he went on. a few days later, oceangate s stockton rush replied. he told rob mccullum. the next day, rob mccallum replied in the starkest terms. oceangate s lawyers then contacted rob maccullum and threatened legal action. today, we ve contacted them again and they say they have no additional information. rob mccallum maintains that no one should have gone in this submersible. our science correspondent jonathan amos has been tracking this story since the sub was first reported missing. this is a stark exchange your? it s a this is a stark exchange your? it s a fascinating exchange, actually. it is polite ish, but it s also very testy indeed. we should perhaps explain who rob mccullum is, he s got a storied career in deep submersibles. he led the five deeps expedition so this was the american adventure of the first person ever to reach the deepest points and all the world s oceans. so he certainly knows what he s talking about. and his criticism of stockton rush here, the c
translation: they ve been shooting at us. i we ve been shooting at them. and that has been going on these eight long years from 2014 to 2022. sometimes the amount of shelling and exchange of fire has increased and sometimes it is eased. on february 24th, there was nothing extraordinary. the russian defence ministry is trying to deceive the president and the public by claiming there was insane aggression on the part of ukraine and they were going to attack us along with the entire nato bloc. was launched for completely different reasons. meanwhile on the ground, russian officials say that ukrainian forces have attacked a bridge linking southern ukraine to the crimean peninsula with long range british missiles. 0ur bbc verify team has seen a video which shows the moment a missile struck a road bridge. richard irvine brown from bbc verify is in the newsroom with more. let s have a look at the location shown in the video and why it s so important.
he claims ukraine are responsible for the strike, and they were supplied with uk storm shadow cruise missiles. now this is what one of those looks like it s about five metres long with narrow wings. we know the uk did supply ukraine with storm shadow missiles in may, and we know that since then, two strikes one in berdyansk and one in herson oblast have far exceeded their previous range, which would be consistent with storm shadow missiles. and if we pause the footage here, this is the clearest shot we have of the missile. compared to the size of the bridge, it certainly looks five metres long, and the fine trajectory at which it hits the bridge would be consistent with a storm shadow missile. however, russian media, who have also claimed it s a storm shadow missile, have shared images of debris but we re dubious about it and are still checking it out. security staff on the doors of uk nightclubs, bars, and music venues say they re facing increasing levels of abuse. the organis
what we have here is the crimean peninsula controlled by russia and the rest of ukraine. the road bridge offers one of the few land crossings between the russian front lines to the north and the annex peninsula. let s have a look at the footage of the missile strike together. now, keep your eyes on the top left of the screen for two reasons. one is the entrance to the missile which struck the bridge, and the other is a quick flash of a timestamp on the cctv. now we can be confident we are talking about the right bridge because we ve verified five other videos recently which show the same supports the fences. supports, the fences. the poles at one end from both ukrainian and russian social media channels and we know from eyewitnesses reported across various media, the strike happened at dawn. we know that dawn was a:46am, yesterday. so a timestamp of 5:07 fits in perfectly. this is a still image shared by the local russian installed governor of the region.
the nearby towns have all run out of water. 500,000 people suddenly relying on emergency supplies. what do you think it s like, carrying water like a donkey? asks yulia. it s scary, says nina. and the future is even scarier. speaking of which, just across the now empty reservoir, europe s largest nuclear power plant, still controlled by russian forces. another worry on this muddy front line. andrew harding, bbc news, ukraine. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.