[000:00:00;00] subscribe to our social networks and also join our site espresso tv , we work for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the most up-to-date news from ukraine and the world and front chronicle thank you until the next program take care of yourself and your loved ones goodbye, this is bbc ukraine my name is hryhoriy zhagalov. today, we have a unique view of british journalists about how the counteroffensive is developing . bbc war correspondent quentinsomer spent several days at the location of the 68th separate hunter brigade. the armed forces of ukraine on the outskirts of the village of blagodatne, recently liberated by ukrainian forces. at this time, its forces were trying to take control of the territory east of the village, while in general the troops continue reconnaissance by combat, and most of the ukrainian forces are in

reserve, waiting for the opportunity to launch the main attack, as it looks in the frame behind-the-scenes unique materials and eyewitness testimony today on the air today we look at the front line but before we show a special report by quentin somer vilia, about which he has not yet spoken a little about the context context as it is perceived by the eyes of foreign correspondents who are currently working mainly in the ukrainian capital and are waiting for the first powerful blows behind them during this announced counteroffensive, even though experts and ukrainian western ukrainian military and politicians warn against excessive expectations and warn of a counteroffensive of armed forces forces of ukraine may begin may be deployed slowly carefully take months to me john from kyiv ukrainian authorities declare that the counteroffensive

is advancing slowly and steadily by the armed forces of ukraine returns the territories occupied by russia in the east and south of the country two weeks after the start of hostilities, the ukrainian military managed to recapture eight settlements , including the small village of pyatikhatky in zaporizhzhia , the russian side confirmed that the main part of the hostilities is taking place in zaporizhzhia , but at the same time denied that russia lost certain territories, and this despite the fact that a russian official initially admitted that pyatikhatka had been lost, but then the russian military denied the assertion, all this happens during a diplomatic appeal zelenskyi to his nato allies and other countries, where he voiced the need for more military support for a counteroffensive with tanks and weapons. on monday, zelenskyi spoke with the british prime minister about strengthening ukraine's defense capabilities and the possibility of providing ukraine with long- range missiles. in general, analysts believe that both countries are still in the initial stages of a counter-offensive holding back

some troops and ammunition in order to advance in the future when this will exhaust the first line of defense but there is one thing where the opinions of all sides converge, this counteroffensive will last several weeks, if not months, let's sum it up two weeks after the start of the counteroffensive, ukraine has made modest but steady progress in three directions of the offensive along the entire 1,000 km long front line, on the front line, the troops conduct combat reconnaissance, but most of the ukrainian forces are still is in reserve they are waiting for a sufficient hole in the russian defense to launch the main attack in the south of the donetsk region, the advance has slowed down but continues correspondent bibici quen somerville one of the most experienced war correspondents in the bbc visited the breeding ground where the 68th yeger brigade of the armed forces of ukraine is fighting here is his report let's watch and then we will talk this is the beginning of a fierce struggle to return what

belongs to them two weeks ago this territory was occupied by russia now to the front line the third assault brigade took a little longer to get there, but here in the east and the south there is still a long way to go ukraine went on the offensive russia dug its teeth into this land but the third assault brigade fought even harder step by step because there may be mines here, russian mines. let's go, it's all here, russian ammunition and uniforms, yes, yes, food , ammunition

, their rations, everything sounds like that. more than before, the projectile is a little further away, there are a whole lot of russians that no one took away. so, they retook these trenches relatively recently. it seems that only the dead russians, at least two, are still there, the ukrainians are recapturing the territory to the south to the north of bakhmut, but the city itself is still controlled by the russians, this is only the very beginning of the counteroffensive , the ukrainians are making small successes, but the main task for them is to find a place for a major breakthrough , which has not yet been successful, it can happen anywhere along this thousand kilometer front line maybe here, but maybe somewhere in the south. so they advance in many directions at once , trying to stretch russian resources , manpower, and weapons as much as possible, and then

break through further. we traveled 130 km on south-west from the position of the third assault unit to the second zone of the ukrainian offensive here, the 68th brigade liberated a number of settlements east of the village of blagodatne and you will let him go and then you will carry business trips andriy nistrat gives orders from the diesel it is very important to listen to people listen carefully and do everything they tell you, and be smiling , why are you so serious? big losses hair from veri difficult very very difficult here it is very difficult because this is the main activity area of ​​russia of the officers here it seems that there were battles for every house and for every room very close

battles i am from the spherids of tavria so every kilometer is very difficult i know how many people we lost but i can’t tell you here there are still corpses of russians one two three but despite the terrible cost of liberating this village, the fighters do not linger here, gather things and prepare for the next strike, this unit of drones

plays a key role in it, let’s go while the artillery is working there. they must quickly move closer to the russian positions. the volleys are all undamaged by western armored vehicles. but russia has also lost dozens of tanks and vehicles since the beginning of the offensive. on this hot day, we have under the grace of god. howitzers fire at russian positions, soon the enemy responds but misses and from the drone unit

cannot wait until the drone fire stops which he sends to the enemy trenches carry grenades and smoke grenades for that day they lost as many as 5 such drones artillery is not the only thing that has to be opposed sun russion helicopter russian helicopters and planes fire every day and everywhere shelter needle ok wait in shelter good luck now was a very good illustration in his words, aviation is one of the biggest advantages of the russians over the ukrainians, the ukrainians are being attacked from the ground, but the russians still have helicopters, they still have fighter jets, and this makes it much more difficult for them to advance, this battle is won, but the danger is still it hasn't passed until we return to the cops, the russian artillery opens even more fire on andrii's convoy. that's why we need

to move quickly. 49-year-old andrii is burdened with an additional burden of memory about his son, the scheme, everything is my son's helmet, it's too small for me, but it's like a memory on in these shots of 21-year-old ostap, the day before his death, he fought in the same positions as his father two days before the start of the counteroffensive , he was

killed by a russian drone in the garden. please tell me a little about him he wanted to be a hero for me and he wanted to be a hero for me and he succeeded, i wanted to protect him and he wanted to be a hero and he won ukraine can still win back its land but it has lost a lot of things forever, it is possible to add here that you have just seen the condensed report, he just arrived at the position, filmed the report and left, as often happens, he spent a week with the brigade for a week, well, a few days, and together with everyone, he hid from exposure from enemy shelling. in fact, quentin was recommended

to this brigade, this is such a special method of work of war correspondents, and later on the bbc, quentin shared his impressions and compared the experience. in my opinion, the main offensive is still ahead. in our report, you saw a small section of the front near the village of blagodatne, south of the great novosilka . on that day, the ukrainians were they successfully attacked russian positions, prepared grenades for battle , their bmps overcame mini fields and attacked russian defense lines that day, they won. it was a small victory, but even when we were with those guys, we got a chance to feel the real intensity of the battles. we saw many russians killed, several american crowns destroyed, and the ukrainian soldiers we spoke with said that they also had heavy losses. the ukrainians are now trying to do the following by attacking several places along the front line and are slowly but gradually moving forward they seek

to stretch the russian resources, their troops and equipment, and then when they find a gap , they will throw their main forces, which are currently kept in reserve with british tanks, on the breakthrough challengers so on in order to thus take advantage of the weak link, however, it will take weeks if on quentin moon you were attached to brigades of the ukrainian army to gain access to the front , how balanced a picture did you get , being with them constantly attached to ukrainian soldiers or to afghan soldiers, it doesn’t matter whether in syria or iraq, it is always important to take a conditional step back, because you see a small part of the whole picture, from which you cannot draw conclusions about how the offensive is unfolding, where the war is moving we must always take into account, of course, we do not have access to russian positions, but

we are always looking for another point of view to get a more complete picture, we analyze social networks, telegrams and so on, this is a truly invaluable rare experience to be able to spend some time on the spot in the trenches during an attack within this coming soon, quentin's report is also available on youtube in winter from ukraine. if you want to watch it again or share quentin's materials on the bbc.ua website, in general , look for more stories on our bbc.ua website on our pages in social networks on this we put an end to today we will be on the air again tomorrow at 21:00 take care of yourself

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life my name is vlad and lazar and today in the issue defense minister serhiy shoigu the minister of defense of russia threatens strikes on so-called decision-making centers, if ukraine uses himers and storm shadow missiles in crimea, and us president joe biden declares that the threat of russia's use of tactical nuclear weapons is real, can crimea become an excuse for the kremlin to use nuclear weapons, people's deputies of ukraine propose to recognize belarus as an aggressor country and break diplomatic relations with it, this is happening against the background of statements about the possible deployment of russian nuclear weapons on the territory of belarus, what else needs to happen for kyiv to break off relations with minsk, and what prevents it from doing this just now , and the european union is preparing a new package of sanctions, a new aid package for ukraine , ursula von der leyen announced this today, it is about 50

billion euros in exchange for reforms, is anyone interested kyiv has such proposals about it today freedom life on june 19, ukrainian troops conducted successful counteroffensive operations on at least three areas of the front, this is stated in the daily report of the institute for the study of war, analysts note that according to russian military bloggers , on june 19, ukrainian troops continued their offensive on the northwest northeast and south-west of bakhmut and advanced in the area of ​​krasnopolivka. it is about 12 km northeast of bakhmut. radio svoboda told about the offensive launched by their unit in the south of the donetsk region. it was the marines who freed the largest area from the occupation of the russian military as of mid-june. they advanced more than 6 km along the river .

sentry and makarivka tankers broke through the road for infantry operations and stormed the positions of the occupying forces and russia in ukraine, further report by our colleague in roman pagulych from donetsk region well, we are like the commander's crew we 're free, good night, we're leading the infantry . already purely in the defense before the infantry. i worked as a coal miner

at the dachas, and then at avdeev. and there, for a while , there was an assault. we broke up their columns there. the first one that putin paved the gates at the highest level, i'll tell you this, 100% of the company did 1000, that's all, the guys told us that we were going to break through, but that is , no one had any doubts, everything was ready to tear the opponents, it's just an edge, okay, okay , no of fear because if the crew and you understand that it is someone

there will be worried, well, inside the car, there could be a tragedy. and so everything worked well , let's show us, let's say, what will be the point there, where to work, where to work from 28 pieces if you go to a point to work and the arta is guided there for 7 minutes, then i say it is possible in 5 minutes, the conveyor will take off, i will leave a projectile there 14

well, when leaving, you should always put a couple of projectiles against whom we are going. it was under construction for three days. we went to the clutch in stages. the first stage was to knock out the enemy from their position. they were near the landings . we knocked them out. equipped positions there with fire points, the task was to go to the pay and defeat the enemy well, that is, well , i will say this based on the character of the tank infantrymen

. i didn't think that we would pick up close. there is a difference from kherson. there is a difference. yes, there are more of them here, that is, there is more meat here , more equipment, more art, and the bigger one shouts the oral language here . there are a little more of them. well, in principle, it is. and it is noticeable that there are more of them here, all their direction is here. to say that it was easy, it was not easy, it was not easy because it was necessary to break through the routes, well, thanks to my soldiers, everyone who is in my care. well, that is , we are doing an excellent, good job. to observe, to introduce a mechanic to give me a gift at the same time, the bikes are intensive. wow, that's how they would sweat a lot. well, thank god

, everything worked out. we broke through. we took it. we freed it. of this broadcast and in this way support our work russian defense minister sergei shoigu threatened to strike the so-called decision-making centers if ukraine uses storm shadow hymer missiles for targets in crimea, which he also stated that the use of these missiles would mean, so to speak, drawing the united states into the war and i would like to remind great britain that on may 11, the british ministry of defense confirmed the transfer of storm shadow long-range missiles to ukraine, and according to reports from the ukrainian side, the armed forces of ukraine are already using these missiles in according to our data, the armed forces of ukraine are planning all strikes on the territory of the russian federation

, including crimea, the missile and the hymax, and how long the use of those missiles outside the area of ​​the special military operation will mean full-fledged involvement of the united states of america and great britain in the conflict and will not slow down strikes on of the decision-making center on the territory of ukraine, by the way, we have footage shown by the land agency and here the press - this is the work of ukrainian military personnel on the heimers missile launcher i remind you ukraine received 18 such launchers and the usa promises even more during the war, not a single heimers was destroyed, this is claimed by a ukrainian serviceman of the unit

that actually operated the launcher at the expense of the speed given by the empty one , accordingly, all chances of getting caught are reduced to a minimum. -e scientists who could contribute to the fact that the enemy is allowed

to see what it means. wooden ones and everything mainly we work in warehouses because there is a complete set of the enemy now we have started to have moving targets in this case where is the s300 column which will be important so they alternated accuracy up to 5 meters it is very accurate very what do moscow's threats mean and i i would like to remind you that the kremlin declares that if the long-range missiles of hymer or stormhead reach the crimea, then in moscow it will be considered the involvement of the united states and great britain in the war, and

if the long-range missiles really reach the crimea, what will this mean? let's talk about the nature of the counteroffensive later. roman svitan , a military expert, a colonel of the reserve of the armed forces of ukraine, has already joined our broadcast. now the kremlin has resorted to such threats and warns that if you will be in crimea, then we will consider which part of the western countries are in the war. what does this mean as it should be read in kyiv. how can it be read in the west, well, the main thing is how the russians can read it, they have already read it, they understood that eh , the occupied mainland parts of ukraine are allowed. it is not like crimea for russians