i invite resident zelenskyy to participate in today's meeting via vtc -- president zelenskyy to participaten today's media -- meeting via vtc. >> in accordance of rule 39, i invite -- undersecretary general for peace building. it is so decided. on accordance with the role 39 of the council provisional will and procedures, i invite mr. sylvia -- as interim of the european union allegation to the united nations. it is so decided. the secretary council will begin his consideration of item two on the agenda. i am honored to invite the secretary-general and i give him the floor. >> mr. president of ukraine, excellencies, today's marks the third milestone, six months since the invasion of ukraine. during these devastating periods , many have been killed and countless others have lost their family members and friends and loved ones. while this has been a great violation of law, there has been no accountability and millions of ukrainians have lost their homes and possessions and coming this placed. with the onset of winter, -- millions of people in need of assistance. it is imperative that -- no ma

zelenskyy for his statement. i now give the floor to the members of the security council, to the representative of the u.s. >> thank you, mr. president, and thank you secretary-general guterres and undersecretary general dicarlo for your briefings. i would also like to congratulate ukrainians on their independence day, and thank president zelenskyy for participating in the meeting. president zelenskyy, the united states stands with you and the people of ukraine today and every day. and every russian bomb that falls only strengthens our resolve to support your sovereignty and your independence. today marks six months of russia's premeditated and unjustifiable and brutal full-scale war against ukraine. just six months since we, sitting here in the council chamber, watched as russia, serving in the presidency, attempted to defend the indefensible. six months of russia's defiance of the international community. six months of russia's flagrant lies and disregard of international law, including violations of the intern

they are not from zelenskyi's team .his draft law to deprive those deputies of the table abramovych and well, and surkis, well, so that some of them can be removed from their parliamentary mandates, well, to remove them from and no, not to remove them at all. to deprive them of deputy mandates, and it would be cool. it would be accepted. well, everyone is there everyone, if they were indignant, yes, they all want their students to screw them, but here the key word is but the president, because then if , for example, it is possible simply by decision and zelenskyi has already spat on the constitution more than once the last time it was when they got rid of the wolf they took citizenship just like that, they took it away, yes , i received it. the other is not a wolf, wolf is a citizen of dnipropetrovsk, yes, stop, confused , i apologize, i apologize and-and it flew out to catch and it is meant... er, the majority will deprive someone of their deputyship, then this could be an interesting precedent, and then they will depri

, president zelenskyi , in particular, also came with the head of his office , permak, with his deputyh a whole delegation. and you know, i would like to believe that the meeting of these three of important persons in lviv will not just be so declarative, but will decide and help us , in particular, these people will overcome our enemy, the russian federation, and will solve important issues, although in the current program we will also talk with our experts, but how realistic is it? how much are these two men especially for us? will be able to help in this, i am now talking about the un secretary general and the president of turkey, in particular, introducing the guests who will be with me today on this topic, including anatoliy romanyuk, who is with us professor, head of the political science department of the ivan franko national university of lviv lyubomyr melnychuk, head of the lviv city organization of the all-ukrainian freedom association, deputy head of the svoboda faction in the lviv city council. congratulations, taras batenko, with us, people's deputy of ukraine for the futu

, which is now sounding the same for a while, actually of course, volodymyr zelenskyi’s speeches areis nothing to say, but there are simply other aspects. well, hmm, he actually says dmitry bykov that the discrediting of volodymyr zelenskyi is done incompetently. well, even though he is talking specifically about the russians, about the discrediting by the russians. by the way, he compares zelenskyi with churchill well, this is a very popular comparison, but let's listen to what exactly bykov means. no, when ukrainians call zelensky our cherchil t-shirt, they are certainly speaking closer to the truth and i want to remind you that churchill, too, all the time, they slandered him in painting , then his passion with a loud phrase, then his oratorical art, then his uninterrupted er-er publication, we called him a graphoman, he writes the history of the first world war to the second, so churchill just proved this critical moment, the nation must be led by an artist, and this well, i will say that these comparisons with churchill are completely incorrect from my point of view, because win

on this day, president zelenskyi walked along khreshchatyk in a designer black suit, followed by an armed military column, which was a show of force. on central street, now and then russian equipment is damaged or captured, the mood is much more gloomy, accompanied by a warning from the us state department however, in his opinion, russia will increase attacks on government buildings and infrastructure, i think this is a precedent for 8 years of russian aggression against ukraine, usually around this time of the year, before ukraine's independence day, russia increases its activities, previously it happened because of militants in the east of the country, but today everything is completely different there are also reports about the largest nuclear power plant in europe. i spoke with the ceo of agtera file grosi. he says that he expects to get access to the plant after weeks of institutions providing this access and expects to receive it in a few days. -what a moment it is, here is a short summary on the eve of the independence day from the british correspondent of the bbc, james waterhouse

volodymyr zelenskyi said that if the ukrainians were warned, they simply happened in the president'sffice before serious warnings from the us about russia's intentions. aggression, ukrainian deputies and businessmen spend money in monte carlo and nice, investigative journalists learned which vip refugees were spotted on the cote d'azur. mikhail saakashvili from a georgian prison wrote a letter to the support of ukraine says that he would really like to help and asks not to leave him to his own devices, how could the ex-president of georgia, who has experience in the war with russia, be useful to ukraine now and does kyiv have the leverage to liberate saakashvili see svoboda life good evening veteri svoboda life me my name is sashko shevchenko, we pray live on the pages of radio svoboda on facebook and youtube, as well as on the website of the espresso tv channel, leave your questions and suggestions in the comments and we will respond to them in the following programs, please also like so more people will be able to see this broadcast, the russian national police is helping people to

president zelenskyy addressed the united nations security council. despite efforts by russia to block his appearance. albania, which called today's session, reminded the council that ukraine is under foreign invasion. boris johnson made a surprise visit to attend ukrainian independence day events today. president zelenskyy said -- awarded him an order of liberty and describe johnson as a friend of ukraine. president zelenskyy denied ukraine's involvement in the killing of the daughter of an ultranationalist supporter of vladimir putin. zelenskyy says the car bomb that killed her in moscow was not ukraine's fault. polls have closed and counting is underway in angola in the most closely can pet -- contested election since its transition to a democratic state. they are picking a new parliament and president. the governing party, the mpla, has been in power for nearly 50 years. for the first time it faces competition. poverty, inflation and color -- corruption are the main campaign issues. our correspondent is in the angola capital. he sent us this. >> a

but zelenskyy also doubling down tonight. he's saying that they won't relent until they retake back parts of the country occupied by russia, not just in the last six months, but for years, even crimea. forget any peace deal for now. this war looks set to drag on for a long time. david? >> ian pannell in kyiv for us. ian, thank you. >>> back here at home tonight, the deadly flooding, torrential rains on the move at this hour across several states. much of dallas still recovering after the most rain there in a 24-hour period in nearly 100 years. and tonight here, we are learning about the wife and mother on the phone with her husband as her car was swept away. she did not survive. ginger zee is tracking the storms ahead tonight. but first, trevor ault in the flood zone. >> reporter: tonight, those record-breaking storms pushing east, now dumping torrential rain on the deep south. in northeast louisiana, a tractor trailer exiting interstate 20 losing control and overturning. this after the dallas-fort worth area received the mos

, this is not his interview, because someone will say from zelenskyi's interview, this is not zelenskyi'sfferent quotes , in particular, there were quotes from zelenskyi about what else in october they said, "so there will be offensives." but we they couldn't for some reason because they lost money due to inflation and so on and panics and now there are a lot of critics, a lot of all sorts of non-professional opinions, you know . it turned out here, there are no hidden pitfalls, as they say, and again, zelenskyi’s words. how would you comment on them? what did he say, what did he want to say? and in this case, it would be better if he remained silent , because, well, it is one thing not to sow panic, but to prepare for war, so that later yermak would not declare and we did not expect an attack from belarus. what happened, how did they get to oboloni quickly? what happened in the south and so on , that's why i believe that zelenskyi's answer was unsuccessful. and regarding the article itself and the time of its appearance, well , look at this article in fact. what is it that this article s

results on the battlefield depend on the quality of the training of officers, president volodymyr zelenskyisaid this in lviv, where the head of state spoke at the national academy of land forces named after hetman petro sahaidachny, you all understand the challenges facing our country, you know who our enemy is, you know on what this enemy is capable of, you know that we are doing absolutely everything to win the entire war, you know that even after our victory, this neighbor of our state will not disappear, and therefore the armed forces of ukraine and everyone who is able to effectively defend our state on battlefields are and will always be the foundation of security for our ukrainian people, and today is the 25th anniversary of the death of the famous ukrainian artist maria pryimachenko in the homeland of the mystkin ivankovi, that in the kyiv region, during the russian occupation, the historical and local history museum in which her works were stored, we will learn more from my colleagues this is the village of ivankiv, which is in the north of kyiv region, 70 km from here to the borde

well, zelenskyi is visiting the lviv region, i'll remind you, for a meeting of negotiations with hisgue rzhep and ip erdoğan and un secretary general antoniotirsha well, we are starting to collect operational information very quickly lately, uh, in kharkiv , our uh, friends from there inform us that at the beginning of the large-scale invasion, almost the bloodiest was, uh, the very last day, uh, yesterday evening, the russians hit the saltiv district of the city kharkiv was hit in a dormitory, several entrances were inhabited by people with hearing impairments, that is, they most likely could not respond promptly to air-raid warning signals, according to preliminary information, up to nine people were killed, about 16, i am specifically speaking so carefully about the numbers because you are clarifying them and this morning russian troops fired again at kharkiv and 18 people were injured, one person died. for the sake of communication, mr. oleg, we congratulate you. glory to ukraine, mr. oleg. is there any information about the results of rocket attacks on the regional center? every

the meeting between zelensky and erdoğan, zelenskyi and antonio buterisha.president redugan arrived in lviv shortly after the meeting with the russian president. so there were expectations that he would talk about some new ways to achieve the negotiations. between russia and ukraine, the ukrainian side has traditionally repeated and repeated it on the eve of the meeting that there can be no peace negotiations without the withdrawal of russian troops from the territory of ukraine and publicly, the president of turkey announced in lviv that the shortest and fairest way to the negotiating table should be determined. here is his direct speech in fillers. more now there. why are you low-rent pneumo these turkey made efforts to end the conflict through a diplomatic solution. we also supported our ukrainian friends and continue to do this, we shared with mr. zelensky that we will provide the necessary support for the restoration of ukraine, as we have done so far, the meeting with the un secretary general had two specific the first results are the mission of the un

will sit down at the negotiating table and if zelenskyi’s team continues the lockout, or rather, ifteam agrees to freeze the conflict, they won’t forgive him, i just i tell him how it is, as a statesman, as a politician , as a president, no one will forgive us. because today there are no more established wars, the main one is the war, there are wars in this teroboron, monaco, there are wars in stalin, by the way, about the investigation, oleg, why in this situation we have no established wars, our people want victory, now ukraine should conduct any negotiations only from the point of view of the winners of the war, otherwise it will not be like that, we will freeze today, russia will recover and our children will have to go on you know the war. to be honest, considering my window, it will be really difficult for me to start again in a few years . and by russia until russia left the territory of ukraine and did not completely withdraw. this will be the first sign of goodwill after it, it can really be turned away, not like on the snake when we broke them with the help of by the way,

zelenskyy saying u.s. aid will help them to get more of the weapons they need. and overnight, multiple strikes on kharkiv, seen in this video posted online. the toll for ukrainians mounting. 9,000 ukrainian soldiers and more than 5,500 civilians have been killed. and nearly 7 million refugees have fled ukraine. >> and so let's bring in ian pannell reporting from kyiv. and ian, tonight, not only their independence day, but the six-month mark in this war. so many have speculated along the way how this conflict might end, would ukraine, for example, ever be willing to cede any of that territory in the east. and as he addressed the ukrainian people, president zelenskyy standing firm, does not appear to be on the table anything like that. >> reporter: yeah, i mean, i think many had expected ukraine to be forced to give away the donbas in the east of the country in exchange for peace, but you're right, zelenskyy's adamant that they won't do that. instead, they want to retake not just the donbas, but crimea, too. six months in, this war looks set to grind on at least w

it seems not from president zelenskyy's point of view that that will not happen. >> president zelenskyyn quite insistent on what ukraine's ultimate goal is, victory. for ukrainians, that means the return of all land occupied illegally by russia fluting crimea. a strike like this would show to the world that ukraine, after having months of serious, historic investments, especially military supplies from its western partners, ukraine knows how to use these weapons and tools in a smart, effective way, and it can effectively prosecute this more and retake its lands. a big thing to watch is what happens to the city of kherson. can ukraine successfully liberate the only major occupied city? lewis: stay with us on "outside source." soaring temperatures grip parts of europe. the continent is on course for its t drought in 500 years. ♪ >> uganda's former brutal dictator has died at the age of 80. he's been buried in saud arabia where he lived in big south since being overthrown in 1979. >> 2 billion pple around the world have seen the last total eclipse of the sun to take pla in this millennium.

about 10 unsuccessful assassination attempts on volodymyr zelenskyi starting from february 24, 2022 and the adviser to the head of the office spoke publicly of the president of ukraine, mykhailo podolyak, he claimed that the ukrainian special services had prevented these attacks . it was especially hot in the first days of the war, when a number of saboteurs tried to break into the center of kyiv on bank street, where the office of the president of ukraine is located, and to carry out an attempt on zelenskyi. at the same time, they talked about special services of the russian federation who were liquidated near kyiv, in particular in gostomel, whose task was also to liquidate zelensky, although later oleksiy danilov, secretary of the national security council and defense spoke about the fact that there were five such biased attempts. well, five or 10 in this situation is of no fundamental importance because the russian federation wanted to take control of the situation in the state starting from february 24. we remember that in those days before belarus viktor yanukovych, the former

murder of his daughter the ideologue of russky mir is followed by dukhina in the description of zelenskyi- this is denied by the car that dugina was driving was blown up in the suburbs of moscow, was her father the philosopher oleksandr dugin, who is called putin's ideologue regarding the invasion of ukraine and who can be behind the murder, russia can carry out massive strikes on to ukrainian cities on independence day, military experts say that russia is stockpiling missiles on the eve of august 24. and the ukrainian authorities have banned festive events in kyiv due to the danger of provocations that the kremlin is preparing to an important date for ukraine and whether they will hold a trial on the azov people in mariupol on this day, a boxer from simferopol, oleksandr usyk, who was previously criticized for his pro-russian views, now makes patriotic statements, walks in an embroidered dress and dances the hopak, his transformation into a real cossack is discussed after winning a duel with anthony joshua how the athlete's position changed and why some ukrainian politicians became patri

we don't know how zelenskyy is, if he is corrupt or not.t was one phone call that got president trump impeached for nothing. and there were thousands of people on the call with him. i love the ukrainian people and i don't want them to go through this, but something's not right. this is not right. take care. host: we go to michael in west virginia. morning to you. caller: good morning. i got something to say. people probably will not believe it. this work --war -- and i can prove it. go back and listen to speeches before the war started. biden told russia to take the eastern part of ukraine. that was on the news before the war started. if you do not believe it, listen to his speeches. host: on the six-month marketing -- marking of the conflict in ukraine and ukraine's independence day, celebrating 31 years of independence. president biden will announce an additional $3 billion in weaponry. as we heard from matthew lee, this is on top of $10.6 billion in military weaponry. it is the 20th drawdown by the president in supplying ukraine with wea

zelenskyi, when she spoke in the us congress about this, said that we are asking for the armed forcesecause we we want war not because we are looking for some kind of aggression we want to put an end to attraction we want peace but in order to put an end to price we need weapons to really knock them out of our territory to break their eyes, these are aggressive jerks. this is just an answer to your question. thank you. thank you for your brevity. political scientist valentin glykh was with us. the marathon continues and will be continued by my colleague tetyana goncharova. azarkhina deputy minister of infrastructure oleksandr i congratulate you i congratulate you oleksandr i congratulate you and i want to talk with you at length about crimea and then ask you other questions as well because the last eight years the occupying russian authorities rebuilt the infrastructure of crimea in order to completely sever its connection with mainland ukraine. the result of this was the gradual deterioration of many things, but in particular the logistics routes and the actual decline of the transpo

at a certain point, they will definitely be needed, president volodymyr zelenskyi said in his video message, he noted that he is waiting for an increase in the supply of weapons for the defense of ukraine, the situation in donbas remains very difficult, our army is doing everything possible to stop russian terror and inflicting as many losses as possible on the occupiers avdiyivka on foot maryinka bakhmutskyi and other hot areas in the donetsk region are taking away the main efforts and on unfortunately, many lives are also difficult in kharkiv region in the south of our country, where the occupiers are trying to concentrate their forces, the key thing now is still weapons for our defense, weapons from partners every day and without any pauses we are working to increase the supply of weapons in order to send more powerful ones to the front and long-range systems, and we expect news from partners in the week regarding support packages, good news . volodymyr zelenskyi also said that he expects the world's reaction to the extremely dangerous provocations that the occupiers are arranging in ene

zelenskyi's statement is not the only such statement.for example , the prime minister of estonia, who called for a halt to the issuance of tourist visas to russians for trips to the european union. she said that visiting europe is a privilege. it is not a human right. you stressed that air travel with russia is currently closed, which means that while the schengen countries issue visas to tourists from russia, finland, estonia, and latvia accept them. the prime minister of finland, sanna marin, also made a statement and said that it is wrong when, at a time when russia is waging an aggressive war in europe, russians can travel to europe. will submit a proposal for consideration by the eu to prohibit the issuance of tourist visas to citizens of russia within the next week well, i will remind you that estonia itself has not issued tourist visas to citizens of russia since the spring, what can be the answer of the eu, we will talk further with us on the connection of five in the dish time is a member of the european parliament from lithuani

>> zelenskyy says the goal is not peace, but victory. the ukraine president's words, and their independence days -- come on their independence day and six month after the invasion of russia is marked. total energy is denies involvement in a russian war jet. an expose an oilfield part owned by tou thao inside the area with supply for fuel including the ones that bombed mariupol. iran confied wednesday it received the u.s. response to its proposal to save the 2015 nuclear deal. our correspondent is standing by in washington with more. thank you very much for joining us. from ukraine is where we start. independence day has been marred by death. at least 50 people killed and over 50 wounded in a russian attack. rockets hit a railway station in the ukrainian town. 145 miles -- kilometers west. civilians targeted is the word coming from ukraine. but death and destruction marring the independence day in ukraine. celebrations have been canceled in anticipation of something like this. volodymyr zelenskyy says the aim for ukraine is not peace, but

in the white house, president zelenskyy. i only ask because he was someone widely, and -- >> the president has spoken many times to his admiration for president zelenskyy's leadership and courage in this time of war. he's spoken to president zelenskyy many times personally. and he knows and understands the stress of president zelenskyy and all the ukrainian people. that is why he has remained very committed to supporting ukraine in their fight against russian aggression. he's privately and publicly expressed that respect for president zelenskyy and the challenges he and his fellow citizens are facing. >> in an effort to -- what happened in the operation, explain the hellfire missiles apparently have -- explain how that worked operationally to avoid casualties and capabilities of those missiles? >> no. >> last night, a senior official was asked to avoid any -- areas about whether it was targeted. there is multiple intelligence sources, multiple methods. is there anything to tell us to avoid any doubt? >> we went into how much

celebrates independence day against the background of sirens and under fire from russia, president zelenskyi says that on february 24, another referendum was held in the country for its independence, ukrainians went to defend it both in ukraine and abroad , the date has been celebrated for six months, a full-scale war with russia has been going on in ukraine with losses , the ukrainian military is holding the defense in the east and has partial success in the counteroffensive in the south of ukraine when to wait for the end of the war and is it really the worst on the fronts for ukraine already behind as they say minister of defense reznikov ukraine went to independence with long-term and self-sacrifice but in august 1991, ukrainians successfully took advantage of the coup in moscow and the verkhovna rada proclaimed independence from the ussr. live on the pages of radio svoboda on facebook and youtube, as well as on the website of the espresso tv channel, today ukraine celebrates the 31st independence day this year, the holiday in ukraine is celebrated against the background of sirens and un

zelenskyy in his speech said -- really powerful.y rally public sentiment. he said these missiles are not going to stop our will. and what happened on february 24th was a rebirth off of our nation. 9,000 people have been killed in ukraine according to ukrainian defense sources. the fact that they are still able, despite the casualties, despite the loss, despite the situation to their military, they're still able to keep fighting and that says everything about a country that's still struggling to maintain their independence. >> the missiles are still falling. the train station killed at least 25 people and that's growing obviously. civilians being hit there. and there is a sense among the ukrainian people and u.s. officials that it's often on purpose when the russians do this. and it gets to a question i asked ned price from the state department yesterday, what's the line between survivability for ukraine and victory? >> and if you looked at zelenskyy's speech yesterday victory is not short of maintaining what they have but taking bac

railway station. four passenger carriages caught fire during a rocket strike , president volodymyr zelenskyi said the day before during a speech at the un security council, photographs from the scene of the incident were published on twitter by the minister of foreign affairs affairs dmytro kuleba in the ministry of defense of russia confirmed the shelling, but there they claim that the strike destroyed more than 200 military reserves of the armed forces of ukraine and 10 units of military equipment that were headed to the combat zone. the office of the prosecutor general of ukraine writes that after the shelling of the helicopter, they found fragments of the smerch missile and s-300 or private houses in the village were hit by an iskander missile, and about zelensky's speech at the un security council meeting, the meeting took place in an online format, he called on the world to force russia to recognize that the inviolability of the borders of the peace is an unconditional value for all peoples , zelenskyi also stated that russia should release the captured territory of ukraine so that the

president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi said this in his evening address. according to him, there are no objective obstacles that the mission of megate did not get to the gas station, this should happen without any conditions as soon as possible. ukraine is ready to ensure proper control from the side, have a suitable place, can be sent to the zaporizhzhia station in a legal method very quickly and as effectively as possible discussed the situation at the zaporizhzhia npp and nuclear blackmail from the russian federation this morning volodymyr zelenskyi with the president of turkey recep tayyip erdoğan and the theft of ukrainian grain by russia is a question of defense cooperation during the full-scale invasion of russia turkish leader in ukraine the presidents met for the first time in lviv, in the potocki palace, they spoke for 40 minutes without the press, the un secretary general antonio guterres also joined the conversation, our journalists will tell you in more detail blocked roads and unprecedented security measures in lviv, high-level meetings for t

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zelenskyi emphasized that ukraine is fighting against a real terrorist state and the planned cynicalestruction of russia by ukrainians of prisoners of war, volyn residents testify to this. this was a quote. it is reported that macron zelenskyi also discussed the issue of supplying new modern weapons and already provided defense assistance . zelenskyi thanked russia for its practical contribution to efforts to combat impunity, namely the sending of a group of medics and gendarmes to ukraine to establish the facts of crimes committed by the russian aggressor. answered zelensky about the results of his tour of african countries, one of the results of which was the expansion of the labor war coalitions and consolidation of international support for ukraine in the conditions of full-scale aggression against our state by russia oleksandr krai we congratulate you so i salute you glory to ukraine glory to the heroes expert of the foreign policy council ukrainian prisma well, uh, our president spoke with the french leader ménelle macron from the last time, what is the prospect of recognition

>> reporter: lindsey, i just spoke with a top adviser to zelenskyy, who told me that president zelenskyy seeking direct conversations with president xi of china. he says they have been trying since the start of this war to arrange a conversation with the chinese leader because of the role that beijing is playing in supporting ukraine -- in supporting russia's war in ukraine. not only politically but also with supplies. he says they want to try to persuade china to withhold support for russia in this war. but the adviser to zelenskyy also told me that they are unwilling at this point to cede any territory to russia, even if that means ending this war. they think that would only provoke russia to go farther with its imperial ambitions. i want to understand exactly how they see this war coming to an end. this is what he told me. >> you believe ukraine can defeat putin's army militarily? >> translator: with the help of our partners and with the help of much more effective weapons. by the way, another result of this war will be that russia will lose sales markets for their weapons. as this wa

protection veterans' rights and i will remind you that we are monitoring the meeting of president zelenskyi with president erdoğan and antonio guterres in more detail in the news that will be presented by anna yevalnyk stylishly of course about the most important thing at the moment i will tell together with the news editors that the number of victims due to the attack of russian nazis has increased saltivians be with more rocket attack on kharkiv saltivka. the number of victims has increased to 12, some of them are pensioners and people with disabilities. this was reported in the main office of the state emergency services the day before, the russian occupiers seized three-story buildings, while there is not a single military facility near the destroyed building, say the state emergency service emergency rescue operations and the search for the dead continue with strikes on kharkiv, the enemy is trying to destroy the morale of ukrainians, says the mayor of igor terekhov, this is absolutely true it won't work because we are paid, our spirit will not be crushed , er, by any snares , by any b

president zelenskyy says troops are pressing on with the counteroffensive.has urged russian soldiers to flee for their lives. moscow says it has repelled attacks and inflicted heavy losses on ukrainian troops. ukrainian president zelenskyy has held talks with members of the international platonic energy and juicy -- energy agency in kyiv. on a mission to safeguard the russian occupied nuclear plant, europe's largest. ukraine and russia have accused each other of shelling around the facility, which was briefly knocked off-line last week. ukrainian officials consider the dangers of radiation leak so high, they have begun handing out iodine tablets to nearby residents. the team led by the general hope so travel on wednesday for a one-day visit. >> it is very important for us the pressing demands of the iaea about the immediate removal of the russian military units and the liberation of our plant. only this way we can eliminate any risks, regarding nuclear power. >> we're following development from ukraine's capital, kyiv. reporter: the 14 member delegation is a

, these days, how do they allow zelenskyi's entourage and zelenskyi himself as an object of propagandams to me to be a somewhat new practice, because before they spoke more there disturb the society, remember there were talks there, the third maidan, something else. and now they are trying to cause a split personally directly, well, in the relations between the leadership of ukraine. how do you think it is? 16th year, when ideas were also published in russian propaganda about an alleged military junta that would overthrow the ato and overthrow poroshenko , then the surnames appeared. well, let's not name the surnames of these honorable generals. but such an alleged military junta was also talked about then there was no merit then there were other surnames , that is, what i am talking about, the methodology has not changed , only the surnames and the methodology have changed, this is called dividing the master, they hope to cause a split between the top military and political leadership, and in order for this leadership of the forces to fight against the external enemy is the enemy and

well, this problem also applies, in my subjective opinion, to the first lady of elena zelenskyi, theady, actually, when he was elected, and because of his inexperience, in my opinion, he made it clear to everyone that his wife and his family are a super value for him, and everyone thought that this was actually his political advantage that he cares so much about the family and he thought so, but actually the special services saw an opportunity in this if they were to conditionally wet the first lady, then zelensky would be offended by someone for this. where some content about the first one appears lady, of course there are people everywhere who really don't like this, they absolutely openly and unabashedly criticize the president and the first lady, and this is not a special operation. but i believe that such things are used as vulnerabilities in order to deepen these divisions. that is, there where there were, for example, 100 posts criticizing the e-e photoset and hundreds of posts supporting the photoset, a thousand or 10,000 posts and comments appear that deepen both sides and t

if he shows up, volodymyr zelenskyy should be attending.here is a big question mark whether or not volodymyr zelenskyy would attend in person given there is a war waged by russia or if you would virtually attend. it will be incredibly difficult because remember, when russia invaded ukraine, they wanted the united states -- western countries wanted the g20 to make a pariah out of russia. countries like indonesia said no. you will see an incredible amount of debate here, even about who should attend. a big question mark is if anyone will sit down with putin besides the like of indonesia's leader or china's leader. jon: it puts the spotlight -- we will hear more stories about the desire to be a mediator. annmarie: he said in the interview with bloomberg editor-in-chief that indonesia wants to be friends with everyone. they are in a spot where they do not want to shun russia completely in the india has not because they are a significant importer. they want to be this bridge for a meeting between president xi of china and president biden. xi and

president volodymyr zelenskyy proposes to extend the period of martial law for 90 acts starting from august 23 . on the morning of february 24. after that, martial law continued in march-april and may. also today, the russian mass media published information about explosions near of the kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the sounds of blows were apparently heard and billows of smoke were visible in the so-called administration of the occupied kherson region claim that the ukrainian troops struck nova kakhovka using heimers , there is no official information from the ukrainian side at the moment, a few days ago the armed forces of ukraine stated that the targeted strikes made it unfit for use by military equipment meanwhile, a critical situation remains at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the day before there were recorded five arrivals near the site welding and storage of radiation sources , un secretary general antonia teresh called on all military personnel and military equipment to be withdrawn from the station and to create a demilitarized zone around it, but the russian

i said myself well, now i will remind you of zelenskyi’s own decision.19, the verkhovna rada voted to terminate the powers of iryna venediktova as prosecutor general, this happened after she was removed from her post volodymyr zelenskyi and together with her removed from the position of the head of the sbu at that time ivan bakanov zelenskyy then stated that the large amount of crimes against national security and the connections of representatives of the law enforcement agencies and special services of russia poses serious questions to the heads of these two bodies. proper answer well, actually today there is news that iryna venediktova will most likely be appointed ambassador to switzerland, there is at least one question. does this mean that volodymyr zelenskyi no longer has any questions for law enforcement agencies, what he said when he fired vnediktova and bakanova, contact us andriy osadchuk, people's deputy of ukraine , faction, voice, first deputy chairman of the committee on law enforcement activities, good evening if we talk about the appointm

tonight, president zelenskyy giving the russians two choices -- flee or surrender. abc's tom suoufi burridge in ukraine tonight. >> reporter: tonight, video circulating online illustrating this major new counteroffensive. ukrainian forces stepping up strikes on russian targets across kherson. a key city in the ukrainian's new push to recapture russian-occupied territory. tonight, president zelenskyy with a new message for the russians. saying, "this is ukrainian land." adding, "occupiers can flee or surrender. we leave them no other options." the fighting sparking a new exodus. families desperate to escape. we're at the main evacuation center in ukrainian-controlled territory not far from kherson. many of these families have left this morning. they said the fighting was getting louder. their fear more intense. and they had to get out. we met zhenya and olya, fleeing kherson with their three kids. you feared for your lives, you wanted to get out? >> well, i didn't fear for my life. but i really fear for the life of my children. >> reporter: zelenskyy today meeting tw

approval of the decree on the extension of mobilization for another 90 days , president volodymyr zelenskyy submitted relevant proposals to the parliament for the last time, martial law and mobilization in ukraine were extended on may 22. new zealand will send to great britain 120 military instructors for the training of ukrainian soldiers, the government of the country made a corresponding decision, they will join more than a thousand instructors from other countries partner countries to train more than 10,000 ukrainian soldiers, new zealand instructors will teach ukrainians basic military skills of effective combat, in particular, handling weapons, providing first combat aid from the right operational command, etc., also as it became known, new zealand is preparing a package of military aid to ukraine, the amount of which will be announced today, latvia is restoring program for the rehabilitation of wounded ukrainian soldiers. the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine informed about this. starting today, 12 soldiers will start a three-week course treatment in the viberi national rehabili

in fact, i completely agree with volodymyr zelenskyi because the people's republic of china is one of powerful states in the world, including from the point of view economy , including from the point of view of international influence, from the point of view of military-political and military influence, and also technologically, therefore, china has all the tools to influence the russian federation and even its clear diplomatic position with my point of view was enough for the russian federation to revise its plans in relation to ukraine and even stop the war, but still, i think that the probability of a change in china's position on this issue is very, very low, because during the entire ukrainian -russian war that since 2014, china has not actually changed its position, it is often called pro-russian neutrality in the expert circle, in the russian expert circle it is called russia-friendly neutrality - it is this means that china, on the one hand, seems to support ukrainian territorial integrity, independence, sovereignty, but on the other hand, it is taking successive steps that ar

president zelenskyy -- about to take back crimea from the russians. also coming up, germany's chancellor in canada in search of new energy sources but ending dependence on russian oil and gas is not going to be easy. where is the water? unprecedented drought around the world united with climate change. tonight we ask if there is any solution to our global water scarcity. i am brent goff, to our viewers watching on pbs and the united states and to all of you around the world, welcome. almost six months into the russian invasion of ukraine and the future of the crimea peninsula is part of the calculus of how to end the war. ukrainian president zelenskyy promised to do everything possible to recover crimea which was illegally annexed by russia back in 2014. other western leaders express to the support for that in a summit today. here is what other world leaders said at the summit today. >> they are engaging in disinformation, we need to continue fighting russian disinformation. that is why canada will create a dedicateteam to help decrease our capacity t

to neglect the safety rules during the air the anxiety of being in shelters, and also president zelenskyy congratulated ukrainians on independence day. he recorded his address on the maidan and khreschatyk against the background of mutilated russian equipment. he reminded that the russian invasion began exactly six months ago. he emphasized that during this time ukraine changed the history of the world and changed itself. it is important to us what kind of land we have, we will fight for it until the end, we hold on for 6 months, it is difficult for us, but we clenched our fists and carve out our destiny every new day. this is a new reason not to give up, because after passing so much we have no right not to reach the end that for us it is the end of the war before we said peace now we will say victory well the celebration of independence day is taking place in the capital but due to the threat of air attacks public gatherings in kyiv were banned today also as we have already mentioned exactly six months since moscow launched a full-scale invasion bbc ukraine correspondent james waterhous

the port infrastructure , fortunately without loss. declared the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi, even at the peak of the cold war, this was not the case in ukraine diplomats and representatives of the partner states will do everything to ensure that the new sanctions against russia block the russian nuclear industry absolutely, and those who help them write that these domestic operations with the nuclear plant must answer to the international court, this will definitely be the case, as well as the russian military, which either shoots or the station or shoots under cover of this station must understand that this is a special target for our intelligence for our special services for our army the russian army has increased the number of attacks in the seversk region of the donetsk region in order to divert attention ukrainians from a counteroffensive in the south, because the armed forces are successful there, according to the analysts of the american institute of war research. previously , the russians carried out limited attacks relying on artillery. since august 11, they attacke

will answer them as long as this terrible war lasts, in which today we have shelling of kharkiv, zelenskyi erdogan and guterres in lviv, and not only we talk about it in today's bbc news ukraine program, there is olga palamaryuk, i congratulate you on the most tragic night, the russians shelled kharkiv, destroyed residential buildings, there are dead and wounded, zelensky erdogan in lviv, will new peace talks begin and is russia preparing for a massive missile attack on ukraine, is there a chance to prevent kharkiv under fire last night, russia launched massive strikes on in kharkiv oblast, one of the rockets hit a house in the saltiv district under rubble. according to the authorities, 10 people died in the dormitory. according to one version, people with hearing impairments lived in the dormitory. they could not have heard the alarm signal under in the morning, according to the local authorities, russia launched 8 more rockets, they hit residential buildings and infrastructure objects in the slobid district of kharkiv, a tram depot was hit, a repair shop and a dormitory were damaged ther