[000:00:00;00] environmental special operation and for discrediting a number of representatives of the ukrainian military and political leadership, and in particular this may apply to a number of officials, this is a different person, yarmak, sheptala vyhovskyi, this is the acting head of the national police, well, let's see, in any case , discrediting is one thing. court scandals are quite the other one must be distinguished from the other , what do we actually do here, er, on the airwaves , in particular, what do anti-corruption bodies do, and everyone who cares who cares how the government behaves, well, what about russia will prepare a special operation, it is not even surprising, there is nothing like that, now for your attention a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news good evening we are from ukraine from ukraine live from london i am yevgenia shedlovska and today in the broadcast of the battle in donbas, the russian military is storming

vugledar, a city that has the strategic importance of putin is preparing to fight for years and go on the offensive again, and the american media miss whether the ukrainian army is ready for this, and the west is closely monitoring the changes in zelenskyi's team after coming to power. he promised fight corruption, is it possible to do it during the war, and let's start with the situation at the front in donbass. vugledar has now become one of the hottest spots after the conditional success under soledar and months of bloody attempts to take bakhmut. the strategic

importance for both the armed forces of ukraine and the russian forces is incomparably more than symbolic for the wagnerites . the drone was made public by the ukrainian military, we do not know exactly when they were taken down. in the summer and spring, the russians tried to take ugledar more than once, but then they could not advance to it, and the skirmish line stopped in the neighboring villages of pavlivka and mykilske. on january 24 , the russians went on a new assault on ugledar according to military observers , russian elite units are participating in these battles . two brigades of marines of the russian pacific fleet are storming the city from several directions at once and, according to the party, precisely under in ugledar on the night of january 24, they shot down three russian attack helicopters that were trying to cover the attack of the russians, and today's morning summary of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine indicates that the attack in the city area with the defense forces of ukraine managed

to be repelled in general, but in the last three days , ugledar has become one of the hottest spots on the entire front and in contact with us, the head of the ukrainian center for security and cooperation , military expert serhii kuzan p serhiu thank you for joining us in vugledar , this is the strategic importance of this city why are the russians trying to capture it? it must be said here that the russians are fulfilling the task set for themselves a long time ago. it is necessary to pull the southern front line to at least 10-20 km because because we are penetrating with our jet artillery . zaporizhia direction in the kherson direction, and in this way we are constantly constantly destroying the accumulation of russian manpower. so, firstly, their goal is to drag this front line

away to the north, and secondly, they need to it is necessary to increase the distance of the railway, i.e. from the donetsk direction through volnovakha and further berdyanska, i.e. mariupol, berdyansk, melitopol, these are railway supply lines, and this is the main branch of the supply of the entire southern grouping of the russian occupation troops, eh, we are, eh, quite close to railways. that is, there are places where the distance reaches 7 er 7-10 km. so this means that we are constantly taking er this part of the front under fire control and the russians cannot fully secure their group because of that indeed, they are gradually increasing their pressure and they will continue to increase this pressure and the attack on ugledar, or rather even on its outskirts, because

we have successfully repelled their attacks in recent days , destroyed a lot of enemy equipment there and, interestingly, also the army aviation, but what tactics are the russians using these coal miners? they are trying to raze the city to the ground again like during other assaults. so it is interesting . because here we do not let them raze this city to the ground, and if, for example, in donetsk region, there is still an advantage in artillery there, and there really we saw these terrible pictures from the soledar when in fact there was not a single capital structure left in the city . that is, only such a half-bombed private sector remained there, and so the city simply ceased to exist . that is, it was lost as a kind of defensive line, but in the coalfield here, on the contrary, we did not let them expand their artillery, a lot of equipment was destroyed in advance, and therefore they already used full-fledged offensives, heavy armored

vehicles, combat vehicles, infantry, tanks, other types of weapons and, in addition, cover from the air that is, the use of army aviation, helicopters, the same k-52 alligators, which are really different weapons, and they expected that they would be able to quickly take positions by using rapid rapid offensive, but very literally in half an hour, several units of equipment were destroyed, and in fact, their assault units suffered irreparable losses and that is why they did not manage to complete a single task of capturing vugledar and its surroundings . the ability to hold ugledar because this city on the heights of the russians does not attack from below. this is the best way for the ukrainian military to use such a geographical advantage here . the fact is that the defenders of ugledar are already

using it, and this is also, by the way, compared to soledar, when the city itself is located in the lowlands and our main defensive fortifications are located on the hills , i.e. on the heights already outside the city in its north-western outskirts, that is, in the ugledar itself, the summer defense runs throughout the city. there is an industrial capital structure mines, the city is located on high ground, that is, it is clear that we will hold on to vugledar and give battle to the enemy, and for now we are succeeding, that is, the losses of the enemy are certainly not comparably greater than the losses of our defenders in this direction, mr. serhiy, we still have important topics, in particular, about mobilization in ukraine and now i want to draw attention to something else. before the assault on ugledar, the russians perceived their main attack on bakhmut and soledar. this was done by the fighters of the private military

company wagner, in particular, and if we talk about pvk wagner, the united states recognized it as a transnational criminal organization, and not only because of their part in ukraine , but also because of the presence of syria, libya , and the central african republic, such a step will allow the united states to apply more sanctions, in particular , the chinese company that is believed to have supplied the wagner-ritz satellite has already come under american sanctions pictures of ukraine and according to estimates of the united states fighting in ukraine approximately 50,000 wagner mercenaries approximately 10% of russian forces in ukraine here are the estimates of british intelligence and the wagnerites are recruiting from russian prisons in ukraine, the wagnerites are accused of many war crimes, other than the united states, the american media believe that putin is ready to prepare a new offensive against ukraine, and at the same time, i am preparing russia for a conflict with the united states as their allies , the american agency blumberg journalists write about this believe that putin has prepared for the fact that the conflict will last for many years . the kremlin wants to demonstrate that its

troops can regain the initiative . after several months of retreat, force of ukraine to agree to an armistice that will allow russia to maintain control over the already occupied territory, this is how russian officials and their advisers described the situation in conversations with bloomberg journalists, and as the agency writes , putin is still convinced that greater forces and russia's willingness to suffer losses will allow it to win despite all the failures, and moreover, according to sources close to the kremlin, russia may resume the offensive in february, march. these are the assessments of the american press, meanwhile, american european intelligence is studying whether russia has resources for the new great offensive, while ukraine's allies are preparing for the first time to send battle tanks that would help ukrainian troops break through russian positions. so , the new offensive of russia, will ukraine be ready to fight back and contact us, i will remind the head of the ukrainian center for security and cooperation, military expert serhiy kuzan

, here we were just talking about the battles in ugledar, the russians are storming the city - in your opinion, this is a distraction to wear down the ukrainian forces, but in fact the russians are preparing and gathering forces for this great offensive as if to believe in the western press unequivocally and precisely we have seen over the last month, in fact, since the new year, how the russians are gradually saturating the front with troops, and if at the beginning we saw 200,000 of those who were regularly in the territory of ukraine, the occupiers, now more than 300-330,000 occupiers are already here , that is, and actually speaking, their units are constantly being replenished, that is, the russians are performing absolutely standard tactics, they are gradually saturating the front line and will continue to try to find our weak points with this number

place and then simply push them in defense with their numbers. that is, this is their usual tactic. by the way, they learned this in the private army of the beauty of this wagner army precisely in the battles under bakhmut under soledar, where, not counting losses, in fact, it comes to k- putting tens of thousands of pediums fighters, he tried to advance one kilometer by one and a half kilometers and occupy one or another settlement, but here it must be said that in such battles, strictly speaking , our defense forces wore down this private army yevgenia prigozhina, as a result of which he lost most of his wagner group of stormtroopers, and this weakened him, it also weakened his political influence. so today, russian generals under the leadership of general gerasimov shoigu will try to simply repeat, but without yevgeny prigozhina, this same tactic. they will not

will count with the losses of tens of thousands of people and even hundreds of thousands of losses. these are absolutely acceptable losses for them because they must fulfill putin's task, i.e. to go to the administrative borders of donetsk and luhansk oblasts, of course they will not be allowed to do this, and the defense forces, just as the army of prigozhina was hollowed out , will suffer losses in the same way, and in the end the russian army of occupation will also expire. and one more question regarding mobilization in ukraine, again, we we can only talk about what is officially known, and at the beginning of the week, during a meeting with students, president zelensky answered questions about mobilization, so he said that the military leadership was tasked with creating reserves, that is, if to talk about reserves again from the fact that we can announce on the air what reserves ukraine needs in order to be ready for any scenarios of the development of the war, well, all the data are in terms of the number and specifics

of the mobilization, that is, what category of mobilized under the specific section and what are the specialties, this is all classified information, but here it must be said that our mobilization has not stopped since february 24, that is, planned mobilization is underway, another red wave is underway. and of course, today we are receiving much more military equipment from military aid from our allies, it needs to be mastered, and accordingly, we will be able to equip more units of our already ukrainian army specifically for these tasks, and again, this next wave of mobilization is being carried out in ukraine, and that is about the military assistance that ukraine receives in relation to tanks and in your opinion, will western tanks have time to get to ukraine so that the ukrainian

army is ready to repel the russian offensive , if possible, in short, not all of them will make it. but if we are talking about western tanks, we have i also mean the modifications of these soviet t-72s, they will be faster, if we are talking about , for example, american abrams, then of course it will take time and specifically this offensive, uh , american weapons will not take part in this offensive . thank you, mr. sergi, poland will give ukraine 60 tanks, as president zelensky wrote, thanking the polish authorities , half of these tanks will leave 91 - this is the polish version of the t-72 and 14 leopard-2. earlier, the polish prime minister stated that ukraine should send ukraine 50-60 tanks in addition to the leopards in general, according to the ukrainian authorities, 12 countries have already joined the tank coalition, except

for poland. canada promises to send four leopard -2 tanks. announced an aid package worth almost 94 million dollars, the country's defense minister says that belgium does not have main battle tanks, but will provide ukraine with other military equipment , meanwhile, the american content is being clarified the details of the tank agreement, namely, why the united states decided to give ukraine abrams tanks, and according to the nbc channel, this decision was connected with diplomatic and political considerations and surprised the american military, so defense minister austin, a representative of the joint chiefs of staff, milli did not support the supply of scrap metal, although in general , they were not against the provision of tanks to ukraine, according to the nbc version, the decision to give abramse was made mainly due to pressure from berlin, which did not want to give permission for the supply

of its leopards without this, they say for biden the most important aspect of the strategy regarding ukraine was the unity of the alliance between the united states and europe, and when he saw the debate unfolding in europe about the supply of tanks , he decided that acting on the part of the united states could help preserve this unity , while the nbc material emphasizes that the abrams will not appear on the battlefield in ukraine for a few more months, you may have a whole year, and the white house actually said that it will take many months to supply abra mss to ukraine when these tanks will be in ukraine american officials do not specify why germany, which at the beginning of the war changed its policy regarding the supply of weapons, then agreed to provide non-technical information about tanks. why was chancellor scholz not enough for britain’s decision to provide tanks to ukraine, and he looked back at the united states ? the idea that their tanks will be sent to eastern europe evokes

a lot of painful collective memories for the germans. it was the battle for kursk in which thousands of nazi and soviet tanks clashed on the fields then hundreds of thousands of soldiers died, the horrors of the second world war and the pain that the germans inflicted on their neighbors have always influenced german international politics since then - this is a very powerful symbol of the first part of the second world war when the wehrmacht took over europe we all know how it ended after the war the germans said never again except the principles for berlin were eastern policy and the development of economic ties. the idea was that by interacting with russia and developing economic ties with russia , it would be possible to avoid war in europe, but the invasion of ukraine proves how big an illusion it was, he changed decades-old attitudes with his turning speech, although some doubted

the need for such demonstrative and radical changes . they always look at what partners are doing. one of the principles of german international policy is never to act alone, that is, the first principle is never to act criminally again. no war, but if the allies enter the war , they will join, but not ahead of everyone, but rather after, this reluctance was reflected in decisions about whether to provide weapons at the beginning of the war, germany was equally ridiculed and criticized for the proposal to provide helmets to ukraine. since then, the pressure has been increasing with demands to arm ukraine, including heavy weapons, such as leopard-2 tanks. in the end, this decision was made, and the leopard is in the greatest demand among ukrainians because they are relatively easy to control . and they are also easy to maintain , they are also quite large in europe

, there are about two thousand of them, so there is a lot of expertise on this model of places of their maintenance, repair, replacement of spare parts, this the lightest model that can be provided in ukraine is far from it, but the leopard-2 is not the only tank promised by the partners . the united states said that they are sending abrams . tanks on the same battlefield can not simply be: no nation wanted to operate a diverse set of tanks, because these are huge machines and each of them needs supplies of spare parts that fit it for ukraine ended up with the fact that it will operate m1 with its own supply chain leopards with another supply chain challengers with its own supply chain also in the country it will be necessary to train people for each

type of tank, what about our numbers ukraine says that it needs at least 300 tanks for to change the course of this war. and what are they offering to ukraine? great britain received 14 tanks, the united states 31, germany also 14, if you add to that other promises, they are not going to get a little more than 130 tanks, this is significant number, but it is much smaller than the needs voiced by ukraine, and this is not the only problem. they need to be delivered to ukraine . and this is the simpler part of the task, the more difficult is to teach the ukrainians to fight with these tanks, repair and refuel them , it will take several months to train a sufficient number of people, and it seems that russia will be ready for a new offensive already in the summer, before ukraine collects all these tanks and prepares to fight with them, this is part of the berlin wall, relations between russia

and germany have affected for centuries and already leave an imprint on the 21st, 80 years have passed since the battle of kursk, and soon we can see again how german tanks will head to the east, although this time the circumstances are very different , it is impossible to overestimate the importance of this moment, but it is not yet clear whether it will also be decisive for of changes on the battlefield these days in ukraine , serious political reshuffles took place, 11 officials either resigned or were fired, and western observers explain that in this way, kyiv is trying to fight corruption, not a fight, but a victory over corruption is one of zelenskyi's pre-election promises, but now, during a full-scale war, corruption scandals are attracting significantly more international attention than before. in

the prosecutor general's office, deputy prosecutor general oleksiy symonenko was fired at his own request. of president kyrylo tymoshenko, meanwhile, against the background of such news , auditors from the american government and the world bank came to ukraine in order to to check how international aid is used, in particular, military aid, said the representative of the state department, victoria nuland. in general, a lot of international attention is focused on ukraine, how the ukrainian authorities react to scandals, corruption scandals , how the western media tell about it for a world audience, bbc journalist jainswutter house has been working in kyiv since the beginning war and this is how he explains to the world such changes in ukrainian politics in 2019, the beginning of his political career and the new promises

of the newly elected president of ukraine to overcome corruption and my election proves the citizens are tired of experienced systemic puffed-up politicians who in 28 years created a country of opportunities for opportunities to roll back streams of scumbags, but similar accusations in ukrainian politics began to be heard in 2023 this week in political circles of ukraine a dozen resignations and dismissals oleksiy symonenko resigned after a vacation in in spain, at a time when most ukrainian men cannot travel abroad , vasyl lozynskyi, the deputy minister of community and territorial development, was released on suspicion of embezzlement budget funds, he was detained while receiving a bribe in the amount of 400,000 us dollars. he also denies this. kyrylo tymoshenko, deputy head of the office of president zelenskyi . he resigned after the fact that he leads a luxurious lifestyle was investigated by ukrainian pravda journalist mykhailo tkach

. if the origin of the funds is not clear, they are drawing up and about this there is a second resonance, a third resonance story during the full-scale invasion, e-e, about the fact that they are drawing up these things, cars, estates on their close people to their relatives, to people who are not subject to reporting, to whom there is not as much attention as to them, and all this has signs of non-transparency , which means that it has signs of corrupt actions and non-transparent behavior of an official precisely at this time when it seems to me that every step of an official should be clear to of society, tymoshenko also denies all accusations, but mykhailo's evidence led to radical changes in the ukrainian government, and the latest decisions of the president indicate that this responsibility is recognized at the highest level level that you can't play with it, it shouldn't be delayed because it's about

preserving the existence of the country and it's very important and it's not just some current year for our country, and that's why it seems to me that awareness of this and talking about it is actually the best evidence of this here is this wave of resignations and nothing for the president, this war has taken a lot from people and while the fighting is going on in one part of the country in another, people are trying to come back. so when statements about corruption appear again in the heart of ukrainian politics, it hurts much stronger than before, here in the bakery bath in kyiv region, the light just came on, she can't work without it, we asked her how she feels about statements about corruption, well , it would be better if this money went to the good of ukraine than

in someone's pocket, what are you going to do here? these are the kind of people corruption has been a big problem in ukrainian politics ever since the country's independence, but now that the country receives billions of dollars in foreign aid , the whole world is watching it and kyiv seems ready to act. should it be given? even today , the memory of the victims is being honored all over the world the holocaust the holocaust of a scientist by the nazis during the second world war. it is believed that 6 million jews died during this period. this figure is fixed in the verdicts of the nuremberg tribunal . every year on january 27, the world celebrates the day of remembrance of the victims. on this day in 1945 , the soldiers of the soviet army released the largest nazi concentration camp auschwitz holocaust an example of genocide deliberate killing of a large group

of people and every year those who survived the holocaust witness this crime against humanity become fewer and fewer bbc correspondents talked to one of those who survived this tragedy. in this photo , manfred goldberg with his younger brother herman. during the holocaust, the boys were sent to a concentration camp with their mother. he was a beautiful little boy. unfortunately, his brother was killed. there were nine in the concentration camps. such a concept as mourning and i still remember the bitter tears of my mother when she lost her little son and despite this, the next morning i had to pull myself together and go to work pretending that nothing happened happened hermann was one of the six million jews who were killed. it seems to be october or november 1945. manfred managed to survive

the camp and even save it. here is a photo , it was taken a few months after the release. next to him was also a former prisoner with her shipper between us. it was incredible. connection with time. our friendship has grown into something completely different. manfreta ziggy became very close . they were very young in the same camp in 2020. during one of the interviews with her, he shared his memories of the guards. they were doctors , lawyers, engineers, you know, after work. changes as if nothing had happened they returned to their families with their wives and children listened to music and recently at the age of 93 she died the world lost another victim

of this terrible tragedy you with that yes i think the worst that can happen is that that with the death of all former prisoners, the holocaust will begin to be slaughtered and it will become only a memory in history, it's hard to believe, but the ss treated us like subhumans without any compassion. they killed children, babies, threw them against the wall with such force that their brains it was broken beyond the limits of common sense, this tragedy cannot be allowed to happen again, for this we must preserve the memory of the holocaust ikea auto life manfred is convinced that the best way to pay tribute to his close friend is to do everything possible so that this terrible

tragedy never happens again memorial day the holocaust is commemorated all over the world, and that's all for today. you can read more news on our website bbc.ua. you can also subscribe to our pages on social networks, we are on facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, you can watch our news graduates if you suddenly missed them on the air at 9:00 in the evening .