the fact that heavy battles are being fought at the turn of the holiday in the criminal areas, you can go in the direction of lysychansk well, and that the enemy is trying to advance on the site of the soldier bakhmut-majorskoli with his own corpses, the armed forces of ukraine are restraining this enemy and are even carrying out counter-offensive actions , so to speak, new year's war continues and is new realities in which this war is somehow that were with us it was a big broadcast of the winter episode on the espresso tv channel well, what now the time has come and i suggest you watch the news release from my colleagues with the ukrainian editors of bbc news good evening we are from ukraine from ukraine olga palamaryuk works in a court in london and today in the program the armed forces of ukraine destroyed the headquarters of the russian military in makiivka what is known and how did

we react in the kremlin its too big potemkin island what does this mean for the liberation of kherson oblast and catholics general education says goodbye to benedict xvi, who will be remembered all over the world as the former pontiff today, the russian army shelled kherson again, as the head of the city administration reported, they hit the building of the communal of the kherson electrotrans enterprise, dozens of trolleybuses were damaged, in addition, the hit to the administrative building was recorded without casualties after the

deoccupation of kherson and the region. the russians shelled a children's hospital in response, the armed forces of ukraine continue to strike, so in makiivka, donetsk region, a man came under fire the building of the ptu, where the russians were stationed , the building was most likely struck at the exact moment when russian television was broadcasting the new year's greetings of president putin, who appeared on the screen against the background of military personnel. to the bbc audience, a correspondent in kyiv, his father, moscow recognized the losses and this is a rarity, and criticism from pro-kremlin commentators, bloggers, those who support the russian war gives us an opportunity to understand how significant and this attack was devastating, they are very angry and

say that the attack happened because of mistakes made by the russian army, many russians question the decision to place so many troops in one place. and even near the front line, there are also reports that the ukrainians were able to find this object because of that the russian soldiers used mobile phones the building used to be a school which was then turned into a base by the russian troops for some of those who were placed there by recently mobilized soldiers who had just joined the army and they probably waited there for their time to go to the front. russian authorities say that 63 soldiers were killed. if these figures are confirmed, then this is one of the most deadly attacks by ukrainian troops against russian troops at the beginning of the war. ukrainian authorities rarely recognize attacks on russian positions, and i think that this time they did it because of the scale of the losses, and maybe because of criticism from some russian commentators, but president zelenskyi said

that russia used drones to attack cities across the country, he said that the government has information that russia is likely to continue these attacks, the russian plan was to exhaust ukraine's air defenses, there are energy carriers and people, he also reported that in the first two days of this year, the country's defense forces shot down more than 80 drones, but it is not surprising that russia increased its attacks on with the help of these iranian drones targeting cities all over the country, people are angry and tired of these attacks and president zelensky warns ukrainians that these attacks are unlikely to stop, the russian offensive near bakhmut is slowing everything down since the armed forces of ukraine have received reinforcements in the area, so they will not be able to capture bakhmut in the near future. this is reported by british intelligence, which is noted in the combined russian military and

the forces of wagner's pvt . according to british intelligence, over the past 10 days, ukraine has allocated significant reinforcements to protect the sector and the frequency of russian attacks has decreased compared to the peak in mid-december both sides suffered heavy losses , the report summarizes. at the same time, the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine noted in its morning briefing that the russian army is trying to take full control of donetsk and luhansk regions and is concentrating its efforts to advance in the direction of bakhmut. according to the report of the last day, the armed forces of ukraine repelled 13 russian attacks in donbas and about the continuation of strikes in the area of ​​bakhmut and avdiivka on january 1 and 2 with a low speed of advancement, the american institute for the study of war also reports the founder of the russian pvk, wagner prigozhin, said that the ukrainian forces had greatly strengthened

the residential area around bakhmut, however, there are certain reports that russian troops allegedly captured several ukrainian positions near klyschivka . asserts that the defense force of ukraine does not allow the russian military to improve its tactical positions in the area of ​​svatovo and continues the counteroffensive near the crime zone, while the enemy is curtailing its activity under the coal-fired but does not stop the assaults in the area of ​​bakhmut and avdiyivka, and the head of the ukrainian center for security and cooperation, military expert serhiy kuzan p. serhiyu, welcomes you on the air. well, let's start with the attack on the base with the russian mobilized makiivtsi, the russian side admitted the loss but significantly underestimates them if you compare it with information from ukrainian sources in moscow, they say 60 three soldiers, so the ukrainian

side says about hundreds of killed and wounded, where do you think the truth is? well, here we can definitely follow up and even the same ones by russian social media and in makiivka itself and, for example, also in the saratov region, where many were mobilized from, that is, even with that amount of information from open sources, we already see that hundreds of killed and wounded, that is, so far from ukrainian side, there is no official figure, and this is natural, because the rubble is still being dug up, but by this time it is clear that a whole battalion-tactical group was gathered in that place, and in the same place there were soldiers from other units of the russian occupation troops that is, there was a building of a vocational school that was completely filled with people. many of them were celebrating the new

year, and actually speaking, it was at this moment, thanks to our intelligence, which timely informed the coordinates and that was when there was the largest concentration of russian soldiers. and i will remind you that there there were no civilians there, this object was completely transformed into a base where the location of this battalion tactical group and also other military personnel was located at that moment. actually, there was a cover of rocket artillery, as a result of which there was a large number of victims is still unconfirmed, even all have not been found and killed and wounded, but it is clear that for hundreds of people this war in ukraine is already over. yes, even international agencies have already noted that this strike on makiivka has become very painful for the russian authorities, and the search for the guilty has even begun there, loud and the so-called warlords are sharp as always, will this incident in makiivka have consequences and how serious can they be? and we

see what is already happening because it really is personally even unexpected that this incident will raise such a wave of indignation. we destroy approximately if we take in total per day , from the battalion to the number of the battalion of the tactical group, our armed forces, our defense forces send to the other world in such a number of the enemy, but this is exactly the case when in fact a large number of people were located in, well, in a separate object in a separate building of this vocational school and no measures were taken for their resettlement or, for example, security, this for some reason greatly agitated russian society, and they blame the authorities for their so-called military bloggers the authorities shift the responsibility to the leaders of the terrorist groups of the dn, in particular, and

accuse them of not creating proper living conditions for the fighters. well, the special services have already begun to visit the relatives of the dead in russia, and they say that their main claim is that the dead had mobile phones . did not turn it off, and in connection with this, their geolocation and the blow was established, that is, they are trying to shift the blame to the dead themselves, so we see that this situation has already become for the russian government is a kind of hot potato that some security forces are trying to throw over others, yes, with that, of course, i wanted to talk about the bakhmut direction, yes, do you know what is happening there at the moment, or is there progress on both sides? we see that half a year by the way, these days it is six months since the bakhmut direction was surrendered by the militants to his illegal

armed formation wagner and ot na- already more than six months, how can they not to achieve any more or less significant successes in this direction, by the way, a few weeks ago, a number of successful operations were carried out, by which wagner's fighters were pushed back to the previous position, that is, for months, they advance there by half a kilometer per kilometer, and here are a few lightning operations of our defense forces and the status quo is leveled again, that is, they return to their previous positions. by the way, the arrival of the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, clearly demonstrated that he has control over the situation in bakhmut and, in general, along the line musilitar completely belongs to the armed forces and defense forces of ukraine and so today er these wagner fighters they changed their approach they

use tactics of small groups they use the number of detachments entering in order to get as close as possible and tie us in here these directly er battles are close battles in the assault infantry, and this is done in particular because it is the artillerymen who complain that they are already starving for shells, that is, that they complain about gerasimov, about the chief of the general staff of the russian federation, they generally complain about the russian command that it does not provide them with the appropriate amount of ammunition, that is, we see that the situation is difficult because it is being fought extremely hard and this is the toughest direction today on the entire front, but still the initiative belongs to that side, we also want to talk about attacks drones in two days of the new year yes, we have such statistics that the russians released more than 80 drones more and more often these are night

attacks, at the same time we sometimes hear that the whole importance of iranian drones in this war lost, the armed forces of ukraine learned how to shoot them down. practically everything is still the meaning of such drones, what are the real consequences of such attacks. well, i would not completely underestimate the importance of attackrons, because the russians, you see , they use these drones, they are looking for ways to sneak in, for example, they use the dark time of day in order to visually, it was more difficult to detect them and, accordingly, to shoot them down, they use, for example, the dnipro riverbed in order to sneak up as inconspicuously as possible at a low height to kyiv to attack energy infrastructure objects, but the last stage of the attack actually showed that 100% of the launched drones were shot down by our air defense

forces . at the same time, there are such shootings, such a reaction requires great efforts, because mobile groups are working and all means of anti-aircraft defense are also working. and with such drone attacks, the russians are trying to exhaust and overload our anti-aircraft system defense well, of course we cannot allow even a small number to break through and strike our energy infrastructure, therefore even at such a high cost, but still, our military shoots down and destroys such drones, at the same time we must be ready that uh drone attack is not it will stop, the russians will look for and try to feel the weak points in our heavenly defense and will launch

such and such drones in droves in order to cause at least some damage to our energy infrastructure, thank you for talking serhiy kuzan, military expert, head of the ukrainian center, meanwhile, foreign military experts draw parallels between the current drone attack on the ukrainian capital and the strikes on london in 1940. then hitler aimed to break the will of the british people , now putin is doing it and the task of ukraine's allies to help with weapons and ammunition analyzed by retired brigadier general of the united states of america markimed i believe that the ukrainians will use himers more often, especially now in winter when the front line is quite stationary heimers are primarily used against ammunition depots, cities, military personnel, supply depots, this is in order to reduce the number of russian

troops and their capabilities in the winter, and already during the spring offensive, nato should transfer as much equipment as possible. to rearm the ukrainian army, they also need to be taught how to use this new equipment, the russians want to increase their military capabilities in the winter, and the ukrainians should have an advantage under the time of the spring offensive and drones on the infrastructure - this is the same as in 1940 , when hitler attacked london with the aim of breaking the will of the british people. putin is doing the same with kiev, he realized that he cannot win on the battlefield, so he is trying to break the will of the ukrainian people but as you can see, president zelensky, just like winston churchill, seems to keep people on his side and they are ready to defend it, and the military of the armed forces installed the ukrainian flag on the

large potemkin island, which in people's deputy oleksiy goncharenko was one of the first to share the video in the kherson region, although later the spokeswoman of the operational command for the south, natalya humenyuk, denied the capture of the island - stating that it was too early to talk about its release, the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine did not officially announce the deoccupation of the island for the only time - this territory was mentioned in the report for on december 15, it was reported that the russians had forcibly moved the inhabitants of the island to the territory controlled by russia, because the official kyiv moscow is silently trying to on the big potemkin island, some information about this can be found on military telegram channels. my colleague oleg chernysh researched this topic . hello oleg. i have to warn oleg, like many ukrainians , there is no electricity tonight, but we will try to talk, although the connection may be interrupted. at any minute, what do we know at this

moment under whose control is the island? what data is there on this account, eh? congratulations, there really is not much data, eh, officially. no one from history recognizes the fact of control over this mosov, but the video distributed by the ukrainian military can claim that at least a part, most definitely the northern part of this island, is controlled by the ukrainian troops , and in the messages of some russian e-e military correspondents of telegram channels, they admit that part of the island is currently controlled by the ukrainians, and what is more, they claim that the southern part is reserved for the russians, and the rest of the island is mined, in fact, this is quite likely to be true, because it can be directly controlled by the base fire, that is, it is not necessary for the troops to be

stationed on this island, which in principle is enough such a ... in this aspect, which concerns the great potemkin island, to ensure that the enemy's troops, in this case , the russians, were not on it, and did not place blue-coats on it, and mortars, and actually did not fire on the regional center of kherson, as we understand it, this happened in recent weeks, especially on the eve of christmas and the new year, and i understand it, and military experts point out that this is exactly the problem that is solved by the suppression of these landings of the ukrainian military on this island, that is, the main task is to push the russians away from kherson, but there is no way to push them deep into the kherson region or at all

to start a powerful counteroffensive in this direction . that is, it is not a new springboard for an offensive so earlier that no, it is not a springboard, it is just an attempt to secure kherson well, i don’t either i can not ask about the situation on the kinburg axis, so experts say that an attempt to establish control over it is also an attempt to push the russians away from kherson in order to secure the city. a few weeks ago, there were reports of an amphibious assault. what is known about it now? well, actually, as for the kinburg axis, there is not much here. bad soychyn, it’s more about mykolaiv the fact is that this is actually the gate to the mykolaiv poet and really, somewhere about a month ago, there were reports , again unofficial, of the landing of ukrainian troops on the spit, but to what extent i know and inform my sources among the military units of the ukrainian units, there are currently no russian units on this spit, but there are still some

russian units. nevertheless, the ukrainian artillery exercises fire control over the part of which actually does not allow the russians to gain a foothold. gives certain prerequisites in order to release, after all, this arrival for sea vessels to the poet mykolaiv, that is, the kinbur spit, this is primarily the safety of shipping to the mykolaiv regiment, and we see that at a high level there are talks about that is, in order to unblock this poet and include him in the so-called plea agreement, that is, so that international ships would come to mykolayiv and be able to take out the zno and other products . ua, here you see it on the screens

of which you want to understand the topic more thoroughly. i highly recommend reading it, and i also want to take this opportunity to ask if you are watching now on youtube. do not forget to like it, so more people will see us. well, subscribe if you haven't done it yet so you won't miss our news broadcasts and catholics around the world say goodbye to benedict xvi tens of thousands of faithful are expected to come to say goodbye to the former pontiff in st. peter's cathedral in the vatican benedict xvi died on the eve of the new year at the age of 95 the cathedral will be open to say goodbye to the pontiff, the gates of the temple will be closed for three days at 19:00 local time, the list of guests invited to the funeral has not yet been published, it is only known that the delegations of italy and germany, the former qualifier's native country, will come, press secretary to the vatican, mateubrunia previously said that

benedict xvi before his death expressed the wish that his funeral be simple and modest. what was pope benedict xvi remembered for during his stay on the holy see and what will he be remembered for by future generations of believers ? bbc correspondents prepared material about the life of the pontiff, contemplative by nature, benedict was a prolific author and was more inclined to science than pastoral service for 8 years, he led the catholics of the world and then suddenly resigned, thus becoming the first pope in 600 years to abdicate joseph ratzenger was born in southern germany. when the nazis came to power, he was six years old. his parents were hostile to the regime. and although their son entered the seminary in 1939 , two years later he was forced to join

the hitler jugend. joseph, his brother georg , was ordained in 1951 on one day. georg became a parish priest, and joseph chose another type of service, first to and teaching theology at prestigious universities, and then the vatican, at the age of 50 rasinger became a cardinal, and already pope john paul ii appointed him head of the sacred congregation for the doctrine of the faith of the former roman inquisition in that position cardinal rasengar defended traditional catholic teaching on abortion, contraception and homosexuality when john paul ii died in april 2005 cardinal rasengar presided over his funeral and his homily based on the instruction of jesus follow me proved prophetic after the vote and

white smoke rose from the sistine chapel and where is the pope, a sign that a new pope has been elected , the oldest pontiff in 275 years benedict xvi sought to evangelize the west and collapse the spread of secularism, however, there was also a recognition that the influence of the roman catholic church is declining in 2006, pope benedict stirred up controversy during a lecture in germany by quoting a medieval christian leader who criticized islam and seemed to link religion with jihad and holy war and in several muslim countries at the time violent protests even broke out, the pope apologized and decided to establish a catholic-

muslim forum. benedict similar took into account that experience and during visits, such as to britain, radiated the pastoral warmth of sum this is uh, i cannot but express my concern about the increasing marginalization of religion, especially christianity , which is happening in some circles, even in countries that place great emphasis on tolerance, the church found itself at the center of another scandal surrounding the sexual exploitation of children by priests, pope benedict had to deny any - what role did he play in concealing cases of abuse? later, the pontiff apologized to the victims and established a procedure for the demotion of priests who were accused of sexual harassment, and about the national devil of primary faith laughed in february 2013. benedict xvi shocked the world when he

announced that by the end of the month, due to deteriorating health, he would leave the throne. in the world, benedict bequeathed to his successor the problems that exhausted him . the scandal with the sexual abuse of children and the decline of the congregation in the west, pope benedict defended the creed of the church and convinced he preached them, he died just as he lived thinking and writing about how to protect and promote the doctrines of faith in a world that is becoming more and more domestic and at the beginning of the war, millions of people left ukraine , according to the un refugee agency, almost 5 million ukrainians received the status of temporary asylum seekers among those who were forced to

leave their native home found themselves and a troupe of more than 70 ukrainian ballet dancers now live and study in the former royal gas conservatory in the netherlands bbc correspondent kate wendy i attended their rehearsal, observing the grace of their movements. you don't immediately realize that many of these performers recently fled the war. for many of them, the beginning of russia's invasion of ukraine could also be the end of svitlana's career. i was very afraid of this. i didn't have a job. i tried to find one. later i got this place, since then i feel very, very good. there was a time when i did not want to do ballet. i was depressed and felt that i had lost my thirst for life. svitlana fled from ukraine after the start of the war , her relatives stayed at home, she says now in all ukrainians have a battlefield and its battlefield is a stage, i try to enjoy the stage,

dance, give people energy, it is very important to help our country recover, support ukrainians, we are trying to help ukraine as much as we can svitlana is one of more than 70 refugee dancers who are currently performing in the united ukrainian ballet is a non-governmental organization that was founded to protect and spread culture that was under attack due to the war and it is a small room but i like it valeria is grateful for the opportunity to live and train here in gaza, because in the country where i live now, the war is a great tragedy, not only because people die for me personally, but also because many talented artists will not have the opportunity to realize themselves on stage and do what they were born to do has just returned from a tour where she danced in the ballet swan

lake by the russian composer tchaikovsky, some dancers refused to perform to his music, but valeria filled her performance with new content i express myself through dance, my feelings and the spirit of resistance are things which i cannot influence, but still i can react to them, i can demonstrate my protest through dance, the fact that dance for all these ballerinas is no longer about performance is obvious now for each - it is also a manifestation of defiance and that's all for today, see you tomorrow at 21:00 take care i welcome it