and ours were called to fry kebabs, and this is after they make a mistake, you understand what the matter is right away, what i am leading us to at the start, of course, for western democracies there is a barrier of not participating in the war, and as of december, as of seeding even at the beginning of february, for them it was fundamentally to distance themselves, and that is why they provided armed assistance for repulsion, not for war, but for elementary repulsion, because they are very welcome on the air of bbc news ukraine, olga palamaryuk is working in the studio, and we are finishing the results of the independence day, the exchange of prisoners is returning home more than a hundred ukrainian fighters in kherson removed the russian flag from the administration building and are dismantling roadblocks, is russia preparing to withdraw from the

occupied city and president putin has detached himself from reality, warn analysts, demand russian weapons when the country is forced to buy them from iran and north korea, what is happening in the kremlin, a new large-scale exchange captives between ukraine and russia, this time more than a hundred military personnel are returning home, including 74 defenders . i will immediately connect to the air my colleague bbc correspondent victoria zhugan to learn more about the video hello, so what is known about today's exchange, well, probably because now we know less

than we knew during previous exchanges since the announcement of this exchange, for example, it has not yet been traditional and already for previous exchanges , a press conference with the participation of the president. and yes. also, we have not yet seen the lists of exchanged ukrainians, because they appeared on the website before, maybe later they will appear. also, i have not yet seen any exclusive comments from the families of the defenders of azovstal, what happened before, in return, what information did we receive, we know that uh, there are six officers, other privates and a sergeant, we know approximately the condition of all these people, and uh, we received this from the ukrainian authorities and also a little earlier today there were statements from the so-called head of the self-proclaimed dpr that the russian side received the lion's share of ordlo residents, he named

65 people. well, the ukrainian side, i will repeat, stressed that there are many defenders of azovstalia and as well as military personnel from various branches of the ukrainian army, as of now, what is known about the condition of released prisoners of war, the ukrainian ombudsman dmytro lubinets said that the lion's share of returning ukrainian soldiers have serious injuries during hostilities and there are people in critical condition he also said that some of them have shrapnel wounds to their limbs. some have field wounds. there are also people with burns . have infected wounds, it is also known that one of the

exchanged soldiers who is now returning home was injured due to an explosion in the colony in the deer park, and the ombudsman says that they are all currently receiving rehabilitation and treatment. and russia, i will remind you that this time more than a hundred soldiers are returning home, and now let's look at the south of ukraine. the disappearance of the russian flag from the kherson building caused a great resonance on social networks today. administration, the tricolor had been hanging there since march, but today it disappeared when it disappeared, the first deputy head of the local regional council, yuriy sobolevsky, reported, a bbc source among local residents confirms this information, moreover, according to information on social networks, the russians dismantled at least part of their checkpoints, the general staff of the armed forces and ukrainian intelligence confirm the

information about the movement of the occupation administration from kherson to the left bank to skadovsk, at the same time, the head of the gur of ukraine, general kyrylo budanov, assures that he will surrender without a fight according to him, the russian troops still do not plan kherson , the most prepared military personnel continue to remain in the city, the spokeswoman of the ukrainian southern command, nataliya humenyuk, also urges ukrainians not to rejoice at the disappearance of the russian flag, this could be a provo situation. we will certainly talk about this with a military expert in a few minutes, but now we will learn more about what is happening in the kherson region, contact the journalist serhiy nikytenko mr. serhiy thank you for joining the broadcast. what do you know about the mood in the city? by the way, i read the other day that a large part of the people is still preparing to meet the ukrainian military

. we communicate every day, they say that they are waiting for the armed forces of ukraine, but they understand that this is the hysteria of the occupiers, which they have staged in the last two weeks. what is this? well, this is really a trap, because in principle, you are right, most of the checkpoints have disappeared from the city center. they are military, but they continue to be in kherson, the russians are on the territory of industrial facilities , today there was an attack on the shipbuilding plant where the russians were located, that is, they are here and the armed forces, judging by everything, know about it, you are talking about part of the checkpoints, so that is, not all of them have disappeared yet, so the main ones, let's say the main ones

and today there was even a video, i don’t know if you have seen it on the internet, a video of people riding a bus past one of these empty checkpoints and starting to applaud, that is, people were so happy because er, this rudiment of the occupation that applauds has disappeared, we hear the statements of the russian administration about forced evacuation, and i can’t help but ask you about it, what exactly does this coercion look like, what do we know about those who are being deported and whether there is an opportunity to stay in the city, well, about forced evacuation from the city of kherson. to be honest, i haven’t heard, that is, so far, the occupiers say that it is voluntary, and in principle, i have not heard that someone was deported because of, well , without his will, hmm. at the same time, there is information from on the left bank, where she also decided to evacuate the occupiers

residents of coastal settlements, and there is indeed information that they will not be deported yet, but they are going to be forcibly brought in. this is really true. and those people who are leaving without being forced. there were isolated cases of departure there today and yesterday. yes, because there is nothing to leave, roughly speaking, you can only sail from kherson on pleasure boats, those who left realized that the top collaborators were the first to leave, and after them they began ordinary collaborators, er, their families. well, then everyone who wants er, as a rule, well, with the first one, if everything is clear, then er, those who left are already ordinary people, as a rule, these people who er, hmm, believed

the occupiers about the bombing and so on and in principle, we can't say that they did it right or not, yes, people are worried and worried, that's why, in principle, they left the burgh . there were many elderly people, most of the young people had already left there in may and june, everyone who wanted to left, and in principle well let's say people leave partly those who did not have the money to leave with everyone together because it was expensive uh well, in principle, very different people are very different and this is about the fact that local residents are forcibly evicted from their apartments and buildings - and the vacated housing is moved in disguised in the civilian russian military, you know such facts in kherson, they started moving into houses

already in the summer, and about two weeks ago they started evicting, yes, even the fsbshnik kateri , nothing, whom the russians sent to kherson as the deputy head of tarasalda, he was even killed with a missile in someone else's house in which he illegally lived well, in principle, no one is moving into the food itself, on the contrary, everyone has moved out in the region in the left bank of kherson region, indeed, a lot of people are saying that russians are moving into other people's houses en masse, evicting them people are checked for registration, documents for the house are checked, if a person does not have a pass, well, it seems that the owner is fine there, they left them to live in their house when they left, they evict these people and take their place, really russia, this is us confirm thank you for the situation in kherson oblast

, journalist serhii nikitenko, thank you and for another topic in ukrainian, energoatom states that russia is trying to connect the zaporizhzhia npp to its power system, and the shelling and damage to the station's last high-voltage communication lines with ukraine's power system is part of the company's plan, the russians say in the near future they will try to repair and connect the communication lines in the direction of the occupied crimea and donbass. in the morning, energoatom reported that there was no current from the as because of the shelling, the station went into full blackout mode the night before, and now it is running on diesel generators and the countdown has begun. this is how they described the situation at the energoatom there, noting that due to the occupation of the station, the interference of representatives of rosatom in its work, the ability to support safety at the nuclear power plant, limitations and appealed to the international community of with a call to help immediately demilitarize the military and

return the station to the control of ukraine from kyiv , bbc correspondent catherine ye roganga news that we what we have is that the zaporozhye npp was heavily shelled at night, as a result of which the main main high-voltage lines that provided power to the station were disabled, and this means that now it operates from backup generators, this is an emergency situation because it is the largest nuclear power plant in europe, its six main reactors had to be turned off for safety reasons and to be sure that this would not lead to a nuclear disaster, they needed electricity supply before this station had already been without current, but its always reconnected, we see that due to this incident, international concern about the safety of the zaporizhzhia npp is growing, we have a comment from the director general of the international

atomic energy agency, raphael grossi. he said that this incident highlighted the extremely unstable situation with nuclear safety and security at the facility. so he renewed calls to create a safety zone around the au should also note that further south in the black sea ports of ukraine, we saw how seven ships left with almost 300,000 tons of grain on board they are heading to spain, italy and the netherlands, the fact that this grain agreement remains valid is a good sign, and we see that food prices on the world stock markets are falling again due to the positive development of events in the black sea, the american institute for the study of war, which analyzes the course of events in ukraine, writes what the president russia quote is detached from reality when it comes to armament today putin called to ensure new active competition of russian manufacturers

and developers of weapons of military equipment and equipping in reality that, as analysts of the institute remind, russia buys drones and possibly even ballistic missiles, and also, as american intelligence claims, artillery shells in north korea, and here it is worth clarifying the truth that all three countries deny such information, as noted in the institute for the study of war, russia's dependence is in weapons from these countries is not consistent with putin's demand that the russian military industry becomes competitive , and meanwhile the losses of the russian army can now reach about a battalion of armored vehicles per day , there is no way to quickly replenish glass stocks, this is already the analysis of the british ministry of defense in the morning briefing in london, they note that russian soldiers in ukraine are annoyed by the fact that they are forced to fight on old infantry fighting vehicles, which they call aluminum cans

in the middle of october in the conditions of the ukrainian offensive the losses of russian armored vehicles have increased to 4 units per day, which actually roughly corresponds to one battalion in recent weeks, russia probably purchased at least 100 additional tanks and infantry fighting vehicles from belarusian stocks armored units and artillery occupy a central place in the russian strategy of waging war currently russian units in ukraine are having difficulties they lack artillery shells and serviceable armored vehicles and 8 months after the invasion of ukraine the lives of people in russia continues to change , control over the population is becoming increasingly repressive, new restrictions on public expression of views and severe punishments for those who dare to protest, some experts draw parallels with memories of a darker zero when joseph stalin ruled the soviet union with an iron hand, millions of russians died during stalin's brutal dictatorship - this is a page of history

that russia is trying to forget but as bbc correspondent stil rosenberg reports from st. petersburg fears that the lessons of that time are needed today, how many people in russia want to remember the dark pages of their country's history, very few, every year this group of people gathers to remind of the great the terror of the 1930s, reading the names of joseph stalin's victims, millions of whom he executed, and millions of whom he sent to the camps, the gulag disappeared, but the fear is back, the repressions are intensifying every week , says local politician serhiy troshin, today in russian society, he is felt, we can feel that we are being watched they shoot and don't even really hide it, criticize the government,

risk the consequences of the university teacher denis skopin, who was just fired for allegedly immoral behavior, and perfect employees a misdemeanor is immoral, he was arrested because of a protest against mobilization, he spent 10 days in prison, but look at how the students see him off on the last day of work, and i love my students very much, they perfectly understand what is happening in russia, denis tells many of his colleagues, researchers, scientists from russia escaped russia is now losing its best people the most energetic most critical thinking people are leaving the country where is russia going now

in short russia is going in the wrong direction and one gets the impression that the past still casts a shadow over the present and the future of russia, history never repeats itself exactly, but there are disturbing parallels between the past and the present of russia, during the time of joseph stalin, soviet citizens who despised the government were often called enemies of the people after the invasion of ukraine, vladimir putin promised to clean up russia from those whom he called traitors , scum and the fifth column, to help himself in this, president putin introduced a new patriotic lesson in russian schools, it is called talking about important things and of course to protect this in russia in a conversation putin claims that in ukraine russia is fighting to protect russia critics call it indoctrination there are children who believe they

open their eyes and are ready to believe in everything and this is very dangerous kyivska street that russian history can teach something, the lesson will be like this if you believe without a doubt in everything the leader says and does, it can have tragic consequences russian oppositionist mykhailo khodorkovsky, who is in exile in britain, testified in the foreign affairs committee of the house of commons he confirmed that even if putin will lose power in russia, the creator of wagner's private military campaign yevgeny prigozhin continues to wage war against ukraine khodorkovsky, who was once considered the richest man in russia, lost his business empire and spent 10 years in prison after falling out with putin over drukovsky, who was called progozhena, who

only recently admitted that created pvk wagner as an important tool for the kremlin, which allows putin to deny responsibility for some of the most controversial actions of his regime, let's listen, the probability of that is very small the probability that unarmed people will try to do something, rather, the problems in the point will not be related to the return of the mobilized, especially in the event of a military defeat. putin can lose power only in the event of a defeat, in this case there are several groups in his entourage that can claim power. this is mr. mishuy with this, a soviet man, one of prigozhin's people, kovalchuk, together with kadyrov, and zolotov, it is possible, but none of them will be able to hold power, it is possible that putin will leave power in 2024, but his regime will live until in the 26th year, if ukraine does not win now, the war will continue for several more years, but there is a high

probability that ukraine will win. if the west continues to support ukraine with weapons, then ukraine can definitely win. the west could recognize the wagner group and the people who support it as terrorists. - the second measure could provide more military aid to the ukrainians and this is also very important , the fighter aircraft of ukraine in recent weeks has been involved in the interception of russian missiles and drones on a daily basis, in addition, the ukrainian air force supports foreign troops in counteroffensives and battles in donbas ukrainian fighter pilots became heroes of the battle for kyiv they have already entered the history of the current war as the legendary ghosts of kyiv bbc met one of them with a mig-29 pilot with a callsign time in missiles and drones attack ukrainian cities infrastructure ukraine

is trying to intercept them both on land ukraine and in the air there is a beautiful spoke with the pilot with the call sign jus about the realities of this war for ukrainian pilots.

everyone wrote off that they would play an important role in the war from their accounts, everyone talked about the fact that ukrainian aviation is 10 times less likely to destroy it, although russia attacked ukrainian airfields, ukraine was able to concentrate and save its planes, but what happens next, it needs more and more new ones that are now available , it has been flying there for maybe the last years, that is this is precisely the next perspective of further exploitation in three to five years, the entire soviet or peasant country is absent. accordingly, we have to switch to new aircraft during face-to-face air combat during such a collision, our planes are practically not have a chance to win, even came up with the fact that russia outnumbers the russians in terms of the number and quality of aircraft, ukrainian tactics are successful in ukraine, there is no need

to achieve dominance in the air, it knows that if it sends all its aircraft forward, russia will use surface-to-air missiles, so it does so in order to find itself where and when it is we really need to push them out, they were forced to avoid us we are trying to lure russian planes into the range of our air defense and the anti-aircraft guns shot them down the russians are improving their tactics we need more advanced behind our planes, they are needed for air defense to intercept cruise missiles friends bbc kyiv and finally about the cultural front where ukrainian artists are fighting, defending ukrainian culture, calling on the west to reconsider and rethink the russian works of tolstoy and pushkin, my colleague tetyana kharchenko talked about culture during the war with the creative director of the ukrainian institute, this is a

state institution that takes care of the image of ukraine, then a conversation with tetyana filevska all we see that every day, in addition to people, ukraine also loses its cultural heritage. and in these 8 months, what are the biggest losses of ukraine on the cultural front ? unfortunately, culture is one of the targets of the russians in this war, and they are deliberately destroying ukrainian culture and looting monuments in museums destroy museum objects, architectural objects, and today hundreds of objects of cultural heritage have been registered that were destroyed, any cultural loss, it is uh, very big, heavy, and i don't know how to compare skovoroda museums or museums it is very difficult for ivanka because both there and there but this is the history of the city, the history of this place, that is, if

one community loses its history, it is, well, not a renewable loss for everyone, for the whole society, and, in fact, well, i think that there are a lot of losses, what about what we will only find out because a huge part of museums and cultural objects are still under occupation or have been under occupation since 2014, and we all understand that these are irreparable losses and that russian museums claim that they took crimea already 5 million objects that they bought there in these 8 years. well, i think that this is evidence of the catastrophic consequences of the russian occupation, and about which we have yet to find out. and how do you feel about the abolition of russian culture? i am convinced that now is not the time to pay attention at all to russian art, in addition, the world has been immersed in this russian

culture for years, which is actually a continuation of their propaganda. it is time for the world to realize that they were simply a target of russian propaganda in the form of russian culture and about it directly declared, for example, the director of the russian army and in his scandalous interviews recently, putin signed some kind of order about russia's humanitarian policy abroad, that is, in the midst of international sanctions against russia. key figures that should be used to promote russian culture abroad, i.e. direct evidence that for russia culture has always been a tool of influence and a weapon such an information weapon, and accordingly the world

should simply beware of this influence. at the same time, please tell me what your budget is for next year, and if it already has such projects, you are actually planning despite the colossal economic challenges of the ukrainian budget and the budget process of this of the year took place virtually without changes. i mean in terms of and and we also submitted our expectations for the budget for the next year. as far as i know, the budget has not been finally approved, but we already know that approximately we will have to have the same funding this year. that is, we will be able to fully retain our team and continue our activities, of course, understanding that we will need to seek external funding for projects for our programs and for opening a branch because, despite the difficulties, we were able to open a branch in france this year, now we are going to - we are still

opening another branch in another european country and we are still negotiating with great britain , for example, yes, that is, if we were finally able to open such a foreign representative office which we have been dreaming and planning for a long time, but everything was getting in the way, now nothing is getting in the way, now we understand how timely it is. and by the way , you can also listen to the full version of the conversation with tetyana filevska in our podcast called how ukraine can beat russia on the cultural at the front , look for spitfiles, apple podcasts, and also on our website bbc.ua and on youtube, bbc news ukraine and that’s all for today, more stories, search on our website bbc.ua and on our pages in social networks, and you can turn on our program tomorrow precisely at 9:00 p.m. take care of yourself

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