in an interview with oksana bedratenko rano basso shared her impressions of her recent visit to kyivoiced the bank's plans to support ukraine visited ukraine twice during the war the last time these weeks what struck you my impressions from the current trip are very different from the visit in october then russia just started shelling civilian infrastructure, there were many shellings of the power grid and so on. at that time, it was not known how we are not in winter, whether the country will be able to provide people with electricity and heat. there was a lot of tension and uncertainty in the city, you know , it was very quiet. so on. now the situation has become more normal, there are many more cars, people on the streets, the political leaders i met with are preparing for the tension and for the next winter, but they are also thinking about the future, there is a lot of help in ukraine in the winter with the repair of the energy infrastructure and heat supply, what are your current priorities for ukraine, we will continue to support the infrastructure, because it must be strong f

i meanwhile, ukraine's military says it's making progress in the basso full. the eastern town of baltimore fussing has been raging in the town for months if any and forces na say they're now pushing a russian troops back on the northern and southern outskirts. but inside talking with the ukrainians foretold, keeps getting slim ukrainian troops paying a high price for the efforts to liberate the flashpoint city of buck moved. the soldier took a direct hit from a move to show. he says he's helm, it saves his life. on monday the truth to top come on, the said they'd made that 1st significant advances, despite having fewer resources and personnel than the enemies rushes, defense ministry acknowledged ukraine's attempts to capture territories around buck moved but denied they had been successful this year to the north and south and the enemy made major attempts to break through our troops defensive. we repelled all attacks by units of ukraine's armed forces. no break, there was no defense has occurred. oh, i don't know if it was the motion, but communities the scen

in city scrubs we meet basso, whose'that nearing surgery also destroyed. >> i am grieving come a persond come a hospital destroyed, civilian lives here. nearly every day i was so much involved in this. the director of this clinic this was the passion of his life. >> ukraine has spent another life -- night under russian drones and missiles. almost 50 were shot down, we are told. >> the thing is, russia is irritated in recent days when our air defense is becoming more powerful. when the become irritated they send their missiles everywhere. >> strikes like this do not tend to influence the battlefield, but they do exhaust defenses and ruin lives. james waterhouse, bbc news, dnipro. >> for more on this now i am joined by elisabeth in washington she is a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. formally the united services institute, and dr. patrick, a senior lecturer in security at the university of bath and the former british army captain that also served as an advisor. if we can start with you. what do you make of the unfocused attacks in recent days from russia against ukraine

matter, do you sing konchak or igor i sang igor here, well, in the future, when igor is sung by both bassoones, low ones also sing boris godunov, they also sing like low baritones like these bass is high. here, therefore, there is some kind of, well, gradation of voice, how will your voice lead you, how will your timbre sound, because one voice is only material, of course, here, and there already on subtleties. we are already working on our own. and then, here's what we heard. and in general , everything you do, it's a whole performance, since your voice allows you to find any colors. what are necessary for the home? let the performance suspect the figure of the director, among other things. and who is the director, and with whom are you dear ledara, she finds where which one to take? what timbre what color to take it you build this performance? or do you have a director, yes, who gives the task. it may be, let's say a performance, if we take boris godunov, which we recently performed at skala, but it was a modern production. and in a modern production, it was necessary to find a modern on

at least 6 people have been killed and hundreds injured off dislike, learn much of basso to the coasts of bangladesh. and the in the refugee comes in bangladesh is cox's bizarre, which is home to more than $1000000.00 range of people escaped. a direct hit off of the cycle ends paused. the eastwood to 26. people have been killed in a road accident on a highway in mexico. authorities that a freight trailer collided with a vine that was carrying passengers, including children in the countries northern states of time only pass the 2 vehicles and course via and then australia recess, a who went missing. also, being attacked by a shock over the weekend is now presumed dead that's according to police. that's off to search teams, found fragments of what appeared to be a wet suit and a surfboard. australia has the highest number of faithful shock attacks in the world of the ukrainian president load them is a lensky, is in the u. k. the lights has stopped on his well, when european tool that i'd skis visit follows a pledge by the u. k. is prime minister richie so not to provide ukraine with hund

according to the wall street journal, many ukrainian construct front lines of to being thrown into the basso, unprepared. does it look like you have can afford to keep using is troops as talent and folder? yes, as what we have seen seen. so seems mountain i think your u. k. if we continue to do that because uh when we see how the, the take a lot of people directly in the streets. i mean, we have videos of conscripts being taken by for us. i mean it matches of catch on the street to take them and we understand that these people will not be treated properly. that will, they will be treated. those come on a folder. thank you. so much for joining the license, the mazda kristen, the on all of that. you thank you. you're welcome. meanwhile, a us democratic congressman has said that he wouldn't cat if you for, and used f sixteens to attack russian territory. if the westwood to provide the fight to judge chick yes, very concerned that they will enter into russian territory as there have been reason reports of the overall take the border city. i'm not concerned. i wouldn't care if they did. you would