let's bring in gabriel. alexander who's covering old development for us in cave. hello, there, gabriel. first, onto blink and visit. what more do we know about that? well, as you mentioned, it was, it is an unannounced visit and wasn't announced on the schedule. we're sort of unexpected if you will. he just arrived within the last half hour or so. so we're expecting that he's going to meet with talk ukrainian officials, including president of ultimate went zelinski. but we'll be getting more information on that in the coming minutes. an hour is quite frankly, we do know that lincoln is coming and also telling ukrainian officials that the united states is going to give it $2000000000.00 in military assistance, aid to ukraine, and 18 neighboring countries. half of the 2000000000. so 1000000000 will go specifically ukraine and the other 1000000000 will be split between 18 different regional countries. here, this is military aid that will be for assistance in the you, in the view of the us to help come back in their view russian aggression in the region. so beyond that

but 1st let's go to gabriel. alexander, who joins us live from cave. hello, they gave what milky tell us about these reports. arm soldiers are going door to door in these occupied parts of the country. yeah, that's what we've seen on telegram channels and different social media sites that have been sort of posting videos and what have you from these different regions where this voting is apparently taking place. and there are some regions where videos we're seeing of a clearly showing what appear to be russian appointed election officials. walking through the hallways of apartment buildings knocking on doors, accompanied by would appear to be russian soldiers asking people to vote. clearly assigned, critic say would be voter intimidation. we're also seeing and hearing reports of ukrainians that do not want to vote to join the russian federation. busy fearful closing their windows and doors shuddering their blinds as, as election. officials walk through neighborhoods as well. so we are, you know, this, it's very difficult to get a very clear sense of wh

hallett is at the white house, but 1st, let's get the latest on the ground in ukraine with gabriel. alexander, who joins me live now a day, but plenty of questions remain about how this partial mobilize, ang, mobilization rather will actually we're yeah, that's right. there are a lot more questions and answers if you will right now, but we are getting a better idea or understanding of what this will look like. number one is that these soldiers who are reservists that are being called up immediately to report to bases to go through re training. and then they will be put with battalions that will presumably then be deployed here to ukraine to fight in this war. a war that is now going on for more than 7 months. now it is clear that these are, are soldiers that are reservists that don't necessarily want to fight because if they want it to be in this war, they would have volunteered already. so this is very much non voluntary force if you will. that's what a call up is all about. there are also questions on the effectiveness of this force . these are reservists, many of whom haven't seen any sort

the 2nd step is of course, to get you home, gives gabriel alexander his in keith and explains how ukrainians are feeling about the exchange in a word ecstatic. this is a big victory for most ukrainians who wake up this morning getting this news. and they are thrilled, quite frankly. and the reason is, is because these soldiers that were released by the russians in his prisoner swap. any soldiers would have been considered a victory for ukrainians, but this is particularly bitter sweet for them if you will use that terminology. because of who they were. more than the majority of these 215 prisoners that were released for soldiers from the as of regiment that held out for weeks and weeks at the as a stall, a steel plant in marty you for they are considered and have been considered for many months now national heroes for what many ukrainians consider their incredible bravery. during the early and middle stages of this war, you can see it all over the city. in fact, right behind you can actually see this is the city hall building here and key. and they've had this huge banner, it's been on the f

but 1st let's go to gabriel. alexander, who joins us from the cave. hello, they, gabriel. so report, i'm soldiers going door to door and these occupied parts of the country. how is that playing out on the ground? what are you hearing yeah, what's important do again, remember that this, it's very hard to get very clear information on what exactly is happening, where there's boating is taking place. of course, it's ukrainian territory that is controlled by russian forces. there are no international independent election monitors there. and media movements are incredibly restricted in that area. with that said, what we're hearing from various telegram channels and from social media. what we're hearing from ukraine ins that live in that area, talking to families that are outside of the area where voting is happening, is that we are seeing evidence. russian appointed officials with military going door to door and some instances in apartment buildings knocking on door, allegedly coercing people to vote or the way they want them to vote. we're also hearing about ukrainians in some

you're a pain support for ukraine, as well as it's been to join the you. gabriel. alexander has more from keith. they spoke between behind closed door meetings and briefly spoke to the press. afterwards were said that they talked a lot about how to rebuild ukraine and how to get the economy back on track. and ukraine moving forward. underline announced a $5000000000.00 in financial assistance to ukraine, including $250000000.00 to rebuild the schools, and also for temporary shelter for people that have been displaced by the war. russia is sending a fact finding team to armenia, that is after year van asked for military help in its latest conflict with azerbaijan. more than 150 soldiers have been killed on both sides. since monday, thousands of mourners have filing past the coffin of queen elizabeth the 2nd her body will line stayed at westminster hold for the next 4 days. this is the queue that stretching nearly 7 kilometers along the river thames as people wait to pay their respects. sweden's prime minister has formerly submitted her resignation after suffering and narrowed her fate

that's go live now to gabriel, alexander who's in the capital for the latest on this visit. so again, what is the esl of underlying, been saying? but she and both mere zelinski met behind closed doors here and key for little over an hour or so. and they came out and spoke to journalists afterwards, and they said that they spoke about a whole host of issues. but what it really came down to this visit by underlying was to show support and solidarity for ukraine. she looked over at president wagner, zalinski and said, europe was with you yesterday. europe is with you today, and europe will be with you tomorrow. she said to zelinski, now they said that they spoke about substantive issues, such as europe's energy needs going into the winter energy shortages that they expect in europe. they spoke about rebuilding the ukrainian economy and economy that is almost come to a grinding halt in the last 6 months since this invasion began on july and says that europe will commit $5000000000.00 in loans to ukraine and also committed $250000000.00 to rebuilding ukrainian schools and, and al

but this is going to gabriel alexander who's in k for us k reports. i'm soldiers a going door to door and occupied parts of the country to collect votes. what more hearing on the ground as to how this is all working? well this is day 2 of russia calls this referendum vote in what they say will be 4 days of voting. so it would go till monday. presumably we would start hearing some results from the russian election commission in moscow on monday night, perhaps tuesday or wednesday. but it's a bears worth repeating, that it is very hard to get a clear picture of what is happening in these russian controlled areas of ukraine with this voting is taking place because there are no independent international election monitors. their media is very tightly controlled and also it's happening in war zone. so it's very hard for people on the russian side or the ukrainian side of the front lines to go back and forth to get a better sense of what is happening behind the russian front. lines for this voting is taking place. with that said, russia is claiming that voti

as for us, go to gabriel alexander in key. gabriel. bring us up to date with a situation in khaki. well the car key for a counter offensive by the ukranian started about 36 to 48 hours ago. and it was a surprise offensive. important to point out that how to key the city 2nd largest city in ukraine has always been controlled by the ukrainians. however, the russians have been able to take much of the other part of the how to keep the region south and east of the regional capital. and from those positions the russians have been able to, with increasing intensity, show how to keep city itself over recent days and weeks. this is what the ukrainians are trying to to stop. and this is why they launched this counter offensive. it appears based on what we're hearing from ukraine in officers on the ground. and what we're hearing on social media platforms from video is being released by ukrainian officials that are on the front lines of this battle. the ukrainians are making headway and they have at least captured a couple of villages and now have encircled we believe the very strategically i

but 1st, let's get the latest from gabriel alexander who joined me from keith in ukraine. hello, they gave how i ukrainians, reacting to this need. well, they're thrilled, there's thrill that these 215 ukrainian soldiers have been released because it's been a priority for the ukranian government. and quite frankly, for the ukrainian people as a whole, to get this done. because these aren't just any soldiers, of course, ukraine's are happy when would be, of course, when any soldiers would be freed. however, these are particularly important ones that ukraine's hold close to their heart, quite frankly, because of they are these as regimen soldiers. a vast majority of these that have been freed that have been held by russians. these are soldiers that ukrainians considered to be national heroes. because they held out so long in the as it would stall steel mill in mary oh, poor when they were surrounded by russian is elaine shell by russians for many, many weeks. and that is why you go around keep and other cities, and you'll see huge signs around the city saying we need our as

zalinski a discussing your pain support for ukraine, and it's a bit to join the european union. gabriel alexander has more from keith. she and voldemort zelinski met behind closed doors here in key for little over an hour or so. and they came out, spoke to journalists afterwards, and they said that they spoke about a whole host of issues. but what it really came down to this visit by wonderland was to show support and solidarity for ukraine. she looked over at president vladimir zelinski and said, europe was with you yesterday. europe is with you today, and europe will be with you tomorrow. she said to zelinski, now they said that they spoke about substantive issues, such as europe's energy needs going into the winter energy shortages that they expect in europe. they spoke about rebuilding the ukranian economy and economy that is almost come to a grinding halt in the last 6 months since this invasion began. underlie and says that europe will commit $5000000000.00 in loans to, to ukraine, and also committed $250000000.00 to rebuilding ukrainian schools and, and also for temporary shelters for thos

but bring in gabriel. alexander, whose live for us in cave. hello. they gave. what more do we know about these counter offensive? well, it's fierce fighting, we're getting a sense that it is incredibly strong fighting and by both sides. but that if this war is about momentum, it appears that the ukrainian seem to have it right now. this was a counter offensive in the northeast city, outside of how to keith. there was a little bit an expected ukrainians were not telegraphing it at all. however, when it began about 36 to 48 hours ago, it appeared to be craniums, were pushing very strongly outside of how to keep city and more to the south and east of that area. and it appears based on open source material that we're seeing and from comments and, and images from ukrainian officials in the area that, that clearly the ukrainians are on the cost of in circling a key city. alec clearer, a city of a pre war population of about 25000 people, a very important city for the russians who have controlled it for many months now. and it appears that the ukraine's are, are close

s. estimated 15000 russian troops had been killed since the invasion began. gabriel alexander reports now from keith. with battle, you've lost his mountie and a ukrainian counter offensive advancing. russian president vladimir putin says now was the time to mobilize more troops, yet as a she the national religion to protect her motherland. its sovereignty and territorial integrity to ensure the security of our nation. and people the liberated areas, i consider it necessary to call for a partial mobilization in russia. the board, the defense minister says as many as 300000 russian reservists will report for duty immediately. but more could be called up if necessary. thornton also confirmed that he would push ahead with a referendum in for regions of ukraine, including the don boss. the referendum will ask one question. do you want to join the russian federation? that referendum, often a precursor to full annexation of territory, could happen as early as this week. he might go, president vladimir zalinski urged allies to focus on what is important for ukraine . the drum kit is growing,

most countries deemed the vote to be a legal out zera's. gabriel, alexander has more from keith to key aspects of lat. amir put in speech, the 1st one being the fact that he's calling for a partial mobilization of the russian armed forces. his defense minister saying that as many as 300000 russian reservists will be immediately called for more training and then put into this war with ukraine. now how ukraine has responded to this has been sort of a shrugged shoulders, ukrainian president, while the mayor zelinski saying that nothing really changes with this announcement by putting that he will continue with his main objective to help the ukrainian armed forces get the weapons that they need and also the main objective to expel all russian forces off all ukrainian land. also, the 2nd major announcement 5 lead amir putin was the fact that he is pushing forward with a referendum in 4 ukrainian territories. there either fully or partially controlled by the russian military. the response by the international community to this is that any referendum would be illegal and that ukrainians also

which includes the transfer of one high profile oligarch with close ties to vladimir putin. gabriel, alexander reports now from cave. it's the most significant prisoner swap since the war began. 215 ukrainian soldiers released by russia in a deal brokered by turkey. um, this is definitely a victory for our state for our entire society, the most in portland for 215 families and who'd be able to see their loved ones, his safety. oh mister president, dear fellow ukrainians, i am eternally grateful to you for bringing us back. thank you very much. emotions are overwhelming little blue in a separate deal facilitated by saudi arabia. 10 foreigners fighting alongside ukrainian forces.

which includes the transfer of one high profile oligarchy, with close ties to vladimir putin. gabriel, alexander reports now from keith. it's the most significant prisoner swaps since the war began. 215 ukrainian soldiers released by russia in a deal brokers by turkey. this is definitely a victory for our state for our entire society. the most important for 215 families who be able to see their loved ones and safety. mister president, dear fellow ukrainian, i am eternally grateful to you for bringing us bank. thank you very much. emotions are overwhelming in a separate deal facilitated by saudi arabia. 10 foreigners fighting alongside ukrainian forces have also been released on most of the ukrainian soldiers released were part of the so called as our regiment. that held out for weeks defending the as of stone steel plant and mario ball. despite being surrounded and showed by russian forces, they finally surrendered in may. as part of the agreement, 5 of the units commanders will remain in turkey until the end of the war. the soldiers that fought as a star are considered national heroes here in u

but 1st let's go to gabriel. alexander who's in keith. hello, there. gave jeff how successful has ukraine been at taking back its territory? what by all accounts the in the early stages of this counter offensive and how to keep in the northeast, the ukrainians have been quite successful again, these are, this is a counter offensive that has just about didn't do it's going into. it's 2nd day here. so we're starting to get some evidence back from the front lines on how it's going and the ukrainians are cautiously optimistic that it's going quite well for them. based on everything that we're seem to be clear, the city of how to keep in the northeast is the 2nd largest city in ukraine. it has been and still is controlled by the ukrainian since the beginning of this conflict . what this counter offensive is, is trying to do is push the russians out of this south and eastern part of how to keep the region. why? because the russians have been able to use entrenched areas that they have captured and, and been entrenched in a south and east of how

now that we are there, or gabriel alexander was monitoring that analysis, sir from kia gabriel. what do you see is the biggest take away from raphael groceries findings there? well, he said a lot of things and very interesting things. you could hear some of them there, but i would say that what i was struck most by was the fact that here in, ki, we've been hearing from a lot of officials that have been framing his visit as though it was stage managed by a russia officials and keith are indicating our insinuating that the russians were not allowing grosse and his team to visit everywhere they wanted to visit. that is clearly not the case. according to grossi, he said very clearly, that i was allowed to see anything that i wanted to see. i was allowed to visit anything that i wanted to visit and he said i was not prevented from visiting any part of the plan nuclear power plant that i requested to visit. so i think that that really lays to rest any sort of doubt that he was, and his team were able to visit everything, at least for the one day that grossi was there. that's important

is now functioning for earlier russia accuse ukrainian forces of shilling near the facility. gabriel alexander has more from cave. well, the security and the safety situation are very both very tenuous down in the separation nuclear power plant at this very hour, precisely because there was this main power source on the plant, the last remaining permanent power source. there. as you mentioned, the 3 others had already been knocked out during the war. this one went down. that's the bad news. the somewhat good news is that there's backup power system was able to kick in. and that is what is providing power to the nuclear facility at this hour. but that is not the ideal situation. this is essentially running on backup generators, if you will, to put it in sort of simple terms and you never want to be doing that at a nuclear power plant such as this, especially one is large as this is the largest in europe and provides over half the energy to all of ukraine. so this happened now also at a very critical juncture, was just about 48 hours ago that raphael grossi the director general of the internatio

to seize, have been retaken in days, and let's say it may signal a turning point in the wall. gabriel alexander has moved from kate the former a secretary general of nato. anders rasmussen was in cave and isn't keith. and he, along with a top adviser to ukrainian president old amir zalinski, held a press briefing today where they are outlining what they're calling the key security compact. this is very much an aspirational plan that they are putting together and they're just start know, put it out on paper and announce it now. and they're billing it as a new security apparatus for europe. if you will, new security pack for europe. what it basically would entail is this. it would be like minded countries that would be signing on to this. that would be able to coordinate military, political, and financial support to ukraine now, but also in the future. should ukraine face more acts of aggression or threats of acts of aggression? now, as the ukrainian military offensive continues in the northeast, we're starting to get a better sense of how this is being received in russia. and we're seeing russia

al jazeera, as gabriel alexander reports from give on a recent day in downtown keith, with ukraine. seizing the momentum. we asked people to define victory in the war against russia. when our territory was crimea. dom boss and carson will be ukranian again. we're an old russian soccer. buyers will be back to russia. member blue betrothed bought a hole, may be the will convict that because i will kill and i will. people, crimea for many years. victory include reclaiming the southern peninsula, annexed by russia, 2014. or we need to make the whole country free glued and crimea. i know there are many people in the european union which, who still do not believe in that i believed. and we believe that it happens time pass. and the, this happens for some, it's about joining military alliances. i yeah, ha, dies. sure. oh, yeah. in my opinion, we have to join nato as soon as possible, but only with the support of our partners. can we guarantee our independence and wellbeing this war made us stronger, more powerful? we started to believe in ourselves more weakness, finishing, and for others. victory

responsibility for a series of attacks on russian air bases on the occupied peninsula of crimea. gabriel alexander has more from the ukrainian capital. fierce battles were seeing fierce battles in many parts of the front lines of this war. in the last 24 hours. it was just 24 hours ago that the you creating military launched this offensive in the northeast, around how to keep the 2nd largest city city that ukraine's have held since day one of this invasion by the russians. however, there had been a lot of shelling from the russians in and near how to keep, and that is why the ukrainians launched a counter offensive and we're starting get a better sense of how that is shaping up. now. it appears that ukrainian military has made advances as they are going east and south of how to keep. and we're seeing anecdotal evidence from telegram channels, from videos, even from some ukrainian military personnel and officials in the fight that ukraine appears to be either recapturing villages or very close to recapturing villages and towns. one in particular is ballot. clear. city of pre war population about 25

plans and calling on musk moscow. 3 more transparent about the situation on the front lines. gabrielle alexander reports from keith. few people are more pro ration, did this man igor gurkin at the beginning of russia's invasion of ukraine in february. the self described ultra nationalists was a staunch supporter of the russian military predicting its advanced weaponry and skilled soldiers would make easy work at the out numbered ukrainians. but now gurkin tone has changed only. i have an impression that in october our russian army will break into pieces. it's not because they i am competent are covered lee is because the korean army supply lines are much, much better than others. in the past week, during the ukrainian counter offensive, countless videos appeared to show a russian military and collapse. but throughout this war, moscow has been particularly adept at staying silent and refusing to admit or even acknowledging setbacks. the toner, russian state tv talk shows, which were months, refrained from any criticism. asian has changed dramatically with people pointing fingers who's to blame on

to door to get people to vote on whether for occupied regions in ukraine should join russia. gabriel, alexander has more from kate. it is very hard to get a clear picture of what is happening in these russian controlled areas of ukraine with this voting is taking place because there are no independent international election monitors. their media is very tightly controlled and also it's happening in a war zone. so it's very hard for people on the russian side or the ukrainian side of the front lines to go back and forth to get a better sense of what is happening behind the russian front lines for this voting is taking. with that said, russia is claiming that voting is going ahead as planned, and there are some videos that russia is putting out, showing what appears to be orderly voting taking place. but we are also seeing videos from telegram and other sources on social media that purport to show russian appointed officials going door to door with russian military personnel knocking on people's door. forcing them to vote. and this is a clear sign, according to ukrainian officials of intimidation

is prepared to impose additional sanctions on russia if it moves to annex parts of ukraine. gabriel, alexander reports from keith in the domestic region of ukraine, a russian appointed election official tours, a polling station. this is one of 4 regents where people are voting to join the russian federation. the young program also it's young. we grant the right to vote to all citizens of the dentist people's republic as well as abroad. becky is, are you in a nearby park? people under the watchful eye of the russian state, say they welcome the referendum here. russia has always been a motherland. without it, we had no one left. you crane abandoned us, long ago. languishing, yes, you must have us. there no international election monitors, only those invited by russia media have been tightly controlled. many western analysts say it's nothing more than an exercise by the kremlin to shape how people think about russian occupied parts of ukraine. look, this is no referendum. this is no expression of will do, but at the same time they will to say face meaning getting observers meaning, filming storie

asking ukrainians to be patient. meanwhile, civilians near the front lines are taking cover. gabriel alexander has more from keith it's sunday in the southern ukrainian city of b. goliath usually a day for people to rest. but there is no time for that now. oh, clean up a debris after the city came under russian shelling the night before. a medical clinic and a research institute were to the buildings damaged by the nearby artillery strikes is, is provided. so when you, blair, to inside of each room the equipment, the computers, the ross is the furniture, the ceilings. they've all been damage and college in in nickel tall, another southern ukranian town, local official say residential areas are under constant russian shelling, fearful and was nowhere else to go. my a chair, nish, a math teacher, rushes to set up a make shift camp on the outskirts of town with a boy who here from the russians, a shelling at night when people are sleeping, how we've had during the last days they started to shout during the day with the 2 cities are both near where ukrainian forces are about a week into a counter

which includes the transfer of one high profile oligarchy with close ties to vladimir putin, gabriel alexander reports now from keith. it's the most significant prisoner swaps and sore began. 215 ukrainian soldiers released by russia in a deal brokers by turkey. this is definitely a victory for our state for our entire society, a most in portland, for 215 families who be able to see the loved ones is safety. mister president, dear fellow ukrainians, i am eternally grateful to you for bringing us back. thank you very much. emotions are overwhelming lou in a separate deal, facilitated by saudi arabia, 10 foreigners fighting alongside ukrainian forces have also been released on most of the ukrainian soldiers released were part of the so called as our regiment. that held out for weeks defending the as of stall steel plant and murray, you pull despite being surrounded and shelled by russian forces. they finally surrendered in may. as part of the agreement, 5 of the unit commanders will remain in turkey until the end of the war. the soldiers that fought and as a star, are considered at national hero

during the special at military operation of the decree on partial mobilization has been signed. gabriel alexander was in key and he's got more in ukraine's reaction to president putin speech. certainly the sense here in keith is that there is no panic, just the opposite. actually, lot of officials here viewing potent speech with a little bit of the shrug of the shoulders, saying that they will continue on trying to meet their objectives. and those objectives are to expel russia from all territory that they are on right now in ukraine. we've already heard from ukrainian president. well, the mirror zelinski. he basically said nothing is new. our plans have not changed. he said our focus remains the same. so there is definitely a sense here that this is in some ways a victory for the ukrainians. they feel because in their view, it shows that russia is desperate, having to now call up as many as 300000 troops. the way the ukrainian see it is, is that they will continue to try to batter the russian supply lines and degrade the russian forces because it's one ukrainian military official said publicly.

zalinski says troops and making advances in their counter offensive to re tag cities from russia. gabriel alexander is following 2 elements from key ukrainians have been pushing the russians back in the northeast or around how to keep and that at least you're getting cautious. optimism signs from the ukranian that this has been a very successful initial stage of this counter offensive. and as we are also seeing from russian bloggers and russian sort of micro book bloggers and analysts who have been watching this counter offensive, they appear to indicate that this is definitely that we also indicating the successes so far by the ukrainians. but the fighting there is very, very strong, both sides taking casualties. britton's, the prime minister lives trustees due to announce new package to tackle soaring energy bills in the coming hours. but she's rude out. opposition? demands for more taxes on energy companies profit. iran has strongly condemned albanians decision to cut and diplomatic ties. obelia ordered iranian diplomats and embassy stuff to leave the country on wednesday, accusing to run of a c

and after more than 6 months of war, some and our training men in how to fight gabriel. alexander in the capital, keith spoke to some of those volunteers at this army training center near keith, ukrainian soldiers run through combat drills. they're practicing skills they'll need when they're deployed to the front lines. the instructor is 23 year old deanna . her nickname is sledge, hammer of sick them was itchy. when i was growing up, i didn't have any thought about joining the army. but my brother joined when rushing invaded. i couldn't stay aside and watched, so i joined, didn't. there are 50000 women in ukrainian military of which 10000 are on the front lines. after russia invaded ukraine in february, there was an increase in women volunteering to join the military like natalia soon inch. go a 38 year old hospital worker who on the 1st day of the war, signed up to the military when she was told, 90 percent of soldiers die in combat from bleeding. she is now training and how to translate her knowledge in 1st aid to the battlefield. her brother was killed by russian forces doctor we

at this moment, i was here is gabriel alexander live in ukraine's capital case. gave many thanks, rushes energy giant gas pro says that it will not resume gas delivery through the lord's stream. one pipelines, germany, after a 3 day shut down, the company says an oil leak was detected and the repairs are needed. the european commission, so to move his under fallacious pretences and shows that russia is an unreliable supply of gas. prom says the will now ship natural gas through to europe through ukraine gas prompt decision came out of the g. 7 nations agreed to set a price cap on russian oil in an effort to hurt moscow's war efforts in ukraine. finance ministers from the world's richest economies. also hope that a cap on crude oil and petroleum products will help to reduce global energy prices . russia has responded saying that it will stop selling oil to countries that agreed to a price limit. fulton, if i don't postulate putin is taking another step towards cutting supplies, let's it would be a violation of the contracts. every one hopes that will not happen. if it happens, it is clear

a pro russian sap purchase leader emit fighting has been difficult in the danny at region. gabriel, alexander reports on this now from keith. it's an empty shoe ukrainian military offensive in the northeast that is retaking land and towns occupied russia military that is now in retreat by saturday night and cleans had reached. isn't about a 120 kilometers southeast of the regional capital. how to keep city leveled over, you know, rock, bottom of the reconnaissance pump. and the special forces are already here in a zoom is for a to ukraine. the soldier said, is soon home to a major rail line is strategically important and was a russian military stronghold for months. no more. russian forces in the city fled as ukrainians closed in video showed ukrainians also recapturing compliance. another key supply line city ended by clear retaken by the ukrainians a day before a top commander raised the flag as a sign of victory to day where completing the liberation of balak leah, because big city in our offensive annual fund, and i'm sure this is not the last se, but the war has taken its toll in the rec

territory from russia in the northeast on the south of the country as guitar. corresponding gabriel alexander, his life. just in case, let's start with his visit from antony lincoln. a was completely unexpected, wasn't it? it was unexpected and definitely unannounced as well. no one knew that this was quite happening. quite frankly. blinking has been here in keith for several hours now. we know that he has been meeting with government officials. he also toured a children's hospital here as well. so he's been doing a little bit of a tour of the ukrainian capital. it's unclear when he plans to leave, but we're watching that very closely. bottom line though is he's coming here to again show solidarity and support to the ukranian government and their ongoing military campaign that they have going on against russia and the war here. it's been going on for a little over 6 months now, blinking also announcing not only his visit, but he's came with aid as well. now seeing that the united states plans to 1000000000 in military technical assistance, not only to ukraine, but to 18 other neighboring coun

and that ukraine definitely will be asking germany for more of going forward. houses here is gabriel alexander reporting live there from keith. many thanks, gape different countries have different degrees of dependency on russian gas. over all russia supplies 40 percent of the ears, natural gas, and little over a quarter of its oil imports. before russia's invasion of ukraine, more than half of the gas consumed in germany, came from russia. france, with access to liquefied natural gas in port terminals, is less dependent than its neighbors. it gets around 17 percent of its gas from russia, and the u. k, which has no direct gas pipelines to russia, had less than 4 percent of its total supply from russia last year. it gradient forces are trying to cut off thousands of russian troops with a counter offensive in the southern hassan region. early on sunday, ukraine carried out more strikes on the anti lives keep bridge, a key supply route for russian forces, both sides of claim successes during the fighting for hassan. it was the 1st major city to fall to russian forces. in february will let gabrie

allies of condemned the votes as a sham, which appears to be a step towards russian annexation. gabriel alexander has more from keith in the domestic region of ukraine, a russian appointed election official tours, a polling station. this is one of 4 regents where people are voting to join the russian federation. the young broker, all sorts young, we grant the right to vote to all citizens of the done yes people's republic as well as abroad. becky is, are you in a nearby park? people under the watchful eye of the russian state. say they welcome the referendum here. russia has always been our mother lead. without it we had no one left. you crane abandoned us long ago. languishing. yes, you must. alyssa, there are no international election monitors. only those invited by russia. media have been tightly controlled. many western analysts say it's nothing more than an exercise by the kremlin to shape how people think about russian occupied parts of ukraine. look, this is no referendum. this is no expression of will do. but at the same time, they will to say face meaning, getting observers meaning fumin

going door to door to get people to vote on whether the 4 occupied regions should join russia. gabriel alexander has more from king and there are some regions where videos we're seeing of a clearly showing what appear to be russian appointed election officials. walking through the hallways of apartment buildings knocking on doors, accompanied by would appear to be russian soldiers asking people to vote. clearly assigned, critic say would be voter intimidation. we're also seeing and hearing reports of ukrainians that do not want to vote to join the russian federation. fearful closing their windows and doors shuddering their blinds as, as election. officials walk through neighborhoods as well. may my people in russia have been protesting wednesday's announcement. moscow will call up 230-0000 army reservists to 5 in the crane. these are the latest pictures of protests in the cities of st. petersburg and in moscow. women can be seen dressed in black clothes, staging straight demonstrations to express outrage over their sons and husbands. being sent to find around in president abraham racy, says prot

mister lensky, have discussed european support for ukraine, and it's bid to join the a you. gabriel, alexander has more from k. they spoke between behind closed door meetings and briefly spoke to the press afterwards, where they were said that they talked a lot about how to rebuild ukraine and how to get the economy back on track and ukraine moving forward. underlying announced a $5000000000.00 in financial assistance to ukraine, including $250000000.00 to rebuild the schools and also for temporary shelter for people that have been displaced by the war. fighting has been taking place along many as border with as a by john today's the us has welcome to see 5 between the neighbors, even though no formal agreement has been signed. the united nations general assembly has honored queen elizabeth the 2nd set on the most extraordinary reign. you are here today to pay 3 boots to the memory of her majesty, queen elizabeth the 2nd of great britain and on the island. but the longest training monarch when elizabeth was a pillar without fear on the world stage for more than 70 years, she exceeded to the th

with phase ne, by shelling could cause a nuclear disaster. gabriel alexander reports now from keith. the head of the united nations international atomic energy agency has arrived to vienna following his visit to ukraine's besieged separation nuclear power plant and had this to say, i was able to see myself and i my team impact hold on markings on, on bill these all of them so we these, that the physical all the foreseen, has been violated, not once, but several. raphael grossi flatly denied that russia who occupy the power plant, denied him the right to move freely, saying he was given full access by the russians to the site, and was able to inspect everything he requested to see. he also confirmed his agency would keep 2 staff members at the plant permanently and at the i. e. a would issue a full report in the next week on their findings is not earlier on friday. sh, moscow again accused ukraine of showing the power plant, but reserved judgment on the i h. mission, good breach, you touched sure. repository. view the fact that despite all problems and difficulties caused by the ukrai

during the special a military operation of the decree on partial mobilization has been signed. gabriel, alexanders joining us live now from key. we're starting to get a few more details about what this partial military mobilization means. one wonders what the reaction in keith is going to be what we're hearing that this partial mobilization goes into effect immediately and that reservists within the russian military will be getting their notices immediately to report to bases and or prepare to go to bases to begin training then to be sent to the battlefield spaces. now we're also hearing that current russian soldiers that are already under contract will immediately have their contracts extended indefinitely. while this special military operation as a kremlin calls, it continues forward. certainly this is a key development because this is, as you mentioned, there from the defense minister saying that it could immediately call into effect into the forces up to 300000 russian reservists who have military training or were previously in the military. beyond that from vladimir putin speech, he also did

foreigners fighting for ukraine have also been freed through a deal mediated by saudi arabia. gabriel, alexander has more now from ki. any soldiers would have been considered a victory for ukrainians, but this is particularly bitter sweet for them if you will use that terminology because of who they were. more than the majority of these $215.00 prisoners that were released were soldiers, as we mentioned, from the as of regiment that held out for weeks and weeks at the as will stall, a steel planted mario pool, beer considered and had been considered for many months found national heroes for what many ukrainians consider their incredible bravery. during the early and middle stages of this war, ukraine's president is called on the un to punish russia for invading his country. the latter mi zelinski urged world ladies to strip moscow of its vote in international institutions as well as it's un security council. they turn in other news, pakistan's, former prime minister in mankind, has appeared in court, can says he will apologize for threatening a judicial officer after being charged with contempt

let's go to gabriel. alexander has lived for us in cave. gabriel. the president of ukraine has now reacted to those comments from president peace. and what exactly, as he said, well, the word here from keith is that those claims by the russian president are simply baseless. they say that you, that you know, that it's very clear that ukraine has exported ukrainian grain to the developing world in fact, present. so in sky is said that they plan to send $28000.00 tons of grain to somalia. that's on its way there now. and in fact, within the last week or so, the un food program has confirmed that ukrainian grain has arrived in the horn of africa. enough, according to the un to feed $1500000.00 people for a month. so you creating perspective on this is 2 things. number one is they say, you know, president prudent hasn't provided any evidence to indicate that the majority of this green is going to you countries and ukrainian perspective on this. number 2 is that even if it was, it doesn't matter because ukraine says message true to moscow is, it's our gra