the president's military leadership sees prospects on the front well, we can talk about it objectively a little later, but there is at least hope that after the visit to the united states of america and after the conversation with the military command, the president understands where we are all moving take care i wish you a good evening as much as possible. in this difficult day, support each other, now for your attention, the issue of news colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of b8 news. good evening . we are from ukraine, live from ukraine and from london in studios yevgenia shadlovska and for 30 minutes we will talk about the following the united states declares that in addition to iran, russia is also supplying weapons to north korea meanwhile putin has decided to reform his army in the midst of the war 10

months after the full-scale invasion we will show a special bbc report from the front lines on the eastern front ukrainian christmas will be expected refugees who came to britain, the russian military fired missiles at kramatorsk, according to the city council , two educational institutions, 12 apartment buildings and three private houses were damaged in the morning, the russians shelled kherson, two people were killed, the kherson local authorities reported this at night and in the morning they shelled donetsk region in various areas of the front - this is the data of the head of the region and president zelenskyi

returned to ukraine after a visit to the united states, during this visit, i will remind you, the american authorities announced that they would provide the first anti-aircraft - the patriot missile system is a powerful air defense system. and now the american media are writing about what weapons the white house is not ready to provide to ukraine , according to new york times sources - these are weapons which has a large attack radius, high-tech weapons, heavy drones and weapons that require long-term maintenance training, i.e. abrams tanks, they are in 16, as it says. is in a hurry to provide ukraine with weapons that could decisively tilt the balance on the battlefield, in return, american weapons will most likely help ukraine secure its current positions and defend itself against russian attacks on civilians that's what military analysts say, the main

battles are currently taking place on the eastern front, there on the front line near kupyansk in kharkiv oblast, bbc correspondents recently visited, they saw and showed the world in what conditions the ukrainian military is holding its defense now during the cold winter . and camera operator daryn convoy when the enemy is on the doorstep something must be sacrificed this place now serves as a home for ukrainian soldiers from the 92nd brigade several small rooms in an abandoned building have dinner standing senior lieutenant yevhen somnovynyi spends not so much time here, a couple of hours of sleep, and he has to go to battle again, because the russians are going on a counteroffensive, this

war shook the world and ukraine, but the 22-year-old lieutenant is steadfast, he has been fighting since the very beginning of the russian aggression, and when his veteran father was killed on the first day invasion, he did not hesitate. i met yevhen 9 months ago at the beginning of the conflict, which changed both him and the country. he just finished his studies, but neither he nor ukraine were ready for this war, and today both he and ukraine are scarred lessons learned this war brought many victims you lost many people you feel death yourself a person who is not afraid is already dead if you meet death with

open arms it will avoid you because death loves the brave that's why i don't think about death i only think about life and my own comrades of those in my part. these men are his rear. they stand ready in the middle of the winter wasteland under the onslaught of russian fire and the elements. they are trying to hold back the enemy's breakthrough. there is almost nowhere to hide, so they move as fast as they can. of the cold, realizing that the russian weapons can stop them at any moment. at this stage, we are receiving fire damage from the enemy at the positions at the positions, a new damage from the enemy is taking place, he is advancing, but the artillery is

helping the infantry a lot, some time has passed, the russians have taken aim at them, they have not yet hit the the target is already very close, the artillery is hitting the forest lane, very close yevhen's comrades hit the fences, the trenches ahead, fierce fighting, the ukrainians have taken stable positions here, but despite all these sophisticated weapons and ammunition that's what it all boils down to people dirt and the enemy in the range of a shot ukraine is still moving forward but these winter months will be hard and long in such conditions it is difficult to keep the pace when the ukrainian land turns into porridge to win back every meter of territory exhausted the

village we need to work on this village this one of several dozen villages in the kharkiv region is which is still under russian control, every day is a struggle the path to be taken is dangerous with russian shelling and losses in the cold, all this requires incredible efforts on this route they have lost their brothers plusplus but the hardest months are still ahead we notice the hand

khót tólko khót checked this the battles that men face every day today they have taken positions tomorrow they may lose them and so it repeats itself again and again while on both sides continue to die people to be honest, a lot of brothers have already died, whom i knew personally, who were also idealistic people, they went forward, never stopped, but this is a war, you don’t need to baptize here, you only need to defend ukraine about 13,000 soldiers have already died, and somewhere far from the front, millions of other ukrainians will spend the winter in the dark due to russian missile attacks this christmas, their homes light candles for the fallen in natalia's life,

two heroes, one of them is her husband, he died on the very first day of the war defending the city of kyiv describe your husband, what he was like, he was a patriot, he was a patriot, a true patriot of our country, he is in ukraine, but that's not the end of natalia's trials. for other heroes, her only son, she is the mother of eugene, a young lieutenant who is fighting at the front. in this photo he is with oleg, his father who died in battle, she gave everything

she had for ukraine, ayman, after 9 months of war, do you have something to say to other mothers, i want, i want to wish them to always believe that everything will be fine with our children and always wait on them mother's love mother's love and faith is a huge strength, you have to believe that everything will be fine. the passage of the war must also be about the weapons that the ukrainian military needs . on the air so what is happening on the front what is your assessment and the hottest spot remains bakhmut on the front continues very road fighting and

moreover these battles continue along this front line active front line and on this front line the hottest spot to date is bakhmut avdiivka and maryinka where they will not let it down for even a minute and the enemy is trying to break through our defenses in these front lines so absolutely they are trying to bypass avdiivka is trying to eat bakhmut, so they rush to the center of maryinka where they are rolling battles that can be compared to the battles of the weapons of war, the battles of the second world war are trench battles or what do you mean. if the comparison is meant to be stalingrad, in fact, maryinka has become such a stalingrad, wherever it is fought. literally on every street there is such a situation when on

on one floor there are ukrainian fighters, on the other floor there are russians, and the distance between the enemies is such grenades well, if we talk about weapons, this week there was a lot of talk about the patriot battery that the united states provides to ukraine. here is your assessment, how much is this weapons will strengthen the ukrainian defense, if we talk about this topic in tagalog, petriv, then definitely such a system can strengthen the defense of ukraine if it is provided in sufficient quantity, because for the largest country in europe, taking into account the intensive gifts that the russian occupation army is giving, it is one battery does not solve the problem and we are aware that ballistic missiles may soon be widely used against them , including iranian ballistic missiles, and the patriot was actually designed and created to fight, including political missiles, therefore, a larger number of petrovs can correct the difficult situation that

is currently being observed in the critical infrastructure of ukraine, how much are these iranian ballistic missiles that iran can supply to russia, although it claims that it does not supply weapons, and how dangerous they can be, what is the difference between them er, they are very dangerous, despite the fact that they are relatively old, but it is necessary to understand that most of the air defense systems, which have the amount of support for the ukrainian armed forces, are taken into account for combating medical devices, drones, complex missiles, and a ballistic missile is a missile that travels at an extremely high speed, and sometimes the topic of anti-aircraft is simply rubbed off, and thus the overall effectiveness

of air defense is reduced. if we are talking about ballistic missiles, which a priori have a larger number of explosives, if a larger number of them will achieve their goal of being serious than the more we have today, and we will talk to mr. sergey what are russia's intentions, putin undertook to reform the army at the height of the war, so in russia they plan to create two new military districts, several new divisions of other large military units, and to increase the total number of military personnel by 350,000, they also plan to increase the conscription window by three years, that's it proposals were made by the russian minister of defense sergei shoigu, putin said that he agrees with such initiatives, at the same time, british intelligence believes that such plans indicate the recognition of problems in the russian army and are in touch with us military expert serhii grabskyi p serhii ot what is your assessment of these announced russian

army reforms that is, this is an admission of defeat and if they will reform the army in this way, that is, the soviet-style army of eco russia, how can this affect the course of the war in ukraine, you know, they can now declare infograms to reform armies but this is already then and in essence they are already unable to reform the army to create something new because they are categorically limited in the possibilities of development and implementation of new weapons systems, they are very conservative in the development of new e-e functionality of the introduction, they simply do not have questions about the amount of potential , then you and the command potential in order to

find reforms. the leaders of the soviet union and before that the russian empire were also going to simply increase the quantitative indicators of the army. in this way, trying to simply question the position of the ukrainian forces with cannons. well, in addition to the russian of the army, there is a russian private company, wagner, which is fighting in ukraine, and here is the british government, as the bbc found out. they believe that this group has increased to 20,000 mercenaries, and according to british estimates, this is approximately 10th of the russian forces in ukraine, and the united states declares that the wagnerites receive weapons from the north let's talk about it in more detail later on the air. here is your opinion, mr. sergey, the wagnerites as part of the russian forces, how effective are they and what role do they currently play in the russian invasion? you know, the wagnerians cannot be considered as a mass, i would divide the angels into two large parts, or rather, different large members, namely, there is such a unit called a league, which

includes uh, very skilled and professionally trained mercenaries and there is a so-called masked wagner, that is, units that are involved literally a dear human contingent because the value of these units is overcurrent and we observe it as a bachmouth when six months despite uh-e the greater part - more in force in the armed equipment of the bugners of the themes fails to achieve serious advantages by storming the positions of the ukrainian defense forces under bachmouth, in this way we are talking about quantitative indicators again, and with the passage of time, with the conduct of hostilities, the quality of this unit of the russian occupation forces is lost , they are declining and, in principle, capable only for separate tactical combat actions on small areas of the front, that is, i would not

exaggerate their value, except for one value of mass, according to other indicators, they are unlikely to have any advantages compared to units of the russian armed forces thanks to sergey, we were contacted by a military expert, serhii grabsky. so , the united states claims that the russian private military company wagner bought weapons from north korea, but according to the united states, this will not change the situation on the battlefield in ukraine. the department said north korea completed the first supply of weapons to the wagner company last month, according to the dprk government, which supplied russia with grenade launchers and missiles for the wagnerites. the united states wants to discuss these supply to the meeting of the un security council, they state that this violates the sanctions introduced against north korea, as well as the supply of weapons to russia from iran. and by the way , israeli intelligence now warns that iran

plans to increase the supply of advanced weapons to russia, but speaking of weapons with north korea, what is known about these supplies to russia is analyzed by dr. ukryankh of the expert institute for political studies in seoul. what do you think about the accusations of the united states or are they right? it is possible that north korea sells its ammunition for outdated artillery systems, such as standard caliber howitzers or katyusha-type rocket launchers, of what quality and standard, and how can north korea sell soviet-era standards, first of all, north korea manufactures its own weapons based on old soviet models, but the new russian standard also fits north korean weapons it can easily work in russian systems just as

well as in the old systems in the case of china because of which they create their own export market they have their own standards and with north korea it's easier because their systems are easier to use what do you think the quantity of deliveries or could it greatly affect russia's capabilities i can only assume north korea has over 30 artillery brigades and this means that they have stocks of half a million to a million shells for these brigades and they can sell half or even more than 200,000 rounds and maybe even 300,000 rounds and this can be enough for russia for several weeks of war severe sanctions and an arms embargo, but this applies directly to russia as a state and not to the mercenaries of the wagner group, how and where the supply of weapons is a risk for both countries. for this, they

use different companies, but in relation to the sale of weapons directly to mercenaries, this is what north korea has been doing for decades. and what is north korea is getting replaced by cash they need money to develop chemical nuclear weapons missiles they also want to build a nuclear submarine they may also need a new high-tech fighter jet which the russians will not sell so easily in the occupied mariupol, the russian authorities have partially demolished the bombed-out drama theater, this is a video showing how the construction equipment works on the spot was published by the adviser of the mayor of mariupol , petro andryushchenko, according to him, the occupying authorities plan to completely dismantle the rear central part of the theater and leave the front part for reconstruction and in this way

to hide the evidence of the bombing and mass deliberate killing of civilians, andryushchenko declares, the russian military struck the theater in march, according to data of the ukrainian authorities. then more than 300 people died in the building where there was a bomb shelter, up to 600 people were hiding among them, there were many children, and international human rights defenders confirmed that it was russia that carried out the attack on the theater, the air strike and the organization anasti international called it a war crime, but how to investigate all these war crimes, which are russian the military committed in ukraine not only in mariupol but in other occupied territories and how to bring the perpetrators to justice among them and the russian leadership ukraine calls for the creation of an international tribunal and to punish president putin and his closest

entourage for the crime of aggression. we call on our partners around the world to join the initiative of creating a special court or the so-called special tribunal as a platform for the responsibility of the highest leadership of russia, this is putin, and we see that this is the security council that is, about 20 people, top officials, politicians and the military, who planned, executed and gave instructions regarding the crime of aggression, international courts of this kind, they were, they are in practice, this is not the first initiative for us very often. they give, you know, very, very long historical examples like the nurburg the tribunal was a little different, support is needed, so this tour

is political, which affected berlin, paris , washington, new york and london as strategic partners of the western world. it already has its own positive results, that is, we have a solution at the french assembly of the french parliament and this. believe me , the position has changed literally in two weeks. that is, we are very happy that this position has changed to a positive one. the german bundestag is preparing a document. they need to re-register the text because the opposition there has registered a file. they are ready to move together and time it to well, yes. on the so-called anniversary of the invasion, the document was registered in the congress, that is, in the house of representatives, but we remember with you that the elections were recently held and from january 3 the new composition will be in session, but we are very glad that the bipartisan initiative of this document, these people were re-elected and they are ready to continue working with the file. so now, during the war, you

started doing this. we believe that this is not just justice for ukraine and for ukrainians, it is justice for more than 2 billion people around the world who became victims in in the 94th countries, these are the numbers of the un that became victims of this war, this is the issue of food security, this is also the financial crisis, which is now the cause, and in some countries, they based their political campaigns, even in europe, on the case of ukraine who helped and supported more, and who less, we need to connect all this and show the world that if we do not fight back today and respond to such a potential trial by way of such a potential trial, it can be repeated both from the side of ukraine and from the side of other totalitarian e-e regimes around the world, that is, now this is a political style, like a political statesman, but also a

legal one, and you know, we are asked very specific questions by their councils, two questions, how do we bypass immunity, so because officials of this rank have immunity and in addition to brothers example of the rome statute where are we where immunity is removed because a person is accused of a crime of this level, we can go according to the principle and in the absence of a person, no one knows, no one knows if we, well, for example , if it is gaga, as a platform for this court well, it is permissible not all we are sure that putin can be physically there, and it is important for us to make sure with our partners which way we are going, i.e. time, justice is important for us, the process that just starts here, even the beginning of the process itself is huge a signal that russia no longer perceives positively, it is added that the red line will be the

political support and readiness of the countries to understand the importance of it in the general assemblies, because this is the largest forum of 193 countries that we can use for this , and ukrainian parliamentarians were in north america in berlin, paris, and london talked about creating a tribunal for russia this year, because of the war, many ukrainians will be forced to celebrate christmas away from home. and in other countries , in britain, according to approximate estimates, more than 100,000 refugees from ukraine are those who came under the government program, what will their christmas be like, what will they prepare 12 dishes from, what carols will they sing, our colleagues from the bbc found out, do you expect christmas? their own

homes and move to great britain . this year's holidays are not the same as usual. bohdana and her daughter have been living in cambridge since april. her husband stayed at home in kyiv, here in britain. she works as a referent for issues resettlement at her local council and helps the community that takes care of ukrainian refugees, these people gathered today to celebrate the coming christmas according to ukrainian traditions on the table of 12 dishes, and although everyone is in a pre-holiday mood, there will be sadness and anxiety for us. christmas this year is like usual, there is no usual joy from christmas trees, but we decorated it for the sake of our children, so that they do not lose the feeling of the holiday, even despite the war, life goes on. so we arranged a small formation antonina, a craftswoman from irpen that her house was bombed by the russian military, so this year's christmas is very painful for her at the right

time, i don't even know how to tell you at home we put up a christmas tree my daughter sofie decorated it i'm not in a festive mood at all because i've been thinking all the time about my friends and my loved ones who are left in ukraine , they are there now. svitlana, a doctor from zaporizhzhia , a woman moved here with her mother and three children. thousands of kilometers away, a woman found her soulmate in a man who agreed to accept the whole family as a grandfather, in fact for he takes care of my children, he not only gave us shelter, he opened his heart to us, he is like a grandfather to my children, he helps them do their homework, teaches them english, and i am infinitely grateful to everyone who is now helping ukrainians. maybe if we didn't have these people here at all it was not christmas , there is nothing extraordinary about it, my goal is to make their life here as comfortable as possible

with you, we will all gather together like now at the festive table, i think it will be festively powerful on the faces of these people courage and bravery, they are safe, but everyone's thoughts of them about home and they believe that very soon they will return to their loved ones such a ukrainian christmas in cambridge and this is the end of the episode, we will return to the air on wednesday, december 28, me and all my colleagues who prepared this broadcast for you say goodbye to you until we meet people who suffer from rheumatism, but arthritic cannot get used to it, it does not allow to move