peter zalmayev, _ start attacking again. peter zalmayev, stay _ start attacking again.tay with - start attacking again. peter zalmayev, stay with us. - start attacking again. peterj zalmayev, stay with us. we start attacking again. peter - zalmayev, stay with us. we want your views on another story involving the russia ukraine conflict because we have seen an interview involving russia's most powerful prosecutor, ukraine's prosecco, dismissing claims of negotiations with russia. andriy kostin is leading ukraine's investigations into war crimes committed by russia following its invasion earlier this year. in an exclusive interview in kyiv, he told the bbc�*s catherine byaruhanga any talks would have to hold russian officials accountable for atrocities carried out in ukraine. let's have a listen. i don't think that there is a time for negotiations, especially from the point of view of making russia accountable for war crimes committed. how can we be a negotiations about war crimes committed by russia and russian aggression? russia could be held accountable and when i hear

peter zalmayev is the director of the eurasian democracy initiative in ukraine and joins us now from o you, peter, always good to talk to you, good to see you are well. tell us what you may have heard or maybe in more detail about that situation at the nuclear power plant on sunday morning? sorry i'm sitting in darkness here, another blackout kyiv, there is obviously a situation both sides framing as usual each other, so far, ukrainian side has been sitting quietly, not commenting on this. we understand this has been the most serious recent shelling of this area. also i have to say overall we say disarray of the occupied forces in the area because that will be next recently the mayor of that region where the nuclear plant is sitting has been fired, the fourth of such dismissal in the eight months of occupation, tells you this significant chaos and disarray in the occupied authorities. whatever we are seeing now we have to put it into the larger context, whatever happens with the missile that landed on poland's territory, no matter whose missile that was, the secretary general of nato

for more on this i'm joined now from kyiv by peter zalmayev, director of the eurasia democracy initiative you are is patchy and it has been difficult to establish a connection. just how are the blackouts affecting life in kyiv? i blackouts affecting life in k iv? ., ., ., blackouts affecting life in kiv? ., ., ., ., blackouts affecting life in kiv? ., ., ., kyiv? i had to travel a couple of kilometres _ kyiv? i had to travel a couple of kilometres to _ kyiv? i had to travel a couple of kilometres to the - kyiv? i had to travel a couple of kilometres to the studio, i kyiv? i had to travel a couple i of kilometres to the studio, my studio where i work we have powerful generators, and so, we have this light here but right now the city streets are largely dark. the generators are whirring around the city, people are huddling into a cafe, they are co—working, whoever gets in early gets the seat, but, yes, we right now, 70% of the residents of kyiv do not have electricity. we will have 2—3 hours a day right now. it used to be we would have periodic blackouts. now it is only 2—3 hours that we do