in the same way that there are no russian monuments of their culture, their language, everything that connected us without moscow, and this is exactly a year, this is a turning point for the year of separation from moscow, so we do not forget that this process began, it did not start today and we babysat him in the 13th year in the 13th year with the events of the maidan and if the maidan had not won, there would have been lukashenko number two yanukovych with a lifetime government from totalitarianism with liquidated democracy and did not have the right to say anything, that's why andriy we said correctly we have no right to shut our mouths there today to destroy democracy or local self-government well, how do we, for example , take away the powers of local government bodies? we don't approve budgets like this today. is that normal ? when is there? palamaryuk and today we will talk about such a

massive russian missile attack on ukraine targeting critical infrastructure in various regions missile fragments fell for the first time in belarus ukraine's victory in the war depends on the supply of weapons from partners taku a statement was made in an interview with the bbc by the chief ukrainian intelligence officer kyrylo budanov, and while millions of young ukrainians were forced to leave the country because of the war, the bbc talked to one girl about her currently distant dreams of returning home, russia launched another missile attack on the territory of ukraine, as a result of shelling destroyed residential buildings houses in kyiv are wounded in many regions,

electricity is cut off, somewhere preventive, somewhere as a result of hits in the lviv region, russia fired 6 rockets, 4 of them were shot down, there are two hitting an electrical substation above odesa air defense forces shot down 21 rockets fragments of one fell on the residential building of the victims there were no hits to critical infrastructure objects also in kharkiv one person died and two were wounded this was reported by the head of the regional military administration oleg sinogubov, according to him all the projectiles were aimed at infrastructure objects, a russian rocket hit a house in a village in the ivano-frankivsk region, according to the head of the regional administration, a woman and a child live in the house, they were in the next room and miraculously survived. in general, according to the general staff, in today's strike, russia fired 69 missiles at ukraine, the air defense forces destroyed 54 of them, and

the capital was also under attack today. over kyiv, the air defense forces destroyed 16 missiles , private buildings were damaged by debris, a car, an industrial enterprise, there is information about four wounded as a result, 40% of the population found themselves without electricity. this was announced by kyiv mayor vitaliy klitschko . bbc correspondent zhanna bezpyachuk will tell more today. residents of this private sector in the darnytskyi district of kyiv they will probably never forget the 10th massive rocket attack on the ukrainian energy infrastructure for the people ended here, with such ruins we can see a deep gash from the wreckage of a russian cruise missile and then a completely destroyed house there was a person there, a 50-year-old man, very fortunately remained alive, now he is in the hospital, if we look further, we can see another very damaged house in ment oka, this private

house has become uninhabitable, and that is where the family of her 14-year-old girl was staying performed an operation, the child was injured by this shelling and her mother, according to relatives, the mother was seriously injured, how did they start launching rockets here ? i wasn't at home at the time. i wasn't thinking. my granddaughter called me and said on the phone that the voice was scared. she was very scared. grandma screams into the phone . our house is on fire.

talked to the local community, people were very scared, they already calculated that at least seven houses were damaged in total and four people were injured, people say that they heard several very loud explosions, and in the blink of an eye, it was as if their whole life flew in front of their eyes and turned upside down, and now they are already making plans how to clean up ruins left behind by russian missiles and one of the missiles fell on the territory of belarus today, the monitoring group of the belarusian district was the first to report about it, the missile was found in a field in the brest region, approximately 20 km from of the ukrainian border, the russian agency ria novosti initially claimed that the belarusians were considering two versions of the fall of the missile when it flew in the wrong direction and that the missile was shot down by the belarusian air defense system. later, the belarusian ministry of defense reported that after an inspection it turned out that the debris belonged to an anti-aircraft and

guided missile out of 300 fired from the territory of ukraine and they say it was shot down, later the ministry of foreign affairs of belarus summoned the ambassador of ukraine to him and handed him a note about the fall of a ukrainian rocket on the territory of belarus and what is known about the incident on now we will ask an expert of the ukrainian institute of the future of ihor tyshkevich p ihor i congratulate you, the official minsk summoned the ambassador of ukraine and seems to have decided on who to blame for the incident. how do you explain the actions of the belarusian authorities from the point of view of what happened? yes, there is a rocket fall, but the reaction of the official minsk as of today is i i would say an attempt to get out of a potential crisis with the least amount of executions, because theoretically the ambassador should be summoned to the question of whether to give well, that is, to protest or to provide well,

but considering the conflict and conflicts under on the basis of his relations with belarus and ukraine today, of course, the note was predicted from the other side of the fall of the rocket and the way it was presented, including the russian mass media, it could cause a sharper reaction accusing ukraine there of a deliberate attack because the impression of the belarusian territory, but minsk is very afraid of this because it is connected precisely with the fear of stopping the entry into the war by the forces of the belarusian armed forces, and the reaction itself was very, very interesting. at the beginning, the pro-government channels said that about the missile was supposedly lukashenko's, let's say that's what they told or reported. but after that there was silence for several hours, the next version appeared that it seems that

belarusian forces shot down a s-300 missile flying from the ukrainian side, but it's very interesting that there are only fragments of one missile but official minsk is following the path of diplomatic accusations, but at the same time it is still afraid of an escalation that would force it to start a war, well, at least as of now, the situation is as i see it. well, what are the consequences of such a statement of the belarusian side? to have or should we expect, for example, reinforcements at the border or what further actions will be taken in response, demonstrative actions eh well, first of all, lukashenko must eh to some extent demonstrate to his forces, namely the part that supports him, that the belarusian air defense forces are eh capable to guarantee security, that is why the

thesis that this missile was shot down - in fact, by belarusian air defenses, maybe even on camera. again , there are one or two soldiers who were in this calculation, who apparently reacted quickly and shot down and from the point of view of the further development of the conflict, it is still unlikely. well, the protest and, most likely, that’s all . because belarus is not able today to place even two or three additional battalions of tactical groups near the border well, actually, you talked about the population, what is the reaction among the residents of belarus? about everyone in general, i wouldn't go there, that's what

the official propaganda presents. well, these are natural reactions of the people who live in the village not far from which the rocket fell, of course they are scared, well, this is predicted because if a rocket falls - it's scary from the point of view it is still too early to talk about public opinion, but it is necessary to remember that belarusian society is segmented , including at the next level. this can lead to the fact that such situations will occur. moreover, this is not the first rocket that fell in the brest region, because

several of them fell before. about the danger from the fact that belarus is located, the arbiter of russia is de facto an ally of the russian federation, and what part of the population lives in that region, of course, it is scared, maybe the same sentiments will be in this part of the residents of other border villages from the point of view of the electoral core of lukashenka, these are 30-35%, well, for them they will create a beautiful picture or such a fairy tale that the belarusian army stands in defense of state interests and nothing will happen to you, well, actually, we will observe the situation, thank you for conversation it was an expert of the analytical center ukrainian institute of the future ihor tyshkevich, we talked about the situation in belarus

, meanwhile, britain will allocate two billion 300 million pounds to help ukraine next year, this is what the minister of defense said of great britain, ben wola said in a bbc commentary, the british minister noted that london has already allocated aid for the same amount this year and, together with the rest of the world, will work to stop russia's actions in ukraine . deployed thousands of anti-aircraft missiles to help shoot down those iranian drones that russia is firing rather indiscriminately as critical infrastructure such residential areas and we continue to use our technological and training capabilities as well as support equipment in 2023 in order to ensure ukraine's ability to defend itself, to note that targeting civilian national infrastructure and residential areas contradicts the geneva conventions, russia violates international

law with its actions, not only with its invasion, but also with its attacks, and such behavior will have a response from the rest of the world, roughly how much it has already cost britain's aid this year is two and three tenths of a billion, and in the 2023 financial year we will invest another 2.3 billion. part of this is not military aid , part is humanitarian support, for example generators, a clear thing, military equipment, something, this is training, we have trained 10,000 ukrainians in great britain and another 20,000 we will also train in great britain, the part is the replenishment of british stocks, what we gave away, we have to replace it so that our armed forces have all the tools to protect us as well all this together is two and three billion and we are allocating another two and three billion in 2023 because it is vital for all of us and all of our security that russian ambitions in ukraine are defeated

violation of international law is unacceptable for international society and we will deal with it together, the hostilities in ukraine have reached a stage when neither ukraine nor russia can achieve significant success, the head of ukrainian military intelligence, kyrylo budanov, said in an exclusive interview with the bbc . belarus and the situation at the front. he also gave an optimistic forecast regarding the end of the war in ukraine. a bbc correspondent spoke with kyril budanov . an offensive by russia at the beginning of next year, how do you assess this option, it has always existed and exists now and

unfortunately will exist for quite a long time even after the end of the war, but as of now there is no information or any signs of real signs of the preparation of a new invasion of the city of kyiv i mean the capital or in general the northern direction is absent, you whitewash yours but the government says that russia can invade from belarus, i tell you that i do not see any signs of preparations for an invasion from belarus to the city of kyiv as of now and for a certain period in the near future eh world russian operation eh what about the russian mobilization, your government stated that russia is training 200,000 mobilized people who will be sent to the war in ukraine, look, in fact, the russians have very huge problems with equipment already of the existing units due to the fact that they

take part in hostilities that incur very significant losses, and when forming new units, they actually do not have enough manpower, based on this, they are now considering well, they considered accepted for yourself, the decision has been made since january 5, the next wave of mobilization of the peasantry has begun. about the stabilization of the situation, there are certain areas where they are trying to counterattack , but in general it is like this.

they tried to fight en masse by simply pushing people to their death, so this practice is with them and continues in the future. will it give any significant results, unanimously, it will not. it is not the 1930s and 40s, so no one in the world is fighting it anymore, and today you said that syrovykin stabilized the situation , that is, the situation for them has improved, well, you can't say that, if at first the russians were always more successful, less successful, it's already, as they say, history stopped but moved forward. now they are the only place that is trying to advance at all, this is the region of the city nowhere else. why do you think they so persistently want to capture bakhmut? and the reason is very simple. mr. prigozhin declared publicly, well, it was still the middle of summer that i would take bakhmut. well, he publicly announced it. as they

say in all of russia, he said he promised. well, now he is trying to do something . but since , as you can see, it is already the end of december and bakhmut is taking everything well, i don't think that he will succeed bakhmut, and justiniade ee, apart from bakhmut, do you see any activity of the russians in other areas of the front, such as the construction of fortifications or preparations for the ukrainian offensive russia is in a complete deadlock from us and the situation is simply stuck and not moving. we cannot, as of now, unanimously knock them out in all directions, and they cannot. therefore, these local actions are for us preparations for the liberation of our territories. we are very much waiting to change the approaches to supplying us with weapons and intensifying the process of supplying the serious types of weapons that we need for

the successful conclusion of the war against the russian federation, when do you think it will end war ah, regarding the vision of the terms and consequences of the end of the war, nothing has changed, i can repeat once again that it will all end with the return to us of the administration of the borders as of 1991, everything including crimea and the occupied regions crimea is an integral part of the territory of ukraine incomplete read the version of the interview on our bbc.ua page, watch our youtube channel, like and subscribe, and as a result of today's rocket attacks, the energy infrastructure was significantly damaged, the situation in the south-west and kyiv region is difficult emergency crews are working to restore the

electricity supply, but the work is not easy, because the russians are targeting critical infrastructure objects. if earlier it was about holding out for a couple of weeks or until spring, now the energy sectors are increasingly open, economists and government officials say that the electricity supply crisis will last until the summer, what can be done my colleagues spoke with the director of the security studies program of the ukrainian prism, hanna shelest, how significant is today's attack on ukraine damage to power grid systems today, the ukrainian air defense payment system has worked well enough, with the available information, we know that 54 69 missiles were shot down, and accordingly, of course, if this damage had not happened, the damage would have been much greater, nevertheless, and since that at the moment, six hours after the end of a, we observe this almost 40%. in kyiv remains without power

for a long time, 90% of lviv was without power, this indicates that critical infrastructure objects that are responsible precisely for the generation or for the supply of electricity, odessa also remained without electricity for a long enough time and, accordingly, without water in odessa, there was confirmation that one of the substations was affected at the beginning of the attack, european partners are helping ukraine in every way, and is europe ready to export the same energy, electricity, and in your opinion, it is a bridge between ukraine and europe, it is very lucky there that literally a few days before the february attack, ukraine disconnected from the russian network and joined the european network together with moldova of the network, it was then a test done, but very, very timely, and this in a certain way protects us, gives us the opportunity technically. and in order for us to have the opportunity to export this from european countries, nevertheless, it is not

so automatic that you just take it and switch, it should be enough to generate this energy in the respective countries and the full possibility to then distribute it throughout the territory of ukraine, because even today ukraine continues to produce a sufficiently large amount, let's not forget that ukraine has a certain diversification we still have a nuclear power station in operation, a hydroelectric power station, and thermal power stations. that is , there are many of them. the problem is that sometimes we do not have problems with generation, but problems with the delivery of that electricity from the producer to the end consumer in the odesa region. we know that there were 21 rockets, however there is a hit. please tell me what was affected as a result of these hits. the most affected was one of the substations on the outskirts of the city. in fact, we even consider it one of the districts of the city.

many were shot down by generators in the city, but others were shot down either over the sea, but not or far from the sea. in this case, the odesa air defense works quite well. yes, with the sea that happened today. it was one of the longest. it must have been like that. i can't remember if it lasted more than three hours without interruption. what, for example, two hours, then a break of half a day, and again a few hours, but today we had more than five hours and those more than five hours were for the entire territory of ukraine and then there was a big attack that started with most of the arrivals , it was somewhere at 9:00 in the morning when it was heard in all a-a corners of the city for example, if we are talking about odesa, this when they shot down the most , and then when it just ended

throughout the territory, point alarms began in some areas, such as, for example, in chernihiv , because drones flew out, and at the same time it began in kherson oblast, because there continued shelling from artillery besides eh long-range missiles, and to the question, historically, we know that today the monument to catherine was dismantled for the second time in odesa, for the 120-year history of this monument, there have always been scandals around it. farewell to the myths of the former empire is very difficult to say whether it is timely or not timely, we know that this monument has caused many years of controversy, even until 2014, it caused a lot of disputes in odesa, someone considers her to be the founder of the city, at least porto . in general it is the founder of the city or did it happen 400 years before it because there were settlements here. that is

, it has always been a certain way from an academic dispute in the city to a political one, and the removal of the monument is now used by the team, and not only directly in russian propaganda, their telegram channels and media as they pay so much attention, but we, as experts, have already noticed that today's attack, for example, the pro-russian telegram channel, popular channels tied precisely to the night demolition of the monument, and with such a very well-known manipulative wording, was it worth it demolish it if you are under fire there, and therefore we understand very well that at one point one way or another they asked questions about this monument, but both the local authorities and the ukrainian authorities should of course prepare for the fact that this question will be used in pro-russian propaganda and urgently the message just became known at the age of 82, the legendary football player pele, the winner of three world championships, a

football hero who condemned putin's war against ukraine, the death of the football player was confirmed by his agent jofrog for many commentators and fans, pele is the brightest personification of football and the best player in history when he was not only an athlete but also a public figure who fought for the environment and a better life for the poor in his homeland, he became a national hero in the world, a sports idol for millions, but he spoke out against russia's war in ukraine and called of president putin to stop the aggression against the ukrainian people and in cambodia near the border with thailand there was a large-scale fire in a casino hotel with a large number of tourists, people simply jumped out of the windows of the building partially collapsed killed at least ten people three dozen more were injured the fire broke out around midnight quickly engulfed

a large part of the building and lasted until the morning to cope with the fire volunteers came to help the firefighters and the war changed the lives of millions of young ukrainians, many of whom have now been living as refugees for 10 months in in march, bbc journalists met a girl who fled from kharkiv with her mother. now nika afonova lives in great britain and has come to terms with the fact that she will not be able to return home in the near future. correspondent sarah reinzfors met nika at her new school in england and visited her old one in kharkiv no one here understands what i'm going through i hope they never understand what i went through when russia invaded her country nika played the piano to

drown out the sounds of the explosions i heard the blows bombs, it was quite loud. unfortunately, kharkiv is one of the cities in ukraine that is attacked the most. they first met when her family fled from kharkiv. nika left her city and friends to become a refugee. now she is studying at a school in england. and we went to see how she was doing. i needed time to understand that now i am in a safe place, there is no hourly air raid and i don't have to think about what will happen if the next bomb is next to me. the bombing of kharkiv was intense for months. russian troops retreated only in in september, hundreds of rockets were fired. there we found the old niki school,

unusually empty. her teacher still comes here, but she is the only one here because all the lessons are via the internet. most of the niki classmates also fled when the war with надежно что всё всё скоро онлайныtsya everything will be maria is trying to be positive i hope that everything will end soon and everything will be fine but so far it's all difficult to normal life in kharkiv is still a long way to meet grandma niki who has no electricity or elevator for hours every day because of russian missiles now they are not targeting the energy supply of ukraine. nika's birthday was 16 years ago. tamara called her at school to say that she loves her and misses her and to advise her to study well. this is the first time they don't celebrate together.

what they did to us and for what although she knows keeping in mind russia nika meets new friends in england impresses new teachers will get everything from a life she never chose but kharkiv is always with her in my mind i want to return to my home i want to return my previous life but of course i know that this is actually impossible i want peace and tranquility in ukraine and for people to stop dying and that's all for today see you tomorrow at 9:00 pm take care