[000:00:00;00] military and intellectual power of this state. well, i am like the germans. almost the same. well, thank you for being with us. i will say goodbye to you until tomorrow. now for your attention , a news release and new colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news. good evening. we are from ukraine, live from ukraine . from london i am yevgenia shadlovskaya and we have 15 minutes to sum up the results of the meeting of the big seven where zelensky was present and to talk about the situation in baku, the new stage of the war, the united states supports the transfer of f16 fighter jets to ukraine and the training of ukrainian pilots - this confirmed president biden on the territory of the hiroshima group itself, russia's war against ukraine was the main topic of the meeting of world leaders in japan, and president zelenskyi was the main guest, at the same time he had to answer questions about bakhmut , while the russians declared that they captured the city

of bakhmut, which is currently not covered by the russian federation, no two or of three interpretations, it cannot be a threat from china and russia's war against ukraine were the main topics at the g7 summit in japan, this club of the richest leading democracy and president zelenskyi was a key guest there, at first there was an intrigue whether he would fly or not, and having already arrived in hiroshima, president zelenskyi had the opportunity to talk with world leaders and once again call for support for ukraine to understand the level of the meeting, look at this family photo of the big seven representatives of the eu and the president of ukraine in in the center near the host of the japanese prime minister's summit in hiroshima, zelenskyi met with joe biden, other leaders , macron, scholz, trio, sunnik, he communicated with all of them and treated them like old friends

and in addition, he spoke with some invited representatives of the countries of the global south, where ukraine's support is not as clear and unquestionable as in the west, in particular, with the prime minister of india in rendar fashion, and if we sum up the results of this three-day g7 summit in japan, what is important for ukraine , first of all, is that president biden confirmed no. the united states will allow ukraine to hand over f16 planes and conduct training of ukrainian pilots in britain. france has already announced that they will train pilots, but what is interesting is that at biden’s table, zelenskyi promised that ukraine would not planes will be used for strikes on the territory of russia, and mayte also emphasized the new package of military aid to ukraine from the united states for 375 million dollars, which includes, in particular, ammunition, mortars, artillery shells, anti-tank missiles, and the leaders of the seven promised more sanctions against russia in order to deprive it of resources for the military machine , but how exactly there are no specifics yet, and the bbc correspondent lorabiker covered the g7 meeting in hiroshima, and here she says that zelensky actually overshadowed this summit, the leader

of a country that is not part of the group was with them in the center of attention and, more importantly, won support in the war, this president knows the price of war volodymyr zelenskyi commemorated the victim of the atomic attack on hiroshima in this place, there is no need to remind you what happens when a fierce armed conflict leads to the use of nuclear weapons with everyone in the big seven we support ukraine and i promise you we will not abandon zelenskyi's meetings with president biden and other leaders of the seven were aimed at preventing such a scenario in ukraine. putin will not break our determination and by abandoning his previous policy washington has confirmed that it will allow ukrainian pilots to learn to fly american fighter jets. the united states, together with our allies and partners, will begin training ukrainian pilots to operate fourth-generation american fighter jets, including the f16. strengthening the ukrainian air force is part of our

long-term strategy to build ukraine's ability to defend itself. president biden also promised more anti-tank weapons and more ammunition, but what we still do not have is a guarantee or specific promises in this regard whoever will provide ukraine with f-16 and this is of crucial importance because the training process is long, according to president zelensky, this can be a turning point in this war, and president zelensky compared the photos of destroyed hiroshima with bachmuth leveled to the ground, he had to answer the question of what is happening there while russia declared that it captured the city, it did not capture it , zelenskyi said on sunday, and it is interesting how western commentators today talk about the symbolic value of bachmut after months of fighting , listen to what the british commentator says justin crump, a few months ago, the city was really considered no more than a small obstacle on the way to sloviansk

and kramatorsk, located further west , which were the real targets of the russians. current status due to the combination of all relative factors such as geographical location or tactical advantages in military terms this is a small step forward , but from a political and moral point of view the city has a symbolic meaning, especially for the russians, we have one that shows their progress, but there were statements that they intended to take bakhmut back in august, could you tell us about their progress? the main thing i can say here is, of course, now we are dealing with a small area of the front if you compare it with the maps at the beginning of the war, where fat russian riflemen advanced 100 km per day. this is a small area, but on the maps you can see how the russians are advancing from the east, gradually moving the front line to the city, pushing out

the ukrainian forces centimeter by centimeter, meter by meter behind the metro, they captured a place north of bakhmut soledar, the russians wanted to unblock positions for an offensive on sambakhmut, but you can see for yourself how slow and crawling this progress is, the russians are moving forward, pushing back the ukrainians, but the russians never managed to break through, isolate the city, cut off the ukrainian supply lines, they failed and they still haven't been able to do that. and when they talk about controlling the city, it's weak, so they can be on the edge of the city or within the geographical boundaries of the city, but if they they do not control the territory to the west of the roads, the heights, especially the flanks, the control of the russians over the city is very weak looking ahead. it seems that the spring

offensive will become a summer one, the russians are trying to build a defense. kilometers of obstacles in several rows, then all this looks impressive, but let's try to make calculations if the russians have 150,000 soldiers at the front and let's say they put one soldier for every 10 m of the front and this is a line behind which there is nothing else, as you can see from the images, they will have depth and obstacles, but they do not have enough troops to fortify every centimeter. therefore, the purpose of the obstacles is to slow down the attack and then artillery fire is opened , we have a saying in the army that it is not an obstacle if it is not covered by fire and that is why it is dangerous. but if ukraine can cross this line somewhere and break through the obstacles and the russians cannot stop them, then it will be a task for military engineers to clear the mini fields and remove the dragon's teeth from the path

filling trenches is easy enough if no one is shooting but if they are firing artillery and you can't combine your forces then it makes the task more difficult so it's a challenge for ukraine to mislead the russians sneak up quietly point the russians in the wrong direction paralyze any russian mobile reserves detect and neutralize russian artillery and, of course, the constant struggle between drones that make it possible to see what each of the parties is doing and plans to do complicates everything, it will be more difficult than, say, in 1991 in the persian gulf, where there were similar the obstacles are not so difficult, but they had a similar goal. of course, this is a huge challenge for any commander. ukraine is doing the right thing, taking its time, russia is going on the defensive, but the ukrainian forces have time to accumulate their forces , and then start the offensive and communicate with us from kyiv my colleague oleg chernysh, who monitors what is happening at the front, let's go back to bakhmut, what is known about the situation in the city now , what is officially reported by the ukrainian

military. good evening, indeed, about the situation in the city as of now not much is known actually, after the statements on may 20-21, something changed. russia assures that it fully controls the city, and the ukrainian military and political command says that the actual control of this city is not as important as control of its flanks, and here the situation is again according to the statement of the command is completely on the side of ukraine and almost daily ukrainian forces are advancing on the flanks approaching the tactical encirclement of bakhmut , this is actually a quote from the words of the commander of the ukrainian security forces in this direction

, general oleksandr tits, that is, even if to admit that the statements of the russians that they control the city within the administrative borders are true, although again there are doubts because, in fact, this area where ukrainian troops still remain is between the village of ivanivske and bakhmut itself, there is more of a zone of private houses of garage cooperatives but nevertheless, this is bakhmut, so if you even imagine that the statements of the russians are true, they control bakhmut, then again we return to the situation that they do not control the situation around the city at all. the strategic importance of baghmut for the ukrainian defense and for the future of the counter-nato, it can be noted that bahmut skob continues to bind a very large group of e-e russian forces here not only about the regular army but also about e-e mercenaries of the wagner pvk, who despite what is there statements that these are former convicted prisoners, that is, such poorly

qualified military personnel but nevertheless, this is the most powerful offensive force of the russians, with which it was not counted, which could be used in huge quantities for the storming of such large cities, that is, we draw the conclusion that a-a holding this er-e squad with pkvarna bahmuti er-e ukrainian command does not allow it to be used on another part of the front, for example in avdiivka, where there is also a large er-e such a situation is quite difficult therefore er bakhmut perhaps he has not yet played his role for the entire front, especially as i already mentioned at the beginning, the situation around the city continues to deteriorate, not in the favor of the russians, that is, the movement actually continues on the flanks of the ukrainian military if the city itself is even captured by the russians. well, at the same time, in russia, about the capture of bakhmut, as they say in russia on television, they are already talking about it as

such an epoch-making event, they are almost comparing it with the capture of berlin during the second world war. that is why for russia it is so important to declare a victory in bakhmut, well, it is very easy to explain, actually, because the last conquest of a big city took place actually a year ago, it was severodonetsk and lysychansk orna, such an agglomeration, the city of big cities, it was at the end of june last year after that, in fact, the russian army did not make any major territorial gains, on the contrary, it retreated in the north of kharkiv oblast and left kherson, uh, this very significantly affected the image of both the russian president and the ministry of defense of russia, and the constant retreats, because they uh, have uh- if he were to confirm his title to his army

of the world, and here only retreats, that is exactly what western experts say, and ukrainian experts and russian experts recognize that bogmouth has primarily a political symbolic meaning, and somewhere from march it was clear that a the russian forces will do everything to announce its capture, even if the city is not completely captured, but the russians must demonstrate that they did not for nothing , according to the estimates of american officials, almost a hundred thousand people, the capture of this, again, is not too much and of a large city of millicons, so this situation is actually the first such situation in the russian army, so they highlight it as much as possible. well, just as you mentioned this estimate of the united states, 100,000 became a mess

again. a hundred thousand losses can be as killed yes, and wounded, to what extent this assessment is generally realistic. well, in my opinion, once again, they are warm to the dead and it is time, that is, president biden, who said this number, he was actually afraid of the loss. that is, we understand that it is unlikely that it is 100,000 killed. more likely than all this along with the wounded, and here i would almost like to point out that this seems to me to be an adequate assessment, because as you know, there is such a thing that the attacking side carries in the theater three times more than the defending side. and at the same time, the losses of the wounded there in 3-4 times more than losses the dead, that is, if we take the number of 90,100,000 meals there, then we can say that about 20-30 thousand soldiers and fighters of the wagner pvk russia lost bakhmut and navko and the villages around it. i think this estimate is quite realistic the same has already been said several times that, for example, in the theater of the pvk wagner, there are several tens of thousands of people

. well, in fact, the owner of this company, yevgeny prigozhin, posed, so to speak, against the background of the corpses of his mercenaries and talked about the huge losses of wagner himself in the battle thank you oleg correspondent hung up oleg chernysh, what should we end our graduation with? see you tomorrow pain can be an obstacle walking up the stairs not with my knees from knee pain try the dolgit cream, it relieves pain, reduces swelling and improves joint mobility, you can also walk the only yellow cream for joint pain a what do you think about lacalut fix reliably fixes

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by buying a large package of 100 grams my greetings are freedom lime my name is vlad and azure and today in release to belgorodskaya a subversive group of the armed forces of ukraine allegedly entered the region of russia, the governor of the region claims, and ukrainian intelligence claims that it is not the armed forces of ukraine, but opposition-minded citizens of russia, what is happening in the belgorod region , we are talking soon, russia celebrates the capture of bakhmut, putin congratulates mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhina, and state-run kremlin television reports on the capture bakhmut as an epoch-making historical event, comparing a town in donetsk region with berlin in 1945 , the ukrainian side of the capture of bakhmut does not confirm everything that is currently known we will tell you in a minute well, ukraine is waiting for the f-16 at the summit of the g7 countries in japan. american president joe biden said that the united states will allow western allies

to provide ukraine with modern fighter jets, including the american-made f-16, in return washington itself has not made a decision on the transfer of aviation to kyiv, why the white house doubts what other results were achieved on the sidelines of the g7 summit , svoboda life said today that mercenaries of the wagner group are holding the western administrative borders of bakhmut, while ukrainian forces continue to focus on counterattacks on the outskirts of the city, exhausted by the battles, wagner's forces are unlikely to be able to continue offensive operations outside bakhmut, this is stated in the current report of the american institute for the study of war, the founder of wagner's group, yevgeny prigozhin, said that his units will, so to speak , clear bakhmut within five days after which by june 1 will be handed over to the units of the ministry of defense of russia

and will go to the rear for re-formation and re -equipment. serhiy cherevatyy of the eastern group of the armed forces of ukraine said that the ukrainian forces that previously remained in bakhmut, according to him, the statements of the russian side about the complete capture of the city do not correspond to reality on the screen, we will now show a map of the state of the state, this is what the situation in bakhmut looked like during the last days , and at the summit of the countries of the big seven in japan , volodymyr zelenskyi, commenting on the situation in bakhmut, said that the ukrainian troops in the city have a very important task today, they are in bakhmut at what points to share i will not, but this indicates that bakhmut is not currently covered by the russian federation , there cannot be any two or three interpretations of this, instead, bakhmut in donetsk region, russia lost about 100,000 personnel . this statement was made by us president joe biden

during a press conference at the summit gs7 in japan, noting that bakhmut is occupied or not , it is not important, well, commenting on such large losses, the american institute for the study of war states in another report that wagner's units apparently left for the western of the administrative border of bakhmut, what exactly is happening in the city currently, in a minute, a donbas correspondent will join our broadcast and tell the reality well, meanwhile, in russia, putin welcomes a beautiful woman with admiration for bakhmut, state television reports on the capture of the city as an epoch-making historical event, comparing a town in donetsk region with berlin in in the 45th year, listen to the nazi troops, the successful completion

of artemovska, which the kiev regime calls the liberation of bakhmut, and thus the liberation of artemovska, an event of historical scale important strategic point большой тактический the success of our forces without exaggeration, a historical moment, leave the wagner dude, set the flags, probably the same emotions as when i left for berlin, the country is here, we are protecting the family, we are doing a blog business , we will fight fascism from the sky, artyom , introduce yourself, the operational importance of taking bachmut, opening the russian army path to northern kramatorsk and konstantinovka , and also the direct and shortest way to dnipropetrovsk, the history of the battle of bakhmut for the ukrainian armed forces ended in defeat, so to speak victory rhetoric sounds these days on russian television, as political scientists point out, in fact, bakhmut may become the only

political victory for vladimir putin in a long, long time . it is possible. that is why we see such victorious rhetoric on pro-kremlin television. well, russia can turn to bakhmutsky direction of additional reserves, however , they do not have proper training , the representative of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense andriy yusov claims, answering the question of how the situation can develop further in the direction of bakhmut , and my colleague yehor loginov - a correspondent of the donbass - reality project, who was directly in the direction of bakhmut and monitors the situation in the east of yegor, is joining our broadcast just now. it looks like bakhmut is captured, is that really the case, explain for people who are not related to the army and the events in the east, what you see on this map is just congratulations, congratulations to all our viewers, in fact

, the situation with bakhmut is, for example, fundamentally it differs from the situation as it was with - during the offensive, he pushed, for example, on a raisin in a balaclava when, uh, taking most of kherson , because immediately it was such a breakthrough for several tens of kilometers, and conditionally together with the liberation of the entire city of the same, for example, the raisin, uh the enemy was pushed back by another 10 there, more than 10 kilometers from the city itself , and then of course we can talk about the fact that the city was liberated according to jesus with bachmut , the situation is somewhat different, and the situation there changes literally every hour, and how does it happen now in donbas, that is, conditionally, one landing can change hands several times and at some point i had personal information that our military had left the last lateral positions of the high-rise building and the high-rise buildings that they

held and in bakhmut and at the same time, after a few hours i already had information about the fact that there was some kind of conditional, some positions were reflected, that is , the situation there is changing very dynamically, and i can say completely about what , as of now, even i will be able to say absolutely exactly what, as of now, on this for a minute, i don’t know what’s really happening there, only the general staff has complete information, and for example , today my friends who hold positions there on those occupied, although this is not true

, that's why i think that only the general staff of ukraine and the whole situation have a complete picture. driving to bakhmut on the kostyantynivka bakhmut highway, well, at least she was there a few hours ago , they wrote to me that she was under the control of the armed forces of ukraine . that is why it is a very difficult question and clearly, and the situation is changing so dynamically that even after half an hour there may be different information, that is, when, for example, volodymyr zelensky is talking about that. yes, the military of the armed forces of ukraine are in the city, so this may turn out to be the case. well, if you just look at this map, at least the center of the city looks like it is occupied and looks question: what can the ukrainian military do there? we are talking about the city center, that is, the armed forces of ukraine have literally held a few percent of the bakhmut area there for the past several weeks. these were positions there conditionally near the so-called airplane. yes, there are several high-rise buildings. there

are literally two streets. this situation has been going on for quite a long time. the russian army has been advancing quite actively there. well , since june, i apologize since january and february of this year, so of course we are not talking about the center. but if we are already attached to the admin of the borders of the city , hmm , a few percent of the city was held by jesus for a long time . the ukrainian side in the person of hanna-malyar, the deputy minister of defense issued a statement and said that bakhmut is semi-surrounded . ukrainian forces, more precisely, took the city in a semi-surrounded state. and what does this mean

? how can this be understood? so much i wouldn’t say for sure half to half the encirclement, actually from the point of view of military tactics eh from the point of view of military strategy they are not fighting for ruins but they are fighting for strategically important heights one of such heights as a result of contour offensive actions the ukrainian army repelled in the north of the city in the area near the obrakhov reservoir and there was still success in the offensive , positions south of bakhmut in the area of ​​klishchaivka were repulsed , relatively speaking. then the armed forces of ukraine will control very important heights from which bakhmut will literally be in the palm of your hand and from which it can be, conditionally speaking, controlled , yes, that is, shelling from artillery and russian troops and so on and the like, and this is

much more important than the streets on the outskirts of the city, which are completely destroyed to the foundations, continue, but the fighting there is very , very serious, every meter is very difficult for the armed forces of ukraine, and relatively speaking, if we see assaults, yes, there are many videos of assaults on russian positions that's it well, as the military tell me. yes, of which i already know for a long time, uh, these same assaults very often turn into combat reconnaissance, and conditionally, sometimes a whole day is spent on repelling these positions. it is very difficult, and now it has slowed down somewhat . the movement of the ukrainian army to the south and to the north of bakhmut. but if these goals are achieved, then i think that um, well, will it make any sense to hold the city eh conditionally yes from

which city where can they get you yes there conditionally speaking stratillery or rocket salvo fire systems, well, that's me i think it's a question for military strategists, but i know what's there, in principle, i know what to do. thank you very much. ihor loginov, correspondent of the donbas reality project, who monitors the situation in particular in the bakhmut direction . we talked about the situation on the approaches to the city where thank you very much. day in the belgorod region of russia, the regime of a counter-terrorist operation was introduced, the governor of the region declares that in the ministry of internal affairs of the region, the edelweiss plan was allegedly implemented , before that, i remind you, the legion of freedom of russia stated that together with the rdk this is the russian volunteer corps, they captured the village of kozynka in the belgorod region and advanced troops entered gaivoron, this is another village russian local authorities declare the penetration of ukrainian dirogen into the territory

of the graivoron district and the fighting in the region putin was informed about the breakthrough attempt, said his spokesman dmytro piskov he called it ukrainian sabotage, the purpose of which is to divert attention from the bakhmut direction, according to piskov, russian forces are trying to push back and destroy the saboteurs in the gur confirmed that the legion of freedom of russia and the rdk are really conducting an operation on the territory of the belgorod region, all that we have collected as of now, we will tell you further, several russian mass media reported an attack on the objective of the belgorod region with the use of artillery and armored vehicles , i don't know this in ukrainian social networks , too there were reports of combat clashes near the ukrainian-russian border, in this video, a ukrainian tank is allegedly crossing the state border with russia , according to a message from