[000:00:00;00] smaller wars in terms of scale let's put it this way, putin probably made the most tragic mistake for himself and a tragic mistake for thousands of those who died and who did not live to this day well, but you know how carthage must be destroyed as the roman senator said, so it is cato the elder , the same can certainly be said today russia must be destroyed and we must win thank you all take care watch the express now for your attention bbcin us

ukraine let's watch together ukraine persevered the west rallied but russia a year after the full-scale invasion is not going to back down on the air bipisenyuk from ukraine live from london i am yevgenia khavunska and today together with you we are talking about how the ukrainians managed to repel the russians as other countries watched with great admiration how the war changes the world and what could be the end of dying or ukrainians millions lost their homes and as a sign of solidarity with ukraine in britain today there was a national

moment of silence at 11 o'clock on the day of the premiere of the pictures together with the wife of the ukrainian ambassador vadym prystayko and ukrainian military personnel training in britain paid their respects to the fallen, honored the bravery and resilience of ukrainians, after which the ukrainian national anthem was played near the residence of the british prime minister britain was one of the first to support ukraine in the war by providing weapons , the anniversary of the war was remembered in other countries in france, germany, australia - this is the biggest war in europe since the second world war, a war that has been going on for a year, we will do everything to win this year with these words, president zelenskyi ended his address to ukrainians, an address to the anniversary of the war, he recalled how the ukrainian resistance unfolded on february 24, and

later at the press conference, zelenskyi said that victory is inevitable if the ukrainian partners are united for this purpose by a procedure, if everyone does the important homework, if the western partners keep their word about providing assistance to zelenskyi throughout the year the attention of the world was attached to the leader who remained in the country during the war changed into military clothes only recently he began to travel abroad made his first visit to the united states then the country of europe for this year. zelenskyi addressed many countries, spoke in front of the parliaments, asked for help with weapons, so it is not surprising that his press conference was broadcast by the bbc today, and on the eve of the anniversary of the full-scale invasion , zelenskyi was interviewed by bbc columnist john sinson. how did you find out about it? that the invasion had begun, who woke you up and told you about it, and at night, at night, i received a call from er, from

the bank, and they gave me the information that and they, er, began to er, began to hit air strikes, and it was all clear that there will be more tear member remember what you felt when you heard this news i was overcome with emotion there was only one person my family was around i told my wife we ​​have to get together we have to raise the children the war has started is it true that america offered to take you out of here to a safe place wherever you go where they we were going to take you out ourselves, my bodyguard could choose any place and any state, but i

didn't care about the details and i stopped this topic. help from the west, but some help will not come so quickly, for example, certain combat complexes, but you are already in danger of another russian offensive , is it not expected that it will be quite powerful? will you be able to resist without these new weapons first? i believe that the attacks are already underway and that is why modern weapons are powerful weapons, and because when they are given, everything accelerates de-occupation and accelerates peace. we must understand that weapons are for ukraine not for the sake of war , weapons are for ukraine, for the ukrainians, for me

, for the sake of peace, because these weapons are a single language which is understood by the russian federation of the president all wars end and usually they end with agreements that nobody really wants or will this war end with you having to give up part of your territories that you lost before 2014 or maybe the territory that you lost last year and any compromises they are territorial, they will only weaken our state, why is the issue not a compromise in itself , why should we be afraid of it, we have a million compromises in life , they happen every day, questions with whom to compromise with putin, for no reason, because there is no faith there is no faith in dialogue with him, and that is why it is a question of the use of our state . i would like us to return all our territories. i know that this is a difficult mission, but for our state it is good and not only that, i will tell you honestly, i think that for

the survival of russia it is also important give up all the territories can you forgive them no never do you remember why we say never again after wwii after millions of deaths after millions of people ended up in that bloody war yes never again why do we say never again because we can't because we don't want this then we said never again and now we will never forgive it is true we will never forgive today this is a question for them and for the russians what should we do so that the ukrainians forgive us for this question to them for this year russia and the russian military leadership called defeats a gesture of good will is not a war but a so-called special operation correspondence with that rosenberg we work in moscow and this is what they are saying there today about the year of full-scale authorization of the anniversary of the war

in ukraine is not among the main events this today, the news programs are silent about the fact that the initial goal of the so-called special military operation, a quick victory for the kremlin, was not achieved, it did not go according to plan , we see that russia is suffering heavy military losses , one of the tv presenters said a few days ago about the huge number of deaths, but president putin mobilized and sent hundreds of thousands of russian soldiers to the front but you know what listen to what he says listen to his speeches there are no hints of remorse putin clearly remains confident and full determination to advance in ukraine to raise the stakes if it is necessary to further escalate the situation, it seems that he still believes that he can achieve at least some kind of military victory over ukraine and over the west, and i am joined by my colleague from kyiv zhanna basketchuk zhanna

today we are talking about the year of the full-scale invasion of russia into of ukraine and how the ukrainian army fought back against russia, let's talk about it . congratulations to zhenya. indeed, during this year of war , ukraine actually found itself in the center of european, to a certain extent, world history. in which the struggle of the ukrainian army of the ukrainian people with the support of western partners managed not only to disrupt the scenario of the russian invasion of ukraine, but also to actually change the perception of ukraine in the world on the one hand and on the other hand to confirm that russia and the army can be defeated about the military results of the year of the war to talk today with the head of the military department of the come back alive fund andriy rybaruk good evening so, to andrii immediately such a question, now

you can hear different versions about how exactly why did the country manage to do what i just mentioned, that is, to disrupt the russian scenario of invasion and war, and this is a well-known fact, for example, that the russian military called kyiv restaurants on the eve of the war, ordered tables for the end of february , but nothing came of it. uh, and we all felt, understood, saw that, for example , the ukrainian air defense system worked, it was not expected , obviously russia, the ukrainian tactical aviation took to the sky and also repelled this , obviously, the kremlin also did not expect, significantly underestimated ukraine, which lessons need to be taught to ukraine so that no one ever again dares to plan and capture in three days, we could have the opportunity to restrain them even in the area

of ​​the state border of ukraine and prevent them from entering it if we had at least 50-70 % of the material and technical assistance that ukraine currently has, if this amount of military equipment was at the level of what it is now 100% russia has thought 10 times to attack because of the first material and technical assistance at the end of 2021 at the beginning of the 22nd year, it also played its role, remember how javalid tanks were burning under the breweries, remember how everything that flew from tactical aviation was shot down from the stingars. well, our tactical aviation gave an excellent axis, or did this collective image of the kiev drive simply terrify the pilots and literally there in two weeks, not even in two weeks, in 10 days , no one even flew into the kyiv region from the russian aviation, it all

won. and what needs to be strengthened and approved so that ukraine was ready for the biggest threats to our security, it will still be ahead of us and it will be the most difficult work already after our victory because we will need to organize all that material and technical assistance and to build a new army , we need to create it from scratch, to our great regret to live as such a neighbor for a very long time, there were turning points, there were important key battles, and there were such outposts, all struggles are ukrainian today, extreme outpost they are bakhmut, after all , it is he who remains in these roles to the area of ​​the front about its possible plans and about how ukraine could

go from this defense strategy to what the president of the donbas décupation is talking about. well, we see the daily losses of the enemy, they sometimes reach 1,000 people. it seems to me that even in russia no longer there are drug addicts left because they all die on our land this is the story of number two this is the story of number two outpost not only bakhmut e outpost kupyansk there was a blow the outpost walks a field of walnuts along this front line where they 24 by 7 everywhere try to storm and their tactics are very simple, they made quite a lot of conclusions from the beginning of the war and understand that they can no longer capture a large territory, and they go through such small positions, small settlements, small cities, trying to change the summer demarcation, e.e., to capture strategic and tactical important strategic heights populated points and there to create some operational space for further

offensive actions so far they do not succeed , they lose more than a thousand, almost 1000 people a day, including military equipment that we will be able to change, well, we are waiting for the tank fist promised for rammstein, and we have quite a lot of hope that it will be soon and aircraft , well, and for all this, we simply lack a huge amount of ammunition, if , uh, russia produces about 460 per day for us 000, just imagine this amount of ammunition per day, and only about a third of this amount is flying on bahmut, from this figure, and in response, we probably shoot 10 percent, but this speaks of our economy and our skill, we do not need you. 100 shells to know one goal, we can have 10 days that i am an absolutely real threat of a new

wave of a full-scale attack on ukraine , on the other hand, we hear positive news that leopard 2 is already in ukraine, and that the ukrainian military is now training to work on the batteries of the first in the united states for an accelerated program and i would like to hope that in the coming months they will already be able to put their skills to use in practice , as in ukraine, and, on the one hand , to cope with what is also among the military, and on the other hand, to really approach that point a when it is possible to recapture the currently occupied territories, again we return to history, modern military high-precision equipment is needed, which will reduce the amount of use of oso in the composition, and

roughly speaking, one strike tactical drone can replace an entire battalion there, and sometimes even a brigade, because it releases several missiles and the enemy is destroyed, and ammunition, in turn, the higher military leadership of the armed forces of ukraine has been thinking about it for a very long time, and it has been additionally created for a very long time, mechanized motorized infantry joint units that will give the opportunity to those units that are currently taking an active part in hostilities to rest, but without the available amount of a certain amount of military equipment , unfortunately, we cannot do this, because this equipment, which was provided before, is also destroyed on the battlefield we lose tens of units of armored vehicles or wheeled vehicles every day, and we constantly need to update them, and based on the fact that ukraine currently does not have the opportunity to fully

deploy its internal military equipment, we only we hope for international partners and well, what the volunteer movement is doing , for example, thank you very much for joining us on this particular day. so, we talked with the head of the military department of the fund. ukraine needs to liberate its territories. well, russian aggression has become a challenge to global security , a challenge for nato, and this is what secretary general tujans stoltenberg said, let's listen president putin is not preparing for peace president putin is preparing for an even bigger war for new offensives sending thousands of new soldiers from occupying more weapons while seeking help from such authoritarian regimes as iran or north korea and our response should be to maintain support for ukraine because

if putin wins it will be a tragedy for ukrainians, but it is also dangerous for us , it will make us more vulnerable. therefore, we are obliged to support ukraine and contact us maria zolkina, a researcher at the democratic initiatives foundation. so, sanctions are being introduced against russia, and what are the other levers of influence in the western countries? russia has the main lever of influence in hand - it is to enable the ukrainian victory as soon as possible , because there will be no better time to prevent the prolongation of the conflict, the depletion of financial and military resources , both ukrainian and of our partners than in 2023 and now despite even certain losses which, unfortunately

, the ukrainian army usually bears economic mechanisms, when they can be clamped as much as possible in a vise and gas and russia's ability to sell both gas and mainly oil on international markets and to obtain technologies, along with this, the main thing remains the intensive, concentrated supply of weapons for ukraine in the shortest possible time. well, the war rallied europe, but will it be preserved this unity in support of ukraine and how long it will last. well, this year it will definitely last, but the logic of such large-scale conflicts is such that the horizon of planning usually it cannot be big until later until some principled agreements are reached, it was the same during the world wars, in particular, and during the second world war , that is, now only the outlines are emerging of how one sees the end of this war, because for me the main thing is not only the deoccupation of the entire

ukrainian territory as a factor in the end of the war, but also how russia should be perceived in its own way and to which scenarios , the way of wartime russia and the internal development of its place in europe, the world would be ready and there is still no clear understanding of this therefore, i would say that in the short term, for this year, we definitely have no doubts that ukraine will be armed for a counteroffensive, and ukraine will definitely start this company, and on the other hand, it is in our interests and that of our partners that maximum success be achieved in the second half of this year, and then the american next year's elections, the elections to the european parliament will not be a risk because ukraine will already be on the way to occupying its territories and rallying the world around a-a tougher policy towards post-war russia well, you talk about weapons, yes poland

handed over leopard 2 tanks to ukraine, it was announced today, the united states promised to transfer the direction of force somewhere in the future . if we talk about the united states, they provide the most military support to ukraine, will they continue to do this and be with ukraine as long as necessary, as they said about it when biden came to kyiv , the united states really is ukraine's largest military donor to military donors, and great britain sometimes takes the most radical position politically, they are now the second largest military donor to ukraine. if to talk about how long this support will last. well, it seems to me that the munich peace conference is a symbolic historic visit by biden to both ukraine and poland with the corresponding appeals. it shows as much as possible that ukraine is treated as seriously as possible and its victory is taken as seriously as possible, but it is necessary to understand that international armed conflicts conflicts and the situation

on the battlefield affects diplomacy. occupied territory, this will definitely affect the duration, which in my opinion is important not only for the duration, but also for the intensity of the aid to ukraine, because we have to be conscious, the aid can be such that we break through the russian front and end this war as soon as possible. and it can be such that we have enough for local contour offensive operations without a large-scale counter-offensive and more on some local stories. let them even be successful, but in order to relatively speaking hold our line of defense, so for me the main thing is not the duration. i think the duration of the support ukraine is beyond doubt, but the intensity and timeliness of the receipt of this aid

for 2023 , there are no questions, will depend on the situation on the front line, and russia understands this very well. the un assembly passed a resolution on peace in ukraine, called on russia to immediately withdraw its troops, and this vote showed once again that not the whole world supports ukraine, so 141 countries voted for almost 3/4 of the countries seven voted against russia, another six countries, its usual friends, 32 countries abstained, among them china, india, iran, and today the un security council met, where a representative of russia broke a minute of silence at the beginning, this was the incident and my colleague in kyiv is very happy. here are the expectations in kyiv from the un in general and what is the attitude towards such resolutions as adopted the day before, the expectation was actually voiced today by the president of ukraine, volodymyr

zelenskyi, at a press conference where he answered journalists' questions, he said the following: what are the alternatives so far there is no such a large international platform for discussing the peace plan of ukraine to condemn russian aggression, so for now it is worth focusing diplomatic and political efforts on the un, its capabilities and resources, and this platform, and we will talk about the world's reaction to the un with volodymyr khandogii, the president of ukraine foreign policy association, he is with us on the e-e from kyiv, the first question for you is based on the results of the historic ukraine -

european union event that took place in kyiv when almost the entire european commission came to the capital of the country in the war . and we learned the following: what is the eu supported the readiness of ukraine to occupy crimea? the final statement actually recognized the right of ukraine to liberate crimea from the point of view of diplomacy. what does this mean or can it be considered a breakthrough, and therefore, until recently, it was such a red line that the west was afraid to cross , because there was such a fear of an escalation of the war. it was precisely because of this issue. well, i would say that this is a significant step forward for the west's position, but we must remember that the west is in the european union in particular, they have always advocated that crimea is the territory of ukraine, that crimea was illegally occupied by ukraine, even annexed, and that is why russia should

stop the occupation of crimea, that they have now declared the legitimacy of our possible further steps says i mean in the direction of the deoccupation of crimea, says that the opposition of the west, if there was no breakthrough , it is at least a very important step forward. and these talks about red lines. actually , they were already held by russia, as we can see. well, they no longer have such an influence on the european union and we won't have time to talk about our allies, mr. volodymyr, but let's talk about china, which took a significant step and proposed its peace plan, what is china trying to achieve now? what kind of policy? well, i wouldn't exaggerate the so-called china peace plan. it is rather some 12 principles that the people's republic of china put forward, so to speak

, a vision of the development of events and the development of the situation in ukraine in this war, therefore there are political statements that, in principle, can be made around this to have some conversations, but in fact it is felt through and through that china still gravitates more towards russia and to build something like that , you know, on this plan. it seems almost impossible to me. well, i think that china, a major nuclear power and a permanent member of the security council of ukraine , should calmly react to these proposals of china. show where it suits us well, for example, humanitarian issues, the issue of the return of prisoners, all this can be and it is. actually, in the plan of ukraine, but exaggerating the importance of this plan is hardly necessary, and you see that

western countries and germany and the general nato. they came forward. well, if not destructively, then, actually, they were skeptical about this plan. i think the american american state secret most succinctly expressed, so to speak, that of these 12 points proposed by china, it was possible to stop at the first point , which is about restoring the sovereignty of ukraine, well , look here, to be very brief. i would take as a basis the statement of the deputy state secret of the united states of america, which was recently stated by victoria nuland, and i have to the attention of a well-known person in ukraine, she said that it is possible that by the summer we will be able to talk about the start of the work of this

tribunal in a practical way, a coordination group has now been created in the hague, which is considering, in particular, the resolution of the european parliament, the work done by individual states. it seems to me that now this plan is in the process of finalizing the main provisions. well, let's hope that this tribunal will be created by the summer. thank you , mr. volodymyr, volodymyr, and that 's the end of our news release. however, not the coverage of this war, stay with us. we we will continue to tell you about the events in ukraine, about the development of the situation at the front , tell stories of indomitability and the story