and ukraine, while the war between russia and ukraine continues, a group of heads of state went to kiev to find a solution to end the war that has been going on for more than a year now. the african delegation includes the president's secrets. the four south african countries were zambia and cameroon, the heads of uganda, mes and congo withdrew from this trip at the last minute and their representatives have designed this one to express their continent's concern about the consequences of the war between russia and ukraine, especially the increase in grain prices. and peace should be achieved through dialogue and political means the board proposed 10 articles to end the war between russia and ukraine, but i can say that the proposal made by the article has an essential element . ukrainian president zelensky rejected any negotiations with moscow. i said several times during the meeting that we have no negotiations with russia. they must stop the war . he emphasized that he told its leaders his views on how to end the war and co

— ukraine would actually, russia, ukraine would actually, russia, ukraine would actually, russiaater— ukraine would actually welcome greater role for china in terms of negotiating a peace process. thank— of negotiating a peace process. thank you _ of negotiating a peace process. thank you forjoining us on the programme. meanwhile, at least eleven people are now known to have died at a pizza restaurant in kramatorsk — following a russian missile attack on tuesday. kramatorsk is in ukraine's eastern donetsk region. it's under ukrainian control — but close to parts of the country occupied by russia. ukraine says the restaurant was hit by a is—kander ballistic missile, that's one of the most accurate weapons in russia's arsenal. ukraine's security service has arrested a resident suspected of helping direct the attack. among the dead — were two iii year old twins — yulia and anna aksenchenko. 0ur correspondent andrew harding has the latest from the scene. outside the ruins of a popular restaurant, anxious relatives and friends, still waiting for news late this afternoon here in easter

[000:00:00;00] and for uma, russia is throwing millions of naftodors to turn ukrainians into little russians ukraine will become russia analysis and analysis of information about ukraine by russian propagandists concrete facts and methods by which enemy propaganda turns people of obedient zones into zombies counter information attacks of russians in the project of the chronicle of the information war with olga laziness from june 5 , tuesday, thursday, friday at 5:10 p.m. on the espresso tv channel, vasyl zima's long broadcast my name is vasyl zima, two hours of air time, and 2 hours of your time, we will talk about the most important thing is two hours to find out about the war. serhiy zgoretska remains on the air. military summaries of the day and what is the world like? what in the world will yury fizer tell about two hours to be aware of economic news ? oleksandr marchenko protested. he tells us about the economy during the war and new sports yevhen pastukhov ready to talk about sports for two hours in the company of favorite presenters about culture during the war lina is ready to talk about oth

and ukraine to convey their message and concern in this regard, while the war between russia and ukraine a group of african heads of state went to kiev to find a solution to end the war that has been going on for more than a year now. the african delegation included the presidents of four countries, south africa, senegal , zambia and cameroon. the trip was canceled and the representatives made their own plans this delegation was designed to express the continent's concern about the consequences of the russian war , especially the increase in the price of grain, and the question should be achieved through dialogue and political tools . ukraine presented that i can say that what was previously proposed by the article has an essential element. we listen to the opinions of both sides. this group asked both russia and ukraine to reduce tensions, but ukrainian president zelensky rejected any negotiations with moscow several times. i said many times during the meeting that there is no negotiation with russia they must stop the war, he urged african leaders to present their views on

to cups on to the new bill in front of the ultimately, if there was a conflict or a war with russia, ukraine would be among the 1st platforms to initiate hostilities through the local residents have reported unusual infection outbreaks, newer american labs. one example is a facility in the topic of the social activists. so again, let's see if the worked and how it goes when the them opened complained several times to ukrainian or several cheese at the request of local residents. the credit of scope list do really strongly, which is to last push. keep gimme agree button woke up with the equipment just because they agree, but i got the below ocean above the reason imaging that the money no. do you see also if they really you as decent as to about putting it, isn't the one of them is suspected of being running experiments on takes the story takes, are infected with secret virus, west nile fever during the fever and other equally dangerous pathogens. and then released into the natural habitats. neither ukraine, northern us have denied that the pentagon is links to bio labs in the country the, [0

and if russia chose war, we would do three things: support ukraine, impose severe costs on russia, andstrengthen nato while rallying our allies and partners around these goals. as the storm clouds gathered, we surged military, economic, and humanitarian assistance to ukraine. first in august 2021, and again in december, we sent military equipment to bolster ukraine's defenses, including javelins and stingers. and we deployed a team from the u.s. cyber command to help ukraine shore up its power grid and other critical infrastructure against cyber attacks. we prepared an unprecedented set of sanctions, export controls, other economic costs to impose severe and immediate consequences on russia in the event of a full-scale invasion. we took steps to leave no doubt that we, and our allies, would uphold our commitment to defend every inch of nato territory. and we worked relentlessly to rally allies and partners around helping ukraine defend itself and denying putin his strategic aims. since day one of his administration, president bidenr has focused on rebuilding and revitalizing america's

if russia throws war, -- chose war, we would support ukraine, and posted your costs on russia, and strengthen nato, while rallying our allies and partners around the goals. as the storm clouds gathered, research the military, economic and humanitarian assistance to ukraine. first in august 2021 and again in december. we sell weapons to bolster ukraine's defenses and deployed a team to help ukraine short of its our great and other critical infrastructure against cyber attacks. you prepared an unprecedented set of sanctions, export controls, and other economic costs in the event of a full-scale invasion. we took steps to leave no doubt that we and our allies would uphold our commitment to defend every inch of nato territory. we worked relentlessly to rally allies and partners to help ukraine defend itself and deny president putin his strategic aims. on day one of this -- since day one of this administration, people have focused on revitalizing his partnerships, knowing we are stronger when we work along those who share our interests and values. in the run-up to russia's invasion, we demonstrate

withdrawal of russian troops from the territory of ukraine, and that no concessions, no compromises in this regard, which means that there is no way that russia can leave its troops there , because in this case germany will actually force it is impossible for ukraine to agree to satisfy the aggressor, it is impossible to force ukraine to do so, that is , scholze's position here was absolutely normal , whether he would really call putin or not with this speech, in fact, from this answer, let's say yes, in fact, nothing happened. he said that he could theoretically, well, how could he do it , if he didn't necessarily do a lot of things, that is, i don't think that there is anything to worry about. germany at the chancellor level and of the government still demonstrates a very strong and er very er sorry i disappeared but they were heard speaking demonstrates a very dignified position and here are these calls there of some there bishops episcopacy means that you need to immediately stop the fire give all putin needs is for people not to die. this is complete nonsense and it is simply not necessary to pay attention to it, mr. serhiy, just in fron

ukraine is at stake. host: what you think russia might do in ukraine following this insurrection? guest: the biggest danger that putin faced was that elements of the russian military or intelligence services might throw their weight behind him. that is something he was counting on. i think that forced him to make a deal with putin to get out of the situation he has put himself in. the other danger was that the russian military would have to divert its attention and resources from the war in ukraine to try to deal with internal unrest in russia. that did not happen either because putin was able to orchestrate this settlement quickly. but i think this situation leaves him wounded politically. russians first and foremost look to their leader in the kremlin to maintain order inside russia. a lot of russians have got to be asking themselves today, how could putin have let the situation get so out of control that this happened, this challenge to his power happened? he allowed the group of private mercenaries to accumulate a lot of military capability. hungry for military influence. and

and not only for territories, it is also a war for minds russia is throwing millions of oil dollars to turn ukrainians into little russians ukraine will become russia analysis and analysis information about ukraine by russian propagandists, specific facts and methods by which enemy propaganda turns obedient people into zombies already in the dnr information attacks of the russians in the project of the chronicle of the information war with olga len from june 5 , tuesday, thursday, friday at 5:10 p.m. on the espresso tv channel. vasyl winter my name is vasyl winter two hours of air time two hours of your time we will talk about the most important two hours to learn about the war our broadcast serhiy zgoretska military summaries of the day and what is he doing world what is there in the world ? polished presenters that many have become like , perhaps the weather will at least give us some optimism, ms. natalka didenko is ready to tell us, as well as distinguished guests of the studio , we will have volodymyr grishko today if everything it will be good events of the day in two hours, a big broadcast of vasyl in winter, a project for

russia announced that ukraine's attempt to enter russian territory was unsuccessful. ministry of defense of russia announced that after the shelling of civilian installations in brood in this area in the southwest of the country, two groups of ukrainian motorized infantry supported by tanks and personnel carriers intended to enter russian territory. russian forces stopped them according to reports, at least eight civilians were attacked by a group of about 50 heads of european countries to announce an alliance against russia in moldova, in the neighborhood of ukraine, in this meeting, which repeated the second meeting of its country's community for membership in nato and the european union and called for a coalition against it . the war in ukraine has been announced as the topic of this meeting, but the leaders of azerbaijan and armenia, as well as kosovo and serbia, are supposed to hold talks on the sidelines of the meeting. the secretary general of nato said in an informal meeting of foreign ministers of this organization that ukraine's joining this military alliance

not only for the territory it is also a war for the minds russia is throwing millions of naftodors to turn ukrainians into little russians ukrainerussia analysis and analysis information about ukraine by russian propagandists, specific facts and methods by which enemy propaganda turns people into obedient zombies , resistance to russian information attacks in the project of the chronicle of the information war with olga laziness from june 5, tuesday, thursday, friday at 5:10 p.m. on espresso tv channel vasyl zima's long broadcast my name is vasyl zima two hours of air time two hours of your time we will talk about the most important things two hours to learn about the war serhiy zhoretska is the result of our broadcast military summaries of the day and how does the world live? what is there in the world ? yuriy the physicist will tell for two hours to be aware of economic news. sport for two hours in the company of favorite presenters about culture during the war, lena is ready to talk about culture during the war, or something else that many have become like , maybe the weather will give us some optimism, mrs. natalka didenko i

he is not doing any more with ukraine or russia. but africa remains _ with ukraine or russia. ing field, if i can sa so, ., ., remains his hunting field, if i can sa so. ., ., ., remains his hunting field, if i can sa so. ., ., ., ., say so. samantha, i would turn to ou, wh say so. samantha, i would turn to you. why were — say so. samantha, i would turn to you. why were on _ say so. samantha, i would turn to you, why were on earth _ say so. samantha, i would turn to you, why were on earth would - you, why were on earth would prigozhin be allowed back to africa? they have seen the abuses he has committed. is he likely to be welcomed back, isn't thatjust to their exploitation, once again? we don't their exploitation, once again? - don't know what bogosian will be allowed to do, but his presence in africa, he is that the invitation of a number governments, he provides assistance to the african government, he is very influential in sudan and has been playing on both sides of the conflict in sudan, so he's not there at the invitation of the people, he is there at the invitation of g

for use in ukraine . which russia use to advance the invasion of ukraine, and we asked the chinese government to be very vigilant about the progress of negotiations with blinkan, the united states and europe call on china to take a constructive position to achieve a just peace in ukraine and use its influence on putin to persuade him to withdraw troops from ukraine with his in turn, china, although it does not condemn russia's aggression against ukraine, refrains from open military aid and declares its peacekeeping mission on whose side was china in this war oksana bedratenko all american and european delegations visit beijing more often. western officials are trying to persuade china to influence russia to withdraw its troops from ukraine. although beijing declares its peacekeeping mission , it refrains from directly condemning russian aggression in ukraine. china is chasing two birds with one stone when it comes to war policy. american chinese scholar, researcher at the eurasian foundation , ally wine, i think there

and russia prior to the full-scale invasion of ukraine, russia requested the u.s. prevent further eastward expansion of nato, and the disarming of 50% of current nato countries capabilities, and also, making direct threats to members of the alliance. we must take the threat seriously, to deter russian aggression, while many nato countries have succeeded in reaching 2%, we must now view this goal as a floor, rather than a ceiling. i also look forward to discussions at the summit regarding ukraine's progress towards nato a session accession. ukraine has passed the security relationship which would traditionally warrant an action plan. while discussions are ongoing, i have been clear that after this war is over, ukraine will emerge as, is not one of the strongest, the second strongest, most well-equipped military in europe. we must show unity at the vilnius summit and i remain confident that nato allies will continue to use the vast resources of our historic alliance to ensure ukraine's self-defense. the european union has also stepped up, as of may 23rd, to provide o

accordingly tried to convene a meeting under the name of peace support and of security in ukraine, and russia respectively, a threat to international peace and security, and just in the announcement. these two names were combined. this is very indicative of the fact that ukraine succeeded because there was a call from the minister of foreign affairs, dmytro, my colleague, and the president to hold this meeting today. it is very revealing because usually the meeting of the security council is not organized so quickly, surely it was organized so quickly, the same quick reaction of the security council was only when there was a full-scale invasion on february 24th, and this actually indicates that and this is because, as explained by the permanent representative of ukraine about the un, serhii kostitsya, whom she talked to before our broadcast, that in fact it is very important for the un to collect information from the fields and to have it because they must have their own speaker who must present the information like this at the moment it is already known that this person who will represent th

russia announced that ukraine's attempt to enter russian territory was unsuccessful. the ministry of defense of russia announced that ukrainian motorized infantry supported by tanks and personnel carriers intended to shell the civilian facilities of bolut in this area in the southwest of this country. they had to enter the territory of russia when the russian forces prevented them. according to reports, at least eight civilians were killed in the attack of the ukrainian group . about 50 heads of european countries gathered to declare unity against russia in moldova in the neighborhood of ukraine. the president of ukraine reiterated his country's desire to become a member of nato and the european union and called for a coalition against russia. the ukraine war has been announced as the topic of this meeting, but on the sidelines of the meeting, the heads of the republic of azerbaijan and armenia, as well as koze and serbia, are supposed to hold talks. in the unofficial meeting of the foreign ministers of this organization, the whole of nato said that ukraine's joining t

this means that the world will not leave ukraine alone with russia, these supplies of military equipmentis already saying that ukraine is just provoked russia to go to war, and he repeated several times today at the meeting with the military that we did not start this conflict , it was the ukrainians who started this war. since 2000, when putin came to power in the presidential chair, he began to prepare for the destruction and seizure of ukraine yes, yes i was not mistaken, we are talking about the twenty-year preparation of the russian federation for war with ukraine we remember that with the coming of vladimir putin to power in russia, a major political crisis unfolded in ukraine, and it was connected with the murder of our fellow journalist heorhiy gongadze, at that very time the ukrainian state was taking steps on the way to european integration, euro-atlantic integration, and was in power president kuchma we remember that after the disappearance of gongadze there were many versions of what happened to him, they were looking for george everywhere, and there were different versions,

but you see a couple of things here because russia has launched as major aggression against ukraine. this exercise is bigger also because russia has hardly chewed up its ground forces in ukraine. its air capability remains largely intact, and this is a way for nato to demonstrate that that air capability is no match for nato. the ukraine's defense ministry says its troops have read 8 and 7 villages from russian forces in the southeast. the gains reported over the past 2 days, a part of keeps new country offensive against the invading army. the villages are in a cluster of settlements in the done yet ends up reviews of regions which have partially occupied by russia. ukraine in troops released this video, which they said he shows them posing with the flag in storage shave. however, russia's military says is repelled ukraine's attempts to advance in the night. some of the news headlines you created an official, was a reporting at least 10 best as a result of flooding from the destruction of the, of the could cause could down. last week, more than 40 people are still missing. fund with a

this delegation presented a proposal of 10 articles to end the war between russia and ukraine. they can sell the proposal made by the article has an essential element to cheaper opinions. this group asked both russia and ukraine to reduce tensions, but president zelensky ukraine any negotiations with he rejected moscow, who said several times during the meeting that we have no negotiations with russia, they should stop the war, urged african leaders to present their views on how to end the war and cooperate to ensure food security. the african delegation after anon went to moscow to meet with russian president vladimir putin. during this meeting, putin praised the balanced approach of the leaders of african countries regarding the debate in ukraine and emphasized that he welcomes the dialogue . pakistan wants action urgent and human traffickers, bbc reported, while pakistani immigration is among the dead and missing in the sinking of a boat carrying migrants in greece , pakistani prime minister shahbaz sharif called for immediate action against human traffickers. this incident h

russia shares the principled positions of the peace plan proposed by african countries foreign minister sergei lavrov, the interlocutors of the president showed attention to the fact that in order to resolve the crisis in ukraineit is necessary to eliminate the causes that have given rise to and continue to undermine security in europe, the minister of russia noted the president counted 10 points, which you probably managed to fix. they emphasize that these initiatives do not compete with any others. first of all, they singled out the well-known 12 points of the position of the people's republic of china, which was presented a couple of months ago, and singled out those parts of this chinese initiative that are close to them and which is that there should be no double standards in the world, that all principles, the un charter in all aggregates. in all their interconnection respected and pretended to be in life. and so that there are no unilateral sanctions, so that there are no attempts to ensure someone's security at the expense of the security of others, so that security is indivisible on a global scale. vladimir putin's meeting with representatives of african countries lasted almost 3 hours. the president

this delegation proposed 10 articles to end the war between russia and ukraine . i can say that the proposal made by the article has an essential element . this group asked both russia and ukraine to reduce tensions, but ukrainian president zelensky rejected any negotiations with moscow, which i said several times during the meeting that we have no negotiations with russia, they should stop the war, he emphasized to the african leaders . your views on after that, the african delegation went to moscow to meet with russian president vladimir putin. during this meeting , putin praised and emphasized the balanced approach of the heads of african countries regarding the debate in ukraine. kurd welcomes the conversation. stealing and selling body organs at harvard university. abc1 reported that the director of the morgue of harvard medical school in america is accused of stealing and selling body parts from corpses donated to this school. his father's body is also gone part of the map of harvard university is horrified. officers arrested this man yesterday's films and ri

but you see a couple of things here because russia has launched this major aggression against ukraine. this exercise is bigger also because russia has hardly chewed up its ground forces in ukraine. its air capability remains largely intact. and this is a way for nato to demonstrate that that air capability is no match for nato to ukraine's defense ministry says it streams have read, taken 7 villages from russian forces in the southeast. the gains reported over the past 2 days, a part of it a positive keeps new kinds of offensive against the invading army. the villages are in a cluster of settlements in the done, yet stands up for reese or regions which are partially occupied by russia. ukraine and troops released this video was based that shows them housing with the flag in storage. eva, however, rushes military says is repelled ukraine's attempts to advance in the area. here's a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. ukrainian officials are reporting at least 10 best as a result of flooding from the destruction of the kickoff cut down. last week. more th

, arming ukraine , we are pushing russia into the arms of china. this is for us. the main threat. i think we need to end the war in ukraine peacefully and make special concessions. russia ukraine should not be allowed to join nato but in return, russia should withdraw from the treaties and military agreements with china, which is more in the us interests six months ago, it seemed that the ukrainian consensus with republicans and democrats was a consensus. hawks from both parties, but now there has been a reverse process , democratic candidate robert kennedy jr. is also not a fan. zelensky total how he is patronized by the buyden pink we continue to lie about the ukrainian war data testify that about 350,000 ukrainians were killed on the front line. we are not being told this by neoconservatives. the white house has been preparing this war on the opposite flank for 10 years. all the same, for example, the former non-kefilia post-predecessor, with whom a funny incident happened the other day at the occasion of the table. here is her statement. you see

african leaders will become the same peacemakers and whether they will succeed in bringing ukraine and russiathe negotiating table , even though the war in ukraine has affected the lives of many africans because the prices of fertilizer and grain have increased culture and fuel on the continent itself , they believe in the effectiveness of the peace talks not too much because of neuroscience , bbc correspondent barbara asher spoke with the bbc presenter yaldo and hakim amen of kyiv here as you know, today was missile attack and african leaders are in ukraine today, and what do people on the continent say about this delegation or do they believe that it receives the thesis that this delegation will help achieve peace between russia and ukraine, they are skeptical here, because there are signs that one of the parties will be ready sit down at the negotiating table, so the question is, what african leaders think they can contribute to peace, because they do not have a great influence, at least obviously, maybe the only important thing is that they do not take a direct part in the conflict and th

and russia prior to the full-scale invasion of ukraine, russia requested the u.s. prevent further eastward expansion of nato, and the disarming of 50% of current nato countries capabilities, and also, making direct threats to members of the alliance. we must take the threat seriously, to deter russian aggression, while many nato countries have succeeded in reaching 2%, we must now view this goal as a floor, rather than a ceiling. i also look forward to discussions at the summit regarding ukraine's progress towards nato a session accession. ukraine has passed the security relationship which would traditionally warrant an action plan. while discussions are ongoing, i have been clear that after this war is over, ukraine will emerge as, is not one of the strongest, the second strongest, most well-equipped military in europe. we must show unity at the vilnius summit and i remain confident that nato allies will continue to use the vast resources of our historic alliance to ensure ukraine's self-defense. the european union has also stepped up, as of may 23rd, to provide o

russia. the air force says it shot down a dozen rockets, including hypersonic missiles, during the attack. ukraine's foreign minister said the message to africa was clear — russia wants more war, not peace. the african delegation said it would press on with plans to meet president zelensky, before visiting vladimir putin on saturday. we ta ke we take you life to kyiv, where mike corresponded schalke are keen is. we've now come to the outskirts of kyiv,. instruction to a number of houses here. a woman in her 80s lived in that house there that has been completely destroyed. across the road... being interviewed by local media here just now this entire community has been impacted in some way, some houses have been completely destroyed. others have been partially destroyed. but everyone here is quite ellipses like a this country has come under attack as a result of missile attacks and, as a result of missile attacks and, as you say, african leaders have today in the capital and this is basically what is happening in the capital. my colleague mayeni jones has the latest. today's missile strike was describ

and not only for territories, it is also a war for umy russia is throwing millions of oil dollars to turn ukrainians into little russians ukraine will become russia analysis and analysis of information about ukraine by russian propagandists specific facts and methods by which enemy propaganda turns people into obedient zombies ruyut progolosovat residents of the ldr let's counter the information attacks of the russians in the project of the chronicle of the information war with olga len from june 5 , tuesday, thursday, friday at 5:10 p.m. on the espresso tv channel vasyl's big broadcast of winter my name is vasyl winter two hours of airtime two hours of your time we will talk about the most important two hours to learn about the war serhiy zhoretska joins our airwaves military summaries of the day how the world lives what's in the physicist yuriy will tell the world for two hours to keep up with the economic news of the radio operators oleksandr frowns he tells us about the economy during the war and new sports evgeny pastukhov is ready to talk about sports for 2 hours in the company of his favorite presenters about culture dur

ukraine, let me to let me ask you this. do you expect that turkey a will continue to play a leading diplomatic role between russia and ukraine? can we expect more shuttle diplomacy from president air to one going forward? so i hope so because the me started going, it looks like the likeliest candidate for these kinds of role. you're right. the said that there are weapons being supplied from to a kid to ukraine, but these are private company is doing that by rex dollars. a private company of course. well, very sad about the fact that the drug is government does not prevent these private companies from doing that. but this is of course, a far cry for all what, for example, greece, also a bike. yeah. the way you know that the governments provide a provide weapons. does that do that? you great, you know, i mean, so are you think me started on looks like a very likely kind of that for some kind of remediation role. and let me remind you that last year in march, in the, in the east unable russia and ukraine live very close to, to, to some kind of a deal. it was some, what is your son who came to the front, who this way? that's as

late yesterday, progressions forest process from russia, from ukraine, into russia, claiming controlthe russian armed forces, which is located within that city. fog ocean says he plans to lead his troops, quote, to moscow. speaking early this morning, vladimir putin had agreed -- precocious claim, saying that

russia out of appear. what a contrast with president zelenskyy of ukraine. ember in the early stages of that conflict when russia invaded ukraine in the early weeks and headed toward kiev zelenskyy was offered safe passage from the city and said i need ammo, not a ride. putin took the ride in this case out of moscow and went and hunkered down in a palace bunker. mean time yevgeny prigozhin looks like the biggest gun in russia rolling towards moscow endangering his life. his army chiefs are sitting back in their circumstances in moscow sending russian men to their death in this meat grinder not seeming to care of about it. putin no longer looks like the toughest guy in russia. remember in dictatorships like this the main man stays in power by looking tougher and stronger than everybody else and that's not what putin looks like today. >> certainly a stark contrast. we will see what happens next. steve fisher answer that for joining us knowledge appreciate your analysis. and still to come here on cnn news room belarus president has emerged as a deal makeer who h

ukraine has accused russia of blowin: u- dam. ukraine has accused russia of blowing up a _ dam. blowing up a major dam in - dam. ukraine has accused russia of blowing up a major dam in the - blowing up a major dam in the russian controlled area in the region. in turn moscow controlled officials accused ukraine of striking the dam. what actually happened? let's take a look. this video shows the aftermath of the breach of the dam and we know it is the dam because we were able to match some of the visual clues and some of the buildings the known footage of a few years ago. we also have a satellite imagery from literally earlier today that shows significant damage to the facility. you can see water flowing freely through it. you can see water flowing freely through it. ukraine has accused russia of blowing up a major dam in the kherson region. that includes controlled by russia. also further down the river the city of. we still don't know, that remains an open question, what actually caused the damage to the dam. we know from the satellite imagery from the past few days that there wa

wagner forces had left ukraine, other mercenary forces look like they were going to get leaving ukraine russia distracted by this. that might have presented a good opportunity for ukraine to push forward its counteroffensive. now in its third week which has to some degree been faltering and maybe take advantage of this. there still might be the chance of that. i think the officials here in kyiv are watching and waiting to see how this all shakes out. >> as we all are and they are the white house and the pentagon two. greg palkot in kyiv thank you. arthel: eric, thank you right now for more regard and former cia station chief dan hoffman for he served in moscow for five years. also a fox news contributor. dan, really good to have you here. want to start the headline which is wagner then to order their mercenaries to halt their march to moscow to avoid shedding russian blood. what could be behind this order to stand down? is there a behind-the-scenes deal in the works? >> well, clearly he made the assessment it would not be worth the risk to carry on to moscow. he was really close. obviously did

kyiv time to moscow time, and it was already from this point of view before his accession to ukraine russiaaway. i am sure that if leonid kuchma and leonid kravchuk won the presidential elections in ukraine in 1994 , they separated crimea. and that's how they came up with the idea, so it wasn't putin, but people who are more careful, why do they need this unfortunate one crimea to spoil relations with ukraine when they, with the help of their agents who were close to kuchma, who besieged him like insects and the head of the presidential administration, a russian agent and other people, that they could simply annex ukraine and there was a struggle surrounded by students just when they won in in this environment, there are people like volodymyr horbulin, like yevhen marchuk, when leonid kushchev himself was simply fascinated by the amount of money that can be mastered, being the president of ukraine , you can have a son-in-law of a billionaire well, because he is a talented businessman, because you are good president well, i say, why are we talking conditional, it all did not work out for the

ukraine's borders. one of the key elements of russia's war on ukraine is the wagner group.y this man, prigozhin, there is a video of him which we can show you where he has recently made a bit of a rant. he is somebody who has appeared quite a lot on wagner's telegram channel. this is a very recent one of him. he, in the past, has been very open in criticising russia's ministry of defence. in particular, the defence minister and the chief of staff. accusing them of starving his forces, of much needed ammunition. he has taken it far further now, because he has matched his troops across into russia and taken control of rostov—on—don. city of about people has basically been lost control of by the government. this is huge. i don't think anybody in the kremlin ever expected that. what you are seeing here is prigozhin are sitting in the middle between two russian generals, that if deputy chief of defence staff is one of them, and he is giving them a telling off. he is saying i want you to bring your boss here. i am not going to stop unless you bring them here. i've got 25,000 peop

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wagner has been crucial in russia's full—scale operation on ukraine. bakhmut. what does this latest situation in russia mean for ukraine? i think it is not going to be decisive, but it does help the russian war effort wagner has been reduced to a shadow of its former self. at its peak it had about 50,000 troops, many of those recruited from russia's labour camps. most of those are dead, wounded, and have or have returned to civilian life. wagner is much smaller. even if it isjust 10,000 troops, that is 10,000, on the whole, quite well—trained, battle—hardened veterans. they will be reconstituted after the meat grinder of bakhmut. this is so they can be used as reinforcements. not having wagner is in itself a loss. if other, again of the more professional troops, have to be diverted to deal with wagner even just to bottle it up, every soldier that leaves the theatre for that purpose, is a soldier who is not there to resist the ukrainian counteroffensive. that is one of the many reasons why putin is so clearly and visibly angry at what he sees as betraya

it's clear that russia must _ ukraine's reconstruction. - ukraine's reconstruction. it's clear that russia must pay for the - that russia must pay for the destruction that they have inflicted. so we are working with allies to explore lawful routes to use russian assets. and on monday, we published a new legislation to allow us to keep sanctions in place until russia pays up. recovery is about laying the foundation for ukraine to thrive as a secure, independent country fully integrated with europe, connected to markets around the world. a democracy, rooted in the rule of law, a place where all ukrainians have dignity, human rights, the opportunity to reach their full potential. ukraine's president has done an interview about the state of the country. he admitted it was difficult to measure the success of the current counteroffensive against russia. i'd like to begin by asking you about the counter—offensive. how is it going? translation: not everything is easy. | there are certain difficulties because, first of all, ourland is mined. we wou

matt has covered russia and the war in ukraine extensively. matt spends a lot of time in moscow, and he has a lot of contacts there. matt, tell me what you're hearing from inside russia, because as kelly said, we don't know what sort of support precocious has inside russia whether it's military support or popular support, or political support, or support within the putin administration or the defense establishment. >> yeah, thank you, ali, it's a very interesting situation, i think i would like to begin by saying yevgeny prigozhin is not the most popular man in the russian elise. we don't really think he has too many friends. but he was was very useful and loyal to president putin for so many years, but he's really become quite useful in this war. the wagner group, obviously, was quite affective in certain engagements, particularly in talking with ukrainians and there's been this rivalry that's developed between wagner prigozhin's group, and the russian military defense. -- not been as successful in engaging the ukrainian military in certain pl

defeat its military power, but leave russia culturally, leave russia informationally , leave russia religious in ukrained then this russia will transform into a military threat again, one way or another, because it is not enough to defeat any country militarily , it must be defeated. aggressive, i, as an ethnic russian, can say kill the muscovite kill the muscovite first of all in yourself in everyone and the suppliers of which he is present in our our life in our consciousness, first of all , we need to understand that and this is not possible, what kind of philosophical question is it, well, of course, this is a job that everyone has carry out well in your own mind, but if there is a state and some of its institutions, including those responsible for the relevant area, then they must perform their functions, you know , i have 10 minutes in our country. let's pay attention to this topic honestly. because you know that in ukraine, someone does not want to get rid of the russian culture of russian books, and in the world, with great effort , they are getting rid of the illusions about the great russian c

uh, there are some minimal goals for russia and ukraine, which is russia will achieve any way no matter what. uh for them a comes to the situation is different. they can not of course, a for it's some kind of mess if lose a face. they need to keep the current ukrainian regime in some form, but still the, they also might be interested at some pointing ending it. uh, that might happen probably by the end of this year. but again, we shouldn't hold too much. it's quite, we cannot exclude then absolutely uh, or full scenario under which this war will continue for 3 for more years. and the number of casualties will be and borrow out since world war 2. and that there's also a possibility. and very quickly, you described the russians goal uh, strategical as the removal of your credit as a source of press for russia's external security, internal political stability is this goal compatible with your client's existence as a sovereign state? and if so, what is the absolute minimum that the russian ukraine and ukraine beckers have to agree upon? i believe the threats of ukraine till the russian inte

it is going to be one of the talking points out would be defense, trade and noisy, the russia ukraine, conflicts. remember us haven't been wanting india to distance itself from moscow, or please take us down against russia award the ukraine conflicts. but india has taken a mutual and independence dam on the lines of its form. policy is something laughed from in the sun during the movie also spoke about to wall street journal just before he went to the us. i don't think this type of perception is widespread in the us. i think in disposition as well known and well understood in the entire world. the world has full confidence. that is, the most priority is peace. so you really have maintained close ties with most of the slides west and special lead by the us. remember, most cool remains the top or the supply or to new delhi. in fact, around 50 percent of the country's military supplies because i'm in new shoes, ties 5 projects. they all come from a rush.

ukraine. so i wonder with progression now turning his focus in relate towards moscow. what it might mean for russia is war in you train, especially now that the ukraine's can are offensive is up and going. it depends upon how quickly the gramlin will manage to fix the problem. and it's been sol, so it's how exactly is we land if lives will bid them 3 to false them. uh, although pretty boyfriends. uh well, very badly. and uh, we'll play the role of a game changer. will not change that much in relation to the ongoing on and you ongoing what is your brain? but nevertheless, they reset grant a different location points and traction leadership and trash them and leads to decide whether to escalate. i have these uh he has been offered by the boardroom or to this if i, if this is another for, for coming from the boardroom or to keep staff as well. that is nikolai petroff senior research fellow at chatham house. many thanks for your time and your perspective, sir. my pleasure to dw special correspondent abraham e, as in keith earlier, she told me how ukrainians have been reacting to the news of this appare

the argument that somehow ukraine or nato posed a threat to russia. d a direct challenge to putin himself. so, think about it this way. 16 months ago, russian forces were on the doorstep of kyiv, ukraine, thinking they were going to take the city in a matter of days and erase the country from the map. now they have to be focused on defending moscow, russia's capital, against mercenaries of putin's own making. so this raises a lot of profound questions that will be answered i think in the days and weeks ahead. >> i understand this is very much a moving and a fluid situation. one thing that senator marco rubio said, he's a top republican on the intelligence committee, he said that top military officials in russia may have been replaced in order to get prigozhin to back down. have any top military -- any top military officials, forgive me, like the defense minister been ousted as far as the u.s. knows? >> we haven't seen that yet. but, again, i think we'll see this unroll further in the days and weeks ahead. there is no secret to the fact that prigozhin w

face up to 10 years behind bars 93% of ukrainians support a democratic system this is why ukraine is not russiaabout it the sociological survey of the razumkovo center shows that it is about people who call such a political system rather good or very good for ukraine in ukraine in the last thirteen years it has been increasing the number of supporters of democracy is also an absolute majority sees the future of our country as a highly developed, influential and european state, this is a historical maximum, although ukrainians have always supported the western model of development , 2,200 ukrainians took part in the survey in people in government-controlled territories , the error is 2.3%, the data of sociological studies are very encouraging optimistic and they say that we are a healthy nation , support for democracy at this level indicates that there is demand, when there is demand there will be the proposal took place, an evil war, uh, showed true values, uh, unfortunately, it came at a great price, the realization of what the soviet union was, what democracy is, what such authoritarianism ca

year we heard various statements from berlusconi , but the main message is this - it is ukraine's fault that russia went to ukraine, that is, ukraine, you are in this war what do you think about the point view of history and what we will get as a result already after our victory , will there be any responsibility for those politicians who for a long time tried to incorporate putin and his russia, authoritarian russia into the european structure and in the european structure and for a long time pretended that everything was fine and gave putin the opportunity to to climb onto the pedestal from which he is actually speaking against the whole world. i think that even history will eventually judge all these figures, including bilokon, who, unfortunately, did not live to see the defeat of russia. changed his opinion on many issues, but really, he was a controversial figure , someone will remember him, i have to do in ukraine, in the context of the football team milan and andrii shevchenko, well, it was such a positive page, let's say in his relations with our state. well, then, hmm, the playing along wi