[000:00:00;00] there is still pvkrus nifty there is no january such er such an order not received , but pvk gazprom is i understand that simply putin decided to transfer these private military companies to the wallets of those whom he helped to steal and with whom together craft because let's say pvk wagner, for his activities, at least the war in ukraine, uh, costs 100 million dollars a month. imagine how much it costs. well, this is what they say , the diversification of these expenses is carried out by putin . thank you for being with us, i wish you well evening take care eh see you tomorrow at 19:15 on the air be with us follow the events eh and now your attention is a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news i congratulate you on the air bbc news ukraine olga

palamaryuk is still working in the studio today we are talking about this in turkey and the series is preparing for the consequences of the earthquake, according to preliminary data , at least 6,000 people died in both countries , including two ukrainians, the day of personnel appointments from today, the security service and the ministry of internal affairs have leaders, the minister of defense remains in office and russia says that it is gradually encircling bakhmut, what is happening on the front and how is ukraine reacting in turkey they continue to search for people under the rubble after two powerful earthquakes that killed more than 4.5 thousand people in neighboring syria, more than 1,800 died according to

eyewitnesses, they hear the voices of people buried under the ruins, the search is complicated by snow, rain and frost, in total, almost three and a half thousand houses were destroyed, turkish emergency workers report that the total number of victims is already over 26,000 in the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine was informed that as a result of the earthquake in turkey, two citizens of ukraine died, it is also known about four victims, 19 and ukrainians are still not in contact , meanwhile, president zelenskyi decided to provide humanitarian aid to turkey , and rescuers will be sent to the affected regions to search for people my colleagues talked with the ambassador of ukraine in ankara , vasyl bodnar, a significant part of ukrainians is now worried about the kind of people of ukrainians in the regions of o-e-e and the tragedy in our country. we are now

we are focusing on the requests that are necessary, we had uh, we now found 38 citizens against the requests that were from relatives, 19 are now being searched through the authorities and our teams, unfortunately, there is information that her persons died a week ago, the one there is trying to cross but there is such information that we, uh, it is confirmed and four people how they got the parliament, uh, we have the planned adoption of the first group for today , there may be such, uh, there will be key situations of ukraine, it is also moving in the direction of turkey the columns of e-e will be for help, write the earthquake that happened the day before was the strongest in the last 20 years, there is an assumption that the number of victims will increase significantly, because many

people may be under the rubble in ten provinces of turkey , a state of emergency was introduced for three months, and this is how the turkish service columnist describes the situation bbc rescue work continued all night in severe winter conditions, our colleagues say that there were major accidents on the roads during the earthquake, they were damaged and the ice makes driving even more dangerous for both rescuers and of journalists, the vice president of turkey took a photo and announced that the entry of all vehicles not related to rescuers has been stopped in three provinces. more than 60 countries have already offered turkey help, but there are certain logistical problems, for example, in hatay, the mayor of the city said that search and rescue operations have begun in the region with a delay, he also added that the building of the municipality and three hospitals were seriously damaged, and the runway of the local airport was damaged, well, in turkey and in the north of syria

, rescue operations are ongoing european union mobilized 10 search and rescue teams to turkey special planes with emergency aid equipment arrive from germany, israel and india as a country recovers from the tragedy in the material as bbc correspondents to rescue those who found themselves under the rubble and among them children are often a decisive factor in syria a group of volunteers of civil defense the white helmets saved little ahmeda the house to the north and far away a series of completely destroyed and already found devastation as a result of the war it is a home for millions of refugees more helmets say that ahmed is one of them, millions of people in this region are suffering from the horror that they have witnessed. and my wife is still mechezny

. you can never lose hope there. but most likely she died. the first earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 occurred yesterday near the turkish city of gaziantep early in the morning. a second magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck further north in the afternoon tremors were felt by a million people across turkey syria as well as lebanon cyprus and israel survivors are now relying on emergency services to find his relatives, but also to the help of neighbors, friends and even strangers, this man lowers a bottle of water for those who find themselves under the rubble, rescue teams arrive from all over the world, they search for people under the rubble, offer food and shelter, and this help is very important, many people are still

considered missing this little girl asks where her mother is. some of the survivors are now homeless. these fires keep them warm in the harsh winter . we are cold here at night. we have nowhere to go. there is nowhere to hide, not even a bed. no, the search for survivors is still ongoing, the rescue teams have another mission to count the number of dead during one of the largest earthquakes in the region in several decades. well, according to the turkish government, the earthquake directly affected 16% of the population of turkey, and this is more than 13 million people in the world health care organizations

warn that the number of victims may increase many times because people are still being searched under the rubble, more than 60,000 search and rescue personnel are currently working in turkey. well , the verkhovna rada has appointed a personnel decision day he became the head of the security service of ukraine , vasyl makyk, who previously served as the head of the special service in the position of the head of the security service. was involved in the operation to blow up the crimean bridge and the attack of naval drones on the military bay of sevastopol , although the official ukrainian agency does not recognize its involvement in these incidents. well, the ministry also received a leader ihor klymenko became the head of internal affairs before that. he was acting minister for two weeks, and even before that he worked

as the head of the national police. klymenko is the first head of the ministry of internal affairs in the last 11 years who comes directly from the police system. he replaced denys monastyrsky, who died as a result plane crash in brovary ihor klymenko as a peacekeeper went to one of the hot spots, worked as a full-time psychologist, and after the creation of the police in ukraine in 2015 , klymenko received the position of head oleksiy reznikov of the department of human resources in september 2019 took the post of head of the national police and the minister of defense of ukraine and will continue to be. in his twitter account, he wrote, we are drawing conclusions. we continue reforms even during the war . information about the dismissal of the minister appeared a few days ago . in the near future, reznikov

will be transferred to the chair of the head of the ministry of strategic industries, and the new minister was supposed to be the head of military intelligence, kyrylo budanov, and according to the bbc reznikov managed to meet with the president, and the very next day, the same deputies who the day before called reznikov's resignation rightly decided began to claim that the replacement of the minister of defense is not the right time, and with all these personnel decisions, we will talk in more detail with the expert in contact with us, political expert hennadiy dubov i welcome you on the air, well , let's start with the security service and the ministry of internal affairs, the appointment of the kid and klymenko to the positions is a hundred hopes for you . was everything so sufficiently predicted? it was quite predictable. i congratulate you. the fact is that these appointments are purely professional. there was no such extraneous politics here, because mr. makyk at one time worked as the deputy head of

the security service and the deputy minister of the internal affairs, then he became the head of the service. his results with which today 's military and political leadership seems to be completely satisfied. it was a logical step for which we waited a little bit , but it happened and it was good. in fact, he was not limited by anything in terms of his position. how do you perform his duties what did he do the bank klymenko unfortunately he came to e-e to this position due to the tragic events with the minister of the monastery actually here also it was necessary to replace and replace rather really with a person from the system that proved its effectiveness in the conditions of war actually the national police no had any complaints against me, and also i think that it is a completely logical appointment . well, during a speech in the verkhovna rada, vasyl the kid said so these are the words, we are aware of the level of threats and change approaches to

work, what are the challenges in your opinion now are standing before the head of the security service of ukraine and what is the point of starting work? yes, the collaborators cleaning the service itself reformatting the system, that's about everything , except for today's reformatting , because they wanted to reformat the service 10 years two years before the war in such a way that it was reduced by four times, it supposedly met european standards although the practices of such practices in europe, in particular, are quite different in this sense, but they did not have time to put the law into effect, a large-scale war began, and actually today they have to fulfill their duties, and their main duty is to ensure national security, and here there are also collaborators and , accordingly, there is counter-intelligence within the state, its service, judging by the fact that every day they publish messages about, including the exposure and saboteurs of certain that of ukraine and so on. that is, they have to do their work there, all the functions are prescribed in the law , actually today there is no more, er

, no secondary goal, they are all important because only in a complex service can well, really ensure the existence of national security under such difficult conditions as we have now. when the war is over , ukraine will win, then we will reform it, we will think about how it will be better, taking into account experience for everything according to the sbu no, because mr. makyk, accordingly, he had the opportunity to make appropriate submissions to the president and actually to change certain regional leaders, this process is so dynamic, that is, some people from from one region to another, someone instead of one to the head, that is, this process is rather so systematic and it took place even under the conditions of peacetime even without a change of leader in ukraine, it does not work so that a leader comes and completely everything under his own name at least we have wanted

to move away from this for a long time, and today's practice of our law enforcement agencies actually shows that this approach is being followed, so the security service of the ministry of internal affairs understood, but the situation around the minister made a lot of noise this week defense, here are these statements about the dismissal of resnikov and then such random decisions about the continuation of his work as a minister , doesn't this indicate that there is no unanimity in the vertical of power, so to speak, as you think? and this actually gave them the opportunity to talk and express themselves and build certain conspiracy versions because for almost a year there has been a military coalition of absolutely all factions in the parliament, starting from the servants and ending with boyka's group, and that's exactly why parliament, as many have said, is losing some of its relevance, and indeed today the president plays a bigger role, respectively, and other military-political leadership, so

it is rather a longing for the past years, when we had great pluralism and many events. thank you for the analysis or military expert gennadiy dubov and we talked about the situation about the new appointments. i apologize, and russia is preparing a new major offensive in ukraine, which will begin in the next two weeks, such warnings have recently been heard from ukrainian and western officials. they are contained in publications with reference to knowledgeable anonymous sources. if ukrainian officials and media publications are to be believed, several directions are under threat at once: the southern part of the donetsk region, the melitopol district, the outskirts of the cities of bakhmut and ughletar, where fierce battles have been going on for a long time, and liman in the luhansk region, which was liberated by the ukrainian army during the autumn offensive that russia will launch an offensive last week , minister of defense of ukraine oleksiy reznikov and chairman of the national defense security council oleksiy

danilov warned that the offensive should begin until february 24. this day will be a year since the first full-scale russian invasion of ukraine, and an indirect sign that the russian army is really preparing an offensive has become its activity in several directions in donetsk region. the area of ​​the city of bakhmut, which is trying to surround and capture the russian troops together with the wagner pvk, and every such performance can potentially turn into an encirclement on the other side of the capture of donbass is a political task of the russian leadership, so the probability that we will start here in this region is quite high , he previously talked about this in an interview in the washington post newspaper kyrylo budanov, the second dangerous direction of the zaporizhzhia region here , the nato front line is close to the railway line, it is important for the supply of the entire

group of russian troops in the south of ukraine, so the idea of ​​moving the front line to the north may look very attractive to the russians, and we are in touch with the military observer reserve major oleksiy hetman vitayu you are on the air, let's start from the donetsk direction, one of the deep state channels was information that there are ongoing battles in bakhmut, i will quote the fierce street battles, is there a risk of encircling the city? what price do i mean the russian military at any price this city but so far they are not succeeding in it they are trying to surround it from different sides to cut off the supply routes of weapons for ammunition and everything that our group needs in the city of bakhmuti from kostiantynivka but for now well, street battles are still going on there, is there a possibility for them to capture this city , well, in the grand scheme of things, of course

, they have such a possibility because they have concentrated a very large number of military personnel and weapons there . therefore, we need to see how the situation will develop. i think that this city it is very well fortified by our armed forces, it was prepared for a similar development of events, but if there is a danger of encirclement of our troops from the north and from the south, so to speak , the russian federation, then of course we are this city let's leave as we did in severodonetsk this lysychansk in order to avoid encirclement, this city does not have great strategic significance, military significance , it has a great political significance for the russian federation, even the liberation of uh, well , the liberation of the capture of solidarity, they considered on the anniversary of uh, the battle of stalingrad as something similar from the second world war with the victory at staligrad therefore , after all, this city has more political significance than it has any military

significance and in general for the capture of the city and for offensive, does russia have the resources, do they have people, weapons, equipment, or in sufficient quantity for the next year, for the next section of the front , of course they can concentrate a large amount of weapons and people in one city, you don't have to remember that they have already mobilized 326 as our intelligence says servicemen who are new to their armed forces, well, that is, on the front line, they can use approximately half, well, we can say that up to 200,000 of them are newly mobilized, they are mobilized, they are replenished military units which we have caused huge losses of forces and means precisely for some one local offensive, they are completely and completely sufficient, there you can expect any events near bakhmut , but this does not mean that they have such forces as

they had a year ago, on february 24 of last year, when there were many equipment, especially a lot of equipment , now they do not have enough equipment to provide all these newly mobilized people according to their wives with their belongings from their according to their staffing schedule, so these are the latest formations that they are doing and have already done it there will be, by and large, light infantry with mainly small arms with hand-held grenade launchers with automatic grenades, maybe with small mortars of the amount of equipment or that is needed to provide full-fledged units of this amount in the russian federation, their industry is not able to profit quickly well, just for comparison, they are can produce today about 900 donets of heavy equipment, of which 450 tanks and 450 other armored vehicles, in order to

provide all these even 326,000 them it is necessary to work for at least 20 years in the hands of the russian federation, those weapons that are in the strategic warehouses of the russian federation, they can attract them. they have already begun to attract them, but they can bring to order no more than three thousand , for example, tanks that they have in storage, 20 to 30 and even 50 years ago, it will once again be light infantry, but there will be a lot of them really on- in certain areas of the front they can certainly advance a distance well, it is not a disaster, it is not a defeat, so we expect it if it will if they are somewhere in one city, a second large number will still be concentrated, then if we retreat to some at a certain distance in order to preserve our strength and the equipment of our people, well, first of all, then this is nothing to worry about, but this full-scale offensive that is announced until the 24th well, i think that we will be able to withstand it with minimal losses , mr. oleksia, i would like to clarify. yes, you said about the amount of equipment. during what

period of time, russia can produce it. 20 years, 20 years, that’s clear. well, yes, what do you want? this is what they have. in this way, they have to create up to 200 regiments of motorized peasant regiments, and you can calculate according to their staff documents how much equipment is needed , that is, at least 7-8 thousand tanks. you can’t count simply at the capacity of half a thousand a year, so you can count how many it takes time, so i don't want to talk about ukraine right now, so i want to ask , too . they say there are such weapons in ukraine, but in your opinion, what should we expect from such statements? well, of course , such an armed combination, we have already proven it . the fact is that our partners, they will not really , not really want us to use

the long-range weapons of our partners, our allies in this war for strikes on the territory of the russian federation, mr. danilov and other leaders, they are right in saying that we will do it anyway. well, the reason we are so bloodthirsty is because we are destroying those military facilities on the territory of the russian federation from which our ukraine is being attacked. first of all, there are no rules, there are no norms, customs and traditions of war, this is absolutely normal. when we attack a military facility from which our country is attacked , can we do this? well, we did it until december 26. last year, when there was an attack on the airfield engels two, from which the strategic bombers of the russian federation rose, as well as over the kh1 and kh-55 missiles , the distance is unknown. we passed these objects of ours that we attacked passed at least three lines of defense during the air defenses of the russian federation

hit the target precisely, therefore we can say that we have long-range high-precision weapons but we would have an impression on otaki what kind of defense it is, we can assume that it can to be our swifts, which were used as rabbit imitators, are tu-141 143, but we have a good, good industry, even during the zone it works military industry, so we think that we have reworked them , adjusted them a little and they are able to hit the target deep in the territory of the russian federation well, finally, a short question, yes, the threat from the north, do you see the risks of an offensive from belarus, the risk of an offensive from belarus has not been observed yet, although i must give credit to the troops of the russian federation, they have learned to move their troops very quickly, maybe they have learned so after kharkiv and kherson, when they quickly fled. therefore, so far in belarus there is no such group that can attack the land, because there is a leafy

area, many rivers and swamps, and advance it is possible only in small areas where you can come heavy equipment, but we have mined it there for a long time, our troops are located there , which will restrain it, what can be expected from belarus, well, first of all, it can be a training ground for the russian federation for training and storing part of its weapons for a certain time and secondly, it could be missile provocations, because in them this mig 31 k that can carry a dagger is constantly rising in the air, they have already brought several iskander divisions of the russian federation to belarus, and there is an s3 anti-aircraft missile there s400, which they converted into ballistic missiles, so you shouldn't expect a land offensive, but a provocation and missile attacks as well as air alarms. so thank you, military audience, that reserve major oleksiy hetman was in touch with us. meanwhile, let's talk about how the struggle for influence on africa

, bbc correspondents discovered a large-scale information campaign to disinformation and discredit the armed forces of ukraine, this movement is called the russosphere, its representatives accuse france and the west of colonialism and russophobia of the ukrainian military they are nazis and satanists, and the russians are liberators, glorifying the mercenaries of wagner's private military campaign. who is behind this movement ? that you discovered a whole disinformation campaign to discredit the armed forces of ukraine .

located in britain, specialists use artificial intelligence to analyze disinformation and they studied this network anti-ukrainian pro-russian company anti-western anti-french and we found the one behind it at the center of the sphere is managed by an odious person belgian luc michel he is 65 years old he calls himself a stalinist his political career he generally started in the neo-fascist organizations of his native belgium and then switched to geopolitics, he was active in africa. he always had connections with russia from the kremlin with the russian authorities, including he was one of the fake observers at the illegal referendums in crimea annexed by russia and in the occupied territories of ukraine in the donbas, and he called these elections fair and open. i managed to talk to him , so he assures that he does not receive money from the kremlin however, he did not say from where - he said it was private funds, and when i directly asked him if he worked for prigoshin, he answered no, and

then added a very interesting thing: i am engaged in cyber and media warfare, and prigoshin is in real combat actions, that is, he sees himself in a relationship, what exactly is the idea? here is the scope of this movement in russia and why it is french-speaking countries and russia according to old memory . feelings and these are the realities, the real feelings of africans that existed before this, they were not invented by luc michel, they are taken by pro-russian representatives and not only the indicated movement, there are many african inclusions among the million audience who go to russia and meet with russian officials, russia works with him in a targeted manner, they use these feelings to promote the kremlin's interests , as well as other groups that are subordinate to the kremlin

, such as the private military campaign wagner or wagner, in general, wagner is not only a military campaign, but also a successful pr machine , they produce a lot propaganda videos, memes, t-shirts and even patches, all this is translated into french and pours out on the heads of africans in large streams and streams . and what does this not tell these people about the fact that wagner is involved in many war crimes not only in ukraine but also in africa, including the main thing is that the most important thing to say is that these people know nothing about ukraine, about russia. they also actually know nothing, they just have some kind of ideal kremlin the picture they repeat and in this picture russia is perfect and ukrainian soldiers are satanists, nazis and all these things that are spread only by the kremlin and the russian ministry of foreign affairs, they

also follow russian opinion leaders by propagandists, officials like kadyrov or informal leaders like prigozhin and simply bloggers, warmongers who are sometimes even more radical than the kremlin itself, who openly want the blood of ukrainians, who want war and the complete capture of ukraine very soon , on february 24, just on the anniversary of the invasion , joint military exercises will be held between the fleet of the south african republic of russia and china, that is, russia is really winning the information war in africa, that's all for today, turn on our program tomorrow at