[000:00:00;00] rainy weather with a strong wind plus 3 + 7 in the southern part of ukraine it will be warm + 7 + 13°, it will rain and a strong wind will be observed. well, in kyiv, in the capital, as well as in almost all regions of ukraine, in all cities, towns and villages, a strong wind is expected tomorrow with storm gusts of up to 15-20 and even more meters per second, the weather will also be wet , rain is expected in the morning and in the evening, when the air temperature will drop a little , wet snow is also possible tomorrow, such active stormy weather, er, it is possible it will seem uncomfortable to some, but in fact it is a very positive evidence that atmospheric processes are activated just when they are activated. good evening. we are from ukraine. it is a historic day . biden's unexpected visit to kyiv on the day when ukraine honors

the memory of the heroes of the heavenly hundred. we will not only talk about this in the following half an hour - this is bbc new from ukraine , olga palamaryuk is working in the studio, a visit under the sounds of an air alarm, president biden in kyiv promised new military aid and emphasized the unity of the international community in support the us secretary of state of ukraine once again warned china not to think of supplying russia with weapons and soldiers of a foreign war. bbc journalists spoke with british volunteers who are fighting on the side of ukraine in the war against russia. well , let's start with the

event of the day. already called historic, this is the first visit of an american president to a country where a war is going on . in addition, this is the first visit of a us president to kyiv in the past 15 years, since april 2008, when george bush jr. came to ukraine, but let's talk about today's event, so since the very morning there was unofficial information about the visit of someone from high-ranking people to kyiv, later a motorcade was noticed in the capital , unprecedented security measures were introduced, and then president zelensky wrote in a telegram that joseph biden welcomes you to kyiv and added the photo immediately after that , an official statement from the white house appeared, biden said that he came to kyiv on the anniversary of the russian invasion to meet with zelenskyi and

his team for an extended discussion regarding the support of ukraine, the american president announced a new military aid package, it will include critical equipment , artillery ammunition, anti-tank systems and air surveillance radars, as biden said, to help protect the ukrainian people from aerial bombardments. well, later it was reported that the amount of this aid package is 500 million dollars. so let's listen to you, putin thought that ukraine was weak and the west was divided from the very beginning , he told you, mr. president, he was counting that we will not stick together, he calculated that nato would not be able to maintain unity, he calculated that we would not be able to attract others to our side, he thought that he would defeat us, i do not think that he is of the same opinion now, i do not know at all what he is hoping for now, but he

you and all ukrainians continue to make mistakes, mr. president, you remind the world every day what courage and bravery are and it is impressive, you remind us that freedom has no price, it is priceless and it is worth fighting for as long as it takes and that is how long we will stay with you well, literally immediately after the american leader, an air raid began in kyiv and throughout ukraine . zelenskyi biden came to the center of kyiv and visited st. michael 's cathedral . joe biden honored the memory of ukrainian soldiers who died in the war with russia. this meeting took place under unprecedented measures on many streets of kyiv , traffic was prohibited in the center of people they asked not to open the windows, later president volodymyr zelenskyy summarized the negotiations with his american colleague were fruitful and very

important. and the results of the meeting according to zelenskyi will be felt on the field, the honorable team of the president, biden, ah, i am glad to welcome you all to ukraine, and for me, for all of us , it is a great honor. which is really bringing our joint victory in this war closer, we can and must make this year the 23rd the year of victory. i want to emphasize this unprovoked and criminal russian war against ukraine, the whole of europe and democratic world must complete the cleansing of all ukrainian land from the occupation of russia and firm guarantees of long-term security

. how successful were zelenskyi's intentions to rally the world in support of ukraine when journalists asked what was the purpose of his visit that lasted only a few hours answered i want to send a message, we are not going anywhere, we are staying, he said this perfectly knowing that public support for ukraine's aid, although still high, is decreasing , and the western military is trying to keep up with the pace of demand for ammunition, long-range artillery, and now fighter jets, which, as zelensky says, ukrainians need in this war against russia, every day it is absolutely clear that the world underestimated the ukrainians and turned to the russians, and not only the ukrainian armed forces, but also the determined spirit of the ukrainians to resist putin, who basically said that their country has no right to exist. it is part

of russia, it will be a difficult struggle for ukraine . president zelenskyi expressed hope that this war will end this year. this is very optimistic, but this is of course what the western nato allies want, because every year it will be more and more difficult to provide the kind of support that president biden spoke about today here in kyiv, so how did the meeting go and what did the leaders of ukraine and the united states agree on? bbc kyiv correspondent viktoriya zhugan congratulates me today's visit of the american president made a lot of noise, obviously changed the plans and journalists , in particular, how kyiv met biden good evening, many kyivans met not biden at first, but their inability to get to the center , and it is clear that many follow the news

i expected that perhaps dignified guests would be in kyiv, but many people thought in the morning, hmm, did anthony blinkenzi of the united states come because few really expected the visit of the president himself of the united states, and already when the first video of zelenskyi and biden appeared here near the st. michael's monastery, the first footage became really viral and popular, and people were quick to make a lot of memes out of them . at the same time, president zelenskyi said that he was satisfied with the results of the meeting although, in the announced aid package, we did not hear about long-range weapons or combat aircraft, in general , what biden brought, what he promised, what we have not heard yet about 16 aircraft or long-range

missiles, in particular, atakams, nothing really means because very often the negotiations last for a certain time and the partners are in no hurry to announce such assistance to ukraine today we really did not hear either confirmations or denials what we heard is that the united states will allocate 450 million dollars for more javelins more radars ammunition for howitzers and let the mars, etc. , they will spend another 10 million dollars and transfer it to ukraine to repair the energy infrastructure , and we should not forget that biden announced that new sanctions await russia world leaders and celebrities visit regularly

, so you can even say that it is not uncommon to see famous people in kyiv, but what is the reaction to this visit? the first visit in 15 years in general by an american president, and this is taking place during, uh, already a year of war, when kyiv regularly suffers from shelling, perhaps the audience paid attention to the fact that it was during biden’s visit that here in the center of kyiv air alert because russia raised fighter jets to the sky, so it can be said that despite the fact that ukrainian partners and celebrities often come to kyiv , this visit was a significant symbolic one and became the main news of the day. hours , some western media write that the american president was offered several options , allegedly advised to meet with zelensky on the ukrainian-polish border, because the visit was announced for tuesday earlier president of the usa to poland, someone wrote that biden could

go to lviv and in the end he chose kyiv. what does a western analyst say about today's events? let's listen together. this is a huge event, primarily as a political theater, and political theater is important in this resistance to the russian invasion. biden came to express president zelensky support of the united states and, of course, he constantly talks about international support for ukraine, more than 50 countries have already demonstrated economic and military support and continue to do so. the practical results of this visit, such as the promise of the us to allocate another 500 million dollars for military aid, as well as discussions about further political steps and zelensky's 10-point peace plan. and what is more important . we already know that the first phase of the war ended with the russian defeat, russia failed to capture kyiv and again baid's visit. today, this

symbolically emphasizes that the russians were unable to capture most of the country, it is very difficult for them to even make the last push with the goal capture a larger territory in the east of ukraine, so now the second phase has begun, when the second year of the war begins, and the question now is how far the ukrainian military can go during the new counter-offensive, how much territory will they be able to liberate and when will they be able to tell putin the following this is the situation that must now be recognized at the negotiations that you have lost and it is more important here to gradually increase aid to ukraine on the eve of a possible spring or summer counteroffensive when tanks will be on the battlefield or fighter jets will be provided and then there will be a result or can ukraine liberate a significant part of the east, including the territory that russia has been receiving since 2014, can the territories in the south be liberated, this is the biggest topic of discord among the allies , will ukraine be able to make a military push to turn back crimea captured by russia 9

years ago, it will happen in stages we are not talking about a loud ukrainian the counteroffensive , so the symbolic visit of biden is an important point that will show what the next series of discussions will be, which will take place in the spring and summer . so, what will happen next, what will be the consequences of the visit may have biden to ukraine in the future, we are talking about the expert of the analytical center ukrainian prizma, oleksandr kraev is in touch with us, oleksandr , i congratulate you, let's start with how did you expect biden to come to kyiv today? well , actually, this visit surprised everyone, it was obvious that the whole situation with the secured visit to poland really became a very successful cover for this visit, so it was expected that someone from the americans would be, we understood that the americans wanted

to show their support with a visit, but that they will really find courage and desperation in a certain way at the highest level of the visit, no one expected this, well, we see that western correspondents and observers call this visit of the president of the united states as such , well, more symbolic. and what do you see as its greatest significance for ukraine? actually, i would rather see the most its significance in american geopolitics, i.e. the fact that more weapons were promised in ukraine, new aid packages were announced, the classic theses about support to the end were already clear, but the americans today conveyed the geopolitical a very clear signal to both the russians and, by the way, to the chinese that now any kind of blackmail , nuclear, missile, economic, any will not work, the visit of the us president to the capital of a belligerent country is an indicator that the americans are no longer afraid of anything, that they are clearly delineating their borders that they clearly indicate who their allies are, who their partners are, and what in fact. at present, dictators and autocrats

do not have the ability to intimidate the americans or allies, so from a geopolitical point of view, this is a very powerful and very i would say psychological message, moreover made very timely not only before the russian invasion , but also before the day of commemoration of the first victims of our revolution of dignity later. if we can say so, in fact, as in any such negotiations, the most practical consequences will be known to us only later, because they were discussed on the sidelines, exactly on the sidelines, as it became clear from the press conference, it was already about new types of weapons, most likely there was also talk about fighter jets and long-range missiles and about many other necessary countries and things, in fact

, information is already available in the information space that america is essentially ready to completely cover the so-called list of useful, that is, all the equipment that we need for a counteroffensive in crimea and on in the east of ukraine, however, unfortunately, given the peculiarities of american diplomacy , we will know exactly about the implementation of these points only after their implementation , yes, over time, but at the same time, i also want to focus your attention a little on another language the associated press reports that before biden's visit to ukraine , american officials allegedly contacted the russians in order to avoid, as they say, a direct conflict between two nuclear states. in russia, the rivet in the head still remained, that is, in fact, these are the classic methods of the cold war, which we saw many times in the last century, when even such

unexpected provocations, visits or any statements, they are still from the point of view of the nuclear threat, they were agreed one way or another between the two nuclear states from the point of view of america . it was a very prudent pragmatic step, because we cannot accurately state that there is no nuclear threat from russia, and therefore it was really necessary to agree on this point on the part of russia, the fact that they made this alarm more indicative, more general plot. this is really an indicator of the fact that at the level of the average officer staff and at the level of the corps there, decisions about the use one or another weapon in russia , you can still find people who really don't want, don't want nuclear escalation, who really don't want a third world war, no matter how strange it sounds, but the very fact of the success of such negotiations, he can't help but be happy. thank you oleksandr kraev, expert of the analytical center

ukrainian prisma was in touch with us. well, in the context of today's events, a few words about what preceded them. we had a security conference in munich this weekend . the leaders of the leading countries talked about the war in ukraine in germany. how to maintain peace in the world. from the stands, they report on aid to ukraine, modern technology, weapons, equipment. my colleague, bbc correspondent sviatoslav khomenko, sums up the results of the 59th security conference, the main idea that was heard from almost all the speakers of the munich and security conference was a simple war in ukraine should end with a victory for ukraine, and not with the freezing of the conflict or through a peace agreement on the terms of the aggressor, for this they will help ukraine with weapons and finances , the goal is that in the near future the ukrainian army will come to the counteroffensive and on the battlefield proved to russia that the war that has not been unleashed has absolutely no prospects

. we must absolutely strengthen our efforts and support for the opera of the ukrainian people. you are able to help it launch a counteroffensive. the strong message that was sent in munich to ukraine was that its partners will help as long as it takes, the speakers of the conference usually say that vladimir putin could end this war even though tomorrow by simply withdrawing our troops from ukraine, but until that happens, kyiv's partners will be there no matter how long the war lasts, the message sent from munich to putin, you will not be able to wait for us. we have very clearly defined that we will continue our support as long as it is necessary for

success of ukraine and we will continue to resist russian aggression, this will also be emphasized in new york on the anniversary of the beginning of russian aggression, there is no doubt that the issue of aircraft will be resolved, it will take a little more time, and the struggle for planes must be structured a little differently than the battle for tanks in order to get a result, but this work has already begun, they also talked in munich about what the post-war world will look like and what needs to be done so that russia, even after its defeat, does not pose a threat to the democratic world of ready-made recipes there is not yet, but it is noticeable that this conversation has started at all, peace , long-term peace in europe , answers to two questions are being achieved: first, is ukraine a member of the senate, the affirmative answer is

half the solution to the problems, and the second is what will be russia representatives of the russian government were not invited to munich this year, on the sidelines they say that while russia chooses the path of war, there is simply no point in talking with it. on behalf of russia , at the conference, the representatives of the opposition there justified themselves, saying that the path to any changes in their country will begin only when the ukrainian flag will dream over the liberated sevastopol. the empire must end its existence, this is what brought us together, and the goal of a true russian patriot is to win a ukrainian victory by helping as much as we can. important things that brought us together in the right place today will give ukrainian victories , especially at the munich conference, they were waiting for the speech of the chinese top diplomat wang and was afraid that he would announce that his country would announce support for russia, in fact , he announced that china has its own vision as the conflict in ukraine must end. that 's what they call a war unleashed on russia, and this vision is already being presented. ukraine's verbal support looks determined and long-lasting, but

the situation is far from cloudless, experts it is assumed that vladimir putin's calculation may consist in the fact that after a certain period of time, western politicians may begin to demand that the citizens of their wives, tired of high inflation and the growth of valuable energy, stop supporting ukraine, but at least today in munich, on almost every administrative building, we can see the ukrainian flag and this means that at least now the support for ukraine here remains very strong bbc svyatoslav khomenko from munich from southern turkey meanwhile reported on a new earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 - 44,000 people and the minister of foreign affairs of china in england arrived in russia for a visit to moscow today. he left immediately after visiting the munich conference. it is expected that the diplomat will stay in moscow for two days and the program of the meetings of the parties was not announced, and that's what the importance of the business card

of the thai minister is taking place against the background of warnings that china is apparently considering the possibility of providing lethal support to russia for the war in ukraine, secretary of state anthony blinken, who met with the chinese a government official at the security conference in munich, and today while visiting turkey , he warned china about the consequences, so far the official peace has tried to maintain neutrality. although he announced an unlimited partnership with moscow a year ago. we know that the chinese have given bulletproof vests and they are discussing giving uniforms to the russians before the spring offensive and at the same time they are playing a big game of peace they are going publish the peace plan on friday, where they call for peace in ukraine, but american intelligence makes us believe that the chinese are going to sell weapons to the russians, that's why we

warned them, although we did not specify what the consequences would be, there is an idea of ​​what types of weapons we are talking about, nothing concrete, but it is likely ammunition on both sides, the ukrainians and russians are running out of ammunition, the russians produced 20,000 shells per day, it is very difficult to maintain the production of such a quantity, and the ukrainians produced somewhere around six or seven thousand, i assume that the russians are looking for another source of ammunition together with them and heavy weapons. if these warnings of the united states are true, this is a serious change in the course of events, because there will be changes, but we must remember what kind of relations between washington and beijing the situation is now very difficult. after this incident with balloons during the last two weeks ago, i don't really understand how seriously beijing takes our threats. although i know that blinken was specific , the economy of the states is very closely related to the chinese economy. therefore, we have to be

very careful with all kinds of economic sanctions and any actions regarding the economy. i think it would be more realistic that we would just point the finger at them and criticize them for their behavior and also increase the pressure on any human rights violations in china at the beginning of the war. we saw a statement from the chinese and russians in it the chinese have been very open about the fact that they have no restrictions in cooperation with the russians or is there any reading of this i think the interpretation of this a year later is only one in russia they have very few friends so they have to reach out to china to iran and others regimes, because it is already clear that the world has told you that they are not happy or there are limitations in their relations. yes, both countries have their national interests , but their interests are obviously increasingly intertwined due to the fact that russia has fewer and fewer friends of the ukrainian military who are currently training in great britain , king charles visited today it is reported that

his majesty has arrived at the training ground in the southwestern part of england, here is this video in which the british monarch communicates with the ukrainian military and pats them on the shoulder in a friendly way, playing his wild sher is one of several british military bases where ukrainian servicemen train. there they study medical care, handling weapons, the basis of field work and shooting. the course lasts 5 weeks. in the last six months, more than 10,000 ukrainian military personnel have passed it. i am truly amazed, my heart is so bright the feeling that the king of great britain himself greeted us and he came not only to say hello, he came to ask how things are going here, how we are training, i am amazed. well , almost a year after the russian invasion the number of british volunteers who want to join the ukrainian army is not decreasing. although they all serve

in different battalions, everyone risks their lives . last week, the death of the fifth british citizen was confirmed . bbc correspondents talked to the british who fought for ukraine from the first days of the russian invasion. why do they go to war and about the feelings that arise next to ukrainians on the battlefield, emma's report is worth it, the weekdays of a british volunteer on the front line in ukraine, a shell of a russian tank flew from he is within a few centimeters of it, everyone is alive. he fell right next to me. i don't hear anything. i don't hear anything. according to the ukrainian authorities , about 20,000 foreign volunteers and the british military have arrived to help defend ukraine. at the same time, it is one of the largest groups in the international region. but there are others

who are fighting in different battalions. they shared their own experience with the bbc. i saw an ad on facebook. it was in ukrainian, but i translated it. i called and they answered. we are sending you to the front line to fight in the kharkiv area. 30-year-old james from yorkshire went to ukraine without any military experience . it is quite legal for foreigners to serve in the ukrainian army . soldiers sign a contract and can receive a salary, but the british government persistently warns about the risks associated with this. they needed help, and i knew that i could fight . such as james chadwick, a military man with combat experience in ukraine worth his weight in gold at the age of 21, he left the british army to go to a foreign country, ukrainians see us and feel that they are not alone, that we are close

we help them fight, most of the fighting is an outdated tactic of trench warfare. we were 600 meters away from the russians all the time. it was literally our forest strip, their forest strip and the field between them are like, for example , tiktok. they give us a better idea of ​​life on the front line than any other. - when videos published by british volunteers gain millions of views, but participation in the war can end in tragedy, mackintosh's cry from norfolk went to ukraine without even warning his family, his opinion was why are you doing this why did you go and didn't tell anyone but then i thought wow what a brave thing and later she got the terrible news the police told craig's family that he was killed by a russian soldier it was painful most people die of cancer or normal diseases not from being shot in the war

within six weeks he was delivered to great britain, it seemed that all this is not true. the ukrainian military says that foreign volunteers are constantly enlisting in the ranks of their army for those who are ready to exchange their quiet life in great britain for the battlefield in ukraine, this is a society siblings and an adventure, but they themselves and those who are waiting for them at home are sometimes forced to pay a high price for this, you know that's all for today , see you tomorrow at 21:00 good luck and take care, you