an 18-year-old resident of st. petersburg, a schoolgirl , wrote on this at this exhibition. i always said that the people of potrebura are not the same as moscow, there are a lot of ethnic ukrainians , and we will believe that this will spread throughout russia freedom well, thank you for being with us now for your attention literally in a few moments a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news good evening we are from ukraine greetings bbc new from ukraine live from london olga palamaryukov is working in the studio for the next 30 minutes we will talk about russia attacked ukraine with kamikaze drones kyiv and the region came under attack what is known about damage for the first time in three years putin went

to belarus for a meeting with lukashenka why and should ukraine be wary so you are a football triumph argentines celebrate the victory of their national team at the world cup and the fact that lionel messi, the captain of the team, claims the title of the best player of our time , the week began with new attempts by the russians to disable critical infrastructure tonight, russia launched a new massive attack on ukraine with kamikaze drones, explosions rang out in kyiv and the region, the authorities announced the downing of 18 shaheds out of 23 that were flying on the capital, as

last time, a drone was launched from the eastern coast of the sea of ​​azov, it was reported in the air forces of the armed forces of ukraine that debris damaged the roadway and the windows of high-rise buildings in two districts of kyiv energy workers reported an emergency power outage as a result of a nighttime drone attack in the kyiv region, infrastructure facilities and private houses were also damaged, three victims are known, i will remind you in november russia did not launch scammers for about three weeks, but in december the attacks resumed and we will talk more about the consequences of today's attack with the correspondent bbc by victoria zhugan vito so what is known how many this time russia released drones over ukraine, what is the current general situation in kyiv good evening kyiv is now in emergency power outages, which means that for many places and residents of the region, because it concerns the kyiv

region, it can already be half a day, and for some people report that it can be a day without power, but how quickly kyiv recovers from today's morning attack, well, imagine i have a picture of the fifth. 30 in the morning in solomyanka, explosions can be heard and in a few hours people are taking their children to school to study. and already at lunchtime i saw in the center near the main christmas tree on sofiivska square people who came there to take a selfie, you know what today, russia attacked other regions, in particular mykolaiv oblast and dnipropetrovsk oblast, and the air force reports that there were a total of 35 drones and shot down 30 of them. actually, what does this mean for the future of kyiv oblast and ukraine in general? today’s attack differs in that the interval between it and the previous one was significant smaller, i.e. if previously the ukrainians had already begun to get used to the so -called monday attacks or weekly attacks

, now it seems that russia is able to inflict them every few days, which could mean that russia has something to beat again she did not change her tactics for the second time. president volodymyr zelenskyy today stated that he is aware of the fact that russia received 250 such drones from iran and that this is the next second batch. we cannot quickly verify this information, but it is obvious what happened today and what the ukrainian authorities claim can testify to new challenges for ukrainian air defense and energy industry. thank you for the information from kyiv. administration, according to the head of the region, yaroslav yanushevich, just last day, the russians shelled the kherson region 69 times.

six people were injured by the blast wave. apartment buildings were damaged. cars were parked nearby , as well as a hotel and an educational institution in the latvian capital riga. a meeting of the leaders of the joint expeditionary forces took place. these are the ten of the eight nato member countries, as well as sweden and finland, it is headed by great britain - this is a military association of increased combat readiness, which is capable of rapid redeployment of participation in joint missions of a wide range from humanitarian aid to combat operations, the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyy addressed the participants of the meeting. he thanked the leaders for the military aid provided and called on it to be strengthened, in particular to increase the supply of air defense systems to ukraine, to provide armored vehicles and artillery systems, according to the ukrainian president, the outcome of the war largely depends on the

partners, and winter is the time to make decisions, the results of which will be given in the spring be able to outline the restoration of the territorial integrity of ukraine. i ask you to supply air defense systems to our country to help speed up the relevant decisions of partners . one hundred percent air shield for ukraine. this will be one of the most successful steps against russian aggression. this step is needed right now . of modern armored vehicles and, above all, tanks, and the prime minister of great britain promised to support ukraine, according to rishi sumnik, official london continues a powerful military support for ukraine in the next year, first of all, we must provide ukraine with more military aid and it is important that this military aid corresponds to the situation

we are currently facing, this means more air defense systems, artillery, combat armored vehicles, on its part, the united kingdom has committed next year to provide no less or more than this year's two billion 300 million pounds of aid and i would encourage others at this table to do all they can to continue the strong support appeals to the world leaders, and they promise to support ukraine . putin went to meet with one of his few allies, alexander lukashenko. this is their first meeting in belarus in the last three years. the content of the talks is announced by the press services of putin and lukashenko in general terms: it is security, integration , cooperation and within the framework of the union state, cooperation in the energy sector. import substitution, however, the office of the president of ukraine and the command of the armed forces of ukraine believe that the main purpose of putin's visit to minsk is to persuade

lukashenka to directly participate in belarus in the war against ukraine, what is the real purpose of the visit, let's try to figure it out with us , journalist of the belarusian service of radio freedom, valery kalinovsky, mr. valery , thank you for joining the broadcast with none of putin's world leaders, well, let's be honest , they meet me as often as with lukashenka if you count , they met seven times this year alone, but earlier lukashenko flew to moscow, what changed this time? well, you know, it was probably necessary to discuss some secret terms, yes, but i also do not rule out that putin he wants to show his politics and for pr that he is so active, he can leave his capital somewhere to jump over the stairs and hold negotiations for a long time and he is not afraid, and he also wanted to thank lukashenka for the fact that he supported him during all these nine months wars, but lukashenka

needs him. today he told me that during the 7 meetings he had with putin this year, they discussed security issues, but at the end of the year they agreed to talk about economic and social problems. well, in particular for example, in belarus they still haven't agreed on the price of russian gas for next year, and this was a priority for lukashenka. he also met in minsk today with the minister of defense of russia. does belarus know what they were talking about ? yes, it was an official message, but later the details were revealed by oleksandr lukashenko and vladimir putin they said that they agreed on further joint exercises - one of them, we remember, led to the intervention of ukraine from the territory of belarus on the rotation of the s-400 and from russian canders which, as it were, putin handed over to belarus and joint programs in the military-industrial complex, these are very important topics, but it is difficult

, difficult, important to state that lukashenko, at the same time, stressed that he needs these slogans in order to secure himself at the borders, first of all, by measures. and as belarusian reviews do they estimate the chances that putin, after all , after this visit will incline lukashenko to fully participate in the war? well, you know, it is impossible if you refuse to predict anything, but the majority of observers eh have the opinion that it is still impossible, that lukashenka's path will be further delayed, and that the intervention of belarus after nine months of this war, let's say, is not very positive for russia, that belarus should also go, no, lukashenka will not go, and above all, that is why that neither the belarusian people nor the belarusian army nor the soldiers want this well, the belarusian president lukashenko how dependent he is on putin today, today he is

super dependent on putin, he is dependent politically, he is dependent economically, he is in isolation, he needs support because he is actually not supported by the belarusian people, we know that this crisis of legitimacy in the 20th year has not yet been exhausted and lukashenko is holding on thanks to force and violence, and economically belarus is still in the 20th year and the 21st in economic isolation under sanctions and is very necessary and russian in energy and russian loans and russian markets and therefore without an onion - to russia lukashenko said that belarus did not live in this quote well, today, on the day of putin's visit, the belarusian ministry of defense announced the end of of a sudden check of the combat readiness of the armed forces, do you know what exactly was checked ? well, and why? well, you know, these were marches, exits to training grounds, but i drew attention to the fact that the belarusian military trained to overcome

water obstacles, that is, rivers, that there were pontoons, that there were some other vehicles that they crossed the river nilman and others, and like a former sapper. as a former engineer, i can say that these pontoons are very, very old. they were then and when i served in the engineering troops in the 80s, they are outdated old the technique is beautiful to you for the conversation about the meeting of putin lukashenko in minsk, we spoke from the journalistic service of svoboda val brothers, thank you, the minister of energy of the countries of the european union agreed to establish a ceiling price for gas, this was preceded by long and tense negotiations, because opinions on how europe should survive the energy crisis were divided, so after disputes european countries did agree on limiting the price of natural gas, it will be 180 € per kilowatt-hour, the so-called gas market correction mechanism is a temporary measure

designed to prevent sharp fluctuations in prices will be effective for one year from february 15 of next year. in his twitter, the prime minister of poland, metaloshumarowetsky, later wrote that this means the end of market manipulation by russia and its gazprom, and the head of the information and security service of moldova, oleksandr mistia, said that russia is planning an invasion to moldova in 2023. he said this in an interview with the local tv channel. according to him, the question is not whether russia will launch an offensive, but when, moreover, there are several scenarios of this invasion, however, the implementation of the plan will depend on the cessation of hostilities in ukraine, he added, as he now lives in a country where a war is going on in the neighborhood, nearby is unrecognized transnistria from moldova, a special report by a bbc correspondent, joinwood, this place may look lively , there are really many people here, but in fact

for traders on the central hard times have come for the market of chisinau soskopilla well, every day our purchases are getting worse and worse and more expensive. i had buyers who bought 5 kg of carrots, now they only buy half a kilogram they are saving, of course, this is a friend’s holiday, they cost 1300, it’s expensive this year, it’s never been so expensive this year, it’s expensive, but they’re already buying for the winter, but what do i think because the electricity has risen, all the birds are in the factory with lights, the bills are coming in huge of course, the products are also growing in prices if you want to see how inflation works look at the price of eggs last year they were 20 lei per dozen now 30 and you can see it everywhere in this market inflation in moldova this

year is more than 30%, which all over europe is due to energy prices, but here the reasons are even more complicated. the fact is that since soviet times, the energy infrastructure was deliberately built in a complicated way in order to keep the union together, for example, all high-voltage lines in chisinau go through romania, ukraine and the rebellious region transnistria, such a situation makes moldova vulnerable to any attacks on ukrainian infrastructure, it also means that the country can be plunged into darkness by simply clicking the switch transnistria, a region that essentially controlled by russia, in the ministerial premises, they are now turning off as many lights as they can because they are afraid that the russian energy giant gazprom will further reduce supplies. commercial relations are not very commercial. we see behind them certain political decisions to reduce the volume of gas for

our country. to achieve with these steps. it's just that i think they don't want moldova to follow the european path. but russia has a powerful influence on moldova not only through energy, wine is extremely important for this country both culturally and economically here in the vineyard just on the border with ukraine we have already experienced two wine embargoes from moscow russia will always find a way to use economic leverage to achieve political goals in 2013 when russia announced an embargo for the second time we could not pay salaries we could not pay suppliers, we lost our largest market overnight, and at that moment we realized that this is a market in which it is difficult to build a reliable business, and i was very lucky that at this moment we were selling to russia 0 and we sell to the market which is much

safer now this winery is the largest exporter of wine in ukraine growing year by year and sending millions of bottles all over the world but the more you make wine the more energy you need so it may not seem obvious but wine production quite an energy-consuming process, all these units are powered by russian gas during the last year, here they decided that it is probably not a very sustainable business to introduce and are trying to transfer everything to alternative energy sources, at the moment part of our needs in energy is covered by the sun our plan is to become completely energy independent in 5 years because we don't want to depend on the capricious forecast of a neighbor because energy prices are rising the total time of such investments is approaching three years so this makes a lot of sense in terms of security but also in terms of savings what is

happening here in these wineries reflects the country's general strategy towards energy independence and away from russia, but as we saw on the streets of the capital, not everyone likes this direction why are they destroying relations with russia are nowhere without russia, and ukraine works for us, and ukraine works for us, and we sit at home without work, without money and do not know what to do with our lives, dear people from russia , we lived well when we were with russia, we lived well , i'm sorry, what people gathered for the protest, what do they say they have well-founded concerns about the way the government is behaving, their opponents say most of them received money from a pro-kremlin oligarch, the ruling party wants to see closer cooperation and a future in the

european union, but there are powerful forces that they are trying to prevent this from happening and we cannot help but talk about another event that has already been called historic this weekend in a boat, the world cup ended in the finals of the competition , argentina won france after a penalty shootout, this match became the 13th match for the opponents, and the hero of the tournament, without exaggeration , is considered to be the captain of lionel messi's argentina national team in the homeland of the winner, the celebration lasted until late at night bbc's katie watson reports from buenos aires euphoria and relief after the extraordinary final joy from a possible victory in the first half , hope for a close victory and stress in the second half, many did not have the strength to watch

the penalty shootout at the end of the match for the argentines, this game was very personal, on the one hand, the opportunity to win the world cup for the third time, on the other hand, the victory of lionel messi after of a brilliant career, this victory is the last diamond in the crown of a football legend, mission accomplished, hundreds of thousands of messi fans dressed in shirts with the number 10 fill the streets throughout the country to celebrate the victory of the team and its captain as long as i remember every year i wear the world cup shirt this year i decided not to wear it and wait for the victory to buy a new one but already with the third star forward argentina can't hold back emotions my father told me how it was when we won in 86 and now i'm experiencing such a victory somewhere, this is an amazing year for millions of argentinians, the country is depressed by the

economic crisis, but people have repeatedly told me that the last few weeks have given them the opportunity to unite again, dream , and smile like this, argentines are a football nation but this victory is something much more words well why boots we suffered so much especially because of the economy thank you thank you very much to the world cup team means so much to us so much words are lacking it's unbelievable i still can't believe it kilometer crowds filled the streets and boulevards of buenosais feeling of pride which the country had not seen for years, people celebrated all night, this is a victory that united all of latin america , even for neighboring brazil, which is argentina's fierce football rival, the competition took a back seat, only joy and gratitude for the fact that argentina returned the cup to these countries, now everyone is waiting

for the return of the players and we are joined by a sports spectator oleg - this is olezhe, congratulations to begin with a few words about the 2022 fifa world cup, it seems that this victory did not leave anyone indifferent. i just heard how argentinians are going crazy with happiness . in your opinion, what makes this victory so special? in fact, you rightly pointed out the other day that this is a victory. let's say that globally, it's not just argentina, it's a victory for latin america, let's remember the 2014 world cup in brazil, germany became the champion, this balance was broken that when the championship takes place in the western hemisphere, the latin team brazil and argentina become the champions and holders of this world cup when the championship takes place in let's say so in the european

latitudes of the european uh let's say that's how they ruled and were the winners and actually speaking now, when for the first time in history the championship was held in a middle eastern arab muslim country, in fact, these three yumphs of argentina are again guilty of being in the foreground this, let's say, this is the eternal confrontation between latin america and the european school of football, but let's not forget about this deity, about diego armando maradona, under whose captaincy, let's say, in 1986, the last argentina triumphed at the world cup again in mexico . the grandstands of the lusaya stadium in the boat and you could see this huge banner where it was written viibo in the argentinian version of spanish it means you are a living dream he is a living dream what is

meant now is lionel messi because we all we remember two years ago, on november 25, 2020 , the deity, as permissive, remembers me, armando maradona acted, the football deity passed away into eternity, so this position of this football deity remained vacant, and now lionel messi, who is the best player of the filter to his seven ballon d'or or golden ball 36 titles won with barcelona and now his current club paris saint-germain, by the way, whose owners are the qatari royal family, but less, but he lacked only one highlight , the title of the world cup was not we forget that he is 35 years old, this is the last world championship of this living legend, a living dream of the members of the viev, as they say in argentina, since then again, i was able to experience the argentinian experience in argentina,

diego armando maradona was so deified that even the first iglesiameridunyan was founded , or the first merononian church that i have seen on the footage from nasares there is already a trimera iglesiassiana, or the first church of lionel messi, the witnesses of lionel messi, we see that this title of deity passed from maradona to messi and it is this the transition happened due to this incredible amazing victory, possibly the most amazing most atypical final match of the world championships, so also atypical extremely let's say, which stands apart from all the world championships, this world championship of boats and the victory of argentina - these are absolutely special, absolutely incredible events that do not have any parallel yes, about uh, homeland, yes, about this year's championship.

so, we'll talk a little later, and clarify more about lionel messi, in your opinion, that's already the top of venice his career is it possible that he will go into coaching absolute crown absolute finish and full stop he may simply not appear at the training base of psg pair saint-germain literally now and no one will say anything to him because he is this saint he there is a deity again mentioned by me to the soul vivo he is what he achieved simply punitive football karma there is nothing higher than that, that is, he i do not think that he will repeat only the path of the gormando maradona who unsuccessfully coached the argentine national team and several argentinian clubs actually, not every player is a good football coach, not every good player is a good football coach, and there are many, many examples of this. i think that

messi can sit on this throne on the eye . of the current world championship, is it possible to draw conclusions that fifa's choice was justified, you know, the choice is quite specific. i have my own experience of working in a boat at a major sports competition. worked at the world handball championship held in 2015, it was like a prelude, it was a test, it is a test event before the world cup, and i will tell you honestly, i had no idea until the last minute how qatar could host the world cup in football, let's not forget that it is a muslim country with rather strict muslim traditions, a country that practically grew up over the last 35 years before dota there was nothing, there was just sand and there were

several wells from which they actually pumped so much into the main untruth in in the frame, it is about gas, about natural gas , so it all grew like yeast, and all the stadiums that we hear about, stadium 974 , for example, have already begun to be dismantled, because the population of the boat is barely 200,000, and let's say all the work is done by foreigners, and the so-called happy happy workers power mainly from the indian subcontinent, from the philippines, that is, people who practically have no rights there, and this moment is connected with the violation of rights from the death of many hundreds of these people, let's say well, we will frankly call them the happy slaves of those who worked on the construction of these incredible stadiums, which after the end of the world cup in football, simply no one will use because it looks like the entire world cup has become a kind

of toy for the royal family in a boat to show the world, but look at me, not only to london, we can shopping to fly to kharos and we make and hold, for example, the world cup in football, we don't care, we throw money at everyone who is against it, in fact, on some examples, you can make this mistake and draw a conclusion oleg sports spectator thank you, but for an interesting conversation, i am at the very end today , children in ukraine and abroad eagerly awaited the arrival of st. nicholas, in addition to toys, they asked him for peace and victory in peacetime . they deprived the christmas and new year period in ukraine of the traditional shine and

bright lights, but not the feeling of the holiday. they also use an energy-saving christmas tree, they light up the christmas tree from a generator, another tree was installed at the kyiv railway station, they do without a generator here, so that the garlands of majorils are connected to them, if you turn the pedals, electricity is produced, which powers the holiday lights, and in front-line mykolaiv, they approached the creation of a christmas tree with creativity the tree was made of a masking net and that's all for today, look for more stories on our website bbc.ua and on our pages in social networks, turn on our program tomorrow exactly at 9:00 pm good luck and take care of yourself