the weather is cloudy and humid locally, even a little rain , but no significant rains are expected in the capital tomorrow. but the wind can be biting , so tomorrow you should wrap yourself in a scarf or dress a little warmer. this is the nearest synoptic perspective of the next day. actually , vasyl and natal. well, let's talk about the weather for now. she told me for literally 10 seconds, i will say briefly that at the suggestion of the president of guinea -bissau, e.e., soku embola, who said that putin is conveying that he wants negotiations, zelensky met of the president with the president of june bissau and zelensky said he will liberate our territories, then we will talk. this is the answer. thank you for being with us , goodbye until friday. studios in london yevgenia shadlovska and today in our issue weapons for ukraine what kiev promises western

partners for victory at the front american systems on sams how they will protect the ukrainian sky the expert and the history of ukrainian prisoners will explain who have not yet returned, we spoke with the family of a border guard from mariupol who remains in captivity russia has begun training nuclear forces, working out the scenario of a massive nuclear attack, the training is taking place under the leadership of putin, this is the video released by the kremlin as the russian president monitors the course of maneuvers for the launch of ballistic and cruise missiles about his training, russia previously informed the united states

, a representative of the pentagon stated that this is a normal procedure, routine training russia is obliged to do according to the treaty on the reduction of strategic of offensive weapons, notify in advance of the launch of missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons, advance notification of the start of training reduces the risk of mistakes, so say the pentagon, preliminary training of the strategic containment forces, this is what they call a single weapon, russia conducted such maneuvers in russia 5 days before the invasion of ukraine, and before that for 2 years did not spend, meanwhile, ukraine expects more military aid, minister of defense oleksiy reznikov in an interview with the politika publication talked about kyiv's expectations, firstly, western tanks and fighter jets are different, ukraine respects them sooner or later, but in his opinion, the united states should be the first to make this supply, other allies will follow it, abrams tanks, an ff-16 a fighter in 15 at the same time, reznikov said that ukraine is still waiting for the transfer of switch blade drones at the

same time germany has already promised more weapons to ukraine, namely president frank walter steinmeier, who visited kyiv, and my colleague zhanna bezpyachuk and i are talking about the results of steinmeier's visit. germany promises more iris air defense systems, when they will be in ukraine and what other weapons did the steil promise, congratulations yes, germany wrote that soon it will provide one more air defense system of the arist type to ukraine, plus two more such systems in the next lesson as well in germany, there are plans to develop more such systems precisely to transfer them to ukraine in the future, this is a powerful weapon, powerful anti-aircraft complexes that can be used to shoot down cruise missiles of the types that russia is launching over ukraine today

in addition, germany also promises to provide soon, literally in the coming weeks, if it does not have days, but four self-propelled howitzers and, what is also very important, reactive systems under the birthfire mars 2 - these are analogs of heimers on a crawler, and there is no doubt that ukraine will also need them very much for the counteroffensive in the south and in the east, the visit of the president of germany to ukraine was the first and since the beginning of the war, this is what he was like, what was his peculiarity, yes, this exit is really important , special, from what point of view, that it is actually the third the attempt of frank walter stehmeier as the federal president to travel to ukraine during the war, he made the first attempt back in the spring in

april, and then the ukrainian side said that the visit of the federal president of germany was undesirable. the reason is that frag walter stehmeier is known as a politician even before he became the president of germany, who promoted such a cautious approach to russia and friendly relations with this country, even after the kremlin legally annexed the ukrainian crimea and contributed to the outbreak of the war in donbas in 2014, but on the other hand, it is worth understanding that the figure of the integral president of germany is quite symbolically the main one, the german government approves it, not the president, but this visit is nevertheless such an important gesture of solidarity on the part of germany that is strengthening, deepening and becoming more and more so with pronounced caution already in the past

, in fact, which was demonstrated by german politicians, the project steinmeier went this time to chernihiv region, he admitted that the scale of the plans exceeded the germans' idea of ​​the influence of the russian aggression has on ukraine, he promised to develop, in particular, the partnership between german cities and ukrainian cities in order to ultimately contribute to their reconstruction. i spent more than an hour in a meeting with the local residents of the town of koryukivka in chernihiv oblast, which was under russian occupation, if indeed the visit turned out to be fruitful and if we talk about the statements of the minister of defense of ukraine reznikov that ukraine is receiving modern tanks and fighter jets, why are these weapons still not provided to ukraine, experts say that that the provision of exactly two types of weapons, these are specific weapons, tanks, modern military

aircraft, in particular, fighters, multifunctional aircraft of the fourth generation, is such a certain psychological barrier for the united states of america, because there are fears among the leaders of the united states states to the leaders of the countries of western europe, in particular, germany, france, great britain, that if ukraine is given such a weapon, and this is an offensive weapon , it is not only a defense weapon, although it can be used for self-defense, and that too ukraine needs it and first of all it needs it, but after all, this is the weapon that can provoke a greater escalation, a further escalation of russia's war against ukraine, hence this same one is not only a military, political creature, a psychological bar of fear, well, of course, against the background of russian rhetoric about the possibility of using nuclear weapons, and western countries really

careful, but as ukrainian defense minister oleksiy reisnikov pointed out, if the united states of america had matured to make such a decision on the provision of abrams tanks or the provision of e in the country 16 fighter jets, for example, or other types of military aircraft, and it would be easier for france, germany, great britain, and sweden to take up this initiative, that is, those countries that are politically close to ukraine - they are allies today and that, in addition, produce exactly this heavy weapon that ukraine needs in order to not just to restrain russia, but also the prospect of continuing counter-offensive actions to win back all our territories to win this war thank you zhanna bbc correspondent zhanna bezpyatchuk from kyiv and more about the weapons expected in ukraine and we also talk about the situation at the front with the military observer oleksandr kovalenko, mr.

oleksandr. i welcome you on the air. so, the ukrainian authorities expect from the united states powerful anti-aircraft systems on sams, what kind of system is this and how do they strengthen the air defense of ukraine? good evening, we have already waited. let's say that these systems will be provided by ukraine. we will be able to significantly increase the effectiveness of our anti-aircraft defense alone, it is an interactive complex of short and medium range, it can use a variety of missile weapons, and that is what makes it both the main complex of short-range and medium-range missiles , each battery allows you to close the airspace within a radius of

25 km and is in fact a very important element for the formation of an air defense system that is poorer. what is in this complex, especially for our passage, is that that it is integrated without any problems into other people's native anti-aircraft systems, for example . of the western origin of the complexes well, it could cause some low and some problems on sams, it integrates very well in any system in any a-a against air defense anti-missile defense e-e network and therefore it is even more than

the other is beneficial for ukraine to use and let's talk about russian nuclear threats. so we saw that russia conducts training of strategic forces for the second time in a year, and russia climbs higher on this uh ladder of nuclear escalation or just rattles its weapons in this case nuclear weapons are still uh- it 's more the second than the first. although they are connected because russia raises the stakes in this whole nuclear blackmail because every time it has some problems in the war zone on the front, they start this nuclear blackmail we remember when the armed forces of ukraine launched a counteroffensive on the northern bridgehead and began to liberate the chernihiv sumy and kyiv regions, then they threatened to strike at the chernobyl nuclear power plant, when the counteroffensive on the southern bridgehead began, and they began to accuse

ukraine of allegedly shelling the armed forces of ukraine zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant later, when the counteroffensive began, then the party in kharkiv region openly talked about the use of tactical nuclear weapons. now we we see how difficult the conditions are for them on the right bank part of the kherson region, and that's why there is a new scarecrow about an already dirty e-bomb from an e-e that is supposedly being prepared in ukraine, so it is an element every time they have problems in the war zone, which they will not be able to deal with tactically or strategically, a dirty bomb that scares russia from the weekend, russia says that ukraine is allegedly preparing a dirty bomb. against ukraine, this is such a dirty bomb, and this is

really going to be the last decision for it, an absurd decision that can be taken by the russian government, because it is a dirty bomb, and although it is not one hundred percent, it is a nuclear weapon, but it is actually a conventional weapon a weapon that has nuclear elements in it, what is it and why is it called dirty, and here it is pollution of the environment, it will also be quite large-scale, depending on what exactly it will be, which combat unit it is and what will be its composition and this one combat unit. and if this type of pollution is carried out, then it is a

threat to the countries of europe. be from the use of this bomb and they will not solve a single hundred tactical strategic problems er and other problems in the combat zone, but what they will set up against themselves nato directly, and this is really a fact and here by the way, here is another element of these russian accusations about the alleged dirty bomb , the government of slovenia exposed russia as a fake and stated that the photo that the russian ministry of foreign affairs used to accuse ukraine of preparing a dirty bomb is actually a photo of the slovenian agency for radioactive waste, a photo that was taken back in 2010, and the russian the ministry of foreign affairs was used, and even without permission, this is the case. information that we will learn about all these russian accusations, which ukraine considers absolutely groundless. finally, let's talk about the ukrainian counteroffensive on kherson in the east

, the minister of defense reznikov says that the counteroffensive is complicated in the south due to the weather due to the rains. and what are your estimates, here is the south and the east and so on. it is really the weather conditions, they make their negative corrections, but still for today namely, the conditions for a counter-offensive regarding the destruction of the line of defense of the russian occupiers regarding the reduction of their potential to provide e-e advanced units are being formed. that is, these are logistical issues, and the destruction of logistics, as well as the management system, and not only. that is, this complex problems that are currently being solved in the right bank part of kherson oblast and in the near future, one way or another, but the contour offensive actions will

begin in which direction? we can observe the preparations now, but what will happen next? well, to reveal the plans, or even from the certificate, what will happen, it is not quite correct, and as for luhansk region, there is more and more. armed forces in ukraine, they are developing a direction to cut the a-a logistics artery r66, this is a very important route that connects svatovo and kremyana, so even the day before, the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine announced the liberation of populated areas. if we look at the map, we can see that these populated areas are this is the direction to cut r66, and some locations on this route currently have fire control of the armed forces, full fire control, but fire control is not yet physical control,

when physical control will be carried out and it is possible to say that after this route a is cut, a can begin a more intensive and active actions of the armed forces of ukraine already in the direction of matchmaking or crime or a combination. the president of the african state of guinea-bissau in marusi sokoenbau , he is the chairman of the regional association of west african states ecos, which includes 15 countries of the continent, and at the end of october he visited moscow already in kyiv, the president of bissau said that as he met with putin, he told him that he was ready for negotiations with president zelensky, this is the message he brought to kyiv, zelensky also discussed with an african leader the organization ukraine africa and announced the allocation of a quota for the education of students from guinea

fissau in ukraine, german chancellor olafshol today in paris, where he was greeted warmly and cordially by the president of france, macron, but although there were smiles, handshakes, and friendly pats on the shoulders on the steps and in the lycek palace, in the relations between countries have a lot of disagreements, especially regarding ukraine, disagreements on issues of defense, energy , expansion of the european union, germany and france have different opinions opposite opinions on these topics, so the meeting between macron and schultz is not easy, moreover, the fact that the joint meeting of the governments of the countries is still such an annual symbol became a manifestation of these tense relations between the countries the franc of german cooperation was canceled at the last minute, how will this affect the support of ukraine, we are talking about it with my colleague hryhoriy zhigalov from correspondence to us from brussels and a correspondent of the publication ukrainian week, but lazareva joins from paris. so, i congratulate you, but the first question for you is

what are the main claims of france to germany, first of all, this is the question of the energy plan, because france is also promoting nuclear energy, or they say clean green and started a sort of christ-like campaign against fossil energy sources, and germany, as we know, planned to make a big deal, or precisely from the distribution of gas energy, thanks to northstremo 1.2 well, of course, there is a war in the country russian aggression made major adjustments, in particular , in the activities of both lawns. nevertheless, germany does not abandon hope, still, it focuses on purchased energy and, therefore, it is still negotiating with the pyrenean countries to build a gas pipeline, which is not very popular in the

chrono, because it is the opposite urges other countries to withdraw from the energy charter france will definitely withdraw germany is thinking, that is, these approaches are opposite, as they correctly said, to the issue of energy, energy provision, energy security obviously directly among themselves, and this is also directly related to the war that russia started against ukraine, because gas money allows us to constantly arm ourselves and continue the war, and it is obvious that very difficult negotiations are also taking place around this, and france wants to do the same restrictions on gas prices, and germany is against gas price restrictions, what is currently being discussed in the european union, actually grigory and how these contradictions between france and germany will shake

the european union well, i think that it will not happen at all it is an exaggeration to say that this meeting is being watched with attention from all european capitals. but yes , especially from the offices of the european institution here in brussels , there was this cold. let's call it that. what has appeared between paris in recent months is already forcing the entire machinery of the european union to slow down. i would not talked about destabilization, but here is one of the direct consequences, for example, during the eu summit, which was part of the european commission's proposal on how to deal with the energy crisis last week, it was not part of the decisions even part of the proposals did not even make it to the final list. here is the plan or a consensus was needed . well, what kind of consensus is it, if france and germany have opposing views on whether to introduce an upper limit for gas prices? as you just said, a separate story with the allocation of two hundred billions of euros by the german government to

support its economy against the background of high gas prices for the message that there were messages that paris was irritated and everyone saw these messages. i paid attention to them, but no only paris on the eve of the tunes during the debate in the parliament, the new prime minister of italy questioned whether such behavior of scholz can be called european, or germany, in her opinion, does not contribute to the fact that you have a better price for gas for this eu relations with china are also a topic that brussels knows about. instead of a solo trip, it could be a joint trip from this macron, as once, when he

visited paris, macron invited merkel and the president of the european commission, then junkter, in order to demonstrate such european unity in words . it's germany now, but for now, everyone is waiting patiently, when there are two teams, two countries, two capitals, it will reduce these contradictions , you know. well, they say for a reason. i'm researching this phrase now. what frank, the german contradictions are as old as the franco-german friendship, okay, the investigator in the european union, let's leave it aside for now, let's talk about support for ukraine, namely about weapons, here e hello , france sends less weapons to ukraine than poland than germany, as a country that aspires to be a leader the defense of the european union makes a smaller contribution

than other countries, well, in an interview last week, the french general to the mini elektronkan he said that the weight is so that it turns out that there are caesars and other weapons that come from the faction, they weigh less than they will say what the poles or germans transmit to other countries, but these data, which ukrainian intelligence will receive from french satellites, all these maps are very accurate, so that they weigh little if printed on paper, but are extremely important for the introduction of hostilities. it is difficult to verify this information because, er, this statement is quite military, the reason is french, and it is obvious that they hesitated for a long time to provide more weapons to ukraine,

but i think that this is a book about espresso and is being conducted with in addition to negotiations and other new video weapons, they also received a message. that is, i don't think that they see, let's say, a direct connection between how much they help ukraine with weapons and how much it allows them to secure leadership positions in the european union. it's obvious paris does not establish such a straight line between these two positions, but by the way, germany in the european union also had questions about ukraine's military aid to germany, criticized for the slowness of supplies, and now we we hear new promises of weapons, that's grigory in general, and what kind of weapons does germany already supply, and what is the volume

? we now have one complex already working in the south of the country. as we know in the south of ukraine, another complex is reliable soon. and two more next year, after which the additional mars volley fire systems will be built. two should arrive, and we understand that this is an analogue of himer - this is actually a game the changers in this war are what make it possible to greatly change the situation at the front, e.e. self-propelled howitzers , and in fact, this is a big breakthrough compared to how everything began. i remember the first meeting of the rammstein format in april, at which they were waiting for germany to announce whether it would start to supply ukraine with heavy weapons in general, and the big news then in april was the decision to supply kiev with self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, e.e. cheetah, and now there are already 30 such

systems in service with the armed forces of ukraine, and they can be used to shoot down airplanes and helicopters and drones, this is what flies below 3.5 km you can also target infantry fighting vehicles there, if you remember, there is also a howitzer shell - it is 2,000 e. also, in september, ukraine received a radar station to fight contraband, but you know, germany. you can often hear criticism of germany that germany is very slow allocates weapons to ukraine, but as you can see, these and the weapons that germany allocates now are very powerful , they change the situation at the front and in germany, and this is my german diplomats. they are talking about it, well, such procedures cannot be adopted there very quickly a decision is needed, time is needed, all these procedures must be passed before the decision is adopted, will be valid and will be implemented but at the same time, there is no such feeling that france and germany are competing with each

other who will help ukraine more and who will help ukraine better hello, what are your feelings, how are you to journalists in paris and how is france trying to lead this european aid to ukraine or not? i wouldn't say that it is still competing for some first positions . in diplomacy, that is, he i would like to have the position of, let's say, the informal diplomatic leader of the european countries, well, this is obviously related to his cloudless, completely unsuccessful negotiations with putin, which of course will not bring you anything, because you can only negotiate with those who want to to come to an agreement with you when there is no such desire, then it is like talking to a wall and he simply did not have

much time to understand everything but nevertheless, uh, uh, it is these uh, uh, maybe his failures are a little bit i wouldn't say radicalized but he was forced to decide and choose. now the tone is much sharper, clearer, clearer regarding what is happening in ukraine, in relation to the war, in relation to our european prospects, that is, well, it was quite beneficial for him, i would say yes, but about the competition with germany, i after all, i would definitely not draw a conclusion, and the very last question is very short for you, grigory, and in the eu, macron and scholz are still considered to be such key negotiators with putin, well, they were considered key negotiators because they were part of the normandy four, after all, the eu is 27 different countries and they all build uh in different ways. well, they coordinate international politics, but after all, it is an independent country. if we talk about the role of

macron and the scholzes in the negotiations with moscow, well, they are , after all, participants of the normandy four and someone has to talk to moscow and their role is so simple and natural let's talk about the ukrainian prisoners in this news release, we 'll talk about it in the next ones and that's it see you tomorrow vietnamese balm star the first step when treating a cold, a proven drug, not a cosmetic mixture, we will be healthy, ask vietnamese pharmacies, trust only proven drugs