In the last few weeks and water levels have dropped alarmingly. Spain has also suffered from the drought. Now on bbc news, ukraine a year on the frontlines. Over the past 30 years or so, ive covered conflicts in the middle east, in the balkans and in africa, but this is unlike anything that i have ever known. This is a war that we did not expect to see in europe in ourtime. There was a sense that the Security Architecture that we knew, the safety, the security that we thought we had since the end of the cold war, that was gone. I was here injanuary and february of last year, counting down to the invasion. I was sure it would come, but it turned out to be even worse than i expected. We were in mariupol, which is a port city in the east. Its only 30 miles from the russian border. But inside the city, there was this surreal atmosphere of calm. And i remember we went to film in a supermarket. There was no panic buying. The shelves were full. We met a lady called tatiana, who was 7a, and ve
The most stalemate situation for the Ukrainian Armed forces is in poroskovievka, there is the seventyninth a separate air assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed forces requires evacuation. Ukrainian militants report that due to the fact that a significant part of the reserves from this direction have been transferred to volchansk, it is now impossible to defend the settlement due to the numerical superiority of Russian Troops. The ratio of the figure is unprecedented in the ratio of 20 one. After the liberation of paraskovievka , konstantinovka, the most important bandera outpost, will be under attack, the loss of which will create another threat of a collapse of the front. Enemy resources continue to sound the alarm on kharkov direction, where the russian Army Launched a new offensive. We are talking about the offensive of a group of troops to the north from the direction of the village of zelenoe, which is located right at the border between two current directions the offensive of li
Taking you to where the policies are debated and decided with the support of americas cable company. Cspan, 45 y in accounting, powered by cable. Next, defense secretary lloyd austin on the Helicopter Crash that killed irans president and foreign minister over the weekend. Secretary austen gives an update on the war in ukraine with general charles brown, jr. The secretary and the chairman will deliver opening remarks, and then well have time to take a few questions. Please note that i will moderate those questions and call on journalists. Due to time constraints, please limit the followup questions to give your colleagues a chance to ask questions. Secretary austin, over to you, sir. The speaker thanks. Good afternoon, everybody, and thanks for joining us. General brown and i have just come from a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Im grateful to the 50 countries from around the world that joined us again the Contact Group heard directl, including the minister. They gave a v
The secretary and the chairman will deliver opening remarks, and then well have time to take a few questions. Please note that i will moderate those questions and call on journalists. Due to time constraints, please limit the followup questions to give your colleagues a chance to ask questions. Secretary austin, over to you, sir. The speaker thanks. Good afternoon, everybody, and thanks for joining us. General brown and i have just come from a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Im grateful to the 50 countries from around the world that joined us again today. The Contact Group heard directly from ukraines defense leaders, including the minister. They gave a valuable update on ukraines defensive operations across the front line, including the new russian offensive. We met today at a challenging moment. Putins forces have opened another front to seize sovereign ukrainian territory. The kremlins invaders are obliterating villages and bombarding civilian infrastructure, including
Over the weekend. Secretary austen gives an update on the war in ukraine alongside joint chiefs of staff jared general charles brown, jr. The secretary and the chairman will deliver opening remarks, and then well have time to take a few questions. Please note that i will moderate those questions and call on journalists. Due to time constraints, please limit the followup questions to give your colleagues a chance to ask questions. Secretary austin, over to you, sir. The speaker thanks. Good afternoon, everybody, and thanks for joining us. General brown and i have just come from a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Im grateful to the 50 cou i am grateful for the 50 countries around the world that joined us of that again today. , including the minister. They gave a valuable update on ukraines defensive operations across the front line, including the new russian offensive. We met today at a challenging moment. Putins forces have opened another front to seize sovereign ukrainian