She reigned for almost three quarters of a century as the world changed around her. She was a symbol of unity in good times and bad. Successful because she knew her unique place and she understood it. The act of being there, of being. You know, a. A continuing. Reference point of stability and endless duties is something that i think is. Is of the greatest importance. It was really about service and her definition of service, and that was a lifetime. Literally 24 7, 365 days of the year. It was never something you could turn off and turn on. It was there all the time. It is so strange to almost everyone in this countryl that she is no longer queen. It will take a long while to come to terms with that. I declare before you all, that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and to the service of our great imperialfamily to which we all belong. As Queen Elizabeth ii, she reigned over more than 135 Million People and, as head of the commonwealth, a third
We are expecting to see them in the next few moments leave Buckingham Palace on this late summer evening and travel into Westminster Hall where those who are paying their respects in the hall at that time will see the four of them together at the side of the coffin. It looks like they are just about to leave Buckingham Palace. The outriders are out of the gates. The Queen Consort will be with the king. Itll be the four of them standing together as theyin four of them standing together as they in edinburgh at st giles cathedral. But in the setting of Westminster Hall, it is of course the most historic, most ancient part of the palace of westminster, a place with immense resonance in the history of our national story, the history of our national story, the history of our monarchy, and therefore a particularly resonant setting for them to stand vigil together as they are about to do. There they are now coming out of the palace gates and beginning that Shortjourney Palace Gates and beginni
To face far weaker Russian Defences ahead. Ukraine says its forces are making gains in the south of the country and has recently expanded its units towards the strategic town of tokmak, which is a Logistical Centre for russian forces. Last week, ukraines military said it had captured the village of robotyne, in the zaporizhzhia region, amid a counteroffensive that is yielding incremental gains. Sources in the Ukrainian Army have confirmed the breakthrough to the bbc. An adviser to president zelenskyy, aleksander rodnyansky, explained the significance for kyiv s forces. Weve been waiting for this moment for quite some time. Weve been hoping that we would pierce through the Russian Defence line, the first defence line, which was the hardest to pierce through, if you believe Military Experts when they talk about it. So hopefully now, when we reach the second and the third lines of defence that the russians have established, those will be easier to essentially overcome. And perhaps hopeful
For the posts of heads of Law Enforcement agencies and the foreign ministry, the president in particular believes that Andrei Belousov should head the ministry of defense; he previously worked as first deputy Prime Minister. Early in the morning, Russian Air Defense shot down several air targets over belgorod and the Belgorod Region, in belgorod itself the clearance of the rubble at the site of the collapse of the highrise buildings entrance has been completed, the death toll has risen to 15 people. In the omsk region, due to the flood , a state of emergency was introduced in three districts, about 800 houses were flooded, the most acute situation is in the ustishimsky district, rescuers are evacuating residents of nine settlements at once. In primorye, a local resident was detained on suspicion of espionage; according to the fsb, he, on his own initiative, worked for the military intelligence of the kiev regime. The curators ordered the collection of information about military install
Your biography, well, such a biography of a hereditary military man, was born in a country that, unfortunately, no longer exists, to which there may still be, yes, where he may still return, everything, everything, besides, well, an absolutely brilliant career, tank driver, true kharkov tank school, a good school, it was wonderful, and the guards school, i think, when we graduated, no one could have guessed, of course. With the chechen republic at one time, in addition to this, he carried out tasks, he was the Deputy Commander of a group of troops in the syrian arab republic, he carried out tasks, in fact , he was the first head of the reconciliation center, probably the leadership considered it necessary that this experience should be useful and would be applied in construction of the military police, military police of the modern. Russia was born in 2011, accordingly created by president ial decree, changes were made to federal laws, in particular the federal defense law, which defin