You re watching bbc news a reminder of the headlines. final results are declared in northern ireland s assembly election with an historic win for the irish nationalist party sinn fein. ukraine says all women, children and the elderly have now been evacuated from azovstal steel plant in the city of mariupol. and staying with ukraine. liam collins is a retired us army colonel and special forces officer. he worked with ukraine to reform its military after russia annexed crimea. i asked him how well ukrainian soldiers are doing or if the real question is, how badly the russian army is faring. it is both, right. ukrainians are performing very well and is expected based on their effort to be from the military after its poor performance back in 2014, it is a story of utter ineptness from the russians ofjust not performing. they don t
Expected based on their effort to be from the military after its poor performance back in 2014, it is a story of utter ineptness from the russians of just not performing. they don t have a well led army. use of corruption by the generals. they are not well trained and they are underperforming and thatis they are underperforming and that is something they can t turn around in a matter of months. turn around in a matter of months- turn around in a matter of months. ., , ., months. mariupol has remained is an awful months. mariupol has remained is an awful lot months. mariupol has remained is an awful lot of months. mariupol has remained is an awful lot of people - months. mariupol has remained is an awful lot of people of - is an awful lot of people of aleppo in syria and what was left of that. russian bombers were involved in that. is this russia s tactic? will we see more and more of the situation of cities and towns across ukraine or is he changing his tactics? ., ., , tactics?