is it safe enough for people to return to pokrovsk?t _ at the front of the donetsk region, we cannot say it is a safe city. multiple rocket launchers can reach here. 0n the outskirts of the city, closer to that threat, is the last line of defence. amidst all of the talk of a ukrainian counteroffensive, there�*s always a risk of the russians breaking through the line. there is a sympathy in the trenches for those wanting to come home. "if you have to die", he tells me, "it�*s better to die at home than somewhere abroad." it�*s the watchful eyes of soldiers like him which are allowing people to move back into harm�*s way. for serhiy and viktoria, it�*s a conscious decision. translation: who knows when it will become safe here? _ maybe a year, two, or five. we don�*t want to wait even one year. overall, we are prepared. yes. in these times of turmoil, there is a hope and belief they won�*t last forever. futures depend on it. james waterhouse, bbc news, pokrovsk, in eastern ukraine. now to the southern russian region of belgorod, which bor

is it safe enough for people to return to pokrovsk? right at the front of the donetsk region, we cannot say it is a safe city. multiple rocket launchers can reach here. 0n the outskirts of the city, closer to that threat, is the last line of defence. amidst all of the talk of a ukrainian counteroffensive, there's always a risk of the russians breaking through the line. there is a sympathy in the trenches for those wanting to come home. "if you have to die", he tells me, "it's better to die at home than somewhere abroad." it's the watchful eyes of soldiers like him which are allowing people to move back into harm's way. for serhiy and viktoria, it's a conscious decision. translation: who knows when it will become safe here? _ maybe a year, two or five. we don't want to wait even one year. overall, we are prepared. yes. in these times of turmoil, there is a hope and believe they won't last forever. futures depend on it. james waterhouse, bbc news, pokrovsk, in eastern ukraine. well meanwhile, a group of paramilitary fighters who are oppo

this is a large company that provides work for the residents of pokrovsk.ave to balance their own safety and simple economics so that the company could continue to work and support the family that left and now the company is back, anything that hires workers despite the danger is an attractive prospect for those thinking about returning eventually coal mining is part of the dna before the full-scale invasion of donetsk region, 65,000 people lived in pokrovsk, after the population decreased by a third, but now it is growing again, pokrovsk has become a salvation for those fleeing from the occupied territories, people are attracted by the fact that electricity and water supply have been restored in the city, the front line is only 40 km from here, so people are asked to stay away from it, is it safe for people to return to pokrovsk now? no. and although pokrovsk is more of a rear town in donetsk region, it cannot be said that it is a safe place. the last line of defense is closer, among all the talk about the ukrainian counteroffensive , here they always reme

is it safe enough for people to return to pokrovsk?it is a safe city. multiple rocket launchers can reach here.

, serhiy was planning to go to his mother's friend in pokrovsk, this is also the donetsk region aboutom mariupol, and the boy's family did not dare to leave the house, so serhiy left alone, it happened on march 6, 4 p.m. my grandmother and i didn't let him go because there was a lot of shooting around. he took a backpack with him, it contained a computer, he dressed like young people dress, i say seryozha come on, i thought he was walking around the house and came back and seryozha left the house and already when he left i already got up, what did we do with my grandmother they kept their egos, for now only one thing is known: serhii never made it home to pokrovsk, the boy also did not return , and no one knows where he is now, but serhii's mother still lives in mariupol, but he does not lose hope of finding his son, meanwhile, serhii's father, who has been living separately for a long time and now is in the territory controlled by ukraine , is doing everything possible from his side to find serhiy, in particular, he also turned to the boatswain's office, did you understand that they

to go to his mother's acquaintance in pokrovsk, this is also the donetsk region , about 200 km from mariupol, and the boy's family did not dare to leave the house, so serhiy left alone, it happened on march 6, already 4 o'clock in the evening. they shot around . well, to be honest, even then there was absolutely nothing to eat and drink and it was very scary. he took a backpack with him, there was a computer in it , he got dressed. how do young people dress? i thought he was walking around the house and would come back and seryozhka left home and already when he left i already understood that we and the woman did not keep him at the moment only one thing is known about pokrovsk serhiy never got home the boy also did not return and where he is now no one knows serhiy's mother knows, he still lives in mariupol, but he does not lose hope of finding his son, meanwhile, serhiy's father, who has been living separately for a long time and is now in a territory not under the control of ukraine, is doing everything possible to find serhiy , in particular, he also turned to the office of bucz

he was going to go to pokrovsk. go to my mother's friend in pokrovsk, which is also the donetsk region, approximately 200 km from mariupol, and the boy's family did not dare to leave the house, so serhiy left alone because there was a lot of shooting around . well, to be honest, there was nothing to eat and drink at that time and it was very scary. he took a backpack with a computer in it and dressed like the youth dressed say seryozha come on, i thought he walks around the house and comes back and seryozha came out of the house and already when he left i already understood what we did with my wife , we didn't keep him, for now only one thing is known to pokrovsk, serhiy never got home the boy has also not returned and no one knows where he is now. serhiy's mother still lives in mariupol. he does not lose hope of finding his son. meanwhile, serhiy's father, who has been living separately for a long time and is now in a territory not controlled by ukraine, is doing everything he can to find serhiy, in particular i al

he was going to go to pokrovsk.hii planned to go to his mother's friend in pokrovsk, this is also the donetsk region , about 200 km from mariupol, and the boy's family did not dare to leave the house , so serhii went alone, because there was a lot of shooting around. to be honest, we didn't have anything to eat or drink at that time and it was very scary. he took a backpack with him and it contained a computer. he was born in the same way as young people dress, i say seryozha. come on, i thought he was walking around the house and coming back and guarding вышел из домой и же когда Он вшёл i already understood what we did with my wife, we didn't keep him , so far only one thing is known: serhii pokrovsk never made it home, the boy also didn't come back, and nobody knows where he is now . mother, serhii still lives in mariupol. does not lose hope of finding his son, meanwhile, serhiy's father, who has been living separately for a long time and is now in the territory controlled by ukraine, is doing everything possible

he was going to go to pokrovsk. serhiy was planning to go to my mother's acquaintance in pokrovsk, this is also the donetsk region, about 200 km from mariupol, and the boy's family did not dare to leave the house, so serhiy left alone , it happened on march 6, it was already 4 o'clock in the evening. even then there was absolutely nothing to eat and drink and it was very scary. he took a backpack with him, a computer was in it, he dressed like the young people dress, i say seryozha come on, i thought he walks around the house and returns, and seryozha вышел из домой и же когда Он вшёл i already got up what we did with my wife didn't keep him at the moment only one thing is known about pokrovsk serhiy never got home the guy also didn't come back and no one knows where he is now mom sergey still lives in mariupol yes does not lose hope of finding his son, meanwhile, serhiy's father, who has been living separately for a long time and is now in a territory not controlled by ukraine, is doing everything possible to find

why there is konstantinivka, there is druzhkovka, there is slavyansk, there is dnipro, there is pokrovsk they are ukrainian and life continues there because it is here where the enemy was stopped, i.e. the strategic importance of defense, because we see now how difficult it is to fight the city back , although there is only a mountain of bricks left of the city, now information for the scale has appeared about the fact that the russians are trying to advance in the area of ​​the settlement of ivanivske , to what extent the armed forces of ukraine manage to repulse these attacks and what losses the russians are suffering. the russians work mainly in the area. you have already said that both artillery and aviation , this whole thing is how close and contact battles are now, and it is possible that they have some samples of weapons that they pulled up, which did not happen earlier or something got worse, for example, i am asking the aviation science because they flew over us and did not drop anything. it must be working , they were involved here in the area of ​​bakhmut. it seems to me that

, serhiy planned to go to his mother's friend in pokrovsk, this is also the donetsk region , about 200oy's family did not dare to leave the house, so serhiy left alone, it happened on march 6, 4 p.m. my grandmother and i didn't let him go because we were shooting around a lot. well, to be honest, even then there was absolutely nothing to eat and drink and it was very scary. he took a backpack with him, it had a computer, and he got dressed. how young people dress, i'm talking to seryozha come on, i thought he walks around the house and comes back and seryozha came out of the house and when he left i already got up, what did my wife and i do, we didn't keep him, for now, only one thing is known about pokrovsky, serhiy never got home, the guy didn't either he returned and nobody knows where he is now, serhiy's mother still lives in mariupol, but he does not lose hope of finding his son, meanwhile, serhiy's father, who has been living separately for a long time and is now in the territory controlled by ukraine, is doing everything he can to find serhiy in particular, i turned to the boats

he was going to go to pokrovsk. serhii planned to go to my mother's friend in pokrovsk. also, the donetsk region is approximately 200 km from mariupol, and the boy's family did not dare to leave the house, so serhiy left alone because there was a lot of shooting around . well, to be honest, there was nothing to eat and drink at that time, and it was very scary. he took a backpack with him, and a computer was born. because young people dress up, i say seryozha come on, i thought he walks around the house and comes back and the guard left the house already when he left. pokrovska serhii never made it home, the boy also did not return and no one knows where he is now, serhii’s mother still lives in mariupol, but he does not lose hope of finding his son, meanwhile serhii’s father, who has been living separately for a long time and is now in the territory controlled by ukraine, is doing everything it is possible from my side to find serhii, in particular, i also turned to the boatswain's office, you understood that you wanted to contact that side, yes, and find out, if the in

, serhiy is planning to go to his mother's friend in pokrovsk, this is also the donetsk region , aboute to leave the house, so serhiy he went alone, it happened on march 6 , 4 p.m. my grandmother and i didn't let go because there was a lot of shooting around. well , to be honest, we didn't have anything to eat or drink at that time, and it was very scary. he took i had a backpack in it, a computer, and he was dressed like a young man, i’m talking to seryozha. come on, i thought he was walking around the house and would come back, and seryozha left the house and already when he left. i already understood that my wife and i did not keep him . serhii never made it home, the boy also did not return, and no one knows where he is now, but serhii’s mother still lives in mariupol, but he does not lose hope of finding his son, in the meantime, serhii’s father, who has been living separately for a long time and is now in a territory not controlled by ukraine, is doing everything it is possible from my side to find serhii, in particular, i also turned to the office-butsman, you understand that th

then we take them in an armored car to pokrovsk, where volunteers receive them.r pension and additional assistance for displaced persons. everything is sorted out. we have to stop filming . and seek shelter. as soon as it's safe we go to where the bomb hit. this was the town's market - this woman came to sell household goods. she isn't hurt, but clearly in shock. avdiivka was a frontline city long before the russian full-scale invasion. russian-backed rebels were in control for a brief period in 2014 before the ukrainians took it back. some still identify with the russians, despite the war. an hour's drive away, in chasiv yar, we're close to bakhmut. here it's thought fewer than ten per cent of people have stayed. here we meet oleg. he is 74 years old and used to be an economist. now he grows onions behind broken windows. i don't want to go anywhere. i was born here, have lived here for a long time. my parents were here. i don't want to leave their graves. when i die, they will bury me here. don't be afraid. . . they are shooting from over there . . . we ask him

then we take them in an armored car to pokrovsk, where volunteers receive them.r pension and additional assistance for displaced persons. everything is sorted out. we have to stop filming . and seek shelter. as soon as it's safe we go to where the bomb hit. this was the town's market - this woman came to sell household goods. she isn't hurt, but clearly in shock. avdiivka was a frontline city long before the russian full-scale invasion. russian-backed rebels were in control for a brief period in 2014 before the ukrainians took it back. some still identify with the russians, despite the war. an hour's drive away, in chasiv yar, we're close to bakhmut. here it's thought fewer than ten per cent of people have stayed. here we meet oleg. he is 74 years old and used to be an economist. now he grows onions behind broken windows. i don't want to go anywhere. i was born here, have lived here for a long time. my parents were here. i don't want to leave their graves. when i die, they will bury me here. don't be afraid. . . they are shooting from over there . . . we ask him

houses, the measures in this settlement began to exist , if it sounded in this settlement , it is in pokrovskve what is above the tokmak, uh, unfortunately this threat may also apply to other settlements in this part of the dmytro front. let's talk about the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. do you know what the situation is like there now, because president zelenskyy said a few days ago that the russians all they still want to blow up the nuclear power plant, what is the situation there now, well, in general, we will dilute it to a couple of such components. yes, since june 6. this is the time when the damned rashists blew up the kakhovka hpp , the main indicator for everyone was that it applied to the radars of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, everyone was watching the same thing water level in the technological cooling pond on the territory of the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, we will note here what has already been confirmed more than once, the fact that to date, including dates, the level the water level remains stable at 16 and 67 hundredths of a meter, which allows us to absolutely

official and in ukraine, it’s in three communities, it ’s manganetsk community, nikopol community and pokrovsk all now without centralized water supply, and it’s from of the city government from communal services e-e water tanks water dispensing points a-a they all work, well, on average, yes, in the communities there somewhere, somewhere from 6 in the morning to nine in the morning somewhere from nine in the morning to eight in the morning well, but plus or minus , they are trying to ensure that everyone has free access to these water points, so far, in principle, these tanks are enough for everyone to collect this technical water , which, well, they can wash their own, and the water is more or less drinkable, but it still needs to be boiled before use. this is how this problem is solved , now more points are planned to be opened all the addresses there are published on the website of the city councils, but it is still a very big problem that people are simply without water at home and are forced to use something, somehow water , just go and carry it home in some container actually, the mayor

even the road to kherson itself, it is all broken, these villages, what are the positions there, pokrovske, chornobayivka , they are completely destroyed. when you enter kherson, there is a city. well, it is empty, everyone the shops are closed there, uh, there are no people, well, they are there, but there are very few of them, uh, not everything works , that is, it’s like a dead city, i would call it now, well, it’s not very pleasant, such a picture is a little scary, because there are explosions every 10 minutes . despite this says victoria, people are holding on and do not want to leave. the volunteer team did not receive any requests for evacuation from many villages. we went to several of them . the people of the lower streets were all completely flooded . people moved to their neighbors, to relatives in the upper part. with the intention of evacuating people, people did not want to evacuate, but they waited for suzy to go into her house and see what else could be fixed there, dad, how much do you have, give your uncle a powerful four. they helped with fodder, we got together in a da

house burned 1/4 of the floor , they came up and asked for food, she flew in now robert lives in pokrovskly broken and you came to ukrainian in principle or always talked, well, in principle to be honest well, they were talking in russian here, now in ukrainian, before the full-scale invasion, 32 thousand people lived in avdiivka , now no more than two thousand, the main enterprise was the largest coke-chemical plant in europe , it produced coke, a special powder for metallurgy, so now it looks like an industrial giant, the city was plunged into the middle ages, there is no water and electricity, gas , hospitals do not work. the authorities constantly call on the residents of avtiv to evacuate, and the majority listened. those who remained are hiding in basements. people live in basements. someone on the eighth floor, they warm themselves with candles in a tambourine, a woman with a son lives in a tambourine and ordinary candles put a lid on them in a pot there, the lid is heated like this, the shop is one of the workers, volunteers give food there, bring food, i suffer slowly limping to

water has simply disappeared, but today i followed social networks and residents of the city of pokrovskrmer ordzhonikidze, in nikopolshchyna complain that and for some reason, they will selectively give drinking water, and in particular, the official says that it is good for the poor in the first place, but everyone is left without water, well, that is, water is such a story that if you you don't have enough time, you can do it for yourself you can just die, well, that is, you can also be provided, not provided, you still have a good number of days where you can live without water, that's why this kind of money is allocated, and if there is a task to provide everyone with water, then please local authorities before please show people so that people can live simply. well, ukraine has asked for emergency aid in romania and poland. is there a lack of electricity? is this really a problem related to the undermining of a hydroelectric plant? is this already traditional? question today we are exporting current tomorrow we are asking for it to be returned to us about this and not only will we

direction. aqueducts to kryvyi rih, in particular, nikopol , manganets, tomakivka, mariinsky and pokrovskh were previously supplied with water from the kakhovsky reservoir, do you have information on how long it will take to build these ot look, there is more than one direction and a plan of action. there are a lot of such different options, yes, yesterday more than one meeting was held and the day before yesterday with the regional leadership and with kyiv regarding the solution of this issue, there are a lot of directions, and it still depends on how much the level of kakhovsky will fall reservoirs, other directions, we will not discuss them, they are not , and i will not air them, i will once again repeat what our president and the regional leadership said that people will have drinking water, this is a fact. thank you , mr. yevgeny, the head of the kryvyi rih district yevhen sytnychenko of the military administration was in touch with us about how kryvyi rih overcomes one crisis, there are problems, of course , they can also be testing water , but there are also certain measures that

russians hit pokrovsk with a rocket in donetsk region, five people were injured, including an 11-year-old , informed the head of the region pavlo kyrylenko in the city, 15 houses were damaged, the occupiers and other communities of the region fired at nigochyla houses, commercial buildings, power lines, the administrative building and a school in rai oleksandrivka, shcherbinivka, nikiforivka, and seversk and after nivechenka, 10 private houses , commercial buildings, garages and cars at night , the russians hit the kryvyi rih region with rockets, the head of the dnipropetrovsk oblast reported serhiy lysak of the military administration, the occupiers shelled the nikopol community three times with heavy artillery. in both cases, fortunately, people were not injured in zaporozhye police discovered a cache of ammunition and explosives. it was located on the territory of a garage cooperative , the ministry of internal affairs reported. law enforcement officers found almost 29,000 cartridges of various calibers, 63 sets of powder metal charges for art outfits and a bunch of other weapons in th

to these enterprises there, by the way, if you remember, there is a local enterprise nikopol in pokrovskfrom the same zaporozhye reservoir balance driver did not change from above to ensure kryvyi rih, nikopolit game is a state task, i poisoned klim far away. this is not the information that is present in the press . the solution is openly distributed. ukraine can survive at the expense of the use of those nuclear reactors, some of them continue to work at nuclear power plants that continue to be in the energy system, it eats less work and it will continue to work in that territory . well, as far as i understand, there are also certain problems with it, they were closed for repair , they were started in some emergency mode, as far as it is in general, i can work in conditions when there is no zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, it is impossible to turn them off and repair them put on some kind of rest mode, the period does not work, the bottom of the air is taken, there will be stops, there will be overloads, and so on, as they always worked according to the schedule. and you can give me a

several settlements of the dnipropetrovsk region, for example in the manganese cover part of the pokrovskommunity, the head of the kryvyi rih defense council, oleksandr vilkul, said that one and a half months and the residents of kryvyi rih may remain without water for a while in conditions of strict water saving, water will be enough for one and a half or two months kryvyi rih residents are already calling to reduce water use, they have also begun construction of the ingulets pivdenny canal, which will allow water to be transported for 30 km. uninterrupted supply of water to the city , it is necessary to lay about 100 km of pipes and build transformers and pumping stations. currently, 70% of citizens use water that was stored in advance due to a drop in water level water in the kakhov reservoir in the coming years it will be impossible to take water from there the danger of a humanitarian disaster arose due to the destruction of the kakhov hydroelectric dam water from the reservoir of the same name flooded the population of kherson oblast due to overflowing water levels in the reservoirs

modernizing internet networks , the first settlement where the project will be launched will be pokrovsken the kherson region, so that people are not left without communication, now the full restoration of telecommunications requires 20% territories, says our correspondent artem derkachev, we had them and now we have how rich people had two, svitlana jokingly tells about the consequences of enemy shelling a woman and her husband returned to their native home in april, this is all that remained of our furniture from our house, all the walls, the entire ceiling. well, just like in the others, this is not the case, except for the destruction, the russians ransacked the house during the occupation. such and such a lot of people, machines and all household appliances and everything was done by us, modular houses , humanitarian aid and the only working store. kherson oblast and although people are slowly starting to return home to find a whole building in this settlement, it is almost possible that they suffered more from the communication of the population . there are very, very many houses th

flooding, even the road to kherson itself is all broken, these villages which there is the post of pokrovske shevchenkive, says chornobayivka, they are completely destroyed. when you enter kherson, the city is there. well, it is empty, all the shops there are criminals, there are no people. well , they are there, but there are very few of them, not everything is working. i.e. such as a dead city, i would call it now, well, such a picture is not very pleasant, it is a little scary because there are 10 explosions there every minute . despite what victoria says, people are holding on and do not want to leave . the volunteer team did not receive any requests for evacuation from many villages. we visited several of them. the lower streets were all flooded, people moved to their neighbors, to their relatives, to the upper ones, people did not want to evacuate, we drove with the intention of evacuating people, people did not want to call , but they waited for the constellation of water to enter their homes and see what else can be fixed there, yes, how many meters do you have, give your uncle a pow

even the road to kherson itself, it is all broken, these villages, what are the positions there, pokrovskeko, you too, chornobayivka , they are completely destroyed. when you enter kherson, there is a city. well, it is empty, all the shops there are closed, there are no people. well, they are but there are very few of them, not everything works, that is, it’s like a dead city, i would call it now, well, it’s not a very pleasant picture, it’s a little scary because there are explosions every 10 minutes . despite what victoria says, people hold on and don’t want to leave. no requests for many villages were not evacuated by the volunteer team. we went to several of them. people, uh, the lower streets were all completely flooded . people moved to neighbors, to relatives in the upper ones . people did not want to evacuate. we went with the intention of evacuating people. come into your house and see, give it to my uncle and he is powerful. four rescue operations were launched by volunteers from kirovohrad oblast . some of them rescued animals from the elements and others helped with feed for fo

white eyes, dniprorudne, mykhailivka, in the dnipropetrovsk region, this is nikopol, marganets, pokrovske, chervonogrigorivka, hrushivka, tomakivka, protection in a zone of 200 km around the energy gas station, police rescuers, doctors are already creating special headquarters, known to the minister of internal affairs, ihor klymenko, to everyone who is in need danger will want to leave this zone , they promise to provide transport. well , everything will depend on the weather, in particular, the wind , if it blows in the western direction, then radiation it may well reach the european countries and in the east affect russia itself. meanwhile, american senators from both parties have already introduced resolutions that any use of tactical nuclear weapons by russia or belarus or an attack on a nato nuclear facility will be considered as an attack on itself because the radiation will affect its of the country and will begin to act in accordance with its right to defense, will respond to the aggressor with a hint that does not need further explanations. well, in kherson oblast, after the exp

near future , but work is currently underway, it looks like russian five people were injured in pokrovsk in donetsk region, among them an 11-year-old boy, informed the head of the region, pavlo kyrylenko, in the city, 15 houses were damaged , the occupiers and other communities of the region fired at them, houses, farm buildings , power lines, an administrative building and a school in rai oleksandrivka, shcherbanivka, nakiforivka, and siverskyi were seen two people in disguise and one woman in a nut coat were wounded in zaporizhzhia by the russians last day, the head of the regional military administration, yuriy malashko, reported that the enemy struck a total of 84 blows on in populated areas of the region, unmanned aerial vehicles of rocket salvo systems and artillery fought 27 reports of the destruction of civilian objects and three people were injured as a result of shelling in the kherson region, the russians opened fire 79 times in the region and fired 400 shells. oleksandr prohodin, the occupiers targeted residential quarters and an administrative building, and 10 private houses

even the road to kherson itself, it is all broken, these villages, what are the positions there, pokrovskeevchenko, you too, chornobayivka , they are completely destroyed. when you drive by in kherson, the city is there. well, it’s empty, all the shops there are closed, there are no people . well, they are there, but there are very few of them, not everything is working , that is, it’s like a dead city, i would call it now, well, it’s not very pleasant, such a picture is a little scary because every minute there are 10 explosions. despite what victoria says, people are holding on and do not want to leave. the volunteer team did not receive any requests for evacuation and there were many villages. we went to several of them. people in the lower streets were all completely flooded . people moved to neighbors and relatives in upper people didn't want to evacuate, we went with the intention of evacuating people, people didn't want to call people, they waited for the water to recede, go into their house and see what else can be fixed there, papa four zelenskyi, let's approach without hesitation

the russians shelled pokrovsk in the donetsk region the previous evening. of houses". i was in the house, lying on the bed, the tv was turned off, it was like the window flew on me, and the tv flew onto the bed. leaving the crimea via the road bridge in chongar it is also impossible there, his gulyater serhii aksyonov writes that there was a hit at the moment, explosives experts are conducting an examination, traffic on the bridge has been stopped, the campaign is asking to remain calm, but the crimeans are already complaining on all their telegram channels, their level of anxiety is increasing, it is known in advance that the attack was carried out on june 22 at 5 in the morning according to the measurements, the neighboring cities of chongar through lake sivash were also affected. now the armed forces of ukraine are advancing in several directions in the south, this has led to the agony of the putin regime, so russian propaganda is distributing videos on who alludes to the explosion of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is a terrorist attack being prepared at the g

these are passat pokrovske in kherson oblast, borodyanka and moschun in kyiv oblast, berries in chernihiv oblast, trostyanets in sumy oblast. there are still circuses in the kharkiv region, but circuses will probably be excluded from the project and replaced by another settlement, the head of kharkiv ava says this is due to the fact that they have become more frequent in the area shelling, the inhabitants of zirkun did not understand the decision, this information certainly caused a shock in the population. there was almost a line of people there . what is happening ? mykolaiv and kharkiv oblasts, according to the project , architectural monuments and cultural centers destroyed by the russian army will be restored there, a unified design of buildings, a new road to a park for active recreation, and an all-ukrainian museum, this is what it should become the village of yagidne in chernihiv region , it was included in the list of six villages that will be rebuilt under a new experimental program, about 300 million uah are planned to be allocated for the restoration and reconstruction of 120

james waterhouse, bbc news, pokrovsk, in eastern ukraine. returning now to our top story — russia's defence ministry says it has thwarted a ukrainian attack in the occupied donetsk region. kyiv hasn't responded directly, but says there had been almost 30 clashes in donetsk and luhansk. the increase in activity is the latest sign that an expected ukrainian counter—offensive appears to have begun. what to have begun. exactly do we know? live now to ed arnold — research fellow for european security within the international security studies department at rusi — a defence and security think tank. thank you for being with us. there is a lot i want to ask you and a lot to get through given what we have seenin to get through given what we have seen in recent hours about what is happening in ukraine and indeed in russia. what's your assessment first of all about whether this much touted counteroffensive is actually now begun?— touted counteroffensive is actually nowbeuun? , ., , now begun? yes, the main point is that ukrainian _ now begun? yes, the m

it's a major employer which binds pokrovsk together.n for those escaping occupied cities. residents have also been enticed back by power and water being restored. but the sharp end of this conflict is just 26 miles from here. it's why locals are being told to stay away. is it safe enough for people to return to pokrovsk? translation: no. even though pokrovsk is not right at the front of the donetsk region, we cannot say it is a safe city. multiple rocket launchers can reach here. 0n the outskirts of the city, closer to that threat, is the last line of defence. amidst all of the talk of a ukrainian counteroffensive, there's always a risk of the russians breaking through the line. there is a sympathy in the trenches for those wanting to come home. "if you have to die," this man tells me, "it's better to die at home than somewhere abroad." it's the watchful eyes of soldiers which are allowing people to move back into harm's way. for this family, it's a conscious decision. translation: who knows when it will become safe here? _ maybe a year