[000:00:00;00] each other, more warmth, kindness and love, together we will win. this was a big broadcast, now your attention is a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news. good evening . we are from ukraine on the air with ukraine. returns with important agreements after the vatican and rome, berlin and paris zelensky suddenly appeared in great britain for thorough negotiations

london transfers attack drones, trains pilots, but what remains behind the scenes so volodymyr zelenskyi continues the european tuna today, the plane with him landed in great britain, this is the fifth point during his trip , first on saturday, zelenskyi arrived in rome, where he held meetings with the prime minister italy's giorgio meloni and the country's president sergio mattarella also visited the vatican and spoke for 40 minutes with the pope and rome, who in the past offered his services to establish peace in ukraine. in germany, zelenskyi met separately with chancellor scholz, and together they visited the military base in arkhen, where ukrainian servicemen are trained. zelenskiy was also presented with the honorary european a-a charlemagne prize. after the meeting with macron in paris, france

and ukraine published a joint declaration calling for further pressure on russia in order to force it to stop its armed aggression against ukraine. france also promised to supply more weapons and train ukrainian military well, britain britain is one of the most important allies of ukraine in its fight against russian aggression, therefore, although the visit was unannounced and for many it came as a surprise, but it still surprised few people, especially in light of the statements made last week when london announced the transfer of long-range missiles to ukraine of storm shadow missiles , unlike in february, this time zelenskyi was not waiting on downing street. and in the country residence of the prime minister, the british government announced that and here i will quote because the wording, they are important during the meeting will once again prove the importance of providing ukraine with all kinds of military support well, also in soniakha's office, the details

of the military aid were disclosed in advance, among other things, hundreds of anti-aircraft missiles, hundreds of new long-range strike drones with a range of more than 200 km, it's good that we had time privately to talk about the support britain provides to ukraine, how can we make sure that this support is not only now but also in the future ukraine and its people are fighting not only on the battlefield by military means, and also defend the common values ​​that are very important to us, such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law. we had a very good talk and i am glad that you, vladimir, are here, we discussed fighter jets, a topic that is very important to us, because we still cannot control our skies as you know, and i think that you are deep in the subject, because you are our partners and mr. rishi is aware of all the details of our situation on the battlefield. so, we want to create a kind of

fighter coalition, i believe in it. and we said exactly about this, so soon you will learn about a very important decision, but we still need to work a little on this and another member of the news great britain in the summer by allies regarding the alliance regarding the possible transfer of f-16 fighter jets to kyiv, this is also discussed in a statement to the old street, this issue is also his violated during the meeting between zelenskyi and its british prime minister suma london emphasizes that there are no specific plans for the transfer of aircraft to him so far and at this stage only a theoretical possibility that needs

discussion i will remind the allies to give modern combat aircraft, first of all f16, but the allies are still refusing. at first, they explained it by unwillingness to unnecessarily provoke russia. well, now with technical and other difficulties, military expert oleksandr kovalenko is in touch. i congratulate you, oleksandr. well, let's start with weapons. last week's storm shadow, they became a loud announcement today, but in addition , they are long-range strike drones. by the way , can they be called long-range 250 km , as far as we understand. yes, what do we know about what these drones can be? well, what effect will they have on the front? what type of saw will be transmitted in ukraine , but it is known that they have a range of action , a controlled range of up to 200 km, and therefore it is really a uav

with a fairly large radius of action. the position, for example, of the russian occupying forces is actually no longer in the forward e-e zone, but already in the middle so deep, because the general deep dust of the russian occupiers in the temporarily occupied territories is already from 100 km, and it is also known that these uavs can to carry a load, a payload, which can be either ammunition or a combat unit, that is, everything depends on the person after it becomes known what type of levaple we can talk about exactly how these drones will use them, but it is necessary to understand that all those weapons that are provided to us by our international partners. they are always used comprehensively, i.e. by themselves. and they do not solve global problems, but complex solutions are exactly the nomenclature

that is transmitted by mr. oleksandr. comprehensiveness, the second part of today's big news, yes, great britain is starting to train ukrainian pilots on western-style defensive planes , the planes do not yet provide, so this attack that is now expected will be without cover from the sky by the shadow sides, and here are these strike drones, they allow at least partially to compensate for this lack aviation, if we talk about a comprehensive picture of what the shift will have if we compare it with the functionality of aviation, not quite. but if we talk about what are the main threats they should neutralize, then yes, we can say why because one of the biggest, precisely 1 of the biggest threats to our counter-introduction today is russian guided bombs, planning bombs of which they have a large number

, they very quickly modernize them precisely to the level of guided ones and for this they use , accordingly, aircraft that have the ability to deploy such a load such elements are front-line bombers and so on, and for us there is an option to destroy the carrier itself and not the bomb itself, that is, the solution to this problem - this is either the use of a large radius of action anti-aircraft defense systems or aviation with, respectively, missiles of the great radio judge , but we do not have such aviation, and with such missiles and air defense systems of the great radio judge. it is a unique complex for our pto, but there is a second option, which is to strike with star missiles - stormedu missiles - at the airfield where these aircraft are located, including directly at the airfields in the temporarily

occupied territories, thereby forcing them take these planes much further away and on the territory of the russian federation. so, in this way, we reduce the risks, for example, at least from this threat. well, by the way, it is still not completely clear what happened to the two planes with two helicopters that were shot down a few days ago ok, we have literally 40 minutes left, the institute for 40 seconds , the institute for the study of war writes that regular airstrikes by russia are an attempt to undermine the ability of the armed forces of ukraine to counteroffensive actions, is it possible or not, how great is this danger - 45 seconds they can become well, such strikes are indeed and but we foresee placing all the necessary reserves that are intended for counteroffensive actions in er safe places

and i try to minimize the impact of such strikes thank you very much oleksandr kovalenko military expert er language of zelenskyi to the european capitals - this is the last touch of preparation for the ukrainian counteroffensive, so believes the former british diplomat and member of the house of lords nigel, what a gift, let 's listen to the car, you know zelensky has arrived to britain after a visit to france, germany and italy and this is a clear signal that the ukrainian counter-offensive is inevitable. so he is making last efforts to maximize all military supplies for ukraine before the offensive begins. the issue is not to prepare everything for the first stage of the offensive, such things are not resolved quickly they can take months so it is about further support for ukraine and it can be a big part of his

mission to get weapons not only for the first phase of the offensive but also ammunition missiles shells which will be needed in the following months, you know, it is generally interesting in this context to always hear the point of view of western experts, western analysts, and this is how the analyst of the royal institute of international relations comments on the results of the visit , is there chaos in one of the most important by the way analytical centers of the kingdom and - and keir giles, an expert on security issues and the author of the book russia's war against everyone zelenskyi is a difficult task for president zelenskyi , or should we express our gratitude to our partners for their support of ukraine and also remind them that such we have already had conversations about different types of weapons for ukraine many times and they took place according to a similar scenario as soon as ukraine determined what it needed to win the war and liberate its occupied

territories. we are forced to go through the same painful and protracted process of pushing hesitant allies to determination used to be the case with rocket launcher systems , later with modern tanks, and now with f-16 aircraft, it is about ukraine being able to establish control over its skies when it moves to the counteroffensive. that's why zelensky is forced to remind everyone that the matter is urgent, that it is necessary to act, all this is terribly annoying today, one of the experts said that the talks about the f-16 have been going on for several months , in fact, they began more than a year ago, from the first days of the war, and since then we hear that the same arguments are being made about the fact that it takes a lot of time to allocate the planes, because it is necessary to train pilots and provide logistical and technical support, but the war has been going on for more than a year and we hear the same warnings, especially from

the larger countries of the coalition in support of ukraine the united states, in terms of the amount of aid and the amount of armed forces, contributed the most to supporting ukraine, and despite this, they help put one foot on the brakes and do not want to give something that, in their opinion, will cause protests from russia, a security expert, the author of the book russia's war against everyone in order to finally close the topic and to hear a maximum of points of view, an american diplomat, a permanent representative of the united states in nato, in the past, also a special representative of the united states department of state in matters of ukraine, short walker, i am very glad that britain has decided to send ukraine long-range missiles with a range of 250 km with which they can hit the desired targets . i think this is very important and will help the ukrainians push the russians out of the temporarily occupied

crimea and donbas, so this is an important step. as for fighter jets, the situation is interesting. ukraine has european allies who now they are more willing to help her than the united states, which in general provides ukraine with a lot of military equipment. but in the long term, they transfer everything that helps ukraine survive, but it is being done so slowly and i would say sparingly , they say we will do it, but we don't want to do it. meanwhile, europe's attitude towards ukraine seems to me to have changed now . europe sees ukraine as part of the european union, they want to see the revival of the ukrainian economy, they understand that putin is an existential a threat not only to ukraine, but also to the eu and nato, so they are actually ready to do even more for ukraine than the united states, and that's all for today , look for more stories on our bbc.ua website

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the edition of the change of preventive measure will not be today, the court of appeal of kyiv decided whether to keep ex-spy roman chervinskyi in custody, how the high-profile case will develop further, and whether this could really be the revenge of a bank special agent for wangnergate in the second round of the elections to be in turkey , the results of the first round of the presidential race were announced by erdogan and his main opponent from the opposition received almost equal votes what to expect next and why such results are called a simultaneous victory of the turkish position of kyiv and moscow all details in the release from the ambassador of ukraine in turkey and explosions again in occupied luhansk , as the russian media claim, this time in a beauty salon next to the building of a local tv channel, the so-called head of the ministry of internal affairs of the lpr, playing the cornet in a serious condition, says

the leader of the lpr group pasichnik, in addition , it is reported about seven victims, four of them in a serious condition on video who publish from the scene of the incident, you can see the destruction inside the premises and blood about the kremlin media claim that the cornet was seriously injured and is in intensive care, he added that the journalists of the radio freedom donbas project reality recently received an audio recording of the conversation of the head of the militants of the luhansk region, leonid pasichnyk. from sources in one of the ukrainian special services, the audio recording talked about the conflict within the lpr group, in particular, the fact that pasichnyk allegedly does not control the head of the so-called ministry of internal affairs of the lpr igor, all this is not only about us talk more well, for now, don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel and like this broadcast so that as many viewers as possible can see it well, the general staff

of the armed forces of ukraine announced that on in the lyman direction during the day, the russian army did not carry out offensive actions, however, the ukrainian military, who are holding positions near the crimea, say that the russian troops in this direction have to be constantly held back . look at how the military is holding the defense in the luhansk region, communities 14.81 1481 over the last period, we have been holding back the enemy and we help our infantry to go on the offensive - in general, the enemy is aggressive and advances towards me, we let him advance, but the attack

is a command shot, only so that the enemy's goal is given, on which we fired two shots at the enemy of the russian federation, the infantry, the owner of the pvk wagner yevgeny prigozhin offered ukraine to hand over the location of russian troops in exchange for the fact that the armed forces of ukraine would withdraw from bakhmut, this is reported by the washington post with reference to data from leaked documents, the publication writes that such an offer was allegedly passed on to ukraine at the end in january , when i quote, the wagnerites died during the storming

of bakhmut by the thousands, the newspaper also mentions two ukrainian officials who confirmed that prigozhyn spoke several times with by representatives of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense, in particular, one of the officials allegedly said that prigozhin made proposals regarding bahmut more than once, but kyiv rejected them because officials do not trust prigozhin . in another document, allegedly created on the basis of us intelligence , it is claimed that prigozhin personally met with an officer of the ukrainian of military intelligence in africa, prigozhin himself ridiculed such information, stating that he is still with bohdanov in africa. well, how did the gur react to this, let's see further. i think that ukraine should and of course the special services will and should discuss such things when it is necessary and will correspond to the national interests of ukraine. it is clear that ukraine is doing

this in order to protect its own national interests effectively before occupying the territory, and if we are talking about the special services, then for this, yes and about intelligence , different means and tools are usually used . you should comment on it oleksandr kovalenko military-political columnist of the information resistance group joins our broadcast p oleksandr my greetings good evening do you think such throwaways as they were called in the general office in the main intelligence department actually why for whom they appear actually i i haven't been paying attention to the reports of some western mass media for a long time, which have at least this term. how come they got this information from a

reliable source, but they can't name this source, that is, without a name without a surname without anything, and very often precisely such messages contain an element of some kind of manipulative, not always true, but more often actually fake information, and therefore this is already the first sign, it is a kind of litmus test that this information should not be trusted. well, regarding the fact that when it was precisely this material that was published in washington. it is very interesting that it happened during the visit of volodymyr zelenskyi and his tour of europe . apparently, it is a development that she comes into contact with a war criminal, but also that volodymyr zelensky was asked a

-a rather uncomfortable questions about a-a contacts with the victim, they say, with putin, and you have no intention of entering into some kind of peace negotiations, but with the victim who is a former prison for war criminals, and yet another, on which a large number of terrorist acts and also war crimes not only in ukraine, but also outside ukraine, also in syria, libya , the central african republics, lyceum and in other countries where there is wagner's committee with him, that is, you are conducting a dialogue then. well, it seems to me that this is exactly what was an attempt to discredit the ukrainian side. by the way, you know dmytro zolotukhina, the head of the institute of post-information society, he generally , or rather, he made an admission that the ukrainian office and the washington post , the new york times, leads two former moscow journalists, isabel hor shudyan and andrew kramer, and omits that they were definitely in the field of view of the russian special services, citing articles by

them that played into the hands of russian authorities do you share these concerns and how do you feel about the fact that journalists who once worked in russia were not accredited to work in ukraine entirely because, for example, kramer is still completely history because it was the journalist who personally administered the e-vaccination e vaccine satellite-5 and then it was advertised for use in the usa, they say that the usa should buy satellite five because this is what can save america from covid, well, that is, these people worked accordingly in the field of propaganda activities of russia itself in in general, the new york times well, let's consider this in a historical context

. we remember which american publication in the 1930s justified the holodomor in ukraine . they said that there was no holodomor in ukraine at all . it was the new york times. and they with er for this they still received the police prize and but er later it turned out that in fact all these articles were copyrighted let's call it exactly soviet propaganda about the fact that there is no holodomor someone apologized for this in a historical context or gave up on this of the polish politeriv prize no, and that's why i think that there is even some kind of genetic sequence of events, i 'm not surprised at all to oppose such throws , well, they said that it would be possible not to extend the accreditation for work to russian journalists, more precisely to those who previously worked in russia and what else can we counter, how can ukraine

counter such challenges, and there are two points here , the first point is not related to ukraine, but to the editorial policy of these publications for the new york face of the washington post, these publications, everything what do they have? what is the level of the publication - it is of a world level, and that is, they must monitor the quality and control what they publish, how much this information really serves to trust, so what does it encourage you to think about directly the information that they publish or reflect on them, therefore, it should be useful information. and on which is the manipulation for the second moment, critical thinking is about ukraine, the unconditional critical thinking of every ukrainian who comes across such information in open sources on one or another news feed and definitely a very quick response from the official

axes, that is, now, for example, when this information appeared about these negotiations , allegedly with some special person, and for example, the gur of the ministry of defense of ukraine responded very quickly to this. and in general , we are now very we quickly respond to such information points, which did not exist here in 22. everything happened much slower even in the period from 2014 to 22. now this reaction is much better and more professional, but still, this does not mean that in the future we will not have there will be more such challenges and that this is the last throw, no, there will be many more in kyiv, especially when the contrast begins, well, in general, this story even with the deletion of part of zelenskyi's interview with the washington post, where he answers questions about contacts about possible contacts part of the interview, then they returned it again, which is probably about the fact that they themselves are not sure that they are ready to publish and what not and what

part, probably some part was still there, and there was some kind of editorial policy involved, and they and they said that, of course, it should n't be in the publication, and then they changed their mind because someone called or some other contacts were there, and so this moment had to appear. in order to raise the element of discredit in ukraine through this article. well, there, in fact, president zelenskyy asked journalists, instead, where do you get such information that this is already a task for the american special services, and i want to ask you the same thing about the explosion in luhansk. there cotton was in

area of ​​the aviation school , and after lunch there was a report about the wounding of the so-called minister of internal affairs of the lpr, cornet. some of our security forces made an effort, some of our special units are units, but still, if according to the facts, when something flies into luhansk and explodes some base with petroleum products for the russian occupation forces or a set of weapons or with equipment or personnel well, we can understand who is behind it, but when we talk about such incidents, there are also internal factors, because the cornet is not just a criminal from the military, he is a criminal in general. and this person who connected with the criminal world, especially in the temporarily occupied territories. and it has a huge