This thick white smoke indicates what ukraine says is a successful strike on the headquarters of russias black sea navy in crimea. Russia illegally annexed the Southern Ukrainian Peninsula of crimea in 2014. This month, ukraine has carried out several attacks on the region, destroying a Russian Air Defence system and damaging a ship and a submarine in a dry dock. Kyiv is also trying to cut off russian supply lines as it continues with its Counter Offensive further north. 0ur Senior International correspondent 0rla guerin is in kyiv. Kyiv could hardly have picked a more high profile target than the headquarters of russias Black Sea Fleet in crimea and a source in the Ukrainian Air force told the bbc that the type of missile used was a storm shadow Cruise Missile and those are supplied by the uk and france. We have seen footage showing a massive impact on the building and tonight they have been claims in the past half an hour on social media that the commander of the Black Sea Fleet was
Installed, officials are saying they blame falling debris, but the images suggest that this is a direct hit. We dont know the further implications, whether in terms of who is in there. But this is a place where russia has really asserted its dominance. It is the Black Sea Fleet from which it has launched Missile Strikes across ukraine. It has blockaded ports. And this is a peninsula that russia annexed back in 2014. Its almost a cornerstone of russias invasion. And i think regardless of whether kyiv claims responsibility for this one, it did last week when it hit a dry dock with british Supplied Storm Shadow missiles destroying a submarine and a warship. It is clear ukraine is continuing with its strategy of trying to target sites in crimea to both undermine russias occupation, but also to support its continued Counter Offensive further north by by frustrating russian operations. As we said, president zelensky is in canada, for the First Time Since russias invasion, on a visit to thank
Here is president zelensky and his wife olena being welcomed by Prime Ministerjustin trudeau. There is full day of events, including talks with Business Leaders and members of the large Ukrainian Community in ukraine. He will also give a speech to the Canadian Parliament in ottawa. Mr zelensky flew from washington where he held talks at the white house. President biden has approved Security Assistance for kyiv valued at 325 million dollars. It includes upgrades to air defences, but not the long range missiles president zelensky has been requesting. Anti government protests are again taking place in the armenian capital, yerevan, amid anger over azerbaijans defeat this week of Ethnic Armenian separatists in the enclave of nagorno karabakh. For a third day, Opposition Groups are calling for the resignation of the Prime Minister. The latest protests come after the two sides held peace talks yesterday. Our correspondent in the region, rayhan demytrie, is following developments from neighbo
Progress. More on that story in a moment. As ukraine faces a second winter of war, it is suffering heavy losses on the battlefield, but the military does not release figures for those killed and injured. The bbc has been given access to one of the main hospitals receiving casualties from the front lines. Doctors there have treated more than 20,000 Wounded Soldiers since russias full scale invasion in february 2022, many of them amputees. From south eastern ukraine, our International Correspondent 0rla guerin reports. Sirens. Under a blanket of darkness, the wounded are brought in. On arrival each one is numbered. Each one a husband, a father or a son. This is the pain of a generation. Staff here treat 50 to 100 new casualties every day. Another badly wounded soldier has just been brought in. Hes in his 20s and one of his legs has already been amputated. This is where you can see the cost of the war, the cost for soldiers, the cost for ukraine and theres no let up, the casualties keep c
but it s not clear if that message will resonate with republicans. senate republicans are delaying the bill, hoping to secure tougher policies on the us mexico border to curb immigration in exchange for international aid. the us military aid package that s stalled would include $61 billion for ukraine as part of a larger package. congress has approved more than $111 billion since the war began, but the biden administration is warning that money is running out as the war in ukraine ticks closer to its two year mark. our correspondentjess parker has the view from kyiv. he s here on a rescue mission to liberate billions of dollars in defence aid for ukraine, money that s become ensnared in arguments amongst us lawmakers. overnight, a fresh wave of russian missile strikes crushed buildings in kyiv and blew craters in the earth. ukraine s war is with russia, but officials must battle sceptics in the west who ask, what s the endgame? after ukraine s faltering counteroffensive. i