[000:00:00;00] democracy and russia. i would like to remind you that 20% of the territory was seized by russia as a result of the 2008 war. this is the first 42 km from tbilisi , where two russian divisions are located. there are mountains , therefore the situation in georgia is really very ambiguous, very ugly, and this government , in order to keep the state from rebounding to new new aggression against it, must adhere to a very clear balanced position bbc news ukraine my name is hryhoriy zhigalov today in the program at night russia launched a massive missile attack

on ukraine explosions in kyiv kharkiv in many regions according to the ukrainian armed forces russians fired 81 missiles in ukraine due to shelling again zaporizhzhia npp was de-energized the last line of communication of the occupied station was disconnected with the ukrainian energy system, the party of georgia , the georgian dream, announced that it would withdraw the controversial bill due to protests and international criticism. for several days , thousands of protesters took to the streets in tbilisi at night, russia launched a massive missile attack on ukraine. there were explosions in kyiv, kharkiv and many other regions , dnipropetrovsk, odesa, lviv, and other regions. due to shelling

, the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant was disabled for some time. according to the armed forces of ukraine, the russians fired 81 rockets across ukraine. these were various 300-caliber rockets, daggers of several types of series. let them fly as if from the air, but also from the sea, in addition, the attack was carried out by attack drones, shooting down 34 missiles and half of the drones, the local authorities declare five dead in the lviv region in zolochiv one person was killed in dnipropetrovsk region and three were wounded in kyiv, an overview of the situation in the material of the bbc correspondent james lan deilance. it was a massive wave of strikes across the country, mainly aimed at the energy infrastructure throughout the country . the energy infrastructure was damaged in the south-west of the country, as a result , the power supply at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was turned off, now it is running on diesel generators, this has happened before

but this cannot last forever if the power supply is not restored in time and there will be a real threat to a wider range of people from the blows, the victims are civilians here in kyiv, the air defense system shot down, as they think , a drone, debris fell all over the territory , cars were damaged, windows were broken, debris fell and this one children's playground similar situation in lviv it is known that at least five people died in these strikes, a reminder that even if the main target of the night strikes was the energy infrastructure suffered from them the civilian population bezpyachuk. congratulations zhanna, the current night and morning attack is called one of the most dangerous and massive that ukraine has experienced. over the past six months, russia has allegedly changed its tactics of this cancer at once, as everything looked like from kyiv. greetings hryhoria. so, what can

we really talk about this attack was one of the most massive from-intermediate that ukraine has already experienced in the last six months, but there is a certain specificity this time, as you already mentioned , various types of cruise and ballistic missiles were launched in ukraine. practically all the main types missiles that are currently in the strategic and tactical stockpile of russia, and therefore this means that the list included, in particular, it is worth paying attention to the kha-22 missiles, which the ukrainian system cannot shoot down at the moment, these are missiles that were developed to defeat aircraft carrier groups , in particular, warships they are not accurate missiles, they are used today against ukrainian cities, against the critical infrastructure of ukraine, and also in this list there is a caliber quite a lot of calibers , again, here it is, from sources in

the ukrainian government, the bbc knows that ah for according to intelligence data, the russian general already had to use stockpiles of e-e calibers from the strategic reserve of russia, this is the reserve that is needed in particular for the strategic deterrence of potential threats and potential enemies. and here it is said that for tactical operational purposes, russia fires these missiles and one more an extremely important moment this time they fired six e-ballistic missiles at ukraine with daggers. hm. more precisely, these are modified cruise missiles that are hypersonic and, accordingly, their radars cannot be seen by the ukrainian air defense, they can be seen radio engineering city but again, the current

air defense system of ukraine cannot shoot down this type of dagger missile, and kyiv in particular woke up from a very strong and, well, in my opinion , atypical explosion, and today people in the capital are thinking among themselves, discussing whether this explosion was caused by this with a dagger missile because during the war people already learned to distinguish when air defense is working and when it is a hit by a cruise missile, and this time they released a dagger in kiev, this type of missile that anti-aircraft defense cannot shoot down, and there was a hit in critical infrastructure in the holosiiv district of the city, where cars were destroyed, where people and children were very attracted because they were near the epicenter of the explosion, this is the situation, and in general , it is worth admitting that with the onset of spring, with warming, in principle, one could

expect that such there will be no massive strikes on the critical infrastructure of the energy sector, but this happened, it also happened at night and early in the morning. for the anti-aircraft missile forces, it is not so important. whether it is at night or during the day, it is more difficult to intercept drones at night, but they once did not prevail, i would like to add that literally in a few minutes, the spokesman of the air force command of the armed forces of ukraine, yuriy ignat, will be on our air, and i hope that there we will be able to hear more details and more clarification. war, why what did she say about it? why hit the thermal power plants on the energy infrastructure when it is warmer and it will not affect the fighting capacity

of the ukrainian army at the front or elsewhere, so , actually, this is a question that many people around today, in particular, the capital is asking why this continues to happen, for what purpose, one of the theories is that, after all, they targeted not only energy this time, but also industrial enterprises of the official russian authorities, the russian authorities said that these strikes were revenge for what they call an alleged terrorist act, a terrorist action of ukraine in the bryansk region on march 2, ukraine officially denied its involvement in what was happening there, and it was discussed in particular that it could be a provocation, it could be an operation under a foreign

flag, etc., there are various theories, various explanations because what happened there, but in the end, ukraine rejects its involvement in this, this is the second moment, after all, again, as we know from sources in the authorities, it is expected that there may be missile attacks on the railway, missile attacks on communication routes in ukraine, and this may be such an emphasis of the following threats for ukraine already in the spring when it will warm up further and well, strikes on the energy infrastructure will not give russia any advantages bbc correspondent zhanna bezpichuk thank you very much colleague, this morning the russian army also shelled the shipyard in kherson and a russian projectile hit a public transport stop, the head of the office of the president of ukraine, andriy yermak, announced that three people had died . the kherson regional prosecutor's office opened criminal proceedings for violation of the laws and customs of war combined with

intentional murder. massively on energy, this night the energy infrastructure was under attack again, terrorists are making maximum efforts to deprive us of light, they continue to terrorize civilians people commented on the strikes of the heads of the presidential court yarmak utek announced emergency shutdowns in the kyiv odesa mykolaiv and dnipropetrovsk regions four rockets hit a critical infrastructure object in the zaporizhia region exactly where they hit the authorities did not say, but energoatom said that due to russian shelling that began near on the morning of the fourth , zaporizhzhia npp was completely de-energized , it went into blackout mode for a certain time , already at six during the occupation, the fifth and sixth power units were put into a cold state 18 diesel generators were turned on to power the nuclear power plant in the afternoon, the power supply of the station was restored, but the ministry of foreign affairs reacted sharply to the shelling of the russians at

the magate. rafael grosci called on his colleagues to take responsibility for the safety of the nuclear facility and emotionally compared the blackout of the power plant to a game of roulette , saying that one day luck may run out this is it is already in the sixth i repeat already in the sixth since the npp has lost all its energy outside the site and is forced to work in emergency mode i remind you this is the largest nuclear power plant in europe and what are we doing as we can we sit in this room this morning and let this happen it can't go on i'm amazed at your complacency what are we doing to prevent this from happening please we have to take care of nuclear safety every time it's playing roulette we let this happen time and time again but

one day our luck will run out and the european union's response to the russian attacks is to increase aid to ukraine. this is how they reacted to the morning news in stockholm, where an informal meeting of foreign ministers is currently taking place. of the affairs of ukraine to the eu, and this is the statement made by the eu high representative josep borel before the start of the meeting, which rocket attacks once again demonstrate that russia is trying to completely destroy the civilian infrastructure of ukraine, and that is why the eu will provide ukraine with the means to defend itself. today we will discuss how we can finance the recovery how to use russian frozen assets to finance such reconstruction yesterday's today's discussion

has the sole purpose of helping ukraine to protect and rebuild it. so already in the sixth beginning of the occupation, the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was completely without power, and every time it is a threat of an accident with radiation consequences for the whole world, if the announcement of nuclear reactors is stopped, a nuclear disaster may occur, as it happened at the japanese fukushima nuclear safety expert, professor of kovaldrin university, michael fitzpad year explains the risks to which russia exposes the world with its attacks on a nuclear facility. what i must emphasize is that the station has been completely disconnected from the ukrainian the power system disconnected it back in september, because the longer the plant does not work, the fewer the risks of turning off the nuclear plant, it is the same as turning off the heater, since the reactor continues to produce heat for quite a long time, but with each month it is less and less to cut it off . so, the reasons why electricity is needed first of all, it is necessary to cool the reactor, because it

will still release hundreds of kilowatts of heat even after it is stopped. and this is quite a lot, but mostly it is to support the general safety and security of the station. maintains the reactors in a stable condition maintains the storage and allows the use of the station in accordance with international standards so once again according to the data of the russian armed forces in ukraine you have 81 missiles 13 launches s300-2 dozens of calibers at once six daggers the russians usually try to save money they are hypersonic they are difficult to intercept but they are few and they are expensive several types of the khao series they flew from the air from the sea in addition, 8 attack drones went on the attack air defense shot down 34 missiles and half of the drones and with us on communications spokesman of the air force command yuriy ignat i congratulate you on the air and the russians have never used so

many calibers. what can be said about this attack, how different was it from everything that the russians did before ? caliber and daggers. apparently, that’s the way it actually is. actually, that’s the number of daggers at one time. it’s 6 daggers . it’s rocket-47. it’s actually an aeroballistic missile. aero, why is it air- based? it flies from a mig-31k aircraft. it flies into the target already on the ballistic trajectory, it is extremely fast and dangerous, that is why the second air signal is activated throughout the territory of ukraine when this plane is only taking off from the territory of belarus or from the territory of russia actually you have already announced what happened today and hanna bezpyashuk also made a good analysis i just went on the air earlier and saw that he already has some experience in

communicating with our anti-aircraft fighters, a good report came out about our hero in the south of the country, so you can add why are they what is special about ata? well, the fact that a lot of different types of eight types of missiles were used. 4 uavs flew from different directions . these are air, sea and land-based missiles. as we can see, the soviet weapons are such missiles. like the s-300, the x-22 missiles are increasingly used by the occupiers. -22 already more than 120 , probably already today's attack, 130 missiles have actually been fired on the territory of ukraine since the full-scale invasion, it is the kha-22, and none of these missiles, i want to emphasize , were not destroyed by flood defenses because these missiles are not available to us today for shooting down, well, the rest of the information has already been announced. maybe we will talk about something else kha-22 -

this is the one that is very powerful, very powerful, but very inaccurate flies and where it falls, it will fall, so definitely 600 km range of this missile, the carrier here- 22m3, seven planes were used that night, four from the southern direction, three from the northern direction, from the kursk region, three from the sea of ​​azov, and they fired six such missiles from these planes . these missiles do not always successfully take off and fly to targets, they can fall, and this has happened more than once before, and other types of rockets also sin, let's say. and in fact, these rockets were launched today , the permissible error of these rockets is 600 meters , that is, the permissible miss, because the rockets were created, as i already said, zhanna, for in order to destroy aircraft carrier groups and launch missiles

at densely populated cities, aiming there , relatively speaking, at a warm power plant, it is clear that a missile can be hit from 600 km to the left and right and destroy an entire house, as was the case in the dnipro as it was with the kremenchug shopping center, this is clearly a crime against humanity. there must be a strict legal assessment of the games. if you look at the list of air defense systems, let 's talk about how to protect yourself from all this. this is quite long on my own from the arrest i don’t know yet on the way yes hawk for sure how to pronounce it correctly you can correct me now mamba himself the first patriot complexes should be put on in ukraine by the end of march of all this and these of the declared quantity the list in order for you to build an effective defense system will be enough. well, you see here an incomplete list, even because

there is still a pfu. where is it called which is called to be put into service and all other defense forces, not only the outgoing forces. this is the same french crotal well, the avengers that arrived, i didn’t even list them, i listed big such systems, these are also big, but they are actually like our sediment, the representative of the nipple of rotation, if we are talking about the systems that you are practical, this is the ip-style in ours, what is already in in ukraine, it can be supplemented with patriots who are already studying in our country and in the countries of europe and the united states of america . in fact, those systems can advance our specific defense not only in shooting down aerodynamic targets, but also ballistic targets , the only question is that the list there is a really big list of large weapons that are provided to us today, we see such a wide range from different

countries, but unfortunately the number is not so sufficient because ukraine is the largest country in europe. we need more of these systems, they will be banal in number it is gradually clear that there are many soviet systems that are already in operation today, and that there are a lot of them that need to be brought into service and replaced, sometimes including their own capabilities, so we are only promised eight in number , judging by everything, they will be needed, including for new tasks, and the experts in that including you, if i am not mistaken, predicted that the russians can now focus on strikes on another type of critical infrastructure, instead of energy, they can be on bridges and dams immediately, but we have been talking on this topic for literally days with

some of the experts call the dams particularly protected objects , do ukraine have the capacity to repel strikes against them well, you see the systems that we started talking about, those that have not yet entered ukraine, but people are already learning the positive decision of the country, i am tita the patriot, they can protect from ballistic missiles, i.e. the same x-22 iskanders and so on. well, a dagger too. everyone asks if those systems can protect against daggers today, because a dagger is common knowledge today, well, you know, well, there has never been an attempt to do so in any country. and such a situation in in order for ukraine to resist such an influx and such technological missiles as russia has , unfortunately, today, as i believe, the only answer is that they are coming, we will try, we will show our western partners what effective weapons they have and how they work, and therefore say unequivocally that they can they can’t, well, of course we can’t, how effective will this work be against the air defense of the west, you also have to look at it in practice. the only thing that

can be added is that aero ballistic targets, i.e. all the ballistics that fly, these complexes can kill within a radius of up to 40 km, while an airplane, a helicopter, a cruise missile, or a drone, those complexes can be at a distance of up to 150 ballistics up to 40, and here it becomes clear that uh, well, we have a battery since there are three installations, let's say, launchers in one battery, so it is possible to cover a section of the front. well, approximately 100 to 100, 120 km , yes, in terms of radius. the most important objects, important infrastructure objects and the most potential objects that can be hit by the enemy will arrive. well, well, and judging by everything, the work of the ukrainian air force will definitely be included in the textbooks, and i think that not only ukrainian, thank you very much, the spokesman of the air force command

of the armed forces of ukraine, yuriy ignat, thanks to international events , for the third day in a row, thousands of people are taking to the streets of tbilisi with protests against the draft law that the party in power tried to pass through the parliaments, despite the ruling party's promise to withdraw it georgian dream stated that it will withdraw the controversial draft law due to protests and international criticism according to the draft law non-governmental organizations and media may be persecuted if they have more than 20% of funding abroad the party stated that it withdraws the draft law without any conditions calling itself a party of power responsible to all members of georgian society the dream explained its decision by the need to reduce confrontation in society, meanwhile , the opposition in the country is not going to stop

, the bill passed the first reading, so that it was considered legally revoked, it should be rejected by the parliament, many georgians feared that the new legislation would restrict civil liberties, there is a reaction from the georgian media, opposition leaders and organizations that would become targets if the law was really passed, they say that they do not trust the government and want to resume the protest, they want to understand how the recall will take place technically and whether there will be a re-vote obviously the parliament must reject the bill in the second vote for it to have a legal basis every major moment in history has its iconic image georgia can have such only two days ago, tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered near the parliament, violent clashes with security forces broke out , protestors withstood tear gas and pepper spray, they even fought back, 55 police officers were

injured, indignation among the protesters caused scenes in the parliament when about government deputies fought with the opposition and then supported the draft law on foreign agents . the controversial law requires non-governmental organizations and mass media that receive more than 20% of their financing abroad to be called agents of foreign influence, this project is believed to be in the same spirit as the russian law on foreign agents, which has been used for many years to stigmatize and suppress the voices of critics. the us in tbilisi called this legislation inspired by the kremlin and declared that this is a black day for georgia and

democracy in georgia very strong anti-russian sentiments it had its own war with russia in 2008 2018 and here there is widespread support for ukraine, but the georgian government is trying to maintain a neutral position and refused to support sanctions against russia. therefore, this draft law on foreign influence was perceived by many tens of thousands of people who took to the streets as a step back to russia and not to the eu, which is the declared goal for the majority georgians, we belong to europe, we are europe, i am here together with all these people to guarantee that there will never be russian domination here, never on the international arena. the georgian authorities declare what they want to join the eu, but its actions in the country itself are louder than their words abroad , it could be georgian uprisings like the ukrainian maidan, the first outbreaks of mass

demonstrations against the government, which seems to be increasingly out of step with the mood of its population , and a few words about the cultural front of russian- of the ukrainian war, one of the most striking symbols of russian aggression at the first stage of the invasion was the bullet-pierced monuments of taras shevchenko in the kyiv region, but during this year, the works of the ukrainian national poet acquired a new sound. and he himself has turned into a kind of source for numerous memes, in some places he is depicted in the uniform of the armed forces of ukraine as or as an anime hero, as a character of folk art or popular cartoons, the figure of shevchenko is painted on murals, squares of his name are opened in european capitals, and today , on his birthday, on our bbc website. ua we have collected for you the most powerful and most relevant lines from

shevchenko's poems . ukraine or a piece of shevchenko's poetry was brought to britain in london from the dnipro came from the opera soloist of the choir and the symbolic orchestra natalko goncharov just listened to no i wonder if there were british people at the performance uh, how did they react to the usual for ukrainians and not so usual uh for for the british songs good evening poem i thought you could hear how they react now of course there were and there were quite a few british people who reacted very well to the happy songs laughed to the sad songs cried even though they didn't know the words at all ukrainian, but they feel these lyrics, we just listened to the last song it was roar and moan, the dnipro is wide, of course

today they sang and just folk songs, these are artists from the dnipro, there is an opera and a choir, and a lot of people who just came to listen and they really want to show the british what it is a ukrainian song, what is it, ukrainian culture, and of course shevchenko's classic, ukrainians were moved, they constantly applauded because, well, who does not know shevchenko and his quotes - these are the most famous quotes of people, how they say what, how he always said it's scary to fall into chains, die in captivity, and it's even worse to sleep sleep and sleep in freedom is very relevant now to the situation we have and i just want to invite igor dugin, he is an artist from dnipro , he is a soloist. we will ask. how are you already traveling in britain for a month? british

and ukrainians come to different towns. who is more of an audience? yes, a very, very large audience. many spectators, of course, most of all are british. it is about 80 percent. well, we are very happy because we have many diasporas of ours. ukrainians come to the concerts, they are mother to us with flags chanting glory to ukraine we respond to the heroes glory it is very joyful we are very small pleasant incidents at the end of the concert the whole family came in costumes in ukrainian folklore poured a little vodka such interesting lviv science skills even the british were here yes yes sing for us something from shevchenko from kobzar