Was shot down over kyiv by air defense but the debris damaged several buildings, including the roof of a childrens hospital, according to the military, the missile was launched by an mig 31k fighter from the area of the russian savaseyka airfield, all four missiles , including the one that was shot down over kiev, were headed for ivanofrankivsk region and to the military airfields where young ukrainian pilots are trained, who soon were supposed to go to learn how to fly an f16, and the day before the russians shelled zaporozhye with iskanders, one person died, 16 were injured, including four children , the reikar hotel was hit. This is where the childrens un employees stayed there more than once. Denise brown, the coordinator of the un system in ukraine, said that she was shocked because the organization used this hotel as a base. She added that the number of indiscriminate attacks by russia , which killed civilians, had reached incredible levels, and they are a violation of international law. Yazku my colleague bbc correspondent Oleg Chernysh i congratulate oleg and first of all about the situation in kyiv, this morning there were explosions in the capital, it was working fine but there is damage, but the biggest news is not only where the russians aimed but what isnt that right . Well, its true, yes, the shelling was today. In the morning, around 50 in the morning, russia used its newest , most famous antiballistic missiles, kha47. Hypersonic daggers are more wellknown. No less, the ukrainian side says that it has repeatedly shot down daggers, in particular , over kiev, and this morning the same thing happened, one of the four daggers was shot down over kyiv, if it is correct to say and refer to information from the air force, but unfortunately, three other daggers flew to their target at the airfield of the city of kolomyia in ivanofrankivsk region and uh, they damaged there the ukrainian base in khmelnytskyi, what kind of base is it . And why does it attract so much attention from the russians . We are talking about the airbase in starokostyantyniv , which was also attacked with daggers 5 days ago , last saturday and sunday, there was a very powerful attack on the airbase, not only daggers flew caliber Cruise Missiles and shahin drones also flew. About 10 explosions were recorded. And why is this airbase so valuable to the russians, why are they so eager to destroy it . The fact is that this is one of the most prepared and modern Ukrainian Airfields, where the Tactical Aviation brigade is based. What actually flies on e e bombers su24m and escorts su24mr, these planes are quite sexual soviet planes, but there is one significant nuance ee after the start of a fullscale invasion and more precisely , already ee in the spring of this year ee ukraine britain later received Cruise Missiles from france, which were actually installed on these old soviet aircraft of this brigade. We are talking about missiles from the tablet and skype , the french analogue and estimated winged years of reserves are the most powerful tragic weapons that are now on armaments of the Ukrainian Army, it creates a lot of problems for the russians by destroying bases, arsenals, headquarters in the rear of their troops, and it was these missiles that damaged the bridges on the crimean isthmus, which of course greatly complicates the logistics of the russian of the army well, actually, we can conclude that to destroy these aircraft carriers of these missiles. This is probably the First Priority for the russians, who, as we understand, do not want to continue to suffer from their murderous power, but how effective are the russian attacks and, in general, how do the Ukrainian Forces manage to protect their combat forces aviation experts say that actually this tactic was directed at air raids, it is not very effective, because it is not a secret, er, Ukrainian Military planes do not stand at the air base when the alarm bell sounds. They rise in air and they are actually there until the end of the alarm, that is, to destroy them eh on the base itself is actually impossible, that is, the strike itself eh cannot reach the goal. The only thing that can explain such a desire of the russians is that their attempts are repeated, i emphasize. E this is the desire to destroy, for example, airstrips or hangars where these planes are stored, or other infrastructure is possible. They think that even the bases store these very Cruise Missiles. What else is there , it is difficult to say what is in the minds of putin and his military chiefs this is the only thing that can explain these epersistent ee and powerful luck. And today, as we can see, the dagger strike also went along the ee airfield ee along kolomyysk ee home and as it was recognized in the air force, the mth goal was to destroy e pilots of Ukrainian Military pilots who are preparing for training on american f16 fighter jets. That is, we see that now the most priority target for the russians is ukrainian aviation, which they could not destroy in the first hours. And they are actually trying to destroy it now by any means. My colleague a bbc correspondent was in touch with me, and you can read his full article on our website bbc. Ua and moscow was attacked again by a drone and there were no victims, according to the authorities, the drone fell in the west of the russian capital, the moment of the explosion was filmed by a camera filming the russian rowing championship, eyewitnesses described and heard like the sound of a motor boat and then a loud explosion, they say that the Law Enforcement officers were scared and surrounded the embankment part of the park adjacent to it, some russian telegram channels assume that the karamyshev hydroelectric station in ukraine was completely destroyed did not comment, however, this is already the seventh attack on moscow at the beginning of may. Ukraine declared that ships from ukrainian ports will be able to move on a humanitarian route and submitted this route to the International Maritime organization, however , russia did not agree to the route. Bbc correspondent james water house will tell the details of this ukrainian statement and whether perhaps in practice it is really not clear what tactics the ukrainians have here, because since russia withdrew from the grain agreement last month, it practically renewed the blockade of those ukrainian ports that it does not control, not only the blockade, russia bombarded them with missile strikes, and now this statement appeared from the Ukrainian Naval forces, which seeks to create a humanitarian corridor through the black sea, they say that it will be open to vessels of commercial ships, passenger ships, as well as those who are trapped on the ukrainian coast since the fullscale invasion last year, but at the moment it is only the intentions of the words or russia did not react to these statements and did not give its consent to such a step because the russian the navy remains the dominant force in the black and azov seas, we do not know how these commercial vessels can potentially go to sea in ukraine, they say that they will be equipped with mounted cameras that will broadcast their movements as a demonstration that this route, as they say, is humanitarian without military directions , however, what is interesting in practice is that ukraine says that it has officially submitted this route to the International Maritime organization, but they will also have to convince International Transport companies and Insurance Companies that it is safe the way is not least the russian navy itself, so i think there are many Unanswered Questions here and i suspect that this is a political and possibly pr move by ukraine. To emphasize the fact that russia continues to block ukrainian ports with us, the head Monitoring Group of the institute of black sea strategic studies Andrii Klymenko mr. Andrii i congratulate you. Do you think it is possible to physically launch ships through this humanitarian corridor that ukraine declared without the official consent of russia . Does not have any doubt because this is what the ukrainian hydrography has already shown on the map, and this particular map, by the way, was presented by ukraine to the International Maritime organization about uh , a colleague also said that he is going under the cover of the ukrainian coastal defense, which means he is going almost close to the coast of ukraine and exclusively in the 12pole zone , that is, the Territorial Sea of ukraine, and it goes a little half a day from zmiiny island directly to the territorial ee code of ours from the black sea neighbor romania russian not long after the sinking of the moscow cruiser they they do not risk entering closer than er to er 200 m from the ukrainian coast, that is, they can theoretically only attack these words with the help of and what are the biggest risks in general if such a ship goes into the corridor well, there is only one risk and that is the risk that russia will strike well, if russia wants even more the image of a sea pirate, then it can achieve this, but it must be understood that after the shelling of the odesa ports recently, ukraine strengthened its antiaircraft and antimissile defense there and in fact, the logic of the action is now going on as well this is the first time that the president of ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi has indicated several times in his tricks that the opposition of ukraine that the grain corridor can exist without russia is the second step ukraine is right on this map , that is, there is a safer route near the ukrainian coast ukraine s third step is to present these documents to the International Maritime organization, and the International Maritime organization recognized ukraines right to free trade and navigation , which is guaranteed by maritime law , and called on russia to comply with International Conventions that is, it is the next step of ukraine. It means that we understand very well that for marine Insurance Companies , these are very big risks, so ukraine has created its own Insurance Fund to cover losses if there are such losses and this fund is it small or is it worth almost 500 Million Dollars of cars . It is necessary to Pay Attention to the fact that the naval forces of ukraine in their International Navigation message said, i quote , that vessels whose owners and captains officially confirm that they will be allowed to pass through the routes readiness for sailing in the current conditions, that is, now the word is with the owners and captains of these vessels, by the way, there are only six vessels that can theoretically leave , thank you, thank you, andriy, head of the Monitoring Group of the institute of black sea strategic studies, andriy klymenko, thats all for today , more history can be found on our website bvc. Ua and on our pages in social networks we are on the air again on monday at 21 00 take care , we continue the information broadcast on the espresso tv channel with you Vitaly PortnikovMykola Veresen is not with us today works, but it will already work next week, i dont promise, i guarantee, but the guest of our todays broadcast is the first guest, mykhailo samets, military expert, director of new geopolitics, seamintwork network. So, we will talk with mr. Mykhailo. War and lets start with the Current Situation at the front, here is the western media. Increasingly, these are those who say that the offensive is slowing down. How do you perceive this reality . In fact, i see it a little differently , because if you look at the real the Information Space has the impression that lately the situation there is more negative than it actually is on the battlefield, so there are really heavy battles, especially if you look comprehensively at the entire length of the front and the entire theater, if we are talking about kupyansk, about russias attempts to break through the defense of ukraine on this direction to create conditions when ukraine will be forced to suspend its offensive in the south and east and transfer reserves in order to neutralize the threat precisely in the Luhansk Region the situation is negative, but in fact, if we take the south , the Ukrainian Army has already really broken through the Defense Management in several directions and now it is already starting to move towards the second line of defense, operating not so much in Populated Areas as in the battle formations of the enemy, especially paying attention on the code of battery combat to defeat the enemys artillery systems ee using including cluster munitions that ee increases the efficiency of destruction of both light and light Armored Vehicles of the enemy and personnel well and the strikes of highprecision weapons continue on targets and in the tactical and operational depth of the enemy. In this regard, germanys decision or the approach of a decision regarding the transfer of taurus missiles , which are analogues of the british senior and french scalpels, are longrange missiles up to 300 km, are important in this regard. I think that missiles will still be transmitted to us for 300 km, although we are talking about the fact that they, er, have a combat radius of 500 km , but export control still limits it to 300 km, so the situation at the front is not exactly lets say its slow or not at the pace that someone might like. That this aviation will most likely be transferred to us within the next year, again, the reasons are not mentioned , the reasons are purely formal, it is announced that the ukrainian pilots will, as it were, study english for another four months. I think that this is full of delusion, the main reasons are all after all, it is hidden in the front of the Administration Company in the biden administration, and i think that political technologies are simply trying to avoid some negative stories related to the russianukrainian language , for example, the downed f16 on the eve of the elections in the united states. That is this is again the afghan syndrome, so afghanistan is in front of our eyes and so on, in any case, well, in my opinion, this is exactly how this process happens. And tell me, mr. Mykhailo, can you explain to our viewers what these missiles are, after all taurus, how are they fundamentally different from these weapons that were already in service with the Defense Forces of ukraine, what can they really change, in fact, taurus is fundamentally no different from storm shadu or scalp missiles , uh, its uh, just storm shadow of skype, its a joint production production is actually by Great Britain and france, and germany, in turn, developed such a missile itself, that is , mbd deutschland developed its own missile, which has very similar characteristics, this is a missile that is used in the German Version of aviation, it has a range of effectively 500 km and of course, it has very High Accuracy indicators. That is, these are the missiles that can be used for critically important purposes and military and civilian infrastructure that are used by the troops. Well, for example, what was recently used in the armed forces of ukraine against bridges in chongari and henichesk ee taurus can be used ee for such purposes , what is the value of this decision by germany in the fact that there are usually a limited number of such missiles in france and Great Britain and in germany. Germany, for example, has a total of 400 such missiles, and every country that joins such a Missile Coalition adds several dozen missiles to us, and this means that the armed forces of ukraine can use them more massively, that is, not 23, but already it can be about tens , which means that the efficiency of hitting highvalue ee objects of the military infrastructure increases there by an order of magnitude. I just read that british and french ee rockets have turbojet engines, and german ee rockets have ee as an engine turbofans are used. I dont understand. There is simply no person close to the technology. I dont understand what the essential difference is from a Military Point of view. I think there is no. That is, there is no fundamental difference between these engines in this sense, and it turns out that only russia can now to operate with hypersonic missiles, again, there is no such thing in russia, and with sonic missiles, these are pseudohypersonic missiles , they are called aerodynamic and aeroballistic missiles. Put on the fast plane, the mig31 interceptor, it was the fastest soviet plane, and it is precisely because of this that, by adding the speed of the plane and the same iskander , the speed on the last part of the flight is so aeroballistic, it really reaches hypersonic speeds, but in fact it is not that a rocket that can be really hypersonic that can change course lets say so , well, that is what is meant, that is, the rocket is immediately er with supersonic such hypersonic speeds here simply due to the er assembly of several components is achieved really very high speeds. What, for example, today in kyiv, including one dagger, was actually shot down. And tell me, mr. Mykhailo , are these strikes on Ukrainian Airports in starokostyantynov, kolomyia, in the Ukrainian Air force, they say that this is a hunt for ukrainian pilots, do you agree . What exactly is this target . I think that it is, in any case, such strikes have been going on for several weeks now, i still connect it more with the basing of the su24m aircraft, since they are precisely the adapted missile carriers that we are talking about we are talking with tom shadow on skype. I think the taurus will be adapted in the same way, that is, because for the russians these missiles are, er, inaccessible from the point of view of their destruction. That is, they are not missed by the air Defense Forces, so it is critically important for them to destroy our su24 aircraft, because in of course, we have a limited number of them. We have a certain number of them that have not been airconditioned and have not been brought to flight condition. We need to work on this , but there is a sufficient number to use these latest missiles. And i understand that the russians are just trying to destroy the they are based, for example, on russian intelligence reports that su24m aircraft are stationed at such and such an airfield and attacks are immediately carried out on them. Well, i can explain this to myself, because hunting for young pilots is somehow already too much with the use of daggers, to be honest, it seems so to me and tell me, mr. Mykhailo, in principle, we are talking about strikes that can be carried out by western missiles against the sovereign territory of ukraine, which is occupied by the russians. It is possible to hit that part of the territory that belongs to the water area of the russian federation, this is no longer possible, i understand correctly how it should look in general, well, i guess if the russians will later file a lawsuit if they will still exist as a state, uh, some kind of lawsuit regarding the destruction of this bridge, in fact, it is illegal eh and eh, from the point of view of the territorial waters of ukraine and further in the kerch strait, there is already eh a certain part of the ukrainian eh, including the shaper. By the way, it passes through the ukrainian part of aa that is this is a very complex legal issue to what extent can it be decided in court, e. E. The construction of such an illegal structure, i think that after all, if ukraine even destroys that part that is located in the territorial waters of ukraine and in the forecourt of the kerch strait, especially with the arch, then this will be enough for this bridge not just not functioned and did not fulfill its role. That is, it is possible to use these missiles on the kerch bridge, but at the moment. By the way, the distance does not allow it , because for this the planes will have to approach the line too close front, that is, in order to effectively use these missiles on the kerch bridge, we still need to get closer to the sea of azov or cross the dnipro and get closer to crimea, that is , create such a safety zone for the ukrainian aviation to safely use these missiles , because if we say 300 km and the plane is still there. There is 3040 km of a safe safe distance to the front line to apply it, this is already a distance that does not allow hitting the kerch bridge yet or the missiles must be longrange longrange but this even then, the domestic missile because the export control. Well, what do they tell me . Well, listen, what export control doesnt work anymore. International law doesnt work. Well, yes , but the same germany that transfers the missile to ukraine. I thought, after all, the germans would follow international requirements. Of export control, that is, the export control regime in the field of transfer of missile technologies, it prohibits the export of missiles of any type, the range of which exceeds 300 km, that is why everyone says there 290 km e deliveries of missiles from tomshed or taurus or scalp ot and or otakaps they will also be 300 km as long as they were not aa in domestic production, i. E. After the agreement on mediumshortrange missiles ceased to exist aa you can manufacture for yourself at least five thousand kilometers of a missile, and in principle now it is not limited to anything, which in principle the russians use and create missiles there, aviation groundbased missiles put the same calibers on launchers from iskander and call them iskanderka, although it is the same naval caliber for 2. 5 thousand kilometers, ukraine can also develop its own missile, for example, a ballistic Cruise Missile for 1,000, 5,000 km and use it at any range against russia, but it is not a foreign supplier that is limited by export controls, here it is possible to get out of the situation, it is possible to jointly develop some kind of missile or transfer technology to ukraine and let it be called ukrainian technology. By the way, most of the israeli missiles go to the united states, for example, antimissile and other types of missiles. They are created by the American Company itself, rating, but then this it is transferred to the heavenly companies and they are already creating an israeli missile that can be called a ro or Something Like that. Forgiveness of the davidovs, there are rockets about missile defense, they are the same as american missiles, but they are already adapted to israeli ones. Lets say this conditions and are already considered israeli missiles , of course no restrictions apply to them. And please tell me, if we continue the topic of bridges , how much did the strikes on the kochangar genichesky bridges change the situation in general . What do you think . Well, what the russians have already built they are trying to build pontoon bridges, this means that it is really important for them. That is, in principle, this is a path that allows them to carry out logistics for crimea and, of course, for the Southern Group located in the Kherson Zaporizhzhya region, because the third path that goes through armyansk is already very close to dnipro, in fact, there is also a possibility of influence and fire. And what we saw literally a couple of days ago , Ukrainian SpecialOperations Forces and gur conducted raid operations on the left bank , that is, such operations. I think there will be more and more. More largescale and all this will directly threaten the path that runs through the internet, that is , in fact, when conducting an operation on the left bank of the region. The threat of Ukrainian Naval drones, which i still hope will