[000:00:00;00] you will also hear lloyd austin and the ukrainian representatives of all the others, and tomorrow, too, the kyiv safety forum. don't miss it. be sure to listen. take care. next, to your attention, a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news. let's watch it together . good evening. we are from ukraine, in the spring from ukraine , live from of london i am yevgenia shadlovska and we have several important topics that are worth talking about, we will all be on the novobelyan calendar, this is not a reverse process away from moscow, the orthodox church of ukraine is switching to a new calendar, believers will celebrate christmas, december 25, epiphany, january 6, an attack on the belgorod region of russia, how this can affect the relations of ukraine with the united states and before ramstein, the british minister of defense ben wallace came to kyiv and

with certain support, let's start with church news, the orthodox church of ukraine switches to a new calendar earlier about by the way, the ukrainian greek-catholic church also stated that this movement can conditionally be called away from moscow , and the uoc-mp declares that it remains on the old calendar. therefore, the ptu made a decision to switch to a new calendar on the bishop's the cathedral in kyiv, the gathering of all bishops, so already from september 1, the majority of ukrainian christians can start celebrating religious holidays in a new way, christmas on december 25, earlier in the church they warned that the majority of believers would not accept the reform, but the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine changed this, and my colleague vitaly chrovonenko will explain more about church reform in the orthodox church

of ukraine and how it was adopted on may 24, the synod of bishops of the orthodox church of ukraine in the kyiv-pechersk lavra passed a historic decision on the transition of the entire church to a new calendar without coercion that is, we will not force anyone to switch who wants to stay on the old calendar, he will have the appropriate time, but then over time we will all be on the novobelyan calendar, this is not a reverse process, as the bishops and metropolitan epiphany himself told the bbc 3-4 years ago ukrainians were not ready to switch to a new calendar because they did not understand why, but the war changed everything and now, as one of the bishops told us, there will be a ukrainian calendar and a moscow calendar. that is how they understand the situation in the ukrainian orthodox church the church of the moscow patriarchate assured the bbc that they are not going to switch to the new calendar from september 1, all the holidays

that we are used to will be shifted by 13 days to the example of the intercession, which we are used to celebrating on october 14, it will already be celebrated on october 1 , the same with almost all holidays that is, christmas will be celebrated on december 25 and not on january 7 , well, that is, all other holidays will be the same. the epiphany of nicholas will all be moved by 13 days. but this will not apply to easter, because the definition of easter takes place according to a different procedure, and even the orthodox church switched to the new calendar, they celebrate their easter in the old way, the orthodox church of ukraine will also celebrate easter in the old way, and the trinity , which is tied to easter, will also be celebrated in the old way. a few months ago, a similar decision was made by the ukrainian greek the catholic church , which was also on the old julian calendar, that is, in fact

, the majority of ukrainian orthodox, as well as greek catholics who have an orthodox tradition, they will actually live in a new way from september 1, so to speak, this decision is not it was easy for the orthodox church of ukraine, there were very sharp disputes and debates, and they continued yesterday, the holy synod of the orthodox church of ukraine was held yesterday, it voted unanimously after difficult discussions that it is necessary to move after the compromise that was reached, that whoever wants to stay on the old calendar, that's why it happened exactly like this a compromise to agree to the decision that was adopted today , it is already practically final, but on july 27 there will still be a local council of the orthodox church of ukraine, where they will participate in lay people and at this cathedral they will finally approve it, but as the bbc said even metropolitan epiphanius, all the political decisions in the church have already

been made and there is no need to expect any surprises. when i was asked at the beginning of the 19th year, in the 20th year, i said about the fact that it will take time, when the society is ready , the ukrainian people will accept this decision, this reform , then the church will certainly support it, and we see that the society is ready already in the fifth year of our existence after receiving the tomos as an autocephalous church, and we are implementing this reform life, the leadership of the orthodox church of ukraine drew attention to several holidays that are celebrated in the old way, and state holidays are already attached to them, in particular, this and the intercession on october 14. on the same day, there will be the day of the upa and the day of the defenders of the ukrainian army . there are many holidays, they just accumulated for one day and now the main religious holiday is being moved to october 1, the leaders of the orthodox church of ukraine have already appealed to the state leadership to move

all official holidays to october 1 the same will apply to st. volodymyr's day, which used to be celebrated on july 28. now it will be celebrated on july 15, and on the same day there is an official state holiday, the day of ukrainian statehood, the president, as he is asked in the orthodox church of ukraine, and now he can, if he wants, move this holiday to july 15 and in the same way all these things in the same way as the orthodox church of ukraine will live and the ukrainian greek-catholic church will live. these two churches agreed between themselves on the agreed transition to the new calendar and they succeeded and on the transition of the orthodox church to the new calendar. you also

you can read on our website bbc.ua and now about the situation in the belgorod region of russia, the local authorities said that at night the belgorod region was attacked by drones, most of the drones say that they were shot down, but there are injured civilians, damaged houses, a gas pipeline was on fire , and this is after the russian military stopped the so-called attack of ukrainian saboteurs i will remind you that on monday the fighters of two armed formations of the russian volunteer corps and the legion of freedom of russia announced that they had entered the territory of russia and captured several settlements. the russian authorities then announced a counter-terrorist operation, announced that it had killed more than 70 saboteurs already today, representatives of both formations spoke about other losses in the russian freedom legion, announced the death of two fighters out of 10 wounded in the red army, about two wounded representatives of the formations held a press conference already in ukraine on the border of the i declared that they are planning new actions on russian territory without saying in which directions the acetyuu border is quite long

ukraine rejects its involvement in the events in belgorod region, however, are these profitable raids to kyiv or vice versa harm relations with partners, the united states immediately reminded that in general it does not approve and does not support attacks outside of ukraine, this was the statement of the spokesman of the state department, now in the western press there are assumptions that the attackers used american armored vehicles, and the spokesman of the white house said today that the united the states are studying these claims . bbc correspondent frank gardner analyzes the consequences for ukraine of fighting on the border. this raid was carried out by russians from the territory of ukraine, but for kyiv it may have a controversial meaning why without one side this puts moscow in a difficult situation shows that its borders and defenses are not as strong as they would like and this may lead to the fact that some russian troops will be withdrawn from the south of ukraine it is expected that this is where the ukrainian will concentrate during

the future offensive, but on the other hand, it reinforces the kremlin's narrative that mother russia, sovereign russian territory under attack, is under threat from evil forces armed, motivated and equipped by the west, despite objections from of ukraine it is difficult to imagine that this inscription was carried out without the knowledge or even the assistance of ukrainian military intelligence and there is another factor here . it is reported that some of the spies of this attack are connected with far-right extremism , this is a tiny group that almost no one has heard of until now and they do not represent the main mass ukrainians or ukraine but nevertheless , for the reputation of ukraine in the eyes of the international community, this may have bad consequences if it turns out that some of them are connected with neo-nazism or fascism, then this will strengthen the kremlin's narrative that kyiv today british

defense minister ben voles arrived unexpectedly on the eve of a meeting on military aid to ukraine in the tine format. ben voles met with ukrainian defense minister oleksiy reznikov, who once again thanked britain for the military assistance , in particular for the storm shed missiles, which reznikov called delicious questions. one of the first to provide ukraine with long-range missiles and at a joint briefing, reznikov confirmed that these missiles are already being used in ukraine , according to him, government officials had an opportunity to shake hands with pilots who studied in britain and already reznikov said that these weapons are successfully used, the government officials also talked about the training of the ukrainian military and ben voles assured kyiv of british support. russia sees that ukraine's allies will support this self-defense and provide any necessary support from anti-tank missiles to tanks to storm shadow missiles. and now how 16 putin must realize that he is unable to win this illegal war he started, no matter how many russian soldiers he sends to their deaths because of his ego and imperial ambitions

he will not succeed, and the international community will only strengthen the resistance to this aggression. we will always be close to ukraine and not only during the war, but also long after it . britain plays a key role in supporting ukraine during russian aggression. and now it has an important mission on the eastern flank of nato, the royal the british air force took over from germany the main role in protecting the skies of estonia, bbc correspondent frangardner got exclusive access to the forward air base of nato emari and saw how pilots intercept russian planes that regularly check nato borders for strength in the sky over estonia, the royal air force helps patrol the eastern plan to nato, tracking every russian raid after the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine , nato increases vigilance in the baltics, come in, i'll show you the plane, i'm ready now, if the alarm sounds, i'll run back, get

the pilot's jacket and in plane to rise commander drill river-lisk british air force pilot he is serving in the nato contingent in estonia as part of the rapid reaction force at the moment with weapons on board so it is as we say in a state of combat readiness the royal air force has just taken over this mission from the german it is one of six typhoons of the royal air force based here at mary air force base in estonia it is part of the nato airspace control operation in balka regularly patrolling is the space near the border between nato and russia not the baltic sea , the border with nato countries such as estonia, latvia and lithuania passes here, but there are also two large russian bases in st. petersburg and in the russian exclave of kaliningrad, russian

planes regularly make flights between the two of them approaching the airspace of nato capture - this is a circle russian planes one or more did not submit a flight plan when crossing the baltic they do not shout what is it called and as they say they communicate and do not respond to air traffic control signals such operations that ongoing aimed at deterring not a single shot has been fired yet we have flown eight intercept missions all of them have been directed against russian aircraft how does this compare to your other missions as part of the royal air force here in estonia, i believe that the main difference is the interaction with the estonians themselves and because it means for them to see how we fly here, you know , one estonian commander called our plane the sound of freedom, so far these guys are mostly peaceful, but the baltic nato countries are worried

about that when the war in ukraine ends , moscow's attention can quickly switch to them. and if we talk about the treatment of f-16 aircraft from western partners, they will talk about it at the rammstein meeting. at the same time, norway announced that it would help train ukrainian pilots on f-16 fighters to fly on f16 fighters, previously britain and poland announced the training of pilots, so we will end our issue with this , read more news on our website bbc.ua and subscribe to our social media pages we are in on facebook twittery on instagram and on youtube where you can see our news releases if you suddenly missed them on the air, i say goodbye to you until

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strait in the occupied crimea was in rich smoke today and closed for entry and exit , the occupation authorities say that this is training and planned or not, we will find out soon. well, the orthodox church of ukraine is switching to a new church calendar , the gregorian one. two years ago, such a transition seemed like a fantasy. what has changed ? now we speak today. freedom life is faster . the ukrainian general staff stopped writing about the battles directly in bakhmut in two in the latest summaries on tuesday evening and wednesday morning, the general staff reported only about the allegedly unsuccessful attacks of russian forces in the direction of the village of kromovo, it is located near on the western outskirts of the city until tuesday morning, the general staff invariably reported heavy fighting either in bakhmut or for bakhmut, russia officially announced the finality of the final capture

of the city at the end of last week, the ukrainian military did not directly and officially confirm the final exit from the completely destroyed bakhmut, the current report of the institute for the study of war states about the fact that this is the first time since december 2022 that the ukrainian general staff did not report on the battles of bakhmut, analysts explain this as a possible advance of the wagnerites deep into the city what is happening in bakhmut direction, we will continue to talk to our air, vladyslav moshtonskyi, captain, chief of the public relations service of the 20th 127th separate brigade of the territorial defense of the armed forces of ukraine, joins us. good evening. good evening to you. please explain to us if i understand correctly. not reported, i am authorized only to give e-e answers regarding the area of ​​responsibility of the 127th separate brigade of the territorial defense forces

, currently the brigade is not in the city of bakhmut , it performs combat missions in bakhmut direction on the slats. and please tell me if you have any possible connections with the military , which theoretically , if you know about them, could be in bahmut or there are no such things there at the moment they are carrying out combat tasks in this area of ​​responsibility, one of them is in the city and

outside the city. or two, the situation has changed there at the moment, i can say the following: that the defense forces are making titanic efforts and are also having success with regard to offensive actions, in which places it is also impossible to specify exactly, because right now the combat orders of the command are being carried out, as well as regarding not informing the enemy and - and our successes that the enemy does not have any successes now, the enemy is making maximum efforts, using all types of weapons as artillery, there are heavy jumping battles, and the use of rszu, but

success says it doesn't have success now defense forces have literal actions but where exactly at the moment there is no opportunity to comment because because all the defense forces the armed forces of ukraine are making maximum efforts to fulfill the tasks set by the command, the tasks to hold positions not only can't speak correctly i understand. yes, i apologize, but i can only answer in the areas of my responsibility, within the limits of my responsibility, well, please tell me where the fighters of your brigade are located, how again, in the last few days, since the leader of wagner announced the capture of the city, how have the tactics or behavior of the russian mercenaries in the bakhmut area changed since then

? well, what they say about the lack of projectile armament is all fiction, the well -armed enemy does not slow down the pace at all, but i emphasize that the defense forces are being pushed out enemy, how do you think the situation may develop in the coming days in the direction of bakhmut? do you have any idea about it at all? it is difficult to analyze but but but but you do not understand so far correctly i understood difficult difficult analyze you hear well i'm sorry i'm losing connection i'm sorry i just can't understand it you still have pauses or we

just have problems with the sample or not everywhere there are problems with communication uh it's difficult to analyze that's why i can't give any clear answer i apologize. well, look at volodymyr zelenskyy, literally again at the weekend when he was at the summit in japan and answering the questions of journalists about whether the ukrainian military is in bakhmut, he said that they are there, but at the same time we see maps that publicized e-e was publicized uh, the diepstate organization and looking at these maps, well, it is clearly visible there that the city is actually captured, how can the ukrainian military be there, is it possible at all, maybe you can’t say much, but believe me for us and for the people who are definitely not there at all the situation is somehow not clear, there are clear

demands that i cannot violate, the battles are going on, the enemy is receiving colossal losses at sunset, dibstate. i am also an unauthorized traitor, because i do not understand at all who is leading it, and you, looking at her, you do not agree that the situation is exactly like this, i do not agree, the situation is different. i think that the general staff will not make clear comments on this matter in the near future. as of yesterday evening , the general staff does not mention the situation in the bakhmut direction in its summaries. and we know that we do not have any special information, but we we can know from our relatives, friends, colleagues who are in the direction of bakhmut, they say that the situation

there is extremely and extremely difficult, how difficult it is well, we cannot talk about bakhmut itself, on all front lines the situation is difficult but controlled by the defense forces i emphasize once again that the defense forces carry out all the assigned tasks in accordance with the requirements of the command, the enemy now has colossal losses and the defense forces are pushing the enemy in the bakhmut direction, the direction is on the hills, exactly on the plans, thank you very much for your comment, vladyslav moshanskyi, captain of the communications training service with the public of the 127th separate ground defense brigade of the armed forces of ukraine was on radio svoboda and as much as possible tried to explain to us what is happening in the direction of bakhmut, thank

you very much bridge across the kerch strait in occupied crimea today was in ryasny dim and is closed for entry and exit under the control of russia, the head of crimea serhiy aksyonov said that the bridge was closed due to an exercise on monday the day before in occupied sevastopol, local residents heard several explosions, the occupation authorities of the city called it training firings of the russian black sea fleet well, today , telegram channels associated with the russian security forces reported that the reconnaissance ship of the russian federation, the ivan kurs, was attacked by naval drones. happened after passing through the bosphorus strait at around 5:30 a.m. as the russian ministry of defense later reported, three ukrainian boats were allegedly involved in the attack, and they were allegedly all destroyed. the russian ministry of defense also published footage that, it claims , shows the destruction of the boats in a short clip posted on telegram- the department's channel shows at least one boat being hit ukrainian military statements about the attack on the ivan kurs ship so far

, at least, they have not commented, but our colleagues from the crimea editorial office are following the news from crimea realiy specifically, serhiy mokrushyn, a journalist of the crimea project , is joining realiy serhii, a journalist of the crimea project. claims the occupying authorities of crimea. is it something else? well, first of all, the situation is strange because the occupying authorities of crimea say about these planned exercises. they did not warn the people of kirch. in the morning, they saw two columns of smoke. they found out that the entrance to the kerch bridge closed, and only about an hour later the city authorities published

an explanation that these were allegedly planned trainings here about the closing of the bridge were also not informed in advance, as i said. the kerch fm edition reported that in the kerch strait itself and in some coastal areas of the city of kerch, a very dense e-e fog is observed in the voykov district , they report that it is the northern part of iker or that this fog has a specific smell and is associated with is this with the consequences of what happened today in the city of ternopil, or is it correct? i understood sergiya that the road was already restored closer to the evening. yes, the road was restored this afternoon. what can be said about the version, and about the version voiced by the occupying authorities of crimea, that russia is actively

conducting mobilization measures in the temporarily occupied crimea and military exercises only , for example, in yevpatoria this month , exercises were held three times very often, we explain the sounds of explosions and shooting in sevastopol and the traffic stop on kerch bridges are also not news for crimea, the last time traffic was stopped there on may 6 for technical reasons and without detailed explanations, and here it should be noted that the level of trust in these explanations is not very high in crimea, because often in this way the occupation authorities in crimea try to hide the facts like of called airstrikes and hits on military facilities in crimea. as an example , we do not need to go far from this bridge, because in october of last year, when there was an explosion on the crimean bridge, the occupation authorities of crimea, the same adviser serhiy aksyonov and oleg kryuchkov reported that there was simply

a tank on fire. yes, then everyone saw the consequences of this explosion, the report that it was attacked by naval drones, well, the department of the ministry of defense of russia says that it was three ukrainian boats or first of all what do you know about it? and secondly, is it actually related in any way to the fire on the bridge? is it some kind of two parallel separate stories that developed simultaneously today, well , with the available information, it is very difficult to connect these two events with each other, so ivan of the course it is part of the black sea fleet of russia, but judging by the report of the russian ministry of defense, these events took place far from crimea and the kerch strait, it is 140 km to the northeast of the bosphorus strait, it is closer to turkey, and according to common information, ivan kurtz is a reconnaissance ship. its purpose is providing