to victory with up to 44 percent of the vote, across ukraine, there s been intense speculation about how events in russia will affect the counteroffensive currently under way. the bbc s mayenijones is in kyiv. like millions of people around the world, ukrainians followed this weekend s events in russia closely. for a brief moment it seemed like president putin s iron grip on russian politics might be coming to an end, but as many people here in kyiv wake up on sunday morning, they still don t know what to make of it all. translation: we hoped things would advance, . that prigozhin will change his mind and join the ukrainians. but money does miracles. he was obviously paid off. he has basically surrendered. translation: for me, both prigozhin and putin are war criminals. they bomb peaceful cities while people are sleeping. for example, yesterday everyone was talking about prigozhin when ukraine was hit by missiles. i m not interested in him. he is a criminal. translation: ev
closing of access to asylum in the uk for people arriving irregularly, we believe it s a clear breach of the refugee convention. they will enable us to take a very bold and forward leading steps in order to reduce the rights of people to claim and to thwart their removal. the bbc is to speak to one of its highest paid presenters, gary lineker, after he criticised the government s immigration plans on social media. he bbc investigation reveals how scammers and con people out of hundreds scammers and con people out of hundreds of millions of dollars. hello and welcome to bbc news. the un secretary general, antonio guterres is in ukraine to hold talks with president zelensky about the continued export of ukrainian grain. brokered by the united nations and turkey lastjuly, and secured with russia, the deal enabled the shipping of ukrainian grain from odesa via the black sea, through the bosphorus strait and istanbul. but, now the deal is up for renewal and russia has signalled t
we start with a denial from ukraine of any involvement in september s attacks on the nord stream pipelines, which were built to carry russian natural gas to germany. the denial follows this report from the new york times. it cites us intelligence officials, suggesting a pro ukrainian group was to blame. before we look at those claims, let s get more details about the nord stream pipelines. let s get more details this map shows where they run along the sea bed, from russia, across the baltic, to germany. the damage was discovered near the danish island of bornholm. it s also relatively close to the russian territory of kaliningrad. it was first noticed when huge amounts of gas were spotted bubbling up to the surface. when cameras were sent down, this is what they recorded. several experts said it appeared the pipes had been damaged by an explosion on the outside of the pipe. here s ukrainian defence minister oleksi reznikov on the new allegations. for me, it s a little bit o
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