nothing as windy as we saw earlier on in the week. that hello. ukraine doesn t deny shooting down a russian plane inside russia, killing we re told, ukranian prisoners. 700 days in how dangerous a moment is this? our defence editor, mark urban, is here to explain the significance. ukraine nears the second anniversary of russia s invasion full of uncertainty has western commitment faltered? and how much more can they send even if they want to? we ll ask a ukrainian mp and the former us ambassador to nato. coming up. what do the post office scandal, me too, newsnight s investigation into university hospitals birmingham foundation trust and the tavistock gender identity clinic have in common? all featured whistleblowers and some of them weren t protected by the law that s supposed to keep them safe. time for a new whistleblowers bill, say these two women. we ll talk to the chair of the parliamentary group on whistleblowing and the head of whistlebowers uk in ten minutes. a
their train station in kherson. there have been power banks set up there, places for people to go and get warm, to charge their phones. to try to get some sanctuary from this cold weather. the government in kherson, trying to sort of do what it can there. but you can see from the number of places around the country, and the scale of the problem, staying on top of and maintaining and repairing the power grid across the country is only a tiny fraction of trying to sustain the lives of people across the whole country through this winter. and of course, those where the war has been absolutely the worst affected. nic robertson, reporting, thank you, so much, nic. well, ukrainian officials are now taking part into the investigation into a deadly missile blast in poland. ukraine s foreign minister said they ve joined the u.s. and polish investigators at the site of the explosion. ukraine has been pushing to join the probe after a missile hit a
to lock in some of those gains. but there are others who look, as we ve just been discussing, at this, you know, prospect of a very long war. and say, well, you know, the ukrainians ought to just continue, but we cannot tell them what to do. that s the mantra from this administration. and the phrase, again, you know, is nothing about ukraine without ukraine. and they continue to say they really mean it. jill dougherty, thank you so much. family and friends are preparing toed by good-bye to one of the two people killed in a missile blast in poland. these are live pictures from the border town in eastern poland where a man who was killed in tuesday s blast will be laid to rest. nato and poland said the explosion was likely an accident caused by a stray ukrainian missile. the investigation into the explosion is still under way.
they were in ukraine, it started 169 days ago. actually, 269 days ago. and today is the war continues, the united states estimates about 140,000 ukrainians have been killed. russia appears to be using his oldest advantages in war, the region s winter weather in a way that ukraine s president says his deliberately targeting civilians. russian forces have been blasting ukraine s power grid with artillery, and missile attacks, as much as 40% of ukraine was without power friday. and put that in perspective for you, in kyiv, it barely rises above freezing in december. but it has gotten as cold as minus 41 degrees fahrenheit. when i was in school, we did not leave the house if it was minus 22. all of this is on the heels of the deadly missile blast and nato member country poland, nato later said that it believes a ukrainian missile actually misfired, so given all of this, nato will now not invoke article five of its agreement and protect pullen,
russian pullout from kherson. the ukrainian officials are taking part in the investigation into a deadly missile blast in poland. ukraine s foreign minister says they ve joined the u.s. and polish investigators at the site of the explosion. ukraine has been pushing to join after the missile hit a polish border village on tuesday, killing two people. poland and nato says it was likely an accident caused by a stray missile, but western officials also said russia is ultimately to blame because it started the war in ukraine. for more we re joined now by scott mclean from london. scott, we understand there there s been no letup from the fighting in the donetsk region. reporter: yeah, it s hard to tell where the lines lie. but we know fighting has really intense fight in the eastern part of the country, and some of the heaviest fighting is around