[000:00:00;00] it is such slavery in the head, i do not know in the soul in the heart and love god and ukraine simply and not fsb colonels in cassocks and calling things by their names, you will be evicted from the lavra, tv channels , we will monitor this story, in fact , it must be completed and must be put on point in ukraine, the ukrainian church is ancient, beautiful, and it has the right to be the only church in ukraine, and which churches also support ukraine and do not work for the enemies, i say goodbye to you until friday, i will now bring to your attention the issue news from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news. let's see how they saw this day. good evening. we are from ukraine. from ukraine , olga palamaryukov works in the studio. for

the next half hour, we will talk about the last day of the uoc in the kyiv-pechersk lavra, how it went and whether the moscow church will be released. the report of british defense experts shows that russia was preparing an invasion long before the start of the war and that russian counter-intelligence was more effective than the army on the battlefield and berlin instead of paris was launched by king charles iii he was met by president steinmeier on his first state visit abroad in berlin . let's start with today's leading event. in the very morning

, hundreds of believers came there, prayed inside and outside, the church service was led by archimandrite laurel metropolitan pavlo in the sermon after the service. he said to leave the walls of the church representatives of the ukrainian orthodox church are not going to meet and have already filed a lawsuit, now they are waiting for a decision, well, since the very morning, my colleague vitaly chervonenko has been working near the lavra, and we will talk with him about everything, vitaly. greetings to you. by eye, about half a thousand of them passed, maybe a little more, everything went very calmly, even surprisingly calmly , because they expected that there might be some provocations, yesterday

there were some clashes in other regions, but everything went very well, no opponents of the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, they did not come to the police, there were very few, everyone was in an absolutely normal mood, they communicated with each other , of course, people were very unhappy that , as they say, their church was actually being kicked out of the lavra, but no excesses and no problems arose, and they said that they were ready to come and continue and tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and beyond because they are called to protect the lavra and to protect the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, which they fundamentally they ask not to call it moscow, they say that they have already severed all ties. well, that's how it happened, everyone left and now we are waiting for the next services and the next days . formally, it was supposed to be the last service of the ukrainian orthodox church in the walls of the lavra, but how will everything be in practice from tomorrow or is it

here is the understanding of how the church will work and what will happen to the monks who lived there, in fact, the understanding is that tomorrow they will all stay there, no one from there. their belongings and they say that they will wait for the decision of the courts and even say that they do not agree that they should leave tomorrow because they do not recognize the examination of the church's decision of the authorities to evict them, so they will wait for the judge's decision and here bishop pavlo himself said that when there will be a court decision, then maybe we will comply with it, and what will happen to the monks, they will continue to live in the cell, because in the lavra, not only the monks are there, the metropolis is a kind of uoc government there, and the academy is there, and they also do not want to leave, and probably not

they will leave and the monks will continue to serve there, maybe there will be some kind of transitional period, they will not be forced out of there , the authorities say for sure that it will not happen. interestingly, the minister of culture. they can somehow stay there . and today in the evening, such news appeared that the first archimandrite of the pechersk lavra. epiphany, the simpleton of the orthodox church of ukraine, appointed him as the vicar of the monastery in the ukrainian orthodox church. in other words, this opened the way for a new monastery to be formed on the territory of the lower lavra of the orthodox church of ukraine , that is, there are so many options that it will be possible for him to transfer to the orthodox church of ukraine and even within the uoc

for the time being, they will be there pending court decisions, that is, this situation is dynamic , and there is no understanding yet of exactly how it will be, and if it is the property of the lavra , is it known in what condition they are? even today they also saw that the representatives of the ukrainian orthodox church were taking away their belongings. they supposedly do not want to leave, but they are preparing to leave. in fact , we know that the metropolitan area took out a lot, the academy took out a lot, even the monks took out their things, and as they insist, it is theirs personal things, it's equipment, it's a variety of printers , typographical things, and that's all they brought there, it's all not valuables, valuables in the lavra, as they say , the ministry of culture has about 800 there, 122 relics, the most valuable

thing there is. and the sbu police, they carefully monitor to the fact that you traveled from the lavra, the fact that they were taking away personal belongings or things there, and not lavra valuables, that is why the authorities assure that they control it, as the monks and representatives of the upa say, that they do not take away valuables, if you believe this, then everything is fine and in the lavra remains what should have been in the museum before the ukrainian orthodox church came there more than 30 years ago. and are there any forecasts of how events will develop in the future? well, tomorrow will also be an important day because in the lavra, in particular, bishop pavlo hinted that tomorrow and the day after to be provocations, he urged people to come especially to be careful and tomorrow a new commission will start working in the lavra that will start the process of transferring property to the balance of the ministry of culture and this commission is not recognized by the ukrainian orthodox

church and therefore theoretically there may be certain certain misunderstandings we are ready for this we will go monitor the situation, but as they tell us in the reserve, they are sure that everything will be fine tomorrow too, but the process of transfer will continue little by little, as if the state will take over all the property, which is now in the use of the ukrainian orthodox church. it is understandable, thank you to my colleague vitaly chervonenko, the bbc correspondent was in touch with us, we talked about the events around the pechersk lavra in kyiv, and we will tell you about everything in our tomorrow's issue, the armed forces of ukraine also pushed the russians away from one of the supply lines in bakhmut, writes about this british intelligence is talking about one of the roads that became a key supply route for the defenders of bakhmut, earlier the units of the wagnerites were located only a few hundred meters

from it, and the british ministry of defense says that russian shelling in that area has decreased compared to recent weeks, and it is noteworthy that such data from british intelligence differ from the conclusions of american experts of the institute of war studies who believe that during the last week, the russians took control of approximately 5% of the territory of bakhmut and now occupy about 65% of the city, in particular, the wagnerites completely captured the territory of the azon factory complex and new military equipment will soon appear at the front . ukraine in his twitter, reznikov noted that the marder is a great example of german quality and he tested it himself . in the published video, you can see how the minister arrived on one of the armored vehicles. i should note that the official berlin announced the transfer of the marder infantry fighting vehicles to ukraine in january. it was

about 40 such bmps. well, today there was an explosion in occupied melitopol, at first various sources reported an attack on the airfield, but later it became known that the explosions were at the locomotive depot, as reported by the emergency services, energy facilities were damaged therefore, several settlements remained without electricity, according to the russian side, for shelling, the armed forces of ukraine used a reactive salvo fire system , khaimas in kyiv has not yet commented on these events. events can mean what consequences to expect about this , we will ask a military expert to contact us petro chernyk mr. peter i greet you from melitopol itself and let's start the city

has been occupied by the russians for more than a year, during this time, how much the russian troops have settled and strengthened there and what are the consequences of such explosions in melitopol, and it has always been and at this moment remains a serious logistical and transport hub, and the so-called pavlovnization of this meme is now very popular in ukraine is constantly happening is evidence that the combat potential of the armed forces of ukraine and primarily long-range systems that can work at such a distance and not secrets that such are the charges as glsdb based on the jbl-39 plate bomb, we already have them in service, they perform their work or some special unmanned control systems that improve the elimination of their ammunition in the first place, and damage to any infrastructure in the territory occupied by the enemy is usually welcomed, because it significantly complicates their movement and i have no doubt that the success rate of ukraine's strikes deep into

the occupied territories will only be so, so many experts say that the liberation of the south of ukraine can be a turning point in this war well, because he will give way to the crimea, do you think the events in melitopol testify to the preparation for offensive actions in the direction that the major liberation of all the occupied lands of ukraine will be mandatory , but the strategic wisdom of planning serious military operations and says that all such operations character should be in complete informational silence, the great chinese hunters claimed that truly winning strategies are never repeated , so the next successful operations will be unlike those that came before, but they are in and where, under what circumstances , in what direction, at what point, and in what time frame it will happen , that's true. this should be left exclusively to the ukrainian general general staff

, surely there are professionals there who are able to adequately assess the strategic, operational and tactical situation peter, i would also like to talk to you about the eastern direction, and i’m talking about uh, bahmut , it’s quite controversial now, the alleged offensive actions of uh, the russians have slowed down a little, but at the same time , more than half of the city’s territory is already under under the control of the russians, is the city surrounded? what data do you have, there is no operational encirclement, and in most parts of the city under the control of the russians, one should be very careful with such conclusions. in general, the philosophy of bakhmut is phenomenal , the second army of the world cannot overcome this small city, where our ukrainian defenders demonstrate a simply colossal quality

of courage and skill in a tactical sense . bakhmut remains at a strategic point and a great stronghold, even the terrorist girkin said that you are such a stalingrad, on the contrary, i will remind you under the steel germany broke its teeth and then the great counter-offensive actions began. lysychanska at the same time, if the point of conditional withdrawal is reached, it will not be a disaster, it is important to win the war, the battles can be lost, the americans lost pearl harbor in the second world war in the 41st year but we won the war, i also want to ask you about the avdiyivka, since it is called the second bakhmut, this is the situation now, there, too , there are colossal losses against us, and why are a few words shifted in emphasis, primarily in

the propaganda part of our enemy, who refused, we are about to take the avdiivka, nothing i can do with bakhmut and after our president visited there and before that they shouted at everyone to the whole world that bakhmut is practical to take this is a very serious slap to the military and their propagandists and banally put propaganda accents there thinking that they might have some success there, but the very fact that a brigade of marines from far away from the far east died there is a sign that the ukrainians are doing their work well, well, minister of defense reznikov yesterday showed the first challenger tanks today bmpe marder, the question is whether these western machines will change the course of the war and when will be the optimal time for the ukrainian counteroffensive , in your opinion, will they radically change the course of the war, well, again

, we must approach this question very carefully, is it super weapons, the russians definitely do not have and will not have anything like this, first of all, this concerns aiming systems and the work of tanks in the night part and in any weather , russian tanks can work only during the day and at a maximum of 3 km, the challenger confirmed the damage up to 4700 m and so on a huge armored package. and this, in addition to 1,000 vehicles and tanks, has been declared up to 300. it will definitely improve all the prerequisites for the liberation of our lands. the enemy is also fighting to the death, a classic defeat in this war. putin has most likely lost his life, and the russian federation may be on the path to disintegration, and after declaring him a criminal, even in a delicate situation regarding children , he will really fight to the death. unfortunately, the life force in there are an incredible number of them and

they will die for the motherland zavelichie therefore, we must be very careful with forecasts regarding the time indicators of our counteroffensive actions petrove chernyk , a military expert, two of us are in touch, we talked about the situation at the front thank you for conversation well, in the meantime, they are preparing for a long war, putin's press secretary dmytro piskov said about it, he told journalists that when we talk about the war in a broader context, such as a confrontation with enemy states, a hybrid war against our country , then such a war will last a long time, this was a quote from russian state officials the day before the channels showed the visit of the minister of defense serhiy shigun military enterprises that manufacture artillery tank shells, mines and missiles the russian ministry of defense announced

its intention to increase the production of such munitions by 7-8 times, western experts also note that russia has transferred the economy to military rails, but they say that due to western sanctions, russia lacks high-tech components for missiles. at the end of the year and before the war in ukraine, russia and its counterintelligence were preparing long before the start of a full-scale invasion , researchers of the royal united institute of defense studies of russia came to this conclusion british researchers believe that the security service and counterintelligence of russia in the occupied territories of ukraine operate much more effectively than its army. the most interesting thing from the report was collected by the bbc security columnist frangarder. it becomes a completely different picture compared to the idea that is formed about the russian army . it is well known that the russians, who are quite

quickly advanced in the south and east, now they stopped there and were rejected from kyiv, this contrasts with the fsb, the successor of the kgb, which takes care of internal security in russia itself , and now, from the position of moscow, includes the territories controlled by it in the near abroad of ukraine, together with the game of russian military intelligence and the foreign intelligence service of the sfr, they planned the invasion for a long time, according to the report, as early as june 2021 , they created temporary operational groups whose goal was certain regions and cities, such as melitopol, kharkiv, kherson, and others. as soon as the military occupied the territories, they went to the headquarters of the local authorities and seized files and computer disks, thanks to this, a picture emerged of someone who was

at least somehow connected with the ukrainian authorities and then searches were conducted, big people were arrested for interrogation, according to the author of the report, jack otling, with whom i spoke, sometimes those interrogations turned into torture, people were intimidated and told that if they did not cooperate , something bad could happen to their families , according to the report, as a result of this, the russian special services managed to recruit approximately 800 collaborators who were forced to work for them. and this is a warning not only for ukraine, but also for other countries, including britain, france and germany, namely when russia intends to do something, it plans it long in advance, according to the fsb report, only 8% of the population needs to be involved in order to control the rest, the russian special services also have a special unit that was able to cut off part of ukraine from ukrainian television, radio and the internet in order to really isolate people so that they

rely on information only from russian content of the finals well, in the meantime , the scandal surrounding the decision of the international olympic committee of russians and belarusians is gaining momentum. games that will be held next year in paris, such an intention caused a wave of indignation among ukraine's allies . poland, lithuania, latvia, estonia opposed this decision. the countries announced that there is no reason for russia's return to world sports. announced plans to create a state coalition to jointly demand the cancellation of such a decision. i will remind athletes from russia and belarus that they can be admitted to the olympics only with a neutral flag and on the condition that they do not support russia's military aggression, the final decision has not yet been made. this is how the minister of youth and

sports of ukraine vadimut site commented on the situation for the bbc. you know the position of ukraine . you know the position of the president of ukraine . was not at all at the olympic games and at international competitions, unfortunately, yesterday the international european committee admitted that they transferred the responsibility to the international federations so that the international federations decided to admit or not to admit, and there are such federations that have already admitted it, unfortunately, as fencing, and there are federations that we thank this track and field of sebastian hockey , the curling federation and many other federations that have already not admitted and do not want to admit them and do not see it really honestly we are indignant because we were waiting for the international olympic year since the beginning of the war on february 28

. kills even more of the occupied territories, even more of the destroyed cities, and we ask president bach and you, the international olympic committee, not to return the russians to the belarusians. now we are discussing ganja, now i am meeting with the federations with the athletes to hear their opinion, what will we do next, but it is necessary of course there is already recommendations, it is necessary to collect facts based on these recommendations that russian athletes are military personnel, that there are russian athletes, who killed, participated in activities in support of russian aggression against ukraine, is for russian athletes who wear sports uniforms are forced to participate in these events, so collect all the evidence and send it to all federations, but there is no question of commenting at the moment because the international olympic committee has not yet decided whether you will not admit or

not. king charles iii arrived in germany on his first official visit as a british monarch and head of state from the airport. he and his wife, queen consort camilla, went to the brandenburg gate, where a solemn ceremony was held with german president frank-walter steinmeier was greeted with the military honors of king charles by the president of germany frank-walter steinmeier. later, they held negotiations in the presidential residence. charles' visit to germany will last three days, and tomorrow the british monarch will speak before the german parliament in the bundestag and will also meet with ukrainian refugees sheltered by germany in france. the protests are not abating. hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets against the government's pension reform and it got to the point that the demonstrators clashed with

the police our paris correspondent lucy williamson will tell more as the sun went down here it became hot all over france the bonfire was burning as the conviction of a bright feverishly young protesters with stones and bottles disappear in clouds of tear gas to let the police in bordeaux on those and in paris this in a few minutes this peaceful protest cut into violent masked protesters hide among the main mass of demonstrators and attack the police through the lines of policemen run white and black helmets specialized units known as brav m are rapid response teams tasked with quelling the riots is a new target for protesters after increasing allegations of violence last week, a video surfaced showing officers beating a protester in the face similar recorded threats of intimidation and racial slurs directed at a group

of student protesters next time you you will not go to the police station, but to the hospital. as one special agent is heard saying, saloma was one of them , since then she filed a complaint and returned to the protest. it is important to have police officers who able to contain violence and protect people but in this case the violence was directed against us they didn't protect us we needed to be protected from them this really worries me normally protests across france have been mostly peaceful and smaller than last week which police say some protesters are joining to the agitators and attack them after everything that happened in france the inflation of everything people have become very tense and it does not help to reduce the violence against the police because

the police represent the state so in a certain sensei, when you attack the police, you can feel that you are protesting against the state, fires are burning all over france, president macron is trying to find a way out of this crisis, meanwhile, political negotiations are frozen and the streets are on fire, the death toll in the earthquake in turkey has exceeded 50,000, the damage caused by this disaster is estimated at more than 100 billion dollars and at a time when the authorities in the international community and the community are making enormous efforts to help millions of victims, hundreds of families are still looking for the missing, our correspondents talked to several such people who are trying to find the bodies of their loved ones after the earthquake in turkey, six weeks have passed, alerkhan does not stop searching for his nephews when the disaster happened, the thirteen-year-old died and the nine-year-old orphan burned himself at home, his parents and sister died on the ninth day after tragedies of the rescuers found their bodies under the rubble , but the boys were never found the ministry

of health opened a telephone line for earthquake victims orhan says he calls there every day or to check the new the list of children who were identified and even gave the dna samples of their nephews to the searchers the eyewitnesses told us that the building fell in two minutes but many managed to run out maybe my nephews also managed to get out we want to find our children even if they died even if we only find their bones we we continue the search , turkish government officials say that after the earthquakes , special debris was pulled out. but among those who managed to be saved, i was also missing, although the rescuer managed to get the frame from under the debris to her apartment a few

hours after the earthquake, but when she was taken to the hospital, the woman disappeared. her sister and brother are looking everywhere. i called the hotline of the ministry of defense health they said not to worry the hospital is the safest place but they just left us alone with our trouble we had to look for her in every hospital just on the first day of the earthquake there were almost a thousand new ones graves, first the bodies were photographed and dna samples were taken, then they buried those without names and surnames, and finally, after more than 4 weeks of searching for the entire hijans, they identified him , took him out of the mass grave and reburied him in the family cemetery, it is very difficult to find missing relatives , may god help us all, do you not know

if they are alive or not dead but nadiya is always there and now at least i am relieved that she has her own grave no one knows exactly the number of missing people after the earthquakes in turkey but at least 1,400 bodies are still to be found to identify and hundreds of families are looking for their loved ones with hope for the best, for today, look for more stories on our website bbc.ua and on our pages in social networks and we will be on the air again tomorrow at 9:00