even warmer 12° above zero in zaporizhzhia + 11 well, in the crimea temporarily occupied by the enemy of the ukrainian crimea up to 14° above zero well, in kyiv, it is also raining in kyiv, as it is finally the territory of our state and plus three degrees. natalka didenko prepared this weather, of course, and you do you trust her? i do the same. this is how it will be tomorrow. there is no connection. unfortunately, due to such a situation with the electricity supply, there is no connection with our natalka didenko. well, you will see the current one. tomorrow i will not be here with you, but i want to be with espresso. support each other let's overcome these difficulties together, and now for the madness from ukraine to your attention. good evening. we from ukraine welcome you to bbc news ukraine . olga palamarchuk is working in the studio in london and today in the program there is a new

massive missile attack on ukraine , infrastructure objects are damaged, there are dead and wounded putin cancels his annual press conference for the first time, goes to lukashenka instead why plans suddenly changed and the bbc 2022 book of the year announced the winners who became the best and how the war affected the competition russia launched another 9 massive missile strike in ukraine, according to the general staff, in the morning from the regions of the caspian and black seas, russia fired 76 missiles at critical infrastructure facilities of ukraine , of which 72 were cruise and quadruple guided air

missiles, as reported by the ukrainian military , they managed to shoot down 60 of them due to russian shelling, there are casualties and injuries in kryvyi rih a rocket destroyed a house, as reported by the head of the dnipropetrovsk administration, valentina reznichenko, three people were killed, a woman and a young couple, 13 people were injured, according to the authorities, the rockets were launched in zaporozhye and the region kharkiv, in addition to its hitting in kyiv and zhytomyr region, and bbc correspondent zhanna bezpyachuk with us on direct communication, let's start from the capital today, for the first time after the missile attack , the e-e metro stopped in the first local government does not even name the terms of the restoration of electricity supply that this can also mean what is the situation in kyiv in general at the moment, yes, olya, congratulations, well, first of all, it is necessary to take into account that this is already the ninth

such massive missile attack on the energy infrastructure of ukraine, and every time repair work must be carried out to restore the operation of this energy infrastructure is more difficult. in this regard, it is likely that, as of now, it is quite difficult for the energy industry to predict exactly how long it will take to restore the electricity supply, say, in kyiv, as well as in kharkiv , poltava, and the cities that are experiencing a blackout today . in the fact that there is a very large deficit of e-e in the power system, it existed and until today it was partially managed to eliminate it, in particular, with the help of resuming the operation of nuclear power plants. but after these attacks, about 50% of e-e consumers in ukraine lost access to electricity, this is a very

large indicator, and in such conditions there is an urgent need for vector emergency shutdowns, and obviously, again , it is difficult to predict how long and how often such emergency emergency shutdowns will have to be made, in particular and in in kyiv, it is also necessary to add that today ukrenergo and the government were talking about it, and ukrainian e-e fired at all the main elements of the country's energy system, including electricity generation and heat supply facilities - these are main networks - these are also transformers, these are also smaller distribution networks. that is, we can say that to some extent, every time with each new mass shelling, russia improves and deepens its approach to this, accordingly, it is not easy for the country to cope directly with all attacks

, stop the shelling and protect the ukrainian sky and energy facilities and continue to carry out repair work, and what do the energy authorities advise people who have found themselves without electricity to do in the conditions of this complete blackout, specifically in kyiv, first of all it is a joy for people to have a stable large supply of water at home, it can be done in advance, it can be done already during a blackout, e.e., with the help of spring water, buy water in stores, etc., the second in kyiv can be used to charge devices in order to even elementary warm up now the station the metro, because the metro is still not working in kyiv, so far we do not know when it will resume its work, accordingly, people can use the stations that work as a shelter and in order to also charge charge devices a-a and e-e except

all this is already standard advice, which, in my opinion, ukrainians, in particular, kyivans, learned very well during the previous great blackout, i.e. to have lighting devices at home that can work autonomously, and to have their own life hacks on how to keep warm in such conditions at home, and now of course, in kyiv, people expect some kind of forecasts and how long it will all last. 30 hours 50 hours, and so far this information is not available. do you know what the situation is in other cities, regions, er, it is known, er, let's say that kharkiv and poltava are two specific cities uh straight now you are worried exactly what like yani that is, it is a blackout, it is a situation when there is no supply input, when there is no electricity, when there is no heating, it disappears with it when mobile networks do not work well and there is no internet, both mobile yes, respectively, wi-fi does it

depend on electricity also today we heard about the fact that in kirovohrad oblast there was actually a blackout from the non-throttled region of dnipropetrovsk oblast and in other regions as well, people faced the same emergency emergency shutdowns, they will have all of them in ukraine practically because we are talking about balancing the system at the national level. thank you, we will follow the situation about today's freemasons missile attack on ukraine. we spoke with the bbc correspondent zhanna bezpyachok. thank you , colleague, and while russia is hitting ukrainian cities, putin this week canceled the annual big press conference such the format of his communication with journalists was practiced daily for 10 years in a row, according to the spokesman of the russian president, dmitry piskov, there will be no vladimir putin conference this year, but the kremlin expects that the head of state

will speak with journalists during foreign trips, which foreign trips are not specified in the kremlin, at the same time it is already known that next monday, december 19, he plans to visit belarus to meet with lukashenko . the war, the forced withdrawal from the occupied regions in the north of ukraine, the failure of the annexation of ukrainian territories, which russian troops are unable to control, and russian dissatisfaction with the mobilization what are the reasons for such sudden changes of plans in the kremlin , we will talk about it with my colleague , bbc correspondent oleg antonenko, he is in direct contact with us , but congratulations. for 10 years in a row, putin spoke to a journalist, usually the press conference lasted several hours, although critical questions there was not much for it, i prepared for months, and this year suddenly the head of the

kremlin refuses the opportunity to report on his work, so what happened, why did the plans suddenly change olu, hello, look, putin has several formats of public speeches, which he likes and which he does not there will be not only press conferences this year, there will not be , for example, the annual message to the federal assembly , this is a speech that was introduced into the russian constitution back in 1994, it will definitely be, but it will not be and definitely not for putin as it turns out, this is actually an appeal to officials . they are trying to understand not only the mood of the kremlin, but also to hear specific instructions . but in fact, of course, these are carefully selected people and they complain about their problems there, and then in such a manual mode, all these problems are

solved, for example, a few years ago, i remember that after a complaint from one of the locals on live air, putin called the governor and arranged for him such a do you know, take care of the public dump and the purpose of this format of putin's communication is to show that he is with the people, he understands people, solves problems, and the local government is, so to speak, the source of problems, and finally, the third format - this is a big press conference at which regional journalists are present, and such niche publications hold posters on which anything is written . i remember there were such inscriptions, er, family, love, putin, baba, someone also had such a poster, but sometimes the word is there even foreign journalists received it, and our colleagues from the bbc with you, but putin did not say anything new. putin did not say anything new to sharp

questions. translate well, for example, putin is asked there about violations of human rights in russia, and he starts talking about violations in the west, he talks about ukraine, and he talks about the destruction of yugoslavia, that is, putin seems to show that he is not afraid of pressing questions . but in fact, he simply does not answer them, but not this year there will even be such very convenient formats for putin, his spokesman piskov says that he is already tired of the question of when it will all be, well, he is tired of the question of whether there will be questions to putin and there will be and will be communication between putin and him he says that in the usual formats this communication can take place next year, why not in this one, of course , because the war and the lack of success in it bakes sand in it, he does not say about this. well, the refusal to meet and the journal is an unwillingness to answer uncomfortable questions on the axis, is it still possible

fear to hear criticism of one's address, of course, and the fact is that the address, for example, to the federal assembly , it has been prepared for several months. answers also for the formats of direct lines and press conferences that you are talking about. and so that even in such very, very drawn-out shows there are no surprises for him. putin must operate with numbers and talk about successes, but here is a situation when putin can be asked even completely loyal citizens not or journalists, for example, what about kherson, it was supposedly russian when it was annexed and accepted into russia, a show was also arranged, putin spoke there, and where is kherson now, where is putin, and the second topic, you also said about it, mobilization is extremely not popular in the regions, and there the question is not whether the war against ukraine is fair. many russians have such practical questions. and where are the promised payments?

putin will not pick up the phone. call the governor, because there are a lot of such cases. if earlier it was possible to show that the country is generally developing and there are problems on the ground, so this year it is simply impossible. putin started the war. putin is responsible for it. it was putin who ordered, well, what should be the goals of these operations. he started the mobilization, which, by the way, did not end like that for him. there is nothing to be proud of and the risk that even in these fairly controlled formats something can go wrong is very high and there is a risk that putin will simply lose control and that is why putin decided not to use the usual formats, this is the explanation for this sudden refusal to report on his work how is it perceived by the russians themselves, or can it possibly cause some wave of discontent among the population ? well, listen, in russia there are no sociological tools

that can be used to somehow measure what is happening in society, they say that of sociology, but it is obvious well, one thing is obvious for putin, a new reality has begun, a completely new one, now not only in the west's relations with the outside world, but with its own citizens, what we see, we see a reality in which he controlled everything , you know, the image of a confident politician who is feared all over the world was created which was associated with well-being and stability in russia itself, and this period has ended, and the mobilization has ended the social contract about putin's non-interference in the private lives of russians in exchange for his own unlimited power, and now here is his silence is the loudest, you know what a sign of this new reality that we are really seeing oleg thank you for the conversation about putin's press conference, or rather the sudden cancellation we spoke with

bbc correspondents he thanks you meanwhile the council of the european union approved the ninth package of sanctions aimed at increasing pressure on russia, in particular , it includes new restrictions on exporters and technologies that russia can use for war, the expansion of prohibited exporters and technologies related to aviation and the space industry to it included aviation engines and their parts , assets of two more russian banks were frozen, as well as the suspension of the broadcasting license of the main russian tv channels, the latest economic measures against russia caused a controversial reaction, so the head of the president's office andryermak noted that the ukrainian government was surprised by the soft actions against six russian oligarchs and head of the european bureau of radio liberty rikard has already called the ninth package of sanctions the weakest, and then we will talk about something else, but no less important, we

the winners of the bbc book of the year award 2022 have been announced. this literary award honors the best ukrainian language books of fiction and essays every year. the winners were chosen in three nominations : bbc book of the year, bbc children's book of the year and bbc book of the year essay. they were determined by the jury. by the way , the british press is already writing about the winners of the book of the year for example, the independent edition and about how to read during the war and about the winning books, we will talk with the editor of bbc new from ukraine marta shokolo marto congratulations you are one of the jury members of the book of the year competition and this is already the 18th book of the year for the first time during a full-scale war, so what do you want to ask about in the first place, what was this competition like? was it difficult to choose the best books and was there anything

to choose from ? published this news on the website and you know what kind of morning today we all have a boom. we woke up again to the news of a mass attack on ukraine. when we published this news, i honestly felt as if i had finished a long, difficult childbirth. was absolutely tired, but at the same time very happy, i honestly wanted to cry from happiness that we did it, it was difficult for us, and i will tell you that even before the summer, in the summer, i was not sure if we would make it because i remember my state in the spring. i remember our first conversation with svetlana about this. i told her that svetlana was a firecracker, er, my colleague at the school, and we were talking about svitlana . i don't know, we'll hold it because i can't read, i physically couldn't read i absolutely could not read any book all the members of the jury were in this state, we couldn't read, so how will we hold the competition if we can't read, and the question is whether anyone

will give us books at all, but then in the summer, uh, i came back to me from reading, in july i read my first book from the beginning war and i remember this state, i finished reading and i cried from happiness that i can read again, and then i understood everything if they can read, then we will definitely guide the book, and we finally decided and it was done, although everything was, of course, everything -other than e is always because everyone for the first time we accepted books online e-e online in pdf because we are not like before they all came to our office we had big mountains of these books this year everything was not the same because we are all scattered all over all everywhere, part of the jury in ukraine, part of the jury in britain, i myself live in warsaw now, and we were also afraid when we even

announced this competition in september. we were served , in fact, we were served the same number of books as we are always submitted to all contests, and what struck me when you look at our long list that we published back in october. there are a lot of books published in kharkiv, that is, in a city that was under terrible shelling all the time, and even one of our winners, pavlo kazanin his book was published by the kharkiv publishing house vivat, so we eventually held the book of the year and but again, that 's all, and this is the final ceremony, which always takes place in our country on a friday, on a certain friday in december. we also couldn't hold it even online because we thought for a long time. maybe we will do it online after all. it was, well, under the current conditions, it is unrealistic, because we were barely able to call our winners, they are now two of them fighting . in such conditions, of course, even an online

ceremony was unreal, that's why we recorded everything on video, we did everything in advance, we prepared and in the end we did it, and you know i'm happy that we did it, although it was very difficult for all of us, but when i felt the reaction of our first winners, when i told them that you won the bbc book of the year, honestly, i could hardly hold back the tears, well , actually, marta, you were honored to inform them that you were the winner, so about their award, and let's see how it was. you won the bbc book of the year this year, seriously, what the hell? i don't believe the truth, the truth, my marriage should not be honest because

it 's like a circus, as if from a parallel world. it is necessary hmm to continue doing some things for the sake of which we will go out in general, including reading good literature unexpectedly unexpectedly pleasant of course very much because i did not expect that this year especially at such a time in general someone will hold something to celebrate something and probably even this war, all these events they don't break you, and accordingly they don't break us. and this gives us, uh, authors, and effort and strength and the desire to continue writing and creating and shows that we are probably not doing all this for nothing and not stupidly. this is cool news. thank you for it. i really don't

i expected it because i was convinced that yaroslav hrytsak would win. thank you, uh, now we need to gather some thoughts ah, in general, i planned to travel with presentations of the wild west this year, ah, but we managed to hold only one presentation 2.5 weeks before the beginning of the war in mariupol and perhaps this is the same symbolism that i did not seek, but unfortunately it happened and i do not know if i will write a second book. and when this war ends, but it is important for me that some things that are definitely important to me that i managed and formulate when i still have it was an extraordinary time, but we saw the joy

of the winners, and for that it was also very emotional, so let 's talk in detail about the books, book of the year, bbc medical trailer, dancing with bones, author andrii semymankiv, did you compare it to the tv series let's go to the shore, is it really true, yes, yes, this is i have the first comparison. what came to my mind when i finished reading this book. i thought, god, it’s almost like tarantino, or maybe even better. the book is absolutely fascinating and can be read in one sitting , and there are so many adventures and in the end at the end, when you finish reading it, you just close it and think about i need to rest because it is very, very full of events. i would like to mention that andriy semymankiv is his first debut novel . i am even more pleased that he won this award because i feel terrible i really love

the debutantes who win in our country, this means that ah, well, it shows the honesty of our competition, that we really look at the books and not at the name of the author, at how well-known he is, although andriy is well-known. he is a well-known medical blogger who runs his blog he is read a lot, but now he has also become a writer, for which i congratulate him. and we actually do too, and the award also recognizes children's books this year. this is a book by andrii bachynskyi . this is how it looks. andrii bachynskyi's book ghosts of the black forest is included in the jury of the award, about the fact that when you fight against evil, you will definitely be helped in the end, if you are not afraid, the forest spirits will help, and the legislative authorities will even help neighbors who will find the right guns, that's the

children's book of the year bbc haunts the black dobrovy marta what are your impressions of this book andriy , first of all, i would like to remind you that andriy bachynskyi won the book of the year for the second time, the first time he won in our country in 2015 ah and it seems that it was his debut book then. and after that, after winning the book of the year, he generally became a very active author and published a book almost every year, that is, he is already a well-known children's writer in our country, but this year, this year's book receives a black dibrovy, er, she is like that, er, he generally likes to write about teenagers, and this book is also about teenagers, about their adventures, about some kind of struggle, er, with evil, he always has this element, ot in general, all three books, i would say all our the winners to a certain extent are all about some kind of

fight against evil for good, that's why andriy's book is just like that too well, that's not all the awards, there's also sigistica and this is what jury member vadym karpyak says about this winner, let's listen to pavla's book the barracks are actually the wild west of eastern europe the author's autobiographical journey with ukraine from february 14th to almost the 20th year, which explains how ukraine from the wild west of eastern europe ended up in the center of the entire civilized world. said he was glad that his book survived february 24 and did not lose its relevance, what exactly is its

relevance? the presentation of this book throughout ukraine did not turn out as he had planned, and instead of presenting the book, he is now fighting somewhere in the donbass . so he actually managed to hold one presentation. and it was in mariupol, very symbolically, eh. and in general, his book very personal, as she said, as vadim said, uh, and she knows her, on the one hand, it may seem that she is no longer relevant, because we have already lived so much in this time, even in these 9 months, we can say that we have lived our whole life and all those events which describes pavlo in his 2014 book, they seem as if it all happened in another life, but at the same time, you understand how logical it all is, everything

that is happening to us now logically follows from this book, so yes, the book is very, very important and very timely and relevant. i think it will be interesting also if it is translated, it will also be interesting for the western audience. well, actually summing up the war book of the year, tell us how the jury chose the winners . some years there was less arguing in some more this year we had to argue in zuma because we are all in different places and at the same time we are also entering in parallel and in italy or under our feet the light disappeared that is why they were turned off then turned on that's why it was like that of course, it helped us to a certain extent to not argue very much because not all participants could speak, but yes. we argued

, and i can say that the biggest disputes were precisely in the category of essay writing. pavlo himself said that he did not expect his victory because he thought that yaroslav hrytsak will win , but we had heated arguments about yaroslav hrytsak's book, but in the end, hmm, the jury's decision is pavlo kazarin, the winner, so we often joke , it also happens that some years we even -e hmm, there were such cases that we almost started throwing books. well, this year we didn't even have the books themselves. because all the books we had this year were online, because there are books. i didn't even hold a single book from this year's book of the year in my hands that's why i hope that when i go to ukraine i i will be able to find all of them and at least get them in my hands . so far, i have only read them all. well, the goal for next year is at least to read them as books

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