to the battlefield. the kremlin is seeking to erase ukraine s history, culture and sense of identity. my guest today is the ukrainian raised, internationally renowned historian serhii plokhy. what s the best response to this weaponization of history? serhii plokhy, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. you are a harvard historian. you ve lived in the united states for a long time, and yet you were raised inside ukraine. so is it possible for you to bring a dispassionate historian s eye to what is happening in ukraine right now? or is it far too personal? that s what i am trying to do to bring this dispassionate analysis and help understanding of what is going on from the historical perspective. but it s extremely close to home in personal terms, and in terms also of the kind of history that i study, and studied and wrote about. never i thought that it would be at the very centre of the major international crisis, the biggest and the most horrible war that we have
we start with the war in ukraine. we ll look at what s happening on the ground in a moment. first to sanctions. eu leaders have finally agreed on a partial embargo of russian oil imports. it will affect oil that arrives by sea. that s around two thirds of imports. this is the second day of the summit. we know that the eu has been trying to work out a way to ban russian oil imports for months. we ll get into why it s been so complicated in a minute. first, this is the president of the european commission. we decided then to have a ban now on de facto 90% russian oil imports of russian oil imports to the european union by the end of the year. and this comes at a time when we see that russia has disrupted supplies to, by now, five member states finland, bulgaria and poland but now to a company in the netherlands and a company in denmark. that message was echoed by the ukrainian foreign ministry. they said. let s look at the bigger picture. russia currently supplies about 27%
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visits the white house to speak about the growth in anti asian hate crimes in america. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to bbc news and to our viewers in the uk and around the world. and to our viewers in the uk it s 6am in the morning here in singapore and 1am in ukraine, where it s reported that a russian air strike has hit a chemical plant in the embattled city of severodonetsk, releasing a cloud of dangerous gas. residents have been told to stay in bomb shelters to avoid the fumes. the ukrainians say russian forces now control most of severodonetsk, the main focus of the russian offensive in the donbas region. the local governor said the city wasn t surrounded, but continuous shelling was making it impossible to bring in supplies or evacuate the remaining civilians. and russian troops are pushing deeper into the region. this is the city of slovyansk, where three people have been killed in a russian missile strike. ukrain
transport, and drive their cars. bts the wildly popular south korean k pop group has visited the white house to speak about the growth in anti asian hate crimes in america. the group made their remarks during a press briefing. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the social commentator, joanna jarjue, and david bond, who is the deputy political editor at the evening standard. tomorrow s front pages, starting with borisjohnson could face a confidence vote as early as tuesday according to the metro, as the response to partygate builds. a view echoed in the i, which says the pm is personally calling wavering mps to shore up support. meanwhile the times reports borisjohnson s ethics adviser, lord geidt, is demanding an explanation over lockdown parties and threatened to resign over the matter. but the daily mail says the cabinet are backing the prime minister against what it calls reckless rebels trying to remove h