Sees the results of this aggressive policy, tell me, how long do you think this raid of yours can last and, in general , what can depend on how long you can hold your positions . The elections will be held only on march 1517, and this is an expression of our will, it is awaiting its implementation. I saw, apparently they were waiting for you somewhere else and were sure that they had already succeeded in everything there and they had already repelled everything somewhere else, heres a surprise , heres a surprise, heres a surprise, and its going on, and it looks like they havent been able to reorganize yet, so youre basically right now, i understand, you can see that you havent recovered yet , by the way, there were some shots that seemed to be some kind of bombardment. They are not just afraid, they already feel it, because the way the russian army fights, it behaves on the territory of kursk in the same way as in ukraine. Really go somewhere to evacuate, i certainly wish you success a
That is why we must give a clear signal to the world that the leaders who unleash an aggressive war will be held accountable for it. The International Criminal court issued two more arrest warrants for highranking russian officers and said they were likely involved in crimes during the Missile Campaign against ukraines Energy Infrastructure during from october 22 to march 2023. Is this a small step, or is it all that significant, as the investigation of specific crimes committed on your territory begins . Its definitely not a small step, its a big step. First of all, i must recognize the incredible speed of international justice, because it is about the deliberate destruction of the Energy Infrastructure last year, and only a year later the international. The criminal court released the first results. Of course, this also became possible thanks to cooperation with ukrainian Law Enforcement agencies, which helped identify the ship, missiles and their commanders. So it was a good example
Is already now, now the diplomatic artillery will enter the battle, and the first such signal is two initiatives, one of which came from ankara, which was presented by the president of turkey tayyip recep erdogan, regarding the fact that he will provide the council with a platform for dialogue, negotiations, and secondly, the special envoy of the peoples republic of china rushed to the trip lihuy an interesting thing is that the spokeswoman of the ministry of Foreign Affairs of china, maoning, and answering the question of a journalist of global times, this is a newspaper of the chinese communists, about what, in principle, is the purpose of this trip, she. Said about such things that here very, very subtly went through and named in fact both the reason and the goal that the situation at the front prompts the parties in the view of beijing to give it a high probability of dialogue. It is clear that , in this situation, envoy lihui could not first go to moscow according to the instructi
america s defence secretary says he s had a rare phone call with his russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a russian fighter jet and a us drone. the race is now on to recover the wreckage of the unmanned aircraft. it s thought to be 1,200 metres deep in the black sea. russia has also said it will try to find the wreckage. meanwhile, america s top general said the whole incident was a result of russia s increasingly aggressive behaviour in the area. us defence secretary lloyd austin gave this update earlier. asi as i have said repeatedly, it s important that great powers be models of transparency and communication. and the united states will continue to fly and to operate were ever international law allows. and it is incumbent upon russia to operate its military aircraft in a safe and professional manner. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, james landale, has this report from kyiv. this is the kind of unmanned aircraft that crashed. an mq 9 reaper patrolling th
economic direction, the biggest tax cuts and a half a century in a bid to kickstart growth. and the first woman to win back the booker prize twice, the celebrated author dame hilary mantell dies at the age of 70. welcome to bbc news. the g7, the group of seven wealthiest nations, have condemned the referendums being held in parts of ukraine to decide whether they want to join russia. it added the votes, which are being organised by moscow backed officials, are a breach of the united nations charter. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south, and cover around 15 per cent of ukraine s territory. voting is expected to run until tuesday, and the result seems almost certain to go in moscow s favour. these pictures, filmed in russian occupied donetsk, show representatives taking polling cards to people in their own homes. here, at least, it is not a secret ballot. m