he received while in office from 2018 to 2022. the verdict means he is not allowed to hold public office for five years, with pakistan just months away from a general election. our correspondent caroline davies reports. sirens blaring, police truck after police truck, arresting former prime minister imran khan. the judgment came from here. police filled every corner in islamabad s session court. mr khan says that the case is politically motivated. the court said he s dishonest. so this is after months and months of waiting, we now finally have an announcement. imran khan has been found guilty and has been sentenced to three years imprisonment. outside court, shouts of your show is over, khan. minutes later, we heard he d been arrested. this was what happened last time mr khan was arrested. protests, some violent. mr khan was released, but his party faced a dramatic crackdown. many of his senior party leadership were arrested, then announced that they d left the party. poli
They use only 300 airjets but, anyway, we have no one. we need f i6, and these three priorities are very important. defence experts who spoke to the bbc said that they believe russia s objective right now in this conflict is to create a sense of hopelessness in ukraine, to convince the west that this war is no longer worth it to support. do you think that is what russia is trying to do? thank you for this question. i think that russians are doing this since the first day of this full scale war. they use all possible ways propaganda, disinformation, internal and inside influences inside of ukraine, but i think that nothing can break ukrainian will to win this war, to liberate our land, to protect our families, so i think that it is impossible to win the war when you are aggressor and impossible to lose the war when you protect your families, your land.
Priorities. you are absolutely right. we have a good example how air defence may and should work to protect human lives. first of all, we need air defence. it is crucial now. we need more air defence missiles and more air defence systems to protect ukrainian cities, to protect civilian infrastructure. don t let russians destroy our economy and push our people towards the next wave of migration of the refugees so this is number one, critical priority. we need this yesterday. the second very important priority is ammunition for artillery. this is something we are waiting on the frontline, what our guys and girls are asking us for and they say if we have enough, if it is balanced with russia, we will prevail. and the third very important thing is f i6. we should protect our sky because now russia is prevailing in the sky.
His story is extraordinary because he became the global campaigner for f i6 fighterjets which i suppose replaced old soviet fighter jets flown now. he also campaigned for training for pilots and he managed to persuade decision makers in the us and eu countries why ukraine needs these weapons as soon as possible. he was very clear that is not possible to carry out effective large scale counter offensives without these kind of modernised fighterjets. he also used to repeat this message in his interviews, the interview that we did with him one year ago that ukraine needs to have f i6 jets to protect
And his friends, his comrade is, they say the first squadron of f i6 have to carry his name, his biggest dream was to fly and f i6. and we must not forget the other two airmen killed. a loss of three pilots there. how important is it for ukraine to have people like him as heroes to look up to in terms of morale? he was this kind of public figure notjust a fighter pilot, he was very important and heard by the public, many people outside the country, they often did interviews with him. and i know myself the examples