and they did not have the opportunity to develop, and actually this heroism of the ukrainian armed forces of ukraine gave the opportunity to show the leaders of america that we can actually invest money there, we can have tools and reliable allies who will also glorify us in the world at the same time, so it is actually very important we are now working in tandem and this is actually one of the guarantees for our victory. that is, in fact, now the personal fate and even the life of putin depends on the results of this war. how do autocratic regimes work before authoritarian regimes, autocratic regimes from ukraine live from london and today in our issue, the exchange of the defenders of mariupol for medvedchuk commanders is now stalin on the russian military,

as it happened in russia, a partial mobilization is unfolding queues formed at the borders of those trying to escape and the general staff declares that russia is preparing to hold so-called referendums in the occupied territories , a large exchange took place between ukraine and russia prisoners, the largest since the beginning of the war, ukraine received 215 people, among them most of the defenders of australia and mariupol, russia received putin , viktor medvedchuk, and fifty of its soldiers. this is how the details of the exchange of president zelenskyi were reported by the head of his office andriy yarmak in an empty conference hall. yarmak stated that 200

ukrainian soldiers were exchanged medvedchuk , who was accused of treason in ukraine, was exchanged for five commanders of the defenders of mariupol for 55 russian soldiers, this is serhii volynskyi volyn svyatoslav palamar denys prokopenko radish oleg khomenko denys shlech president zelensky in his video address called them superheroes and said that for them it was possible to fight the longest and hardest for this exchange ukraine agreed with turkey and according to zelensky the five released commanders will be in complete safety until the end of the war in comfortable conditions and under the personal patronage of the president of turkey, the families will be able to see them and listen to what mr. president said to you, dear ukrainians. i am infinitely grateful for the fact that we were returned i thank you very much, just emotions are overflowing. thank you from the entire armed forces, from the marines who defended azotal, i

also want to thank all the defenders of ukraine who right now , right now, on this day, right at this hour, are performing their combat tasks at combat posts, who are fighting for our ukraine and among those released from captivity are soldiers of the national guard of the naval forces, border guards , police officers from terboron, sbu employees, a total of 108 azov soldiers, most of whom were captured in may, when, after the agreement of the parties, defenders azovstali surrendered to the russians by order of the command , at the same time a shell of 2,000 fighters, a small part of them were exchanged earlier, and about 50 died during an explosion in the colony of volyn residents. why the exchange took place right now is unknown, so says the bbc correspondent in his bachaga, it is very revealing because it is about about more than a hundred soldiers of the azov battalion included with

the leadership of the battalion we remember at the beginning of the war they defended the city of mariupol for weeks and spent many days in azovstalia because the city was under siege in ukraine, they believe heroes and few people expected that they would be released, it was a big surprise. but why did it happen now? why were these people released? we know about the agreement that allowed the release of more than 250 fighters, including azovstali fighters. they were exchanged for five russian soldiers and a pro-russian politician. but it is interesting that the exchange of prisoners took place a few hours after president putin announced a partial military mobilization and ukraine is expecting so-called referendums on the territories occupied by russia. in recent days, the tension in the country was particularly high, and in addition to the ukrainian military, 10 foreigners were released from russian captivity, five

british citizens, two us citizens, as well as citizens of morocco , sweden and croatia. the countries of mohammed and salaman until now, saudi arabia has remained silent about the ukrainian war in ukraine. they may be a strategic ally of the united states. but they have strained relations with the biden administration. they don't want to upset russia either, when four years ago the crown prince of saudi arabia was at the g20 summit in buenos aires, he was shunned by western leaders, he was suspected of sanctioned murders by journalists, bumblebee khashuga, which the prince himself denied, but then one leader still greeted the saudi prince with a high-five gesture and it was vladimir putin , now that the saudi prince is trying to get rid of the status of pari in the west, he seems to have used his russian skills to advantage and caused gratitude in the west and

more details regarding the exchange today, the head of the main kyrylo budanov of the intelligence department said at a briefing that the ukrainian soldiers released as part of the exchange were subjected to torture. bohdan said that most of the prisoners were chronically malnourished. they were received in poor conditions. therefore, on thursday night, ukraine freed 215 soldiers from captivity, including 188 defenders of azovstal and mariupol, these are military personnel . from the azov battalion, 108 people, nine border guards, police officers of the sbu, among those who were exchanged, 124 officers, russia instead received putin's best man viktor medvedchuk and 55 of his own of the military, however, several thousand defenders of mariupol may remain in russian captivity, and president zelensky at the un general assembly outlined the conditions for peace in ukraine, the steps that kyiv expects

from the world community in response to russian aggression. zelenskyy called for greater sanctions against russia and the creation of a special tribunal, further protection of life in ukraine, support is needed, weapons, equipment, projectiles , long-range weapons of anti-aircraft systems defense money restoration of security and territorial integrity and security guarantees according to zelensky kyiv offers partners to conclude multilateral bilateral agreements and the last clause of the ukrainian peace formula zelensky's settlement cannot take place on another basis. a crime has been committed against ukraine and we demand a fair punishment. a crime has been committed. against our state borders, a crime was committed against the

lives of our people, a crime was committed against the dignity of our women and men, a crime was committed against the values ​​that make us all a community of the united nations and ukraine, and ukraine demands punishment for trying to steal our territory, punishment for killing thousands of people, punishment for torture and the humiliation of women and men, the punishment for the catastrophic turbulence that russia provoked with its illegal war and not only for us ukrainians, but also for the whole world, for every nation that is represented in this hall of the un general assembly, i am addressing on behalf of a state that is forced to defend itself, but which has a peace formula and speaking at the general assembly of new york, just as american president joe biden did before it, british prime minister kalistra assured kyiv of its support. britain will continue to provide military support as needed and not calm down until ukraine wins, that's what

taras said, and today the un security council gathered at a special meeting on ukraine, condemned the actions of russia, in particular, un secretary general antonio goteres called talks about a nuclear conflict unacceptable and plans to annex occupied territories by threats or force a violation of international law and the un charter. the us secretary of state spoke about the inadmissibility of nuclear threats. antonym blinking: if russia stops fighting, the war will end. if ukraine stops fighting, ukraine will end it. blinkin's words were the same. at the meeting of the security council, the russian minister of foreign affairs sergey lavrov and he repeated the russian rhetoric that russia is defending itself and separately in new york the foreign ministers of ukraine, poland, and britain met - this is a tripartite format launched this year in kyiv; at the meeting, in particular, they condemned the mobilization announced by russia - this only rejects the possibility of establishing peace, the

ukrainian foreign ministry reports, and against the background of russian escalation, western partners assure kyiv of support and if to friends of russia, will they support putin, who wants to continue the war . us representatives previously stated that western sanctions hit the russian defense industry and yes, russia should have asked for help, asked north korea for ammunition, iran for drones. and by the way, north korea also denies that iran is supplying russia with weapons, will putin convince the countries friendly to russia that everything is going according to his plan - this is analyzed by an american researcher stivsh putin behaves like north korean dictator kim jong-un 's completely irresponsible behavior and threats of nuclear weapons putin has been doing this for years but here is this kind of clanking of nuclear weapons frankly everything and what he is left with he will lose the war in to ukraine, he knows that his troops are losing ground

with western support, ukrainians are winning this war, he sees that even his allies such as china are tired of this war. they thought that putin would fulfill his promises and end it very quickly, but it turned out that putin does not have such opportunities and he seriously miscalculated , the prime minister of india, who was very pro-putin and tried to maintain neutrality , made it clear a few days ago during a meeting that he was fed up with the war, so putin sees that his international support is disappearing he sees that the west is standing firm and he also knows that the war will not gain popularity after the recent call for mobilization russians have become less supportive of the war people are watching it on tv they can say they support the president and the military effort but this support is very superficial and will just be proven by this mobilization, putin will try to send even more troops to war, but they will be less

equipped and less trained than the soldiers he has already sent there, they will not want to be there at the beginning of this war, putin called for additional troops, promising high salaries by russian standards. all those who wanted to go fight for russia, he is already doing it, the effect of this mobilization on the front will be zero, he is simply creating more cannon fodder for the ukrainians, support for the war in russia will soon disappear and i think that we are seeing a continuation of the outflow of young people from russia. putin has already lost a significant part of such a population of such it inte that wants to leave the country due to lack of opportunities and mobilization will only accelerate their escape from putin problems and on the first day of mobilization in some cities of russia, people came out for protests, the protesters were immediately detained by the police, and human rights defenders reported on almost one and a half thousand detainees, and according to reports in some

police stations, the detainees were immediately issued summonses with the demand to come to the military commissariat in the morning; besides, it became more difficult for men to leave in russia, queues formed on the border with georgia. georgia is one of the few countries where russians can enter without a visa. almost 140,000 russian citizens have left for georgia since the beginning of the war and the opposition urges the government to introduce a visa regime in order to control such an influx. bbc correspondent reykhun dimitria saw what happened on the georgian-russian border at the verkhniy lars crossing between georgia and russia. side, we know what is happening on the other side of social networks, there is a telegram channel upper lars about everything at this border crossing,

tens of thousands of people are subscribed to it and they here are some videos from the other side of the border showing a huge queue. this information was also confirmed by the people we talked to . most of those who cross the border at this place are young men. they look tired. some of them said that they had to wait for more than 11 hours. to cross the border for obvious reasons, they don't want to be filmed, but one of the men with whom we managed to talk - told me that he had almost no time for meetings, when he heard about the partial mobilization from putin, he immediately took his passport knapsack and left the country because he falls under the category of being called up to fight or is already being called up at this very moment, this trend somewhat worries georgians because since the beginning of the war , a mass exodus of russians to their country has begun , more than 100,000 russians have already arrived here since the beginning of the war and

now cars are constantly arriving and arriving, but they move very slowly and we understand that on the russian side, russian officials are in no hurry to let these people out of the country, actually how many military personnel are planning and what is important is that they will be able to to mobilize russia and then announced a partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists, but there are no such figures in the decree, and the russian newspaper europa writes that the classified provisions of the decree allow for the mobilization of up to a million people, putin's spokesman called it a lie, british intelligence believes that putin is taking a political risk with the hope of getting the much-needed combat power, this step is actually a recognition that russia has exhausted its supply of volunteers ready to fight in ukraine and a review of the norwegian institute for defense katorzyna zysk also says that putin is taking a big risk there, from a political point of view, one of the

possible tasks is to appease the nationalists and the growing criticism of russia against the background of the humiliating defeat in ukraine, because putin is under great pressure at home from a military point of view. this mobilization will allow the troops in ukraine to regroup, to rest, to organize, that the russian troops who are currently in ukraine need land, how long will the training of these mobilized troops last before sending them to the front. it depends on what the goals they pursue so far are such simple tasks as the logistics of maintaining a position, but the training of the military can take even months before they are sent to the front , and it is unlikely that these forces will have the desire to fight, their motivation is quite low. people are now trying to leave russia and we are now seeing this process, which was not on such a scale almost from the very beginning of the war, this suggests that this war is actually not

that popular in russia and the task of this war is difficult to understand. i think this is also disturbing military, we have many appeals from russian soldiers simply from the front line, they do not understand at all why they are in ukraine and these tasks invented by their leader putin look fake. therefore, i believe that the undermined motivation of the troops can ignite anti-war protests in russia, which we are already seeing now, i think unfortunately in fact, no one can exclude the escalation to the nuclear level, although in my opinion putin can play intimidation and blackmail using these weapons also for coercion, because any use of nuclear weapons is unlikely to lead to a decrease in the resistance of ukrainians, we see that the way the russians are fighting in ukraine, torture is qualified even as genocide of ukrainians, they mobilize ukrainians even more, the use of nuclear weapons is also unlikely, even the opposite, because

otherwise putin risks entering into a direct war with nato, with the united states, and he knows that he will lose this war, and the american analytical center, the institute for the study of war, does not believe that the announcement of partial mobilization in russia will radically change the situation of mobilization, it may be enough only to to maintain the number of russian troops in ukraine at the current level, compensating for losses, and it is not known how many reservists are already fighting in ukraine, in any case, conscript soldiers in the russian army are poorly trained, and after being released into the reserve, they are not trained at all. this is what american analysts and american observers from the center indicate new america liam collin from the former military believes that the mobilization indicates the problems of russia in the war with ukraine this circle from the side of russia is the best and most beautiful project of what done by the kremlin, they are doing very badly. this is such an act

. i will call up 300,000 reservists to support the military operation, but such actions will not help. they did not have time for training and training. as we can see, the best-prepared russian troops have shown terrible results, as at the beginning. during the conflict and during all military operations, there are also issues of supply and logistical support, so it may take weeks or months to prepare them for battle, it does not matter if you are forming new battalions or replenish them with new forces where there are currently problems with replenishment the results will be the same in the future russian troops will be relatively poorly prepared again if the russian regular troops had a year to prepare for war and are still fighting so badly why should we expect a different result from soldiers whose haven't trained for the past year, the question is whether the russians would be able to supply anything in the right way now, maybe they will manage to

equip the army and still need them somehow move to the front and even when they get there they will have the same problems with logistical support that they had for the whole seven months before that, you know, trying to supply weapons, ammunition, food has been a problem for russia since the beginning of this conflict, so quantity is the only advantage the only a favorable factor for the russians, but this will not be enough for them, morality in itself is not all that ukrainians have, they also have good leaders, good soldiers, a well-trained army, and nationwide culture of volunteering. we have seen how tens of hundreds of thousands of volunteers defend their country, while the russians have a different scenario, they use convicts in the war, where putin never explains to his population why they are there and only one of the factors. although there are many other reasons why ukrainians fight so successfully and why they can win i believe that putin

can without a doubt consider the possibility of using nuclear weapons, but i think he will not use nuclear weapons in this territory that he has just taken from of another state, this is russian rhetoric, and with this russian mobilization, the ukrainian authorities are asking western countries to provide more weapons. russia continues to shell ukrainian cities. today, zaporizhzhia, mykolaiv, and at the same time, there is concern in the front-line territories due to the so-called referendums that are planned to be held in the occupied territories. bbc viktoriya zzhun ot mi tak komina kotyyy zamékatelnaya kommina inna found shelter in temporary social life for six months she wants to go home to the snow-covered city of mykolaivska oblast occupied by russian forces, of course, this is what i can do

for a long time, and putin's announcement of partial mobilization and so-called referendums postpones these plans for even longer, the action is just writing, they are getting home terrible emotions, i will just get home later, terrible emotions, only negative because any war is death this is the impoverished million of internally displaced people and those abroad, if mykolaiv became a refuge for inna, half of the city's residents left due to daily shelling, and thousands of those who remained are standing in lines for food with water and medicines, they do not take their eyes off the southern front line and this strip of land that serves as a buffer for mykolaiv from the russian occupation, where so-called referendums can be held. the russian army reached here in march, but the ukrainian army quickly knocked them out from under mykolaiv .

some 10 km from the russian occupation of kherson oblast, but there are fears that the threat could come from that direction again. putin promises to mobilize up to 300,000 reservists, but western analysts say that it will be minutes or months until their the presence will be felt on the battlefield in the operational command of the south downplay the importance of putin's statements, the activities of the armed forces are aimed at the de-occupation of the territory, it does not depend on fake referendums, on falsified expressions of will, and so on . i will hold my friend in my arms, i will hold my neighbor friend in my arms and i will not let go as long as i breathe , regardless of the development of events on the battlefield, millions of people, how long is she waiting for, the road home viktoriya zhogan bbc news ukraine mykolaiv odesa in the

occupied territories are preparing for so-called referendums on joining russia militants i will remind the militants of the dpr and lpr and the occupation administrations announced that they will conduct them from september 23 to 27 ukrainian authorities say fake referendums will not change anything ukraine will liberate its territory and western countries also condemned the possible annexation, and today at the meeting of the un security council, the russian annexation plans were also condemned by my colleague viktoria jugan is with us now on direct communication vito greetings you were in mykolaiv, you are now in odesa. are there concerns in the south that so-called referendums will take place nearby, are they expecting escalation or are they expecting increased shelling? it's time

we're in the south, news about the south, people talk about it with us and among themselves, but how to assess concern. for example, now in odesa, i don't know if we can hear it on the air, but we can hear enough dance music from one of the restaurants today in mykolaiv i saw how you can buy fresh flowers and people buy fresh flowers and fresh fruits in the open markets, this is such a scene that you do not always expect in a front-line city, but when you talk to people, they are full of many emotions and the spectrum is huge, although those people who agreed to talk with bbc journalists, they basically said that they don't believe in putin's success, they think that such plans are they often called them crazy, crazy, i heard these dates from people, but they don't believe that they won't succeed and a lot of people talk about the successes of the armed forces of ukraine and say that no matter what putin plans, they

believe in the armed forces of ukraine, at least these people who agree to speak with us, they broadcast exactly this opinion. at the same time, they mention that, in principle, in their cities and regions there are collaborators who were officially arrested and it scares them because they do not understand what to expect from such neighbors, on the other hand, there is an official version of the authorities of these regions and the armed forces of ukraine say that they are ready to continue giving for a long time the answer is in the russian army and they don't expect that putin will lead this war in any other way after it is possible that he will manage to organize these referendums , they say that all the war crimes and constant shelling are already there and the ukrainian army is repelling attacks thank you viktor bbc correspondent viktoriya zhogan about the situation thank you in the south and today is the 211th day of

russia's war against ukraine, a war which, according to the kremlin's plan , was supposed to last no more than a week. on february 24, russia began a full-scale invasion, attacking ukraine at once on several ukrainian directions the armed forces gave the russians what helped the ukrainian society to endure these for more than six months and they are not telling my colleague roman lebed these sounds were the second that i heard in the early morning of february 24, when i went out on the balcony on podil in kyiv after a call from a frightened friend, people were running, trams were hurrying gula siren in the following days, this sound was repeated more and more often, and then it became regular, generating many fears of rage. well,

in the end, memes on the roads in the cities, on the tracks, at the stations, at the borders, those who wanted to save themselves from the offensive and blows of the russians, they found themselves in a slow trap at the bottom, and sometimes for weeks, later the roads are completely empty. but first there were queues to escape from death, although moscow declared that the goal of their so-called special military operation is only military infrastructure, civilian objects found themselves under attack, in fact, in the first wave of the war. sometimes fragments of missiles shot down by anti-aircraft missiles fell on apartment buildings, and sometimes there was a direct hit, as in the case of a high-rise building

on lobanovskyi street in kyiv, which became another as a sad symbol of the russian invasion, in the first days of the war in ukraine, signs were removed en masse to confuse the participants of the invasion, the letter z, which became one of the distinguishing signs of the russian army, was removed from many signs , adhesive tape appeared on the windows of houses and installations to protect against small debris in case of shock wave well, concerned citizens began to look for marks everywhere on the roofs of houses and trees, it is still not known for sure for what purpose the saboteurs installed them , or was it really in order for the russian soldiers were better oriented. was it rather an element of an informational and psychological operation? this phrase, which the ukrainian border guard on the island of snake said on february 24 in response to the offer to lay down his

arms. from the russian ship, it became a symbol of ukrainian resistance, even at the cost of probable death, it began to be heard on the streets, on the airwaves, it was translated into various languages and picked up all over the world as a response to russian aggression, later the same ship flagship of the black sea fleet of the russian federation moscow sank as a result of strikes ukrposhta will dedicate a stamp to it long queues will line up, the symbol will begin to appear on clothes and posters, and at the beginning of july, the armed forces of ukraine will once again regain control over snake island and install the ukrainian flag on it. during the war , other popular phrases will appear on the network. good morning, well, but nothing can to spit roman lebed about the beginning of the war about the symbols of war this is the end of our issue see you tomorrow