the

president's office convinced by such shelling russia aims to sow panic among the population in which, i quote, it is difficult to make decisions and precisely about the purpose and consequences of such attacks let's talk with military experts oleksandr kovalenko, he is directly from the communications department. i congratulate you. last weekend, russia struck a thermal power plant in the kharkiv region, several regions were cut off and electricians were killed. and yesterday and today, hydrotechnical structures, that this is a new tactic of the russian troops to hit critical infrastructure. and i would not say that this is a new tactic at all, er, that they are now carrying out these strikes that they are carrying out now, this refers to terrorism. in fact, this is terror against civilians. objects and the civilian population, they have been doing it actually since february 24, constantly exerting pressure a-a moral-psychological physical pressure on the civilian population a-a therefore, this is

only one of the elements, but the most dangerous because it is one thing when they fire shots shelling by rocket-propelled artillery of civilian objects, for example, in the combat zone of direct confrontation between the armed forces of ukraine and the russian occupation units, i.e. trying to exert pressure not only on the civilian population, but also on the local authorities through the civilian population, as well as the armed forces of ukraine are actually motivated by these terrorist threats, and it is a completely different thing when there are attacks on such important critical infrastructure of civilian importance, and because we are very we understand well what the russian occupiers are hinting at. and if we are talking, for example, about the kharkiv region and kharkiv, which were cut off precisely

at the time of these strikes, then e is the region where the fact is that the temperatures are the lowest during the winter , the most severe winter ago if it is during the frost , in january or february, when it can even be -20, and they carry out such shelling and deprive the entire region of heat and light, and such a large city as kharkiv, then it will be a disaster, a huge humanitarian disaster, we we understand what she is waiting for, so today, in my opinion, the authorities of ukraine still need to develop a countermeasure against such threats that the russian federation can pose to the civilian population in a more global sense than before . there are a large

number of scenarios that can prevent such strikes, for example, this is the most effective air defense system. and today we see that the air defense system of the armed forces of ukraine is working on anti-aircraft defense, it works at the limit of its capabilities, but still, the russians have some a types of missile weapons, the nomenclature of missile weapons, unfortunately, against which our air defense cannot act by 90%. at 80% efficiency, it is significantly less - this efficiency is because it is the most modern, for example, some missile, a weapon, well, the same as the k-47, and the dagger is a hypersonic so-called missile, which they use very, very rarely, but these missiles are very difficult to intercept in fact on today it is 99% impossible to intercept it, they can they were used in such a way that ukraine needs to

protect itself from russian strikes, as they were in kharkiv and kryvyi rih, so if we are already talking about weapons, this is really a modern air defense system - a modern high-tech air defense system . short and medium distances for the destruction of objects. this is primarily about such anti-missile complexes as on the sams, as well as the anti -aircraft missiles from germany and sharp, but as we can see on the sam in the near future, we did not receive it is not earlier than 2023, and from germany we are again only hearing promises, i.e. that we will receive sharp ones in october, and then as of today budestag declares that what you received can only be received at the end of 2022. the fact is that so far we are waiting for the threat, it is growing or and when we receive, for example, such a complex - it

does not immediately mean that we will have protection. on the same day, no, because this complex will be there, there will still be a process of integration into our air defense system. in addition to integration, this is the practice of algorithms regarding countering e of russian missile weapons. that is, it is not uh, 48 for 72 hours, not a week. but the fact is that it is quite a long time necessary in order to configure these complexes for our air defense and so on, so in my opinion, after all, that’s it, that’s all these delays. well, they are of critical importance for today, i understand. thank you for your analysis. it was a military expert, oleksandr kovalenko. beatings and kidnappings of civilians. forced labor for the russian military and a residence for officers with a jacuzzi. this is what the bbc saw in a recently liberated village in the kharkiv region. whole streets in ruins, destroyed farms, dead domestic

animals. and most importantly, people talk about the fear and slavery of the russian occupation, and the ukrainian military about the terrible price they pay for the country's independence. next is the report of my colleague zhanna bezpyachuk from the border villages in kharkiv oblast. finding signs of life in the recently de-occupied villages great adventures are difficult but ruin and death are here almost everywhere, these domestic animals died on an abandoned dilapidated farm cowsheds turned into a cemetery no one watered here and no one fed them gave water, they died very terribly, this is the eighth settlement that our battalion liberated during these six months, during the war period, the war period, everywhere we went to liberate death, destruction and horror, death, resolution and horror, everything that

the russian army brought us here, local residents talk about frequent searches and beatings russian soldiers kept people for several weeks in an improvised prison in the village of the shooter for obedience or suspicion of helping the ukrainian army. the bbc received four testimonies about such imprisonment of local residents during the occupation, here is one of them, bilievo. no, where is the phone, where is the phone, i don't have a phone, get it, they took it away, and then the soldiers came and began to search, this is the second time, we not only turned and turned over the house, they lifted the house up to the ears, he mentions four such searches after the russian military detained the husband and wife of one of them for two weeks, the first time for two days. well,

at least svetka, i saw a video of a temporary guard, but the second time, the first time was two days, but i saw some light, i saw a guard, but the second time for 12 days, i distinguished the interlocutors only by their voices, the floor was wet, there was nothing to lie on, once a day during the day, they brought some smelly food left over from the table, 18 men and i was alone, 18 men and i was alone, i was 64 years old, you can imagine that in six months, almost the entire population left here out of a thousand local residents, less than 150° remained."

oleksiy tells what he had to do, among other things, to clean toilets for six months in slavery, six months it turns out we worked for food for cigarettes for refusal kara was expected if you don't want to work the knee will be shot and they are with you at all they came, well, they talked there somehow, they said, why did

they come to ukraine, why are we going to live better like ours, how are we going to live better, how our local militia said to live better than before, but it turned out to be thieves, drunkards were brewing in the great passages, russian officers were staying in the most expensive ukrainian houses with jacuzzis swimming pools and renovated basements, and this lasted for six months, and they fled under the pressure of the ukrainian army in half a day. servants were also recruited from the local population. they took the shooter to the pit in the village, the ukrainian military liberated this village, which dozens of others

surrounded by lightning, but they fought for it for more than one month in this forest in a garbage dump after the liberation , they found the bodies of our previously fallen ukrainian defenders, here are three of our fighters at such a price, see the independence of our ukraine at such a price the independence of our ukraine is given," but the kremlin even before the beginning emphasized the importance of the meeting with the chinese leader, then stated that he highly appreciates the balanced position of the chinese friends in connection with

the ukrainian crisis is the end of the quote, can xi jinping make concessions to russia, we asked howard zhang, the editor of the chinese service of the bbc people, most people are interested in the question of whether china will continue to support russia regarding the war in ukraine, from the first reports, as we see, this is the main issue that she discussed, the cfp router reported that putin asked president siedenpin about his opinion and the media quoted putin's words that siedenpin is worried about the situation in ukraine so this is what we know, putin also thanked all denpins for their support understanding and a balanced approach to the war in ukraine, so these are the fragments of information that we can collect at the moment, but in general, china at least on the propaganda front supports russia, the chinese state media broadcast almost the same messages that are broadcast by russian television and radio, but did china,

for example, supply military equipment or something else this is something we do not know one of the main allies of the president xi jinping to the standing committee in front of the bureau of china the third person in the leadership recently visited russia, the russian parliamentary tv channel thought, released a video in which he says that china not only understands that russia has been cornered too much, but also that china will continue to quote the position of auxiliary support, and this statement caused a lot of controversy not only in the international media, but also in some chinese online communities because the full meaning of auxiliary support means to be involved in the war to a certain extent. whether this is true or not, we cannot confirm because the chinese state media later did not repeat or cover this statement in addition the chinese media and the ministry of foreign affairs of china have been behaving

quite strangely for the past few days. at first they refused to confirm the schedule of the president's visit until the very last minute. russia, uzbekistan, kazakhstan all revealed to their media the schedule of events and the schedule of their leaders. the chinese side did not confirm the visit until the 12th. this is literally a day before the departure, in addition, the state media during the coverage of the first day of the visit to kazakhstan and later the samarkands themselves did not show many frames of the live broadcast from them there was simply a presenter who read the statements, i think that people who observe the situation consider it strange and there was another moment when president sittsin-pin got off the plane with not a single person from his entourage, so only he went down the stairs and almost fell, he had to grasp the handrail , all this was recorded by the international media, meanwhile, the chinese media did not cover it, of course, we will constantly monitor what the chinese and

russian media will report on the agreements with putin, but it seems that the chinese media is not willing reveal this and many experts say that this may be a sign that not everyone in the chinese government agrees with the current policy towards russia, meanwhile , vladimir putin still does not think that the war against ukraine was a mistake, german chancellor olafsholtz said after the leaders' telephone conversation on tuesday. stated that the russian president, quote, has not changed his position on the invasion, what are putin's intentions actually analyzed by fiona hill, she was in charge of russia and europe in the us national security council, and now heads the foreign policy program of the american research institute brooking, we see a whole series of options that putin has at his disposal and that he is already using, for example , attacks on power plants in an attempt to cut off electricity for the population and in the hope that this

will lead to a wider intimidation of ukraine. therefore, we can expect more such strikes on civil centers and civil infrastructure and of course there are various other ways of undermining what is believed to be the reason for ukraine's success, and this is not only bravery ukrainian troops and the supply of weapons that they receive from the united states and some european countries, therefore, we can expect more attacks on ammunition depots, warehouses of weapons and military equipment. in an effort to weaken support for ukraine. so, at this stage, different efforts should be expected from the russians on many fronts. putin is a person who always knows that during operations there will be failures you have to remember who he was before he became the president, an employee of the kdb, and he himself

publicly admitted more than once that everything could go wrong and that as a result he would have to learn lessons and change tactics, then he still thinks that he can change everything and i think it will take a lot more failures to really affect the public wall and summer, although there were protests in the past, many people left russia because they do not support the war. we also know that there are many complaints among military generals because of the very high level of casualties and among command staff and among the regular forces, and many of them doubt where the military operation is headed, but there must be many more failures so that vladimir putin himself realizes that it is time to declare the so-called victory and move in a different direction. in london, he says goodbye to queen elizabeth ii. thousands of people came to the house

of parliament to pay respects to her majesty, the queue stretched for more than 6 km. the authorities predict that there will be even more people, because king charles the third and his brothers and sister anna will spend the weekend there on friday, everyone who wishes will be able to say goodbye to the queen until monday, when the funeral will take place and the majesty will be buried in windsor castle on september 19. queen elizabeth ii reigned the longest in british history for 70 years. when she ascended the throne, she was only 25. the prime minister was winston churchill, the current head of the cabinet, taras, is already the 15th person in this position during her reign, and all this time the queen put her sense of duty in the first place, while the queen was getting older , concessions due to her advanced age were not even many

after 90, the queen had a busy schedule of events. although they took place more slowly and with more care, she did not shy away from meeting people, accepting flowers, inspecting military units. th elizabeth ii appeared with her left wrist in plaster. she broke it when she fell from her horse, but in her own style she got back in the saddle and continued her walk. and only then did she seek medical help in 2003 the queen underwent two operations, first on the right and then on the left knee, to restore damaged cartilage tissue, but these cases were

exceptions. it seems that the queen inherited a strong physique from her late mother, because when the queen mother celebrated her 100th birthday in 2000, she personally accompanied the queen and other members of the family went out on the balcony of buckingham palace, the queen spent the day of her ninetieth birthday in winsor. she went out to the crowd and greeted supporters, and later that evening, on this occasion, solemnly lit the jubilee from ears of corn in the yard of winsor castle her eldest son prince charles honored her beatle was all representative this torch as it lights others across the country will symbolize the love and affection that is planned throughout the country and in the commonwealth throughout her reign the queen

emphasized by her words and actions how important her duty is to her as she received leader after leader ambassador after ambassador guest after guest there was no hint of fatigue even after she had been on her feet for several hours straight in her familiar heels she had wonderful memory and sincere interest of the people with whom she spoke with perseverance and determination. she continued to fulfill her powers and during these decades when the world around her was changing, her name and face became symbols of the british monarchy and for generations of her subjects and for billions of people around the world and i

would like to remind you that the funeral of queen elizabeth ii will take place on monday, september 19, and that's all we have time to talk about. today, look for a bigger story on our website bbc.ua and on our pages in social networks, turn on our program tomorrow exactly at 9:00 a.m. take care of yourself in the evening we are celebrating a cold is already celebrating