welcome to the programme. russia strikes kyiv again, just as a delegation of african leaders visit the ukrainian capital to discuss peace solutions. also tonight: a two year investigation into the minneapolis police department in the wake of the killing of george floyd has found that officers routinely used excessive force and discriminated against black people for years. we ll have an update from kalamata, in greece, where officials have denied a series of reports that suggest the migrant boat which capsized 50 miles off the south coast did so because a rope was attached to it by coastguards. and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence technology has led to a lot of fear and concern, but also a lot of new and exciting solutions. we ll look at one example from devon, where ai is being used to predict pollution in waterways before it happens. but first let s focus in on ukraine, where the capital, kyiv, has come under missile attack at the same time that a delegation of af
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In greater numbers. the shift in demographics in russian losses reflects not only the fact that the russians lost a large number of their professional troops early in the war, but also the fact that they ve shifted their tactics. they now see their professional soldiers as a resource that is to be held in reserve and only used when the conditions are right. now they are letting the brunt of that reconnaissance offensive activity be led by mobilised troops that they treat in quite a disposable way. 0nly publicly reported deaths are captured by our count. estimates from britain s ministry of defence suggest the true figure is likely to be at least twice as high. the bbc contacted the russian government for comment, but it has not responded. and every day, the messages and photos of graves keep coming. let s talk about some of the issues raised in that report by olga.
Of graves and social media posts with the independent russian website mediazona and volunteers inside the country. so far we have identified 25,000 names. this is four times more than russia has acknowledged. it s illegal to report anything but the official death toll inside russia. so we have come to kyrgyzstan to speak to the families of fighters who have died. hundreds of people from countries like this that were once part of the soviet union have signed up tojoin putin s forces. filming tiktoks on the way to war, this 21 year old paratrooper is typical of those who died at the start of the conflict a young, highly trained professional soldier in the russian army. translation: he always wanted to be the first. i i think that s why he decided tojoin the military, and there he was also given the choice, apparently. he chose to be there. go to war, you mean? yes, yes. as a professional soldier, he was buried with full military honours after he was killed
In action in may 2022. but six months later, in a nearby village, there was no military funeral for another fighter, even though he also died on the front line. that s because he wasn t a professional soldier, but a prisoner serving a seven year sentence for assault. he had signed up to fight for the mercenary group wagner, hoping to win his freedom in return for a six month contract. translation: a man called| and told me that my son died fighting in ukraine. i was shocked. i asked, how come my son is even at the war? did my son die for nothing? am i going to cry until the end of my life? the deaths of these men show how russia s war has changed. in the first three months of the conflict, it lost large numbers of professional soldiers. but in the past three months, it s non professional fighters who have recentlyjoined the russian forces that are dying