[000:00:00;00] the ukrainian language, however, is somehow not clear. from this survey, whether it is another 33% who switched or only 33% came, in any case, this shows that i, by the way, often see my friends who i know, and well, both at work and outside of work , they began to actively communicate in ukrainian somewhere some people make mistakes to me as a philologist, on the one hand it hurts, on the other hand it is pleasant . well, this is a good process, it should continue and develop. ukraine has a wonderful, beautiful , rich language that we should know and study . thank you for being with us, i say goodbye to you until tomorrow i now bring to your attention a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news. good evening. we from ukraine welcome you to the broadcast of bbc news ukraine live from london . olga palamaryuk is working in the studio and today in the program russia is preparing for a new offensive

, american experts write about it the institute for the study of war, in another summary, it is indicated that the kremlin, having probably not used all its reserves, currently has about 50,000 fighters of the wagner private military campaign in ukraine. bbc correspondent frank garner understood how mercenaries fight in ukraine and keys to eurovision great britain officially accepted the baton of the music contest that will be held instead of ukraine, the president of the united states, joe biden, said that the united states does not plan to send f16 fighter jets to ukraine, he did so very succinctly when asked by journalists whether he supports

the idea of ​​transferring aircraft to ukraine, biden answered no later in the white strategic communications coordinator john kirby said washington supplies kyiv with enough weapons and all of them will play a decisive role in supporting ukraine has already caused a lively discussion in ukrainian society, and we will try to find out what is behind it together with voice of america correspondent mykhailo komadovsky . do you have more information about the readiness of the western countries to transfer new weapons to ukraine, in particular , and aircraft? about the transfer of western fighter jets to ukraine

, and biden answered here that he plans to have this conversation with zelensky very, very soon . the day before, the head of the white house, as you said , answered the question of the voice of america about whether f16 fighter jets will be supplied to ukraine , the answer was very short, no, at the same time, according to the publication there has not yet been a policy of serious discussion of f sixtine at a high level in the usa, but the next negotiations between biden and zelensky will be the first of this year, and i will remind you that at the end of december last year, the president of ukraine visited the white house in his first visit from abroad, because of the first full-scale war with russia in his country, while britain does not consider it appropriate to send its fighter jets to ukraine. who will insist on such supplies, while today i had the opportunity to speak with the ex-prime minister of the united kingdom , boris johnson

. ukraine in the united states and he is sure that the dialogue regarding fighter jets should be started as soon as possible. i suggest listening every time we were told that we should not provide some equipment due to the risk of escalation. later it became clear that this was a mistake. lead to a provocation of escalation, but in fact later it became clear that having them at the early stages was extremely important for the ukrainians who fought heroically, but it was also important that they had at their disposal this is the armament. i remember how they told me that it was time to think about the provision of tanks, and it was not so long ago. and now we all provide tanks . so my arguments are as follows. let's continue the discussion, but let's not delay. it is important that ukraine receives such equipment, which is needed. as quickly as possible yes

and what we know as of now is that the official kyiv stated that ukrainian pilots will need about six months to learn how to fight on western fighters such as the american f-sextin because kyiv really activates its the company for the provision of fourth-generation combat aircraft, and currently washington is actively working on the start of training for ukrainian tankers to control american tanks and abrams. as we know, the ukrainian military is currently undergoing training in the state of oklahoma on the use of current systems. the one-year course here has been shortened to a few weeks, which is truly unprecedented. regarding the training of ukrainian pilots, there is no official information, for example from the ministry of defense or the state department. well, but if you compare it with the situation a year ago, it is interesting how far

all the red lines have moved, something that the american administration is not ready to follow under any conditions. olga, indeed, experts say in this policy, they say, and in particular, bore jones told me today that the red lines are moving if, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, germany gave ukraine fairy tales if do you remember that today we are talking about the transfer of tanks, the same with the usa, once the red line was the hymars installations, now they are already at the front in ukraine and washington has now announced the transfer of e tanks white the house says that the usa, its european partners and allies will support ukraine as much as it is necessary, as much as it is needed, and this position here is really unchanged. but at the same time, there are many fears in ukraine that the support of washington will decrease due to the influence of the republicans, or is it still there? such a danger here, in fact, ukraine is one of those few topics that really unites both republicans and democrats on the capitalist hill, it must

be understood that the majority of legislators are in favor of further assistance to kyiv, but offer various assistance mechanisms, in particular, and the monitoring mechanism, for example, at the same time, the us ministry of finance said today that it does not see any signs of misuse of us funds in ukraine, but the department says that it will continue to cooperate with the ukrainian authorities to provide appropriate guarantees to prevent corruption, this is the first such comment by the us ministry of finance on this issue after the government of ukraine fired a number of high-ranking officials last week as a result of the biggest political upheaval in the the country first had a war because of precisely corruption. by the way, continuing the topic of corruption, the usa is working to identify the illegal assets of russian oligarchs in the world and is working on the possibility of creating several such initiatives with these funds for reconstruction in ukraine , and today i actually asked the ex-prem boris johnson's great britain era, however

, he would head such a working group and how does he feel about the idea of ​​confiscating illegal funds of putin's close circle, he offers to listen , i think it is a very good idea and it already has great influence on the regime of vladimir putin, the fear of the expropriation of their property really scared him of the approaching circle how he supported it in every way, but madam ambassador you know better about the financial side you know better than me how to do it voice of america correspondent in the white house mykhailo komandovskyi thank you minister of foreign affairs meanwhile, dmytro kuleba told how many tanks ukraine receives in the first wave of aid , according to him, the allies will give ukraine 120-140 modern western tanks in the first wave of aid, we are talking about the leopard-2

challenger two m1 abrams and we are counting on leclerc, kuleba noted, at the same time, we can say that the tank coalition has 12 members, but it is still too early to name these countries, since some of them have to make formal decisions. russia is preparing for a new offensive, experts of the american institute write about it the study of war previously wrote about the same thing in the american edition of bloomberg , analysts recalled the statements of nato secretary and jens stoltenberg, saying that there are no signs that russia is preparing for negotiations and that everything points to opposite in addition, the secretary general noted that russia can mobilize up to 200,000 military personnel and continues to purchase weapons and ammunition about the expected offensive, according to ivan tymochko, the head of the reservist council of the ground forces of the ukrainian armed forces - it is his words that the russian troops will have to launch an offensive due to increasing internal pressure, and we will talk about all this in more detail with a military expert in touch with us director of newgio-polytex resort network

mykhailo samus i welcome you on the air e p mykhailo what are your assessments of whether russia is really preparing for of a new offensive, and if so, what does this indicate that russia would very much like to carry out an offensive continuously since february 24th, and uh, reports that they are preparing for new offensive actions we constantly hear, moreover, russia, of course , tried to do this during the 22nd year, then if you remember that at the end of just last year, predictions began that russia will be forced to conduct another wave of mobilization, and even more than before, in order to mobilize at least 300,000, and preferably 500,000 military personnel, in order to to form offensive groups in order to carry out the same large-scale offensive , for example, in belarus in the kharkiv direction, of course, in the donbass and possibly even in the south, but at the moment

it is actually the end of january, the beginning of february , and there was no mobilization and it is not visible that russia created these offensive groups about which i just spoke, so i can conclude that at the moment russia does not have the reserves to , let's say, in the horizon one month to form these offensive groups and to carry out the same large-scale, large-scale offensive operation of the operational operational strategic level that analysts write about. i think that , after all, an ips information and psychological operation is currently being conducted, which should create the illusion of preparation in the near future for such a large-scale offensive, and in this at the moment, an operation is being carried out with more specific goals, i.e. to occupy the entire donbas. that is, i will say that this task is already possible. it is even a task that

the armed forces of the russian federation can afford. federation to try to break through the ukrainian defenses and occupy the luhansk donetsk region and maybe even try to occupy the zaporizhzhia region to the end, because under the russian constitution there are already new so-called territories, and that's why i think that in the near future russia will just concentrate on the donbas and there will be held i won't say that these assault actions are operations, but that they will be actions aimed at fulfilling this task , especially since putin is going to speak, as it were, on february 24 with an address to the federal assembly and he needs to say something just in time for the anniversary of his so-called, he can announce it as a victory if they succeed. i am sure that they will not succeed, but if he succeeded, for example , in occupying the luhansk region of donetsk, that is, is it correct that 100,000 military personnel are not enough, then what number can we talk about language, you mean what they need in order

to carry out such and such an operation. well, apart from people , after all, this is not the first world war, that is , apart from people, if we are talking there, for example , let's mobilize 300,000 servicemen and we will create a unit from them, this means that we need thousands of tanks, i didn’t say that, it’s not hundreds , it’s thousands of tanks, it’s thousands of armored vehicles, it’s thousands of artillery units. that is, it’s actually an armada that russia just can’t physically and resourcefully pull, they don’t have the capabilities now and release modern equipment, especially such in such quantities that they can try it, er, in a certain way, repair what they have in the storage bases, somehow pass it through the er, anti-tank missile system and try to create a certain amount of weapons, but definitely not will be enough for 300,000 military personnel, what they are doing now in donbas, we see that they are actually throwing

small groups of infantry companies, that is, it is the infantry that is not mechanized, it is not motorized rifle units , it is the infantry that they are throwing like meat into a meat grinder and the ukrainian the army, on the contrary, is now equipped with the most modern weapons, there is an even greater gap with russia in terms of readiness, and i very much doubt that, for example, two months ago , as you just said that in the near future we may have, for example, 3-4 battalions modern state-of-the-art tanks, the same, artillery, the same armored vehicles, over modern, what is it, the army of the first world war can effectively attack the army of the 21st century . well, can aviation appear ? and here we have just heard about

the f16 and uh, and baida seems to be hearing about it, although about tanks . so we remember skeptically about the idea of ​​supplying tanks i think so in any case, ukraine needs aviation. our old soviet aviation is already out of order, and until february 24, in principle, there was a plan to re-equip the ukrainian air force with modern aircraft, here this process cannot be stopped, the only thing is of course now during a war , if a large-scale wars, this aviation is needed now. so when i said about two months later , in three months we are talking about offensive operations by the ukrainian army during the offensive , especially if we are talking about such an operation as the deoccupation of crimea, aviation is multifunctional aviation transmitted a-a must be available to the armed forces of ukraine to ensure dominance in the air thank you for the conversation mykhailo samus military expert-director of new jay flew serhiy did

you contact us thank you well and further about one of the factors in this war for according to the estimates of the white house, about 50,000 fighters of the wagner private military campaign are fighting in ukraine, they took part in the battles under bachmut in soledar and in other cities. yevgeny prigozhin to get away with suing a british journalist bbc correspondent freen gardner found out how mercenaries fight in ukraine wachner's troops in action in the east of ukraine claim that they are clearing the city from the nazis, these are private military contractors or mercenaries, they took part in the hottest battles in donbas, these are the teeth of war in such cities as bakhmut and soledar, their headquarters are located in st. petersburg, the same place where putin worked for the kdb, but their

forward operating base in molkino is nearby of the russian military-intelligence base when the wagner group invaded crimea in 2014 they were without identification marks people called them little green men they were founded in 2014 apparently on the direct orders of putin and this was a way to send russian military to eastern ukraine while denying their presence and i would say that wagner in many ways represents the quintessence of the potyanite organization since then their activities became large-scale in 2015 they deployed in syria to support the regime president bashar al-assad was then successfully expelled from the ancient city of palmyra in libya, they were allies of general hawtar in the east, who created an alternative government in tripoli, and in mali they actually pushed out the french troops, thanks in part to a slippery pr campaign, such as this poster

praising the military ruler of mali colonel asimi and president putin sometimes propaganda goes even further how is this anti-french video portraying wagner as a partner african countries can rely on in the central african republic they they provide security services for the president, this was the case in burkina faso and sudan. and in zambia, idols were ambushed and suffered heavy losses. then they were pushed out quite quickly . it was deployed for literally a month . was the islamic state able to capture such large areas of territory, or did they later manage to capture and palm-rich oil-producing area but the wagner group became really famous in the ukrainian donbass. they were often more effective than the regular russian army in their ranks of 40 thousand convicts recruited from

russian penal colonies, which were often used as cannon fodder, so what does a typical wagner contract mercenary look like? they are often former employees of the russian special forces , the special forces. they usually hide their faces under balaclavas or masks . this is the person who manages them yevhen prigozhin , a former prisoner and a close associate of putin , wanted by the fbi, he got rich thanks to his catering business, for which he is often they call putin the boss, here is a handsome man with his troops in the tunnels under the soledar, which they recently captured. and here he is recruiting convicts for front-line service. they offer them a six-month contract in exchange for freedom, but no one will be able to surrender . he warns that deserters will be shot in public . at first, the wagner group was much more professional than the russian army, they used special forces in but now

their main force is prisoners. and this man deserted andriy medvedev , wagner's former commander in ukraine. he claims that witnessed war crimes, including those who refused to be shot as an example to others, unbelievable, but he managed to escape from russia through this arctic border to norway in mid-january , being chased by dogs and armed guards. shortly after, the white house announced that it recognized the wagner group as a transnational criminal group the fighting in ukraine shows no sign of abating and wagner is an integral part of it but the losses on both sides are so great that even their leader describes it as a meat grinder throughout the world, wagner has become a useful tool for the long arms of the kremlin, and perhaps an example of how

wars will be fought in the future after a full-scale russian invasion. concrete modules to autonomous bunkers with generators , heating ventilation systems and wells, our colleague dmytro vlasov found out exactly which shelters are in the greatest demand, and since they have been around for almost a year since the first mass invasion of russia into ukraine, the demand for private shelters in which you can hide from shelling has increased many times, at the same time, potential customers are offered various options for this shelter . depending on how many people are needed. they are assembled like lego, one such module costs 5 thousand dollars

per 1.5 m, they are sunk into the ground , 1 m remains on top, which still needs to be poured of the soil at least 1 m and then it protects against the explosion wave and other damages for kindergartens schools hospitals without their own shelters this is a quick optimal solution but it does not protect against all dangers if there is nearby an artillery projectile will explode. of course it will protect, but if there is a missile hit , then of course there is no such function of protection against a direct missile hit . for owners of private houses, there is a more reliable alternative: a private autonomous

bomb shelter, architect and volunteer vyacheslav zaporozhets is a house from there and a real fortress here you can hide during the bombardment of missile strikes and even stay for a long time after the nuclear strike after the february invasion, he sheltered dozens of families in his house greetings for safety to all greetings to all we took three families safely, we are going to protsiv it's two each, it's a basement, the walls are reinforced concrete, very strong, 40 cm, there is ventilation , two independent exits, and we gave this room to the children. this house was designed by vyacheslav for himself and his family. in 2006, the house is located on bank of the dnipro the house is located on the bank of the dnipro and when we started designing we realized that we needed a slab foundation under the whole house and here i remembered the civil defense lessons at school and immediately decided that

i would make a monolithic basement under the whole house , after making external waterproofing i called the house an ark i joked with my friends that you are preparing for an atomic war. and i say no, i am preparing for a flood. the strikes on the energy infrastructure forced ukrainians to think about how to ensure the autonomy of the shelters. eh, the boiler works, the boiler works on solid fuel and gas, there is also a solar collector, and we are able to heat water with solar energy on the arrangement of his storage vyacheslav spent about a hundred thousand dollars back in 2008, now houses with storage on the market are valued at 30 and sometimes 50% more expensive than those who do not have them. i am satisfied, you know, when 50 people lived in a basement and the maximum number was 120-150 people in

one house, i was satisfied that all these costs were not accidental for residents of the private sector without basements, collective the shelter is organized by the local government. this year there was a need for the formation of the smallest arrangement of the smallest and simplest shelters, since our town is ancient and all the vaults in all our basements are brick and they are not suitable for the simplest shelters. it was necessary to arrange at least the simplest shelter according to the norm, it is possible to accommodate 25 people. and for this it was necessary to prepare drinking water, cups, light , private shelters are in demand by everyone

in the regions of ukraine, even where there were no hostilities, they are not available to everyone, even these minutes in liverpool there is a ceremony of handing over the keys and the draw for the participants of the semi-finals of eurovision 2023. this is the first official event in this year's host city, a kind of start of the song contest, the draw will determine in which of the two semi-finals each of the participating countries will perform, as well as when ukraine and the big five countries will vote, which will immediately perform in the final , bbc correspondents will tell about the preparation for the eurovision song contest wake up because eurovision is just around the corner and everyone in this city is excited may 2023 do you know what's in store for liverpool really no eurofish i like you i just love it it must be something big eurovision song contest eurovision oh eurovision good of course

such a pleasure and also to have to be able to do this in the city is such an honor it is exciting i said tonight at a special ceremony the keys to the competition will be handed over to liverpool this man is in charge of this whole event from the bbc the pressure is not worry we only have 160 million people watching can you give us any hints no i can only say that today we have the first event the event the broadcast of the competition from turin last year's host liverpool and also the distribution of the 37 countries which semi finals they will be in i think this is one of the most important events in my life an act of bringing people together through music it's a time where there's a little joy a little light a little unity - it's a real gift and there's no better place for it than liverpool

bars clubs and pubs also stand by how big it's going to be it's going to be crazy i thought eurovision was just coming for the night but it's not like that it's like a two to three week event for a bar in a hotel restaurant that's the amount of events that 's going to happen it's just a blast show me the facial expression that will show how do you feel to eurovision this woman will host the eurovision song contest on the waterfront of liverpool, the actual construction of the huge concert here in the arena takes from one to two days, but even this is not that big, and for eurovision, it will take 5 weeks, the first two weeks of them is just about editing so it's about lighting and making sure they have all the special effects after that we start building other things for example how are we going to build the stage we're going to make the booths for the commentators and then we're going to have all

the bubbles basically a green room on the floor of the arena where the delegation members will be questions and be honest how much pressure do you feel with even guest passes there is a lot of pressure for guest passes demand is high and availability is low this will be the music event of the year but liverpool usually hosts from in the name of the past winner of ukraine for you yulia, it is important and it is remporting because it is very important because we have to show our voice at eurovision in great britain, but it is his ukrainian voice, it is celebrated by ukrainian hearts and we want to make sure that the world does not forget us yura vyzhen from invent the eurovision song contest is an event that shows that life has not stopped for ukrainians, they are resilient, where am i resuent, do you want to say that it gives people hope, yes, they have this hope for

the future and that they will win, this event gives them hope, an event that means so many different things things for many different people eurovision semi-finals will be held on may 9 and 11, the final on may 13 ukraine, as the winner of last year's contest, will immediately enter the final, it will be a creative duo, and there are more and more stories about it, look for more and more stories on our website bbc.ua and on our pages in social networks, we are on the air tomorrow 21:00 take care, join the community with a ukrainian view of the world