[000:00:00;00] the entire line of weapons and trained military personnel abroad and is actually a member of nato will only have to win and write it on paper and it did not happen without you. of the ukrainian edition of bbc news let's watch together good evening we are from ukraine good evening i'm yevgenia shadlovska you watch the divisional news broadcast from ukraine live and from london and today, together with you, we are holding the summary of the week and also talking about the key the events of the day russia fired dozens of missiles at ukraine and the destruction of ukraine at the same time the russians declare the rockets flew into the territory of nato in romania, but there they deny it , why did zelensky go to europe was it possible

to convince them to give more weapons and what did he talk about with the leaders of the eu countries behind closed doors and in turkey, syria continue to search for victims after a devastating earthquake , but the chances of finding alive people are decreasing every minute 22,000 people are considered dead so let's start with the russian massive missile attack on ukraine ukrainian the military claims to have shot down 61 cruise missiles. in total, according to the air force command, the russians fired 71 such missiles, and by the way, the military published a video of how they shot down a manpads cruise missile in the south. this is the moment, and according to president zelensky, the russians' target was civilian infrastructure in vechirnyi in vechirnyi

the general staff reports that in total , the russians launched more than 100 missiles, of which 71 were cruise missiles, and before that they launched shahed drones at night to find weak points in air defense. this is how they explain it military christians hit a number of energy facilities in the government, they warned that there will be problems with electricity in many regions, there are already emergency shutdowns , according to the authorities, the most difficult situation is in zaporizhzhia, kharkiv, khmelnytskyi regions , and observers are already drawing parallels, saying that this is russia's answer to zelenskyi's european tour, which we will talk about later in the issue of and now , my colleague zhanna bezpyachuk and i are talking about the consequences of this missile strike. we have already heard from the government that the russians hit the

to the energy infrastructure, here are some destructions that the government reports on this what is known about this, yes, the government confirms that uh, this time a russian missile managed to hit certain objects of the uh , energy infrastructure of ukraine and this led to the fact that uh, more than before , the shortage of electricity, i can say the following, let's say the situation in kharkiv, m.m. the townspeople say that, uh, now there is a part of the district without electricity, but in general, less than a fifth of the city uh, today is left. it is because of these strikes without power supply for comparison, i saw the consequences of the very first missile strikes on the thermal power plant in kharkiv in september, yes. that is , almost six months ago, and then the consequences were very serious, in fact, the entire city was

de-energized. now we see that the scale of these same consequences, the scale of the calamity is much, much smaller. that is, this is related to the issue of the effectiveness of ukrainian air defense and, in general , before ukraine learned to face these great dangers. kharkiv, by the way, experienced two powerful attacks this night and this morning first, early in the morning, people heard a whole series of explosions there, and then, at this time, in the light of the day, there were explosions again, and the city was shelled with s-300 missiles . these are the missiles that russia actively uses against zaporizhzhia, against kharkiv, i.e. those cities which it fires directly across the border and which it fires from temporarily occupied territories at a distance of 100 kilometers

or less. that is, in relation to kharkiv , it is known in lviv that despite the fact that the city experienced such tremors from strong shelling from the strong explosions and from the work of the ppom e-e, after all, there were no emergency connections there and it was possible to avoid power outages e in kyiv, emergency shutdowns in some areas were, in particular, in the area of ​​the recently renamed halytska square, but we can also say that the consequences for people are minimal, but worth it take into account the fact that scheduled power outages will continue and repair work will be carried out at nuclear power plants in the spring - this is also part of the plan of the ukrainian energy system

and as a result, outages must take place later, but they will be controlled. zhanna, when zelensky went to europe, it was his second departure from ukraine since the beginning of the war. even then, a number of commentators asked : how will russia react to this ? they simply gathered forces for a new missile strike and these strikes do not depend on the schedule of the president of ukraine. er, it’s the same as before, as it was in october, november, december , that is, on average, once every 10 days, once every two weeks , russia fires its missiles at ukraine, and they aimed both at critical infrastructure , primarily energy, and at military facilities

it is also necessary to remember that not all of these missiles fly only at thermal power plants or at hydro-generation hydroelectric power plants of ukraine, this is the first point , the second point, is that we saw basically the same tactics and the same strategy in missile attacks on ukraine by russia demonstrated before that, that is, at night they said shaheda in order to check the current location of the work of the radars of the ukrainian air defense and after that they already used cruise missiles, but with regard to the timing of whether this could be specifically a response to the successful tour of president volodymyr zelenskyi abroad, hypothetically, maybe we we saw that russia resorted to such shelling before , that was when major political

events were taking place, for example, the visit of the president of the united states of america to poland and the shelling took place lviv is very close to the polish-ukrainian border. that is, you can skip such things, but in general , there were no significant changes this time in russia's approach, and zhanna is curious about what he said about this missile strike, commenting precisely on the european visit of zelenskiy brit, not the columnist retired colonel glen grand, he was asked on the air whether it can be considered as preparation or the beginning of the great offensive. listen to my opinion. yes, because now it is going on. there are really heavy battles in two or three districts in the east of ukraine, and this attack is much more intense than what could be expected, it looks like we did start here , but there is no clarity. is it this or that? is it preparation for something else or are they an attempt to pull

forces away from the area where something more is being prepared, although it is difficult to imagine that they could throw against ukrainians, something even more than what they have already thrown, for example, can they pull the ukrainian forces to the east and then strike in the direction of sumy or kharkiv? they are still shelling the territory of kharkiv oblast across the border and have concentrated large forces along the border line artillery, but they do not have intelligence data that confirmed the transfer of troops in that area, but you know at one time the second battle of the ardennes took us by surprise, so it is quite possible that the russians are preparing something there, but we simply do not see it. so, in short , this is what is happening, has the russian offensive already begun ? this is preparation for the russian offensive, so you can talk about the fact that the ukrainian military , who are currently defending ukraine, on the front in the east, are talking about what, according to

their estimates, is de facto we are on the line here the clash in the donetsk luhansk region has begun and this is confirmed in the president's office, in fact they have already officially announced that there is an offensive there, but this is the line of confrontation further according to estimates and forecasts according to the information of the minister of defense of ukraine oleksiy reznikov of western and ukrainian intelligence, where is it also about the fact that there may be an attack in the south and another south-eastern direction, that is, the intermediate direction between the east and the south is called as such where it can happen, this is primarily the territory in the direction of zaporozhye well, when we say about the east - this is bakhmut again, and it is very important to remember that it is the military experts of other countries who are happy to observe what is happening with the russian troops on the territory of the russian regions bordering ukraine, bryansk, voronezh

, kursk region, in relation to belarus they talk about this direction as the least likely and one where the formation of real russian strike groups is taking place. thank you, zhanna. we were contacted by bvc correspondent zhanna bezpyachuk from kyiv, and another aspect of this massive attack by russia on ukraine is a challenge to nato as president zelensky stated, as the ukrainian military claims, two russian missiles flew into moldova and then into the territory of romania, which is a nato member, and here we will listen to zelensky's statement, several russian missiles passed through the airspace of moldova and romania, another proof that terror knows and will never know any borders another proof that the defense of ukraine is the defense of the whole of europe and the world of every country that just wants to live today's missiles are a challenge to nato's collective security - this is terror that can and

it must be stopped but this is not confirmed in romania , and journalist daria smetanko contacted us from bucharest. so, what statements did the romanian authorities make today? this is how nato responded to this challenge, as yevgenia zelensky called it, this is his information about what ah two missiles, er, that two missiles violated the airspace of moldova and romania, of course, they began to have a lively discussion in the romanian media, because this is the first time when missiles allegedly crossed the airspace of a non-nato country, romania immediately literally behind hour, the spokesman of the ministry of defense denied this information, and later the ministry of defense of the country reported that it was allegedly the cruise missiles that were launched by the russian federation from a ship in the black sea, and yet they did not

cross the the border with romania really uh-uh, the air defense system uh-huh detected these missiles, but they didn’t come close, they were closest to the romanian border , 35 km meters away, ah, i want to add that at this very moment in the airspace in romania, in the sky there were two mig-21 fighters and at this very moment they were just sent towards the border, but as reported in the ministry of defense itself, this information was quickly clarified and the fighters returned to further training, and here is what the ministry of defense of romania confirmed. so it is also that the missiles really passed over the airspace of moldova. well, and in moldova, there have already been cases when rockets fell on its territory this year, they did not just pass through

it, this time a rocket already flew, that's how moldova is commenting on today's shelling , they are alert, so in moldova, on the sidelines i will say that the minister of foreign affairs of moldova informed that exactly three rockets really crossed the border and immediately summoned the russian ambassador to the ministry of foreign affairs . minister of moldova nataliya havrylytsia announced the dissolution of the government. as you correctly noted, this is not the first case, it is already the third case, it has already been three cases, this is already the fourth case. they find themselves on the territory of moldova, this time they crossed e just in general

. this is the purpose of such russian attacks and not only to destroy the ukrainian infrastructure, as the romanian expert and political analyst claudio dirigatov told me today, in order for russia to try in this way and intimidate moldova he says that this is direct intimidation because moldova cannot react in time because it does not have such observation systems as nato has to identify missiles over the black sea and there is no time to react to this situation , but another goal that the expert told me is that russia wants to check the reaction of nato countries. well, by the way, if we talk about nato , you already said about the fighter jets that were in

the sky of romania at that time. nato from the beginning war is strengthening its eastern flank, this is how protected romania feels now. what are your observations for this year? well, really , romania, romania is now very strong . the territory of ukraine is where, at the moment, five thousand nato soldiers are stationed, and it is these soldiers who are constantly stationed here , yes, and among them 4,000 are the soldiers of the united states, but also the countries of the military countries of nato are regularly trained here and can be stationed here and 10,000 military personnel. of course, nato sends military equipment to romania, ukraine. for example , in the fall, france also sent 12 tanks and 12

infantry fighting vehicles and deployed a medium-range surface-to-air system. mamba to protect the city is a constant of its port that is of strategic importance evgenia thank you daria smetanko, a journalist from bucharest was on the air with them and the day before, president zelenskyi met with the leaders of the eu countries at a special summit in brussels, spoke in the european parliament, this is the second time president zelenskyi has gone abroad since the beginning full-scale war from the beginning london meeting with the british prime minister rishi sunuk here then paris meeting with president macron the german chancellor and then brussels male all in two days and already stopped in poland on the way back elevit andrzej duda greeted him and asked if he was tired of the intensity of the negotiations, to which volodymyr zelenskyi

replied that there is such a thing and we are in touch with us lyubov akulenko executive director of the analytical center ukrainian center for european politics i welcome you to on the air. so, we summarize the results of this european tour of zelenskyi. did we manage to get more support a-a good evening to everyone a-a this tour has, in my opinion, a-a two strengths. the first goal that you announced is still despite the fact that the war will soon last for a year until now ukraine has to convince the european countries that we need weapons because it is obvious that russia is preparing for something new and we do not have enough weapons. at this stage i understand that there were a lot of behind-the-scenes conversations and all the secrets

to know now, because most likely the information is that official decisions will already be made on rammstein and the president is doing everything so that rammstein makes the decisions we need from the other side, he also talked about another thing in brussels the president does not cease to emphasize, as the official position of our country, that ukraine also needs to join the european union, despite the fact that he was already here in kyiv , in principle there was no clear date. the european union said that they would be ready to accept us as soon as we fulfill all reforms, but the president is still trying to find support in the person of the ursula rolaine charle-michel foundation, which is very sympathetic to ukraine and also promotes the idea of ​​opening negotiations with

ukraine as soon as possible, that is, there are two such goals here, which in my opinion the view that our president is trying to achieve. well, rammstein, whom you mentioned, he will be next week, this meeting, and what we know is that it became official during zelenskyi's visit to brussels, that new sanctions against russia have been announced. at the same time, the leaders of the eu countries did not agree on the joint procurement of ammunition for ukraine this was said by the prime minister of poland, myrowiec , according to him, late at night they discussed a positive reaction from some countries, according to him, there was no positive reaction , which he did not specify, well, we can he hopes that at the next summit they will agree on these ammunition purchases, but this idea has already been discussed since the fall . in your opinion, what is preventing this in general?

we need to change our foreign policy, its defense policy, the fact that they are afraid to perceive us as a candidate country as a future member also raises another layer of problems that they have a lot of internal issues and they are very they are afraid to accept us, starting with agrarian policy. since we are not a country that lives on subsidies like many european countries, our agrarian business is quite successful, ending there with other issues , that is, for me. it is obvious that they simply do not respond to the challenges of modernity it seems to me that if they are well done that they give us political support, they are well done that they gave us candidate status that they are trying to show that ukraine is actually the field of the european union, but they still live in many european countries

live in the illusion that they want to win all their political terms now and that nothing terrible happens to ukraine or russia , but i have the impression that the only ones who understand the real problem in ukraine are the countries of central and eastern europe, and that is why their behavior is completely different from the behavior of other european countries. well, you already mentioned these backroom conversations, which are very important. this is what is important at the meeting in brussels .

to meet with the leader, the leaders of the countries are now. we will return to you, and to meet with the leaders of the eu countries, in particular , with the leader of hungary, who is unfortunately. what is the purpose of all these diplomatic efforts of the ukrainian leadership , the armed forces of ukraine need weapons, a lot of weapons to repel the russian offensive , the ukrainian government declares this, ammunition is needed , long-range weapons are sharpened in the east because in the area of ​​bakhmut, where russian forces are trying to capture the city, correspondent bvcorganin recently returned from the front line, there she saw how people live in basements under constant shelling and further her report front ukraine bakhmut, the military of the national guard of ukraine take our film crew on a mission here, every minute counts the russians are attacking from three sides this week, the place is safer in this area because we are one and a half kilometers from

the russian troops and the russian shops and wagners group on olx, you can hear it now we will launch drones, we will try to find the enemy, if we succeed in doing this, the military will be thrown from the firewood on this modified german grenade fixed on velcro, we know that there are many russian soldiers here, they walk , live, sit, so the widget we sent my gift sam gift now you will see here here

here is our grenade we have to run away from here the drone has returned the grenade has been dropped we can't stay here for more than two or three minutes because there is a chance that they will start shooting at us in the middle of nowhere dare to go outside the impression is that time has stopped in this place. the residents who are still here are hiding in the basements in the middle of a dark corridor. we notice a child. this is a seven-year-old anya girl . she lives here with her mother, grandfather, two cats and a dog. of the national police, anya shows us her

crocodile toy, chupastka, says she bites, that she almost always hides in the basement on the street, i go outside to walk and take a walk fly fly fly and the dog is afraid of explosions and she constantly runs back, they only go out for a walk at dawn when it becomes quiet, this is how mother ani and yulia refuse to evacuate, she says it is not safe anywhere in ukraine now, but a woman cannot afford to go abroad, the police think

otherwise bakhmut is not a place for children these days i don’t understand why are they still here do you want to be here now it's too dangerous so very bombing shelling all the time bah bahmut attack evening morning night always all pavlo can do is help this child warm in a new sleeping bag and to hope that anya will survive one more night in the city, which the russians are trying so hard to capture the heat, as it became known, simyani agreed to be evacuated after 6 months of hiding in the basement of a multi-story building, the girl, together with her mother and grandfather , were taken to a safe place . in donetsk and now the family is settling in a new place and finally about the consequences of the devastating earthquake that happened

in turkey at the beginning of the week more than 23,000 people died in turkey and in syria the earthquake actually two earthquakes happened on the border rescuers are still sorting through the rubble, but they rarely find it whole. correspondent vovsianna foster saw how in turkey they are trying to find the living near the place where the epicenter of the earthquakes was. an urgent call for calm. these rescuers need it. they heard voices, despite the fact that this building is dangerous. they are trying despite the winter cold. in the cell and to get to them they need to be inside him or a collapsed building nearby a british-german team is helping

local residents to search for such moments they are risking their lives, a frozen mother and a child were pulled out from under the ruins, exhausted, but alive, they will not embrace the last few hours , the team has been working at the workplace, i am very happy to say that they have just managed to pull someone out of the pile of debris and hand it over to the local medics, this shows why the number of dead continues to grow it was a whole district and it was completely destroyed it was hundreds of apartments thousands of people and most of them are still buried under these huge mounds of rubble still smoking good the news is getting rarer and rarer on the net every day only the victims are increasing it is not known how many more will be found keenan came here from britain just heard about the earthquake somewhere his brother

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