former us military chief general david petraeus.urn to zaporizhzhia, and warnings about the risks to the nuclear power plant there, the largest in europe. the head of the un's nuclear watchdog, the iaea, says the security sitation around the plant is extremely fragile because of continued military activity in the region. our reporter courtney bembridge is in the newsroom to talk us through the concerns. this is europe's biggest nuclear power plant, occupied by russia for more than a year, both sides accusing the other of repeatedly shelling it. before the more, it provided about 20% of ukraine's electricity and it was still operational until september last year, when power production was stopped. there are now concerned that heavy fighting around the plant could lead to a soviet nuclear accident, and his picture was published earlier this month by a local ukrainian official who said it shows people leaving the nearby towns. he said russia had caused a mad panic by telling people that they needed to evacuate. well, shelling is one co

we start with ukraine and an exclusive bbc interview with the us military chief general david petraeus. he's in kyiv now and has met president zelensky. he says the ukraine upcoming counteroffensive could be very impressive and says russia's operations over the winter largely failed. the us general petraeus commanded forces in iraq and afghanistan. he spoke to our diplomatic correspondent james landale. he talks about the spring offensive and also towards the end, listen to his description of the russian forces, let's take a listen. i believe we will see the results of true combined arms effect, tanks protected by infantry against anti—tank guided missiles, artillery keeping heads down, engineers reducing the obstacles, breaching the fortifications that the russians have established, air defence, keeping the russians off the ukrainians, electronic warfare jaminet russians�* already not a and control, all orchestrated by very good ukrainian command and control, and using drones over the russians to attack them in depth with the precision munitions that the us and uk and others have prov

with the military vehicles, and now to talk about this with where things stand, joining me is david petraeuskhmut which is one of the winter objectives which was among others that was not achieved. and focusing on the little militia elements which are pro-ukrainian elements which have distracted the russians, and they have to respond to this as we speak, but the bigger picture is that we are in a moment of transition. the russian winter offensive has culminated and it did not achieve all of the gains, the final quote victory in bakhmut, and on the flanks of bakhmut, the ukrainians have been counter attacking and taking them back from the russians and the head of wagner saying that he is going to withdraw his troops from june and give them retraining and relaxation, and so even more tenuous as they are claiming this seemingly victory, but what to look ahead to is this looming ukrainian counter offensive. the counter offensive is hugely important, because it is going to be using additional yucrepe i crepe -- ukrainian brigades equipped with artillery and enormous riding on. this i personally t

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david petraeus is now in kyiv with the lord amir zelensky.winter largely failed. he spoke to our diplomatic correspondent james landale. i diplomatic correspondent james landale. , �* , landale. i believe we'll see for the first _ landale. i believe we'll see for the first time _ landale. i believe we'll see for the first time in - landale. i believe we'll see for the first time in this - landale. i believe we'll see | for the first time in this war on either_ for the first time in this war on either side the achievement of true — on either side the achievement of true effects the result of tanks — of true effects the result of tanks protected by infantry against _ tanks protected by infantry against tank guided missiles, keeping — against tank guided missiles, keeping the enemies heads down, enemies _ keeping the enemies heads down, enemies preaching fortifications that the russians have established. air defences— russians have established. air defences keeping russia off the ukraine — defences keeping russia off the ukraine and orchestrated

successful, such hopes were expressed by the ex-commander of the us central command , general david petraeusring the kyiv security forum, according to him, the success of ukraine's counteroffensive is largely determined the state of the army and russia, which suffered great losses and was unable to re-equip and provide a disciplined military force , petraeus added that the success of the armed forces will depend further assistance to ukraine and the prospect of joining nato, i will remind kyiv that it is waiting for a clear signal regarding euro-atlantic integration from the alliance summit in july, we expect that partners will give clear signals about future membership and it will be more than open dorpolis , which is already known to us and is familiar to every schoolchild in ukraine knows that when the door is open somewhere , they must take it there. the ukrainian army is forming additional brigades, and it would be known that at least six armored brigades, we all wanted these weapons to be on the contour for a counteroffensive cherkasy volunteers converted a mail car brought from europe

such hopes were expressed by the ex-commander of the us central command, general david petraeus, during the kyiv security forum. to re-equip and ensure a disciplined military force , petraeus added that further assistance to ukraine and the prospect of joining nato will depend on the success of the armed forces, let me remind you that kyiv expects a clear the signal regarding euro-atlantic integration from the alliance summit in july is what it says to you. see you at 11 o'clock and read more about important things on our website espresso tv subscribe to our channels on social networks stay close more than 30% of ukrainian territories are now dangerous for life all because of landmines but unexploded ammunition during the war ukraine broke the world record and became the most mined country however, our rival groups of armed forces are already ready to liberate our native land from the enemy ironclad and help our kyivstar, together with the come back alive fund, have taken on the military. we have a very ambitious goal to collect, together with kyivstar and people, together with other or

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