hello again. i m david eades. the headlines this hour: russia has said it will drastically reduce its military activity in the kyiv and chernihiv regions of northern ukraine following peace talks in turkey. ukraine s armed forces said some russian units had moved from those regions, but they added forces were regrouping to focus on the east. president zelensky has hailed what he called the positive signals from the day s talks, but insisted kyiv would only trust any concrete results that emerged from the meeting. mr zelensky stressed that the situation had not become easier and the ukraine military would not slacken its defensive efforts. israel s prime minister has warned his country is facing a new wave of terror after a third knife or gun attack in a week. at least five people were killed in the town of bnei brak on the outskirts of tel aviv.
ukraine from joining the european union. translation: our. proposal has not been accepted yet by russia. we are handing it over to the russian side. we say, this is our position, our official position. we will wait for their answer. russia responded with what it presented as a significant concession. it said it would scale back its offensive near the ukrainian capital, kyiv. translation: the ministry of defence of the russian . federation has taken the decision to drastically reduce combat operations in the kyiv and chernihiv areas, in order to boost mutual trust and create the conditions for further negotiations and signing of the agreement. if russia does cut back its military activity around ukraine s capital, that would mark a key shift in what moscow calls its special military operation , but what most of the world calls russia s war. an admission, perhaps, that after struggling to make advances, russian troops have
includes regions. looking on a map, that includes of regions. looking on a map, that includes of the capital city kyiv includes of the capital city kyiv as includes of the capital city kyiv as well as chernihiv where the regional governor said 400 people the regional governor said 400 people had died and people are without people had died and people are without water and electricity. the international reaction has been the international reaction has been pretty unanimous in terms of western leaders, saying first of western leaders, saying first off of western leaders, saying first off that there were already sounds from russia that they were going to focus on the donbas they were going to focus on the donbas region anyway, and that the assault on kyiv had been stalling the assault on kyiv had been stalling. and they are going to wait stalling. and they are going to wait and stalling. and they are going to wait and see whether the actions wait and see whether the
this is bbc news the headlines. russia has said it will drastically reduce its military activity in the kyiv and chernihiv regions of northern ukraine following peace talks in turkey. ukraine s armed forces said some russian units had moved from those regions but they added forces were regrouping to focus on the east. president zelensky has hailed what he called the positive signals from the day s talks but insisted kyiv would only trust any concrete results that emerged from the meeting. mr zelensky stressed that the situation had not become easier and the ukraine military would not slacken its defensive efforts. israel s prime minister has warned his country is facing a new wave of terror after a third knife or gun attack in a week. at least five people were killed in the town of bnei brak on the outskirts of tel aviv.
and there is what russia does. we re focused on the latter. and what russia s doing is the continued brutalisation of ukraine and its people. and that continues as we speak. he is right to remain sceptical. while russian negotiators in istanbul were telling the ukrainians they would be moving troops away from the northern cities, chernihiv was being hit again. anna a n na foster anna foster is in lviv near the polish border. i submit the ukrainians should be wise to be sceptical of what the russians are offering them? sceptical of what the russians are offering them? they should be. the first set of talks offering them? they should be. the first set of talks happened - offering them? they should be. the first set of talks happened in - first set of talks happened in belarus, a russian allied country. a lot of stock was put in this before