this man came back from his life in new york to battle the kremlin s forces who are supported by president lukashenko of belarus. without independent and free ukraine, there is no independent and free belarus. i really admire ukrainian nation. from the very beginning we supported ukrainians in their fight for freedom and i would like to have my belarusian nation to be as strong and powerful as ukraine is right now. do you think lukashenko will send belarusian trips into ukraine? i hope so because if they send someone to ukrainian soil we will destroy them on ukrainian territory, then we won t have a lot of problems. for these dissidents it is in part a proxy war against a regime at home that has made belarus a launchpad for russian attacks on ukraine. 30,000 russian troops advancing from there to kyiv.
from russia, which they see is vulnerable. but that can also be combined with another major undertaking we all have to do, namely to speed up transition to renewable energy. so, from a climate change perspective, from a 2030 perspective, you know, fit for cutting emissions, this may spur and accelerate investments in renewable energy, and that is very important, and norway will make its contribution in this sense. ok, i ll come back to that in a moment, but i really must persist with this, which is the fact of the matter is, as things stand, the european union is still spending more than $1 billion a day on buying russian energy, oil and gas, and that is simply funding the kremlin s war machine, and it s being used to hammer the people of ukraine. that is the state of affairs now. you re trying to fight russian tanks with the banks, as it were, and it sjust not
amid the devastation. president biden visits poland to show support for ukraine s neighbour and announces a deal on gas to reduce european reliance on russian energy. reports from the us say the wife of a us supreme courtjudge repeatedly texted donald trump s chief of staff urging him to overturn the results of the 2020 election. the duke and duchess of cambridge on the last leg of a caribbean tour that s attracted crowds and some controversy. hello. we begin this hour with the war in ukraine. the russian military have signalled they are shifting the focus of their campaign in ukraine and will concentrate their efforts on the east of the country. it s being seen as a scaling back of the kremlin s war aims,
is facing growing international isolation. but, from the kremlin, no hint of regret. quite the opposite. the authorities are rallying support for their offensive in ukraine. st petersburg riot police made this video to show they back it. the letter z has become the symbol for the kremlin s special operation. and many russians believe their president has got it right. i trust him 100%, dennis says, no, iso%. but then vladimir putin controls the media here and the messaging. without that, it would be much harder to convince his people that he is taking russia in the right direction. steve rosenberg, bbc news, st petersburg. now some of the day s other news.
on the east of the country. it s being seen as a scaling back of the kremlin s war aims, and it comes as ukrainian forces have succeeded in counterattacking russian troops on a number of fronts, especially around the capital, kyiv. according to the latest british military intelligence, the ukrainians have reoccupied towns and defensive positions 32 kilometres east of the capital, while russian supply lines in that area are said to be overstretched. our international correspondent orla guerin reports from the front line on the city s northern outskirts. on the northern outskirts of kyiv, the burnt out evidence of russia s defeat, at least for now, on this front line. ukrainian troops say russian forces tried to get through here four times this month and were stopped in their tracks.