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and sir paul mccartney makes history as glastonbury s oldest solo headliner, at the age of 80. russian forces are now said to be fully occupying the ukrainian city of severodonetsk, a key location in the war, in the east of the country. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins and ukraine s army has now pulled its troops out. saturday also saw an upsurge in russian missile strikes across ukraine. in his nightly address, president zelensky said the war had entered an emotionally difficult stage and that air defence systems held in storage in allied nations were needed more than ever. shelley phelps has the latest. as severodonetsk falls, civilians have been fleeing the area. ukraine says its retreat is a tactical withdrawal, to fight from higher ground in the neighbouring area of lysycha nsk, which has come under heavy bombardment. elena hasjust arrived from there. translation: it was a horror last week, yesterday - we could not take it anymore. thank you t ....
solo headliner, at the age of 80. hello and welcome to bbc news. russian forces are now said to be fully occupying the ukrainian city of severodonetsk, a key location in the war, in the east of the country. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins and ukraine s army has now pulled its troops out. saturday also saw an upsurge in russian missile strikes across ukraine. in his nightly address, president zelensky said the war had entered an emotionally difficult stage, and that air defence systems held in storage in allied nations were needed more than ever. shelley phelps has the latest. ukraine says its retreat is a tactical withdrawal as severodonetsk falls, ukraine says this is a technical withdrawal. it is to fight from higher ground in neighbouring lysychasnk, which has also come under heavy bombardment. elena hasjust arrived from there. it was a horror, the last week. we could not take it anymore. thank you to the soldiers who evacuated us from there, o ....
Catastrophic. and while we have seen ukrainian forces pulling back, they have been counter attacking in other areas for example, around kherson. yeah, kherson is interesting because this is where ukrainian forces have been most successful, aside from in the north, in counter attacking. and we ve also seen some partisan activity in russian occupied kherson region. and that combination, along with the transfer of long range rockets from the us, could allow ukraine to launch more successful counter attacks and even a counteroffensive to take back more of their territory from russia. in terms of morale for both the russian and ukrainian armies, how do you see things at the moment? everyone we talked to from the ukrainian side says morale is pretty high, which is surprising given that ukrainians are, especially in the east, outnumbered some say 7:1, even 10:1. and russian soldiers, more and more, we see they understand that those sent to fight in ukraine are being sent into kind ....
The iskander m missile system which, as you know, can use both ballistic and cruise missiles both in conventional and nuclear versions. the war in ukraine is top of agenda for global leaders arriving at a summit in munich. president zelensky will address them on monday, hoping to persuade them of more support for his war torn country. shelley phelps, bbc news. let s hear more on ukraine from andrew d anieri, who is an assistant director at the atlantic council s eurasia center. ukraine s severodonetsk is a tactical loss but it s not what we call a strategic defeat. of course, ukraine does not want to give up more territory to the russian invaders but severodonetsk is not a huge city this isn t mariupol, this isn t kharkiv and ukrainian forces will be able to retreat further from the front lines and will be able to regroup and defend ukraine from arguably possibly a better position than they were in severodonetsk, so a loss, to be sure, but not ....
And nuclear versions. the war in ukraine is top of the agenda for global leaders arriving at a summit in munich. president zelensky will address them on monday, hoping to persuade them of more support for his war torn country. let s hear more on ukraine from andrew d anieri, who is an assistant director at the atlantic council s eurasia center. ukraine s severodonetsk is a tactical loss but it s not what we call a strategic defeat. of course, ukraine does not want to give up more territory to the russian invaders, but severodonetsk is not a huge city this isn t mariupol, this isn t kharkiv and ukrainian forces will be able to retreat further from the front lines and will be able to regroup and defend ukraine from arguably possibly a better position than they were in severodonetsk, so a loss, to be sure, but not catastrophic. and while we have seen ukrainian forces pulling back, ....