he is here and now they call him a public figure. this is how it should have been done. well, i won’t say what he said. we have such an amateur. well, the phrase here is spot on. this is how it should be done in reality, and those who want to discuss it for a long time do not lose. because of this, his ratings, let's say it happened with olaf scholz, he lost almost half of his ratings in the last year, because it is very visible that he behaves indecisively in relation to ukraine, where britain is preparing to hand over the challenger 2 to us, he is discussing this matter in the czech republic, he is handing over the t-72, they are good combat normal working machines. thank you for being with us during these two hours . we will meet tomorrow, and now for your attention i offer a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news. good evening . we are from ukraine. greetings on the bbc. not from ukraine . olga palamaryuk works in the studio and this is what we are talking about today, after a rather warm december

, january frosts have come to ukraine, military analysts warn that the cold weather will help the military to carry out offensive operations, the christmas truce, which was not reported in the bbc from war-torn bakhmut and sanctions against russian oil collapsed their profits but will this be enough to force russia to abandon the war this morning the russian military shelled kharkiv oblast and hit the market that in the village of shevchenko two women were killed five more people were injured including a child this was reported by the head of the kharkiv administration oleg sinogubov, according to preliminary

data, rockets were launched from the belgorod region, and today russian troops again struck a residential quarter in kherson, resulting in the death of one person, and about this the head of the kherson administration, yaroslav yanushevich, reported in his telegram channel, and despite the christmas truce announced by president putin, the russians shelled the territory of ukraine with incendiary munitions all weekend. these weapons have been banned from being used in kherson since 1980. russians have been trying to take two educational institutions from constant shelling and bakhmut, a small town in donetsk region, for several months now, hoping that this could lead to a fall sloviansk and kramatorsk, two important places in donbas that are still under ukrainian control, on the approaches to the city , there is continuous fighting. in his

recent address, president volodymyr zelenskyi said that additional units of the armed forces will be transferred there. russian troops are still far from the operational encirclement of bakhmut, ukrainian forces are holding positions there, according to the situation in the city, bbc correspondent james will tell waterhouse, he has just returned from bakhmut, the road to bakhmut resembles a journey beyond the borders of civilization, we are heading to one of the hottest areas of this war, the destroyed city is only about one and a half kilometers from the russian position, the ukrainians are bravely defending their country here, and the occupying forces are destroying the city with all their might, leaving

it almost deserted oleksandr is one of those who defend the city further over the hill, not our situation is tense, there are explosions, the eu is coming from the feet of the enemy, they promised that there will be a truce well, we don't see it, we don't feel it, we haven't seen it they said one thing, another comes out, as they say, those who remained in the bahamut seem to be already used to explosions serhiy is trying to patch up the wounds of the war of such and such an enemy, you will live well, and christmas is exactly the same as it was celebrated with a christmas tree with decorations, the truth is in the basement, but at the same time, we do not forget holidays. we ca

n't stay here for long, but what we saw has nothing to do with our usual christmas. eastern ukraine has been suffering from russian aggression for 9 years, during this time there were several unsuccessful attempts to stop the fire, so few believed that this time too there will be a chance to rest. this was james waterhouse from bakhmut and about another city in donbas. on january 8, russian troops launched a missile attack on kramatorsk. the russian ministry of defense called this attack a revenge operation for the attack on the russian military base in makiivka. on new year's eve, he says that as a result of this the so-called operation allegedly killed more than 600 ukrainian servicemen, but the armed forces of ukraine deny this, their own investigation was also carried out by international journalists, they went to the site of the attack and it turned out that the russians fired

an empty educational institution also did not see any signs of a large number of victims at the site of the strike, cnnto reuters journalists, several russian military bloggers criticized the ministry of defense of russia for the fabricated story of retaliation for the strike on makiivka, they said that the department often makes false statements instead of bringing those responsible for the losses to justice and after a fairly warm december, the january frosts came to ukraine, previously analysts had warned that it was the cold weather that would help the military to carry out offensive operations after the liberation of the right bank part of the kherson region on november 11, the front line in ukraine practically froze in the south ukrainian and russian troops divide the dnipro in the zaporozhye direction artillery duels continue the fiercest battles continue, as we have already said, in the donetsk and luhansk regions rapid breakthroughs of armored vehicles from both sides so far

i stopped, the soil is quite wet there, soft for winter. and already today, the ukrainian hydrometeorological center predicts that at night it will be minus 15 degrees near bakhmut, and minus 14 degrees near svat, and this can significantly affect the further course of events and let's talk more about all this with us , head of the center for military and legal research oleksandr musienko p oleksandr welcome to the broadcast, well, let's start with the most difficult direction of the front, bakhmut and soledar, rather even directly soledar, what do we know about what is the situation there now, some mass media are reporting about a breakthrough at the front, that the city is surrounded from several sides, or is it like that, well, the situation is as follows, quite complex battles are going on there, really tense, the russian troops have abandoned there a large number of their assault groups and they do not stop despite the fact that they suffer colossal losses, despite the fact that in fact they

do not reckon with their losses and miscalculations, they stubbornly continue to advance and, of course, the fighting is quite intense, this is what happened to the soldiers due to the fact that the front line is on that's called a line that goes along a certain territory and soledar is also in the same front line in the same line of defense that includes bakhmut . the fact is that after several months , and especially the previous few weeks, enough the enemy brutally tried to storm the ukrainian positions there and was repulsed, it was usual with colossal resources and efforts, but the ukrainian troops were able to repulse the russian troops there on their positions and even launched several such local counterattacks, the enemy began to look for other directions where to try to break through the front, according to the troops of the russian

command, they decided that soledar could be such a direction. and they decided to try there . all their first attempts to storm there were rejected, but they constantly renew offensive actions are still ongoing there to this day, it’s difficult. and it’s probably too early to draw conclusions about how they will end, but i want to believe that it will end with the fact that, after all, the ukrainian troops are rejected and will defeat the enemy, and the russian and russian forces are not there will be able to break through the front line in order to go either from the flank or to go into the body of the ukrainian armed forces, i can only say that in the previous few days there was quite a lot of manipulation and russian propaganda keds who reported that it seems that soledar has already fallen and bakhmut has fallen, this is not true, there are ongoing battles and the situation today is not determined in order to state, that is, ukrainian

troops continue to resist and continue to fight, in fact, for every centimeter there, i would also like to clarify from reports that the armed forces of ukraine also transferred parts of the forces from bakhmut to soledar, and taking into account the attack on bakhmut, now a number of experts also point to the collapse of the front due to a thunderstorm . just like that in bakhmut, how powerful a group the russians prepared in that area the fact is that the russian troops are actually going to the bank, you have to understand that they are also taking risks because they transferred part of their troops from the south from the occupied territories plus they are also forced to conduct hostilities where they are trying to advance ukrainian troops in the luhansk region in the area of ​​criminal, but now it seems that this direction is really a priority for them, plus they would not want, according to their plan, to calculate that the ukrainian forces should transfer troops there to the area

of ​​bakhmut and soledar in order not to have the opportunity to fully develop a counteroffensive in the south, which the russian command is very wary of, because for them the loss of the south and the land corridor to the crimea would actually mean a definitive defeat. well, maybe not definitively. part of the forces are indeed the wagnerites and plus uh, besides the wagnerites, they are partially mobilized and regular russian troops, but also uh, the president of ukraine said that there are corresponding orders on the redeployment of certain ukrainian units to strengthen our positions. therefore, this demonstrates that today the hostilities continue, the situation is not fully resolved, and

it will depend, let's say, on how it will develop in the next few days in the future, but it already becomes noticeable that the russian troops are somewhat weakened, despite the fact that they are still advancing and throwing such large forces, it is noticeable that, nevertheless, in some parameters of their position, despite the transfer of reinforcements due to losses they have changed somewhat, and not in the direction of strengthening, but in the opposite direction. yes, you mentioned the crime, we will return to this issue later. i would like to summarize this way from a military point of view : how important it is for the ukrainian forces to hold the soledar fortress even at such a heavy price, and what are the consequences of the loss of these cities can be important, you know, i will tell you that of course, when the point of view is now important, the actual grinding, that is, the destruction of the enemy's troops of the russian troops and the actual infliction on them of this bloodletting

and the reduction of their offensive potential, this something of similar importance happened in the area of ​​north donetsk and lysychanska pravda. ukrainian troops there were forced to withdraw with a fight and in principle they did it quite successfully then and after it actually seemed to be a huge offensive offensive potential of the russian army in the east after the battle for lysychansk ended with because they captured lysychansk, occupied it, destroyed it before that, but lost their offensive potential , and then even at the meeting between defense minister shoigu and russian president putin, there was actually given the order that these troops should rest, moreover, the ukrainian forces were then able to even retake beligorovka and go into a counteroffensive, therefore, from a military point of view, this is an ordinary front line, for us it is a line of defense where we restrain the enemy, but it is also important for us from the point of view of to destroy as many enemy troops as possible

so that they would not be used in the future for me in this direction or in others, and as a result we had the opportunity and resources to move to a counterattack luhansk region other hot front and do you know what is happening there on today, the situation there is the following after the ukrainian troops were able to break through the line of defense and the russian troops and were able to advance somewhat directly to the crime zone, they were able to deliver quite serious such effective artillery strikes and destroy the enemy's forces, however, it must be stated that the enemy moved there reinforcements e-e in a certain amount and in connection with this there are now such positional battles with the initiative more on the ukrainian side due to the fact that it is used in particular artillery provided by western partners, which has

a radius of attack and a range of several kilometers more than that of the russian troops, which means that there is a certain advantage, but there are more such uh, now positional battles, because the russian troops also threw reinforcements there, of course, i also want to talk about so it's getting cold in ukraine, and heavy military equipment is moving perfectly. how do we know about the frozen ground in connection with this? what are your predictions about what will happen on the front in the near future? the preparation of ukraine is being conducted along one of the directions, and most often it is in this context that zaporizhia was mentioned in order to break the land corridor of the russians to the crimea, how

will everything happen, for example, in january? additional help from western partners, we have already seen in this sense serious support from the usa, france and britain and germany, we are expecting the rammstein format, which will be supported by the conference on supporting ukraine in january, after him, there is also good news, and it seems to me that after all, having accumulated forces, appropriate resources and having prepared the same troops and battalions and brigades, respectively , according to the western standard, which are trained in nato member countries, then with such a reinforcement of armored vehicles and artillery and having certain advantages in this, i think that it will be quite serious, good reinforcement for the ukrainian troops and will give an opportunity and it will be a good toolkit for conducting a counteroffensive, that is, i do not think that it will happen in january, despite, let's say, the

weather conditions are favorable for the equipment. of course, thank you mr. oleksandr, the head of the center for military and legal research, oleksandr musienko, was in touch with us in russia, meanwhile , they admitted that they were selling oil significantly below the price ceiling, this is reported in the report of the russian ministry of finance, so the average price of oil in december was almost 50 and a half dollars a barrel. and this is almost 1.5 times less than in december 2021. it is interesting that such a price is significantly lower than the so-called price ceiling set by western countries for all russian oil exports at the beginning of december against russia in the amount of oil eu sanctions then set the maximum price for oil and oil products originating from russia or exported from it at the level of 60 dollars . these data are confirmed by the

oil market analyst spencervech, the expert is convinced that now it is possible to talk about a certain the economic impact that these new restrictions on oil create in russia itself offers to listen very hard to get evidence that anyone is buying russian oil with the new limit of $60 per barrel before this restriction on prices arose. the eu introduced a ban on the purchase of russian oil and we see that it is working. the eu almost does not buy russian oil, a little more is sent to the east, but in general we are observing a reduction in russian oil exports, while exports to india and china have increased somewhat, although in general we are leading talk about the drop in russian oil exports by about 10%. therefore, we can not talk about the cessation of exports in general, but it has definitely become more difficult for russia to sell oil, all this has a certain economic impact on russia, but even before it was

a limit has been set on the selling price of russian oil, it was already sold cheaper than $60 per barrel, well, here it is worth remembering that probably a year ago, on the eve of the invasion of the country from the west, they literally promised to put the russian economy on its shoulders if moscow started a war against ukraine, as well as the forecasts of economists at the beginning march also looked bleak, but so far russia is still able to continue the war, will capping oil prices be the last argument that will knock economic power out from under the feet of the kremlin , an economist adds to the airwaves in the past first deputy minister of economic development of ukraine, pavlo kukhta, i welcome you on the air. well, since we have already started talking about the limitation of the maximum price for russian oil, we can already see that the sanctions are in effect, the price of russian oil is falling, oil exports are also falling, but do you know enough about this and

so no, we have to understand that when they were seriously talking about sanctions even before the war started, the professionals in principle understood that it is unlikely that they will put the russian economy on the shoulders of the russian economy at once. relied on financial sanctions, do you remember the disconnection of russia from swift, the disconnection of the banking system, that is, a strong blow to the financial system that would have simply collapsed their banks, but it did not happen. and whether it was possible or not, it's time to talk about it. we don't know what happened. how did it happen from the point of view of the economy, russia was essentially rolled back 30 years, we just have to understand that at its core russia is a purely raw material economy, which contains the wealth of siberia, their colony, and this colony contains such a large share of the world's raw materials and it is not only about petroleum products, in fact there are

many, many other different metals of various different raw materials that are consumed by the world, there is a lot of it in russia, a critical amount, therefore it is impossible to simply take it and completely throw it out of the world economy, if russia was an industrial economy, for example, it was already lying on the shoulder because it's just that the investors all left, the factories stopped production, they began to quickly transfer to other countries and everything. but russia is a raw material. and as long as it controls siberia to bukovyna , these raw materials are mined as long as their share they are so big that you can squeeze them , you can take away some of the income from this, which actually happens due to sanctions, but to completely knock it out without physically taking away siberia. well, unfortunately, it is impossible, so what is the problem with this russian power? this is a war of attrition in your opinion. i think that it is exhausting, that is, the lentil is going

to fight . of the defense-industrial complex. that is, it is not like telling you. they can fight for a long time as long as the russian people will obey putin and stubbornly and you to death under the bakhmut soledar. we already see certain political signals from their side that they are more and more ready for peace, this is also obvious and we can state that these signals are specific because russia is very a specific country and everything they say looks and sounds strange but obviously a change in rhetoric compared to what it was at the beginning on the one hand but on the other hand if

we expect the economic collapse of russia eh rather it will be a very long slow process similar to stagnation in do you remember the soviet union of the 70s? the soviet union did not fall economically in one moment, it rotted for a very, very long time. until the reconstruction began, because it was physically impossible to get this economy like that, then it already collapsed. that is, it is rather a stagnation and not a collapse. well , you mentioned the signal before the end of the war, so it’s interesting why you see it, what it manifests itself in. well, i’ve been in politics for a long time. this is to say, they are making various maneuvers in public and non-public, trying to somehow push ukraine to negotiations, well, it is obvious that they are in pain, yes, they have lost most of the territory that they bought at the beginning in ukraine, they want to see problems

with the replenishment of the same missiles with which they are hitting according to our energy system. here i was sitting without electricity. literally two minutes before our broadcast, but it is obvious that their resources are not infinite, they are ending. and behind ukraine is the entire western world, whose resources are infinitely greater now than the russian ones. well, this imbalance is obvious, and it will push them to after all, to end the war . thank you. i wanted to talk more. but unfortunately, it's time for a party. good luck. pavlo kukhta, former first deputy minister of economic development of ukraine, ex-acting minister, was in touch with us. thank you for conversation and hope in the world. attention today is focused on brazil, where hundreds of supporters of ex-president jairo lassinar broke into the country's national congress, they also entered the building of the supreme court and the presidential palace, the attack lasted about three hours, after which the police began to arrest its participants, the storming of the brazilian parliament and of other government buildings

took place a week after the inauguration of the new president of the country, the center-left lula da silva, who was already in office from 2003 to 211. demonstrators supporting boltsonara and his right politician refuses to recognize his recent defeat in the elections. well, world leaders condemned sunday 's storming of the brazilian congress by supporters of the former president of zaire. president biden said that the will of the brazilian people will not be undermined. support for the new president of brazil was also expressed by britain, germany, france, russia, china and india, and details in the article by kathy winston sao paulo, complete chaos occurs in the city of brazil, as thousands of demonstrators storm government buildings . the authorities are trying to regain control of the capital of brazil uses tear gas in response, this was a scenario that many feared after the october elections, which caused controversy, these shots are reminiscent of what

happened to the capital of the united states two years ago, after all, the former president of brazil, jair boltsonara, was also called by some a trump from the tropics , and although the far-right protesters here were inspired by the former the president of the usa what happened is more than just a copy of the riot and even more than that lua won. after all, for them he is a person whose place is in prison and not in the presidential palace . i am here for these completely peaceful demonstrations because i am against all the crimes of lila , the vice president of the supreme court and the supreme electoral court. we need new elections, we do not believe that these elections were democratic there are clear signs of fraud and corruption there is no evidence of fraud despite the claims of the protesters but it doesn't matter to them these people want military intervention they think it's the only way to save

brazil from what they consider to be stolen elections, the newly elected president luula, who in his position for only a week condemned what happened, calling the protesters phonetic fascists, all the people who did this will be found and punished, then they will understand that democracy guarantees the right to freedom in general, and we are led out by words in particular, but it also requires people to respect the institutions created to strengthen democracy. by nightfall, people were driven out of the buildings they seized, and the police pushed the rest of the protesters out of the streets. present of it seems that the police did not expect that something like this would happen, we almost did not see law enforcement officers on the street, the supporters of lasuvar easily knocked down the police barricades, and you know that now in the capital there is just some kind of mess apple ball, the supreme court was asked to issue a warrant

to the person responsible for the security of the city of brazil under the leadership of the former minister jeira lozhnoro, who was dismissed after sunday's events, peace has been restored in ukraine for the time being, but the political divide persists, and it was we who heard ukrainian carols in britain over the weekend christmas according to the old style, thousands of believers gathered in the ukrainian catholic church in the center of london, because traditions and customs have no borders . bbc correspondents also attended the christmas service. merciful service and prayers for ukraine. this weekend, the ukrainian catholic church in the center of london opened its doors to thousands of believers to celebrate orthodox christmas , borrowing from the church is simply full of people, someone told me that he already celebrated christmas in december following western traditions, but continues to celebrate and this is the first orthodox

christmas since the russian invasion, although for many here it is very difficult to feel the holiday. some of the ukrainians are refugees. and some have been living in london for many years, like myroslava lytvynenko. today, i try to be joyful and happy. ukrainians cannot celebrate the birth of jesus christ, but i always caught myself thoughts there is a war still a war i always come back to this feeling who to our jesus christ is the love of god and the communion of pakena and novakivsky this is a feeling that is shared by most of the people people come here together or to share solidarity with our sisters and brothers in ukraine and around the world but also to be with each other in this difficult time when there is so much suffering we have the opportunity to

celebrate christmas eve christmas warmth with electricity and water while our relatives friends in ukraine celebrate christmas in the dark also sings in the church choir so hard she almost lost her voice oh christmas carol we always sing christmas carols very fun and loud so people in ukraine can hear us i hope they hear us today we are from the new broadcast first take care of yourself