the headlines. the commons speaker says the opposition canhave a debate over whether borisjohnson misled parliament over covid rules in downing street. the pm is due to appear before mps later. borisjohnson will boris johnson will apologise borisjohnson will apologise to mps again. but the opposition party says it s not enough. moscow says it has struck more than 1,000 military targets in eastern ukraine and releases these images of its fighterjets. ukraine claims that civilians are under attack. russians are targeting civilians, and they would like to destroy as much as possible of the civilian infrastructure and to kill as many as possible.
these women were not treated with the dignity and respect that you would expect of a professional. must have been horrible and ghastly for them. the headlines on bbc news. moscow says it has struck more than 1,000 military targets in eastern ukraine and releases these images of its fighter jets over the country. borisjohnson is expected to apologise to mps this afternoon at his first appearance in the commons since being fined for breaking lockdown laws. new research from the international monetary fund warns that the war in ukraine will severely set back the global economic recovery from the covid pandemic. as we were hearing, the international monetary fund expects economic growth in the uk to be slower than any other g7 country this year and next, while inflation is expected to
live as soon as the home secretary arrives. let s get more now on moscow s claims to have struck more than 1,000 targets overnight in what ukraine says is the launch of a large scale offensive in its eastern donbas region. the move marks a new phase in the conflict. 0ur security correspondent frank gardner told us russia s tactics may now differ from what we ve seen so far. this is basically a race against time now. some of ukraine s best forces are fighting there in the east but they are heavily outnumbered. russia has got anything up to 76 so called battalion tactical groups, these are up to 1,000 each, in ukraine, and focused very much in that area. they have got massive artillery and air strike capability, so ukraine is saying, look, if we are going to have any chance of fending off this big assault, then we need heavy kit.
is the really important thing for the days and weeks ahead. people in the east of the country are being warned that some of the worst fighting may be to come, but the message from the president is the successful defence they have put up so far can continue if the supply of weapons carries on coming. but there are signs that russia s attacks last night were designed to hit the country s railway network, and those kind of attacks could disrupt the logistics networks, could make it harder to get the weapons and armoury that those forces need to the right places. but, certainly, the ukrainians have taken great morale boosts from the successes they ve had already, and although they are prepared for a really tough battle ahead in the east of the country, the feeling is that the sort of resistance they have shown so far can continue. that is the view from ukraine. 0ur correspondent in moscow, jenny hill, gave us the russian perspective on the latest developments on the
we need weapons, we need things like these starstreak missiles, we need anti tank missiles, we need air defence units to be able to fend off the russians. moscow is well aware of this. it s started targeting some of the supply routes where this stuff comes in from poland and slovakia and other countries in nato. it s really a race against time to resupply the beleaguered ukrainian military in time for them to fend off this assault, and as we heard from jenny in moscow, this could go either way. even if they beat russia in this, i think we are not out of the woods yet, and i m afraid this war has got some time yet to run. frank gardner, there. hannah shelest is the editor in chief of ukraine analytica. she studies foreign and security policy. she told me that russia s strategy has undergone a significant change.