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disagreements between zelenskyi and zaluzhnyi regarding the retention of bahmut, the president's office denies it , observers write about the limited tactical withdrawal of forces from the city what is happening on this part of the front, the cabinet appointed a director of the national anti-corruption bureau, the seeds of kryvonos, this was one of the main demands of ukraine's western partners in the field of combating corruption. it is too early

to assess the intentions of the ukrainian side regarding the complete withdrawal from bakhmut analysts, the ukrainian defense of bakhmut remains strategically justified, as it continues to absorb russian manpower and equipment , while ukrainian forces do not suffer excessive losses. that the situation in bakhmut was the cause of disagreements between president zelenskyi and the commander-in-chief , the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the ukrainian armed forces allegedly said for a few more weeks therefore called to think about a retreat for tactical reasons, today the military and political leadership made a statement in favor of continuing the defense of bahmut , in a few minutes we will discuss the situation on the front line with an expert first, what is known

as of this hour, after more than six months of fighting , most of bahmut lies in ruins but the intense battles do not subside for every street and for every house, the few civilians who remain in the city and in the nearby villages live in terrible conditions. almost without electricity , water and heating, a measure of silence, calm быть тебя, i think of my people and we are there, the ukrainian army still holds the center of bahmut, it can enter and exit from the west, but the situation is not clear, this is a ukrainian soldier, he says that the situation is tense, the street is under fire from tanks, the bridges are destroyed, the defense of this city comes at a high price, at the cost of the lives of ukrainians, i especially noted today for bravery the strength and indomitability of the soldiers

fighting in donbass is one of the most difficult battles , painful and difficult, russian forces are constantly shelling the city and advancing little by little from the north and south, but also at a huge cost british military sources claim that some russian soldiers are forced to go on the attack armed only with army shovels, and while russian recruits show footage of their paratroopers allegedly going on an assault , russian mercenaries in the epicenter of hostilities complain about the lack of ammunition, suddenly they want to frame us and say that it is us scoundrels and that's why they don't give us ammunition , they don't give us weapons, if wagner retreats under bakhmut, the whole front will crumble in this

place, there's nothing left to fight for but the ukrainian forces are fiercely defending these streets, and many russians are dying trying to capture them, and we are in touch with the military expert petro chornyi. first of all, i congratulate you today in op. viewers, in particular the institute for the study of the study of war, are observing and i will quote a limited tactical withdrawal of forces, what is happening in the city according to your observations, does the armed forces of ukraine have the strength and is there still a military sense in that to continue to hold pakhmut, even if you look at the map, well, the city is practically surrounded until the operational encirclement is still quite far away, the map is of course very serious, but there is still potential for holding this city, in my opinion, it is the second ukrainian fronopila , mariupol is the first, and in fact, the city is strategic in the first place as for the fire control of the railway

junction in debaltsevo, which is 42 km away, let me remind you that the heimer works for 0.84 km. this is the only working canvas for the russians, that is why they are so stubbornly trying to break our defenses there, plus bakhmut already has a very deep symbolic meaning for the enemy, because it is such a kind of bone in their throat that prevents them from entering the administrative lines of donetsk region. putin has already given the order for the 8th or ninth time to achieve it. and they cannot achieve it. therefore, the myth of the final dispelling of the myth of the second army of the world, and for them this is a serious psychological trauma, well, for the russians , the symbolism is clear. we have also repeatedly heard on the air that taking bakhmut for the russians can be a pyrrhic victory for the other side . if this happens, it will also happen repeatedly the experts talked about it, the way to sloviansk to kostiantynivka is opening, how much it can worsen the tactical position

of the defense forces of ukraine. of course, it will be a stinging blow, but it will definitely not be fatal behind the trees of the battles. we happened to see the general forest of war. it is important for us to win the war. when there were winning battles but losing wars, our great hetman ivan vyhovskyi in 1659 inflicted a crushing defeat on moscow there in konotopi, the tsar even organized a procession so that the ukrainians would not we reached moscow but we lost that war there, it is important to win this war and even if withdrawal takes place, it will definitely not be a disaster , our hearts were breaking when severodonetsk and lysychansk, but then the brilliant kharkiv and kherson operations took place, all the prerequisites for the next brilliant ukrainian operation are in place and it will definitely be implemented, i

will definitely ask a question about the ukrainian operation. and before moving on to this, i want to turn to the analysis of the institute for the study of war again the end of the russian offensive in the bakhmut area and the stopped russian offensive in the ugledar area, the russian offensive that stopped in the luhansk region creates good conditions for ukrainian counter -offensive operations, they believe there eh , which is obviously being depleted, given the state of the ukrainian forces, which what is happening to them is getting worse thanks to eh western technology , thanks to the fact that they are beginning to return eh

military personnel who have undergone training, in fact, everything together and the weather conditions because the high-quality armored vehicles that are moving towards us and , first of all, over the heavy tanks leopard-2 challenger two abrams weigh more than 70 tons and we understand that they cannot fight in soft ground and therefore, it is late spring, early summer , and our soldiers are trained, and most importantly, the potential acquisition of aviation, all this will help us turn the tide of this war, that is why the russians are raging so very much, because they are aware of that gigantic armor package. and in two months it is almost 1,000 units of a wide variety of machines - this is very serious and fortunate, something unprecedented in the world. the soviet union received a total of 12,000 during the second world war, and not 1,000 in two months. together, it is already several thousand, and this is really a qualitative indicator that can speed up our victory at the same time, let's not forget the enemy of the change in he is gradually abandoning large

artillery barrages and tank strikes and moving to colossal infantry barrages , classic zhukovism and this mass of people will have to be ground. this is an extremely difficult task. well, and continuing this question, a small entourage, unless you have probably seen photos of heavy equipment, giant convoys that have already lined up in european ports in relation to the russians , so let's not underestimate them either. part of their forces, but the reserves there are sufficient to the extent that they retain the potential for a possible new or new wave of counteroffensive offensive er during the coming

weeks or until the time when ukraine is is ready for a powerful counteroffensive, let's be clear, the banteroffensive has actually been going on since the end of november, when a large combat group from the right bank of the dnieper, kherson oblast, was placed on the eastern platform, and we must honestly admit that they have some partial tactical successes, but they are full-fledged, high-quality, well-prepared and , most importantly, armed with good equipment they don't have a group, they have infantry and endless supplies, maybe even finite, and with low-level small arms and sapper shovels, including those that you already have they mentioned this in this studio, unfortunately, they have a lot, a lot personally. i don’t see any signs of potential riots in the middle of the russian army, all of them, all that they express is only knowledge of better weapons , better armament, better command and

the like, but none of them did not say and what are we doing in this war? and why did we come to ukraine as invaders? on the contrary, they say that they are ready to fight and several hundred thousand people who will still go to ukraine . examples to mention that events can sometimes develop very quickly and very unpredictably, thank you and a very military expert, petro chernyk, thank you for the events a-a in the capital of ukraine, the new director of the nabu of the national anti-corruption bureau, the cabinet of ministers appointed semena kryvonos, who previously held the position of the head of the state inspectorate , to this position of architecture and urban planning of ukraine, he is one of those who entered the final three according to the results of the competition semyon kryvonos thanked the competition commission of the personal

the prime minister promised to be open to crimea such journalists, together with the candidacy of a bloodbath as an anti -corruption expert, the question is what these questions are about in a minute , we will talk about the first one . every corrupt person in ukraine, before even thinking about committing a corruption offense, was afraid of three things: god, the people of ukraine and the national anti-corruption bureau and the appointment of the director of nabu in a transparent competition, this was one of the demands of the west of ukraine's partners in the field of anti-corruption at the same time, there is a question regarding the candidacy of blood-blooded anti-corruption experts, well, here is one of them, the head of the board of the anti-corruption center vitaliy shabunin reported on facebook that there are enough reasons to believe that the new head of the nabu has close ties with one from the deputy head

of the president's office, andriy irmak, and let's talk more about the new head of one of the most important anti-corruption bodies, in touch with the director of the anti-corruption center , daria kaleniuk. congratulations, what do you think? the results of the competition, our position is quite clear, we see a lot of risks associated with the appointment of semena krivonos , firstly, he has no experience in investigating corruption, and secondly, there are indeed confirmed facts and his connections with oleksiy kuleba, this is the deputy head of the president's office, andriy the fair, and in our opinion, such connections indicate a high risk of kryvonos's loyalty to the president's office. in practice, this means that there may be criminal proceedings that, by order

of the office, will proceed to the nabu. faster than by the order of the office, it will be blocked, it is not a fact that it will definitely happen, because the seeds of krivonos have all the guarantees of independence in the law, now it depends on him, and what will be the decision, whether he will choose to be loyal to the authorities or he will choose to be independent but we voiced the risks, that's why our attention to the activities of the nabu will be even more focused and dense we are waiting for the first decisions of kryvonos as the director of the nabu well , i understand correctly that these er r that is, we are talking about risks we claim it absolutely does not mean that he dependent on the office of the president, and yet, during the selection process, international experts also participated, as far as i

understand, what is the importance of nabu in the anti-corruption infrastructure of ukraine. by deputies, representatives of the president's office, other branches and levels of government, this is corruption committed also by oligarchs from the participation in state-owned companies , this is corruption, where the state receives billions of losses, and it is extremely important that the head of this agency was independent, and that is why the guarantee of the independence of the director should be written in the law

, the director is elected for 7 years. unfortunately, in our opinion , international experts and possibly due to the fact that the vast majority of the competition was conducted online, they were not present inside the state in connection with the authorized invasion. unfortunately, they managed to be manipulated. this is our opinion. because they are a little detached from the political reality in ukraine, uh, here is uh, the government is manipulating the fact that it is necessary to elect the director of nabu as quickly as possible on them . there is constant pressure, ah, there was always uh, there was communication from the government and the public, publicly, let's hurry up. because of that, there was an increased limit on e-points in the competition for general abilities, because of this, many good candidates for the director of the nabu were eliminated

at the stage of simply e-e testing for logical abilities. and in the end, we got no of the best candidates in the 20 e candidates, of which, unfortunately, two were chosen essentially without experience in investigating corruption, and from these three, the government decided to appoint the seeds of kryvonos, who, in addition to having no experience in investigating corruption, also has confirmed e-e connections with the president's office m.m. about which he uh-uh at the interviews, at the interview about which he agreed that yes, he has such connections well, i can only remind the words of the new director of the nabu that he will be open

to journalists as well and to criticism, and you said it yourself what are the guarantees of independence? his job is to monitor how these guarantees will be fulfilled and there is public control in general. if we talk about public control, how does the anti -corruption infrastructure work in the conditions of war ? what can you say about this? well, i can to say that we finally got the head of sap in the summer of last year. this is oleksandr klymenko . he is quite an independent professional person and we have no questions about his independence. there is a question about the fact that he does not communicate much with society a-a, because of which there are many questions a-a er-e about why some criminal proceedings are investigated and some are not investigated, why reformers, so to speak , are brought to justice. but we

have confidence in the head of sap and we see him i am ready to investigate these proceedings, which for years the previous leadership and the leadership of the general prosecutor's office have blocked in this triangle the nabu sap and the higher anti-corruption court. on this balance, sap e-e carries out procedural management over every criminal proceeding nabu e-e therefore i think the prosecutors of sap e-e will clearly and immediately understand as soon as there are indications that e-e the leadership of the new leadership has appeared other e priorities and these my priorities are not independence, but loyalty to the authorities. i think that within a month we will already understand

what side of good and evil mr. kryvonos has chosen. thank you very much, thank you very much for the evaluation. a lot of attention, it is now in the shadows, thank you once again, director of the anti-corruption center, daria kalynyuk, thank you for the thunder about events abroad, a month has passed since the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria, earthquakes that took the lives of more than 50,000 people , now the region that was in the disaster zone faced another crisis of an unprecedented scale is still in turkey, at least 1.5 million people are homeless, this is the un estimate , but the real data may be even senior bbc correspondents. anna fosfer traveled to southern turkey to see how those who survivors are trying to find shelter, all the trains have not been going anywhere for a month. they became a shelter for those who survived the earthquake and

diamonds. five members of his family live in this car, sleep on the seats, and all their few things are around. they wanted to put up tents for us, but i refused the tent. it's cold and this place is known for strong winds and when the wind picks up, all the tents will be blown to the sea, the turkish disaster management agency says that almost 2 million people have left the earthquake zone, but another one and a half million are still here and they have no place to suffer live is growing anger that so many buildings were allowed to be built without earthquake resistant structures so they couldn't withstand the earthquake more than 160,000 buildings either collapsed or were badly damaged and it's not just old houses it 's a nice area close to the park and there are many

modern buildings all of them should have stood but look this brand new one is still visible on the top floor with stickers on the glass . to clear the debris, so places like the destroyed wing of the hospital in the city of kanderun lie in ruins among these ruins, personal medical cards, crushed equipment and medicines, frequencies seem to have frozen, people in the south of turkey do not know how long they will have to live like this, some of them want to be as close to home as possible. sleeping in a tent near his

damaged house. all my valuables are there. thieves are wandering around here. the police barely deter thieves. there are many tent camps scattered around the region. how can i live here? these are new cities. the authorities promised a housing reconstruction program, but it will not happen quickly. destruction of such a scale will happen in a few days or even weeks. people here in the south of turkey will feel the consequences of this for many years . on the night of march 1, passenger and freight trains killed 50 and seven people, meanwhile , protests continue in greece , accompanied by clashes with the police

, thousands took to the streets of athens the day before of protesters, the participants of the protest action released hundreds of black balloons into the sky in memory of the victims of the disaster on this anger rages for three days in a row in ukraine , the protests do not subside, a sign that the indignation at the state of railway traffic safety after the large-scale disaster of last week does not fade february 28, passenger and freight trains that headed in opposite directions ended up on the same track and collided head-on, 57 people were killed , the main students on sunday on dauphine square hundreds of aerial bullets in memory of those who died on the same day. the head of the railway station

, who was accused of complicity in these deaths as a result of official negligence , was brought before the court. his lawyer stated that he admitted partial responsibility for the disaster. of the dead in greece in 2023, it cannot be that two trains were traveling towards each other on the same track and no one noticed it - he wrote - he promised a quick investigation, but many say this is too little and too late despite constant warnings from the railway officials the people in charge were indifferent to our requests regarding the safety systems and this is what led to this tragic bus accident the government needs to change their thinking they need to start caring about our lives this should never happen again we should not be afraid to take our children on the subway and

in trains, this issue has already become a key issue in the upcoming general elections in greece, which may take place in a few weeks, and current and former twitter employees spoke about problems in the it industry in the program bbc-panorama that after mass layoffs and changes under the leadership of the owner, elon mask, the company will no longer be able to protect users from online images, an exclusive study and testimony of twitter users confirm such statements and show that indeed , under the leadership of elon mask, bullying on twitter is flourishing, our correspondent knows the details and social networks and disinformation marianna spring twitter, which has more than 350 million users , is often called the town square of the internet, but since last october, the company

led by elon musk, she plunged into chaos, marianna spring's personal insults on twitter tripled . so she went to san francisco to find out what was happening when streeter had 7.5 thousand employees , now at least half of them have either been fired or they themselves decided to leave among them and lisa jennings young, you're right, i know you, it wasn't perfect at all, but we tried and improved the program. she developed mechanisms to protect users from online hate. one such protection was a function that scanned flowers and asked users whether they want to view a potentially offensive post in general about 60 % of users deleted or edited their response it still works someone is working on it no now there is no one to work on it this algorithm still exists but when lisa and i tried to use it it turned out that it works not so effectively one of the engineers who still works at twitter

agreed anonymously to tell us what 's going on in the company it's like a building with a fire raging inside when you look at it from the outside the facade looks good but i see nothing is working he confirmed what other staff had said maintaining user protection features against trolling and harassment has become difficult to protect people like ali wilson while studying at university in glasgow she was raped last summer she started sharing her experiences on social media but when in january after the reorganization , she wrote on twitter about her attacker, then received dozens of comments with insults , troll accounts became active and attacked her, some of them were created very recently or were restored after the amnesty masks about the previously banned accounts and for you to tell ilon mask if there was such a chance i would ask why these accounts that intimidate and harass

people are still on this platform i would like him to read some of the messages that have been sent to me and tell him why these profiles are allowed to exist on twitter, musk used twitter voting to make decisions about the future of the network , and after reaching out to him in every possible way, we used this one to get the attention of over 40,000 users twitter was voted on and 89% of them want musk to give me an interview anya twitter anilon musk did not answer the questions we raised in this investigation twitter claims that protection and respect for the user's voice remains one of its main values , but the users themselves with whom we chatted, still have questions for him, that 's all for today, we'll be back again tomorrow at 21:00