to prolong the process. there can be delays in the national parliaments and so forth. countries might have their own concerns but i am confident that in the end we will find a solution and finland and sweden will become members of nato. we will be talking in a few minutes to sir andrew ward, who spent five years as british ambassador in moscow. the mayor of kharkiv has told the bbc that russian forces have withdrawn from the city area and are heading for the russian border. ihor terekhov says shelling has stopped and residents are gradually returning to ukraine s second largest city. but he warned that many residential areas have been badly damaged or destroyed. 0ur correspondentjoe inwood has the latest from lviv. a parting gift from russian forces in retreat. this used to be the palace of culture in derhachi, a small town on the outskirts of kharkiv. 0n on thursday, it was destroyed. translation: we were hit by rockets. three floors were breached.
should be allowed to join nato, and the finnish president suggesting it is not acceptable, that individual countries have sovereign decision making in this sort of process. the mayor of kharkiv has told the bbc that russian forces have withdrawn from the city area and are heading for the russian border. ihor terekhov says shelling has stopped and residents are gradually returning to ukraine s second largest city. but he warned that many residential areas have been badly damaged or destroyed. our correspondentjoe inwood has the latest from lviv. a parting gift from russian forces in retreat. this used to be the palace of culture in derhachi, a small town on the outskirts of kharkiv. on thursday, it was destroyed. translation: we were hit by rockets. three floors were breached. as you can see, the palace of culture is almost completely destroyed. it has nothing to do with military infrastructure. it s a civilian facility.
sovereign decision making in this sort of process. the mayor of kharkiv has told the bbc that russian forces have withdrawn from the city area and are heading for the russian border. ihor terekhov says shelling has stopped, and residents are gradually returning to ukraine s second largest city. but he warned that many residential areas have been badly damaged or destroyed. our correspondentjoe inwood has been following the latest from lviv. a parting gift from russian forces in retreat. this used to be the palace of culture in derhachi, a small town on the outskirts of kharkiv. on thursday, it was destroyed. translation: we were hit by rockets. three floors were breached. as you can see, the palace of culture is almost completely destroyed. it has nothing to do with military infrastructure. it s a civilian facility. it s a scene replicated right across ukraine s second city,
as you can see, the palace of culture is almost completely destroyed. it has nothing to do with military infrastructure. it s a civilian facility. it s a scene replicated right across ukraine s second city, much of which has been reduced to rubble. but kharkiv is known as a fortress city. in this invasion, it has earned that name. its defenders have resisted and now repelled the russians. the battle for kharkiv, it seems, has been won. it s a very different story from that of mariupol, where russia seems confident enough of the victory to be redeploying troops to the donbas region. the ukrainian government says it wants to arm a million men for what is increasingly looking like a long fight. that this conflict will continue is perhaps the only thing the two sides agree on. translation: today nobody can l
as you can see, the palace of culture is almost completely destroyed. it has nothing to do with military infrastructure. it s a civilian facility. it s a scene replicated right across ukraine s second city, much of which has been reduced to rubble. but kharkiv is known as a fortress city. in this invasion, it has earned that name. its defenders have resisted and now repelled the russians. the battle for kharkiv, it seems, has been won. it s a very different story from that of mariupol, where russia seems confident enough of the victory to be redeploying troops to the donbas region. the ukrainian government says it wants to arm a million men for what is increasingly looking like a long fight. that this conflict will continue is perhaps the only thing the two sides agree on. translation: today nobody can l predict how long this war will last, but we are doing everything in order