[000:00:00;00] in china, he sincerely plays some kind of mediating role. we hear what we read and see. they say that he is playing on good evening live from ukraine and from london. yevgenia shedlovska is there, and today in the episode we will show a bbc report from podbakhmuta where the ukrainian military says they don't have enough ammunition and let's talk about how to get more ammunition in ukraine while the armed forces are preparing for an offensive in general what will be the ukrainian offensive about ammunition so let's talk about the ammunition they need ukrainian military to repulse russian attacks to start a counteroffensive. but first, let's show a report by a bbc correspondent from

the front line. jonathan bill visited the east of ukraine , where he saw how the ukrainian military works under fire. ukrainian troops hold the line of defense firmly . shot at the beginning of the war these ukrainian military discharged all 40 barrels of the rocket salvo system at the same time the game can now allow it only a few at a time their commander says ukraine has almost exhausted

its own reserves and is now forced to rely on missiles from other countries you are running out of shells until the hail is not enough we they worked harder and supported our boys who are dying there, well, there are very few shells on our reward , one of the most valuable possessions is carefully hidden among the trees , the anti-missile complex of letters. it allows to protect the sky from the control of the russians well, it is not mined hatches that are a target for the russians, yes. that is exactly the number one recently released american intelligence documents contained a warning that ukraine may soon be left without missiles for buk

at all. the reason is that they simply come out of lada and we don’t have any components for it, because the given samples of weapons are of the soviet model and all the factories that produced components for this unfortunately, we do not have the seventh type of weapon on the territory of ukraine. the ukrainian military does have a shot on the outskirts of bakhmut, but most of them are kept in reserve for a future offensive. its place and time are still unknown . british-made light artillery guns are being tested in bakhmut, where the ukrainians troops continue to hold their positions, such defensive operations take a huge number of people, equipment and ammunition, although at the same time, ukraine

is trying to prepare for a major offensive if you do not succeed this year, you will lose the war. if we go on the offensive this year and we take back our lands , of course there will be a victory. if it does not happen this year, i think that there are not enough resources for the war to last there for 5-10 years. despite limited resources and limited support for the event, ukraine knows that this year can be decisive, and according to bahmudz , according to the ukrainian general staff, the fiercest battles are going on , the russians have been trying to capture the city for months , they have already reported several times that they almost took it, and the ukrainian command declares the fight continues and we are in touch with the head of the ukrainian center for security and cooperation serhii kuzanets, mr. serhii, what the bbc correspondents saw in the east of ukraine

is one missile per game. here, what is the saving of ammunition for a counterattack ? these are signs of the so-called projectile famine. we are forced to save ammunition because in any offensive, during offensive actions , the cost of ammunition always increases exponentially, that is, at least 3-5 times. therefore, for the next one, we are forced to save. by the way, ammunition artillery as well as anti-barrel artillery, but at the same time you do not remove the main problem, er, it is the replenishment of ammunition stocks, and of course also of nato caliber , including that one million ammunition announced by the head of the eu, we desperately need it in order to achieve parity with the russians because it's no secret that today they use 3-5 times more ammunition than we do at the front, it's in different areas

of the front, so what's the situation now in the russian military, can they still use this fire shaft technique do they also feel this hunger of ammunition here and yes and no because systematically they have a really pigeon of ammunition, that is, if you compare it with the same period of last year, they can no longer use the same amount of ammunition, they are forced to save, and at the same time, we see that their offensive its potential has actually narrowed, according to reports from our general staff, in the last three directions, that is, the bakhmut bach, the avdiev bach, and the mariinsky bach, where this fire shaft technique is used. but if we talk systemically, yes, russia is gradually depleting its stocks of ammunition and

, in fact, today it is working on wheels. if we talk about the preparation for the counter-navigation training of the ukrainian armed forces, how should the ukrainian military conduct it if it is necessary to preserve the ammunition, and here everything is determined precisely by skill, skill, surprise, that is, suddenness, and also well-maintained logistics and communication , that is, we remember the example of the kharkiv and kherson operations , when minimally involved resources. that is, we did not fight like the russians. at the same time, thanks to the factors i have listed, we managed to achieve a significant advance. that is, of course, this scares the russian troops, which, although they are massive , that is, they are more numerous than us, but at the same time in terms of their training in terms of motivation, they will usually lose to our defense forces. and just in time for the general secretary

of nato, he said that the ukrainian military uses ammunition faster than the western industry can produce it, and which western partners have already said they recommended just change the tactics of the war, that is, conditionally switch from the soviet model to the western model, use less ammunition, how is it still possible to do this with the ukrainian army? well, here i would advise any western specialist and such by the way, there are actually many among the military who came directly and they just did not support this opinion because, according to the western model , the use of the aviation component is a priority, and it is precisely this aviation component that we currently lack, because it is no secret that our third-generation aircraft are significantly inferior to russian aircraft in terms of quantity and also of course

they are inferior to fourth-generation aircraft. so, if you remove this and from this component, then of course we have a smaller army in terms of number and size, including the number of artillery barrels, so today our defense forces are extremely they use each ammunition effectively here too. of course, they demonstrate this efficiency at international and competitions and to all our international partners, that is, in fact, our artillery school is today one of the of the most powerful in the world well, it was just the british minister of defense who spoke about the fact that more accurate shooting will help to save ammunition, this will help, of course it will help but again, for this, we still need a larger number of such high-precision ammunition, the more we have and the more it will be we will destroy enemy objects because the russian army is large, and

despite all the accuracy that has been announced , there are still a lot of objects to destroy. the minister of defense of ukraine, oleksiy reznikov, regarding the counterattack, will show that the beginning must be unexpected, in this the essence of the military operation is that no one should know that it has begun, the enemy will not know for much longer , then it is more likely that it will be more successful, and once again , the expectations of ukrainian society and the west are overheated. western observers say that the counteroffensive will begin gradually, we will rather see a series of attacks, so believes the british analyst jonathan marcus, and he also insists that for the success of ukrainian operations, it is necessary as much secrecy as possible that we do not know exactly when this offensive will begin, although we are absolutely sure that this offensive

will take place, i think that if we had a clear idea of ​​​​when exactly it will happen, just like the russians, it would not be a very good idea around this events are completely uncertain, we do not know exactly when this offensive will begin, perhaps in the spring, or maybe closer to the summer, we know that the armed forces are now stockpiling ammunition, are actively undergoing training , more western weapons are arriving in ukraine . we also know that the russian offensive of this in the winter it was largely stopped and the only place where the smoke managed to achieve some success is bakhmut, where the fighting is still going on, but where the russians suffered very heavy losses , the question, of course, is how much ukrainian forces are now involved in the battle for bakhmut, which could be preparing for something else. but there is the general opinion is that the future ukrainian counteroffensive will be decisive and not because it will stop this war, it will be decisive about its form, about the methods of its

introduction, whether the ukrainians will be able to achieve tangible successes on the ground that fundamentally will change the situation, or perhaps their successes will be so insignificant that it will lead to a kind of stalemate in the war. and this , in turn, can harm ukraine's relations with its western partners, who obviously lack weapons and ammunition , so if ukraine cannot demonstrate its ability to inflict a serious defeat russian troops. they may no longer want to supply ukraine with such a huge amount of additional weapons . it is important to say two things about ukraine. secret documents, it is clear from them that the americans had a rather pessimistic view of the potential of ukraine regarding its military successes, they predicted that ukraine would lose the war a few days after it began, and look how the ukrainian armed forces

surprised us. and secondly, i do not think that there will be any a one-time action, a kind of huge offensive that will suddenly begin one day. in my opinion, we will see a series of attacks in different places . the military is already exhausted, they have many problems with ammunition, problems with the training of the military, they attract conscript soldiers who greatly weaken their units . therefore, maybe they are not at their best now and are more capable of defending than attacking. but as i said, we will see an operation that unfolds gradually. we can even not knowing that this dramatic moment has come, but we will see attacks in different directions, we will see how the ukrainians are probing the weak points

of the enemy in order to take advantage, trying to find the best combination of moves as if on a chessboard in order to achieve some significant success in the weeks or months closer to summer analyst jonathan markos and this is my farewell to you see you tomorrow at 9:00 pm read more news on our website vvc.ua and be sure to subscribe to our pages on social networks on facebook on twitter tiktoko if you haven't done it before and of course subscribe to the youtube channel of the air force of ukraine where there are more interesting

materials for tomorrow punina about the fate of this guy for more than a year nothing is known i know that when the war started the child was in mariupol and for about a week on march 2. last year, dmytro afonin disappeared without a trace. no one knows where he is now , so i am asking everyone who sees me to look carefully at the boy's photo, remember this face. dmytro looks like his 17-year -old he has light blond hair and light eyes, if anyone has seen the boy or knows where he might be , don't delay now and call us on the magnolia child tracing hotline at the short number 116,000 calls from any the mobile operator is free, or write to the chat bot of the child search service in telegram

and i will ask for a few minutes of your attention. i want to remind you that we are continuing the search for 16-year-old arina yatsyuk about the fate of whom nothing is known for almost a year. the photo of the missing girl was given to us by her great-aunt, who in fact, she lost contact with her niece and told me a simply terrible story of the disappearance of arina herself from kyiv, and when the war began, she was with her father, mother and younger sister in the village of severynivka, this is the buchan district kyiv region and in the first days of the war there was more or less calm, so the family decided to stay in the village and not return to the capital, where rockets had already arrived, and at the beginning of march, when the buchan district was already full of occupiers in severynivka, and not only that , enemy artillery began to fly, of course people were hiding in basements , but it is hardly possible to say that it is safe there, so i can imagine with horror the feeling of the liquid of her nine-year-old sister , the main thing of her parents, who perfectly understood that

it is impossible to stay, but it is also very dangerous to run away. look here in severynivka to there was no way to go south, it was necessary to jump out onto the zhytomyr highway and only then turn to motyzhyn or kopyliv, but the highway was already full of occupiers at that time , the situation was deadlocked and the family still dared to escape. it will be well organized, it will be really, really, really, very quickly, very quickly, there is light, heat, and medical assistance. thank you. good, well done . well, you will see the result for yourself . we used to live here, neighbors, this is the second apartment. saussure, you can talk about the wall, that’s it, that’s it. and now you don’t have any walls at all

. what are you doing at all? the first two were distant explosions . it was dark there, well, my wife was in the room , the chandelier was made of glass, the glass was cut, well, without an mp, they drove and sewed up the damage caused by ammunition, that is , debris, and residential buildings and a historical building of the city were damaged as a result of shelling a two-story residential building was destroyed on the spot. six were injured. unfortunately, one person died . this was your house.

there was a shower cabin, there was a ladder to the top, there are no remains, that’s all. and when you arrived , what did you see? the house is on fire, the shower is on fire, everything is on fire. well , today, in the afternoon, russian troops shelled the village of tokarivka, kharkiv district , and the workers of kharkiv oblenergo were injured. were working on the restoration of the power line, one person died and four others were injured , this was reported by the head of the kharkiv ova, oleg sinogubov. and four were injured. please tell me, tell me the details . these are people. these are all the employees of kharkiv

oblenergo. did they end up nearby? we have new data after we went there already from of the investigative department, the prosecutor's office, ah, we found out. they found out that it was an explosion at some dangerous object , most likely it was ah, a mine. these guys were engaged in the restoration of high-voltage lines, this is the north of our region, almost the border with the russian federation. unfortunately the driver of this emergency brigade died on the spot, four people were injured and taken to the hospital . today we had the heaviest shelling in another settlement. there were no wounded or killed, but the artillery hit the city center and high-rise buildings quite badly, or rather

a two-story building - is it a house where people lived? and this is the situation in our village - it's all summer lady, you say it was not shelling, but just a group blew up a mine, this is according to the data of the prosecutor's office and the investigative department, which they provided somewhere there literally 30 minutes ago, this is so after all the actions on the spot have already taken place, this is an important clarification, really a-a which areas of kharkiv oblast are currently suffering the most from shelling today, you said in the morning, uh, another populated place was affected, in general, can you identify any main directions in kharkiv oblast, which ones are shelled periodically and often? look, if we had 10 populated places shelled in the morning, then at least 10. and in general, this is a figure between 15 and 27 populated places points in our region, this

is the entire north of our region, that is, the russian federation is also quite heavily shelling the kupyan direction, this is such a territory of confrontation with our enemy, with representatives of the troops of the russian federation, a few days ago they destroy private houses, for example, there is the village of petropavlivka, which is shelled every day, if fortunately we did not have any wounded during the past day. before that, almost every day 1 2 1 2 3 people - that is, freedmen - are injured and sometimes, unfortunately, there are deaths, that is, from the north, the kupyan direction. and if we talk by district , then this is the chuguyiv kupyansk kharkiv district. well, if we count the days or nights when s-300 missiles are used to attack the city of kharkiv itself, from the territory of russia they attack kupyansk the direction you said

are there russian troops somewhere nearby on ukrainian territory? on this border with the luhansk region and from the territory of the russian federation, because the north is the axis of the borders with the russian federation - that is, well , from those territories to us, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, troops were found unfortunately, we are quite close, the center of our region is located to the border, it is less than 40 km, so they easily deliver these blows and it is quite difficult to shoot down the missiles in the air because they fly to, for example, cities in less than a minute, military personnel and also military analysts can often be heard from them, when we talk to them, they voice a warning that uh, kupyansk and the kupyan direction are one of the most dangerous. if we talk about the possibility of a second invasion, do you feel in the region, there is such a threat

of recurrence if we are talking about kupyansk. i remember a period a few months ago when the wagnerites, who may be nearby, were almost on the offensive there . this is what the situation is like there now. they they are trying to gain a foothold, they are doing it in that direction, if we talk about the threat, do we feel it or not? well, the threat to ukraine will disappear after we win this war, if we talk about the civilian population located in those territories, then in our region it has not stopped for a day evacuation of the civilian population according to their requests, that is, when a civilian, especially with a child, wants to leave, we must evacuate them because they are located in villages located approximately 2-5 kilometers from the front lines

especially with children well, it's not that it's too difficult, it's possible to ask in the basement all day why do our children have such a childhood if we have the opportunity to place these people in the city, we are there at the moment there are about a thousand free places deployed where we can strengthen the people and we can deploy up to 3,000 such places because of the threat that they will be able to capture these territories again, well , no one believes in this anymore. because the fortifications erected by our military, the efforts they made to liberate their territory will not give it to the russians, today, by the way, we started with the fact that you specified that in the village of tokarivka, a person died from being blown up by a mine, not from shelling, and there was also a report today from one of the international organizations, which reported that ukraine is one of the most mined countries in general

how are these demining processes taking place in the region, as far as i know, the video for your region is, well, at the top, as if it were a problem after the territory was cleared of explosive objects. so we are one - our country is at the top, and our region unfortunately, in ukraine, this top a-a as they say takes the first place in demining , it is dozens of hectares every day, it is more than 100 explosive objects that are defused by our employees of the state emergency service every day, but unfortunately , we have a big problem if these the shelling is over, we could, you know, put some kind of note and count down the time when we can say something, approximately we will need there 2-5 years to free our

territory from this uh, huge risk