the field, because after all, people who play football play there, they have their own tasks, goals there, where to get points, to go to the playoffs, but this proves once again that football is still a big politics, let's football be football, let's go. i wish you that it would be as much light as possible, you get up, you managed to do everything . take care of yourself, your loved ones, warm yourself and warm us all with the warmth of your hearts and souls. thank you for being with us. i will write with you until tomorrow. now for your attention, i offer a news release. colleagues from bbc news ukraine we watch together good evening we are from ukraine from ukraine and olga palamaryuk works in a studio in london and this is what we are talking about today nato foreign ministers gathered in bucharest

the main topic is the war in ukraine first lady of ukraine olena zelenska who is on a visit to london spoke before the parliament of great britain and russian forces in donetsk region exaggerate their achievements, say military experts, we are analyzing the situation on the front nato countries continue to strengthen support for ukraine, which continues to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity from russian aggression , this is stated in the statement following the alliance's ministerial meeting in bucharest. i would like to remind you that the foreign ministers of

nato countries gathered in the capital of romania for two days to discuss further steps and the amount of aid to ukraine. the minister emphasized that russia bears full responsibility for this war, a violation of international rights and the un charter, and those guilty of war crimes must be brought to justice. nato countries also condemn everyone , including belarus, who actively contributes russia's aggressive war against ukraine, the members of the alliance will also help ukraine in restoring its energy infrastructure and protecting the population from missile attacks, and before the meeting in bucharest, general secretary stoltenberg said that putin will fail in his war because of this, he can launch new attacks on ukraine, the secretary general believes that russia unbelievably continues to carry out attacks on the energy system and gas infrastructure of ukraine in the winter period. he also added that in the event of russia's victory in the war against ukraine, the world will have to pay a higher price because authoritarian

leaders in different countries will get the green light to use brute force by some nato country and nato itself is not a party to the conflict in ukraine, but we provide unprecedented support to ukraine because ukraine is a nation that has the right to self-defense, the right to enshrined in the status of the un, president putin is defeated by his brutal war of aggression and responds with increasing brutality, we see wave after wave of deliberate missile attacks on cities and civilian infrastructure, hitting buildings, hospitals and power grids are terrible for ukraine, but now are also difficult times for us in the rest of europe and many other countries of the world. so our message from bucharest, nato, we will continue to support ukraine as long as necessary, we will not back down, commented on the actions of russia, british

foreign minister james cleverley, according to him, the kremlin is targeted on the energy infrastructure in order to freeze the ukrainians and force them into submission a few days ago. by the way, cloverly was in kyiv and there he said that russia will not succeed in weakening support for ukraine or undermining democratic world and then i suggest you listen to what the head of the british ministry said today in bucharest the attacks on civil and energy infrastructure are obviously aimed at trying to freeze the ukrainians and force them to submit i know that this will not be successful because the ukrainians have shown strong resilience and we will continue to support them in these difficult months. therefore, the north atlantic alliance shows a firm intention to continue supporting ukraine, but disagreements about what military assistance will provide, however, there may be unanimous nato members in one kyiv must decide for itself what

goals it will pursue as bbc security correspondent jonathan bill arrives some alliance members are already making efforts to help ukraine survive the winter about a continuous flow of supplies to ukraine, both military and humanitarian in particular, the generators that are needed after the attacks on the power grid of ukraine, which cause difficulties for millions of civilians who suffer from power outages, here are waiting for concrete promises about how will help ukraine to repair the energy network, and instoltenberg made it clear that he believes that russia is using winter as a weapon of war. we also heard british foreign minister james cleverly, who stated that russia will try to freeze ukraine so that it is defeated . nato's foreign minister has already promised various specific military support to ukraine and humanitarian and once again showed solidarity with ukraine or understand russia that they will continue

to provide support to ukraine, although this is becoming more and more it is more difficult in the winter of ukraine, he expresses gratitude for the help of the west, but also the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, who informs his colleagues from nato countries here about the latest situation in ukraine, calls for an increase in the supply of weapons, the frank message boils down to the fact that ukraine can win this war if it increases the supply of weapons without which it cannot not to win . and although, as i said, the ukrainians are grateful, they have not yet received all the weapons in the quantity they need. they believe that there are countries in the west that could increase military aid. we have heard a lot about the fact that russia lacks weapons and ammunition, the number of missiles with which they aim at the power grid is decreasing and it is possible that they will be investigated soon to increase their reserves in western officials, you also indicate concern about the significant amount of ammunition that ukraine is forced to use, so they believe that the west itself needs to increase their production and on the eve

of the meeting, the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, dmytro kuleba, in an interview in the politiko newspaper, stated that the country of the alliance urgently needs to expand arms production, since without investment in arms production it is impossible to win on the battlefield in the long term, what do nato members expect from the current meeting in kyiv, as bbc correspondent jessica parker ukrainian politicians always try to keep what is happening in ukraine on the news of the day, on a bilateral basis with a large british or nato minister of foreign affairs of ukraine dmytro kuleba will be at this meeting. and we heard from him that ukraine needs one of the requests now. we are well aware of this request to provide air defense systems have been talking about it here for a long time, but he also talked about the load on the ukrainian energy system after these attacks, the most recent of which happened last

wednesday this week, there are also serious fears that another attack will take place, this is what president zelensky said and the minister of foreign affairs said that ukraine needs transformers so he asked to provide them this winter if we see further russian attacks if this is a russian strategy to really try to damage critical infrastructure in order to leave millions of ukrainians without electricity and water, then the pressure will increase on the international community to provide support with the necessary parts and also with generators , many people are trying to install generators to be independent from the electricity grid if it stops working. actually met two men here in kyiv who told me that they make a living by installing generators. they said that they work 24 hours a day, seven days a week and have never been as busy

as now because a lot of households and businesses are looking for ways to winterize and let's talk more about the results of the first day of meetings in bucharest with us, ex-minister of foreign affairs of ukraine volodymyr hrysko - mr. volodymyr welcome to on the air, have you already had the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the statement of the ministers based on the results of today's meeting? and what did you personally pay attention to? i congratulate you, mrs. olya. i congratulate our dear tv viewers . i am surprised, because in reality there are things that we could only dream about, so to speak, and here , after all, the words that the ministers chose to express their position inspire

optimism and give hope for the future all the more so when these er-e can diplomatically formulated things are confirmed by information from, in particular, the united states of america that the topic of providing ukraine with er-e weapons in order to close the ukrainian sky is moving in a positive direction, i mean first of all er-e patriot systems which have demonstrated their enormous effectiveness and about which there is quite a substantive conversation. well, you know, you always have to look at what your enemies are saying, i mean the russian federation, and here you can't help but pay attention to another surge, well , probably after another acceptance of

a certain amount of such stimulating fluids is another surge of emotions in medvedev, who has been putin's deputy for several years, he is already talking about what the us promised to provide to ukraine patriot systems e regarded as a declaration of war on russia by nato and that such systems will immediately become the target of russian weapons. well, it does not add that after we have these systems, russian missiles will simply go astray 100% proportion. so, it seems to me that these first are certainly not the final results of the summit, the first

talks of the ministers, despite the fact that, by the way, one of the countries today nato continues to block the official status of these negotiations, they are positive. are there any deadlines yet? yes, it's still too early it is too early to talk about weapons. well, such terms never become public . believe me, this is too delicate a matter to talk about on the air. that's why i think that the very information about what this topic is, as they say, is on the table. speaks about the fact that soon i really want to believe that it will really happen not in months but in weeks ukraine will be able to use these systems well, besides, the nato countries once again confirmed their decision that ukraine and georgia will one day become

members of the alliance, but this the phrase, well, let's go frank for many years. there is no way it can be translated into action. what should happen in order for the nato countries to finally reach a consensus regarding the membership of ukraine? yes, you know how long this phrase has been for 14 years. it was written in bukharevskyi's documents before 2008, but i think that this war has demonstrated that the ukrainian army is one of the strongest among the armies of nato member countries, because what the ukrainian army is enduring today is unprecedented, and without being properly armed , it dispelled the myth of the so-called second army world, which the russians called theirs, in fact

it turned out that this is not the second army of the world, but an army killed by marauders and rapists, so i think that in this regard it is obvious for all nato member countries that ukraine is ready to, from the point of view of military conditions to be accepted into the alliance well, let's not compare ukraine with other countries where the army consists of a couple of battalions, but in the meantime they were already gone, there is no alliance, but there is definitely a political and legal aspect where we have unfortunately, we don't see it yet especially to brag about because those things that we have been told for a long time that we cannot implement at all but it still seems to me that in the coming months those of our homework

that we have known for a long time will still be completed and this will finally knock out how say arguments against even the biggest skeptics, which unfortunately, so far in nato countries still exist, this necessity recently said, let's say, the military leadership of the united states at what stage the prerequisites for negotiations may appear and if so, on your opinion, in what format it should take place, it is bilateral multilateral negotiations under the aegidon, or maybe even nato, you know, it seems to me that this position of ours was very clearly expressed in the negotiation process by general zaluzhny, who said that there are no compromises regarding whether or not to liberate the occupied ukrainian

territory cannot be occupied by russians, and we will liberate this territory . after that, there will actually be a possibility of some kind of negotiations, of course they must be negotiations, on the one hand, ukraine and the west as one team and on the other side of the defeated in the war, russia, and regarding whether to call it negotiations or the author of capitulation well, let's see what lies ahead. unfortunately, there are many difficult months, but i think that in the end, the civilized west and ukraine dictate the terms of peace , save the defeated russian federation thank you for a meaningful conversation. we spoke with the ex-minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, volodymyr mogrysky, and while the foreign ministers of nato countries are meeting in bucharest to discuss the continuation of military aid to kyiv the ministers of justice of the group of seven countries gathered in

berlin to consider how to punish war crimes at the first meeting of this format, in which the prosecutor general of ukraine andriy kostin is participating. they are discussing how it is more appropriate to coordinate efforts to collect evidence of war crimes committed by the russians. as war crimes independent investigations are also carried out by other countries as the eu commissioner for justice dierenders called for greater cooperation in prosecution of russian war crimes in ukraine, the most important task is to provide eu lawyers with the opportunity to organize a joint investigative team. it is also important to preserve the evidence collected in ukraine and exchange it with prosecutors at the national level at the international criminal court. we are finding out how to strengthen such legal

cooperation . tribunal or a special tribunal for the crime of aggression, the first lady of ukraine olena zelenska, who is visiting london , spoke before the parliament of great britain she said that she had come for justice and called for the creation of a special international tribunal regarding the crime of russian aggression against ukraine. speaking before the members of the parliament, the first lady recalled the massive shelling of ukraine during which russia fired hundreds of missiles. she also mentioned the war crimes committed by russian soldiers, including rape, torture and murder. civilians, that is why olena zelenska called to punish the political military leadership of russia ladies and gentlemen p speaker members of the government of the parliament lords great the peoples of great britain, the ukrainians are now going

through a terror that has an echo in your memory. this island survived air read by its character identical to those that russia wants to bring our people to their knees. surrender, but we need not only victory, we need justice, russian forces are exaggerating their achievements near bakhmut in donetsk region, and recent statements about advancing near the city do not yet indicate its imminent encirclement this was stated by an analyst of the american institute for the study of war. the day before, the leader of the dpr militants, denys pushylin, stated that russian troops are close to the encirclement of bakhmut. geolocation images show that russian troops have probably captured several villages near bakhmut, but so far there are no signs of an imminent

encirclement of the city by russians, according to experts, russian sources are actively spreading false statements about successes near bakhmut and such statements can be part of an information operation and even if the russian troops really managed to capture control of settlements south of bakhmutaki, success does not threaten the critically important route to siversk and kostyantynivka, which is the main ukrainian foreign communication route, russian troops in their current degraded state can most likely quickly surround bakhmutaki, military analysts summarize the british weekly for which platform analyzed the risks of the operation since the return of crimea, the authors talked with ukrainian commanders about further plans for the liberation of the peninsula, a source of the armed forces says that there are no options in particular, operations in the territories seized by russia until february 24 are excluded; secondly, those leading to

crimea are now within the radius of this ukrainian firepower, including heimers missile systems, officials have been appointed by russia in the annexed crimea, they are preparing for ground attacks , they are building fortifications and trenches, but ukraine will probably concentrate first military experts who know the peninsula well say about the difficult terrain and the great risks of a bloodbath, and more about let's talk about this with a military expert, we are in touch with a reserve colonel of the security service of ukraine , experts in military counterintelligence mykhailo prytula p mykhailo thank you for joining after the explosion on the crimean bridge, it was not the first time that they began to speak out loud about the vulnerability of the peninsula , president zelensky publicly promised to return crimea even if will have to use military force, to what extent are these plans real and the achievements , in your opinion, sir, are quite real, quite achievable , because the logistics of the russians on the crimean peninsula are

the main and logistical arteries are located in the south of the kherson region, and we also know that after the explosion the bridge is not all right and the railway track should be replaced there, accordingly, if there was one accidental explosion, an explosion on the crimean bridge can be one more, and in this way the peninsula will become just a logistical island to which it will be necessary to supply weapons, except by ships , which will also be vulnerable, given the presence of the armed forces of ukraine, naval drones that have already operated in sevastopol bay and disabled at least two warships of the russians. thus , the population of crimea, who remember the hybrid aggression of russia, they understand that

the same hybrid, conditionally speaking, the liberation of crimea by the actions of the armed forces of ukraine, cut off logistics and further, those who are on the peninsula , they will actually be trapped because the relief of the peninsula on the peninsula is mainly flat. and only there is the southern coast of crimea, the southern part of the peninsula is mountainous and there is a place to hide troops. and on the plain there is no such possibility. it is practically a plateau on which there are no natural shelters where the troops could be entrenched and defend there. thus, if, for example, sabotage and intelligence groups of ukraine start operating on the territory of the crimea, it will be very difficult for the crimean troops. they will have to flee , tell the russians to flee quite quickly, it is clear, but at the same time, russia is preparing for a new wave of

mobilization, they are already talking about a hundred thousand, can the newly arrived russian military men change the course of events on the front is significant. well, in particular, in the southern direction, putin has no other resource left except for human resources, he has no high-tech missiles, no high-tech weapons, accordingly, the russian army has degraded to the level of the second world war, and in such a case, it needs a lot manpower, so putin is actually plugging holes in the defense of ukraine by mobilizing fresh troops and throwing them into battle unprepared. there are cases when, for example, there are 600 freshly mobilized soldiers held the defense for three days in a small precinct , uh, immediately, almost immediately after mobilization , almost all of them died, but they

fulfilled their task in combat, and such cases are not isolated, and we see that russia is more and more often using the tactics of the second world war, for this it needs a large number of mobilized and it is precisely the lack of armored vehicles, precisely the lack of high- precision weapons of modern weapons that forces the russians to resort to the mass use of manpower as an alternative to high-precision weapons, we see that russia abandons its soldiers who died on the battlefield, it is not interested in their fate. and actually, this emphasizes the fact that putin actually uses manpower as a resource for which he will get nothing, he is worthless to him and he does not care for the fact that inside the country there will be some unrest

, that there will be some revolutionary situation or people will be dissatisfied with the actions of the kremlin, because in fact he has established his good regime and no one is allowed to express his preferences through such actions, so he has the opportunity is mobilize a large number of russians and throw them practically into battle against the modern army of ukraine. well, what is happening. yes, i apologize for interrupting you , but i would still like to touch on the eastern direction, which we talked about at the beginning of our broadcast about what the russian so-called warlords are declaring first of all, one of the political leaders of russia said that they will take bakhmut in three days, accordingly, he cannot lie to back up his words, they have been taking bakh for three months, this is kyiv in three days, it did not work and it is purely political the decision to take bakhmut in three days has

no special military purpose. well, none at all . they are trying to throw all their resources there in order to strengthen the government's ability to wage this war . thank you for the conversation. military counterintelligence expert mykhailo prytula about the situation at the front, thank you and let's talk more about russia's attacks on the energy system of ukraine, the country has already experienced 7 waves of russian attacks, there were interruptions in electricity and water supply in almost all regions heating and mobile communication, how russia uses attacks on ukrainian infrastructure in its military strategy, how the course of the war has changed in general, british military analyst lawrence friedman tells us this strategy aimed at critical infrastructure, russia began to implement this strategy targeting critical infrastructure in

september, the russians have quite good intelligence on where exactly to aim and they do it mercilessly, all that ukrainians can hope for is that the number of russian missiles decreases and more and more of them are shot down, and generally for improvement air defense, as well as on the fact that they will be able to find ways to adapt to increasing difficulties. with the onset of severe winter, the russians are terrorizing the population, making life unbearable. this war, on the contrary, they actually strengthen this determination. so, although this one causes a lot of pain, it does not really help russia win the war, it does not seem to have a significant effect on the ability ukrainian forces and at the front, i think this is even a

reflection of the weakness of the russians on the battlefield, their offensive lasted for months but did not give results, while the ukrainians seized the initiative in the south. and now and in the east, in many ways, this is an act of desperation on the part of the russians. and of course, as a consequence of the road to peace it is even more difficult to find, because the ukrainians are understandably extremely angry at what was done to their country, everything changed dramatically at the beginning of the war, when the main means of defense of the ukrainians were molotov cocktails, it quickly became obvious that the russians have no competence, no opportunities to seize ukraine as they wanted it and began to push them out relentlessly. but i believe that it is difficult to end this war. the ukrainians are clearly not ready for any compromises. they want their territories back and will not stop fighting until they get them for

putin . a cease-fire or a truce meant that he did not achieve any of his goals, he would not even receive a part of ukraine that was annexed contrary to international law in september, he had to explain what was the point of this, so i am afraid of war it will still last for some time, its end will most likely be approached by the successes of the ukrainians in land battles to dislodge the russians, they believe that this will be the key factor and that's all for today, see you tomorrow at 21:00 all the best