and here, well, no one can say for sure because no one can get into the head of the mask, so there is another part of the discussion, it is explaining the subtleties , explaining why these referendums do not work, how they differ from ordinary referendums, and in general why ukraine cannot leave these territories , especially in the light of what is happening on the territory of ukraine when they are captured by russian forces about this what about this what everyone already knows everyone has learned and here is another interesting aspect - it is on the air of bbc new with ukraine my name is hryhoriy zhigalov here what will we talk about today without strong malice or cold calculation russia is hitting civilians in the ukrainian rear while its army is defeated on the eastern and southern fronts russian kermanych is preparing to celebrate the 70th experts are beginning to cautiously hint that putin has weakened is a palace mutiny possible, guest of the air vitaliy portnikov

, together with the eu or instead of the eu, in prose, a new european integration initiative of ukraine's participation was launched, the european political community, we analyze where kyiv-paris and brussels will lead macron's new idea at dawn, the russians fired seven rockets at zaporozhye high-rise buildings. later, at 11 a.m., the russians again hit the city with rockets. photos and videos showing damage to buildings are published on social networks. users talk about the destruction of entire entrances. the people in the regional military

administration found themselves in the fun. at least three people died, another 12 years in the hospital, including one child, the rescue operation is still ongoing, the police say that zaporizhzhia attacked with s-300 missiles in zaporizhzhia the bbc correspondent paul adams works during the day, he reported that clouds of smoke were rising in various places in the city center, and here is his report, when something goes according to plan on the battlefield, russia reacts like this, it was not a military facility. ordinary people lived here, they slept since dawn the rescuers are searching the village with the debris of a five-story building. no one knows how many people died here. this is the very center of zaporizhzhia. we are very close to the territory controlled by russia, so the sound of explosions is commonplace here in the city, but an entire residential area was destroyed. the house is unusual and shocking. they know what

war looks and sounds like, but they are stunned and angry. the blows of this morning were without warning those explosions in the darkness before dawn not far away on a

quiet residential street new destruction and therefore more urgent work from a modest house remained only the wreckage engulfed in flames from under them a woman was pulled out alive the authorities reported that this morning seven rockets fell in the city and ukraine, meanwhile , continues to return its territories in the liberated last week lymani is being helped to the affected population, two ukrainian counterattacks forced the russian troops to retreat, which is probably why russia is attacking as hard as it can by shelling cities all over ukraine with missiles and drones. things are bad for her, and that is why she is dangerous. another attack on zaporozhye by the russians on the ukrainian rear. while on the front lines of the russian army already for which week in a row it is not possible to stop the advance of the armed forces of ukraine, and the military intelligence of the ministry of

defense of great britain, analyzing also the situation in the kherson region, concludes that russia despite is still going to defend the regional center although from a military point of view it would be profitable to retreat and this has been the case for several weeks everyone has been talking about the experts, we will analyze the situation at the front together with the expert of the center of defense strategies, captain of the first rank of the reserve andrii ryzhenko i congratulate you i know that you have prepared a map of what is happening on the fronts, i ask the directors to show it now , and i have a real request for you to tell us what we see there. and i understand that in russia we are not able to stabilize the front, the armed forces continue advance and yes, good evening, well, now we are marking two two sections of the front where the armed forces of ukraine continue their offensive, the first section is er-er it is in the er-er northeast er-er after the liberation

of the estuary and kupyansk, the armed forces of ukraine continue their offensive to the east and in fact now they are already approaching the matchmaking-criminal line, this is the next very important and logistical artery, and if they manage to cut it, it will significantly complicate the supply of russian troops in this region. well, it is very significant that the kharkiv region has already been completely liberated, the liberation of the luhansk region in the south is already beginning, we see a constant, such a constant offensive of the northern part of the kherson region, the ukrainian armed forces are adding almost 10-20 km per day i think that the nearest prospect is the task of getting to the city of boryslav right there. boryslav

is an important city because kakhovka is nearby. i want to remind you that there is the beginning of the north crimean canal from which the water is coming now to the crimea a-a and then kherson really a-a more a-a well , everything that is on the right bank of the dnipro river eh from the point of view of logistical supply - this is a big problem for the russian armed forces, but what are they now continuing to accumulate forces there, this is a political task, i set it personally, then we know that last week the generals proposed to a-a to raise crops, but they are there and there will be, er, probable resistance , you know now. there is a lot more. more territories eh return kherson eh before the onset of

winter before the onset of cold weather at the same time from last winter i remember other statements that putin is waiting until the ground freezes to start a war like this for the armed forces of ukraine, it opens another window of opportunity for the armed forces of ukraine, or does it have little effect at all? well, the point is that now we know what we are holding, and partly the mobilization continues to be quite problematic. but nevertheless the troops are coming, they have already demobilized about 200,000 people, according to various data, and they will replenish the armed forces of the russian federation, and therefore, well, really. well, it is necessary to understand that our people are located in kherson, after all these acts of the russian federation on accession, they began to be very strict there such measures to force them to obtain russian passports and so

on and everyone who is dissatisfied with this is a very serious and repressive measure, and because of this, well, it’s just taking time for us, too, no. it makes no sense and we can't do that, but it's very important that the logistical roads on the right bank of the dnieper are problematic and we use them. the russians are trying to use barges and boats there to deliver personnel, but it's us, our armed forces of ukraine. they affect it, they destroy it, they destroy it , and the russians, in order to destabilize the situation in ukraine, they simply launch missile strikes on a cities that are located not far from the front line or near the borders. there were zaporizhzhia in zaporizhzhia, white people, most likely from the

city of tokmak, there are several systematists, and the armed forces of ukraine destroyed a certain number there, but the russians delivered them again to the right. artillery, mortars, but this terror of the local population was created only to break the spirit of the ukrainian people in the fight for the liberated territory. but the russians will not succeed thank you very much expert center of defense strategies captain of the first rank of the reserve andriy ryzhenko thank you for your time interesting fact a mobilized russian asked to be captured by the armed forces of ukraine even when he was on the territory of russia this was reported in

the coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war, as the russian told there used a special hotline of the defense forces, and called it once more when a 26-year-old boy from zorsk was on the territory of russia and he was sent to the front 5 days after receiving a summons he called the hotline received instructions and surrendered a small detail about the morale of the russian army is there a chance for the russian command to change this here is what the former head of the british strategic command richard barons thinks about it this is a combination of two factors from the russian side this is terrible leadership poor training of their forces and logistical base, as well as increasing difficulties in using their former advantage on the battlefield of artillery from the ukrainian sides - this is an unshakable will and more sophisticated long-range weapons that are supplied from the west and

that hinder russia's attempts to hold the defense or attack, now you have to be careful ukraine has achieved simply extremely high results in a matter of days in the past month it has returned more territory than russia managed to capture in several months so far, ukraine has returned about 15% of the territory occupied by russia and it remains to return 15% of all of ukraine, including crimea, so there is a very long way ahead and a problem for the russians now how to stop this ukrainian breakthrough because they cannot just sit and wait in the winter, we will probably see a fierce struggle in the winter and until the spring, but the initiative in this war is returning in favor of ukraine ukraine has an almost infinite number of people who want to fight, mainly civilians who need to be trained and arming for the event is key, now we are primarily talking about the usa, although

great britain also plays a very prominent role , continue to supply ukraine with everything it does not have, money, weapons, logistics humanitarian support and political will to bring this war to a successful conclusion is the combination of a mobilized ukrainian population and a mobilized western population and industry that russia just can't handle right now what do you think about open talks about weapons of mass destruction because not so long ago it rejected how empty are putin's threats. and now they talk almost every few days about what type of weapon it can be used on the battlefield or whether it will be a demonstration by striking in some elsewhere, what should the west do, trying to develop an approach in advance to prevent this, two things have always been clear here, firstly, the russian military doctrine and the political doctrine provide for the use of small so-called

tactical nuclear weapons to avert the threat to the russian state, but of course now russia considers the annexed parts of ukraine to be its own although many will never agree with this, and secondly, it has always been clear that the task of throwing russia out of ukraine and the moment will come when ukraine's success will increase prospects for the use of these weapons and what we see now is that some hardliners in russia are calling for the use of these weapons right now, but they are in the minority. i think that this did not terrify many russians, including many of the russian military. but if we know that the use of these weapons may be something that president putin will be forced to consider when he loses this war, which most likely will happen within the next year, then during this time both putin and russia must be made absolutely clear that this will be a huge strategic mistake and russia

will be in complete darkness of our world for at least a whole generation and from the fronts let's shift the focus to moscow for the first time since the beginning of the russian invasion of ukraine putin admitted that not everything is going according to plan bbc editor in moscow steve rosember says that this is a striking contrast with the usual behavior of the russian leader, the past few days were very surreal less than a week ago, a magnificent ceremony took place here, when vladimir putin claimed that he was essentially annexing four ukrainian regions and in just a few hours, russia lost part of the territory it supposedly controlled since then, it lost even more territory yesterday vladimir putin really admitted that the situation in the new territories, as he put it, is uneasy and even dangerous although he predicted that the situation would stabilize, so we have

recognition from the kremlin and in the state media, endless talk shows on russian television, and online from pro-war journalists, we have many snarky posts about the russian retreat so moscow recognizes the problems and is also looking for the culprits , there is a lot of open criticism of the russian military commanders, anyone but vladimir putin, the same one who started all this with his decision to invade ukraine, everything that happened over time on february 24 looks like it went wrong as a miscalculation of the russian president, i will add that in recent days i have been listening to a lot of podcasts with analysts, reading a lot of analytics and trying to see what is happening inside the walls of the kremlin or in the baltic

bunkers and begin to hear and read assumptions that it seems that the chair under putin is beginning to wobble a little, let's try to understand for now probably everything is still more at the level of intuition is it so normal before the air vitalya portnikova i congratulate you thank you for taking the time i am sure that you have also heard more than once in recent days about putin is weakened, but what does your political intuition tell you? if he is weakened, this weakness is temporary. is this a straight road to the fall? you know, i just don't want to look like a criminal. i believe that we always have to work. with facts and not with assumptions when it comes to politics, and even more so about politics in totalitarian states . for four years, nothing of this has happened, as

we can see, and putin continues to act according to the plan that he formed for himself many years ago, which consists in the need to restore the territory of the so -called historical russia, that is, the former soviet union. now we see that this plan is being implemented although, of course, it is not at all the way the russian president would like it, but the most important thing is that this plan is shared by the majority of the russian political elite and, in my opinion, the majority of the russian society, therefore, nothing threatens vladimir putin in the near future. we also constantly hear about the war of the towers the kremlin a-a i don't want to ask you to be a kremlinol yes, but still explain, please explain what kind of kremlin towers are constantly at war with each other and can they bury them under themselves during this war putin in any totalitarian state there is a clan struggle, this is normal and it is obvious that this clan

struggle in russia has always been controlled. before the government in 2000, what is happening in russia is not vladimir putin's personal dictatorship, it is chekhov's dictatorship. putin is undoubtedly the face of this dictatorship, but putin's dictatorship is outside doubt is the face of this dictatorship, but to say that the fsb would be interested in burying him means not to realize how this system is made up. putin balances the clan struggle, sometimes he invents conflicts in order to demonstrate his need as a balancer, sometimes he calms down conflicts between uh, his entourage, in fact again- i repeat , we must see the facts, you and i were witnesses of the meeting of the security council of the russian federation on the eve of putin's recognition of the independence of the dpr and lpr

, this is the top leadership of the russian federation. everyone saw that it was completely helpless, frightened people who did not have any political will, people who had some ambitions and some i would say haha ​​at least the desire to be political figures left the political scene of the russian federation during the struggle against yukos, this there were former prime minister mykhailo kasyanov, former head of the presidential administration oleksandr voloshin, other officials since that time, in russia we essentially have the power of the anonymous putin himself is anonymous this is a completely unknown person who was pulled out of drawers by yeltsin's relatives and oligarchs who are close to putin's family in terms of what they are exactly the same people and it is obvious that they can fight with each other there control over financial flows giving one in one place in another control by overbanks these people can even imprison each other one to prison as the leader laughed - it was

january he imprisoned the former minister of economy ulyukayev but putin - it was i who said it rather the conductor of this amazing orchestra, you know if we talk about that meeting of the federation council and that is also a fact the faces we saw there, they a-a well, we didn't see happy faces there we didn't see those celebrations that in 2014 could be felt just from the screens yes we saw worried faces we saw faces enough well worried uh and also we hear and now we see a conflict along the lines of kadyrov and shoigu, er, this is what these facts tell us , well, i'm not talking to you about the meeting of the federation council, about the meeting of the security council in february , the meeting of the federal arms, talking about the meeting of the security council in february, yes, there, there were enough disturbing faces as well. perhaps even more disturbing than these people live in the chassis in front of putin

. each of them realizes that his fate is in the hands of the national leader, as they call putin. i think that if you saw the meetings of the politburo of the central committee in the cpsu or brazil of the central committee of the cpsu during you also saw joseph stalin with exactly the same faces, there were no smiles, and it is absolutely obvious because these people knew that they were hostages of the regime of sole power of vladimir putin, by the way, thanks to the annexation of crimea and the war against ukraine, it was possible to form such a regime of one-man power and it is a fact that when kadirovshi begins to move, well, there cannot be such a confrontation , the head of one of the subsidized regions of the russian federation cannot oppose the minister of defense of the russian federation, this is exclusively such a controlled story and another putin special operation that let's tickle the nerves of the military, show them that we e- we can change each of them at any time, and even a person who is a close personal friend of putin, sergei shoigu, but you know

, try to understand chekhov's logic, it's yourself don't respect, tell me if the regime is one-man or when the regime of one-man rule starts to fall, it's from the outside somehow you can see in advance or notice or at some point you just know swan lake health report uh i'm tired well i don't know absolutely for sure no, i won't be tired. there may just be a message that the president of the russian federation died of a serious illness, a solemn funeral, mourning for 10 days, if the war continues at this time, some missile attacks on the territory of ukraine, say the struggle for power between associates in two or three months after the funeral, but we will find out about it already,

as it is correct to say in fact. when we find out about it, it may be in a few months or it may be in a few years because vladimir putin is only 70 years old. as far as i i understand that he is going to be the president of the russian federation for life. he will rule only with a few healthy people. in the event of his departure, because you must understand that each of these persons may believe that the victory of another person in the struggle for power will mean his political and financial collapse. and these people own billions of dollars, they cannot take such risks and we will put three dots on it, thank you very much during your time, political commentators, publicist vitaly portnikov and another point on the e-e map that we will pay attention to today prague, the first summit of the new european union is underway there, the european political community, the idea of ​​the french president

macron has already been nicknamed the european union, plus a list of members of the motley countries of the european union. britain , which left the eu, is a candidate country that wants to join the eu, in particular, ukraine, its neighbors, norway , switzerland, iceland. this is an incomplete list of ideas for such a union. for the first time, macron announced in may that he wants the eu i was looking for new formats with those who share the values ​​of a united europe, but according to the beautiful words, the idea alarmed many in the candidate countries, will it become a kind of substitute for the eu, a surrogate instead of full membership, let's try receive receive answers i'm just now a columnist for the ukrainian service of radio liberty rostyslav hoten joins the broadcast from prague i congratulate you rostyslav, did you already have an understanding about what this new format is a kind

of waiting room for the european union or i don't know a joint club what is the political difference from the eastern partnership, let's say. and if this is the new integration idea, then what level of integration can there be, well, this new format indicates that europe is a geographical, political, historical, much wider and more diverse than the european union, which includes 27 states, the new format also says that there are problems that cover the whole of europe and not only the eu countries. well, for example, security , russia's war against ukraine, the economy, high energy prices, migration, climate, covid, all this applies to the whole of europe the continent of only the european union, this is exactly what french president emmanuel macron tried to communicate by putting forward the idea of ​​a european political community or commonwealth. countries that are members of the european union and there are countries that are in

the process of trying to join the eu, there are those who have left the european union, there are others who will not join but we all share a common space, sometimes also a common history, and it is important for us to meet here to write our future together. what is the european political community talking about now the creation of the european political community raises a lot of question marks to the osce whether it works effectively in the whole european shelling also even more questions now to the council of europe to what extent the council of europe effective and necessary, costing half a billion euros every year, so far in this newly created community of macron's ideas, 44 countries are very different, from the north sea to the mediterranean, from the atlantic ocean to the caspian sea. a discussion club about a kind of forum for solving problems that

cover the entire european continent, it is not even known whether the budget will have this new entity, but it will meet at least twice a year, maybe ironically, not at the level of the leaders. by the way, prague was the herald of the first inaugural eastern partnership in 2009, and now it hosts the first european political community. well, this is just a coincidence. by the way, i actually sat down to ask why the council of europe is needed then, but you are actually already answered the danger that this new format will become a substitute for the european union for new countries, it has already been finally removed, no, there were indeed certain suspicions in ukraine, and whether this new european political community will be the same truly a substitute for full membership in the european union, this concern is shared by other countries of the west and the balkans, moldova, where georgia was also nervous, all these countries want full full membership in the eu and do not really agree to any surrogates, because things in this

innovative summit of the european political community, ukraine anyway he says that we want to join the european union, but we are ready to work. and in broader formats, we are ready to support the initiative of emmanuel macron today, what is the last, that is, he demonstrated support for ukraine as well as the complete isolation of russia and belarus, let's listen to the heads of government of iceland and belgium. if you look at those present here, you will see the importance of this, i mean that the entire european continent is here with the exception of two countries , belarus and russia, this shows how isolated these two countries are i think that we will see here that the whole of europe is united against the russian invasion of ukraine, it is united against this aggressive war, statements were made about the non-recognition of this so-called russian annexation of the occupied of ukrainian territories, there was also a statement from the sun, in particular, the chancellor of germany, about the non-recognition of these

pseudo-referendums. well, this, so to speak , says that there is a place for ukraine in the future format of a large europe, but there is no place for putin's russia and belarus lukashenka, columnist for the ukrainian service of bbc radio svoboda rostyslav khotyn thank you that's all for today more stories on our website bbc.ua take care see you tomorrow cold treatment a proven medicine and not a cosmetic mixture we will be healthy