hello, i m sally bundock, welcome to the programme. ukraine s president zelensky is returning home from a meeting of g7 leaders injapan. he left the summit having secured further promises of financial and military support, including american made f 16 fighterjets. the commander of ukraine s ground forces says they re close to surrounding the eastern city of bakhmut. ukraine has disputed the russian claims to have taken full control of the city. russia has lost thousands of men in the assault on bakhmut many from the wagner mercenary group. our diplomtaic correspondent james landale reports from kyiv. for more than eight months, in what s now the longest battle of this war, ukrainian forces have defended bakhmut. the eastern city is now largely in ruins and largely in russian hands in particular in the hands of fighters like these from the wagner mercenary group, whose leader yevgeny prigozhin claimed to have full control here. from house to house, he said, we took the
to be negative. the greek elections have been won by the governing centre right new democracy party. its leader, the prime minister kyriakos mitsotakis, described the victory as a political earthquake . with almost all the votes counted, his party is on almost 4i%, leaving them five seats short of a majority. mr mitsotakis said the people had given his party a mandate for a four year government. it was a disappointing day for the centre left opposition syriza party led by alexis tsipras with just 20% of the vote. under a complicated greek electoral system, he will need to face the people again injuly if he hopes to achieve an absolute majority. 0ur europe correspondent nick beake has more from athens. this has been a very good night for prime minister mitsotakis. the changes to the electoral system that he inherited meant it was always going to be very difficult to win an outright majority, although he has come very close to doing that.