haru he said yes, we don't see any problems, like a yurt, we are proud that we have a yurt, that's why we thank the cossacks for their support. i'm here for the sake of taras hryhorovych shevchenko 's words about russia. why do we pay you? why do you pay us? why? why? why? who supports ukraine well, we do kazakhstan will lose to russia. we will win. everything will be fine. goodbye, always in the city. news for your attention. good evening. we are from ukraine. i congratulate you on the broadcast of bbcinema from ukraine . olga palamaryuk is working in the studio and today in the program because it continues and the donetsk direction is held. the situation in soledar remains

extremely difficult, but the ukrainian side refutes the russians' statements about the complete capture of the city. zelensky met with the president of lithuania and poland in lviv. andrzej duda said that kyiv is receiving a company of leopard-2 tanks from warsaw. next week, the ukrainian the military will begin training on the patriot systems, we will start with the area of ​​the front, which is currently the most focused on soledar, the situation in this place in donetsk remains difficult despite the victory announcements that were made by russian military personnel in the public on tuesday evening, the ukrainian command stated today that the military operation continues in the city, earlier

the russian ministry of defense stated that soledar is blocked from the north and south by russian paratroopers, the founder of the group of mercenaries, wagner prigozhin, said that allegedly the city was taken under control, however, in the ministry of defense of ukraine - this is denied, in particular, that the russians are replacing their units there and are trying to break through the defenses , but without success, and that the russians do not control soledar, international military experts also say so, the analyst of the american institute for the study of war declares the strength of the wagner group continues there is an attack on the fact that even if the russians capture soledar - this does not mean that bakhmut will immediately be surrounded, as the bbc correspondent of his bachaga claims in the kremlin will be continued by the leader of the central committee wagner, a group of mercenaries who are fighting in soledar, claims that most of the city is under russian control. he said that the fighting is still going on in the center of the city, but

there is no official confirmation from the ukrainian authorities. the night before, president zelenskyi said that the situation in donbas is extremely difficult, but he did not say about the situation in soledar, the deputy minister of defense said that the fighting there continues and the russian side has suffered significant losses . soledar is located a few kilometers from bakhmut, the russians have been trying for a long time capture this city. so if the russians succeed in taking soledar, it will give them a base to continue this offensive and try to capture bakhmut. if this happens, it will be the first major victory in many months of humiliating russian failures on the battlefield . communications from lviv serhiy grabskyi greetings, mr. serhiy, of course i will ask you to describe the situation at the front, but i want to start with this news: the russians have changed the commander of the united group again

troops in ukraine and instead of surovikin, gerasimov became, in your opinion, what happened, the difficult decisions of surovikin did not bring the desired result, and good evening, and you know , it is interesting information, but for me it is not completely strange or such that it can surprise at all, because i have repeatedly said that the russian army is commanded by only one general, general template, and the names of the other generals have absolutely no meaning , so there was no doubt that general syroikin would not be able to cope with the task as set, namely to win the ukrainian army, and now we know that we are watching the next round of the transfer of officials and the appointment of new commanders, but the realities of war are such that no new commander will change the situation on the battlefield and it will also develop negatively for the russian occupation forces

on the territory of ukraine, so they they changed they changed well, i think they will continue to change for a certain time until we defeat our generals, but this absolutely will not change the situation and the actual leadership is raw food, which they called there and the syrian butcher and general macedon did not actually change the situation on the front. syrovykin, well, this is at least one of the versions behind the idea of ​​missile attacks on ukrainian infrastructure, we remember, well, which obviously did not break against the ukrainian people. does replacing syrovykin with gerasimov mean that the strategy can now change and what strategy can we see from gerasimos and you know absolutely nothing will change because the strategy in the russian federation today, as of the evening of january 11, remains the same, namely destruction ukraine as a state as a subject of international

law and the destruction of ukrainians as a nation, and the physical destruction of ukrainians as a nation, that's why they can change their tools, but their strategy doesn't change, and unfortunately for them and fortunately for us, they don't have very many tools and that's why we can't to expect some significant changes changes in the conduct of combat operations to changes in some offensive actions or strikes can be cut, let's assume they will affect more, for example, and not infrastructure, critical objects infrastructure, in particular, energy-generating facilities, and they will move, for example, to railway transport facilities, or they will start attacking our oil depots again, as they did in the spring. but will the situation change radically, or

will we be forced to go to negotiations? will continue in approximately the same rhythm that we have observed to date , well, let's look at the front now, so the russians are flaunting, as we have already said, the capture of soledar, the ukrainian general staff says that there are more by the way, the american tv channel cnn a few hours ago, in fact, with reference to its camera crew, which is currently working on the outskirts of the city, said that the ukrainian troops feel safe there, there are no signs of retreat for their fellow soldiers. and what do your sources say, are there any chances for the armed forces of ukraine to hold there are your positions, and you need to understand that holding soldav positions is not an end in itself for the armed forces of ukraine or, in general , the defense force of ukraine. to such an extent as to force them to abandon any offensive actions from

any offensive actions and in this sense soledar can be considered as a certain trap that the russian occupation troops are drawn into and where they are regardless of who still have the opportunity to advance somewhere lose a colossal number of personnel, weapons and combat equipment, so, if necessary, it is necessary to understand that ukraine has created more than one line of defense, and if necessary, we will be able to move our units to more expedient positions, but until as long as it is expedient from a military point of view to get soledar as a place where the enemy is trying to attract as many resources as possible in order to want to capture not even the district center, we will defend this city . who are now defending themselves and in soledar in bakhmut, they say that how far we can retreat, this is our

land and we need to return it to us, and we understand that the offensive will also require certain sacrifices. therefore, we must cling to this land and hold on to it as much as we can keep but i repeat what i said before, it is not an end in itself for the ukrainian military leadership to get soledar at any cost . attacks without sparing people and this is sacred. well, not only this, but also this is how many people explain their local successes. ukraine is still waiting for armored vehicles and other weapons from partners. oppose well, you know, first of all, i want to note that ukraine is not waiting for defense equipment, ukraine has received and will receive

armored vehicles in a fairly large number, of course, we are not talking about western models of armored vehicles, although they are already being supplied to the armed forces of ukraine, but about former soviet equipment that was used by various countries in europe and other parts of the world today such tactics as frontal attacks group attacks ukraine opposes the methodical destruction of enemy objects that are not are necessarily on the front line. although on the front line we have sufficient information about the location of the enemy's units, the concentration of his weapons and ammunition, ukraine also strikes deep into the enemy's battle formations, and every day, if you see a summary, it is about at least a dozen current strikes of at least a dozen strikes of high-precision weapons on enemy targets located far

behind the front line, which also reduces the potential of the enemy, because this is how we understand that we cannot break er, the enemy’s quantitative advantage, but we can influence it by qualitatively depriving the enemy of shells, depriving the enemy of fuel for tanks and self-propelled artillery, depriving the enemy of leadership and military command. in this way, we respond with asymmetric methods, and as you can see, these er-e methods work quite effectively on to the whole extent of the russian war in ukraine, well, i also want to ask about the threat from the north, there are so many signals that russia is transferring its troops to belarus , in your opinion there is a reason for concern larger than usual today, there is no such reason for a dose of anxiety because , uh, yes, uh, in the north, we note

the implementation of a certain set of measures that indicate that the enemy is preparing for potential, preparing for certain active actions, but potential preparation and practical preparation - these are two completely er two completely different dimensions, and therefore today it makes no sense to talk about the fact that the enemy is deliberately preparing, for example, an attack in a month or two from the territory of belarus, moreover, the enemy uses belarus and is forced to use belarus as a training ground on which it conducts training for its mobilized units with the subsequent transfer of them to the combat zone in the east and south of ukraine, therefore we cannot talk now about the fact that the north poses a very serious threat we cannot, although at the same time understanding that the enemy probably activity. and by the way, that activity also includes the exercises of the air force of belarus and the space force of the russian federation, which will begin from monday, we understand that we

we do not have the right to transfer the majority of our troops, which are concentrated in the northern direction , to other areas of the front, we must demonstrate our readiness to stop any provocation that may occur from the clinical direction, thank you, thank you for the conversation. today he went to lviv, there he held a meeting on the security situation in the north-western regions of ukraine, as well as on the state of state border protection , the commemorative visit began fallen heroes on the field of mars of the lychakiv cemetery, then zelenskyy held a meeting to discuss the situation on the border with belarus, in particular, the state of the fortifications on the border, we understand that apart from powerful statements, we do not see anything powerful there, but we must be ready both on

the border and in the regions, volodymyr zelenskyy noted in addition, they discussed the protection of the rivne npp, i note that the nuclear power plant is located approximately 65 km from the border with belarus to lviv , the leaders of poland and lithuania also arrived at the meeting with zelenskyi the presidents of the three countries signed a joint declaration based on the results of the second lublin triangle, the document noted the intention of lithuania and poland to continue providing powerful military, technical , defense, humanitarian and other support to ukraine, and the president of poland, angeli duda, said that kyiv is receiving a company of leopard-2 tanks from warsaw, i should note that ukraine is particularly interested in receiving leopard tanks , as there are more than a thousand of them in europe and they are in service in 13 countries, but permission is required for their re-export berlin and germany are worried about the danger of

escalation of the conflict. poland has a total of 240 leopard tanks. we are talking about the same thing. we have decided that we will provide such support for ukraine on the part of poland. we will transfer a company of leopard tanks within the framework of the international leopard coalition under construction. this month, they will begin training on the use of petriv air defense systems. american media reports that the training program will begin next week at the portcile range in the state of oklahoma where the us military conducts its own training on the operation and maintenance of an advanced air defense system, fort sill is one of the four places of basic training of the us army and the base for the artillery school, which has been training servicemen for more than a century, on the

provision of air defense systems, patriot president joe biden announced during the visit of volodymyr zelensky to the united states on december 21 and one of the advantages of this system is the ability to shoot down not only aircraft cruise missiles but also ballistic missiles ukrainian air defense forces because it is almost impossible to intercept them. the missile does not fly above the surface of the earth, but rises along the ballistic trajectory upwards and from there almost vertically at a great speed attacks the target, as stated by the american manufacturer, the latest patriot system can hit ballistic missiles at an altitude of up to 20 km. the main advantages of this complex there is a high speed of combat readiness , the ability to fire at several targets at the same time, high maneuverability and resistance to interference, and the missiles of the latter the modifications hit the target directly and do not blow up next to it, i can

confirm that already next week at ford salt in the state of oklahoma, training of the ukrainian military on the patriot air defense system will begin, approximately 90-100 ukrainian soldiers will be trained, they will learn to manage , service and support the defense system during the course of the training, which will last several months. well, after the military topic, i want to talk about what else volodymyr zelenskyy has deprived himself of by decree ukrainian citizenships of four people 's deputies, viktor medvedchuk, taras kozak, andrii derkach and rynata kuzmin, are now planning to take away their mandates, medvedchuk kozak and kuzmin are represented in the verkhovna rada, and andriy derkach is a non-factional deputy , all of them are accused of treason, they have not been in ukraine for a long time, let me remind you in may 2021, medvedchuk was accused of treason and sent under house arrest in

april 22 after escaping from and the rest of the sbu detained medvedchuk among the charges aiding terrorism, treason, an attempt to loot national resources, as well as illegal seizure of a section of a state oil pipeline worth 200 million hryvnias in september 2022, viktor medvedchuk was exchanged for 200 ukrainian military prisoners, ukrainian oligarch kostyantyn zhivago was arrested in france , and was released on bail of one million euros about this bbcineus ukraine reported a source in the law enforcement agencies notes that now he is forced to report to the police three times a week in 2019, the law enforcement officers announced he was suspected of embezzlement and money laundering, soon after that he was declared wanted . on january 5, the french court postponed the hearing regarding

his extradition to ukraine until january 19. volodymyr vitayu, thank you for finding time for us, and let's start with this order on the deprivation of citizenship of four deputies, first of all, what is special about these four , why did the authorities decide to start with them? why only now on i apologize for the 11th month of the war well, first of all they are not the first sorry for the tautology on the summer robinovych or another deputy, the people's opinion, the reason for having another citizenship , the citizenship of another country in ukraine is a single citizenship, and if there is a citizenship of another

country, then it is necessary to choose if a person retains citizenship, then at least in relation to to the employees of the political and administrative elite. here there is a uh-class situation that needs to be resolved, especially if it is a person with a representative mandate, so there was already a precedent uh, but this foursome is really special . in connection with the draft law on depriving all deputies of the former police station of deputizing their parliamentary mandates, but the constitution does not allow this, there is a restriction on this, one of the possible reasons for depriving the deputy status by former representatives of the upsj - this is the absence of ukrainian citizenship or the termination of ukrainian citizenship, and that is why i

think that all of you presidents found in many ukrainians m ok who were exchanged for almost two hundred azov citizens. why does he still remain among the deputies of the verkhovna rada of ukraine and that is why they found i think that the sbu most likely found evidence that these people have the citizenship of other countries, most likely it is about pro-russian citizenship, and since this aggressor country and all of these four are on or directly or mediated actually helps the aggressor, then the decision in my opinion is well-founded, yes, it should have been done earlier, but better known, never. well, from a legal point of view, i understand that you are not a lawyer and that all these grounds, as far as they are not

contradictory, is it possible to appeal against them, and could this not be the reason for future accusations against zelenskyi himself for violating the law ? well, in fact, the situation in the legal sense is not so simple. during poroshenko's presidency, i will remind you that this was connected with the deprivation of ukrainian citizenship of mykhailo saakashvili , who was actually deported to poland, which, by the way, contradicts some of the norms of the ukrainian constitution, and now some lawyers say that there is a conflict if a person has the citizenship of another country, well, in principle, well, let's say this, according to one of the norms of the constitution, it is impossible to deprive this person of ukrainian citizenship, but another article

of the constitution says that the procedure for acquiring ukrainian citizenship and termination determined by the law and in principle well, such a possibility exists, there are already incidents, but in the conditions of war, well, in my opinion, it is true that when it comes to obvious traitors of people who work in the interests of the aggressor country, this is an acceptable action, but in the future, i think that the legislative it is also necessary to include in our legislation these er measures, if the conditions are grounds for depriving those people who not only have another citizenship er, but also work against the er national security of our country yes yes that i think that there is work to be done here, it is purely legislative, but in the conditions of war, i think that such an action is justified, and as far as i

can see, most ukrainians welcome it, well, about the fact that some high-ranking state officials, valuable deputies, in particular, have passports of other countries, this is often said it appears in the press and there was an impression that the authorities simply turned a blind eye to this, isn't it the case that everyone with two passports should prepare, so to speak, well, before, they really didn't pay attention to this, eh. well, some deputies also announced the business status even with government positions, as was the case with kolomoisky in the 14th year, at the beginning of the 15th year, they even showed off, i remember in many cases, when kolomoisky in one of the interviews, he stated that he even had three passports, three citizenship, although this is unacceptable in ukraine, and many of the so

-called politicians, businessmen, in particular, and deputies of the verkhovna rada, well, they did not particularly hide that they had the citizenship of israel or some exotic countries, just in case, and this was not a normal situation that is why it had to be settled now, perhaps god of war, in a harsh way because of the deprivation of citizenship, but this is a strict political signal that the problem will be solved harshly, and that is why those deputies and in general various high-ranking officials who have possible other citizenships must solve this the problem is, otherwise they will also face huge negative consequences, but this same problem exists not only for the deputies of the verkhovna rada or for some high-ranking officials, in fact in some regions of the country, for example, in transcarpathia, this there are also problems, and here we will have to look for

flexible options. at one time, hungary used to hand out their passports, and even some representatives of local self-government have hungarian passports. the situation is similar to that of the chernivtsi region. and the history of russia, crimea, and donbass has shown that russians were also given out en masse. their passports and this is a huge threat to the national security of ukraine, therefore, the problem must be solved by legislation, strengthen the responsible citizenship of another country and more clearly, more system to settle this problem, i want to add that yes, also in the church sphere. last week, president zelensky suspended the citizenship of a priest who wrote to the moscow patriarchate. in your opinion, to what extent is the state policy in the church

sphere currently thought out, balanced, and effective ? before, but the war also became a catalyst, with passports and the status of the church, the state, in principle, acts sufficiently flexible, no one forbids the uoc of the moscow patriarchate, but the demand is enough it is necessary to clearly define whether it is a ukrainian church or not and we need to act within the conditions of ukrainian legislation. volodymyr fesenko, a political scientist, was in touch with us . to life in a new place. and you need to find a home, a job, a school, and then the story of a ukrainian teenager who dreams of becoming a football player. he played in the children's and youth school of dynamo kyiv. now he plays on the field in britain. his family because of

war moved to northern ireland makar marynushenko fled ukraine 5 days after the russian invasion along with his mother and older brother his brother shot this video with russian helicopters when they were flying over their house in bucha after the family left their house was destroyed by the russian military makar was always stubborn a football player and trained at the children's and youth football school of dynamo kyiv after arriving in the city of oma , he also found a new club, the man had a mouth united and new friends friends thanks to football i made many friends and it helped me there a lot of adrenaline jokes and you know when you score goals for example it's a lot of fun football also helped his family find a common language with the family that accepted them makara's football career sometimes took away his desire to play this game a lot of time, but since i also love football, it was very

nice. i tried to guide him in the right direction, find additional training for him and try to maintain the standards he achieved when he was in kyiv dynamo, this was very important for christina and her family, she found a club for me. they called and we talked about football. she helped me a lot. makar does not lose hope . one day he will become a professional football player, but most of all he wants to believe that the war in ukraine will end soon and then he will be able to return home to his father. melnyk ukraine i hope that the war will end ukraine will not be bombed and people will stop being killed, but most of all i want the war to end then it would be easier for me emotionally then i will be happy and in the meantime makar continues to

polish his football skills and do not betray the goals you once set, that's all for today, look for more stories on our bbc.ua website and on our social media pages, we will be on the air again tomorrow at 21:00 good luck and take care of yourself , join the community with a ukrainian view of the world, become a sponsor of the youtube channel espresso and this is access to exclusive content, personal thanks are fixed