[000:00:00;00] then, in principle, you can call putin the tsar and be done with it. by the way, tomorrow, if everything goes well, my worldview program will join at 12:15. turn on, watch espresso. we will talk with a guest about the initiative of the ukrainian authorities to rename russia to moscow, officially, well, moscow and muscovy then live, already understanding who we are dealing with, with some fictitious russia made up and with the real bloody tsarist muscovy, which remains so even on the eve of its disintegration. news from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news good evening we are from ukraine good evening on the air of bbc news ukraine live from london i am yevgenia shidlovska and we have 30 minutes to sum up the results

of this day's battle for bakhmut with you the ukrainian command declares that the wagnerites are advancing from several directions and they are trying to break through the defenses, let's talk about the situation in the east in general, the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate is being evicted from the kyiv-pechersk lavra, we explain what is happening even without mentioning the war in ukraine the american academy of motion picture arts and sciences handed out oscar awards, in particular the documentary about navalny was honored. so let's start with what is happening around bakhmut, the commander of the ground forces, colonel-general oleksandr syrskyi, said that the situation there is difficult.

repulse attempts to capture the city and inflict significant losses on the russians, and the syrian public made such a video of a meeting with the military and president zelenskyi spoke about pro-russian losses the day before, he said that over 1,100 russian soldiers had died in the bakhmut direction in recent days, and another 1,500 were wounded. russia, on the other hand, claims that hundreds of ukrainian soldiers have been killed . at the same time, the american analytical center, the institute for the study of war, considers the russian offensive in bakhmut slows down, while the head of nato suggested last week that the russians may soon capture the city, and military expert serhiy is in touch with us kuzan, mr. serhiy, i congratulate you on the air, the ukrainian command stated that it is strategically important to hold the bakhmut in order to prepare a reserve for the future offensive in order to inflict losses on the wagner pvk, what losses will the ukrainian army suffer during this defense , from what is officially known, and in general , in your opinion, this strategic importance of the bakhmut

remains first of all, to the brothers. of course , during the war, even an approximate list of our losses cannot be made public, but in general , we understand the proportion of losses itself . the secretary of the nsdc, danilov, made these numbers public. one to seven, that is, for one of our fighters destroyed, there are seven russian western ones, some analysts give more modest numbers , they published the number one to five, this is a ratio, but in any case, these are extremely large losses, because, well, standard such normal losses are considered one to three that is, it is still more than the standard more than normalized losses for the russians, this is even with a successful offensive. and besides, the russian offensive is unsuccessful , that is, even today the bakhmut fortress stands and the russians have not fulfilled their even intermediate

task, i.e., bakhmutny himself was taken even in operational. therefore, we can say that this defense operation is already successful in terms of strategic importance. well , here it is a question of terminology, because we have only one city of strategic importance, which is the capital of the state, kyiv. but if to talk about the importance of bahmut, then it is undoubtedly another line of defense just on the way to advance through the donetsk region, that is , the task of the russians is to reach the administrative borders of the donetsk luhansk regions, and this task they cannot fulfill, that is, they they cannot even reach the urban agglomeration on the line slavyansk-kramatorsk druzhkivka kostiantynivka precisely because bakhmut stands in their way. actually speaking, this exhaustion of forces and at the same time the normal life activity of the rest of the donetsk region determines

the importance of the defense of bakhmut strengthening the opinion that now the military can encircle the russians in bakhmut, this is the scenario , it is more realistic. today the ukrainian army is accumulating, that is, as of now, our task is to inflict maximum losses in the defense with minimal forces. that is, we need to understand that the russians are in an unfavorable position , that is, they must attack. so as long as this ratio, as long as this distribution of forces will be preserved until then. it makes sense, of course, to keep bakhmut on the defensive. if we talk about

other scenarios of the development of events, is it possible if there will be such a need, we say if there is such a need, is it possible to organize a ukrainian retreat from bakhmut well, of course , that is, the russians do not have a city encircled, there is no critical situation, that is, it cannot even be compared with the same severodonetsk or lysichansk, and there our forces managed to organize an organized retreat in relation to bakhmut, the situation here is much better, that is, the exit routes , as well as the supply routes, they are all controlled, the russians do not manage to cut our supply routes and, therefore, there is no problem in operational maneuvering with all forces which are located in bakhmut well, i would just like to emphasize that the fortification of the bakhmut fortress itself involves not only the city , but also the surrounding villages, in particular , the ravine, which is a well-fortified and well-fortified bridgehead for our artillery in the east

, the russians can still try to go on the offensive. here are the points where we can be the hottest here , these points are conditioned and we see here precisely in the maryinka area, they are trying to advance in the avdiivka area, they are also trying to encircle the city of course, they did not give up their attempts to storm vugledar, that is, in the mariupol area. the volnovakhs are gathering forces for another strike and want to enter in order to enter the rear of our donetsk group of defense forces, and from the north, if the brothers are on the map, then in the area of ​​kupyansk, that is, kupyansk direction, of course, it will also be under threat, and by the way, we are there now, that is, the russians want to go out along the oskil river and thus restore their supply by rail there through kupyansk, but all these plans are known to our command and for now, if you take the kharkiv kupyansk direction, then on the contrary

, our defense forces are holding the initiative, that is, they do not even allow the russians to organize into any strike formations. well, you are just now in kupyansk, the kharkiv direction, we can go into more detail about what the situation is like there is so undeniable one single day, in fact, on march 9 , the regional center in kharkiv finally turned on the electricity supply and there, and immediately a massive rocket attack was used, that is, the russians are trying to plunge the city into in the dark, there are constant attempts to attack attempts to advance along the svatov krimina line, that is, on this part of the front, but all attempts by the russians were repulsed, and at the moment there is no more or less noticeable advance , of course, but this does not mean that the adjacent territories are not exposed to shelling, this is constantly happening and today we they also heard serious artillery battles, i.e.

, barrel artillery, jet artillery , all kinds of weapons are used and shelled. actually, communities. but the most important thing is that they came pre-prepared positions of our defense forces and no one will give them at least a part of kharkiv region again, mr. serhiy, military expert serhiy kuzan, and if we talk a little more about bakhmut, the american political edition writes that there are growing disagreements between the united states and ukraine , in particular, regarding the expediency of defending bakhmut, media representatives write the administration of the american president is concerned that ukrainian actions in bakhmut can undermine the ability to conduct a large-scale counteroffensive in the spring , the office of the president of ukraine stated earlier there are no disagreements with the representatives of the united states regarding the defense of bahmut and the security service of ukraine has finally confirmed the identity of the ukrainian soldier who

was shot by the russians after the words "glory to ukraine" the title of hero of ukraine for his bravery for his confidence in ukraine this is how he commented in the address president zelenskyi later found out that the killed soldier was also a citizen of moldova, as reported by the north terro-defense forces directorate on december 30 , 2022, in the vicinity of soldier matievskyi and four other servicemen engaged in battle with the russians, after which contact with them was lost later, the relatives were informed that alexander had died and as part of the exchange, his body was returned on february 14 , he was buried in nizhyn, and britain is increasing defense spending for two years

and will allocate an additional 5 billion pounds from these almost 2 billion of money are planned to be spent on replenishing the stockpile of weapons, as in britain, sending weapons to ukraine and improving ammunition production capacity , the british prime minister said about the increase in defense spending jerome antonial panaze is important negotiations to give australia nuclear submarines defense alliance of three countries britain australia the united states created in 2021 to counter of china's influence actually 3 billion pounds out of the declared five, the british authorities plan to spend precisely within this alliance and in britain at the same time updated the security strategy , the document decided to revise after the full-scale invasion of russia in ukraine , this strategy had to take into account new challenges and threats from both china and from russia if

we talk about the british prime minister's visit to the united states, bbc correspondent chris mayson is following this and continues his story, the british prime minister arrived in san diego with china in mind, the united kingdom government worried about his power ambitions that's why there's no shortage of motorcades in this californian city today the prime minister of australia is also here and president biden is also deciding sunak says that the united kingdom will spend an extra 5 billion pounds on the military over the next two years prime minister here are going to make people feel safer at home, the first priority of the government and my priority is to guarantee the security of the country , today we are publishing a comprehensive review that outlines our foreign policy and approach to security policy, it is clear that the world has become more unstable, threats to our security have increased, the meeting with the prime minister of australia

was quite sober, as they say, carbonated water for anthony albeneze, non-carbonated water for riche sunak, but an agreement on australia's nuclear submarines is expected, this meeting is here in san -diego, with its glorious military history , is designed to counter challenges to china, but at the same time, of course, war is raging in europe. in ukraine, a few weeks ago, the minister of defense bn volis said that the british army is not enough is financed and its arsenals are emptying, he welcomed the allocation of additional funds, but the question is whether they will be enough in an unstable world , this is far from certain. pounds is a large amount

, but british defense minister ben wallace wanted more, and the british government promises to spend 2.5% of gdp on defense in the long term, so far without specific dates and this is important. last year, spending was over 2% of gdp, that is, britain is already complying with one of the promises of nato countries to spend at least 2% of gdp on defense, and about a third of the alliance countries actually do this. the increase in the british defense budget is analyzed by bbc columnist john bill 5 billion pounds during for the next two years, this is probably not as much as ben volos would like. i think he would like to double this amount, but let 's see how this money is distributed. 3 billion of these five will be spent on nuclear defense industry is one of the reasons why the united states is deciding now, since britain will be part of a consortium that will help australia build its own

nuclear power on a submarine . it invests a lot of money , the russian invasion of ukraine is the main reason for reviewing the funding of the defense system, when we look at the money allocated for the armed forces of britain to replenish ammunition to replace the equipment that was transferred to ukraine, this is 1 billion 900 million, this amount will not be enough to fill all the gaps that the british army has, it needs new artillery systems, more tanks. i think that senior officers will be disappointed. it is worth saying that the government promised to increase defense spending up to 2.5%. but did not say when exactly while some of the nato countries have already promised to increase spending up to 2.5%, and in some

cases up to three it has been more than 10 years, defense costs have decreased. and now about church affairs in ukraine, the monks of the upcmp are refusing to leave the kiev-pechersk lavra, while the agreement with the church regarding the use of buildings in the lower lavra was terminated, so the vicar of the lavra, metropolitan pavlo, said that the ministers are not going to evacuate, they will defend to the last i quote my rights and shrines from the uoc mp terminated the agreement on the free use of buildings, it concerns 79 objects of the lower lavra, and churchgoers are asked to leave the lavra by march 29, earlier the uocmp does not they extended the lease for the use of temples in the upper lavra, that is, the uoc mp is being evicted from almost the entire kyiv-pechersk lavra , why almost from the fact that the now-known public uoc mp still rents the resurrection church, it is called the afghan temple, in relation to it, as reported , there is another lease agreement, which will be a confrontation around kyiv-pechersk lavra

between the authorities and the ukrainian communist party is analyzed by my colleague vitaly chervonenko, the current decision of the authorities concerns the so-called lower lavra, where as many as 79 objects and architectural monuments are located. march 29 is the last day when the monks of the uoc mp can be there, the bbc talked to many insiders, many people who are related to this topic, and we now understand that the authorities will try to conduct an audit of all the property that is in the lavra, and there are more than 80,800 monuments, 79 buildings , architectural monuments, a lot of churches all this will be described and that in the near future the monks will leave little by little and this property will remain, which became a formal reason for expelling the ukrainian orthodox church from the lavra, this is

the decision of a special commission that was created back in december, which was supposed to find out to what extent the ukrainian orthodox church adheres to the lease agreement, a permanent agreement that was concluded under president viktor yanukovych, and the commission found out, as we now know, we have not seen the document yet, but the officials say that there is a violation of the conditions, they allegedly destroyed many architectural monuments there some new buildings that violate the integrity of the historical complex lavra that is, it is a legal plane, the head of the ukrainian orthodox church, metropolitan onufriy, said that i hope, i pray that the government those who force the monks to leave the lavra have come

to their senses . they say that this is a provocation by the authorities against the believers and against this church. how can it all end? lavra, they already clearly articulate this, so there are several options, as one of the senior leaders of the ukrainian orthodox church told us in a private conversation, and if metropolitan onufriy asks to hold on to the monks, not to leave them, and by all possible means to oppose the implementation of the decision of the authorities, then the first certain clashes are possible, certain confrontations are possible, another scenario, which in principle has already been hinted at by the minister of culture oleksandr tkachenko. that is, there was already such a hint in the ptu, and we talked to people from the orthodox church of ukraine, and they said yes, such an option is being worked on, it

is possible, they do not give many details, but here i am heard such a phrase that the moscow patriarchate will leave, the monks can stay, how this can all happen, no one imagines, but even earlier , the head of the orthodox church of ukraine , metropolitan epiphanius, said that it is possible that most of the monks or a significant part of them will want to stay and there will be an option that they will stay, they should not leave and they will be in the orthodox church of ukraine by itself, this question cannot be an individual one, it is in the broad, large context of the new religious policy of president volodymyr zelenskyi, who the first years of his during the presidency, in principle, he was not very interested in this topic, but when the war began, when the moscow patriarchate clearly supported the russian army, then this issue became acute . in principle, they do not believe in it too much

, the security service conducted searches in the churches of the ukrainian orthodox church throughout the fall, imposed sanctions on its leaders, and volodymyr zelensky even in his address in the evening supported what the government is doing with the kyiv -pechersk lavra, we cannot allow the terrorist state to have any opportunity to manipulate the spirituality of our people, to destroy ukrainian shrines, our lavras or to steal any valuables from them , the authorities have serious intentions and they expect that after a certain time the influence of the russian orthodox church on ukraine, on the main shrines in particular and on the lavra, it can be nullified, but how it will end will become clearer after march 29 and

the american film academy distributed its in particular, the oscar award was won by the documentary film navalny about the russian opposition leader oleksiy navalny, in the same category of documentary full-length films there was also a ukrainian film a house of rocks about children from a shelter in donbas, in general , the war of russia against ukraine was not discussed at the ceremony, there were no impassioned speeches yes navalny's wife, who she took the award from the stage, she also did not mention the war, representatives of the ukrainian authorities called the awarding of the film navalny a politicized decision, and here is a quote adviser to the head of the president's office, mykhailo podolyak, he wrote that if oskar is out of politics, how then to understand navalny's documentary manifesto, in which internal russian politics pours over the edge, if oskar is out of the context of the war in ukraine and the mass genocide of ukrainians, why then constantly talk about humanism and justice, such a quote from podolyak there was a film related to ukraine at the oscars, which won the oscar for the best song and the soundtrack to the film "revolution roars" nearby

, the film was filmed in kyiv near of the mariinsky palace even before the war, only a few actors came to the ceremony with yellow and blue ribbons, they were barely noticeable and for the first time. by the way, instead of a red carpet at the oscars , a champagne-colored carpet in general has already won the most oscars. on the western front without changes, he received the island of nominations, the best cinematography, the best music for the film , this is an action movie, everything always at the same time received seven the oscar winner is such a triumph and we are in touch from kyiv , alex malyshenko. what a knowledgeable graduate editor of the online publication about cinema moviegram. i congratulate you on the air. alex, did you expect that the oscar for the best documentary film will still be given to films about navalny and not to ukrainian films? i congratulate you

so in fact, it was quite expected , because you have to understand the oscars in general . the documentary section has always been politicized. that is, there were already moments, for example, when the film about the war in syria, which was called the last people, but lost to the film ikar, which talked about the doping scandal associated with russia. that is, it is actually not the first time when they choose something else instead of receiving people who suffered from the war. and that is where there are many political films. navalny is not surprising. and also the second point that must be take into account who actually produces this film and who are the producers and how much money do they have and if at all we will analyze the oscars not from the point of view of us films but from the point of view of the companies we will see

that, for example, it awarded a lot company24 this is their film, it is always at the same time the film keith, which won many awards for acting, netflix won many awards, and the documentary award was taken by hbo. that is, it is a large media person who could, in principle, be paid by a good company. and he actually promoted this film as well. it was made very accessible specifically for the american audience. that all the other competitors are so pretty, it's called a professional artist, yes, that is, they have such a more interesting artistic vision, and oscar he does not really value artistic vision, the topic is more interesting to them. well , can we say that oscar is far from war, while at this ceremony there was a film about the war on the western front without changes , that is, the space to talk about the war was and oscar somehow decided that last year they took a quota for talking about the war , if you remember. last year there were many

hollywood stars who had ukrainian symbols and expressed support for ukraine , there were also speeches in support of ukraine, and this year it was actually almost imperceptible when we talk about the film on the western front without changes well, that is, he is like that, you know a little outside of politics, yes, that is, he talks about the fact that war is bad in principle, and it is also very understandable for them, because it is made in the tradition of such a war blockbuster, for ukrainians, this film is generally quite harsh , because, well, in the first world war, there was no right side. let's say yes, but exactly on the western front, without changes, the main characters are the germans, who are the occupying army. and actually the western front is france, that is, they are talking about the fact that they will capture paris there

in two or three weeks, and well, for us, very very familiar rhetoric. well, the british film academy previously recognized this film . it received a number of awards. if we talk about the oscars, this is how the winners are generally chosen. there is a complex voting structure. we can talk about it briefly. for nominees, that is, the structure is roughly like this. if the longlist is always called the longlist, it is basically technical, that is, the films meet the submission criteria, and then the shortlists are announced. that's it. films are somewhere up to 15, usually there can be a little more, a little less, these are already films that, relatively speaking, are the main contenders to further compete for the nomination, then the nominees are already announced, as we see, there may

be 10, there may be five, and the winning film is already chosen it is interesting on the island here that the film academy actually worked to be diverse, that is, now they have a very large percentage of women and a very large percentage of non-americans, and in this way they create very polar opinions and if before for example, the documentary film section is a good example. american cinema with an american context very often won there, that is, for example, amy simpson's film , while there were, again, political statements that were very relevant, they just weren't interested in them, that is, now it's changing and you can probably see such general ones here trends are no longer only american in terms of trends in the artistic circle, but actually in a much broader

context, i.e. again, the victory of mass or on the western front is an indicator that the artistic world strives there to it's bad for some kind of world that they don't understand that well, peace is not achieved like this if we talk about movies, war, russia. this is how you see what are the film sanctions against russia, against russian films in general and at other festivals, this is how it happens. yes, this is actually a very weighty topic and a big one, i will try very, very briefly, they are usually not missed at film markets, this is important because money is made there, and money is, well, the film business is in business. it is not for nothing that some films are still accepted at festivals, but compared to how it was, there are significantly fewer of them the problem is that many companies continue to conduct business with russians, they simply

do not conduct it on official sites, but, for example, in hotels located somewhere near the festival. unfortunately, this is an important topic that should be talked about for a long, long time, but unfortunately we have to say goodbye to you and finish the issue film expert alex malyshenko is in touch with us, we talked about the oscar and not only the oscar . thank you, we are finishing the issue. we will see you tomorrow, thank you . i will be able to. miner with penord and support our club