Winds coming in around the irish sea coasts, gusting up to 70mph, but that said, many of us will have quite a quiet start to the day, sunshine for scotland, bright and breezy conditions in eastern england. It is in the middle part of that and in the afternoon that those potentially damaging gusts of wind work into irish sea coasts, could bring down some trees leading to power cuts, transport could be disrupted as well, Notjust Windy but also very wet. That wet and windy weather on wednesday night will transfer across Northern England and scotland where it also could be windy enough to cause one or two impacts, maybe one or two trees down. That system works out of the way for thursday followed by this ridge of High Pressure which means the weatherfor a this ridge of High Pressure which means the weather for a time will turn quieter on thursday with a bit more sunshine before this next system spreads rain back into western areas, the rain turning increasingly heavy in the afternoon. Temperatures staying on the mild side but looking at the outlook over the next few days it looks like the weather is going to generally stay unsettled, plenty of showers across Northern Areas on friday, to write further south, Northern Areas on friday, to write furthersouth, into Northern Areas on friday, to write further south, into the weekend i think rain and showers will be donating. Chris fawkes, thank you. Thats it. More analysis of the days top stories on newsnight, just getting underway over on bbc two. But here on bbc one, its time to join our colleagues the war in ukraine through the eyes of one ukrainian brigade the fighters on the front, and theirfamilies back home. Open ended service, just 10 days leave a year, and a high Casualty Rate for ukranian soldiers in one unit, life on the front line is fraught and brutal and really hard. They strap grenades to drones bought off amazon and aim for the highest Value Targets. To years ago would you have imagined doing this . Ill. To years ago would you have imagined doin this . �. ,. , doing this . Ill, no but what can we do . We can doing this . Ill, no but what can we do . We can only doing this . Ill, no but what can we do . We can only fight doing this . Ill, no but what can we do . We can only fight and doing this . Ill, no but what can we do . We can only fight and protect l do . We can only fight and protect our land~ do . We can only fight and protect our land~ i do . We can only fight and protect ourland. Ijust do . We can only fight and protect our land. Ijust wanted to stop and for our our land. Ijust wanted to stop and for our neighbours to go away. Also tonight. The lib dems are now an Unavowedly Anti Tory party will it lead to electoral success for them in the General Election . As their conference draws to a close, well talk live to frontbencher christine jardin. And some encouraging words on how the worlds faring on hitting its environmental targets. The head of the Worlds Energy watchdog say hes more optimistic than two years ago on reaching net zero by 2050 a former advisor to cop26 president alok sharma is with us. Good evening. For 18 months now the war in ukraine has ground mercilessly on. Any russian hopes of an easy advance into kyiv were quickly dashed but moscow now controls around a fifth of its neighbours territory. Battlelines settled in the spring of last year have in many places barely shifted since. And despite months of fierce fighting, and reports of large losses on both sides, a ukrainian counteroffensive has this summerfailed to dramatically break through. Many now expect an enduring and longterm conflict, with Kyiv Reliant On Western backing to hold its line. How then, does the war feel to those on the frontline and to their families back at home away from ukraines battlefields . Newsnight has secured rare access to one ukrainian unit, the 24th Mechanised Brigade and through their eyes, over the next three nights, we hope to bring you an insight into the reality of this conflict. Right now the 24th brigade are fighting in the donbas in a section of the front between bakhmut and horlivka. Sometimes using a0 year old munitions and literally attaching grenades to drones bought off amazon. The men are fathers, sons and husbands and some had no Military Experience until russia launched its full scale invasion last year. Newsnight� s defence editor mark urban filmed with the 24th brigade and their families across 10 days. Well speak to him in a few minutes, heres the first of his special reports. This is the face of battle. Modern war in ukraine. A grenade attached to a commercially made drone, before being sent on its way. These ukrainian soldiers allowed us access to a position several hundred metres from their enemy as they hunted them. Now theyre stepping up the accuracy of their attacks. With custom made fpv, or first person video drones. We have an assortment of fpv drones, so those are different manufacturers. Some are ukrainian. Yuri flies them, searching for the highest Value Targets he can find. We are aiming for big guns, like for example. A Grenade Launcher . Yeah, yeah. Automatic Grenade Launcher and. Self propelled gun . Oh, yeah, yeah. Self propelled gun, Something Like that. And then comes in the lower priority, so just regular troops. Two years ago, would you have ever imagined you would be doing this . Oh, no, no, for gods sake, no. But what can we do . We can only fight and protect our land. I just want it to stop. And for our neighbours to go away. 52nd year. But looks like new. Its like second world war. We watched as the 24th brigades Drone Company armed a variety of munitions, ready to launch at the russians, trying to raise the pain level. They gave us clips of that days strikes, using air drop munitions, and then flying their fpv into trenches and windows to kill those taking cover. Butjust as these men are hunters, theyre also being hunted. The 24th brigade artillery often relies on drones to find its targets. But that works in reverse, too. And the guns have to be well camouflaged because the russians are hunting them, as we soon discovered. So we were expecting a fire mission within five minutes, and then word came down on the radio to stand down, because a russian drone has been sighted somewhere near here. And thats really very typical of whats been happening. A constant battle of wits, a deadly battle of wits. These russian videos show the threat that spotters overhead cue a Lancet Missile onto ukrainian artillery and that as soon as its fired, its destroyed. After a tense half hour. The ukrainian battery commander is given the go ahead to engage his target. The 152 Millimeter Howitzer is loaded and its barrel trained onto the right bearing and elevation. No sooner is the shell on its way than were told to get away from the gun position as soon as we can. We get back to our vehicle. So lets go. Past locals, apparently oblivious to the fact a russian shell will soon be heading back. Where was the incoming . Oh, yeah, ive seen the smoke. It explodes about 300 metres from us. Weve had a small taste of the stress these soldiers have to put up with for months. For the battle in this part of the donbas is largely about long range killing with artillery. At the brigade casualty clearing station, a soldier has been brought in. The medics do their survey, but its apparent that he isnt physically injured. Its described as a panic attack, following an artillery bombardment. Hes sedated and the doctors grow nervous that our presence might attract interest to this place. Weve had to leave the medical centre because the doctors were worried that our presence at the medical centre might make it a target. The battle in Eastern Ukraine has become a dreadful endurance test. The 24th brigade provided some of the troops that took part in the year long struggle for bakhmut. Their Drone Company captured these images of a battle thats claimed tens of thousands of lives. This company is one of those thats been pulled back from the trenches to be rebuilt after those recent fights. New arrivals were being integrated with those who emerged from bakhmut. But as one of the medics who treated them explained, the survivors had been deeply marked by the experience. I was like a witness of this trauma because i was in medical company and the guys who was wounded came to us. And those people who was like lightly injured, not so bad, we can speak with them. And like almost five from ten men was with some, um, not only physical injuries but psychological too. Their speech was very fast. They dont recognise even their friends and sometimes they dont understand what we say, even. They hear us but cant respond. Because of the heavy bombardments . Yeah, because of this. It was shelling every time when our guys take to russian positions, the best target for russians is their positions. If the front line has moved little this summer in this part of the east, thats in part because russia can still overmatch ukraine in many ways. These bombs, like with metal pieces plus tnt. We went to the Drone Company quarters where another yuri, a Young Venture Capitalist from kyiv, told me how he volunteered for the army and what they need to do to outwit the russians. They have a lot more. Its like a factory manufacturing. This is thousands and thousands of drones, while ukraine is for now only starting to make such drones in a big quantities. Can you see yourself going back to finance now, or is this too absorbing for the foreseeable future . Yes. Why not . As for now, our prime target is to make our country safe, to get back our lands. And after that, we can do what we did. I suspect the pay as a soldier is a bit less than in the Finance World . Oh, much more less. Yes. It doesnt matter . It doesnt matter. This was heralded by president zelensky as the year of victories. But although there have been some gains south of here, in general, progress has been slow, not least because its so hard to advance in this War Without Being Spotted and shelled. What do you think of them . Of the russians . After 18 months of this war. Do you hate them . Do you respect them . What are your feelings about them as an enemy . At the gun position, meanwhile, its time to reload. This howitzer is nicknamed babushka by its crew because its getting on a bit, and the shells we saw were made a0 years ago. And just as the demands of this conflict mean all serviceable weapons must be pressed into action, so the gun commander is a 52 year old, trained to do this decades ago for the soviet army, who volunteered to serve again. What was your familys reaction when you went to serve . Did they say, forgive me, youre too old. Let other people do it. How do people react . With the summer coming to a close, without either side able to claim victory, the brigade, its families and ukrainians more widely must steel themselves for another winter. Given the sacrifices made so far, thats a lot to ask, but its not something the soldiers here see any alternative to. That film was produced by louie harris white, jon hughes filmed it, and it was edited by richard oneill. Its on the bbc News Youtube Channel and later this week therell be a documentary on iplayer called life, loss and waiting in ukraine. Mark, some of the weaponry those guys had looked so rudimentary, but how effective is it . How effective is it . Variable, i would say how effective is it . Variable, i would say. The how effective is it . Variable, i would say. The country, how effective is it . Variable, i would say. The country, the l how effective is it . Variable, i would say. The country, the army, that brigade have been through an extraordinary transformation, theyve gone through a time when the war which is taking over in the east and a few people knew about it and a few people paid the price into a struggle for National Survival into which everything has been thrown, the talents, the link is, the volunteers and all available weapons and technology, so the self propelled guns you solve earlier than some of the drones are much newer and they are moving, as we see, from the ones thatjust drop things, which has been going on since the beginning of the war, to the so called first person ones. That is an advance in the sense that you can bombard something with shells all day long but if you can actually find the entrance to a bunker or fly along a high rise building and into the one that the russians are using as a sniper position, thats quite different and thats what they are doing with those weapons. So its a very varied picture. We those weapons. So its a very varied icture. ~ ,. , those weapons. So its a very varied icture. ~. , picture. We saw from the film some ofthe picture. We saw from the film some of the trauma picture. We saw from the film some of the trauma inflicted picture. We saw from the film some of the trauma inflicted on picture. We saw from the film some of the trauma inflicted on these of the trauma inflicted on these guys and the stresses are unimaginable for most people. Yes. Guys and the stresses are unimaginable for most people. Yes, i think this business unimaginable for most people. Yes, i think this business of unimaginable for most people. Yes, i think this business of being unimaginable for most people. Yes, i think this business of being under think this business of being under such heavy bombardment, part of the cables in bakhmut and had to withdraw, they were finally ordered to withdraw among the last ukrainian sender when the russians took it a few months back, and those guys came out deeply marked by this. And you know, they have got to somehow press on with any final date or any knowledge of when they will be able to go home, they are all serving for the duration, as they say. They know their loved ones back home also have got no idea when they are going to be coming home. One of the soldiers said to me, well, at least one good thing now is the nation as a whole understands what we are doing, some in hundreds of thousands have been mobilised and come into it, but of course with that comes loss and longing for people at the front, there will be the subject of tomorrow nights report. Singing pretty much every house in this street in yavoriv has been affected by the war and service with the 24th brigade. Singing lets talk to Lieutenant General ben hodges former commander of the United States army in europe. Thank you for being with us. What do you take from that first film . Festival, this was first class work by mark and the team to really get a feel for whats going on on the ground, both from a Human Perspective as well as a technological perspective. You can see the stress on these guys, but also the grim determination, they are not going to stop. We also the grim determination, they are not going to stop. Are not going to stop. We keep heafina are not going to stop. We keep hearing and are not going to stop. We keep hearing and we are not going to stop. We keep hearing and we keep are not going to stop. We keep hearing and we keep reporting | are not going to stop. We keep i hearing and we keep reporting on are not going to stop. We keep hearing and we keep reporting on the sophisticated weapons that the west are sending but these guys havent got that. Are sending but these guys havent not that. , got that. Yeah. Of course the ukrainian got that. Yeah. Of course the Ukrainian Army got that. Yeah. Of course the Ukrainian Army is got that. Yeah. Of course the Ukrainian Army is using got that. Yeah. Of course the Ukrainian Army is using everything that they can get their hands on, whether it is the old howitzer like the one we just saw, or new equipment thats come in, but they had to start from a low point and of course the going to get an army that is massive in size and quantity of equipment but what has impressed me about ukrainian soldiers from the first time i was on a Training Exercise with them was how technically savvy they are, how adaptive they are, more than soldiers of any country ive ever seen. W soldiers of any country ive ever seen. , a i. Soldiers of any country ive ever seen. , i. , seen. 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So this is a lifetime in american politics and thats why i think it is important that President Biden along with the prime minister, the german chancellor, president macron, they all decide it is in our best interests that ukraine wins and lets quit Dilly Dallying and deliver the things that ukraine needs, no more excuses. But deliver the things that ukraine needs, no more excuses. But the west has been delivering needs, no more excuses. But the